WordCamp Finland 2016

Bluehost is a WordCamp Finland silver sponsor.

Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. You can join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.

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GoDaddy is one of the silver sponsors for WordCamp Finland this year.

GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 14 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.

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Seravo is one of our gold sponsors. Here are Seravo’s greetings for WordCamp Finland 2016:

We offer premium hosting and professional maintenance for all WordPress sites. WP-palvelu.fi is a constantly growing cloud service produced by Seravo, an open source software company based in Finland. Make sure that your WordPress sites remain safe, fast and functional – let us take care of security, optimizing and updates.

Read more at WP-palvelu.fi or come and meet us during WordCamp Finland!

Jetpack is one of the three gold sponsors for WordCamp Finland 2016.

Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites. This single plugin enables Photon (a global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple-site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look and feel of your site without installing other tools. More information can be found at jetpack.com.

WooCommerce is one of the three gold sponsors for WordCamp Finland 2016.

WooCommerce is the fastest growing eCommerce software/platform, powering over 30% of all eCommerce stores with over 1 million active installations. It is is built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, making it the obvious eCommerce choice for existing WordPress users and connects you to the fast-growing WordPress ecosystem which now powers over 25% of all websites on the internet.

With WooCommerce you can start with all the basic tools that any small business would need to start selling online, including product setup, payments, shipping options, and sales reports and as your business grows choose from over 300 premium add-ons available including additional payment processors, shipping methods, inventory systems and marketing tools anyone to sell anything, anywhere from real products and digital downloads to subscriptions, content and even your time.
In July 2015 WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com which serves more than 15.8 billion pages a month and also the creators of other popular WordPress services including Akismet, Jetpack, and VaultPress. We look forward to growing WooCommerce to achieve even greater things together with Automattic.

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Welcome our second group of Lightning Talkers!

Liisa Benmergui

With over a decade of experience working as a UX and concept designer, Liisa Benmergui has had the pleasure of working with all manner of persons in the industry to create many digital products and services. She has worked on a number of services built on the WordPress platform and has come to understand the platform’s possibilities, as well as shortcomings, and is pleasantly surprised by its versatility, especially when working with skilled developers. She is currently a designer at Frantic.com. Liisa’s talk will be about embracing the boundaries of templates.

Antti Kuosmanen

Antti Kuosmanen is an Open Source geek, WordPress evangelist at Seravo, founder of WP-palvelu.fi and author of many WordPress plugins. Antti’s talk will be about Open Source: the aspects of WordPress being GPL, and why it’s important for WordPress users, developers and businesses alike.

Aki Björklund

Aki Björklund is a mostly self-taught web generalist. He has been developing websites since 2000. After 10 years of developing custom CMSs with Microsoft technologies for media companies, among other things, he had enough and switched to 100% WordPress. Aki is a founder and the CTO of H1, a Finnish WordPress agency. His talk will be about Practical REST API.

There will be a very small amount (10 regular + 5 microsponsor) of new tickets available for WordCamp Finland 2016 tomorrow (Wednesday 9th March) morning at 10:00 am. If you didn’t get a ticket before, now’s your chance!

Update: tickets will be on sale here: https://2016.finland.wordcamp.org/tickets/