We’re excited to hear from our lineup of speakers this year! We’ve got sessions for everyone– with topics that will inspire you to do more with WordPress.
We’ll update this page as we announce more speakers!
Justin Kopepasah
Justin is a Senior Web Engineer at 10up, and will be sharing about Gutenberg and the Evolution of WordPress.
My first experience with computer technologies in school was with the same teacher who introduced me to tennis. While I did not grow up to be a tennis champion, my love for technology never faded and lead into a long term passion for open source and the World Wide Web.
James Lee S. Tabao
James is currently working as a Web Developer / Software Engineer in a company in Ortigas, and previously worked as a Web Developer / Development Head in a Web Development Company in Malolos, Bulacan. He enjoys speaking in public a lot and mostly does it for fun and the experience.
Cherry Sireetorn Prommawin
Cherry Prommawin is a Search Quality Analyst at Google Asia Pacific, ensuring good quality of organic search results, and specializing in web spam and webmaster relations for South East Asian countries. Prior to this, Cherry was a Senior Online Specialist and a Subject matter expert focusing on non-search products such as Google Analytics, Google My Business, Merchant Center and Google AdWords. Though Cherry is originally from Thailand, she has been in living in Singapore for close to 10 years.
Tonyo Cruz
Tonyo is a blogger, opinion columnist, social media strategist and advocate. His blog is a winner in the Philippine Blog Awards, and he currently writes for the Manila Bulletin. He has worked for marketing and advertising agencies, partylist representatives and SMEs.
Session: Breaking News, Fake News
Renee Campanilla
Renee is a software developer at Inspire Team, and has been in the industry for 4 years. She specializes in WordPress customization, especially in creating private plugins. She also specializes in human percussion/beatboxing to help her relax when she’s not working.
I believe in the saying, “There’s always something to learn everyday”.
Session: Importance of Turning WordPress Plugins to MVC and Implementation
Jerie Salazar
A Graphic/Website Designer by year 2013, Front-end Developer by year 2016, Shifted Career as an ICT Teacher for SY 16-17, and A Senior Graphic Designer today.
Session: U and I, the user and the interface
Omkar Bhagat
Omkar is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic. Apart from being a WordPress enthusiast, he is also an illustrator, and uses his drawings to explain things in his Youtube channel TheCuriousEngineer, which has over 79K subscribers. Previously, he was also worked with the popular YouTube channel MinuteEarth to explain cool stories about our planet.
Nathaniel Budikey
Nathaniel hails from Baguio City. After attending a WordPress code camp, he will be sharing his experience of starting from zero.
Session: Starting from Zero: Learning WordPress Bootcamp-style
Andrew Garcia
On a daily basis, Andrew maintains over 100 WordPress websites with a company that works with some of the top restaurants and hotels in Queensland, Australia. In his free time, Andrew volunteers with Philippine Tech Communities, an informal but committed group of volunteer leaders in the technology space in the country. Together, they help organize events and initiatives to serve the Philippine IT community. Andrew has been in the organizing team of WordCamp Manila since 2016, and has spoken and facilitated at various meetups, seminars and workshops by the WordPress User Group Philippines.
Session: Lessons and Rewards of Working with the WordPress Community
Mayo Moriyama
Mayo started her career in Cambodia helping the tourism industry and NGOs in building and creating their web sites. In 2013, she returned to Tokyo and joined the local WordPress community, became a translator, a Meetup organizer and a lead organizer of WordCamp Tokyo 2014.
Session: Start a meetup in your city
Chathu Vishwajith
Chathu works as the Co-Founder of Genius Soft Pvt Ltd., and is an Auth0 Ambassador. He likes contributing to the community, and currently acts as Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group. He leads two teams of his startup, who are working on full stack development and WordPress services.
Chathu started using WordPress in 2008 and created his first live Sinhala WordPress blog in 2009– the domain is now expired so that site is no longer exists. After some time, he founded a start-up with his schoolmates which had WordPress Web Site Development as one of its services. He has done more than 20 WordPress websites for local and international clients.
I learned hard way the Art of hardening the WordPress. Earlier stage I had several security-related problems and I managed to overcome them by learning. I have experienced and handled massive DDOS attacks.
Ros Juan
Ros Juan is a third-generation entrepreneur who has combined her passion for Philippine coffee and her strategic role in the burgeoning digital space as social media strategist. She’s the CEO of Commune, a cafe + bar in the central business district that specializes in all things coffee. At the same time, Ros is a digital strategist and advocate for social good, and has spearheaded a number of citizen-led digital initiatives such as @TweetupMNL and #rescuePH.
Session: Building Your Personal Brand
Devlin Duldulao
Devlin Duldulao is an independent software developer, an SEO consultant, and a Microsoft MVP. He loves talking at Universities and developers’ events, volunteering on medical missions, and traveling around the world with his better half.
Azel Alyne Tan
Azel started her career as front-end web developer working with WordPress websites. And she also enjoys her free time as a volunteer in Women Who Code Manila.
Session: WordPress Workshop for Beginners