Thank you YIThemes for being a #WCGVA Silver sponsor!

YIThemes joins the silver sponsors of WordCamp Geneva 2016! We’d like to ask you all to join us in saying a big “Thank you” to YIThemes for the support and trust.

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At YITH, we develop innovative WordPress themes and plugins for WooCommerce based sites. For years our philosophy has been based on simplicity and effectiveness as basic concepts required in any professional online business.
Our crown jewel, that makes us proud, is our high-quality support service, through which we take care of our customers day-by-day, never as a number, but as people with faces, names and a personal history that we deeply care for.

Thank you required+ for being a #WCGVA Silver sponsor!

required+ joins the silver sponsors of WordCamp Geneva 2016! We’d like to ask you all to join us in saying a big “Thank you” to required+ for the support and trust.

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required+ is a UX & WordPress Agency from Switzerland & Germany. Their focus lays on Interaction Design, mobile web & apps, WordPress. They help agencies deliver on time with design and developing websites and web applications for their clients and build products that they love for people they care about.

Thank you WPML for being a #WCGVA silver global sponsor!

WPML joins the silver global sponsors of WordCamp Geneva 2016! We’d like to ask you all to join us in saying a big “Thank you” to WPML for the support and trust.

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WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites. WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 500,000 commercial websites from all over the world. More information about going multilingual can be found at WPML.org

Thank you Bluehost for being a #WCGVA gold global sponsor!

Bluehost joins the gold global sponsors of WordCamp Geneva 2016! We’d like to ask you all to join us in saying a big “Thank you” to Bluehost for the support and trust.

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Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.

 

Thank you GoDaddy for being a #WCGVA gold global sponsor!

GoDaddy joins the gold global sponsors of WordCamp Geneva 2016! We’d like to ask you all to join us in saying a big “Thank you” to GoDaddy for the support and trust.

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GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.

Introducing the WordCamp Geneva Speakers – Part 3

We are pleased to announce the third group of speakers! Please welcome to the stage:

Thorsten Frommen

Thorsten is a web developer since 2000, working with (and on) WordPress since 2005.

Currently, Thorsten is a WordPress engineer and technical project lead at Inpsyde, Germany’s biggest WordPress agency. He is part of Inpsyde’s QA team, and leads the development of MultilingualPress, THE multisite-based free open source plugin for your multilingual websites. He also maintains WP REST Starter, a Composer package for working with the WordPress REST API in an object-oriented fashion.

Thorsten is a certified PHP engineer, web development professional and tester.

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Thank you WooCommerce for being a #WCGVA platinum global sponsor!

WooCommerce joins the platinum global sponsors of WordCamp Geneva 2016! We’d like to ask you all to join us in saying a big “Thank you” to WooCommerce for the support and trust.

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37% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.

Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise level eCommerce business – WooCommerce will get you set up and selling fast and scale securely as you grow. Plus your content will be forever yours and customizable down to the finest button color.

Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com.

Introducing the WordCamp Geneva Speakers – Part 2

We are pleased to announce the second group of speakers! Please welcome to the stage:

Pascal Birchler

Pascal is a 23-year-old student and web developer from Switzerland. He contributes to WordPress by organising local events and through direct core contributions.

He’s been working with WordPress for years and he’s involved with both the German-speaking and the international community.

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Thank you Jetpack for being a #WCGVA platinum global sponsor!

Jetpack joins the platinum global sponsors of WordCamp Geneva 2016! We’d like to ask you all to join us in saying a big “Thank you” to Jetpack for the support and trust.

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Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools. More information can be found at jetpack.com.

Introducing the WordCamp Geneva Speakers – Part 1

We are pleased to announce the first group of speakers! Please welcome to the stage:

Manuela van Prooijen

Manuela van Prooijen (The Netherlands) started Weblish (WordPress and online marketing training) in 2011. She organizes every three months the WordPress Meetup Utrecht.

As a certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach she advises small business owners about the possibilities of using low-budget/creative marketing strategies. And WordPress is the perfect vehicle for this. She loves oldskool loud punkrock and rock music and bagels.

Her first WordCamp talk was during WordCamp Netherlands October 2016.

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