WCUT2017 Speakers Round 5

Well, this is our final speaker announcement: Yvette Sonneveld, Chathu Vishwajith, Marieke van de Rakt and Thomas Maier. A great thank you for all the other applicants who didn’t make it through our selection procedure. We’re now working on the schedule which we intend to present you this weekend! Meanwhile, go get yourself a ticket! Only €40.

Yvette Sonneveld

Yvette Sonneveld trains, coaches & consult business owners and professionals, like you, but mainly in the financial services and real estate industry in building a magnetic online presence (also called Inbound Marketing). I help you define a marketing strategy that energizes you instead of one that wears you out. We will accomplish that by defining ideal client profiles (buyer persona). These are the clients that you, with your unique combination of personality and expertise, are best suited to serve. After all, don’t we all prefer to work with people who appreciate us for who we are as a person and what we bring to the table as a professional? By telling us so and by paying us well and promptly? Next, we’ll select and plan only those marketing activities that you’ll enjoy and that you’ll almost do effortlessly or those that are easily outsourced. We’ll mainly create and promote content that shows your buyer persona that you get where they are now, that you’re well qualified to help them reach their goals or solve their problems and that you’re fun to work with. The result will be more exposure, leads, clients, and revenue.
Connect with her on her website, inboundmarketingbliss.com, or connect with her on social media, like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or Slack.

Chathu Vishwajith

I work as the Co-Founder of Genius Soft Pvt Ltd and Auth0 Ambassador.
I like contributing to the community. I currently act as Co-Organizer of Colombo JS Meetup and Organizer of Sri Lanka Unity Developers User Group.
I lead two teams of my startup who are working on Full stack development and WordPress services.
I started using WordPress in 2008 and created my first live Sinhala WordPress blog in 2009 (Domain is now expired so that site is no longer exists.). After some time I founded a start-up with my schoolmates which had WordPress Web Site Development as one of its services. I have done more than 20 WordPress websites, custom themes, and plugins for local and international clients. I learned hard way the Art of hardening the WordPress. Earlier stage I had several security-related problems and I managed to overcome them by learning. I have experienced and handled massive DDOS attacks.

Marieke van de Rakt

I studied Sociology and Communication Sciences at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. I obtained my PhD in Social Sciences in January 2011. Since then, I worked as a researcher as well as a teacher at multiple universities. Since the beginning of Yoast, I have been involved in the company. As of September 2013, I gave up my position at the university and decided to focus solely on my activities at Yoast.

I am now one of the partners at Yoast. Together with Joost, Michiel and Omar, I run Yoast. My main focus is on Academy; I develop products that help people to set up their own SEO strategy. I write blog posts, eBooks and develop online courses. My expertise is on SEO copywriting and site structure.

I’m married to Joost de Valk and we have four amazing children together.

Thomas Maier

I am working with WordPress since 2010 after finishing my studies of history. First I needed a website for my business then, then I started a blog, finally started coding, was a freelance backend developer for some time, a publisher for even more time and now run a company where we manage our sites and also have a premium WordPress plugin (Advanced Ads).

Check out our previous speaker announcements:

Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 and Round 4