Speakers

  • Birgit Olzem, a WordPress enthusiast extraordinaire, juggles diverse roles and advocates for mental health awareness, diversity, and unsung contributors. A proud mother and grandmother, she also consults on personal branding and explores surface pattern design. Birgit embodies the WordPress spirit, champions community, and connects humanity with humor and warmth.

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  • Dhruv is a full-stack software engineer working on the frontend, backend, and meta-automations of Openverse, sponsored by Automattic’s Five for the Future efforts. Outside of work, he loves to travel and go on long walks with music. He also binge watches a lot of TV.

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  • Ganga is a full-time WordPress Contributor at Rank Math, a WordPress photos team moderator, and a WordPress themes team representative. He also contributes to the themes developer handbook, WordPress core, polyglots, patterns, and many more. Ganga also has been in the organizing team for the 2023 and 2024 edition of WordCamp Asia, and is also…

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  • Michelle Frechette is the Director of Community Engagement for StellarWP at Liquid Web. Michelle was called “The busiest woman in WordPress,” by Matt Mullenweg at WCUS 2022. In addition to her work at StellarWP, Michelle is the Podcast Barista at WPCoffeeTalk.com, cofounder of underrepresentedintech.com, creator of WPSpeakers.com, creator of wpcareerpages.com, the president of the board…

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  • Naoko has been a part of the organizing teams of WordCamps, Meetups, and do_action events in Tokyo and Japan. She currently contributes to the WordPress project as a project manager for contributor growth projects including Five for the Future and mentorship program.

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  • Topher lives in Grand Rapids MI with his wife Cate. A web developer for over 25 years, Topher has been working with WordPress for 12 years. A serial contributor, Topher has code in core, plugins in the repository, hundreds of training videos published, and attended more than 80 WordCamps. Topher also manages the HeroPress Network,…

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