As you may know, WordCamps are nonprofit events centred around the open-source WordPress publishing platform.
To host a WordCamp, it takes a dedicated team of volunteers in the community to make it happen – and we have a great team here in Hamilton.
Below are a list of organizers and volunteers who are dedicating time effort and energy to make the first ever WordCamp Hamilton:
Dale Mugford
Dale is cofounder and president of BraveNewCode Inc., a Hamilton-based WordPress plug-in company. BraveNewCode’s flagship product WPtouch (which makes your WordPress website mobile) has been downloaded over 4 million times from the WordPress repository.
Roz Allen
Roz is cofounder and partner at Double Barrel Studios, a digital media, video, and interactive production studio here in Hamilton. They produce broadcast-quality digital works, and have quickly become the go-to boutique production studio here in the city.
Martin Kuplens-Ewart
Martin is Product Designer at BraveNewCode, and has been working with the web and WordPress for many years. He’s a staunch community supporter, and promotes, speaks at, and attends tech and software related events in and around the city.
Nick Tomkin
Nick is head honcho at Orbital, a web development firm here in the city. Orbital is fast gaining high reputation for producing amazing web projects.
Geoff Campbell
Geoff is a Web & Graphic Designer here in Hamilton, and is a great community supporter for software and web here in Hamilton.
Kevin Browne
Our keynote speaker, Kevin Browne stands at the front of the software boom here in Hamilton. Kevin has been a great liaison for this event, making partnerships and connecting our community to make this event a great success.
Shanta Nathwani
Shanta is an Instructor in Web Design with solid technical and social media skills, a passion for client satisfaction combined with 16 years’ experience in leadership, consultative, instructional and project management roles.
Jacqueline Norton
Jacqueline is a Business Development Consultant, Creative Industries at City Of Hamilton, it’s been said that “Jacqueline makes stuff happen”— for our great city, it’s people like Jacqueline that help make the push from dreams through to reality— and she’s been a great help in getting this event off the ground from day one.
Carolynn Reid
Carolynn is a Business Development Consultant at City Of Hamilton, and is a results oriented, community builder with a strategic partnership focus. Carolynn has helped the WordCamp team meet key planning goals, and like Jacqueline, makes stuff happen!
Michael Canton
Michael is Producer at TechTalk X Series, and has been a key social media promoter for WordCamp Hamilton.
