There are so many ways that people use and contribute to WordPress. Our aim is to find speakers that appeal to a wide range of interests. We will announce more speakers tomorrow, Friday, and then we’ll be back with a full week of announcements next week.
Have you checked out our GoWCUS Google Hangout? Each week we cover a different topic connected to WordCamp US. This Friday at 2:00 CT we will be talking about how to submit a great speaker pitch. We had over 500 submissions to speak at WCUS this year. Join us to find out what makes a pitch stand out.
Alain Schlesser
Alain is a freelance software engineer and WordPress consultant living in Germany.
He started out as a government agent working in prison administration in Luxembourg, and has recently made the switch to self-employment to enjoy productive work without the bureaucratic hurdles.
He has worked with numerous platforms and programming languages for the past 25 years, and is now trying to settle down on modern web development with the WordPress platform. He is passionate about software architecture and code quality, and he never misses an opportunity to share best practices.
He offers his WordPress services and expertise through his company Bright Nucleus, while you can catch some of his more personal ramblings at https://www.alainschlesser.com.
Brianna Privett
A passion for the web as a medium for art is the foundation for my twenty-year long career in web development and UX design. I’m the founder of TechnoSiren, and I help web users become web creators.
Francesca Marano
Francesca is a WordPress professional, author, and educator who makes WordPress things happen from Torino, Italy.
She is the founder of C+B, a blog for Italian female creative entrepreneurs, with an editorial staff of more than 50 professionals offering advice to women who work on their own. Additionally, Francesca is the author of 3 books for freelancers about business planning, productivity, and websites.
Francesca is a passionate speaker who can be found not only in Italy, but also around the world talking about WordPress, community, open source, women in tech, and small businesses.
K Adam White
K. Adam White is a senior web engineer in Boston, Massachusetts, where he writes complex web applications, contributes to open-source projects, and evangelizes the web as an open platform for technology and collaboration.
A veteran of the data visualization consultancy Bocoup, K. Adam is also an artist and enthusiast photographer, a WordPress core contributor, and the Design Lead for the WordPress REST API.
RC Lations
RC is the lead developer at the Institute for Nonprofit News, where he works to help others democratize publishing using WordPress.
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