Organisers

Attendee Services Team

The Attendee Services Team provides audience support and ticket logistics. They are available throughout the event, making sure attendees have all the information they need.

• Uros Tasic

  

  I’m a WordCamp organizer and speaker, passionate about WordPress. Having a deep appreciation for culinary delights and enjoys exploring the world of food. Working as a Tech Lead at Maksimer.

• Alexandros Kaounas

  

  A digital nomad and WordPress developer rooted in Athens, Greece. Specializing in creating websites using blocks and Gutenberg. Also, a devoted dog owner and passionate travel enthusiast.

• Marieta Christopoulou

  

  Marketing Communications Manager at Papaki & Top.Host (team.blue Group). Avid bibliophile with a WP blog named Mybookmark.gr Loves technology, gaming, traveling, and learning new things.

• Lorenzo Fracassi

  

  Web designer and problem solver, loves maps and transports and playing videogames, chess and GeoGuessr. In WP community since 2018, mod/editor for WordPress.tv, WordCamp Italia and Verona organiser.

• Ivelina Dimova

  

  WordPress developer working at Awesome Motive, focused on back-end development and passionate about version control systems and server administration tools. Loves yoga, traveling, and photography

• Andrea Gandino

  

  I am a full-stack developer, and I co-host the local WordPress meetup in my town. I enjoy good typography, and I like traveling & cats. Using WordPress since version 1.0.

Communications, Marketing & PR Team

Our Communications, Marketing & PR Team works closely with all other organising teams to ensure that attendees are kept up-to-date on the latest WordCamp Europe developments via our blog, social channels, and attendee emails. They also work with our partner media organisations to help spread news, information and back-stage activity worldwide.

• Steve Mosby

  

  Day job: managing major transformation programmes within the NHS. Away from the 9-5, Steve runs MalgraBooks, an online bookkeeping and accounts service for self employed consultants – using WordPress!

• Matt Ross

  

  Lover of WordPress and IT in general. Solutions provider to individuals and small businesses. I garden, I keep animals, live in the countryside and about to become a beekeeper!

• Ximena Vinitzca

  

  Argentinian, animal and travel lover. CEO at Folka Media, a tailor-made web development agency specializing in WordPress. Co-organiser of WP MeetUps in Buenos Aires and WordPress teacher.

• Jorge Casals

  

  Business Development and Marketing Director. Currently leading two SaaS projects – DataPocket & Filkers. Originally a psychologist, nowadays a tech enthusiast. Public speaking at WP-related events.

• Kartik Shukla

  

  Sr. Project Manager at Axelerant and Certified ScrumMaster®. Passionate about WordPress and its vibrant community. Off-duty, Kartik is a Cricket enthusiast and proud father of adorable twins.

• Mike Johnston

  

  Retired US IT director and program manager, now a writer, blogger, and management coach in Lisbon. Building with WordPress since 2018. Learning something new every day. The WCEU community rocks!

• Ali Kojok

  

  Torino based e-business developer and amateur photographer. Building with WordPress since 2010 and aspiring to help more local and global businesses. Excited for my first ever WCEU! DAIII!!

• Luca Rodino

  

  I handle the global partnerships and the Italian market growth at SiteGround. Into the web industry for over 10 years. Whenever I can, I venture into exotic places…and WordCamps.

• Val Vesa

  

  Val is Sr. Social Media Manager for Cloudflare, a father of two and passionate photographer. He volunteers his time to teach kids and teens about how to safely use social media.

• Hacer Yilmaz

  

  Freelance WP developer and Production Manager. Likes to work on complex web projects, from her home office in a remote Portuguese region, where she also has 4 dogs, 11 chickens and a food forest.

• Ruth Kalinka

  

  Content Strategist, Experience Designer, & Connector. Helps people tell stories, share cultures, & build relationships. Polyglot into travel, photography, food, wine, swimming, Latin dance, & WordCamp

Content Team

The Content Team is responsible for putting together a rich and varied schedule of talks to inspire and educate WordCamp attendees.

• Piermario Orecchioni

  

  Freelance web designer, Italian Polyglots team GTE. He’d like the web to be open and accessible. Besides building websites, he loves clouds, lighthouses, whales, Sparks and loud guitars in general.

• Marta Torre

  

  Fullstack developer freelance in Open Source projects. I contribute in #WPDiversity and plugins review team and I WordPress Santander meetup organizer. Advocate for web accessibility and clean code.

• Emma Young

  

  Emma is the Head of Content at Hostinger. Her nomadic lifestyle helps her learn more about different cultures, people, and quality of life. One of the reasons she loves the WP Community so much.

• Anchen Le Roux

  

  Owner and Creative Director at Simply Digital Design. Co-host of the Page Builder Summit. Lover of WordPress & the WP-Community. Passionate about simple, green and nomadic living. 

• Luisa Ravelli

  

  WordPress and open source lover, Luisa describes herself as a problem solver. Meetup co-organizer, WordCamps organizer and Italian Polyglots team GTE, she loves books, podcasts and horses.

• Andri Koolme

  

  WordPress user for a decade with a background in media and marketing. Attendee and volunteer at past WordCamps. A staunch open-source advocate and proud Automattican.

IT & Website Team

Our IT and Website team helps make sure that everything ticks, the website works, and teams have access to everything that they need.

• Pascal Casier

  

  International Polyglot Mentor, fr_BE/nl_BE GTE, TranslationDay3 Global Lead, WCEU 2018-19-20-23 Organiser. Belgian based in Italy, missing beer and chocolate but loving coffee and food.

• Enrico Battocchi

  

  Enrico met WP in 2007. Creator of the Duplicate Post plugin, he’s now Plugin Team lead dev at Yoast. Used to be a movie buff, he still organizes film festivals in his hometown of Livorno, Tuscany.

• Thom Stackhouse

  

  Works within a specialist technical team at Automattic. Passionate about all things WP. Has a long history of working with plugins having retrained as a developer at 27. Attended his first WC in 2022

• Carlos Longarela

  

  WordPress developer, principally backend and a bit of frontend. Freelancer, time is yours. Loves WPO and resolving problems. Photography lover, he edits a magazine since 2006 (yes, it’s WordPress).

• Giacoma Stefania Allegretta

  

  Italian Polyglots member and GTE, attended WordCamps either as organizer (Bari), volunteer (Verona) or speaker (Torino). Frontend developer on working days, loving sports and pet my cute dog otherwise

• Fotis Stathopoulos

  

  Long-term supporter of WordPress and active member of the Greek Community. He has helped in the organization of both local and international WordCamps. Currently working at Automattic.

Photography Team

With images and videos, the Photography Team documents and tells the visual story of the WordPress community coming together to learn and engage at WordCamp Europe.

• Kostas Fryganiotis

  

  Kostas is a professional photographer at kfphotography.gr and web developer/project manager at nevma.gr. He is a member of the Athens WC and Athens WP meetup organizing team and WCEU Athens.

• Anastasiya Kolomoytseva

  

  WordPress enthusiast since 2007, juggling plugins, 3 dogs, and 5 cats—keeping code and paws in harmony! Product Manager at Uncanny Owl, dedicated to growing Uncanny Automator plugin.

• Nilo Vélez

  

  Co-organizer of WordPress Sevilla, es_ES polyglots GTE and WPTV moderator. Nilo has been making websites since 1998 and helping people stream events since 2019.

• Selena Salustri

  

  Dog, travel, photography, and WP lover. She was a volunteer at most of the WC Europe and in several WC around Italy as well.

• Stefano Cassone

  

  Freelance web designer, GTE of the Italian Polyglots team and organiser of the Rome meetup. Besides building websites, he loves photography, the sea, the Dolomites,…Iron Man and Star Wars.

Volunteers Team

WordCamps everywhere are only possible with the hard work of volunteers who sign up to lend their time and energy to make sure everything runs smoothly during the event.

The Volunteer Team for Torino 2024 has the illustrious, but hugely satisfying, job of recruiting, training, organising and managing upwards of 200+ individuals for three days.

• Patricia Brun Torre

  

  Gives back to WordPress contributing to Community & co-organising Geneva meetups & Swiss WordCamps. Patricia loves & creates projects centered on human relations for all to make their voice heard!

• Fotis Routsis

  

  Athenian fullstack developer, proud member of the WordPress Greek community & WCGR/WCATH organiser! Loves to code and to scuba dive (not at the same time), but mostly he loves the big WP family!

• Gustavo Galati

  

  IT professional with 30 years experience. Argentinian freelancer in Spain where WordPress is the core tool. Also organising a local WP meetup in Benidorm and volunteering at WordCamps.

• Aida Correa-Jackson

  

  WordCamp Enthusiast -Wife, mom, grandma, AfroLatina, neurodiverse. Creative by day, university instructor by night – teaching DEI for the web -pushing the boundaries of the face of technology.

• Valérie Galassi

  

  As a freelancer front-end developer, Valérie works with WordPress since 2011. She contributes to it in various ways: she organises Meetups in her city, translates plugins and co-organises WordCamps.

• Carlos Moreira

  

  WordPress enthusiast from Porto dedicated to plugin development. Active community member, helping with translations and attending, speaking and volunteering at WordCamps and Meetups.

• Samah Nasr

  

  Project manager at Yoast turning ‘mission impossible’ into ‘mission accomplished’. Wanderlady collecting passport stamps & contributing to WordPress. Language enthusiast with a dictionary passport!

• Jose Arcos

  

  WordPress developer, José is part of the WP Spanish Community and has been speaking at WordCamps, organising local WordPress Meetups and helping in the Spanish forums as a moderator.

• Francesco Di Candia

  

  Doing WordPress stuff for 10 years, actively involved in volunteering and organizing WordCamps and Meetups, now a brand new Community Deputy trying to understand the whole WP world under the curtains.