Mike runs Primary Image, based in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, and designs, supports, and hosts WordPress websites for clients. Primary Image specialises in the transport sector, with Mike creating websites for Transport for London, National Express, and Network Rail, amongst many others.
Rachel helps her clients embrace the core principles of living a healthy lifestyle without fads, gimmicks, or strict regimes. She works both with private individuals and large companies, inspiring, educating, and showing them how to live healthily. She helps them put the zest back into their lives and organisations with quick, simple, and sustainable techniques.
Tammie Lister is a product engineer who focuses on the intersection of design, development, and open source. As a longtime contributor to WordPress, she advocates for collaboration, creativity, and open source. Her work combines playful exploration with practical experimentation, always striving to create tools that are both thoughtful and scalable. When she’s not immersed in coding or design systems, you can find her enjoying a good cup of tea while contemplating her next exploration.
Mark is the author of the infamous cake cargo subcommand. He is the organiser of the London Rust Meetup Group. He’s also a member of the Rust Community Team.
Annabel started her career in PR (non profit) before moving on to publishing and consumer law (Which? magazine) followed by advertising and HR. She founded Irenicon in 1980 (an employment law and HR consultancy) and has spent the intervening years helping some of the largest organisations in the UK (and some of the smallest) sort out the people and employment law issues that come with change. She founded KoffeeKlatch in 2009 specifically to support organisations outsourcing to freelancers. Her practical expertise in outsourcing to VAs, web designers, bookkeepers, trainers and more, is a key part of her speakers story.
Chris is a Web Application Engineer at We Are Base in Bournemouth and regular contributor to PHPDorset. Starting out as a designer, he has gradually moved more and more towards back-end development and dev ops in his career. Chris is an advocate for the PHP and WordPress communities, and has given talks at PHPDorset, BrightonPHP, PHPSurrey, Barcamp Bournemouth, and Barcamp Southampton. He is looking forward to touring more PHP and WordPress user groups this coming year.
Louise is the MD of Indigo Tree, a WordPress design & development agency with expertise in website strategy, content creation and technical SEO for businesses, non-profits, agencies and schools across the UK. With over thirty years of experience in software and website development, Louise has grown Indigo Tree over the last decade, driven by her passion for technology and business and an enthusiasm to deliver the best results to clients.
Louise is also the founder of Kanoppi, an innovative extension to WordPress that helps organisations measure and reduce their websites’ carbon footprint.
JJ got her start in tech support and community management working for Mumsnet and now does those things for brand sites she’s developed for clients. People ask her for advice on how to approach tricky emails more than she ever expected.
Annabelle is a relative newcomer to the WordPress community, but since discovering how welcoming it is, she hasn’t looked back! She originally began translating WordPress into en_GB back in September 2016, quickly demonstrating her abilities and impressing the existing GTE team, becoming a General Translation Editor that same month.
A huge language nerd, she is currently learning Japanese (having passed the JLPT N5 in Dec 2016, now working towards N4 for Dec 2017), and reading as much as she can on linguistics and poetry. When not doing language-based activities, you can find her doing photography, being passionate about disability rights, and babbling excitedly about unicorns on Twitter.
