{"id":12,"date":"2019-02-13T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T09:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.zurich.wordcamp.org\/organizers\/"},"modified":"2019-05-14T17:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:52:15","slug":"organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zurich.wordcamp.org\/2019\/organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Nick Weisser<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Blogger and CEO at the Z\u00fcrich based ecommerce agency Openstream<\/a>. WordPress and WooCommerce polyglot, Swiss Magento and WooCommerce usergroup organizer, Blockchain enthusiast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Z\u00fcrich 2019 is his first time as co-organizer. You can find him on Twitter @nickweisser<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Gerd Zimmermann<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Gerd has been using WordPress since 2009. Starting with the \nadministration of the website of his company, he now builds websites for\n small businesses and friends & family. He has been helping as the \nco-organizer of the WordPress Meetup in Bern for the last two years. \nCurrently Gerd is working to build up wp-toolbox.ch<\/a> to support WordPress-Users and take care of the maintenance of a whole series of WordPress sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find him on Twitter under @wpgerd<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Petra Wildemann<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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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.\u00a0The Swiss Cyber Think Tank is a non-profit coalition of likeminded\u00a0professionals across the industry\u00a0from various business lines such as insurers, technology and security firms, and representatives of the government.<\/p>\r\n

More information can be found in\u00a0Petra’s blogs<\/a>\u00a0and on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

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Marc Wieland<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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On weekdays web developer at whatwedo<\/a>, at the weekend behind the camera for ON AIR Production<\/a> or at tech conferences in Europe’s big cities. Marc<\/a> is all about his passion for technology – seven days a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find him on Twitter under @marcwieland95<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Christian Zumbrunnen<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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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<\/a>, one of the largest and most experienced domain registration and hosting companies in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find him on Twitter as @chzumbrunnen<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Ulrich Pogson<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Ulrich is a dedicated WordPress contributor. He started the WordPress Meetup in Bern\u00a0@WPBern<\/a>. Currently employed by\u00a0required<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find him on Twitter under @grapplerulrich<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Mariam Saleh<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Patricia BT<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Patricia likes to get involved in the WordPress community, as it\u2019s a pleasant way for her to give back to WordPress what WordPress allows her to accomplish with Virtuaza<\/a> and patriciabt.com<\/a>, and in the future with Interaction.Site<\/a> . 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See her full WordPress story here<\/a>, and find her on Twitter @PatriciaBT70<\/a>
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Pascal Birchler<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Pascal<\/a> is a software engineer and WordPress core committer based in Zurich. He\u2019s 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<\/a> or at the WordPress Zurich Meetup<\/a> which he helps organize.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Silvan Hagen<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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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<\/a> in the digital space. Besides his work with open-source software, he builds food gardens and gardening products at Dein-Garten.ch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Claudio Rimann<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Designs things | Mostly for the web | Uses WordPress since around 2007 | Co-Founder http:\/\/haptiq.studio\u00a0<\/a> & http:\/\/picu.io<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Mark Howells-Mead<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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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<\/a>. You can find him on Twitter @howellsmead<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Michael H\u00f6rnlimann<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t
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Michael<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find him on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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