{"id":3867,"date":"2017-09-26T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=3867"},"modified":"2017-09-24T19:48:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T23:48:04","slug":"mike-pun-featured-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/mike-pun-featured-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pun &#8211; Featured Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4cccf53b95a8796c1a1742f70a62470348dc2e6081f69083ef5c4562f44c57d2?s=150&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4cccf53b95a8796c1a1742f70a62470348dc2e6081f69083ef5c4562f44c57d2?s=300&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-150 photo' height='150' width='150' \/>Mike Pun is one of our local speakers. He is also responsible for the digital platform we&#8217;re using at WordCamp this year. Mike is speaking <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.toronto.wordcamp.org\/session\/extinction-of-local-business\/\">Saturday morning in Room 147<\/a>. His topic is about the coming extinction of the local business. Let&#8217;s get to know him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am a technologist and product builder who has done work for large and small companies. Technology is my passion. Right now I am alarmed at the changes that technology is bringing, and the way it will hurt local businesses<\/p>\n<p>My presentation talks about how new technologies will be impacting local businesses in the very near future. How many small business could well be extinct if not prepared. We discuss how local businesses can act to protect themselves better, and how they can join communities to work together.<\/p>\n<p>This is an important and timely issue. Local businesses need to face up to this issue really really really soon.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is great place to live and work. It has a great variety of businesses and opportunities, and lots of people who want to make things happen.<\/p>\n<p>You can connect with Mike through his <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/mike-pun\/\">speaker profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Make sure you have your <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.toronto.wordcamp.org\/tickets\">ticket to #WCTO<\/a> before they sell out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Pun is one of our local speakers. He is also responsible for the digital platform we&#8217;re using at WordCamp this year. Mike is speaking Saturday morning in Room 147. His topic is about the coming extinction of the local business. Let&#8217;s get to know him&#8230; I am a technologist and product builder who has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/mike-pun-featured-speaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mike Pun &#8211; Featured Speaker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14630375,"featured_media":0,"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":[18001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speaker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p837Y2-10n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions\/3868"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/conradhallauthor"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}