{"id":3084,"date":"2017-09-12T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.us.wordcamp.org\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2017-09-12T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:31:08","slug":"wordcamp-us-2017-speakers-round-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wordcamp-us-2017-speakers-round-one\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp US 2017 Speakers: Round One"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Get<\/a>We had hundreds of amazing applications for WordCamp US this year. It’s clear that the WordPress community has lots of talented people who are passionate about sharing their experience with others.<\/p>\n

A huge thank you again to everyone who applied. WordCamp US would not be a reality without you.<\/p>\n

After we have announced all of our speakers, over the course of this week and next, we will launch the overall schedule so you can see the exact dates and times that each speaker is presenting, as well as full details about their talks.<\/p>\n

Without further ado, let’s hear it for the first round of WCUS 2017 speakers:<\/p>\n

\"\"Andrea Zoellner<\/a><\/h3>\n

Andrea is a freelance copywriter and digital content creator at Automattic. She trained as a broadcast journalist and worked in corporate communications before risking it all for a career in tech. Now she blogs and develops video tutorials for WordPress.com. She\u2019s also a WordCamp Montreal organizer. Andrea loves wordplay, coffee-shop-hopping, and blogging about how to pack the ultimate carry-on. When she\u2019s not at home in Montreal, Canada, she\u2019s sampling the digital nomad life and documenting her travels on her blog capsulesuitcase.com.<\/p>\n

\"\"Josh Pollock<\/a><\/h3>\n

Josh<\/a> is a WordPress developer and educator. He is Founder\/ Lead Developer\/ Space Astronaut Grade 3 for Caldera Labs<\/a>, makers of awesome WordPress tools including Caldera Forms<\/a> \u2014 a drag and drop, responsive WordPress form builder.<\/p>\n

Also, he is a WordPress core contributor, the author of two books about WordPress development and a member of The WPCrowd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Patrick Garman<\/a><\/h3>\n

Formerly a WooCommerce extension developer, WooCommerce Ninja at WooThemes, a developer at WebDevStudios & Maintainn, e-commerce specialist at ColourPop Cosmetics, and now Managing Partner at Mindsize… Patrick has a unique set of skills and experience in e-commerce, product development, enterprise WordPress development, and scaling of WordPress & WooCommerce.<\/p>\n

\"\"Susan Walker<\/a><\/h3>\n

Susan is the unofficial “Department of WordPress” at Rutgers-Camden, which hosts more than 200 sites in its multisite installations as well as a number of standalone sites. She develops plugins and themes, administers the WP ecosystem and manages web content and social media for OIT-Camden. She became a full-time university web developer in 2003 and joined Rutgers in 2011. Previously she was staff writer and city editor for a daily paper and later a public information officer. Susan is a graduate of Lamar University (mass communication) and the University of Oxford (computer science). She is a co-organizer of the Philly WordPress meetup and WordCamp Philly 2017.<\/p>\n

\"\"Tessa Kriesel<\/a><\/h3>\n

Agency and Community Engineer at Pantheon, Tessa has been a web developer for over 10 years. She enjoys front-end development but also loves to build sites from start to finish. She started in Joomla back when it was 1.0.x and worked her way into WordPress and Drupal about 7 years ago. She enjoys teaching others to code as well as speaking at conferences and youth events. Tessa is a northern Minnesota native, but now lives in the Twin Cities with her husband and four children \u2013 three boys and a baby girl. She loves dogs and enjoys helping local organizations rescue dogs in her free time.<\/p>\n

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Check back soon for the next round of speaker announcements! And if you haven’t yet, get a ticket to WordCamp US<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had hundreds of amazing applications for WordCamp US this year. It’s clear that the WordPress community has lots of talented people who are passionate about sharing their experience with others. A huge thank you again to everyone who applied. WordCamp US would not be a reality without you. After we have announced all of … <\/p>\n

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