There are the speakers currently confirmed to speak at WordPress 2009, there’ll be more to follow! Watch for more news on speakers on our blog, and be the first to know.
- Jonny Allbut
Jonny Allbut is a freelance graphic designer and web developer based in Birmingham, West Midlands. He has been designing professionally for print and the Internet for over a decade ad his clients include many well-known brands including Cadbury, Ramada Hotels, DHL and Grant Thornton. He is a strong supporter of WordPress and has been working on this platform for over four years, using it as a custom CMS for a number of clients.
In his spare time he enjoys creativity in all forms and regularly lectures on graphic design at a local college to both teenagers and mature students. He also maintains a number of personal sites - all based on WordPress of-course!
- Luisella Mazza
Luisella is a Search Quality Senior Analyst who joined Google in 2005
to support search quality efforts in the European languages. She is
also a Google Guide on the Italian webmaster help group. Luisella has
a degree in Foreign Languages (French, Spanish and Catalan) from the
University of Bologna, Italy and a degree in Technology of Computing
from the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.
- Matt Mullenweg
Matt is best known as the founding developer of WordPress, the
blogging software he guided from a handful of users to the most widely
used open source blog tool. In late 2005 he left CNET to found
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet.com. In his
spare time he enjoys taking photographs and playing jazz.
- Mike Little
Mike Little co-founded the WordPress project with Matt Mullenweg way back in 2003, after a remark from Matt on his blog. Mike has been programming professionally for almost twenty years in a variety of languages including PHP, Java, Perl, C, and assembler. He works as an independent WordPress web developer and has recently been working on eGovernment projects involving WordPress.
Mike is passionate about what he does and the projects he works on, and is particular about accessibility, web standards and "doing the right thing." He lives with his family in Stockport, England.
- Michael Kimb Jones
Kimb is a web designer/developer working for the NHS in Barnsley, UK.
He also dips into freelance web design work under the title base6 Design.
- Peter Westwood
Peter Westwood is one of the Lead Developers responsible for the core WordPress software, and the author of a number of WordPress plugins.
If you have a good idea for a simple plugin Peter might just write it for you during the weekend! If you're looking to bribe him to write a plugin or commit a patch to WordPress core, then you might find that a good Real Ale suits the task well.
- Simon Dickson
Simon Dickson started web consultancy Puffbox in 2007, following a dozen years working in large corporate environments including Sky News, Microsoft and a handful of central government departments. The business plan didn't say anything about developing sites himself, but WordPress made it too easy not to. Simon's work is now almost entirely WordPress-based; he specialises in designing and building small-scale, innovative sites for clients across Whitehall.
- Simon Wheatley
Simon Wheatley is a designer and developer with over ten years of
experience crafting user experiences in a variety of industries, using
a wide array of technologies. Recently Simon has been focussing on WordPress and related products (bbPress and BuddyPress) to deliver
sites for various clients including the Royal Navy, the Department for
International Development and Stephen Fry. Simon's projects often
involve marrying intensive custom plugin and theme work with ease of
use and an emphasis on the user experience.
- Tony Scott
Tony Scott is a London-based web designer/developer and television vision controller. He's also the co-ordinator of WordCamp UK. He previously worked at the BBC, initially in studio and outside broadcasts, and latterly in television lighting and vision control. His interests include open source, open standards, semantic web, linked data, music, science fiction and real ale.
