Speakers

  • Anke Van Reeth

    I am Anke, a freelance WordPress designer and developer. Over the past decade I've helped tiny startups, entrepreneurs and bigger companies build their brands and websites based on a solid strategy. Currently living in Sicily and mother to Sofia & Emilio.

  • Anne-Mieke Bovelett

    My name is Anne-Mieke Bovelett, and I run a versatile advertisement & project management agency called "Geek on Heels". I'm a Dutch Jack (and master) of a lot of trades in web, art, music and food, living and working in a small city near Düsseldorf, but I often reside in other countries as well. I'm …

  • Bramus Van Damme

    Bram(us) Van Damme is a freelance developer from Belgium. From the moment he discovered the web way back in 1997, he fell in love with it and has been tinkering with it ever since. With his company 3RDS he focuses on frontend development (HTML, CSS, JS), but he can also tackle the backend (PHP, MySQL) …

  • Brecht Ryckaert

    Brecht Ryckaert has been a big WordPress-fanatic for years now. For over 11 years he’s been working as a Senior Support Engineer and WordPress-expert at Combell.com. He loves to talk about subjects such as security, performance and problem solving. Whenever he’s not working with WordPress, he loves to see a good movie, enjoy an uplifting …

  • Cedriek Vos

    Cedriek is een 30-jarige WordPress developer die sinds een jaar of vijf beroepsmatig met WordPress bezig is. Zijn expertise is voornamelijk frontend development en configuratie.

  • Christien van de Sande

    Christien van de Sande werkt als COO en senior projectmanager bij Level Level, het full service WordPress agency in Rotterdam. Christien van de Sande kwam 10 jaar geleden als journalistiek redacteur in aanraking met WordPress; Een verademing! Toen ze haar weg vervolgde als online marketeer en projectmanager is ze altijd met WordPress blijven werken. Haar …

  • Christina Arntz

    Christina is a self-employed Social Media Marketing Strategist and Consultant since early 2018. Since then she's worked with well-established such as Yoast SEO and the German TV-broadcaster "ARD". While she continues to consult with big brands, she now also helps early-stage entrepreneurs to build strong brands on Social Media, specifically Instagram. Apart from her work, …

  • Claudia Reynders

    We are Eva and Claudia and together we founded a community called women.code(be), where we organise events to unite and inspire our fellow women who code. Eva is a freelance web designer and front-end/WordPress developer from Antwerp. Before she started focusing on design & code she studied philosophy and film studies, laying the foundation for …

  • Coen Jacobs

    As a backend developer, I’m passionate about optimizing code and about making sure it runs as fast and safely as possible. Stereotype developers may prefer to lock themselves up in dark, moldy attics. I like to think of myself as a reasonably social person, though. I enjoy meaningful conversations. It helps me understand the challenges …

  • Csaba Varszegi

    Csaba is a minimalist web developer at LittleBigThings and author of globalwarning.blog. He loves sustainable design and creating stuff with actual value. He blogs mostly about WordPress and contributes to it as well.

  • Danny van Kooten

    WordPress plugin developer with well over 25 million plugin downloads. Have been working with WordPress since 2010 and on privacy friendly (by design) analytics since 2017.

  • Dave Loodts

    Yes, i'm that 'old' (read: Senior) guy that still uses the word: 'webdesigner'. I'm a professional webdesigner since 2006 in my own company Davel.be where we create custom websites. In 2018 i founded Woofers.be: a WordPress Maintenance business with focus on WooCommerce. The latest (third) company is called Sitelaunch where we sell 'websites as a …

  • Dimitri Mestdagh

    Dimitri is a full-stack developer at Optis, working with Java and JavaScript frameworks. Loves trying out new frameworks and blogging about them.

  • Edmund Turbin

    Edmund Turbin is a Senior Sales Engineer at WP Engine, London. Over the past decade he has held technical roles in media, publishing and ad tech in New York City. Edmund is passionate about front end coding, development workflow and architecting scalable WordPress solutions for enterprise. Edmund is a certified AWS Solutions Architect – Associate. …

  • Eva Brarens

    Freelance web designer and front-end developer from Antwerp

  • Frank Goossens

    Web Performance freak, plugin developer, optimizer of matters.

  • Frederick Vanbrabant

    Frederick Vanbrabant is the founder of Brody & Hooper, a company that loves legacy code, project rescue, coaching and training. When he's not writing or talking about code you can find him in a ring trying to imitate Muhammad Ali

  • Herman Maes

    Freelance marketing strategist and techblogger since 2002. Tech-guy at the dark side of marketing combined with a DPO function to bring some light at the dark side.

  • Herre Groen

    I’m Herre Groen, software architect and DevOps manager at Yoast. I’m involved in both the development of our plugins and maintaining everything yoast.com. This dual role gives me a unique perspective on performance issues as I have experience both writing the software and managing the hardware involved. I frequently give presentations to our developers on …

  • Ike Devolder

    http://herecura.eu/speaker-bio

  • Jachim Coudenys

    Jachim Coudenys is a PHP developer at Combell. Since discovering PHP in 2002 (4.1.0), his work and after-work activities brought him from the world of development to server management, development workflows, more development, etc… Next to being a long-time member of PHPBenelux, he is co-organizer the PHP-WVL, a user group in West Flanders (BE). He …

  • Jeroen Buggenhoudt

    When I was 23 I started to work in a webdesign agency. After a few months I had the feeling I could do a better job alone… so I started Conversal in 2011. After working a few years as an independent freelancer I started hiring 1 person… which led to a team of 15 internal …

  • Julien Lambé

    Author of the Themosis framework. Graduated from computer graphics school and PHP self-learner. Beside the web, I love video games and wood working. Will share my knowledge and good vibes in exchange of a drink.

  • Karin Berning

    Na jaren als maatschappelijk werker, begon Karin als facilitair medewerker Yoast. Ze ging bij toeval mee naar WordCamp Antwerpen 2016 en werd spontaan verliefd op de WC community. Kort daarna werd het community team bij Yoast opgericht en Karin was daar vanaf het begin bij. Nu is Karin com rep bij Yoast. Met haar team …

  • Kristof Bernaert

    (re)engineering with opensource

  • Marc Nuijten

    I’m a freelance designer and front-end developer. From 2014 until 2020 I was lead designer and WordPress developer working on Charlie Magazine.

  • Mathias Noyez

    As a technical SEO specialist Mathias is responsible for the execution of SEO audits and migrations for the e-commerce and corporate clients of the Belgian SEO agency WiSEO. He is also the founder of the largest SEO community in the Benelux, SEO Benelux. In this group Belgian and Dutch SEOs can discuss technical SEO issues, …

  • Michelangelo van Dam

    I'm a senior #php architect, co-founder and #ceo of @in2itvof, #community leader at @phpbenelux, #coach at @CoderDojoBelgium, #digitalnomad, likes #coffee.

  • Monique Dubbelman

    Monique Dubbelman lives in Amsterdam and works as an independent UX designer, teacher and content strategist since 2011. Creating user-friendly websites is an important part of her work. In 2019, she joined forces with Cathi Bosco and Jackie D'Elia in the new design collective UX All The Things. Together, they're on a mission to make …

  • Nestor Angulo de Ugarte

    Technology enthusiast, Computer Science Engineer, early adopter, photographer, coffee lover and passionate about learning… Living in Canary Islands, Spain, the way I get fed my huge curiosity is working remotely as Security Analyst in GoDaddy Security and in Sucuri, where I'm in touch everyday with the cybersecurity world, hackers, backdoors, etc.

  • Pieter Carette

    Pieter is a website optimization expert with over 14 year hands-on experience. WordPress user since 2006. Followed a GDPR certification in 2017 and using that knowledge for implementing and giving advice on online marketing campaigns. A privacy-loving marketeer? Yep, they exist.

  • Rhys Wynne

    Rhys Wynne is a WordPress Plugin developer, author and speaker. In 2013 he penned bbPress Complete (ISBN-13: 978-1782167242) and has written plugins that have been downloaded over 100,000 times. Rhys has a keen interest in commercial WordPress development, SEO, security and open source technologies, and enjoys the community that has surrounded open source technologies. Away …

  • Richard van Denderen

    Richard is WordPress specialist bij https://WPHelpdesk.nl. Richard lost daar alle soorten WordPress problemen op van groot tot klein. Met meer dan 8.980 beantwoorde vragen en meer dan 4.200 opgeloste problemen is er nog maar weinig dat hij niet voorbij heeft zien komen.

  • Roelinde Brons

    With more than 12 years of experience as a solopreneur and webbuilder, Roelinde Brons makes herself, her customers and family happy. She has specialized herself as the place to go for WordPress maintenance and support. Both for companies and colleagues.

  • Romain Luyten

  • Rosanne van Staalduinen

    Rosanne is the co-founder of Buro Staal, a small digital agency in The Netherlands. She believes that a website isn’t the end product, but the start of a process that consists of analyzing and optimizing. Her main focus is getting the best out of every budget to create a userfriendly website that help her clients …

  • Taeke Reijenga

    All-round WordPress professional and owner of Level Level, a full service WordPress agency based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

  • Tom Hermans

    Trained for a communications degree, self thought in design and programming. I’m a UX engineer aka a designer who codes, designs and develops systems and tinkers with IoT. Working as freelancing consultant on projects for Telenet, Unicef, Q-Park, Studio 100 amongst others. Also 10x nerd.

  • Toon Van de Putte

    I am one of three developers working for klasse.be. Apart from working on our WordPress website and our custom plugins for it, I also support the (editorial) team with data analysis and processing tools, and do functional analysis for new features and upcoming campaigns.

  • Wendie Huis in t Veld

    Wendie ontdekte WordPress in 2009. In 2011 maakte ze van haar hobby haar beroep (als freelancer) waaruit in 2015 de Websiteclub is geboren. Ze is behoorlijk actief op verschillende WordCamps, onder andere als volunteer, spreker en emcee’s en ze is lid van het organisatie team van WordCamp Europe 2018. Naast haar werk in de Websiteclub …

  • Wouter Van de Wille

    Building badass WordPress sites since 2012. Big fan of the Roots.io stack.