Category Archives: Speakers

Speaker Spotlight: David Mugo

I am a Kenyan ICT consultant mainly focusing on digital media & technology. I am currently working as an adviser to Kenya’s vice president and also the current chairman of Wikimedia Kenya. I developed and helped implement the digital strategy … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: David Mugo

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Speaker Spotlight: Mark Slingsby

Mark Slingsby is co-founder and Technical Director of local Internet Service Provider RSAWEB. Through his passion for entrepreneurship and technology, Mark has worked for over 11 years in a variety of technical and strategic consulting roles for various IT companies, including, RSAWEB, Even Flow Distribution … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Mark Slingsby

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Speaker Spotlight: Fred Roed

KEYNOTE I’m the co-founder of a digital marketing agency called World Wide Creative. Together with my business partner, Mike Perk, and the World Wide Creative team, we aim to become the best in the world at creating (what we term) … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Fred Roed

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Speaker Spotlight: Neil Pursey

Neil is the owner of WebGrowth, co-partner in Foxy Tonic and co-founder in the GROW Academy. He is passionate about search and website usability. He discovered SEO by chance in a previous business of his, realising the need for SEO skills in South Africa … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Neil Pursey

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Speaker Spotlight: Byron Rode

Byron is the co-founder of and lead developer at Tangram, a full service creative agency with clients in South Africa, Australia and Europe. He is extremely passionate about development on both the web and iOS, has given talks and consulted … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Byron Rode

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Speaker Spotlight: Eric Clements

Eric is the founder of Kazazoom a niche development company, specializing in Mxit Apps & Games. Eric supports the sharing of ideas and innovation in the South African, as well as African Mobile Industry. Eric has made open source tools … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Eric Clements

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Speaker Spotlight: Matt Bush

I am a web developer, and I almost exclusively use WordPress for the sites I build. I also studied music and have been playing music in one form or another since I was about 8 years old. Session: How many … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Matt Bush

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Speaker Spotlight: Bennie Stander

Bennie Stander is an internet marketing consultant that also designs websites. He has been involved in internet marketing for nearly 10 years and a hobby became a career just over 3 years ago. Bennie has worked with hundreds of website … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Bennie Stander

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Speaker Spotlight: Jeffrey Pearce

Most know me as Jeffikus. I’m one of the lead developers at WooThemes.com, and I’ve been developing with WordPress for the past 6 years. Some of my others passions are software development standards, education, and the guitar. Prior to developing … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Jeffrey Pearce

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Speaker Spotlight: Matt Cohen

By day, I go by Matty. I’m a lead developer over at WooThemes, where I work predominantly with PHP and JavaScript. I keep a keen eye on all products released at WooThemes and have a strong focus on coding standards … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Matt Cohen

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Speaker Spotlight: Riaan Knoetze

Riaan is the founder and owner of Tiny Giant Studios– a SA/UK based web design and development company specializing in WP themes, plugins and products. With degrees in a few unrelated fields, Riaan is a self-taught front end developer that … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Riaan Knoetze

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Speaker Spotlight: Anthony Somerset

Anthony works as an Infrastruture Engineer at W3 EDGE. Day-to-day that could involve absolutely anything from fighting fires with servers, building/provisioning new infrastructure/servers for clients, all the way to general consulting on performance best practices for WP with a focus … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Anthony Somerset

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