Organizers

Blogger and CEO at the Zürich based ecommerce agency Openstream. WordPress and WooCommerce polyglot, Swiss Magento and WooCommerce usergroup organizer, Blockchain enthusiast.

Nick has been active in the WordPress community mainly as the maintainer of the de_CH locale and as an excited visitor of Swiss and international WordCamps. WordCamp Zürich 2019 is his first time as co-organizer. You can find him on Twitter @nickweisser.

Gerd has been using WordPress since 2009. Starting with the administration of the website of his company, he now builds websites for small businesses and friends & family. He has been helping as the co-organizer of the WordPress Meetup in Bern for the last two years. Currently Gerd is working to build up wp-toolbox.ch to support WordPress-Users and take care of the maintenance of a whole series of WordPress sites.

You can find him on Twitter under @wpgerd

Petra is a prolific user of WordPress on behalf of the Swiss Cyber Think Tank, which Petra founded and organized four years ago as a networking platform for Cyber Risks and Threats and the insurability of such risks. The Swiss Cyber Think Tank is a non-profit coalition of likeminded professionals across the industry from various business lines such as insurers, technology and security firms, and representatives of the government.

More information can be found in Petra’s blogs and on LinkedIn.

On weekdays web developer at whatwedo, at the weekend behind the camera for ON AIR Production or at tech conferences in Europe’s big cities. Marc is all about his passion for technology – seven days a week.

You can find him on Twitter under @marcwieland95

Christian has been using WordPress since 2007 and is a patient WordPress trainer and course instructor.
He was jointly responsible for the Happiness Bar at WordCamp Zurich (2014, 2015), where everyone could come by with their WordPress questions to get help. He currently works for switchplus, one of the largest and most experienced domain registration and hosting companies in Switzerland.

You can find him on Twitter as @chzumbrunnen

Ulrich is a dedicated WordPress contributor. He started the WordPress Meetup in Bern @WPBern. Currently employed by required.

You can find him on Twitter under @grapplerulrich

Patricia likes to get involved in the WordPress community, as it’s a pleasant way for her to give back to WordPress what WordPress allows her to accomplish with Virtuaza and patriciabt.com, and in the future with Interaction.Site . She loves community and human relations centered projects, and she likes everything open-source which allows everyone to have their voices heard. She has these values in common with WordPress and its code of conduct.

See her full WordPress story here, and find her on Twitter @PatriciaBT70

Pascal is a software engineer and WordPress core committer based in Zurich. He’s been working with WordPress for half of his life and is an avid member of the community. Most recently, Pascal joined Google as a Developer Programs Engineer to help advance WordPress and the open web even more. You can find him onTwitter @swissspidy or at the WordPress Zurich Meetup which he helps organize.

Silvan has been using WordPress since 2006 and is an active member in the Swiss & European WordPress community. He is a co-organizer and speaker for previous WordCamps in Switzerland and one of the organizers for the WordPress Zurich meetup group. He co-founded and ran a remote WordPress and UX agency and has since returned to web development work and consulting in the digital space. Besides his work with open-source software, he builds food gardens and gardening products at Dein-Garten.ch.

Designs things | Mostly for the web | Uses WordPress since around 2007 | Co-Founder http://haptiq.studio  & http://picu.io

Mark has been using WordPress since 2003 and is a keen collaborator in the Swiss WordPress community. He moved to the Alps from England and has been building websites for over twenty-three years, with a particular focus on theme and plugin development, responsive frontend development and user interface concept work. Mark has been blogging since the end of the 1990s and is a developer and partner at WordPress agency Say Hello. You can find him on Twitter @howellsmead.

Michael loves nature the same as good food. He is mainly working location independent and combines work and travel. His company michaelH webdesign was founded in 2017. Michael creates websites using WordPress together with SEO on-page.

You can find him on LinkedIn.