Local team

Our team has many years of experience organising WordPress Meetup and WordCamp events in Switzerland.
Patricia and Silvan also have WordCamp Europe experience as organisers.

We are excited to present you our team for the Call for WordCamp Europe 2025 Host application.

Patricia Brun Torre

WordPress Geneva

Bio

World Citizen, community facilitator, connector and problem solver. I love WordCamps and the people of the community. Into – Science/Environment – Peace – Evolution – Humanism – Allyship to Minorities and under-represented groups – Authenticity – Kindness.
My goal is to give back to WordPress contributing to the Community & co-organising Geneva meetups & Swiss WordCamps and help everyone get their voice heard and promote global peace. → https://patriciabt.com/

Philipp Zeder

WordPress Basel

Bio

Being part of this thing called Internet for over 20 years now. Working with WordPress on a daily basis. Either as a Senior Customer Support Specialist or by creating content in WordPress for the company blog. I love to help people with their WordPress problems at work and in my free time. Co-organiser of the Basel WordPress Meetup group.

Michelle Bulloch

WordPress Lucerne

Bio

After studying music, Michelle became a journalist in a Geneva daily newspaper. The combination of writing and music gave her the idea to launch Musitext, a writing and translation agency specialising in the field of culture. Since 2014, she has participated in the Swiss WordCamps and was co-organizer of the WordCamp Genève 2022. She also organizes meetings in her culture lounge, where she regularly invites young artists to give public concerts

Claudio Rimann

WordPress Zürich

Bio

With a background in print and graphic design, Claudio fell in love with the web and its possibilities when he created his first WordPress site in 2007. Since then he co-founded and still runs a Design & WordPress agency, created a popular plugin for photographers, was the organizer of the first do_action day in Switzerland, co-organizer of many previous Swiss WordCamps as well as one of the organizers of the WordPress Zurich meetup group.

Pascal Birchler

WordPress Zurich

Bio

After building my first WordPress site when I was just 12 years old, I quickly fell in love with the community. Since then, I helped organize numerous WordCamps and meetups and have been contributing to WordPress itself in many other ways. I’m an active WordPress core committer and currently work at Google to contribute to the core performance team.

Nick Weisser

WordPress Zürich

Bio

Nick is very enthusiastic about open source Web2 and Web3 technologies. He’s been organizing meetups such as the Zürich WooCommerce meetup for many years and recently became co-organizer of the Zürich WordPress meetup. He also was the lead organizer of WordCamp Zürich 2019.

Nick is the founder of Openstream, a Web2 and Web3 agency based in Zürich where he regularly blogs about his favorite web technologies, both for users and developers.

Silvan Hagen

WordPress Zurich

Bio

Silvan has been using WordPress since 2006 and is an active member in the WordPress community. He helped organize numerous WordCamps and WordPress meetups. He co-founded and ran a remote WordPress and UX agency. He currently works as an independent digital consultant and web developer.

Gina Bialas

Gina Bialas

WordPress Basel

Bio

Senior technical support engineer with over 7 years of experience working with WordPress. Coding and troubleshooting as well as optimizing websites for a better and safer web experience. Usually fueled by coffee. Co-organizing the WordPress Meetup Basel.

Philippe Krebs

Philippe Krebs

WordPress Basel

Bio

I work on and in the internet for quite a while mainly creating and maintaining websites. As the co-founder of WordPress Basel meetup group I’m very passionate about WordPress and its community. I love teaching others how to use it and I can’t stop connecting dots between cultures, teams and people.