YoastCon 2023

Jes is the Group Chief Marketing Officer at Swiss media giant Ringier, marketing technologist & mum of two tiny humans. She’s an entrepreneur at heart with a broad scope of experience in digital marketing, product ownership & international markets. Jes loves talking about the future of search, smart marketing automation and travel. 

Luke is a well-seasoned eCommerce consultant , eCommerce store founder and international speaker delivering double/triple-digit growth for eCommerce
brands. He parks himself right in the centre of CRO, sales growth and SEO. Having worked with brands spanning both D2C and B2B verticals including CAT, Renault and Schneider Electric, Luke knows a thing or two when it comes to getting C-suite buy-in and delivering smart, scalable eCommerce
growth.

Marieke is the Chief Growth Officer at Yoast. In this role she makes sure that all the ideas the team has are aligned, everyone keeps on track with their goals and that Yoast quickly adapts to changes within the ecosystems it operates in. She loves to come up with new ideas and products that help website owners with their SEO. Marieke focuses on growth in a healthy way!

Joost is the Founder of Yoast, Head of WordPress Strategy at Newfold Digital. He started the Yoast SEO plugin (one of the main products at Yoast) as a hobby, but this hobby quickly got out of hand and is now active on over 13 million websites. Joost is an internet entrepreneur with a background as an SEO, digital marketer and web developer. He founded Yoast in 2010 with the mission to allow as many people as possible to build a findable website.

Hannah is the Managing Director at digital marketing agency Verkeer. She has over eight years of experience having devised and managed a range of successful online campaigns for brands as LTA, Goodwin Procter, Moneycorp and Frasers Hospitality. Specialising in combining technical SEO tactics with content marketing delivery, Hannah is responsible for leading complex technical strategies through to creating innovative content campaigns that are underpinned by detailed search and audience data to drive positive ROI for her clients.

Chris is a public speaker, storyteller, blogger, coach and a product strategist. His motivation behind all of what he does is to help businesses grow. For more than fifteen years he’s been helping companies think about things differently. Chris always chooses the customized approach to growth above the routine “program” that everyone goes through.

Barry is an award-winning SEO consultant specialising in technical and editorial SEO for news publishers across the globe. He’s been building and ranking websites since 1998, and has worked with a wide range of clients from micro-businesses to the world’s largest media brands.

Miriam is Head of WordPress Relations at Elementor. Having been an active member and leader of the WordPress industry for over fifteen years, as a blogger, five-time WordCamp organizer, and frequent WordCamp speaker, Miriam founded a leading WordPress development agency in Israel. Subsequently, Miriam co-founded Strattic, which offers a headless and static way of hosting and deploying WordPress sites. Six months after Strattic was acquired by Elementor, Miriam transitioned into her current role and is excited to be a liaison between Elementor and the greater WordPress ecosystem.

Thierry is a Digital Wrangler writing code and architecting softwares for a decade. He is truly passionate about code quality, open source, community driven projects and building enterprise solutions. He spent a great part of his career building products and web solutions for WordPress as well as driving open source projects.

Jono is Head of SEO at Yoast. He’s a digital strategist, marketing technologist, and full stack developer. Over the years he has worked with startups, agencies, tool vendors, and some of the world’s biggest brands to fix websites, implement growth strategies, prepare for the future, and win markets. 

Kate is an award-winning digital marketing entrepreneur. An online business success story. A Google Beast tamer. Straight-talking copywriting coach. And a popular educator, speaker, author and podcaster. She’s a proud business misfit, a down to earth human on a mission: to demystify the realities of running a successful online business.

Thijs is the CEO of Yoast. With a background as a behavioural scientist, he’s interested in how people interact with products, services and how they view the Yoast brand as a whole. Thijs is an SEO enthusiast who thoroughly enjoys the impact Yoast and WordPress have on the (open) web.

Els is the co-founder of AGConsult, a Belgium-based conversion optimization and customer experience company. She has been creating better online experiences based on user research since 2001. She loves helping companies and organizations like Yoast, Carglass and Quick-Step to understand their customers better.

Greg is the Vice President of Search at SearchLab. He’s one of the most popular speakers in the SEO industry and presents all over the world on topics related to local SEO. Greg is an experienced local SEO consultant specializing in the automotive industry. An experienced conference speaker, his movie-themed slide decks are always audience favorites.

Yoasie is the mascot of Yoast. Yoasie loves nerding out on online training platforms, such as Yoast SEO academy. If you’re a Yoasie fan, you’ll be pleased to know they will be joining us at YoastCon 2023. If you’re lucky, Yoasie might even let you take a selfie with them!