Category Archives: Speaker Spotlight

Speaker Spotlight: Roy Foubister

Roy, started his career life as a network engineer in South Africa then moving to Botswana. A natural progression happened as he moved from networks to servers after gaining an “old school” MCSE qualification while managing the Barloworld Botswana infrastructure. … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Roy Foubister

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Speaker Spotlight: Joe Botha

Joe Botha will share a few insights from his use of WordPress. He’s been using WordPress for about five years as a startup entrepreneur and photographer.   Tell us a bit about yourself I’m a Cape Town based serial entrepreneur, photographer … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Joe Botha

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Speaker Spotlight: Rafiq Phillips

 Rafiq Phillips is a Cape Town based SEO Specialist, Social Entrepreneur and Innovator. He will be presenting a session on the Importance of SEO as a part of the Publisher Track. Tell us a bit about yourself SEO at MIH SWAT by day Web … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Rafiq Phillips

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Speaker Spotlight: David Perel

David Perel is the co-founder, designer and product manager at Obox design, a Premium Themes company based in Cape Town. David founded the company along with his brother Marc, and beyond themes Obox has become known for the Obox Mobile WordPress … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: David Perel

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Speaker Spotlight: Marc Perel

Marc Perel is the co-founder of Obox Design along with his brother David. Obox is a professional Premium Themes company also known for Obox Mobile, their WordPress Plugin which converts your site to be mobile friendly. Marc will be participating in … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Marc Perel

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Speaker Spotlight: Byron Rode

 Byron Rode is a Web Developer, Professional Photographer and the Co-founder of Tangram – a digital agency focusing on brand, website development and design, mobile applications and internet consultation. Byron will be hosting a session on our Tech/Development Track about Improving Ease … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Byron Rode

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Speaker Spotlight: Ashley Shaw

We are proud to announce the organizer of this year’s WordCamp Cape Town 2011, Ashley Shaw from LightSpeed WordPress Development as a Speaker on the Tech/Development Track. Ashley will be hosting a session on the art of scaling WordPress. Tell … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Ashley Shaw

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Speaker Spotlight: Dan Milward

We are very happy to announce Dan Milward, founder and owner of Instinct Entertainment as a speaker at WordCamp Cape Town. Dan will be hosting a Tech/Development track session on the WP e-Commerce plugin and the Open Source community.

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MC Interview: Jonathan Duguid

We are happy to announce Jonathan Duguid (@theDramaKing on Twitter) as the MC on the Publisher’s track. Jonathan will be keeping us entertained, assure that we don’t take ourselves too seriously and remember to have lots of fun between geeking … Continue reading MC Interview: Jonathan Duguid

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Speaker Spotlight: Neil Pursey

 Tell us a bit about yourself When I’m not working I enjoy a round of golf, it definitely keeps me sane. I am the owner of WebGrowth, co-partner in ThinkSEO and co-partner in the GROW Academy. I discovered SEO by chance in … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Neil Pursey

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Speaker Spotlight: Jess Green

Not a WordPress expert, but a lover of WordPress – Jess has built a few WordPress websites, first by developers doing it for him, and then himself, and in the process learnt how clients should be handled.

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Speaker Spotlight: Matt Geri

 The latest top notch speaker to official join the line up at this year’s WordCamp Cape Town is Matt Geri, self confessed WordPress Geek and Mobile champion. Matt will be blowing our minds on the Tech/Development track with a session … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Matt Geri

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Speaker Spotlight: David Mugo

We want to welcome David Mugo as an official speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. David is one of our international speakers, all the way from Kenya. The organizer of WordCamp Kenya,  blogger, and social media & technology consultant, David … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: David Mugo

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Speaker Spotlight: Fred Roed

 We are very happy to confirm Fred Roed, of World Wide Creative and the Heavy Chef project as a speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. Fred will be hosting a session on Community, and it’s place in marketing strategy.

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Speaker Spotlight: Jeff Pearce

We are happy to confirm Jeffikus Pearce – Jeffikus for those in the know – lead developer at WooThemes and WordPress wizard as speaker at WordCamp Cape Town 2011. Jeffikus will be hosting a session on our developer track on … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Jeff Pearce

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