{"id":647,"date":"2017-06-27T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2017.edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/?p=647"},"modified":"2017-06-27T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:47:18","slug":"meet-our-second-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/meet-our-second-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our second speakers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we introduced you to our first batch of speakers for WordCamp Edinburgh 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s our second batch, who will be speaking about the REST API, customer service, getting started with WordPress, development workflows, and using WordPress for social good.<\/p>\n\n\t

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CJ Andrew is an independent web consultant & contractor, specializing in ecommerce and custom CMS solutions. CJ has helped individuals, businesses and agencies achieve their goals using WordPress and WooCommerce. The unique insight he brings to each WordPress project is guided by a background in traditional IT support, change management, and web administration.<\/p>\n

When not delivering WordPress or WooCommerce solutions, CJ enjoys jazz music alongside a long walk.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBridget Hamilton\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Bridget Hamilton founded Verbal Remedy, a taboo-tackling blog and multimedia company which was nominated for a National Diversity Award in 2015. She holds an MA in Radio Production and Management and has created content for platforms such as the Independent and the BBC.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTom Nowell\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Tom works his days as a VIP Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP for Automattic. He reviews and deploys millions of lines of code each year for large sites at scale.<\/p>\n

He’s also a community moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange, project lead for the WordPress The Right Way ebook, open source developer, and conference speaker.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Stef works at Automattic as a Happiness Engineer. She helps users who need support for products mainly on the wp.org<\/a> area such as VaultPress, Akismet, Jetpack and Polldaddy. WordPress evangelist, Stef is active in the International and Italian communities.<\/p>\n

When she\u2019s not working online or lifting heavy weights, Stef either stalks dogs or ends up people on fiction.<\/p>\n

Stef has led the sponsorship and finance team of WordCamp London in 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

You can find Stef on Twitter @stefmattana<\/span> and on Instagram as eraniapinnera<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n

Get your ticket today<\/h2>\n

Can’t wait for the third and final group? Get your #wcedin ticket today<\/a>. It covers both days of the conference \u2013 22 and 23 July \u2013 and gets you access to all sessions, lunch, coffee breaks, swag, and the after party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we introduced you to our first batch of speakers for WordCamp Edinburgh 2017. Here’s our second batch, who will be speaking about the REST API, customer service, getting started with WordPress, development workflows, and using WordPress for social good. … Continue reading Stef Mattana<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4952196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7X4Nk-ar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4952196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edinburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}