August 6, 2019 — A sort of 101 on what General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) means for developers (and site owners), and how to approach certain aspects of it.

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August 6, 2019 — Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko is a WordPress contractor from Kiev, Ukraine.

He believes in a Web of content sites that are a delight to discover, read, and navigate. For that, he works with other developers on complex tasks and long–term value goals. His services include: make it fast, automate menial, stare down a legacy codebase, fix the world (one bug at a time).

In his free time he likes to drink tea, read science fiction and every tweet in his timeline.

The topic of Andrey’s presentation is “WordPress breaks time (and how to fix it)“

August 6, 2019 — Google helped me to understand that WordPress is the next big thing in my life.
So I reconsidered my profession and from the construction site supervisor, I became the Web “WordPress” developer at the age of 34.
I believe that BIO should be seen as an ongoing process.
Rather than a static snapshot, whereby we are perpetually re-framing, re-thinking and re-considering ourselves.
At the moment I’m Western Balkans Manager at Enartia.com, a group of brands and coaching the dev team in a better tasks execution. Thank you, Scrum.
The topic of Aleksandar’s presentation is “Agile habits not frameworks“.

August 6, 2019 — Mitko started working with WordPress in 2010. He is a Codeable expert and founder of webpigment.com. He loves creating unusual websites, especially with WooCommerce.

The topic of Yannick’s presentation is “AJAX-ing your ( Woocommerce ) website“.

August 6, 2019 — Georgios Gkouvousis is a talented Full Stack Developer, with more than 10 years of WordPress development experience.

He is managing some of the most serious WordPress projects within Greece & London, serving world wide web, tons of megabytes every single day through awesome websites.
Co-founder of 8web.gr, WPML Contractor and rtCamp’s EasyExpert. Occasional speaker at technology conferences, Google Partner and Huffpost’s author.
The topic of Georgios’s presentation is “Setting up the ideal webserver for WordPress: from zero to hero!“.

August 6, 2019 — Subscription e-commerce has continued to grow really fast in the past years. It has been targeting a larger market, because of its convenient and lower-cost way of purchasing things and services online.
In this talk, we’ll learn a brief overview of the business model, and create a simple subscription e-commerce on WordPress with WooCommerce.

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August 6, 2019 — Web accessibility can be tricky, especially as the main focus of many WordPress developers right now is to get into learning Gutenberg and React.

The heated discourse around the new WordPress editor during its release has been heavily concentrated on accessibility, underlining how important it is not to regress, even when new technologies are settling in.

Make your blocks more accessible and learn how to use correct semantic markup, use ARIA tags to tame it and get a crash course in accessibility as a term that encompasses best practices, inclusivity, regulation and SEO.

August 6, 2019 — Horia Neagu is Owner & Digital Marketing Consultant at Napoleon. Digital, with over 12 years of experience in SEO, with a focus on technical optimization, SEO auditing, SEO strategy, content marketing and CRO. He has had a passionate love affair with WordPress since 2007, back when it was nicknamed “Ella” and the autosave feature was an amazing novelty.
Horia is a hopeless geek, with a passion for public speaking, who honestly believes that bad web design ought to be criminalized. It is his conviction that WordPress can save the world, one site at a time and his motto is “plans are useless, planning is everything.”
The topic of Horia’s presentation is “WordPress & SEO – At Long Last Love“.

August 6, 2019 — Ana-Maria Udriste is a lawyer and entrepreneur. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest, with a master’s degree in Judicial Career and is currently pursuing a PhD in competition law. In 2016, she left the traditional legal services market and founded U-Legal (a law firm offering legal services in the field of law of competition, business law, IP law & tech law), respectively Avocatoo (where students and professionals explain legal notions in plain language). That same year she became co-founder of Jurio, the biggest case-law platform with an advanced search engine designed to make legal research easier and less time consuming.

Her qualities as an entrepreneur brought Ana’s entry for Forbes 30 under 30 top (April 2017) and the Financial Times: New Europe 100: Eastern Europe’s Emerging Technology Stars (November 2017). At the same time, she is a lenient attorney in competition law and business law. Passioned by technology, she always tried to pursue her dreams of #makinglawsimple, and thus co-authored, with Ruxandra Sava (LegalUp) the first Romanian complete GDPR KIT.

The topic of Ana-Maria’s presentation is “Is GDPR such a boo-hoo for online businesses?“.

August 6, 2019 — Ivana Ćirković is a Digital Marketing, PR and Social Media consultant with over ten years experience in the field. She is also a WordPress enthusiast, one of the WCEU 2018 organizers and an active member of the WordPress community who lives online almost 24/7.

The topic of Ivana’s presentation is “What’s your story?“.
An introduction to web storytelling. What are the main types of telling stories online, how to tell them well and what role does WordPress has in the overall storytelling process?
In this half an hour presentation, Ivana will provide answers to these questions and provide attendees with specific knowledge and tools to tell their stories online.