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Speaker: Adii Pienaar

adiiJoining us from South Africa is WooThemes co-founder and serial entrepreneur, Adii Pienaar. Adii first starting working with WordPress in 2006, when he was better known as “Adii Rockstar”. Thereafter he co-founded WooThemes, served as CEO and helped grow one of the biggest WordPress companies around. Since then, he’s retired from being a rockstar, become a father, and recently launched his latest venture; Public Beta.

Adii will be sharing some of the lessons he has learned from running one of the most popular theme shops around, in his presentation “Lessons Learned from Being First.”

Over the last 5 years, WooThemes have been early “pioneers” at many things that have happened within the WordPress ecosystem. Many times though, this also meant that Woo were the first to make some massive mistakes, because nobody else taught us which mistakes to avoid. This presentation shares some of the key learnings that have helped us navigate this rocky road in the last 5 years.

Speaker: Scott Basgaard

scott-basgaard Scott Basgaard lives somewhere in the mountains of beautiful Southern Norway. Born and raised in New Jersey, he moved there to live with his wife Renate. He loves all things WordPress and organized the first WordCamp Norway in 2012. Scott makes a living under his alter ego, Scotty B, who is a Support Ninja over at WooThemes specializing in WooCommerce. He’s passionate about helping others and recently organized a 24-hour-long WordPress event, which was free for community, called WordSesh.

Scott will talk about “the importance of delivering happiness to your customers and users”.

In this presentation, I’ll discuss growing and building business through customer service and discuss some tools to use along the way.

I’ll also touch on the importance of helping in the WordPress community as well, as a way of giving back and its value to both you as an individual and whatever team you are a part of.