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Aaron D. Campbell
Aaron is an international speaker, open source advocate, and outgoing introvert. He’s been a regular contributor to WordPress for more than a decade, and is currently employed by GoDaddy as the head of WordPress core and ecosystem. He has over eighteen years of web development experience and worked with clients ranging from small local businesses to Google, Yahoo, Disney, and Harvard. He’s been called both a coffee snob and a beer snob, but considers both to be compliments. When not buried in code, he enjoys spending time with his wife and son, riding his motorcycle, and reading scifi/fantasy books.
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AJ Morris
AJ Morris is the Product Innovation and Marketing Manager for iThemes, a WordPress plugin and training company that helps businesses, bloggers, and freelancers protect their investments in their sites. He spends most of his time helping store or site builders solve challenging problems through online education and consulting with businesses build digital storefronts.
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Andrea Zoellner
Andrea is the Chief Content Creator at SiteGround and the lead organizer for WordCamp Montreal. She trained as a broadcast journalist and worked in corporate communications before trading it for a career in tech. Now, she spends her days developing brand messaging, copy editing, and blogging. When she’s not at home in Montreal, Canada, she’s sampling the digital nomad life and documenting her adventures on her travel blog capsulesuitcase.com.
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Annie Anderson
Annie Anderson is a graphic/web designer and business and productivity strategist with 25 years experience in the design industry. Annie has been “playing around” with WordPress since approximately 2006 and enjoys building simple, yet powerful websites for a variety of clients. She also enjoys building course and membership site type websites using WP.
When not “hacking”, she enjoys music, concerts, beach walking, hiking, reading, and creating. Annie is mom of 4 amazing kiddos and lives in Snohomish County with her family.
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Annie LaCroix
Annie LaCroix works with very small businesses to enhance organization and manage time. If you read her full bio you’d quickly see how she has become qualified to do so; from starting and managing an innovative massage school, to running her consulting business, and completing Master’s of Science in Functional Medicine…all while maintaining her hobbies and her sanity. She loves to travel, listening to audiobooks, cooking very unhealthy desserts, and drinking wine.
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Bob Dunn
Bob, aka BobWP ran a successful marketing company for 17 years and started using WordPress in 2007. Since then he has taught thousands of users, wrote hundreds of posts and focused on WordPress through his brand, BobWP. Currently he runs four WordPress sites that focus on podcasting, eCommerce and WooCommerce. He also hosts two podcasts: WP eCommerce Show and Podcasting with WordPress. He cohosts a third podcast on WooCommerce, Do the Woo Podcast. Bob lives on the Washington coast with Judy and their cat, Chester.
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Brett Dunst
A passionate communications strategist and fierce branding advocate, Brett Dunst believes that a brand’s unique voice and tone can often be its most valuable differentiator in a crowded marketplace. Having managed marketing, corporate communications, press/analyst relations, and more at DreamHost for nearly two decades, Brett is passionate about brand storytelling.Brett currently serves as Vice President of Corporate Communications at DreamHost where he oversees communication strategy and public policy.
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Bruce Chamoff
Bruce Chamoff has been a web developer for over 24 years and has worked on over 1,000 websites. He has worked on WordPress since 2006 building themes and plugins for Fortune 500 companies as well as mom and pop shops. His Udemy courses have taught WordPress development to web designers in over 150 countries as he loves to teach!
He has worked on websites for the Radio City Rockettes in New York City as well as National Enquirer, OK, Star, and Soap Opera Digest. In his spare time, he performs with this band and is a dedicated father.
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Chip Edwards
Chip is a partner at CreateMyVoice.com helping content producers engage their audience on Smart Speakers like Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Chip is a teacher, speaker, and technologist who is passionate about connecting WordPress content to the new Voice Technology platforms.
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Chris Van Patten
Chris Van Patten is a technical team lead at Meredith, WordPress core contributor, and magazine nerd. He has spoken at WordPress events in Barcelona, Boston, Houston, Toronto, and many other cities around the world. Chris writes at chrisvanpatten.com, and tweets as @ChrisVanPatten.
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Chris Wiegman
Chris is a Senior Software Engineer at WP Engine and has been working with WordPress since for over a decade. During that time he built one of the largest WordPress security plugins as well as various plugins and themes for clients of all sizes, Google Chrome extensions and even WordPress development environments. A teacher at heart, Chris has spoken at numerous WordCamps and other conferences as well as taught both computer science and aviation for universities throughout the US.
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Desiree Johnson
Desiree is a passionate writer and storyteller who advocates for diverse and multiracial audiences. She currently works as a WordPress Content Specialist for Bluehost and enjoys all facets of WordPress. You can catch her front and center for a weekend movie or sweating it out at the gym.
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Greg Bueno
Greg Bueno is a WordPress Engineer on the support desk of Forum One Communications, a digital agency based in Alexandria, Virginia with an office in Seattle. He has worked as a PHP developer since 2000, with a focus on WordPress since 2012. He maintains the weblog Musicwhore.org and has released music under the names Eponymous 4 and Empty Ensemble. His violin lessons are not going well.
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Gregory Collins
Gregory Collins grew up in Seattle and built his first website as a cadet at West Point in 1999. He graduated from West Point in 2002 and was commissioned as an intelligence officer. Unfortunately, his army career ended when he was badly wounded in an ordnance accident in Iraq in 2003. By 2015, his career had made a complete about-face, realizing success by helping small business build their sites in WordPress, and driving traffic to them through effective search engine optimization.
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Jennifer Taylor
With nearly a decade of Project Management experience, Jen loves to organize and plan all the things. As the Marketing Project Manager at Bluehost, she’s always on the lookout for opportunities to improve or create a process when managing and executing her projects. When she’s not herding cats, aka managing her projects, she’s always down for a good bowl of homemade macncheese, riding her bike, or just being outside in nature (with her dogs). Jen lives and plays in Austin, TX
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Jocelyn Mozak
Jocelyn Mozak has over a decade of experience building, running and wrangling a 6-Figure WordPress Website Design Agency all while having two boys at home. In addition to running her Agency, Jocelyn is a mentor & coach to other WordPress professionals helping them to build businesses that support the life they desire.
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Kathy Zant
Kathy Zant is a seasoned digital executive with over 20 years of web development experience for companies large and small. She’s been using WordPress for over a decade. For the last 3+ years, she’s been a security analyst for Wordfence, developing services for WordPress users to better understand and manage their site security. She is a cohost of the Think Like a Hacker podcast covering WordPress, security and innovation.
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Kelli Wise
Kelli Wise is a WordPress web designer and educator working to help small business owners and nonprofits be successful on the web. She is active in her local WordPress community and a regular speaker at meetups and WordCamps. Before becoming a web developer, Kelli was an electrical engineer designing hardware for computers. In her spare time, she plays music, designs quilts, and hikes. You can find her on twitter @kelliawise.
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Lucy Beer
Born in Manchester, England, now living in Los Angeles, Lucy Beer has been using WordPress since 2004. About 10 years ago, she started teaching people how to create and maintain their WordPress sites by offering 1/1 and group training services. She’s spoken at numerous WordCamps and meetups over the years and enjoys the opportunity to give something back to the WordPress community. In 2014, she began providing customer support for WP Rocket, a premium caching plugin. When she’s not reading up on web performance, she enjoys translating technical topics into understandable concepts, drinking coffee, playing football and learning the drums. Check out her blog at https://webtrainingwheels.com!
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Matt Kopala
Matt is the founder of SiteDistrict, a powerful & flexible WordPress hosting platform. He has a degree in Computer Engineering, and started off his professional career as a member of the design team for AMD’s first 64bit processor. Matt is passionate about understanding and helping people solve technical problems. He feels that WordPress hosts should do as much as possible to provide good performance, security, and automation, so that you can focus on your business while your host takes care of the rest. He enjoys travel and previously spent 3.5 years backpacking nonstop across South America, Oceania, and Asia.
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Nathan Ingram
Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.As the founder of >ADVANCE Coaching, Nathan works with WordPress solopreneurs and business owners individually and in groups to help them become more successful in their businesses.Nathan has been working with clients to build websites since 1995. He is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he has been an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham (WP Y’all) for several years.You can learn more about Nathan at https://nathaningram.com.
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Nick Smith
Nick Smith is a digital communications expert with over 13 years of telling captivating stories that connect the people behind brands with the people they serve. From content design and production to digital strategy and web design, he’s helped Fortune 500 companies and small businesses craft authentic human-to-human connections. Nick believes that everybody has a story to tell, and he wants to give them the tools and guidance to produce their best work.
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Nile Flores
Nile Flores is a long time WordPress designer and Developer. While she grew up a military brat, she’s settled in the St. Louis metro east region. Nile blogs at Blondish.net, where she covers topics on WordPress, Blogging, SEO, Social Media, and Web Design. Nile also works as an Infection Cleanup Specialist at WP Fix It, and a regular contributor to the GoDaddy blog.
She also loves contributing to WordPress, and that includes speaking at WordCamps across the United States. She loves helping people and supporting Open Source projects. When Nile isn’t knee deep in coding and design, she’s spending time with her son, who is also a WordPress user.
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Patty O’Hara
Patty O’Hara has a master’s degree in Human Centered Design and Engineering and over ten years of experience building and managing websites and web-based applications. She is currently working as a freelance web developer, designing/developing sites primarily in WordPress, under the name Carkeek Studios. Her current client list includes many local nonprofit and environmental organizations. When she’s not coding, Patty spends her time learning and creating new things, like getting involved with the local WordPress community and learning to play the accordion.
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Rhonda Negard
Rhonda Negard is the alpha dog of Fat Dog Creatives, formerly in Tacoma, WA and now in San Antonio, TX. She helps move you from great potential to real success with scalable website design and branding poised for growth at any stage. She has a master’s degree in Communications, where she researched the effects of color on memory and continues to work and study other ways design assists memory for her clients and Fat Dog Creatives.
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Rob Taylor
Rob Taylor is the founder of 2TravelDads, the original LGBT Family Travel blog. Focusing on ecotourism and education, 2TravelDads inspires LGBT families (and traditional families also) to go beyond their usual getaways and use travel to learn about and be part of a bigger world. “Traveling the globe and giving the kids a broad worldview.”
Rob considers being a travel blogger to be one of the most fortunate jobs on earth. The experience of exploring, particularly with kids, and then sharing authentic stories and recommendations is a privilege and a joy.Favorite topics and destinations include: America’s National Parks, LGBT friendly destinations, education on the road, and anywhere nature, culture and fun are mixed together.
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Robbin Block
When she’s not on the tennis court, Robbin spends the rest of her time as a Creative Marketing Strategist at Blockbeta Marketing. She’s been working with emerging, small and corporate clients for 30+ years. She’s an author, speaker and marketing consultant originally from New York, which means she gets right to the point. Like that or not, with a BA in Economics and an MBA, Robbin can clearly see the big picture to position her clients correctly and identify the prioritized marketing actions needed to get results.
November 9th – 10th, 2019
