First batch of speakers announced

Remkus de Vries

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WordCamp talk of Remkus: WooCommerce showcase
Remkus is like the godfather of the WordPress Community in the Netherlands. There’s probably not one aspect of WordPress he didn’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’s organized a lot of WordCamps Netherlands and the first WordCamp Europe.Remkus lives in the beautiful province of Fryslân and he’s the CEO of Forsite Media as well as managing director of Crowd Favorite B.V.
Forsite Media is a WordPress specialist internet media company specialised in enterprise solutions.
Twitter: @defries

Thijs Feryn

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WordCamp talk of Thijs: WordPress + Varnish = speed
Thijs 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.
Twitter: @ThijsFeryn

Tom Janssens

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WordCamp talk of Tom: Front-end on steroids – Presentation about modern front-end development techniques
Tom 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.
Twitter: @janssenstom

Anne-Laure de Harlez

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WordCamp talk of Anne-Laure: How learning WordPress helped me to start my freelance business
My name is Anne-Laure de Harlez, I was born in the 80’s… But I also happen to be a web developer based in Brussels (Belgium).
I 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-Amérique. My first job was in a tech startup and that’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.”
Twitter: @AnneLaure_dH

Andrés Cifuentes

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WordCamp talk of Andrés: WordPress Multilingual
Colombian 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.
I am a Colombian coffee addict, a traveler, cat lover and an eternal languages student.
Twitter: @andescifuentesr

Bego Mario Garde

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WordCamp talk of Bego Mario: Do you really need a Child Theme?
Bego 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.
Twitter: @pixolin

Author: Dave Loodts

Building sites since 2006. Yep, that long. Run a webdesign company called davel.be from 2006 to 2022, now renamed to Woofers where we do only WooCommerce projects. Gave back to the WordPress community as: - Co-fouder & former co-organizer of WordCamp Antwerp (Belgium) - Co-founder & former co-organizer of WordPress Meetup Antwerp (Belgium) - Founder & rormer co-founder of WordPress Meetup Hasselt (Belgium) Say hi to me on Twitter.

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