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.