{"id":190,"date":"2016-08-16T17:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T15:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.geneva.wordcamp.org\/?page_id=190"},"modified":"2016-10-06T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:03:41","slug":"organisers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geneva.wordcamp.org\/2016\/organisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the team behind the WordCamp Geneva 2016 organisation<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.geneva.wordcamp.org\/contact\/\">contact us on this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizers\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Patricia Brun Torre<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c33dffb0341aeea5d96c65cebc3e165acf0326be7d7b2a7670310139309c1100?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c33dffb0341aeea5d96c65cebc3e165acf0326be7d7b2a7670310139309c1100?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>In charge: Lead the team, communication with WordCamp Central<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Patricia is involved in WordPress since 2013, co-organising the popular monthly WordPress meetups in Geneva. Her experience with WordCamps has been speaking and volunteering on previous years. She adores everything related to communities and human-centered projects. In other words, everything open-source allowing everyone to have a voice is dear to her heart. WordPress aligns perfectly with those values.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Ulrich Pogson<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eae9b03fdf1750ad9ecddf610003712fb406bce09006a0c4596071960057ea0e?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/eae9b03fdf1750ad9ecddf610003712fb406bce09006a0c4596071960057ea0e?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>In charge : website, social media, communication<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Ulrich is a dedicated WordPress contributor, especially as a Key Code Reviewer for the Theme Review Team. He started the WordPress Meetup in Bern <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPBern\">@WPBern<\/a> and has his own multilingual e-commerce store <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPZOO\">@WPZOO<\/a> selling WordPress Themes and Plugins. Currently employed by <a href=\"https:\/\/required.ch\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">required+<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Thierry Muller<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cabb3eb3a4cf2b6e39c0cf8a6b2d719939779252ec7d147a02fc24b49a23ba8c?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cabb3eb3a4cf2b6e39c0cf8a6b2d719939779252ec7d147a02fc24b49a23ba8c?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>In charge: Sponsors, French-English<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thierry is Swiss Digital Wrangler writing code and architecting softwares for close to a decade. He is\u00a0truly passionate about code quality, open source, community driven projects and building enterprise solutions. Thierry spent a\u00a0great part of his\u00a0career building products and web solutions for WordPress as well as driving open source projects.<\/p>\n<p>He is\u00a0fortunate to serve\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/xwp.co\/\">XWP<\/a> as a WordPress Architect and Senior Engineer, working alongside some of the brightest WordPress experts in the world. Thierry is\u00a0also the\u00a0founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getbeans.io\/\">Beans Theme Framework<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Andrew Liyanage<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f62914938df17aea6662df9c4da72fb8948ef2c30e79be8f19523eb65cfd5e28?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f62914938df17aea6662df9c4da72fb8948ef2c30e79be8f19523eb65cfd5e28?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>In charge: Sponsors, German-English<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>WordPress Freelancer | WordPress lover | WordCamp Co-Organiser. Andrew is currently working at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhome.ch\/de\/home.aspx?pc=new\">newhome.ch<\/a> and took over the project lead on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newhome.ch\/de\/\">blog<\/a>. Ever since he finished his bachelor thesis on WordPress as an eBusiness solution he spends most of his time learning and developing his skills\u00a0on WooCommerce projects.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Gilles Vauvarin<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b3b9068ef9e5fc536cbb4144c9f5a794bc1cc5617ccc8455bcc7f36923bc1851?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b3b9068ef9e5fc536cbb4144c9f5a794bc1cc5617ccc8455bcc7f36923bc1851?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>In charge : Speakers<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Short bio :<\/p>\n<p>Working in web technologies since 1995, I worked in several private companies and public institutions as front-end developer, back-end developer, and head of NTIC dept.<\/p>\n<p>Freelance WordPress webdesigner\/developer since 2008, I&#8217;m currently developing a SAAS service based on WordPress to offer to conference organizers a readymade\u00a0managed site allowing them to build easily and rapidly their conference site. I also work as a WordPress expert for the University and Hospital of Geneva\u00a0to develop several web projects based on WordPress multisite and BuddyPress.<\/p>\n<p>Member of the WordPress Geneva meetup group since several years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Beno\u00eet Chantre<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/90142d4ca0798e2a5b71997ed82c1ee08a743835b59d0ee686b91b12a0762db3?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/90142d4ca0798e2a5b71997ed82c1ee08a743835b59d0ee686b91b12a0762db3?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>In charge :\u00a0Design, Printing<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Beno\u00eet is a graphic designer who turned into full-time development recently. He enjoys to build custom themes from Underscores and to sharpen his knowledge by doing some custom plugins following the best practices.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Mikael Lopes<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9a1f6015d0b04d2bd0c6a7ddfc3f978ecc6e3340a695fcd388f25e8f4282dbb?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c9a1f6015d0b04d2bd0c6a7ddfc3f978ecc6e3340a695fcd388f25e8f4282dbb?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>In charge:\u00a0Venue \/ Catering<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In a few words, I am a digital\u00a0curious! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I discovered WordPress some years ago and I had the opportunity to work on some projects and especially to discover an awesome french community around this content management system who is, as you already know, Open Source. Today, I am really happy to give my help to build\u00a0the first WordCamp in Geneva. It&#8217;s a real opportunity for the community to grow in our beautiful city and I believe that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wpgva\" target=\"_blank\">#WCGVA<\/a>\u00a0will be fabulous!<\/p>\n<p>Keep in Touch : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lopesmikael.com\">www.lopesmikael.com<br \/>\n<\/a>or via social<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lopesmikael_GE\" target=\"_blank\">@lopesmikael_GE<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lopesmikael\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Helen Yau<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7158722483916f4a0359920c4199c1125b035bd80b4cbe68259add27f225699e?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7158722483916f4a0359920c4199c1125b035bd80b4cbe68259add27f225699e?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>In charge : After-party, Speakers\/Sponsors Dinner<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2>Manuel Schmalstieg<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wcorg-organizer-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f0d03258c60247911ffa5c4dbdde1ec6a6361d40fbd1a0b7915ffa1b89fe07a?s=100&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5f0d03258c60247911ffa5c4dbdde1ec6a6361d40fbd1a0b7915ffa1b89fe07a?s=200&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-100 photo' height='100' width='100' \/>\t\t\t\t\t<p>In charge: Audio\/Video<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Manuel is an artist, designer and educator. 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