Peteris Jurcenko
Why Accessibility is Important and How WordPress Can Help
Pēteris Jurčenko is a UX designer, with a working knowledge of frontend development, and an accessibility enthusiast. He is a co-founder and CEO of the IT company “Turn”. He is experienced in leading the information architecture for various large projects, including multiple universities. He has also led the adapting of frontend methodologies in his company.
At WordCamp Riga he will be speaking about accessibility, more precisely his topic will be “Why Accessibility is Important and How WordPress Can Help”.
You can connect with Peteris un LinkedIn and make sure to follow him on Twitter.
Edgars Kebbe
Street Smart Experience – How to Sell and Manage Web Projects
Edgars ir a project manager at Kebbe IT and he has more than 15 years of experience in IT industry as computer technician, network administrator, web developer, UX designer, project manager and salesman at the moment. Managed voluntary team to develop WordPress based information publishing platform for Latvians living in Norway, designed Information Architecture and did platform development.
At WordCamp Riga Edgars topic will be “Street Smart Experience – How to Sell and Manage Web Projects”.
Jonathan Howard
The Nightmare of the Blank Screen: How to Get Over Writer’s Block and Open Up the Imagination
Jonathan Howard is an award-winning advertising strategist, trainer and mentor, chief creative instructor of Saatchi & Saatchi Europe, improvisational theatre director and teacher. Trained actors, writers, directors, business people, startups, politicians and young offenders. Spent many years in advertising, and also in TV and theatre. Created the world’s first live interactive improvised TV drama for the BBC.
And as Jonathan himself says: “WordPress is the best, because it is the Web’s original method of propagating itself: always evolving, always growing and always learning. ”
At WordCamp Riga Jonathan’s topic will be “The Nightmare of the Blank Screen: How to Get Over Writer’s Block and Open Up the Imagination”.
Dmitry Ivanov
Do Not Expect Security Issues Will Ever Be Gone
Dmitry Ivanov has worked in the largest IT companies in Latvia as server side Java, oracle developer. Participates in international projects onsure. Changed career path in one day, from stabile work to unknown world as ceo of web development company. Combine in one role: CEO, sales person, project manager, developer, and many other. Developed a lot of web projects from simple one to Latvian ministries projects.
At WordCamp Riga Dmitry will be speaking about security. His topic for the event is “Do Not Expect Security Issues Will Ever Be Gone”.
Inguna Gudareva
Getting from User Personas to a Content Model
Inguna Gudareva is a freshly baked User Experience designer and at WordCamp Riga she will be speaking about UX methods. Her topic title is “Getting from User Personas to a Content Model”.
Inguna uses her skills as UX designer to help achieve best results in website development and she believes that WordPress is the best, because it’s versatile and has a strong community behind it. As well as it has Morten supporting it.
Karlis Upitis
Pattern Library in WordPress Project
Karlis Upitis is a passionate Frontend developer with a passion for Design Systems who enjoys being out of the comfort zone. When in retirement he would love to play piano at random places, drink Italian espresso and tell his “fishermen stories” to his grandchildren.
What does it take to integrate Pattern Library in your WordPress project? Starting from general principles to the tools and technologies, Karlis Upitis talk will cover how using Pattern Library helps to improve project development speed and how important is the role of the whole team when implementing Pattern Library in project. At WordCamp Riga his topic title will be “Pattern Library in WordPress Project”.
KEYNOTE – The Open Source Agency and the Future of Work
Petya Raykovska is a Senior Project Manager at Human Made where she helps large projects across big publishers and enterprise succeed. She is a huge WordPress enthusiast, active member of the WordPress community and is one of the WordPress Polyglots team leads supporting the people who translate WordPress to more than 160 languages. Petya helped organise WordCamp Europe 2014 and WordCamp Europe 2015 and lead the team that organised WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna.
At WordCamp Riga Petya will be the keynote speaker ar her topic will be “The Open Source Agency and the Future of Work”.
Petya loves WordPress because of it’s core values and the amazing community. Make sure to check out her website petya.in.
Kirils Solovjovs
Security Audit Process of a WordPress Instance
Mg. sc. comp. Kirils Solovjovs is an IT security expert and researcher. His professional experience includes working for NATO CCDCOE as an intern and the Ministry of Defence as a senior expert, where he drafted the Regulation No 442 and was representing Latvia as the National Expert to the European Council on the NIS Directive.
Kirils has an extensive experience in network flow analysis, reverse engineering, social engineering, penetration testing, security incident investigation, and the legal dimension of cyber security and cyber defence. He has a history of contributions aimed at improving security of both Latvian and international information systems.
At WordCamp Riga, Kirils will be speaking about security or more precisely about “Security Audit Process of a WordPress Instance”.
Kaspars Buliņš
Using WordPress for a Large News Portal
Kaspars Buliņš is a web developer who’s been in business for more than ten years. He enjoys working with WordPress, because it’s built for end users, but hasn’t forgotten about the developers who have the power to extend WordPress functionality.
At WordCamp Riga Kaspars topic will be “Using WordPress for a Large News Portal”.
Arūnas Liuiza
Captain Hook – The Right Way to Extend WordPress
Some say, Arūnas builds WordPress plugins with character. He is an experienced WordPress plugin developer, who’s been working with WordPress since version 2.6.3, and has developed a number of free, premium and custom plugins. Arūnas has 12 years of experience in Web development and he’s been teaching at Kaunas College for 7 years.
Arūnas has been very active in WordPress community in Lithuania – he’s a WordPress Core Contributor, WordPress Kaunas Meetup co-organizer, WordCamp Lithuania speaker and one of the editors of the Lithuanian WordPress translation team.
At WordCamp Riga his topic will be “Captain Hook – The Right Way to Extend WordPress”. To a question “why WordPress is the best”, Arūnas says: “Huge and awesome community + flexibility and extensibilty provided by the hook system”.
Make sure to check out Arūnas website http://arunas.co/
Didzis Gruznovs
WordPress Theme from A to X by One Person
Didzis is a Web Designer and Frontend enthusiast who enjoys WordPress because it’s easy to understand even for designers. At the moment he works as a UX/UI Designer at Ubiquiti Networks in Riga, Latvia.
At WordCamp Riga he will speak about “WordPress Theme from A to X by One Person” and yes, just from A to X. Why he will explain at the event so don’t miss that.
Didzis is very friendly and you can connect with him on LinkedIn.
Raivis Dejus
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Translations
Raivis Dejus is a developer who’s been working with WordPress for ten years. He thinks that WordPress is the best, because it’s easy to get a lot done.
At WordCamp Riga his topic will be “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Translations”. How to create them, how to share them, how to use translations and how not to use them as well as what to do when nothing seems to work.
Raivis will also be leading our Contributor’s Day, so if you’re interested in participating make sure to get in touch with him via [email protected]
You can also follow Raivis on Twitter and connect with him on LinkedIn.
Thord D. Hedengren
Publishing with WordPress: From Past to Present, and Onwards
Thord is the author (http://tdh.me/books/) of several tech books, such as Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, as well as some fiction. CEO and founder of the Odd Alice (http://oddalice.com) agency, co-founder of BlankPage (http://blankpage.io), and overall serial entrepreneur. Occasional columnist, designer, and publicist, as well as analog game designer.
His Topic for WordCamp Riga will be “Publishing with WordPress: From Past to Present, and Onwards”.
Make sure to check out his website http://tdh.me
Raitis Sevelis
How To Start Earning With Plugins
Raitis Sevelis is product manager, UI/UX designer and consultant.
Raitis is a product manager for Visual Composer WordPress page builder with a comprehensive experience in UI/UX design. He is a past lecturer of E-Commerce in Riga Technical University and author of several publications.
Raitis has consulted several successful WordPress plugins on monetization and online marketing.
His topic will be “How to Start Earning with Plugins”.
You can follow Raitis on Twitter or connect with him on LinkedIn.
These are the people that make this event happen. They work tirelessly for weeks and months to plan, coordinate, and execute the best event possible. If you get a chance to thank them, please do!
Agate Mežule (+ add me)
Una Endziņa (+ add me)
Frank Leusing (+ add me)
Pēteris Jurčenko (+ add me)
Ieva Treija (+ add me)
Kristiāna Štāla (+ add me)
Details TBD.
Attendees (0 ratings)
Be the first attendee!Overall ExperienceHow would you rate the overall experience of the event? Overall Experience | — |
Topic CoverageWas there a variety of topics to choose from? Topic Coverage | — |
Session QualityHow interesting and polished were the sessions? Session Quality | — |
Speaker DiversityWas there diverse representation in the speaker lineup? Speaker Diversity | — |
Venue QualityHow was the cleanliness and layout of the venue? If online, how was the video platform? Venue Quality | — |
Food QualityHow would you rate the food quality? Thinks lunches, coffee breaks, and afterparty. Food Quality | — |
AffordabilityWas this event affordable for you? Affordability | — |
Networking OpportunitiesWere there networking opportunities? Think about parties, hallway track, and event attendance. Networking Opportunities | — |
Sponsor RepresentationWas there a variety of different kinds of sponsors in attendance? Sponsor Representation | — |
Speakers (0 ratings)
Be the first speaker!Overall ExperienceHow would you rate the overall experience of the event? Overall Experience | — |
Organizer CommunicationHow well did the organizers communicate about the event? Organizer Communication | — |
Venue QualityHow was the cleanliness and layout of the venue? If online, how was the video platform? Venue Quality | — |
Food QualityHow would you rate the food quality? Think speaker/sponsor dinner, lunches, and afterparty. Food Quality | — |
Session AttendanceWere the sessions well attended? How about your session? Session Attendance | — |
AffordabilityWas it affordable for you to speak at this event? Affordability | — |
Sponsors (0 ratings)
Be the first sponsor!Overall ExperienceHow would you rate the overall experience of the event? Overall Experience | — |
Organizer CommunicationHow well did the organizers communicate about the event? Organizer Communication | — |
Proximity to AttendeesWas the sponsor area in a high-traffic location? Proximity to Attendees | — |
Venue QualityHow was the cleanliness and layout of the venue? If online, how was the video platform? Venue Quality | — |
Affordability/ValueWas it affordable for you to sponsor this event? Do you feel like you got value in return? Affordability/Value | — |
Event AttendanceHow well was this event attended? Do you feel there were enough people to justify your presence? Event Attendance | — |
The WP World is generously supported by:
WordPress® and its related trademarks are registered trademarks of the WordPress foundation. This website is not affiliated with Automattic, Inc., the WordPress Foundation or the WordPress® open source project.
Though Marcus is employed by GoDaddy, this site is not hosted by, sponsored by, or affiliated with GoDaddy.