DrupalCamp Johannesburg 2015 Speaker Announcement

Hello All

Just a few days to go to DrupalCamp Johannesburg 2015 and we have some exciting speakers lined up for the event.

Remember, attendance to Drupal Camp Johannesburg is FREE and registration takes place on Meetup.com, so book your place now.

THE AGENDA

The agenda for Saturday, 28 March 2015 is as follows:

MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Read up more about the respective speakers.

Renate Ehlers
Renate started web design and -development in 2014 following a career in the hospitality industry. She got introduced to Drupal when her company wanted to expand their services offered to include responsive design and Content Management Systems. She joined the user group and regularly attends meet-ups. She has been elected to serve on the DASA board as Vice Chairman for the 2014/2015 term.

Greg McKeen
Greg McKeen has been an active member of the Drupal Johannesburg community since 2007. Out of high school, he first worked with Burtronix and later joined Telamenta as a Drupal Developer, Programmer and Project Manager. Since 2012, he has been the Managing Director of Telamenta. In 2013, the Drupal Association South Africa was established, and Greg was elected to be the Boards first Chairman. In 2014, he was voted onto the Board by the Public, and accepted the role of Secretary.

Kamlan Naidoo
Kamlan is a results-oriented ICT Services Business Development Manager with 10+ years of expertise supporting services operations for turnaround and high-growth organisations. He has extensive expertise in client needs analysis, solution selling and has a consultative approach to services and application sales. He has had repeated success guiding, cross-functional teams in the design, re-design and launch of leading edge-technology solutions. Kamlan is a technologist at heart and loves creating solutions using technology, if needed, to make seemingly impossible activities, possible. I am also a generalist in practice, with a broad range of experience and knowledge that support his day to day workings.

Riaan Burger
Riaan works at Burtronix, developing internet-based solutions for our clients. In the '90s he taught secondary, then tertiary computer science, then opened a hand full of unconventional underground nightclubs across Johannesburg and finally, in the 2000s focused more on developing Burtronix, started in '96 as an internet software firm. He believes in the fundamental rights to freedom and privacy of all individuals.

Gregory Gerhardt
Gregory Gerhardt is the founder and Chairman of Amazee Labs, a Drupal Agency operating from Zurich, Switzerland and Texas, USA. He has recently relocated Noordhoek, Cape Town, and is spending the main junk of his day playing with his two sons, walking his dog, surfing and studeer Afrikaans.

Robin Prieschl
I'm the founder and managing director of Robboto, a creative agency with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. I started my Drupal journey with version 5 while with my previous company. After realising the potential of Drupal I decided in 2010 to form Robboto and focus solely on using Drupal for all our web development projects. I am passionate about creating solutions that not only work well but also look great by putting a lot of attention on the design and user experience.

Michael Schmid
I joined Amazee in 2009, at the time, a startup founded around a product, which I would help grow into a new business model. We relaunched as Amazee Labs. At the time there were only 6 employees with myself one of the only two developers. Today I’m the CTO, member of the board and shareholder of Amazee Labs Zurich. We are 20 employees and build Drupal sites for international clients.

Look forward to seeing you all at the event.