Speaker Spotlight: Chris Wiegman

Chris is an Senior Software Engineer at WP Engine who has been working with WordPress since 2008. He built one of the largest security plugins on WordPress.org, WordPress plugins and themes, Google Chrome extensions, WordPress development environments and solutions for sites large and small. When not writing code, Chris, a teacher at heart, has presented sessions, workshops and keynote addresses at numerous WordCamps and other conferences as well as taught computer security for St. Edward’s University plus other university courses ranging from computers to aviation.

Chris will be speaking at 3:30pm on Saturday, July 13th in the Rideau room. His talk is entitled, Privacy Tech for Everyone: How to Improve the Privacy of Your Site for You and Your Users.

By now we’ve all heard of how important privacy is on the web. As site owners we have the responsibility of protecting both our own privacy and the privacy of our users. This talk will cover basic technologies to improve the privacy of your WordPress site as well as how to address topics of privacy above and beyond the security protections you’re already implementing.

Published by Miriam Goldman

WordPress Developer, Architect, and Tech Lead. WordCamp Ottawa and WordPress Ottawa meetup co-organizer. WordCamp speaker. Karate sensei, and percussionist.

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