We are excited to announce the next speaker at WordCamp Kochi 2019 \u2013 and that’s none other than Jack Lenox!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jack\u00a0is a Software Engineer on the WordPress VIP<\/a> team at Automattic<\/a>. He is very interested in environmental issues and is currently working towards an MSc in Sustainability and Behaviour Change. A parliamentary candidate for the Green Party of England and Wales, Jack is based out of Keswick, United Kingdom. Jack is also the point-person behind https:\/\/sustywp.com\/<\/a> which is a practical initiative to make WordPress websites faster and more sustainable. Check out Jack’s blog post <\/a> on the topic as well as the GitHub repo for Susty<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jack will be live-streaming<\/strong> his session and will introduce all of you on the topic – How better performing websites can help save the planet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The web has a dirty secret \u2014 its carbon footprint is larger than that of global air travel. The immense energy consumed by the Internet from non-renewable sources makes it the largest coal-fired machine on earth. Mozilla\u2019s 2018 Internet Health Report highlighted this growing problem and stated that sustainability should be a bigger priority for the industry. Jack will provide practical steps to reduce the environmental impact of our work and promote a better future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to help contribute to a sustainable environment with better performing websites? Come, attend WordCamp Kochi 2019 and listen to this amazing session from Jack! Get your tickets now<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are excited to announce the next speaker at WordCamp Kochi 2019 \u2013 and that’s none other than Jack Lenox! Jack\u00a0is a Software Engineer on the WordPress VIP team at Automattic. He is very interested in environmental issues and is currently working towards an MSc in Sustainability and Behaviour Change. A parliamentary candidate for the … Continue reading “Jack Lenox will talk about better performing websites can help save the planet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11524990,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,46],"tags":[47,48,83,42],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-speakers","tag-47","tag-kochi","tag-sustainability","tag-wordcamp-kochi-2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/files\/2019\/11\/banner_speaker_wide-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbiCVe-hV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11524990"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kochi.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}