Speaker Announcements – Round 2

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Here is our second round of 7 fantastic speakers lined up for WordCamp Singapore 2019

How WordPress Changed My Life!

Ricky Blacker

This talk tells of how ‘discovering’ WordPress became a life-changing experience – how I was adopted into the WordPress community who are now like family to me, and how attending WordCamp Sydney in 2014 lead to a series of events that paved the way to me acquiring my dream job.

Ricky is a self-taught web professional who found and fell in love with WordPress, and the community behind it while looking for a CMS platform to build websites for clients.

Turning your own development needs into sellable products.

Eric Tracz

Running a business with a WordPress site is relatively easy. Tens of thousands of plugins out there to help a lot, but sometimes it’s hard to find a perfectly tailored solution. Often, you do end up developing custom code for your site. Consider putting a bit extra effort and convert that custom solution into a sellable product. That can not only cover the cost of initial development and maintenance but also present another revenue stream.

Eric Tracz is a digital nomad currently living in Kuala Lumpur. Co-Founder and CEO of PeepSo.com and TwistPress.com. I began my journey with Open Source about a decade ago and never regretted it. I care about creating beautiful and useful solutions for WordPress. What’s more important, solutions which are also fully supported by the very people creating them.

Content strategies for Lead Generation and SEO

Ivan So

This is the content strategy framework that I use to generate income for my agency as well as my clients.

  • Content multiplication strategy to leverage from 1 source of content to be across 5 channels
  • Lead generation concepts and how to implement with SEO and other marketing channels

Ivan has 15 years of experience of SEO and WordPress and has built over 350 WordPress sites for clients. He’s the co-organiser of Hong Kong WordPress meetup and the lead organiser of Hong Kong WordCamp 2019.

Designing with Gutenberg

Sam Suresh

With the new editor Gutenberg, the entire editing experience has been rebuilt for media-rich pages and posts. Experience the flexibility that blocks will bring, whether you are building your first site, or write code for a living. This talk will walk you through some basic and advanced features of Gutenberg Editor.

Sam Suresh is the founder of MU DOT MY PLT, a tech development & training company based in Kuala Lumpur. He contributes to open source projects in his free time. Sam contributes to WordPress as a Global Community Team member. He also organizes WordCamps and Meetups.

Bring JAMstack to the WordPress community

Seiji Akatsuka

When is your site not built with the JAMstack? Is it a site built with a server-side CMS like WordPress? No, I’d like to share some idea about front end and back end to bring JAMstack to the world’s most popular CMS.

Seiji Akatsuka is a member of WordCamp Tokyo 2019, an organizer of AWS APAC User Community and AWS Samurai 2016. He is very interested in developing the tech community in APAC Area.

SEO for business results with WordPress

Matt Knighton

In this talk, we will discuss how to do that as well as showcase studies of real results. We will cover content, site structure, site speed, AMP and structured data, measurement and Google search console, monitoring and social media automation. With these 7 items, you too will be able to get great results from organic traffic.

Matt is an Entrepreneur, Business Consultant, Speaker, Software Developer, Business Analyst and Founder of multiple IT companies and has worked as a business analyst for some of the world’s largest banks and communications organisations.

Getting more done in less time – introducing WordPress automation using Ansible.

Hazrul Azhar Jamari

This presentation is a comparison of Managed WooCommerce Hosting (Pantheon, Nestify) and WooCommerce-as-a-service solutions (WooCart). It describes similarities and differences, and what it means to the non-techies who wish to use WooCommerce as their tech stack for their e-Commerce business.

Hazrul is a family man, entrepreneur, software engineer, and foodie, and has been building startups all his life. He has gone through a complete cycle of E-Commerce from training, building online and mobile e-store, building payment gateways and building a fulfilment and distribution system throughout his career.

That’s 7 more talks from some seriously talented people that we have lined up for WordCamp Singapore 2019. Subscribe or follow us on social media to be the first to know when the next round of speakers will be announced.