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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tManuela van Prooijen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Manuela van Prooijen (The Netherlands) started Weblish (WordPress and online marketing training) in 2011. She organizes every three months the WordPress Meetup Utrecht.<\/p>\n

As a certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach she advises small business owners about the possibilities of using low-budget\/creative marketing strategies. And WordPress is the perfect vehicle for this. She loves oldskool loud punkrock and rock music and bagels.<\/p>\n

Her first WordCamp talk was during WordCamp Netherlands October 2016.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThierry Muller\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Thierry is Swiss Digital Wrangler writing code and architecting softwares for close to a decade. He is truly passionate about code quality, open source, community driven projects and building enterprise solutions. A great part of his career went into building products and web solutions for WordPress as well as driving open source projects.<\/p>\n

He is fortunate to serve XWP as a WordPress Architect and Senior Engineer, working alongside some of the brightest WordPress experts in the world. Thierry is also the founder of Beans Theme Framework.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThorsten Frommen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Thorsten is a web developer since 2000, working with (and on) WordPress since 2005.<\/p>\n

Currently, Thorsten is a WordPress engineer and technical project lead at Inpsyde, Germany\u2019s biggest WordPress agency. He is part of Inpsyde\u2019s QA team, and leads the development of MultilingualPress, THE multisite-based free open source plugin for your multilingual websites. He also maintains WP REST Starter, a Composer package for working with the WordPress REST API in an object-oriented fashion.<\/p>\n

Thorsten is a certified PHP engineer, web development professional and tester.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tStephan Zurfluh\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Grown up in Selb, Bavaria, aprrenticeship in a chinaware factory, coming to Switzerland 1983, advertisement specialist, pr-assistance, study Business Administration in Nuremberg, Nancy. International Business with Russia, found touroperator, work as projectmanager for SAP, since 2014 active in Internetmarketing, make now Websites with wordpress myself, campaigns for own Projects, AdWords expert in all disciplines.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSilvan Hagen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Silvan Hagen is co-founder of the UX and WordPress agency required and one of the organisers for WordCamp Zurich & WordPress Meetup Zurich. He helps his clients to build long-lasting and maintainable solutions, using UX to in the process of building WordPress solutions and plugins. Silvan keeps his mind open with travelling. He surfs and snowboards, takes photographs, and builds self-sustaining permaculture gardens.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPiotr Soluch\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I’m a web developer, designer and entrepreneur for over 15 years now. I’m originally from Poland but since 2007 I live in Zurich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

I run a small WordPress Agency called WireDot. We specialize in working with Non-Profit companies and work with clients from all over Europe.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Howells-Mead\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I\u2019m a British photographer and web developer, resident in Switzerland since 2001. I\u2019ve been working in the web since 1996 as what many people call a \u201cfull stack developer\u201d, with a particular love of front-end technology and focusing on CMS-driven websites. I\u2019ve been coding for WordPress privately and professionally since 2004. I speak English and Bernese (Swiss) German fluently, German relatively well, and French rustily.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPascal Birchler\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Pascal is a 23-year-old student and web developer from Switzerland. He contributes to WordPress by organising local events and through direct core contributions.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been working with WordPress for years and he\u2019s involved with both the German-speaking and the international community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPierre-Andr\u00e9 Vullioud\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Pierre-Andr\u00e9 is co-founder and CTO at watchful.li<\/a> a remote management tools for websites. He is also the co-funder of inetis.ch<\/a> a Swiss webagency.<\/p>\n

He’s working with various systems (Joomla, WordPress, OctoberCMS), building extensions, managing technical team and enjoy improving his coding skills.<\/p>\n

Outside of work he enjoys cooking (especially pastry), singing, spending time with the family and discover new people.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSylvie Clement\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Sylvie is a french IT engineer who created her first community website in 2000 with PHP and managed several online forums before discovering WordPress and BuddyPress in 2011.
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNick Weisser\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Earns his living with WordPress and WooCommerce development for Swiss SMBs and startups. As polyglot he takes care of the German de_CH translation of WordPress and WooCommerce. He blogs at www.openstream.ch<\/a> and nick.weisser.me<\/a>. When he is not in front of a screen he likes to go windsurfing, wakeboarding and skiing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMaxime Bernard-Jacquet\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I’m Max, from Grenoble, France.<\/p>\n

I make websites with WordPress for 10 years now.
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I’m also teacher at wpchef.fr, a french e-learning plateform for WordPress rookies.<\/p>\n

I also work on others projects like xyoos.fr<\/a>.
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJesper van Engelen\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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My name is Jesper van Engelen, and I’m a Dutch WordPress developer and computer science Master’s student. During the past 8 years, I have built my expertise in WordPress, both by working for clients and by contributing to the WordPress ecosystem. Until 2014, I was predominantly concerned with commercial projects, and I’ve had the pleasure to work for some interesting clients. Among others, I was involved in the utilisation of WordPress as a recruitment platform for a broad range of large Dutch and international corporations, such as the Dutch railways (NS). Over the years, I have always maintained a focus on the usability of the WordPress backend in the ever-broadening scope of WordPress as a CMS, which is where I believe an important part of WordPress’ attractiveness lies.<\/p>\n

I’m a WordPress core contributor and plugin developer, authored, co-authored and contributed to several plugins across the WordPress spectrum. The most notable of these plugins is Admin Columns<\/a>, in which I was involved as a co-author from 2013 through 2015. I am now an independent developer once more and still do some freelance work for Admin Columns, while at the same time studying at ETH Z\u00fcrich for a semester as part of my Master\u2019s in Computer Science.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGuillaume Baudoin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Guillaume Baudoin est un d\u00e9veloppeur Web depuis 2003. Dipl\u00f4m\u00e9 en Informatique de Gestion de la HEG de Gen\u00e8ve, il a travaill\u00e9 dans toutes sortes d’organisations, dans le priv\u00e9 et le public, pour des projets qui avaient besoin de stabilit\u00e9, de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et d’extensibilit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Guillaume est un des organisateurs de la communaut\u00e9 Drupal de Romandie et livre r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement des projets r\u00e9alis\u00e9s en Drupal, Laravel et WordPress.<\/p>\n

Pendant sa carri\u00e8re militaire de milice, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 incorpor\u00e9 dans les transmissions pour pratiquer la guerre \u00e9lectronique et est arriv\u00e9 au grade de premier lieutenant dans cette arme. Il est actuellement pr\u00e9sident de la section de Gen\u00e8ve de l’Association F\u00e9d\u00e9rale des troupes de Transmission, qui forme hors service les soldats aux techniques et proc\u00e9dures actuelles dans le maintien et la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des communications d’ordre militaire.<\/p>\n

Guillaume Baudoin est un b\u00e9n\u00e9vole pour le Pal\u00e9o Festival, responsable d’une partie de l’infrastructure r\u00e9seau et informatique pour le secteur s\u00e9curit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Il a donn\u00e9 des conf\u00e9rences au Drupal Media Camp, pour le Gull, des interviews au Temps et \u00e0 la capsule d’Olivier Pain et \u00e9crit dans la Revue Militaire Suisse (La Cyber-d\u00e9fense de la Suisse).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Game\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I’m a senior {web}designer, web consultant and WordPress developer, working on the web for more than 18 years.<\/p>\n

As a freelancer, I use to develop my themes from scratch with Underscores with a strong bent for learning to constantly improving my knowledges. That’s why I joined WordPress Community in France and developed a group for users in my town…<\/p>\n

I have been working 5 years as a webmaster and graphic designer for a great artpress magazine in Paris and many years for different medias. I’m found of arts, craft and design and practice linocut and draw.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEvren Kiefer\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Evren Kiefer works in content management and social media for a higher education institution in Geneva. He’s been working with WordPress for years as a writer, editor and administrator. He loves to deliver the right content to the right people and that requires a strategy. He’s been blogging about the techniques he uses<\/a> for a long time and he is an active user of Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBenjamin Lupu\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Currently Digital Director for a news group dedicated to Africa. He has used WordPress for almost all his projects since 2008, mostly developing news sites, event sites and job boards. He is also involved in the WordPress community and is one of the WordCamp Paris – and more recently the next WordCamp Europe – organizers. Finally, as everyone he has a secret life building the WP-AppKit<\/a> plugin with the fine people at Uncategorized Creations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBeatrice Otto\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Sustainability: solutions spotter and bridge builder. Language lover: writer, author, Chinese speaker. Life quest: personal and human fulfillment on a flourishing planet.<\/p>\n

Potential fulfilled is what drives me \u2013 working with creative, questing people, projects and organizations, to contribute to a slightly saner world, and inspire more sustainable business models, products and services. For 20 years I have worked to help companies rethink how they operate so they can serve humanity while keeping the environment in balance: first working on sustainable design and innovation as an independent consultant in the UK, and then leading Member Relations at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva.<\/p>\n

A lifelong lover of language(s), writing and books, I wrote the award-winning Fools Are Everywhere, a global study of the court jester in history, literature and drama; a universal role we still need for its fearless truth-telling and the use of humour to promote humanism among ruling elites, or at least to reduce the abuse of power. Now developing a series of adventures led by a jester aimed at children between eight and eighty-eight years old (lucky numbers in Chinese).<\/p>\n

The love of beautiful writing led to the creation of www.writingredux.com<\/a> to share thousands of sparkling and original metaphors and quotations collected over decades of attentive reading and occasional thinking. It is intended to inspire, question and enchant, and to raise the bar in the quality of writing we are willing to accept – so much on the internet being formulaic and inauthentic.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I grew up with a family connection to China which prompted me to study its language, literature and history during ten years of study in Leeds, Edinburgh and Fudan University in Shanghai. It was the existence of Chinese court fools when Europe was still in bear skins that gave me the idea to study this quirky character at a global level.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAri Leviatan\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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I’m a WordPress professional, originally from Israel, living today in Geneva Switzerland.<\/p>\n

I’ve been using WordPress since 2010, when I was running a webdesign shop in Tel Aviv, building numerous sites based on this amazing platform.<\/p>\n

Between the years 2012-2015, I earned my MBA degree from the University of Michigan and then had the privilege to work for Techstars on the Disney Accelerator, and for Disney Consumer Products. In both places I spent most of my time thinking up new technology-based businesses. This gave me not only the experience, but also the drive, for running my own eCommerce and app development business today.<\/p>\n

When it comes to WordPress, I particularly like working with it not only because of how easy it is to use and build websites and webapps with, but also because of the large thriving community of users. I never faced any serious challenge while building with WordPress, either because there was someone who faced similar challenges before me and shared their experience, or there was somebody who was willing to help.<\/p>\n

Over the years, I’ve built anything from simple one-page websites, to complete eCommerce powerhouses. I write my own themes and my own plugins.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Passionate about all aspects of computing and programming, I was naturally driven towards the worlds of web and open source. I created my own company, App’n’Web<\/a>, in 2008. Since then I enjoy designing and creating websites and developing applications for my clients. I am also a trainer: I teach WordPress and other CMS at the ifage among others. I find sharing knowledge and experience enriching from both a professional and a personal perspective.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Since 2011, Alex writes about WordPress on the french blog WPMarmite.com<\/a>. He’s known for his in depth tutorials, themes roundups and awesome newsletter. He’s also the author of “Relooker son Th\u00e8me” which is a 400+ pages guide on how to learn code to customize any WordPress theme. In 2016, he co-founded WPChef, an elearning platform to teach WordPress to beginners. You can learn more on his projets on his personal blog AlexBortolotti.com<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7317981,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PheRcQ-b7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneva.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneva.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneva.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneva.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7317981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneva.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geneva.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/geneva.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneva.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}