Speakers

Aldrich Christopher

Webmaster Outreach Strategist

Aldrich Christopher is a Webmaster Outreach Strategist at Google Asia Pacific, helping webmasters across the region to create better content and websites. As the Webmaster Outreach Lead for Indonesia, Aldrich promotes best practices and high quality web ecosystem by equipping content creators and webmasters with relevant resources and dependable support. Prior to this, Aldrich was a Community Manager for an Indonesian crowdsourcing platform, inspiring creative personnel to create impactful and meaningful content.

romgapuz

A self-taught programmer, single-board tinkerer and someone who just love tech. Rom comes from a software engineering role before joining Amazon Web Services. He loves coding and currently enjoys Python. His passion for coding started at age 12 out of curiosity on how a game is made. Though the excitement of games brought him to the IT industry, he has never made one, but he is still hopeful.

Richard Neil Ilagan

Richard is a Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services (AWS), and has been a professional software developer since 2007. He loves technology, and does his best to keep on top of the latest and greatest. He also helps administer the Philippine Technology Hackers group at phackers.com.

He’s a frustrated blogger, because even though he loves to write, he finds extreme difficulty maintaining a blog.

In his spare time, he does photography, video game streaming, weightlifting, and playing the drums. He has a Legend-4 rank in Dota 2.

Ruel Nopal

Founder of RaketHostPH Inc.
A Website Builder and System Admin On-Demand Company.
7 years Full-Time Freelance Web Developer
Adept in WordPress and Ruby On Rails and Linux Server.
WordPress Theme and Plugin Developer
Maintain and plugin both free and paid plugin.

Co-Organizer of DigitalOcean User Group PH:Manila
Lead Organizer DigitalOcean Manila, A meetup group aims to promote collaboration and sharing of knowledge.

Co-Organizer of SoloPreneur PH
Solopreneur is a small meetup group where anyone can attend and can share knowledge or ideas about entrepreneurship those who already succeed share their journey so that those who are just starting will inspire.

A Self Taught Programmer
I never sleep at night without learning new things.

Giovanni Gerard A. Araque

A manager, engineer, statistician, photojournalist, mentor,& friend.

Educational Background:
•Doctor of Industrial Technology, Iloilo Science and Technology University (Completed 27 units, On-going)
•Master of Engineering, Western Institute of Technology, 2013
Thesis: Integrated Communications Technology: Its Application in the Development of a Community-
Based Flood Early Warning System
•B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Iloilo-PHINMA, (Units Only)
•B.S. Electronics and Communications Engineering, Central Philippine University, 2007
Thesis: SMS – Based Switching and Control for Electrical Appliances
•B.S. Major in Mathematics, Central Philippine University, 2005

Francis Al Victoriano

Chapter Leader at OWASP Panay, Chief Technology Officer at 8layer Technologies, Inc. and Co-Founder at Project Access Granted Society

attyjebs

Atty. Jocelle Batapa-Sigue is Co-Founder and Past President, and currently the Vice President of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP). In 2012, she pioneered the clustering of NICP and served as lead convenor of the Visayas ICT Cluster Organization (VICTOR). She was chosen as Asia Society Top Ten Philippines 21 Fellow in 2009 and Eisenhower Fellow of the Philippines for 2012. Last March 2014, she was named as Philippine Individual Contributor of the Year during the International ICT Awards given by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines. She served as city councilor of Bacolod for 9 years and founded the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology (BNEFIT) in 2008 . She chaired the NICP eGov Awards or the Awards for Excellence in ICT for Good Governance. She developed the Negros First CyberCentre and the first Technology Business Incubator (TBI) for tech startups in the province. In 2016, she founded the Philippine ICT Innovation Network which seeks to create platforms for all ICT champions to collaborate on seeking solutions and strategies for the Philippines to thrive in the digital age. Her passion is to help build ICT councils in the countryside as a venue for academe, government and industry to come together and develop strategies to generate ICT-enabled jobs and investments and drive innovation. In 2016, she was named as one of The Outstanding Women in Nation Service (TOWNS) awardee in the field of ICT.

Robert “Bob” Reyes

Robert ‘Bob’ Reyes is a Mozilla Rep and Reps Mentor based in Makati City, Philippines. He has been an active contributor to the Mozilla project in the area of localization since 2003. He has been representing the organization in the country since 2011 and has been twice elected to be part of the global organization’s leadership as a council member. Bob is now part of Mozilla’s Tech Speakers group, which aims to Increase developer awareness and adoption of the Web, Firefox, and Mozilla through a strong community-driven technical speaker development program. Bob is also a Technology Columnist for the Manila Bulletin and Team Manager for the grassroots football team SIPFC. He is a dad to Xeon and Haswell.

kitvalmadrid

Kit is the Community Manager of Philippine Web Designers Organization. She is also a Co-organizer of 2017 and 2018 WordCamp Manila. Currently, she is employed with Globe Telecom as Change & Training Management Expert.

JC Palmes

JC is a WordPress Developer and the current community lead of WordPress Iloilo and Coding Girls Iloilo. She is also co-organizer of WordCamp Iloilo 2018. She contributes to WordPress #Design on her spare time and pushes pixel and code poetry on a daily basis.

Twitter: @jpalmes

Website: https://khleomix.com/

joelsumadic

Joel Sumadic is the Chief Executive Officer of Virtual Byte IT Solutions a Iloilo based company.

His skills focused on Server, Network and System Administrations, Web and Software Development.

Joel is also a cyber security enthusiast which lead him to be one of advocate core member of Project Access Granted Society. He is also one of the volunteer of KALASAG Computer Emergency Response Team.

Twitter: @joelsumadic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joelsumadic
Website: https://virtualbytesolutions.com

Dreb Bits

Dreb Bitanghol is based in Davao, Philippines. He is currently a web engineer at 10up where he focuses on building and supporting enterprise WordPress powered websites. He’s a contributor in the community team of the WordPress project, and co-organizer of WordPress Davao.

Twitter: @drebbits

Website: https://wpdavao.org

lakshmananphp

Lax is a web developer, Open Source enthusiast, and lover of all things WordPress.

Lax has been tinkering with websites since high school but it all changed when he discovered WordPress in 2010. Lax and his team at Eternus Global specialize in WordPress to help businesses build their online presence.

When unplugged, he reads a lot and enjoys traveling around the Philippines.