Speakers

Heike Burch

Ich bin von Herzen Grafikerin und Softwaretrainerin. Ich gestalte Editorial Designs, erstelle Periodika und gebe Templates den technisch perfekten Schliff. Ich unterrichte und berate die Publishing-Branche. Mein Wissen gebe ich zudem in zahlreichen Fachvorträgen und bei den InDesignUserGroups preis.

Mircea Tihu

Mircea is a Software Engineer from Timisoara, Romania with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and master’s degree in Information Technology. He’s been working with WordPress for the past 6 years and is Dream Production AG‘s Lead WordPress developer. In his spare time he plays bass guitar for Marion Kräutner.

Maja Benke

Maja studied landscape architecture but soon discovered her love for WordPress and traveling the world. Now she works as a web designer with a passion for UX and accessibility and has a blog for WordPress newbies.

Dominik Schilling

Dominik Schilling is a Web Developer at required and a WordPress core developer with a strong passion for WordPress. He led the WordPress 4.6 release, is the technical lead of the Polyglots team and lead developer of GlotPress, a collaborative, web-based software translation tool. Since that’s not enough he also takes part in the WordPress.org meta and security teams to make translate.wordpress.org more awesome and WordPress more secure. Dominik is mostly known as @ocean90.

Cinzia Gabellini

Cinzia Gabellini is an e-learning designer and adult trainer interested in online learning, instructional design and open education. She takes care of educational technologies at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, where WordPress is part of the educational infrastructure and used to support digital learning and teaching, such as collaborative writing or course content authoring.

Tomaž Zaman

Born and raised in central Slovenia. After having moved to the most remote part of the country with my family, had to look online for work and found a couple of issues that online outsourcing services have and decided to build my own.

Having 0 experience with WordPress at the time was quite a challenge, but luckily the community is warm and welcoming and the business is growing ever since because there’s a need for a matchmaking service like ours.

When I’m not managing the team of currently 12 people, I like to write JavaScript. I‘m a geek, I know.

Off work, I’m a husband, a father of 4 kids and a passionate Skydiver.

Pascal Knecht

Pascal is a Software Engineer based in Thun and currently doing his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He’s been working with WordPress for over 3 years as a full stack developer. He loves to teach WordPress to new developers and to build fancy and usable websites with (but not only) it. Pascal is always looking to learn new technologies and therefore he is also working with the shiny new javascript frameworks.

Stefan Kremer

Stefan Kremer: founder of AdminPress.de, WordPress enthusiast, lately ownCloud.org Community Manager, bon vivant and afficionado. Being administrator of several macOS server, PBXs and of course ownCloud and WordPress instances I’m vocally obliged to privacy and security. Evangelist for all on-prem-solutions with a slight propensity for paranoia. Admin by nature so to say.

Thomas Bruehl

Thomas ist hauptberuflich im IT-Bereich einer Versicherung als IT-Security Officer tätig. Nebenbei kümmert er sich um eine steigende Anzahl WordPress Installationen. Mit WordPress angefangen hat er 2004 mit seinem Blog her.ein.de und der WordPress Version 1.2 (Mingus). Seit September 2013 ist er einer der Organisatoren des WordPress Meetup Köln, hat das WordCamp Cologne MMXV mitorganisiert, hilft Plugins zu übersetzen und ist im WordCamp Central Deputy Team.

Michael Sebel

Michael is not really using WordPress. But he’s developing custom solutions on top of it since about seven years. Which is maybe why he doesn’t take the time to actually blog. Nearly three years ago he founded comotive along with his companion Martin Ott and a network of freelancers from all over switzerland. He is very fond of high performance, complex and custom websites, automation, highly available web clusters and therefore the technical lead at his own WordPress agency. For 25 cents he will – decided by mt_rand() – rant or chant about project Gutenberg for a good hour.

Boris Baldinger

Father and Business Photographer based in 🇨🇭 | Speaking about social media and photography | Co-Founder of  – Influencer Marketing Agency.

Gregory Dzemaili

Gregory Dzemaili is the founder, owner and head coach of Lebe Stark Personal Training; a Personal Training Service and Gym based in the eastern part of Switzerland. With 4 years of experience as a certiefeid fitness instructor, Blackroll- and Kettlebell Trainer, he’s equipped with a solid, professional and necessary foundation in fitness and strength traininig. After 10 years of working professionally in the music industry, he finally built his dream and enterprise in helping people achiever their fitness goals.
Himself being a passionate strength and endurance athlete for over 10 years, he’s not only a Personal Trainer but an experienced advocate of his genre. Blick Am Abend, Thurgauer Zeitung and 20 Minuten also confirm his knowledge as a coach. Gregory also runs his own fitness blog on his website as well as his own Youtube Channel with the strong desire in his heart to help other people.

Zahhar Kirillov

Hi, I am Zahhar – Design manager and Technology broker from Estonia. After graduating as a Master of IT management from Tallinn University, I was a software developer, lecturer, design manager, CIO, entrepreneur and startup founder. Since 2016 I moved with my family to Switzerland where I joined EPAM as a Technical project manager. Still, part of my soul is forever with small business and web-development. That is why I am helping my wife in her marketing consultancy Blonde.Marketing. There we have a long list of friends and customers asking advice on WordPress – a platform, I have been working with since 2007.

Haeme Ulrich

Trainer, Speaker und Consultant bei WeLoveYou.

Haeme Ulrich bezeichnet sich als Publishing Geek. Seit bald 20 Jahren begleitet er als Trainer und Berater Agenturen, Verlage, Marketing-Abteilungen und Publishing-Software-Hersteller. Auch Firmen wie Adobe greifen gerne auf seine Marktkenntnisse zurück.

Marija Zaric

Marija Zaric is a freelance web designer living in Belgrade, Serbia with a focus on individual and commercial clients who demand websites that are modern, creative, simple and responsive. She works with clients from USA and all over the world, helping them present their services in a unique and professional way. Marija graduated in Computer Science – computer graphics and design course at the Singidunum University in Belgrade.
Marija was a technical reviewer for the books Responsive Media in HTML5, Mastering Responsive Web Design, Responsive Web Design Patterns and Mastering Bootstrap 4 for Packt Publishing. She creates Bootstrap themes for the global market. Marija loves to share her knowledge through web design meetups and conferences.

András Guseo

András has built his first website in 1997 learning HTML in 3 days. Ten years later, while starting up his web design business he discovered WordPress and never looked back. He moved to Switzerland in 2009 and started focusing on SMEs, helping them establish and strengthen their online presence through
WordPress driven websites. He is a promoter of focused work, and clean, efficient designs. He likes to work with the Divi theme and is running a blog at divi-magazine.com since 2015.

He is also proud to be a member of the support team at Modern Tribe – the team behind the plugin The Events Calendar and co. – and loves to help people solve their issues.

Mark Howells-Mead

Mark has been using WordPress since version 1.0 and is a keen collaborator in the Swiss WordPress community. He moved to the Alps in 2001 and has built a career around CMS-driven websites, with a particular focus on plugin development, frontend development and user interface concept work. Mark has been blogging at permanenttourist.ch since 2004 and is Head of Development at WordPress agency cubetech.

Christian Zumbrunnen

Christian ist hauptberuflich bei switchplus tätig, wo er unter anderem dazu beiträgt, dass switchplus ihre eigenen Websites mit WordPress betreibt und zukunftsweisende, WordPress basierte Produkte anbietet. Christian ist stolz darauf, Teil des Teams zu sein, welches kürzlich PRESENCE lancierte, eine (auf WordPress basierende) Komplettlösung für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen, die im Internet erfolgreich sein wollen.

Sein Engagement für Einsteiger zeigt sich an seinen Kursen zu WordPress/Woocommerce, unter anderem, an der Migros Klubschule.

Pascal Birchler

Pascal is a student and Core Developer based in Zurich, Switzerland. He’s been working with WordPress for half of his life and passionate about helping other people and cooking. Most recently he’s been improving updates and i18n in WordPress.

John Mueller

Since joining Google in 2007, John has worked closely with many teams around Google’s Web-Search, such as with Search Console / Webmaster Tools, Webmaster Central, Sitemaps, and Search Quality. He’s driven by espresso, as well as the desire to help others to make their content easily accessible & useful through search.

Prior to joining Google, John finished his studies of robotics & business administration at the ETH Zurich and built up a software company. When not on the line, he’s sometimes found hacking on the next generation of 3D-printed robot gizmos that will soon take over the world (or help mow the lawn, whichever comes first).