Featured Speaker:Elizma Nolte
Elizma Nolte is Regional Marketing Manager for Facebook Africa. She is passionate about media, technology Africa – and finding ways to connect the three for positive change.
Before joining the Facebook Africa team, she did so as Country Marketing Manager for Google South Africa and as
Jessica Hannah
Social Media Guru @ Semantica Digital
I am an enthusiastic social media strategist, aspiring search engine optimisation guru and a seasoned copywriter.
Alexander Metzler
Vice President, Joomla!
As managing director of the agency a-fusion, based in Frankfurt, he and his team realize challenging design projects for web and print.
Dane Rossenrode
Team Leader @ Touchdreams
I now run a small agency focused on designing and building high-quality websites for our clients. We particularly love using Drupal.
Jonathan Bossenger
Expert @ Codeable
Capetonian Jonathan Bossenger is an open source advocate who believes in sustainable business building.
Chido Warambwa
Coder @ DevChid
I am a software developer based in Cape Town passionate about the IT industry and it’s potential to bring about positive change.
JURIAN JANSSEN
TYPO3 Specialist
Jurian is a lover of code who has written beautiful code for Typo3 and Mautic.
Marina Pape
Marketing Brand Manager @Automattic
Since joining WooCommerce in 2014, she has worked on various aspects of digital marketing.
Ed O'Reilly
Co-Founder and COO , NONA
An ex-developer now focusing on operations, management, agile methods and improving processes across the software development lifecycle.
Mathias Schreiber
CEO TYPO3
Mathias is the director of TYPO3 GmbH in Düsseldorf with the task of further developing and improving the visibility of TYPO3 worldwide.
Okwong Philmon
Director, Sokoni Solutions
Okwong Philmon is a dynamic and outstanding entrepreneur, Business and Leadership Coach, Sales expert, and Motivational speaker.
David Aswani
CMS Africa
I am an enterprise consultant, a creative and a tech enthusiast. I am also undertaking my certification in network security at the Cisco Academy.
Tania Melnyczuk
Director, Programme Design @ProjectManagement.co.za
Ola Olusoga
Product Design @Automattic
Ola Olusoga is a creative problem solver who works at the intersect of design, business, and marketing. He believes in creating useful solutions that empower people to do more.
Abu Fred
CEO, Webstar Inc.
Fred is Managing Director & Founder of Webstar Uganda, an-award-winning website design, SEO & content marketing agency based in Uganda and Rwanda.
Stephen Tredrea
Coder @Amibe Websites
Stephen is a multidimensional octopus with WordPress coloured ink and tentacles across the full stack.
Abdulkadir Shehu
Founder, JoomSchool International
An ICT Trainer, Lecturer, Author, Education Consultant, Entrepreneur, International Speaker, and CEO of JoomSchool International.
Marc Dechèvre
Team Leader Woluweb
Marc Dechèvre made his very first website in 1994, when the web was still quite confidential.
Shadrack Serem
CO-Founder Netrix Business Systems.
Serem is a Co-founder of CMS Africa. He is also a co-founder and C.T.O with Netrix Business Systems (www.netrixbiz.com), a software firm based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Hugh Lashbrooke
Community Manager - Automattic
Hugh works at Automattic where he is a Community Manager for the global WordPress community. Though he's a developer at heart.
Shane Rielly
Team Leader Lonely Viking
I have nearly 20 years experience in the design and web space and own a web development agency focussing primarily on WordPress consulting and development.
Bob Ochieng
Engagement Manager - Africa , ICANN
Monitor, identify and analyze internet related developments, public policy issues and trends ,and impact on strategy in regions, and translate these into practical plans.
Elsie Birech
Development Manager @ Eskimi DSP
Elsie is an experienced Digital Marketing Strategist with over five years of expertise that spans across Programmatic Advertising, Search Engine Optimization.
Kuba Zwolinski
Founder & CEO @SNOW.DOG
Kuba is also Founder and CEO of SNOW.DOG, commerce and mobile group, former Vice President of Meet Magento Association.
Bruce Lunnis
Global Community Manager @Startup Grind
Former Co-Founder & Managing Director of Code Like Clockwork (WordPress Development Agency) & Current Global Community Manager for Startup Grind.
Shailen Naidoo
CTO@ GetTruck
Naidoo is a
Gareth Allison
Woo Designer @Automattic
OUR MASTER OF CEREMONY , Or Captain of the ship.
Gareth is a designer at WooCommerce (Automattic) and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. As part of the marketing team, his focus is on social media, emailers and the Woo blog. With a background in front-end development, he has also been an MC for the previous three editions of WordCamp Cape Town, as well as at WooConf San Francisco in 2014. His spare time mostly consists of music, comedy & food.
