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Samuel Snopko
Storyblok, Slovakia
Talk: By the Power of Headless!
Samuel is responsible for the developer relations at Storyblok. As the headless system's head of devrel, he spends most of his time buried in the documentation and creating various experiments and demos. He always defines himself as Creative FrontEnd Knight & DesignOps enthusiast with a passion for JAMStack and the beautiful web. As a determined community believer, he co-created multiple meetups and is always happy to help any community in need.

Matt Landers
WP Engine, USA
Talk: API-first Development with Headless WordPress
Matt Landers leads the DevRel team at WP Engine, after joining the company in 2019 as a Technical Architect who was (and still is) super passionate about headless. That passion ultimately played a major role in the release of Atlas, which pairs WP Engine’s industry-leading WordPress platform with Node.js hosting to enable headless solutions using modern frameworks and technologies like React, Vue, and more. Before joining WP Engine, he served as Technology Evangelist at Microsoft, where he educated developers on the advantages of adopting .NET and worked with Fortune 100 companies to build some of the largest enterprise systems as an Architect. Additionally, Matt founded Covalence, a coding bootcamp, channeling his passion for teaching developers.

Colby Fayock
Applitools, USA
Talk: Exploring the WordPress Graph with Next.js & WPGraphQL, Scaling WordPress with Next.js
Learning by doing is the best way to learn and it’s how Colby Fayock helps others learn about Javascript, React, and the static web. His work includes writing on freecodecamp.org, videos on YouTube, and courses on egghead.io as well as his first book 50 Projects for React & the Static Web.
Shedrack Akintayo
Software Developer, Developer Advocate, Technical Writer, Nigeria
Talk: Deploying a decoupled restaurant review site to production with Strapi and Platform.sh
Shedrack is a Developer Advocate and Technical Writer from Lagos, Nigeria. He loves community building, open source, and a has knack for improving developer experience of developer focused products.

Pablo Postigo
Frontity, Spain
Talk: Building React frontends for WordPress
Software Engineer, entrepreneur and foodie. Born and raised in Madrid, Spain. Pablo and his team are on a mission to make building delightful user experiences universally accessible. He founded Frontity in 2015, has raised 1.5M€ in funding and since June 2019, Frontity became a 100% open-source project after releasing their framework for building lighting sites using React and WordPress.

Chad Carlson
Platform.sh, USA
Talk: Deploying a decoupled restaurant review site to production with Strapi and Platform.sh
Chad Carlson manages the Developer Relations team at Platform.sh. Chad spent a large portion of his professional career in academia, where he worked primarily in vision science laboratories using Python to study the human visual system: how we detect motion, how we understand natural image statistics, and its evolutionary origins.
Today he can typically be found writing, cooking, or working on projects in Python, Node.js, Go, and whatever new language Platform.sh starts support for and wants another pair of eyes on.