It’s been almost a month since WCKK. We are still waiting for our videos but here are some random photos collected from WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019.
It was Amazing!
We counted and we had 99 attendees during WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019. That means, out of the 109 people who registered, 90.8% showed up! That is by far one of the best attendance rate I’ve ever experienced in my years of organizing community events in Kota Kinabalu. You people are awesome!
We hope to see you again next year~
WordCamp Kota Kinabalu is FINALLY here!
Tomorrow is WordCamp! Let us give you a few pointers to help you get ahead!
Location
Our Venue is VINUSAK HALL, 3rd Floor, Grand Borneo Hotel. Just take an elevator to the 3rd Floor and you are there.
For those driving or taking public transport from the city centre. Please avoid areas around Jesselton Point, Pillars of Sabah,and the Marlin Roundabout. The roads surrounding the area will be closed due to Women’s March.
Parking
We encourage folks to take public transport if you can. But if that’s not possible, you can park at the hotel. The parking is not FREE.
Show Up Early
Registration opens at 8am! Breakfast will be served early even though we put on the schedule that tea break will be at around 10am. You can have breakfast right after registration.
Swags
Swags are on first come first serve basis. Show up late and you might not get anything cool.
And this is very important to us…
Be Nice!
WordCamp is a volunteer-organized, casual event. We expect everyone to be friendly and patient. Please follow our Code of Conduct .
If you need any help, just look for the volunteers who will be wearing the Dark Grey on the day of the event.
#HashtagUs
Our official hastags are #WordCampKK2019 #WCKK2019 #WordCampKotaKinabalu … Do take photos and selfies during the event and if we love your photos we might send you something nice after the event.
Have Fun!
Have fun! Learn something and take the opportunity to chat with speakers!
Final Speakers List Announcement
WordCamp Kota Kinabalu 2019 is just days away! Are you excited yet? We have finalized our speakers list! *Drum Rolls* Meet our speakers!
Sanjay Willie
Topic Title :
10 First Steps To Secure Your WP Assets (With demos)
In this talk, Sanjay would like to share what are the essential ten tips and tricks, from plugins to bare metal OS to secure any modern WordPress site. These tips could help ensure your sites gain trust, confidence and even positively enhance your search engine ranking. He will also share how to assess your current site and what to do if you do get compromised and how to recover from it quickly.
Sanjay has over 20 years in experience with enterprise software solutions. He has pulled cables under desks, designed security solutions for central banks, governments, businesses and NGOs on cybersecurity. He is a member of our government’s Open Source strategy, OSDeC (a division under MAMPU).
Sanjay is a proud Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security for his work in the community and was given the recognition by Microsoft since 2009. He is also a frequent public speaker in conferences, user groups and seminars on the related products, technologies and IR4 strategies. He currently runs several open source companies providing reliable, simplified and affordable solutions for the clients to empower them and their businesses
Niels Lange
Topic Title:
WP-CLI Hacks
The WP-CLI is a very powerful tool. During his presentation, Niels points out some very helpful WP-CLI hacks such as cleaning up post revisions, creating dummy content and run performance tests.
Niels works as Happiness Engineer for Automattic where he provides support for WordPress.com customers. Outside work he organises WordCamps and WordPress Meetups both in Europe and Asia.
After his study in computer science in Germany, he moved to the Netherlands, where he worked for several companies as a web developer and a business analyst. Since mid-2014 he’s been travelling through South-East Asia where he fights bugs between palm trees and rice fields.
Sam Suresh
Topic Title:
10 WordPress Design Trends of 2019
Web development is changing every second and 2019 will be no different. User expectations are growing and it is more important than ever to build digital experiences that are engaging, fun, and intuitive. Content needs to be accessible everywhere, in real-time, and, of course, on mobile devices. In order to keep up with what is happening, He wants to show you the top 10 WordPress web development trends that are happening right now!
Sam Suresh is the founder of MU DOT MY PLT, a tech development & training company based in Kuala Lumpur. He contributes to open source projects in his free time. Formerly, Sam served Joomla! CMS Project as leadership team member.
Sam has spoken at regional WordCamps and was the lead organiser of WordCamp KL 2017. He also contributes to Malaysian Website Awards as Expert Judge.
Sam is an active open water swimmer and completed his 5KM open water swimming in 2018! He often travel around the world to attend conferences and workshops. More information about Sam can be found on his website at samsuresh.net. Follow Sam on Facebook or Twitter.
Muhammad Johar Jaafar
Topic Title:
Aku Buntu! Perlu Design Baru Tapi Bagaimana?
As a designer or developer. You may or you may not encounter design inspiration problem. But it does happen in our daily life as Web Developer who use WordPress. This sharing session shared on how to get on path and acquire design inspiration, as well copy technique of getting similar website that we want.
Muhammad Johar Jaafar or also known as Ryu Watanabe or Najoe is an adventurer and cosfoodgrammer who does a lot of study and hands-on the things he wants.
He has been involved in various IT fields for over a decade, before he decided to form Next Wonder House. He only tackles Web & Mobile Development with intention to help the transformation of
businesses to the digital world.
Lawrence Chau
Topic Title :
How to Build A Website with WordPress (For Beginners)
Learn how to build website with WordPress – Learn how to choose hosting and setup – Learn how to create pages and posts – Learn how to use themes and plugins – Learn how to customize theme – Learn how to create menus and widgets
Lawrence started to be a web developer since year 2011, and became a WordPress web developer and support since year 2014, He has been helping businesses to design and manage their websites and web hosting in WordPress until now.
He co-leads WordPress Kota Kinabalu community since early 2017, with the help and collaboration with Kinabalu Coders (or known as Sabah Programmers and ICT Builders Association) – a coalition of leads, organisers, and volunteers from tech and maker related communities and local industries.
Lawrence likes tech and business. He often travels for his business, and he believes that he can become a digital nomad himself so that he can keep traveling and working for his business. He wish that one day he can share his experience and knowledge on how to utilize the internet to do business and have the freedom to travel.
Vince Aggrippino
Topic Title:
Can I Make Money with WordPress?
An in-depth discussion exploring the pros and cons of several options for earning an income with WordPress… – Blogging with ads & affiliate marketing – Theme design – A regular job… What’s that? – “Traditional” Freelancing – Upwork et al… Freelancing with help – Fiverr … a slightly different take – Other ways… Are there other ways
An industry veteran with over 30 years of software development experience including hobbyist, military, corporate, freelance, and gig economy roles.
Vince is a lifelong software and technology enthusiast with over 30 years of experience covering support, systems’ administration, database administration, software engineering, and web development. Although he hasn’t always been focused or well organized, he’s seldom been far from a computer. He wrote his first lines of code at about age 12, but once he discovered Web Development, he never looked back.
His primary motivation is to make a better life for his family, but he’s also driven to grow the tech community and improve the tech ecosystem in Sabah.
Always up for a new adventure, Vince has lived and worked in four different countries, but makes his home in Sabah with his wife, daughter, and extended Kadazan family.
James Hunt
Topic Title:
The Location Independent Developer
A talk about going remote, digital nomads, and being location independent. Where to find remote work, how to convince your boss to go remote. What is a digital nomad and why be location independent. Tips tricks and lessons learnt after 5 years of being a digital nomad.
WordPress developer, digital nomad, and entrepreneur.
James is a freelance WordPress developer and entrepreneur from London, England.
After years of working in sales, marketing and managing businesses, James found his passion in writing code, and loves making high quality, fast and SEO-focused websites with WordPress.
James is location independent, and travels the world while working remotely from anywhere with good internet. As an advocate of the “digital nomad lifestyle”, James blogs at locationindependent.co.uk and moderates several digital nomad Facebook groups with a combined reach of 125,000+ people. He has been featured in publications such as Fast Company, Huffington Post, and The Bangkok Post talking about life as a digital nomad.
Matt Jaworski
Topic Title:
The Future Is Now – The Importance Of Upgrading to PHP 7
In this talk Matt explains the life cycle of PHP versions and how the recent major events (the end of life of PHP 5.x.x and 7.0.x) are impacting the industry. He will walk you through the benefits of upgrading to the newest, fastest version of PHP and the risks of staying behind and using unsupported PHP versions that might pose a security risk.
Matt is a professional nerd with over a decade of experience in the field of Open Source web development. Before PeepSo he was a contractor and have helped build successful businesses around the world.
Stepping up from the role of contractor to business owner, he became PeepSo founder and Chief Technology Officer. He strives to build beautiful, fast and functional software that empowers the users to build their own digital tribes with full autonomy and freedom often not available on the mainstream social networking media.
As a location independent digital nomad Matt travels almost constantly, although over the past four years he has spent most of his time in Indonesia and Malaysia. When not in front of his laptop he usually have fun with his beautiful fiancée Olivia: traveling, riding motorbikes, trying new foods and doing (acro)yoga.
WordCamp Kota Kinabalu Speakers : Final Round
Niels Lange
Niels works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic where he provides support for WordPress.com customers. Outside work he organises WordCamps and WordPress Meetups both in Europe and Asia.
After his study in computer science in Germany, he moved to the Netherlands, where he worked for several companies as a web developer and a business analyst. Since mid-2014 he’s been travelling through South-East Asia where he fights bugs between palm trees and rice fields.
Sanjay Willie
Sanjay has over 20 years in experience with enterprise software solutions. He has pulled cables under desks, designed security solutions for central banks, governments, businesses and NGOs on cybersecurity. He is a member of our government’s Open Source strategy, OSDeC (a division under MAMPU).
Sanjay is a proud Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security for his work in the community and was given the recognition by Microsoft since 2009. He is also a frequent public speaker in conferences, user groups and seminars on the related products, technologies and IR4 strategies. He currently runs several open source companies providing reliable, simplified and affordable solutions for the clients to empower them and their businesses
WordCamp Kota Kinabalu Speakers : Round Three
Sam Suresh
Sam Suresh is the founder of MU DOT MY PLT, a tech development & training company based in Kuala Lumpur. He contributes to open source projects in his free time. Formerly, Sam served Joomla! CMS Project as leadership team member.
Sam has spoken at regional WordCamps and was the lead organiser of WordCamp KL 2017. He also contributes to Malaysian Website Awards as Expert Judge.
Sam is an active open water swimmer and completed his 5KM open water swimming in 2018! He often travel around the world to attend conferences and workshops. More information about Sam can be found on his website at samsuresh.net. Follow Sam on Facebook or Twitter.
Muhammad Johar Jaafar
Muhammad Johar Jaafar or also known as Ryu Watanabe or Najoe is an adventurer and
cosfoodgrammer who does a lot of study and hands-on the things he wants.
He has been involved in various IT fields for over a decade, before he decided to form Next Wonder House. He only tackles Web & Mobile Development with intention to help the transformation of
businesses to the digital world.
In his early days with WordPress, he started with blogging but stopped due to personal reasons. However, life led him back to WordPress again. Now WordPress became his favourite web design and development platform.
Lawrence Chau
Lawrence Chau is a businessman and a freelance WordPress developer in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. He graduated in computer engineering and he began his business in computer since year 2002. in 2011 he became interested in web industry – specifically on web design. He began taking bigger web development projects on year 2013 before he became a full-time WordPress developer.
He co-leads WordPress Kota Kinabalu community since early 2017, with the help and collaboration with Kinabalu Coders (or known as Sabah Programmers and ICT Builders Association) – a coalition of leads, organisers, and volunteers from tech and maker related communities and local industries.
Lawrence likes tech and business. He often travels for his business, and he believes that he can become a digital nomad himself so that he can keep traveling and working for his business. He wish that one day he can share his experience and knowledge on how to utilize the internet to do business and have the freedom to travel.
WordCamp Kota Kinabalu Speakers : Round Two
Vince Aggripino
Vince is a lifelong software and technology enthusiast with over 30 years of experience covering support, systems’ administration, database administration, software engineering, and web development. Although he hasn’t always been focused or well organized, he’s seldom been far from a computer. He wrote his first lines of code at about age 12, but once he discovered Web Development, he never looked back.
His primary motivation is to make a better life for his family, but he’s also driven to grow the tech community and improve the tech ecosystem in Sabah.
Always up for a new adventure, Vince has lived and worked in four different countries, but makes his home in Sabah with his wife, daughter, and extended Kadazan family.
James Hunt
James is a freelance WordPress developer and entrepreneur from London, England.
After years of working in sales, marketing and managing businesses, James found his passion in writing code, and loves making high quality, fast and SEO-focused websites with WordPress.
James is location independent, and travels the world while working remotely from anywhere with good internet. As an advocate of the “digital nomad lifestyle”, James blogs at locationindependent.co.uk and moderates several digital nomad Facebook groups with a combined reach of 125,000+ people. He has been featured in publications such as Fast Company, Huffington Post, and The Bangkok Post talking about life as a digital nomad.
Personal website: https://www.thetwopercent.co.uk
Blog: https://www.locationindependent.co.uk
Twitter: @thetwopct
WordCamp Kota Kinabalu Speakers : Round One
Matt Jaworski
Matt is a professional nerd with over a decade of experience in the field of Open Source web development. Before PeepSo he was a contractor and have helped build successful businesses around the world.
Stepping up from the role of contractor to business owner, he became PeepSo founder and Chief Technology Officer.
He strives to build beautiful, fast and functional software that empowers the users to build their own digital tribes with full autonomy and freedom often not available on the mainstream social networking media.
As a location independent digital nomad Matt travels almost constantly, although over the past four years he has spent most of his time in Indonesia and Malaysia. When not in front of his laptop he usually have fun with his beautiful fiancée Olivia: traveling, riding motorbikes, trying new foods and doing (acro)yoga.
Thank you to Our Ivory Sponsors
PressED is a conference (#pressedconf19) looking into how WordPress is used in teaching, pedagogy and research. The conference happens solely on twitter. Check out #pressedconf18 to see how a twitter conference works. We’d love to hear from WordCamp Kota Kinabalu attendees who are educators and students on how they use WordPress – https://2019.pressedconf.org/ . Our call for papers is available in English and Chinese – https://2019.pressedconf.org/call-for-papers/
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Takayuki Miyoshi
Say HELLO to the Organizers.
Before we announce our last round of speakers. Say HELLO to the people who tirelessly worked to make WordCamp Kota Kinabalu a reality! Special thanks to Rocio, Aditya and Emanuel who helped us throughout the incubation time! <3
Rocio Valdivia
Community Wrangler @ Automattic for WordCamp Central
Spanish WordPress and Buddypress developer.
Future is cooperation, not competition.
Aditya Kane
Aditya works on the WordPress Community Team. He has lived much of his life in Mumbai, India. He loves reading books and secretly wants to be a world famous philosopher. He believes that the core tenets of open source culture and philosophy should make it’s way into education, politics, law, economics and more.
Baizurah Basri
Community Builder. Illustrator. Graphic Designer. Web Developer. WordPresser. Someone’s eccentric aunt and possibly a jedi. Co-leads WordPress Kota Kinabalu and GBG Kota Kinabalu. She is also a long-time volunteer at Kinabalu Coders (Sabah Programmers and ICT Builders Association) – a coalition of leads, organisers, and volunteers from tech and maker related communities and local industries.
Rachel Sibangun Joseph
This is Rachel. She likes cats, books, and technology. In that order.
During the day, she’s a mild-mannered civilian, living her life as low-profile as possible. But at night, she’s a zombie-fighting hero, saving the planet from the undead menace. But you’ve never seen any, right? Yeah, you’re welcome.
Lawrence Chau
Lawrence Chau is a businessman and a freelance WordPress developer in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. He graduated in computer engineering and he began his business in computer since year 2002. in 2008 he became interested in web industry – specifically on web design. He began taking bigger web development projects on year 2011 before he became a full-time WordPress developer.
He co-leads WordPress Kota Kinabalu community since early 2017, with the help and collaboration with Kinabalu Coders (or known as Sabah Programmers and ICT Builders Association) – a coalition of leads, organisers, and volunteers from tech and maker related communities and local industries.
Lawrence likes tech and business. He often travels for his business, and he believes that he can become a digital nomad himself so that he can keep traveling and working for his business. He wish that one day he can share his experience and knowledge on how to utilize the internet to do business and have the freedom to travel.
Emanuel Blagonic
Father. Designer. WordPresser. Activist. Speaker. Problem solver. In a hurry. Wants to change the world.
Thank You to Our Bronze Sponsor
PeepSo lets you create your own online community right within your WordPress site effortlessly. It comes with beautiful user profiles and registration, filterable activity streams, real-time and email notifications, full control over security and privacy of all the user data and many other features. Our primary goal when developing this social networking plugin was to provide those who wanted to create a community with WordPress an easy way to do it. You can add features PeepSo with extensions like: Friends, Photos, Videos, Groups, Hashtags and many more. Creating your own community gives you full control over every aspect of it. As PeepSo is open source and white-label you can customize it to your liking so that you can create the best possible social networking experience for you and your users. Integrations with WooCommerce, LearnDash, AdvancedAds and other also let you monetize your community. PeepSo also offers a theme: Gecko to add even more flare to your site. All of this an a lot more comes with dedicated support provided by the very people who make these amazing solutions. It’s Your Community. Your Way. It’s SO easy!
Interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year?
Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!