The Colossus was once the tallest and fastest wooden roller coaster in the world and the first with two drops greater than 30 m. In this appropriately named track, we celebrate the thrills and chills of our third round of speakers who will teach you neat tricks on how to use WordPress more efficiently.
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Craig West
Craig is a freelance trainer and architect that focuses on bringing together the WP and non-WP worlds by advocating WP-HTML, ‘where there is HTML, there is WP’.
He is based in Brighton and attends the local WordUp meetings. With a previous career in business and accounting, as well as having run his own non-IT business, Craig can speak both technical and business. He believes that technology serves the user, not the other way around, so the user experience is paramount.
He has started to speak at WP and non-WP events and is interested in Web Components, Progressive Web Apps, RxJS, and WP REST API with a developing interest in pages that are ‘instant’ and/or offline capable. -
Joseph Dickson
Joseph Dickson is a web developer in higher education and an advocate of using WordPress core features to create flexible and manageable websites.
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Josh Pollock
Josh is a JavaScript and PHP developer from Pittsburgh, PA. He is a Lead Web Engineer at 10up, and formerly was a plugin developer at Saturday Drive, CalderaWP and Pods. He is a super nerd for ecology, dogs, growing plants, sci-fi, outdoor exercise and trustless computing systems.
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Maciek Palmowski
Maciek is a WordPress Ambassador at Buddy passionate about all things related to web development. He is a speaker & organizer of CMS-related events in Poland. After hours, apart from cycling, which he loves – he spends most of his time looking for cutting-edge (well, ‘interesting’ is enough) news from the CMS world to share with the community of his followers.
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Topher DeRosia
Topher DeRosia is Senior WordPress Architect at Camber Creative. He brings more than 25 years of experience as a web developer, over a decade of which has been spent building out WordPress sites. In addition, Topher curates http://HeroPress.com. Fun fact: Topher was building web pages before CSS and Javascript were invented.
He currently lives in Grand Rapids, MI with his wife Cate and two daughters, Ema and Sophia. You can find Topher on Twitter (@topher1kenobe) talking about e-commerce, web development, general technology, and culture. He’s also a regular on the Make WordPress and Post Status Slack channels.
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Toren Ajk
I’m the founder of TAC Marketing Group – a digital marketing agency specializing in SEO, CRO, and paid media. Over the years we’ve worked with a variety of clients, including Lexus, Lending Club, and Backblaze. Formerly I was CMO of Line2 where I drove over 1.5 million downloads of the app and grew annual revenue from 0- $10 million. In 2016 we started developing a native AMP framework for WordPress and have since developed a number of themes and plugins available at https://ampwptools.com/
