Category Archives: Speakers

Jamii Corley Vice President, Southwest Cyberport Newbie Session: A short, hands-on introduction to WordPress Newbie Track As a User/Designer, I’ve built our (SWCP’s) website and several customer websites using WordPress. As a developer, I’ve built a directory plugin for the SWCP … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Jamii Corley →

Elizabeth Urello Happiness Engineer, Automattic Strategy for Traffic Building for Beginning Bloggers (How to Win Friends and Avoid Making Enemies) Publisher/User track I’m a Happiness Engineer for Automattic and I write posts about blogging etiquette, traffic building, and WordPress.com features … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Elizabeth Urello →

Melissa J. White Owner, Blogshop World SEO for WordPress Sites: How To Find and Implement a Sweet Strategy for Getting Noticed Publisher/User track Melissa is the owner of BlogshopWorld.com, and presenter of  Blogshop Weekend™. She was the Blog Editor for the Santa … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Melissa J. White →

Drew Jaynes Web Engineer, 10up There’s a Filter for That Developer track I’ve been a full-time WordPress developer and designer since 2008 and PHP developer for 10 years. In 2010, I took a much more active role in the WordPress community, … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Drew Jaynes →

Daryl L. L. Houston Happiness Gardener, Automattic Anatomy of a VIP Code Review Developer track I work for Automattic, providing developer support for the wordpress.com support team. I know less about WordPress than you’d think.  Does Daryl look familiar? If you were at … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Daryl L. L. Houston →

Lauren MacEwen CEO, SM Cubed Consulting Blast Off Your Blog with Social Media! Publisher/User track Lauren MacEwen is a social media strategist, blogger and speaker on social media topics. She has a BA from Smith College and an MBA from ASU. Having … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Lauren MacEwen →

Chad Person Creative Director, @Pay Clean eCommerce Solutions for the Responsive Web Designer track Chad is a designer and front-end developer with 7+ years of WordPress experience. He currently leads the Creative and Marketing team at local financial start up … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Chad Person →

If you’re a designer, you might be partial to the “less is more” mantra. But if you’re attending WordCamp, “more is more.” As in: MORE SESSIONS. We just shortened all sessions to 45 minutes so we could fit another time … Continue reading More is more! →

Kristelle Siarza Online Account Executive, Garrity Group Public Relations The Importance of Social Integration into WordPress Publisher/User track Currently, I am a user/designer, using well developed themes and incorporating them into organizational communication goals. I have been maintaining and managing … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Kristelle Siarza →

Keya Horiuchi Designer, Ideas and Coffee, CoWorking Space WordPress and OpenSource Mapping Designer track We took a moment to chat with Keya and here is what she had to say: How did you get started with WordPress? I started tinkering … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Keya Horiuchi →