Day Camp 4 Developers #2 – Speakers

Jack Ford

Spent the first 20+ years making the world a better place by coding in the insurance, financial, telephone, ecommerce and health care industries before moving on to managing developers for the last 4. Lives in Nashville and is enjoying his second childhood ever since the kids have all grown and moved out!

Avdi Grimm

Husband, father, software cultivator, and amateur community builder, Avdi has been leading and participating in dispersed software development teams since 2007. He works from home in Southern Pennsylvania, and loves the fact that working remotely enables him to
spend more time with his wife and four children

Ivo Jansch

Ivo is an evangelist of PHP technology in professional and enterprise environments. He is the author of the books php/architect’s Guide to Enterprise PHP Development and ‘php|architect’s Guide to Cloud Computing’ and a member of the Zend PHP 5.3 Certification Advisory Board. When he’s not writing, tweeting or coaching developers, he can be found coding on a variety of projects, or speaking at various conferences. After a 10 year career as the CTO of Ibuildings, one of the PHP companies in Europe, Ivo is now the founder of Egeniq, a new startup dealing with mobile technology.

Lorna Jane Mitchell

Lorna is one of the leading lights of the European PHP community. She has a number of years of experience in building and architecting professional web applications for a variety of clients and working with individuals and teams to improve their skills. She currently consults on a wide range of PHP related topics, in specialist technical areas including web services but also more community focused activities such as building and nurturing developer communities around products or companies such as Ibuildings’ techPortal.

Ligaya Turmelle

Ligaya Turmelle is a full time Goddess, part time MySQL DBA, occasional PHP programmer, and obsessive world traveler. She currently has visited or lived in 18 countries* and now resides in Florida with her husband, daughter and their 2 Belgian Malinois. While working as a MySQL Support Engineer for Oracle, she still manages to stay actively involved with the PHP Community as a founding Principle of phpwomen.org, administrator at codewalkers.com, blogger and long-time busy body of the PHPCommunity channel (#phpc) on freenode. She hopes to one day actually meet all the people she talks to. Now for all the letters – ZCE (PHP4&5), CMDBA, CMDEV and MySQL Core.

* US (20+ states including Hawaii and Alaska), Mexico, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, China, Australia, Guam, Siapan, Italy, Corsica, UAE, Bahrain, Vatican City