Adam Melcher
New Line Web DesignAdam Melcher has been active in the Joomla community since 2009 and is the founder of New Line Web Design, a web development agency based in Franklin, TN. His company specializes in creating high-quality Joomla websites, particularly focused on eCommerce solutions. Adam has been building Joomla websites for over 15 years and has spoken at various Joomla, developer, and ecommerce events where he has shared insights on Joomla template building, custom fields, ecommerce, and is an active promoter of using core Joomla features.
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Alex Andreae
SourceCoastAlex has been developing for Joomla since 2008 with the company he founded, SourceCoast. Originally, a client-focused business creating custom add-ons, the company pivoted toward social networking products as that market was rapidly maturing. In 2009, SourceCoast released the first version of JFBConnect, with basic authentication for Facebook. In the decade+ of development, JFBConnect has grown to support over a dozen social networks with deep-integration for everything from authentication, social posting, social widgets to meta tag management. More recently, he co-founded JoomlaGears, an extension site focusing on products to improve customer experience on Joomla powered sites through deep analytics and improved shopping cart checkout flow.
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Benjamin Trenkle
Wicked SoftwareFascinated by the possibilities, Benjamin Trenkle has been a passionate Joomla! programmer since Joomla! 1.0.Benjamin is CTO of the Institute for Innovation & Improvement GmbH & Co KG in Munich with the quality and knowledge transformation platform emilQ DAILY.He is also involved as a developer of the Joomla! core (among other things, the extended multilingualism in Joomla! 3, workflow for Joomla! 4) and loves to implement the wildest ideas with Joomla!
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Bob Nightingale
Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery Bob Nightingale started using Joomla in 2007, shortly after joining the Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery, a non-profit organization in Niles, Michigan 35 years IT experience—coding, databases, system management, implementations, consulting, customer support, sales engineering Currently works as a database developer for a Federal contractor webmaster@friendsofsilverbrook.org
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Brian Teeman
As a co-founder of Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters Inc I've never been known to be lacking an opinion or being too afraid to express it. Despite what some people might think I'm a shy and modest man who doesn't like to blow his own trumpet or boast about achievements.
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Carlos Cámara
Hepta TechnologiesProfessionally I have specialized as a web developer expert in Joomla! and PrestaShop and I can speak WordPress and Laravel. I love Joomla! and I have been actively involved with the CMS since 2008 when together with Isidro Baquero we decided to start the Blog Gnumla.com (now offline :( ) where we wrote articles to help Spanish speakers to learn more about Joomla! As a developer, I was part of the team of the extension JEvents, Easy Layouts, and YourSites and I contribute with the projects whenever I can. I have my own Joomla! extensions that I offer through the site Hepta Extensions. I maintain two podcasts about Joomla!: MastermindWeb.es (in Spanish) and Hepta Extensions podcast (in English). I have recently written the book Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5, published by Packt.
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Chris Paschen
Paschen CommunicationsChris Paschen has been working with Joomla since before it was Joomla (i.e Mambo). He has also been coding for over 30 years and has been working in youth/education for over 20 years. He actively teaches programming and Joomla developer (and a number of other tech fields) at the 7-12 grade levels. He also has served as the Joomla Marketing Team lead and presently co-leads the Joomla Twin Cities (MN - USA) group (https://joomlatwincities.org/).
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Crystal Dionysopoulos
Open Source MattersCrystal has been building websites for years and spent time in agencies as a front end developer, web designer, and UX researcher. She was first introduced to the Joomla community in 2014, and never looked back! She is now honored to serve the community as President of Open Source Matters.
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Dan Dascalescu
Dan Dascalescu is a Developer Advocate at Weaviate, the open source semantic search engine. Prior to Weaviate, he was a Developer Advocate at Google, a senior software engineer at Yahoo!, and founded several startups in fintech and edtech, as well as Blueseed, a project to host a visa-free startup incubator in the international waters near San Francisco. He is an accomplished public speaker, with interviews on BBC Radio, as well as talks given at Google, Stanford, MIT and The Economist events.
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Elisa Foltyn
COOLCAT creationsElisa Sophia Foltyn is based in Schwäbisch Hall, a beautiful small town between Stuttgart an Nuremberg in Germany. She has been working with Joomla! for 15 years now and has been self-employed for 12 years. As COOLCAT creations she offers services in print and web design as well as marketing. The former lead designer and vice president of Joomla was also a contributor to the Joomla! book with David Jardin, where she writes about template development, overrides, and the use of custom fields and SEBLOD.
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Eoin Oliver
Square BalloonEoin has been running his web development firm for over 10 years focussing exclusively on Joomla! He's an active member of Joomla! London and encourages you to register for the other talks from Joomla! London: https://jdayusa.com/speakers/speakers/phil-walton https://jdayusa.com/speakers/speakers/gary-barclay He enjoys the challenge of learning new things and when he does he enjoys passing that knowledge on. Eoin firmly believes that Joomla can be a stronger CMS if everyone in the community helps someone lower down to jump up a few steps. That’s why he volunteers to talk at these events. Let's learn Joomla! together!
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Freddy Jackson
Love No EgoFreddy is an inspirational and transformational lecturer and speaker, social-emotional learning (SEL) mentor, personal trainer, educator, author, and founder of The Love No Ego Foundation. Freddy's Love...No Ego philosophy serves as the foundation for igniting clients' human spirit and intuition, minimizing conflict and stress, and facilitating them into purposeful beings. Freddy's message results in consistent, daily happiness and productivity, personally as well as professionally, enabling participants to grow and perform better than their everyday pressures and gain optimal performance, despite their chosen industry. Domestically, as well as internationally, Freddy has delivered powerful, engaging, and relevant presentations, mentored, consulted, and conducted workshops for individuals, teams, and organizations. His approach improves their overall awareness and sustainability, promotes self and team development, helps them to notice the ego and where the limitations are, and gets them committed to living a resilient life! {field 82}
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Gary Barclay
Barclay.Works Ltd.BarclayWorks deliver complete online solutions from simple marketing sites to fully integrated web platforms. We draw on our broad experience and knowledge to accurately translate our client’s requirements into functional, effective solutions, utilising available modern technologies to enhance results. We encourage online success through a continuous improvement approach. Our methods employ simple, impassioned language, clear calls to action, beautiful designs and appropriate innovation; we measure performance through analytics and support processes: define, create, improve … repeat! On a personal level, I love fitness in the form of running or climbing, avid skiier when I can, occasional biker and a big fan of home-automation.
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Herman Peeren
YeprHerman Peeren has been developing software since 1977 and has worked with many different programming languages and platforms. He loves the creative aspect of programming (“I like building new things”) and is very interested in the philosophical aspects of software design (“with a model you can better understand the world around you”). He studied computer science and has a strong background in Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Model Driven Engineering (MDE). Since 2008 Joomla is his main family, his basic tribe. Software architecture has his special interest. Since November 2024 he is Joomla's documentation team lead.
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Joe Sonne
The Joe Sonne GroupI got involved with Joomla! in 2005 and in 2009 started my own marketing company. In 2019 we became 'The Joe Sonne Group'. The web division of The Joe Sonne Group is JoeJoomla. We use Joomla exclusively. In the Joomla community I'm a speaker, trainer, and writer about all things Joomla. I've contributed to the community through various JoomlaDays as well as J and Beyond and the Joomla! World Conference. I helped co-found two Joomla User Groups in Canada. I'm a former Secretary of Open Source Matters (OSM). Currently I serve the project as a consultant to the Capital Committee and the Marketing Working Group.
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Johan Janssens
JoomlatoolsJohan is a passionate digital serial entrepreneur, product developer and business strategist. He is driven to create through building, connecting, and automating "things" to design fun powerful new digital experiences using open technologies. In the past 15 years Johan has spent most his time creating and advocating free and open source software and helping evolve the world wide web. He is most known as co-founder and lead developer of Joomla, an open source content management system used by more than 3% of all the sites on the internet. Johan is a firm believer in sharing and collaboration, in spreading good ideas and in the power of technology to make the world a better place. He continually pushes the people around him to be creative and connect the dots and he loves to push startups forward either as co-founder, CTO or as startup mentor and advisor. Johan is CEO of Timble, co-founder at Joomlatools and Foliolabs and advise various startups.
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Jonathan Malone-McGrew
McGrewGroupJonathan Malone-McGrew, Associate Director at McGrewGroup, is a passionate business and marketing aficionado with a diverse background that spans many industries around the globe. These industries include automotive, design, restaurants, printing and software. Whether lending his expertise to brands and organizations or driving entrepreneurial endeavors, Jonathan’s impact comes from delivering world-class leadership, marketing communications and customer engagements. On the softer side, Jonathan is happy to call two-and-a-half acres outside of Denver, Colorado his home, along with his husband, five dogs and a dozen or so cars. With many passions, his goal is to positively influence every person he meets while taking in all life has to offer.
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Kevinjohn Gallagher
AGILE SOSAs seen on TV!
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Kilian Valkhof
Kilian Valkhof is a seasoned developer who has been building tools for developers for over a decade. He is the founder of Polypane, a browser for developers designed to help build websites with a focus on responsive design, user experience, and accessibility. Kilian has been developing websites for two decades, with an emphasis on user experience, accessibility and web standards and has a long-standing interest in responsive design, dating back to 2008 when he wrote his first article on mobile web design and foresaw what media features would soon enable. Kilian shares his knowledge and experience through his blog, kilianvalkhof.com and elsewhere on the web, and as a member of the Electron governance team and an open source contributor.
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Laura Gordon
RytechSitesLaura has been having a blast building Joomla! websites since 2006. She has found a niche building public library websites over the years. Most recently she has been working for Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey as a web developer. She and her team manages over 120 Joomla websites for the School of Arts and Sciences. She enjoys the challenges of figuring out the best way to display important data and information. In May 2022 Laura received her Master's of Business Science with a concentration of User Experience Design from Rutgers, MBS program. Laura loves spending time with her family visiting amusement parks all over the world with her husband Ira and their boys (who are actually adults). One of her first websites was for her husband's Roller Coaster camp, ThrillCoaster Tours.
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Llewellyn van der Merwe
Vast Development MethodLlewellyn is the founder and owner of Vast Development Method, an international application development firm based in Namibia. He started out with Joomla in 2008 and over the years continued to advocate Joomla as the CMS for advanced systems. To this end he developed Joomla Component Builder (JCB) in 2014 and ignited a wave of rapid development of extremely complex components with Joomla. Today hundreds of developers around the world use JCB as a key part of their development cycle. As a volunteer, he is the current Joomla Extension Directory (JED) Lead, and the Assistant to the Joomla Production Department Coordinator.
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Maarten Blokdijk
CloudfactionSelf employed front-end Web developer, application Developer, database Administrator, and project manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in client/server and relational database design using MS-SQL and My-SQL Server, ASP, HTML, Javascript, Joomla, PHP, Wordpress, Magento, Virtuemart, WooCommerce, OpencartAlways interested in innovative concepts regarding the web. Big fan of apple products, gadgetfreak, likes to share knowledge. 360 photograpy, Droneflights with areal video and photograpySpecialties: Programming interactive Joomla and Wordpress websites, and advising clients on their web presence, listening to clients, and make them realize the potential of online business.Have spoken on Joomladays, and Joomla User groups, about Joomla! templates. Maarten is also the co-organizer of the Joomla User Group Rotterdam.
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Maciek Palmowski
BuddyMaciek 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. First time on a Joomla! event.
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Marc Dechèvre
WoluwebIn 2008 Marc Dechèvre discovers Joomla, its strengths... and the power of its Community.That Community gave him a lot... so in return he is very pleased to try to give back. That is why he's happy to be a regular speaker (in French / English / Dutch) at international conferences (JoomlaDay FR, JoomlaDay NL, Joomla World Conference, J&Beyond, CMS Africa Summit) and at different Joomla User Groups : JUG Wallonie, JUG Vlaanderen, JUG Maastricht, JUG Ouagadougou, ... He regularly publishes articles about Joomla in general and about Custom Fields in particular:https://slides.woluweb.be
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Michael Melen
SmartSitesMichael Melen is the co-founder of SmartSites, a seven-time Inc5000 fastest growing marketing agency. SmartSites is based in the United States and has over 350 full-time team members. SmartSites is a Premier Google Partner, Select Microsoft Partner, Meta Business Partner, and Amazon Ads Partner. Melen is an acclaimed thought leader and entrepreneur. A graduate of Cornell University, he sold his first internet company at 19 years old. He has spoken at the Small Business Expo (keynote), DigiMarCon (keynote), TES Affiliate Summit Portugal & Prague, State of Search Namesummit, and Google. His work in digital marketing has earned him recognition from leading publications including Forbes, Inc. Magazine, and AdWeek.
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Nicholas Dionysopoulos
Akeeba LtdI am a PHP developer from Athens, Greece. I've been publishing Joomla extensions since 2006. You probably know me as the author of Akeeba Backup and Admin Tools. I am happily married to a fellow geek and have a daughter. We also have two pet cats. Or the cats have three pet humans. Jury's out on that one. I came to the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) back in the late 90s for the community and its core ideology of sharing knowledge and code. FOSS has enriched my life, it is providing me with my livelihood, it gave me some of my closest friends and helped me meet my better half and soulmate. I am trying to give back to the world by sharing my software and the things I learn.
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Nicola Galgano
Vice President of Open Source Matters
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Olivier Buisard
Simplify Your WebI am a French-born freelancer established in New York, USA. I have been creating web sites since 1997, following the web standards and their evolution over the years.I have participated in building web applications in the companies I have been working for, from server and database development to user interface design. I am now fully committed to building high quality extensions for the Joomla! community as well as providing a Joomla-based web presence for my clients. My latest Joomla involvement At the beginning of 2017, I took over the Joomla! User Group of New-York City with Stewart Newfeld. Since April 2021, I have been helping Laura Gordon with the organization of Joomla Day USA, now a major Joomla yearly event in North America and beyond. I specifically work on the website and animate the Bugs and Fun workshop during the event. In September 2021, Yannick Gaultier, Eoin Oliver and I created the Joomla Extensions Developers user group on Facebook to bridge the gap between third party developers and the core Joomla team. In July 2022, I have taken the role of Release Manager with Shirielle Williams for the Joomla version 4.3, due April 2023. I am proud of my contribution to the community, and I made a new friend. These days, I am at the head of the Enhancement Development Team, help organize Pizza Bugs and Fun, and keep the Guided Tours' project alive with Shirielle, feature that was included in Joomla 4.3. Recently, I started working on J2Commerce (previously J2Store) with Adam Melcher.
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Parth Lawate
TechjoomlaCofounder at Tekdi Technologies & Techjoomla. Have been behind some of the largest implementations of Joomla including https://uidai.gov.in/ one of the highest traffic Joomla websites in the world.
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Patrick Jackson
Joomla | KPS Back in the early days of CMS's emerging, I checked out as many as I could before finding one called Mambo, and finding it the easiest to get my head around. Shortly after, the project forked and a thing called Joomla! emerged. Since then I've made it my niche, building my web design business up from a handful of static html sites to now being involved in building, hosting or consulting on over 200 Joomla sites since 2007. Having helped found the Melbourne Joomla User Group in 2008, I've been actively part of the Joomla Australia community, contributing to JUGs & attending many JoomlaDay Australia events over the years. In returning to the project after a hiatus for parenting, 2020 was busy: You may have seen some of my Joomla Community Magazine articles. I'm behind the scenes helping with the Joomla Bugs & Fun @ Home activities, and it's there I've been honing my development knowledge, learning skills relating to Joomla Patch Testing, how to use GitHub, contributing to translations and documentation, and looking forward to the upcoming release of Joomla 4. In February 2021, I was elected Team Leader for the Joomla Volunteer Engagement Team. Reach out if you're interested in getting involved with any aspect of Joomla. Professionally, my Melbourne based Joomla consultancy, KPS, are moving to specialise in managed Joomla hosting and support, as well as delivering services to small business to assist them optimising their online and virtual profiles, especially in light of the new normal we'll see once the world recovers from COVID-19.
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Peter Martin
db8.nlPeter Martin has been active in the Joomla community since 2005 as one of the Global Forum Moderators. Work: db8.nl: Joomla support and custom development (since 2005) data2.eu: online web tool for GDPR compliance data2site.com: a component to help you manage and edit articles more easily. v1d30.net: Collaborate safely with BigBlueButton video conference Volunteer: Joomla.org Joomla User Group Arnhem/Nijmegen (Netherlands) Linux Usergroup Nijmegen - a monthly Linux Usergroup (since 2012) Open Coffee Nijmegen - a monthly networking event for small businesses (since 2009). Personal: petermartin.nl: Personal website with an overview of Joomla and Linux presentations
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Philip Walton
SoftForgeInventor, juggler, cat owner and rower, but not necessarily in that order. Working with the web for a while. A member of the London user group and sometimes known to do talks there. My day job involves hosting, building and maintaining sites for clients who have included Shell, NHS and the UK Police as well as my local real ale pub. Currently coordinating GSoC for Joomla and in need of a good haircut.
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Randy Carey
Careytech Studios, LLCHaving worked with Joomla since 2009, Randy has developed a niche of creating custom web solutions leveraging Joomla. He is always thinking “what if” and experimenting with new ideas. Randy believes Joomla's best opportunities lies beyond the do-it-yourselfer market. There are plenty of CMSs for the low end projects, but the better paying clients have challenging issues and are looking for solution providers who can deliver. Joomla integrates access control and multi-language features, and its emphasis on "extension" allows advanced custom development. In hands of a professional web developer, Joomla is a professional CMS. Shifting into "semi-retirement" (whatever that means), Randy balances his schedule with a mix of selective client work and personal projects/research.
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Robbie Adair
OSTraining.com & Media A-Team, Inc.Robbie has a BA from Stephen F. Austin State University. She started her career in corporate training until starting her own custom training and media company over twenty years ago. In 2010, she began doing classroom training for OSTraining while running Media A-Team before purchasing OSTraining from Steve Burge in 2019. She lives in Houston, Texas, but enjoys all the travel for client work and speaking gigs. She’s also an excellent Drone Pilot/Videographer! She is often presenting about various tech topics such as Joomla, WordPress, Web Development, Social Media, and Augmented Reality. She loves seeing that “ah-ha” moment in peoples eyes in her sessions and workshops. Visit ostraining.com, mediaateam.com, or robbieadair.com to learn more.
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Robin Clapp
Web Design by RobinRobin Clapp has had a small business, Web Design by Robin, for the last 15+ years. She designs exclusively in Joomla!. In early 2020 Robin received her W3C certificate for an Introduction to Website Accessibility and has been honing her skills to apply this knowledge using the Joomla! platform ever since. Her goal is to educate her clients on the importance of accessibility and to change her design practices going forward to making accessibility a top priority on all future projects. Robin is also a volunteer on the JDayUSA team and is very excited to have you all attend this virtual conference!
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Rod Martin
OSTrainingRod holds two masters degrees and has been training people how to do “things” for over 25 years. Originally from Australia, he grew up in Canada and now resides just outside Cincinnati, Ohio. Rod’s extensive open source experience includes WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Mautic, and Moodle. He really knows how to help you get the most out of the system you chose. Rod plays ice hockey a couple of times a week and rides his Goldwing motorbike pretty much everywhere he can.
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Sakis Terzis
BluecoderIn 2005, i started working as an enterprise applications programmer, using object oriented languages such as C++. Though it was the time of the internet boom. Many businesses were asking for an online presence, which forced most of my team members (me including) to work on web development projects. Gradually we built our own CMS to automate most of the stuff we were doing, though nobody had an idea of what a CMS was. I discovered Joomla! by luck in a meaningless Google search, about web design issues. It was an exciting moment which i still remember. All the things we were painfully developing for weeks and months were there and working. Also there was a very vibrant community full of excitment. Later, in 2008 i developed my first Joomla! extension for Virtuemart which was mighty at that time. It got great reception and used for years in thousands of e-shops. Then several extensions followed up, most of which were broadly used. Later i also started developing php applications and extensions for Magento 2. Most of which were related to search and filtering functionalities. The preparation of Joomla! 4, the changes in it's code and it's features, made me consider founding a new brand, which will take advantage of them. That was the reason i founded BlueCoder in 2021 and offer extensions of the highest possible quality that fill the missing bricks of Joomla!.
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Sigrid Gramlinger
Sigrid loves open source and is currently Joomla production department coordinator. She is well connected in the Joomla community (Joomla User Group Vienna, JoomlaDay D-A-CH and others) and has been the owner of a small digital agency near Vienna for almost 20 years. They work 100% with Joomla and build accessible websites as well.
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Steve Burge
JoomlaShackSteve runs Joomlashack and has been involved with Joomla and it's predecessors since 2003.
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Stewart Rogers
Stewart Rogers is a journalist, analyst, public speaker, author, startup founder, musician, and "digital nomad". Rogers is best known for his speeches and work on mental health in the tech industry. He helps shine a light on a serious issue and provides those who need it with the help and support required to stay alive and at their best. Other than his mental health keynote, he delivers speeches on AI, AR, Blockchain, and other emerging technologies and workshops on PR, nomad life, and new ways to work. A former analyst for VentureBeat, and current host of its events and webinars, Rogers uses the latest research and data to explain what is happening both now and next. As Editor-at-Large at Dataconomy, he informs the data science and AI community, in addition to helping host Europe's biggest data expert conference, Data Natives. As the Managing Editor at Grit Daily, he checks the pulse of marketing technology, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain technologies. And as a contributor to other publications, such as Hacker Noon and BlockTelegraph, he explains what's happening in blockchain, DeFi, DAO, and NFT. With a career that includes founding and managing multiple software companies and startups (with two exits), he advises four companies, sits on the board of a data sovereignty organization, and is a partner and ambassador for two environmental solutions collectives. He is currently the founder of a stealth-mode startup that will significantly change the NFT landscape.
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Tim Davis
Cybersalt Consulting Ltd.Tim lives in Victoria, BC, Canada (on Vancouver Island) with his wife Susan. They have 3 grown children and 5 grandchildren. He began using Joomla! for his websites back when it was Mambo, rescuing him from the boxy sites he was making with Microsoft Frontpage and Dreamweaver. Over the years his interest in making websites has grown from the hobby level, to making some money on the side while pastoring a local church, to a full time business with it's first hired employee earlier this year (2022.) Tim is a past co-host of the JoomCast podcast (https://anchor.fm/joomcast) and owns the Basic Joomla Tutorials YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/basicjoomla) which has almost 500 videos with a total of over 250K views since November of 2013.
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Tobias Zulauf
Joomla! ProjectJoomla 3.10 Release lead and Joomla Security assistant team lead. I'm also involved in the German Translations Team.
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Todd Woodward
Creative People ConsultingI'm Todd Woodward the co-owner and Executive Vice President of Creative People Consulting, a computer training and technology services company, and a Joomla Learning Partner, based in Tallahassee, FL. My company Creative People Consulting conducts custom software training, builds e-learning projects for Fortune 500 companies, guides companies with social media strategy, develops digital and online publishing projects, creates e-commerce and e-learning web sites for statewide associations, and small and medium-sized businesses. I've worked in this field since 1999, training legislative, governmental, corporate, and educational clients in a wide variety of software, systems, and industry-specific technologies. I'm fortunate to be a regular presenter at state and national conferences, and I'm currently active in the Joomla community as the Team Leader for the Joomla Educational Outreach Working Group. I hold current certifications as a CompTIA CTT+, Adobe Certified Instructor, and Microsoft Certified Trainer.
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Vic Drover
WatchfulVictor is an entrepreneur, published author and international speaker. A former university professor, Victor moved to the IT sector and has been helping people grow their online businesses since 1997. Victor is an expert in web development and open source technologies, and spends his free time traveling, cycling and golfing.
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Yannick Gaultier
WeeblrInitially trained as a mechanical engineer, I spent 20 years in a non-IT industry. I then started developing some open source web projects, mostly centered around SEO, including several Joomla! extensions. This was a hobby in 2006, but 3 years later, and to this date, it became my full time job. I run Weeblr, a small company handling development and support for our open source CMS plugins. Our main Joomla! extensions are - 4SEO, an all-in-one SEO extension - 4AI, the AI-assistant to generate text and images, titles, description or Twitter and LinkedIn posts - 4Podcast, to fully manage a Podcast inside your Joomla site - 4SEF to manage Joomla SEF URLs All these operates identically under Joomla 3 to 5 (without compatibility plugin) We also have a range of SEO-related free of charge products: 4Video to embed Youtube and Vimeo videos in an SEO-compatible way or SEOInfo, an SEO browser extension. A large part of my days is spent tracking every bit of SEO and marketing information available, experiment with it to decide what should and should not make it into our extensions.
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