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Ahmed Khalifa
Ahmed Khalifa is an experienced freelance WordPress SEO consultant and also runs a deaf awareness business. Since he is also moderately deaf/hard of hearing, combining his professional and personal experiences have allowed him to understand how important it is for everyone to have access to content and how it can benefit the content creators too.
While most people assume that captions can benefit the d/Deaf and hard of hearing, it can also benefit more people than you think and plays a great part in improving many users’ experience when consuming video content.
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Carme Mias
Carme is a software developer and WordPress community enthusiast, even though no longer building websites for customers. WordCamps have always been an amazing source of learning, discovery and new friendships, and she’s super excited to be part of the team bringing the first one to Glasgow.
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Derek York
Pro graphic designer for about 20 years – mostly design for print in the Public Sector. Went to the high rise college building in the header photo (before they put the big pink sign on it) and to Glasgow Caley.
First tried web design in 2000 and WordPress in 2008. Personal site dashedlines.uk has more about cycling, football and the East End of Glasgow than design projects.
Been to WordPress Glasgow MeetUps since the first one with Carme and Mags at Citizen M. Visited some of the 5,627 venues it’s been at since. Designed GlasgoWapuu – inspired equally by Charles Rennie (& Margaret Macdonald) Mackintosh and drunk guys who climb Wellington’s statue to put a cone on its head. Welcome to Glasgow!
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Heather Burns
A denizen and doyenne* of WordCamps across the UK, Europe and beyond, Heather is responsible for gathering together the impressive line-up of speakers for WordCamp Glasgow 2020.
Having made Glasgow her home she is delighted to have the opportunity to show off her adopted city at the first WordCamp held here. It is also the first one in Europe in 2020.
* denizen and doyenne — go on, look them up, I dare you!
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Jeremy Davis (Lead Organiser)
When he’s not designing or rescuing WP websites, Jeremy can be found on a tennis court or lurking at the back of the tenor section performing musical theatre. He’s pretty average at that too. He’s spent the last eight years telling people he’s an IT guy. In reality he’s one of those secret, eccentric millionaires who hides his wealth really well – so well he can’t find it himself now.
Consequently he has resorted to loitering around the Glasgow WP MeetUp, talking to anyone who’ll listen and several others who won’t. Rather than push him back out into the cold, the Glasgow Team have adopted him as a sort of mascot… no one knows what he does but he’s occasionally useful either as a doorstop or a draught excluder.
Now that he’s spoken at a WordCamp (Edinburgh 2018), he doesn’t see why others shouldn’t face similar ignominy. Therefore the invitations have gone out for WordCamp Glasgow 2020. It’s going to be a wee belter!
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Marcus J Wilson
Marcus has been a WordPress since 2008 (version 2.7!). Since then he has been a WordPress blogger, an integrator and a developer. He now runs the WordPress agency Pooka & Co from Edinburgh.
Marcus was part of the Organiser Team for WordCamp Europe 2019.
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Nigel Pentland
I’m a security evangelist and probably belong more to the ‘security community’ than to the ‘WordPress community’. I’ve had a varied career, mainly in the Financial Services sector, across many computing platforms and technologies, i.e. bit of a Jack-Of-All-Trades, master of none.
My particular interest has always been passwords, i.e. where human users interface with technology, which creates an arms race between technology versus psychology.
