{"id":1197,"date":"2016-07-15T17:07:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T21:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1197"},"modified":"2016-08-03T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:13:34","slug":"tom-auger","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/tom-auger\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Auger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470232616773_8337\">Tom Auger is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Art &amp; Science (<a href=\"http:\/\/artscience.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/artscience.ca<\/a>), a Toronto-based experiential design agency located at the heart of the design and fashion district. Tom is a passionate advocate for designing user-centric interactions and experiences, and brings his 25 years of experience as a developer, designer and technologist to bear on projects ranging from deep WordPress customizations to interactive public experiences.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470232616773_8338\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470232616773_8339\">Tom is extremely embedded within the WordPress community both in Toronto and globally, having contributed to WordPress core development, participated in global summits, and co-organized the Toronto WordCamp conference for many years (including WCTO16). He is a speaker and an educator, most recently having taught a gamestorming-based Interaction Design course in Centennial College&#8217;s full-time Graphic Arts program. Tom is a struggling dad, a rabid fixed-gear urban cyclist and a failed concert pianist. You can hear his opinionated and expletive ramblings weekly on <a id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470232616773_8347\" href=\"https:\/\/blab.im\/agencychatshow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/blab.im\/agencychatshow<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Auger is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Art &amp; Science (http:\/\/artscience.ca), a Toronto-based experiential design agency located at the heart of the design and fashion district. Tom is a passionate advocate for designing user-centric interactions and experiences, and brings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/tom-auger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Tom Auger<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14937762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"tomauger","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-1197","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p789Km-jj","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c620085bab7facb2b4f0453557a40061ca04c34fa57e72e5acce4cf22504c44d?s=24&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c620085bab7facb2b4f0453557a40061ca04c34fa57e72e5acce4cf22504c44d?s=48&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c620085bab7facb2b4f0453557a40061ca04c34fa57e72e5acce4cf22504c44d?s=96&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c620085bab7facb2b4f0453557a40061ca04c34fa57e72e5acce4cf22504c44d?s=128&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c620085bab7facb2b4f0453557a40061ca04c34fa57e72e5acce4cf22504c44d?s=256&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c620085bab7facb2b4f0453557a40061ca04c34fa57e72e5acce4cf22504c44d?s=512&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14937762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1197\/revisions\/1810"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1816?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}