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.