Speakers

 

Milan Ivanovic

Milan lives and breathes WordPress: he’s the WordPress.org General Translation Editor, WordPress Serbia lead and one of WordCamp Europe organizers. In spare time he holds WordPress lectures and collects WordCamp T-shirts.

Emanuel Blagonić

Emanuel has more than 13 years of experience and 500+ different projects with worldwide clients on his back. From designing websites to designing touch–screen applications, he worked with small and big clients, startups and global projects. Although primarily a designer, he’s been in love with WordPress for the past 10 years, being one of the biggest promoters in Croatia – writing articles about WordPress that are not only promoting WordPress but open source as well. He helped organize WordCamp Croatia and organizes WordPress Meetup Zagreb with his brother Lucijan.

As one of the pioneers of the web standards movement in Croatia, he is active in the community where he works on building a better understanding of design process and educates clients as much as possible.

Twitter: @eblagonic

Danilo Novaković

As I like to say about myself “a grateful human being which is given the chance to contribute on this planet”. founder/problem solver at “Purezeen”, a small digital agency, and co-founder of “DaFED” a community that gathers all IT people mostly from the city of Novi Sad, one of the largest IT organizations in Serbia. I live more in future and glass is always half full. I have about 8 years of experience mostly in agencies on the position of full stack designer that loves WordPress. At the moment the most of my work time is about management and UX design.

Nevena Tomović

Nevena originally trained as a simultaneous interpreter, but now she is responsible for two way ‘interpreting’ at GoDaddy. She translates the team’s geek talk and product features into a language that normal people can understand, and customer wishes and needs to requirements for engineers.

Petya Raykovska

Petya is a Senior PM and an event wrangler at Human made. She’s the global communication lead for the WordPress Polyglots team.

Petya joined Human Made in February 2015 to help larger projects across big publishers and enterprise succeed.

When she’s not chasing her favourite bands around the globe, she’s either hanging out with great WordPress people at the nearest WordCamp, or at home in Sofia.

You can always find her in the #Polyglots channel on Slack or on Make.WordPress.org/polyglots where she helps everyone who wishes to translate WordPress get started or keep going.

Marko Tanasković

Marketing Coordinator / Growth Engineer at GoDaddy I’m a very motivated individual, constantly trying to educate myself and improve my skills. Also a great initiator, always pushing things for “improvement”, innovation and new ideas. Combine this with a fact that I’m a quick learner, highly dependent as an individual and also good team player, and you get a person capable of integrating into any organization. Areas of Expertise: ● Business Intelligence & Analytics ● Digital Marketing ● IT Management ● Business Administration and Management ● Graphic Design ● Website maintenance & SEO

Marija Zarić

 

Marija Zaric is a freelance web designer living in Belgrade, Serbia with a focus on individual and commercial clients who demand websites that are modern, creative, simple and responsive. She works with clients from USA and all over the world, helping them present their services in a unique and professional way.

Marija gratuated in Computer Science – computer graphics and design course at the Singidunum University in Belgrade. Marija was a technical reviewer for the books Responsive Media in HTML5, Mastering Responsive Web Design, Responsive Web Design Patterns and Mastering Bootstrap 4 for Packt Publishing.

She creates Bootstrap themes for the global market. Marija loves to share her knowledge through web design meetups and conferences. In WordCamp she will share her story about the creation of small business websites in WordPress, the whole process.

Website: http://www.marijazaric.com/

Lucijan Blagonić

Lucijan is a designer from Zagreb helping businesses and startups make informed design decisions, and deliver easy–to–use interfaces to their audience. Over the years, Lucijan helped dozens of clients plan and prototype their idea into a full–featured product or a website — guiding them from the initial phase of defining project goals to information architecture, design, and ultimately delivering clickable prototypes to developers. With a thorough understanding of HTML and CSS, he can build living style guides and design systems that are quickly adopted by developers, thus making some decisions directly in the browser — which benefits clients, developers and users alike. Lucijan is focused on applying various User Experience techniques in his work. By building design systems, he is also empowering others on the team to follow best design practices. He is engaged in the design community — speaking at conferences and sharing his knowledge — determined to do his part and help make the internet a better place for everyone.

Aleksandar Andrijević

Back-end software developer sa više od 5 godina iskustva u radu sa web i ostalim tehnologijama, trenutno zaposlen u kompaniji Folkmatic. Razvija svakodnevno hard-to-find funkcionalnosti na WordPress platformi, Symfony frameworku, JavaScriptu i ostalim tehnologijama. Pokrenuo #WPNis sa drugarima, Silicon Drinkabout Niš, pa će valjda da se smiri nekad 🙂 . Jedini strah koji ima je da će deca u budućnosti pitati ko je grupa “The Prodigy”.

Dario Jazbec Hrvatin

I was born in Zagreb, Croatia but fell in love and married a Slovenian girl in 2007 and moved to Slovenia, where we live now, together with our daughter and a chihuahua dog. Even though I finished the University of Economics in Zagreb (Department of Informatics), I have always been fascinated by computers and technology, so with the rise of the Web and web development, I jumped on board and started to create my first HTML-driven websites. At an early stage of my self-training to become a web-developer, I started using WordPress as the CMS of my choice and I made a very good choice. After years of freelancing and working for a renowned Slovenian marketing agency as the main web developer, I got the opportunity to work with OnTheGoSystems, company behind one of my all-time favorite plugins Types and WPML. And this is where I happily am now. I am now a documentation manager for all the company’s projects. I also organize and lead usability testing sessions for our plugins. Working with OnTheGoSystems connected me ever more with the WordPress community and allowed me to start attending WordCamps – and of course speaking at them. I was very lucky to have been chosen on some of them already and every new WordCamp I attend fills me with further ideas, energy, and motivation. Besides WordPress and web, I am a musician with my own musical project Helika. We had the first album was published by one of the region’s biggest record companies but are currently in hibernation for the near future (will be back).

Ratko Šolaja

I learned to code before I learned to talk. I’m a Senior WordPress Developer working for Simplicity d.o.o. and for Toptal. I like to help clients build websites that will excite people. My philosophy is that it doesn’t matter what medium is used, the idea and message are always crucial. What I offer to clients is the best mix of creative and strategic thinking with effective and memorable solutions.

Željko Škipić

Born 05.07.1987. in Cacak, Serbia, whole life was interested in computers and anything related to them, but never actually had related job, it was more like a hobby, wherever I tried to find job in field, ‘you dont have a degree’ ‘you dont have experience’ etc.. I worked many 9-17h and 7-19 jobs because my lack of education degree, but always dreamed about having my own computer realted bussines and working from home. That was as I said a dream. Than middle of 2015 when I was introduced to html and css by my friend, and for the first time i actually saw my dream coming true in the future. Later on I discovered WordPress and we are inseparable since than 🙂

Bojan Krstić

Zaljubljenik u računare od 1996.
U 2000. počeo da koristim Internet.
U 2001. napisao prvi Pascal kod.
U 2002. počeo da radim.
U 2003. napravio prvi tabelarni sajt.
U 2004. kodirao prvi CSS & HTML sajt.
U 2005. izvršio SEO sajta.
U 2007. kreirao prvi sajt Flash.
U 2008. koristio prvi Google analitike kod.
U 2009. postavio prvu AdWords kampanju.
U 2010. kreirao prvu Facebook stranicu.
U 2011. napravio prvi WordPress sajt.
U 2012. postavio prvu Facebook Ads kampanju.
U 2013. pokrenuo lokalni portal.
U 2014. gostovao uživo na nacionalnoj televiziji RTS.
U 2015. napravio prvi e-commerce sajt sa Woocommerce.
U 2016. otvorio svoju firmu za izradu sajtova i internet marketing.
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Computer enthusiast from 1996.
In 2000. made first Internet browsing.
In 2001. made first Pascal code.
In 2002. started to Work.
In 2003. made first Website.
In 2004. made first CSS website.
In 2005. made first SEO for site.
In 2007. made first Flash website.
In 2008. made first Google Analytics code.
In 2009. made first AdWords campaign.
In 2010. made first Facebook page.
In 2011. made first WordPress site.
In 2012. made first Facebook campaign.
In 2013. made Local News portal.
In 2014. made live interview on National TV.
In 2015. made first e-commerce site.
In 2016. start own company for webdesign and internet marketing.

Stevica Gološin

WordPress community member – 2 years
WCEU and WC Bgd 2016 – Atendee
WCEU and WC Bgd 2017 – Volunteer

Desktop application programmer – 30 years
Web Designer and Developer – >10 years
SEO and PPC expert – >10 years

Ivelina Dimova

WordPress developer working at CrowdFavorite where we create web solutions for big enterprise companies. I am more focused on back-end development and passionate about version control systems, deployment and server administration tools.

Personally some of my interests are yoga, travelling and photography, I am always excited to travel around the world to visit WordCamps, learn new things and spend time with the awesome people at the community.

Jelena Radovanović

Content writer and full-time Internet marketer since 2012, worked and working on several global projects. Author of a popular Serbian blog, Mozeiovako.com (“Writers’ Bible”, some call it), trainer of bloggers and content creators at wwwrite.rs.

Huge fan of content marketing and WordPress. 🙂

Ivana Ćirković

Digital Marketing, PR and Social Media consultant with over nine years experience in the field. The owner of OrganVlasti.com online magazine for women and Digital Marketing agency KickStart.rs.

WordPress enthusiast since 2013. and an active member of WordPress community, big fan of internet and New York.

Bojan Petrović

Co-founder and WordPress developer at Meks, crafting premium WordPress themes for thousands of users worldwide.

He has been involved in the business since 2009. Creating themes, plugins and services on top of WordPress, continuously aiming to choose best approaches and work smarter, not harder.

Mitko Kockovski

I am working with WordPress since 2010. I always aim for perfection and love challenges since I’m eager to grow. My love for WordPress and the need of beeing up to date has got me visiting WordPress Conferences in Europe. One of the Macedonian WC organisers.

Milica Đustebek

Working in a small charity often requires wearing many hats – fundraising, event management, social media and some WordPress administrating just for fun.

Miloš Mihaljević

Former Drupal enthusiast, current WordPress lover. Working at GoDaddy as Supervisor/Team lead of CH team. I spend my free time by helping a local community and participating in an organization of WordCamp Europe. When there is none of the above, 127.0.0.1 and improving my front end skills is the place to be 🙂

Aleksandar Predić

PHP / WordPress Developer, co-founder of Nis WordPress community #WPNis as part of #WPSerbia community.

Currently working for Shindiri Studio company developing premium themes, plugins, solutions for clients and internal projects using WordPress.

Twitter: @APredic

Misel Tekinder

Misel is a front-end/WordPress theme developer specialized in the development of responsive and performant user interfaces.

Sabina Ionescu

My background is in Philosophy and Communications, but my experience is mostly in online marketing, copywriting and branding (mainly for the tech industry). I worked with large tech companies like Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Nokia, with digital/branding agencies (Wunderman and Brandient) and with tech start-ups (Spherik Accelerator and RenderStreet).

In the recent years I have turned to a more business approach, looking over different areas like project management and business development. At ThemeIsle, I have interacted with all parts of the business, from hiring new people, to content writing, and from launching new products to restructuring our Support processes.

I am involved in organizing Bucharest WordPress Meetup & WordCamp and I would love to give my first WordCamp presentation in Belgrade!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabinaionescu/