Third group of speakers – Case studies, Community & Management

We’d like to present our next group of speakers. Put your hands together for the third group which is all about Case studies, Community & Management. Have you missed other announcements? Go back and take a look at the previous speaker announcements that will be covered at WordCamp Nordic 2019.

Allan Halme

Allan has been developing software professionally for 25 years. He has founded and worked in several startups as well as heading custom software development at Accenture Finland and heading the Nokia Vancouver office. Allan has a Masters in CS from the University of Helsinki. Currently he is self-employed at his current company, Varpu Works Oy.

Christian Nikkanen

Self-taught, “get stuff done” full stack developer. Has worked with WordPress almost as long as he has been writing code. Isn’t afraid of saying no to the client and has a cynical thought process.

Elisa Heikura

Elisa is a compassionate extrovert with a considerably long history working alongside developers of all sorts. She has noticed some patterns and challenges most developers have to deal with and has devoted her working hours to doing her best to help. She coaches, teaches, speaks, writes, and facilitates. Keywords: communication, interaction, teamwork, emotions, feedback, conflict and problem solving and – yes, even – love.

Francesca Marano

Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround. She is part of the WordPress community team, organizing meetups and WordCamps in Torino and taking part in many other WordPress events worldwide.

She founded C+B, a blog with an editorial staff of more than sixty authors offering daily advice for Italian female creative entrepreneurs. Now we are more than 80 authors at C+B!

Francesca is a passionate speaker and you can find her in Italy and around the world talking about WordPress, community, open source, women in tech, and small businesses.

Magne Ilsaas

Magne is the founder of Dekode, an Oslo based design and development agency. Together with 35 colleagues, ranging from business advisors, designers and a bunch of developers, he really enjoys using WordPress to empower clients and solve their users needs.

Monica Solheim Slind

Monica is a Senior Advisor at DSS (G.S.S.O), Norwegian Government Security and Service Organisation, leading the development team of a multisite installation with over 75 websites for the Norwegian Government.