WordCamp Us 2017 is looking forward to having an amazing set of speakers on a wide-range of topics. Tell a friend and buy your ticket today.
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Here they are. Another round of our not-to-be-missed speakers. We will announce more speakers tomorrow. If you haven’t already, make sure you subscribe to this site (located at the bottom of this page) so you don’t miss future announcements.
Bianca Welds
Bianca lives in Kingston, Jamaica (though she’s been known to get restless and has lived in Belgium, USA, and Italy). Having studied technology at university, she now works in more general and project management areas, while freelancing through her WordPress consultancy, L’Attitude Studios.
Bianca has been using WordPress since 2005 when she set up her first personal web site. She decided to get more involved in the global WordPress community, including speaking and starting a local meetup. When she’s not working, you can find her playing steel pan, writing poetry, or salsa dancing.
Chris Teitzel
As a third-generation tech nerd, Chris has a passion for technology and its ability to create an impact on lives around the world. After graduating with a degree in Biology, he started Cellar Door Media to create the latest in mobile applications and websites for clients.
In the years since, it has taken him all over the world. He has worked with some of the largest enterprises, e-commerce in the emerging markets of Africa, and even aid work in Haiti and Washington DC. He was at the front lines of the responsive web by being involved in one of the largest themes in Drupal, has worked in both WordPress and Drupal to bring strong encryption to the systems, and recently launched a new startup Lockr to provide secrets management as a SaaS platform.
George Stephanis
George is one of the folks behind the Jetpack plugin, and is a frequent core contributor to the WordPress core software. He is also a regular on the WPWatercooler podcast, and a frequent WordCamp Speaker. Whilst not behind a computer, he enjoys making things from solder and wood.
Jason Bahl
Jason is a Senior WordPress Engineer at Digital First Media in Denver, CO where he works on large publishing sites that use WordPress such as DenverPost.com, OrangeCountyRegister.com and TwinCities.com. He is passionate about using WordPress in non-traditional ways. In fact, he first discovered (and fell in love with) WordPress in 2008 when he was trying to find a CMS to populate content in a Flash site. Within a year he was working full-time as a WordPress developer and hasn’t looked back.
Jason continues to use WordPress to populate interfaces outside of the WordPress stack, and maintain the WPGraphQL plugin to make it easier for everyone to use WordPress data outside of the traditional WordPress stack.
Sarah Benoit
Co-Founder and Lead Instructor for JB Media Institute, Sarah is an online marketing, SEO, keyword research, and social media strategist dedicated to making the field of internet marketing accessible and understandable to businesses and marketing professionals. She has worked in the internet marketing field since 2003 and began teaching and presenting on related topics in 2006.
Sarah provides timely, relevant, and engaging classes and seminars designed to help both advanced and beginner students expand their skills and gain a better understanding of the role websites and the internet play in business promotions, networking, and marketing. She has presented to groups, large and small, on referral marketing, WordPress, Google analytics, SEO, social media, personal branding, event promotions, and more. A business owner herself, she founded Creative Original, Inc., a small business web development, consulting, and training firm in Asheville, North Carolina.
Sarah is also an ongoing WordPress, SEO, Google Analytics, and social media instructor for A-B Tech Community College, the A-B Tech Small Business Incubator, and Asheville SCORE. She routinely presents at conferences throughout North Carolina and beyond including WordCamp Asheville, WordCamp San Diego, the Western Women’s Business Center Annual Conference, the Prospering Conference at the BRCC Small Business Center, and more.
I am so excited to be a part of WordCamp US. I look forward to meeting other WordPress enthusiasts and learning from the amazing people you are bringing to the stage.