During WordCamp Gdynia you can attend three sessions wich will be presented in English. Valentin Vesa will tell us about his experience of being hacked, and how it influenced him. Aleksandar Savkovic will show how to improve the features of your product. Finally Olexiy Fedorov is going to reveal where the money is and how to build an international service.
Valentin Vesa How being hacked turned out to be the best thing that happened to me
Track: Open/Case Studies
In this session you’ll hear about my passion for WordPress and the first time I experienced having my website hacked helped me create a secured online presence for our family project, turned multinational charity program and landed me my dream job, allowing me to work to protect WordPress sites from hackers. It opened opportunities, allows me to work remotely for an American company, while still living in Europe (Cluj, Romania) and also providing enough time to manage the volunteers behind the ShoeBox Project.
Aleksandar Savkovic Is your product easy to use and why it isn’t
Track: Open/Case Studies
How hard and costly can be transition from old to new product with mostly the same but improved features and how to make it as much as possible painless and overcome the users habits.
Olexiy Fedorov Content projects (web-magazines/blogs): trends, what customers and their clients are looking for; where is the money?
Track: Design
We will review the latest trends in the field of developing content-projects, both in terms of design and functionality. Live cases will be revealed. Also the second part of presentation could be about „How to build your service to International market from Eastern Europe”. Talking about developing premium-plugins and target them to the US/UK market.
More on our speakers:
Valentin Vesa
Brand Evangelist at Sucuri. He is very passionate about technology and online marketing. Some of his interests include CMS hardening and tech writing. He loves to play ping-pong, go swimming, and spend quality time with his family. Follow him on Twitter at @adspedia.
Aleksandar Savkovic
A WordPress developer, customer happiness engineer, WordCamp Belgrade co-organizer, the member of WordPress Polyglots and Training team and WordPress Lecturer. His main occupation and hobby is WordPress from another angle. It is not all about the code, there is something in a human touch.
Olexiy Fedorov
Owner and CEO @ www.deco.agency (one of the TOP5 Ukrainian web-agencies, which specialized on WP-development). Works with clients from the USA, Canada, China, Estonia, Ukraine