{"id":1378,"date":"2016-04-29T01:27:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T01:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2016-04-29T06:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:25:37","slug":"first-batch-of-speakers-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/first-batch-of-speakers-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"First batch of speakers announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Remkus de Vries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"speakersimg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1297\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/04\/remkus-de-vries-1.jpg\" alt=\"remkus-de-vries\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/remkus-de-vries-1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/remkus-de-vries-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/remkus-de-vries-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"speakerstext\"><strong>WordCamp talk of Remkus:\u00a0WooCommerce showcase<\/strong><br \/>\nRemkus is like the godfather of the WordPress Community in the Netherlands. There&#8217;s probably not one aspect of WordPress he didn&#8217;t touched through his career. A summary: admin of the Dutch WordPress forums, lead of the translations nl-nl, president of the WP Nederland foundation and he&#8217;s organized a lot of WordCamps Netherlands and the first WordCamp Europe.Remkus lives in the beautiful province of Frysl\u00e2n and he&#8217;s the CEO of Forsite Media as well as managing director of Crowd Favorite B.V.<br \/>\nForsite Media is a WordPress specialist internet media company specialised in enterprise solutions.<br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/defries\" target=\"_blank\">@defries<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Thijs Feryn<\/h3>\n<div class=\"speakersimg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1372\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/04\/thijs.jpg\" alt=\"thijs\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/thijs.jpg 350w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/thijs-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/thijs-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"speakerstext\"><strong>WordCamp talk of Thijs: WordPress + Varnish = speed<\/strong><br \/>\nThijs Feryn is a technical evangelist at a Belgian webhosting company called Combell. His goal is to bring technology to the people and people to technology. He focuses on bridging the gap between code and infrastructure. Thijs is also involved in many open source communities and leads the PHPBenelux community. He speaks, listens, writes, codes, teaches, organizes and is above all very excited to speak at WordCamp Antwerp.<br \/>\nTwitter: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThijsFeryn\" target=\"_blank\">ThijsFeryn<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Tom Janssens<\/h3>\n<div class=\"speakersimg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1360\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/04\/tomjanssens.png\" alt=\"tomjanssens\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/tomjanssens.png 350w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/tomjanssens-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/tomjanssens-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"speakerstext\"><strong>WordCamp talk of Tom: Front-end on steroids &#8211; Presentation about modern front-end development techniques<\/strong><br \/>\nTom is a Belgian web developer and co-founder of Timble, a company with deep roots in open source software that build things for the web. In the past years Tom spent most of his time working on Open Police. An open government platform for the Belgian Police using open source software and open standards.<br \/>\nTwitter: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/janssenstom\" target=\"_blank\">janssenstom<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Anne-Laure de Harlez<\/h3>\n<div class=\"speakersimg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1370\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/04\/Anne-Laure-de-Harlez.jpg\" alt=\"Anne-Laure de Harlez\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Anne-Laure-de-Harlez.jpg 350w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Anne-Laure-de-Harlez-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/Anne-Laure-de-Harlez-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"speakerstext\"><strong>WordCamp talk of Anne-Laure: How learning WordPress helped me to start my freelance business<\/strong><br \/>\nMy name is Anne-Laure de Harlez, I was born in the 80&#8217;s&#8230; But I also happen to be a web developer based in Brussels (Belgium).<br \/>\nI studied journalism and communication at the UCL, Belgium and then I graduated from Universeit Antwerp with a degree in American Studies. I spent part of 2010 in New York, firstly being an intern at the UN then at the French-speaking magazine France-Am\u00e9rique. My first job was in a tech startup and that&#8217;s when I felt in love with code, even though I knew nothing about it at the time. Since then I got trained to HTML and CSS at the great Steer, in London, and to WordPress with the amazing American online classes Skillcrush. Beside, I also co-organize the Creative Sunday, DIY (and more!) events in Brussels and I sometimes post on HowTo, a blog that I co-host.&#8221;<br \/>\nTwitter: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnneLaure_dH\" target=\"_blank\">AnneLaure_dH<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Andr\u00e9s Cifuentes<\/h3>\n<div class=\"speakersimg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1363\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/04\/andres-cifuentes.jpg\" alt=\"andres-cifuentes\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/andres-cifuentes.jpg 350w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/andres-cifuentes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/andres-cifuentes-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"speakerstext\"><strong>WordCamp talk of Andr\u00e9s: WordPress Multilingual<\/strong><br \/>\nColombian front-end developer currently living in Sevilla after working in Paris for five years. I am a WordPress enthusiast working at OnTheGoSystems as a WPML supporter.<br \/>\nI am a Colombian coffee addict, a traveler, cat lover and an eternal languages student.<br \/>\nTwitter: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andescifuentesr\" target=\"_blank\">andescifuentesr<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Bego Mario Garde<\/h3>\n<div class=\"speakersimg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1314\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.antwerp.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/04\/BegoMarioGarde.jpeg\" alt=\"BegoMarioGarde\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/BegoMarioGarde.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/BegoMarioGarde-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"speakerstext\"><strong>WordCamp talk of Bego Mario: Do you really need a Child Theme?<\/strong><br \/>\nBego supports and consults small and medium-sized enterprises and freelancers, who use WordPress. As a WordPress Trainer he covers a range from beginners classes to individual coaching.Bego is a member of the WordPress Polyglots team and contributes as General Translation Editor to the German translation of WordPress core, themes and plugins. He is also a moderator for the German WordPress support forums, where he helps users while keeping his own WordPress knowledge up to date.Bego was Co-Organizer of WordCamp Cologne in 2015, just published his first plugin in the official WordPress repository and believes, a good cup of Earl Grey tea is essential for code development.<br \/>\nTwitter: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixolin\" target=\"_blank\">pixolin<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8414446,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/04\/first-batch-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71xj8-me","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8414446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antwerp.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}