Author: David Ryan

Some years our WordCamp has a theme, but this year is all about celebrating Phoenix — our thriving tech community and our entrepreneurial, collaborative spirit! Our sponsors are financial partners who make our nonprofit event affordable and feasible, but they’re also our partners in education and keeping our community strong.

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We’re so grateful for Jetpack’s support of WordCamp Phoenix this year!

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Some years our WordCamp has a theme, but this year is all about celebrating Phoenix — our thriving tech community and our entrepreneurial, collaborative spirit! Our sponsors are financial partners who make our nonprofit event affordable and feasible, but they’re also our partners in community education and in many cases are members of our local community.

No matter what you do online today, security is paramount and SiteLock is a global leader in website security and monitoring headquartered in Scottsdale. Founded in 2008, SiteLock provides active protection and peace of mind to over eight million customers worldwide.

SiteLock’s industry-leading tools will scan your code, monitor for malicious traffic and accelerate reliable delivery with a CDN. They bring powerful security and speed to WordPress sites through an easy-to-use plugin and their staff are important partners in security education for the global WordPress community. Here in Phoenix, SiteLock generously sponsors the highly popular Northwest Valley Arizona WordPress Meetup.

SiteLock are longtime supporters of WordCamp Phoenix and our tech community — you might have picked up an awesome SiteLock desert Wapuu at last year’s camp — and azcentral named SiteLock one of the best places to work in Greater Phoenix in 2017, an accolade they’ve earned from numerous area publications over the years.

We’re proud and grateful SiteLock is one of our community partners for WordCamp Phoenix! In addition to providing world-class active security, they provide ongoing support and education to the greater Phoenix and WordPress communities.

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Some years our WordCamp has a theme, but this year is all about celebrating Phoenix — our thriving tech community and our entrepreneurial, collaborative spirit! Our sponsors are financial partners who make our nonprofit event affordable and feasible, but they’re also our partners in community education and in many cases are members of our local community.

Anyone who’s been around the Phoenix tech community can tell you what an amazing, longtime partner GoDaddy has been here in Phoenix and in the global WordPress community.

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GoDaddy is a giant global company with over 17 million customers worldwide, supporting WordPress sites and hosting 71 million domain names. With Arizona headquarters here in Scottsdale and other offices around Greater Phoenix, including a state-of-the-art 270,000-square-foot data warehouse just down the street from Galvanize, GoDaddy has helped put Phoenix on the map as a web hosting city. In addition GoDaddy plays a critical role in supporting WordPress security, development and learning as a global sponsor of WordCamps and full-time WordPress Core Contributors.

GoDaddy has supported everything from Phoenix-area meetups, WordCamp Phoenix’s past and helped countless Phoenix-area businesses host websites for decades. If you don’t recognize them from brilliant presentations and volunteering at local events, you may recognize some of their other viral lessons and mentoring of entrepreneurs on ABC’s Funderdome. They’re great neighbors and we’re grateful for their support.

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We’re thrilled to announce Rachel Cherry, a senior software engineer at Disney and champion for web accessibility and WordPress in higher education will keynote WordCamp Phoenix on Saturday, October 29.

Rachel will be sharing: “In praise of the side project: How to learn new skills, make money, and have a little fun.”

“Many great projects, products, and companies have grown out of side projects or hobbies,” wrote Cherry. “Apple, Twitter, and even Gmail exist because someone dedicated their spare time to testing the waters.”

By day Rachel and her team build beautiful, immersive and inviting digital experiences for Disney brands. Prior to that she created websites in higher education and is the Founder & Director of WPCampus. Rachel is also a longtime organizer of educational, collaborative technology groups and active in the WordPress community.

We’re so happy to welcome Rachel to the WordCamp Phoenix stage — keep an eye out for the full speaker lineup soon!

The WordCamp Phoenix Team