Speakers

We have some very interesting topics for our talks this year. And very engaging speakers to share their knowledge and skills with you.

Plenary Session Speakers

Matt Mullenweg
Talk: State of the Word
Matt is the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging platform around which WordCamp revolves. Founded Automattic in 2005.

Rob Angeles
Talk: Social Media: Powered by WordPress
Rob is the founder and author of Social Media Philippines. As a Microsoft Certified Professional, he has handled the development and deployment of applications from multi-national companies and government agencies around USA.

Danny Arao
Talk: Blogging Ethics
Danny Arao is a webmaster, and an assistant professor of the Department of Journalism at the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication. He is also the managing editor of the Philippine Journalism Review, a publication of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility.

Aileen Apolo
Talk: Google University
Aileen is the Google Country Consultant. She maintains multiple blogs in various niches.

Basic Track Speakers

Markku Seguerra
Talk: WordPress Setup and Maintenance
An engineer by education, Markku makes a living taking photos and writing code and content for the world wide web. He is one of the founders of the BlogBank, the first true blog advertising company in the Philippines.

Micaela Rodriguez
Talk: Anatomy of a WordPress Blog
An aspiring filmmaker, Mica is blogosphere’s Micamyx. She currently works as an editor of a leading showbiz magazine-tabloid.

Jonel Uy
Talk: WordPress in the Wild
Known in the plurkworld as @itlayer, Jonel Uy is one of the country’s more popular food and travel bloggers.

Advanced Track Speakers

Misty Belardo
Talk: Integrating Social Media
A designer at heart, Misty Belardo is the Digital Activation Director at Proximity Worldwide.

Rocky Tayaban
Talk: SEO, Optimizing Ads, and Blog Flipping
SEO Specialist.

Hans Koch
Talk: Plugin Must-Haves
With seven years of experience as a web and search engine usability expert, Hans has been invited to be a resource speaker in various blogging and web development events in the Philippines. His experiences include those in web design, Search Engine Optimization, and increasing ROI on Pay-Per-Click campaigns. He currently manages Click Eleven’s Marketing Efforts.

Regnard Raquedan
Talk: Corporate Blogging with WordPress
Currently a web user experience consultant, Regnard is often invited at IT events as valued resource speaker. His experiences include IT consulting, web design and development, and internet marketing. Regnard is also the community leader for Mozilla Philippines.

Kring Elenzano
Talk: The Internet is not just for Porn (Videos can be wholesome, too!)
Known in the blogosphere as Funny Sexy, Kring is a tv director by profession and is the Creative Director of Flippish.com, an online video Pinoy channel. Through her Flippish.com shows and her blogs, Kring shares LOLs and crack to the worldwide web.

Kevin Codamon
Talk: WordPress as CMS
Kiven is the former Editor-in-Chief and currently the Online Platforms Manager of the first and leading online game publisher in the country, Level Up Inc. Other than his day job, Kevin also blogs at http://codamon.com, http://problogger.com.ph and runs the backend for http://technogra.ph, recently awarded one of the rising blogs of 2009 at the recent Philippine Blog Awards.

Marck Ronald Rimorin
Talk: Stats, Hits, Likes: Semantics and Sentiment in WordPress
He is known as Marocharim or Maro to most bloggers. He describes himself as a “writer-slash-blogger-slash-sometime-poet-slash-meantime-fictionist-slash-social-media-specialist.” This multi hyphenated blogger blogs about politics, lyrics translations, poetry, and pop culture. And oh, he’s a digital and social media specialist by profession.

Gail Villanueva
Talk: Add Muscle to your WordPress Site
A full-time web designer and a part-time blogger, a dog-lover, owner of six hamsters, WordPress aficionado, writer/blogger, graphic artist, and a photographer wannabe.

Juned Sunido
Talk: Photoblogging with WordPress
Juned describes himself as a blogger. As a Filipino. As a photographer, but not just as photographer. Juned is one of the moving forces behind the Blog & Soul Movement and the Philippine Blog Awards.

Jayvee Fernandez
Talk: Blogging with Passion
He currently serves as chief editor for Splashpress Media and community manager for the global 9rules network. He lives on the Internet, and has thus invested in more tubes. He built BlogBank in 2007, a Philippine-based blog advertising network. He is an adjunct faculty at the Asian Institute of Management.

Developers Track Speakers

Elaine Poh and Colin Ho
Talk: Wicked WordPress Theming Techniques

Jonas Roque
Talk: Customizing a WordPress Blog with Themes and Plugins
Jonas is the creator and writer of the wildly popular and innovative humor site Facebuko.com.

Eric Malloy
Talk: Optimizing WordPress Webserver Performance
Proudly from Providence, Rhode Island; Eric Malloy has over ten years in technology, sales and marketing. Driven, passionate about Information Technology Eric cut his teeth programming personal Web Servers with BSD Unix.