Speakers

Irish people have the old gift of the gab and as a result, have many very talented and renowned speakers.

Here are just a few of those talented speakers:

Andrea Trasatti

Andrea is a mobile internet expert who started his suffering in the emerging mobile market in 1999 when only emulators of WAP were available.

Alastair McDermott

Alastair McDermott is Technical Director of WebsiteDoctor.com, a consultancy and training business focused on online marketing. Alastair specialises in the technical side of online marketing, particularly search engine optimisation and web programming.

Alexis Bouckaert*

Alexis is a digital creative director and designer. His specialty is developing creative concepts and strategies for marketing campaigns and seeing them through to design and development. Until recently he held the role of joint-Creative Director and Studio …

Darragh Doyle

Darragh is Communications Manager at Boards.ie, Ireland largest and busiest forum site with a community of over 200,000 people. Seemingly always online, he talks to a lot of people through blogs, over Twitter.

Daryl Koopersmith

Daryl is a visiting student at the University of Edinburgh. He majors in Computer Science and began work on Elastic, a visual theme editor and theme engine, with WordPress during the Google Summer of Code 2009

Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha is a software developer with Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Akismet and part of the WordPress.org community. He has written many WordPress plugins including WP Super Cache and is the lead developer of WordPress MU.

Eddie Johnston

Eddie is a software developer and web designer based in Strandhill, Co. Sligo. After spending the last ten years in Machine Learning research and IT consultancy, he’s currently growing his own business at Beanstalk.ie.

Frank Prendergast

As a freelance web designer, Frank develops websites for small to medium sized businesses using WordPress a content management system. Somewhere around ten years ago Frank began living on the web as project manager with Zenith Solutions.

Garrett Coakley

Garrett is a developer at TorchBox.com and is based in Oxford in the UK. He has well over a decade of experience developing web sites; past clients range from national high street retailers and financial institutions.

Hanni Ross & Sheri Bigelow

Sheri Bigelow is a designer, developer, and photographer currently living in Saratoga Springs, NY. She earned a Bachelor’s in Business and a Chemistry minor from the University of Utah before spending eight years managing websites for Myriad …
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Heidi Jermyn

Hailing from the sunny Sunshine Coast, Australia, Heidi has been professionally active in the web industry for a decade. She got the taste for web development back in the bad old days of tables and inline styling …

Ian Huet

Ian has been lead developer with ChoiceCuts since jumping at the chance to combine his two greatest passions: web development and music. Having spent too many years working on purely practical data-driven sites he now revels in.

Jane Wells

Jane is the user experience lead for WordPress, and has worked in the web industry for 10 years. Though her apartment is in the East Village, she spends much of her time traveling to WordCamps and meeting

Maryrose Lyons

Maryrose Lyons is a long-time blogger and self-appointed Chief of the Grammar & Spelling Police.  Working from the knowledge that our poor little brains are overloaded and do not take in much of what we read online, …