WordCamp is a not-for-profit conference run by a team of volunteer organisers.
Conferences are no easy task to run, and our organisers give hundreds of hours to create the best conference for the community.
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Alice Coltheart
Website & Design Second
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Belinda Anderson
Volunteer & Safety Lead
Belinda lives in South Western Sydney with her husband, two daughters and dog.
As a software trainer with over 22 years experience, and 17 years experience in website design, Belinda combines her love of WordPress and her passion for training to deliver WordPress courses in-person and online whilst also providing website design services to her clients.
Belinda runs a software training & website design business – Beltan Consultancy whilst also blogging as The Training Lady.
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Dee Teal
Programme Manager
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Emanuel Khoury
Registration Lead
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Evan Devos
Swag & WPSyd Co-organiser
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Jo Minney
Speaker Lead
Jo Minney is a small business founder and technical communicator based (for now) in Perth, Western Australia.
By day, you’ll find Jo working with organisations helping them to create bespoke digital platforms through her business, House Digital.
Jo is also an ambassador, sponsor and lead mentor for She Codes Australia, a social enterprise that aims to make tech jobs more accessible for women, and the lead organiser for the WordPress Perth meetup. Jo is an accomplished international conference speaker herself, and is excited to be joining the WordCamp Sydney organising team as Speaker Lead.
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John Maizels
AV Lead
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Jordan Gillman
Treasurer
Jordan lives in Wollongong with his Wife and 2 daughters. He started tinkering with WordPress about 18 years ago on the side of working as a Graphic Designer, before jumping ship from print to the web.
After 10 years of freelancing designing and building websites he shifted over to full-time Support on WordPress.com and is now sponsored to work full time on the open source WordPress project. He spends his time working with the .org Support Team, WordPress Foundation, and shepherding the Data Liberation project.
You can find him online at jordangillman.blog.
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Mark Parnell
Sponsorship Lead
Mark lives in the outer Western suburbs of Sydney with his wife and their 5 children.
He has been building websites for nearly 25 years, and working almost exclusively with WordPress for the past 10 years. He has contributed to several releases of WordPress itself, as well as developing various custom themes and plugins for clients.
Since 2018 Mark has been running Spark Web Solutions, a digital agency with a particular focus on not-for-profits.
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Sam Toohey
Saturday Evening Networking & WPSyd Co-organiser
Sam is a Front-End Developer working with WordPress and NodeJS from Sydney Australia.
Currently a Solutions Engineer at WP Engine focusing on Headless WordPress, and running Middleshelf Studios; a Full Service WordPress Development and Consultancy Agency
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Vladimir Roudakov
Website & Graphics Lead
Vladimir is avid running runner and sailor, IT teacher and Software Architect who calls Brisbane home.
Vladimir is looking after monthly WordPress and Drupal meetups in Brisbane area.
Vladimir contributed code and documentation to many Open Source projects including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Gitlab, Bootstrap and Docker.
Vladimir co-founded Open Source driven IT company company Tomato Elephant Studio, which specialises in Software development and training and Conference recording.
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Wil Brown
Lead Organiser
Scottish-born Wil lives in Sydney with his wife and 8yo son.
He plugged into the WordPress community in 2008, developing websites and quickly finding a passion for plugin and API development work to extend the CMS.
He jump-started the Dublin WordPress community in 2010 while living there and is co-organiser of the WordPress Sydney and Elemenentor Australia meetup groups today.
Wil runs a WordPress consultancy company Zero Point Development, WordPress care site WP Wingman and his personal brand and educational site WilBrown.com.
