Dave Ryan

Announcing Our Second Round of Speakers

Posted on December 12, 2018 December 12, 2018 by Dave Ryan

We’re thrilled to be offering two days of sessions with three tracks in addition to longer, deep-dive workshops at the Phoenix Convention Center in May. We’ll also be running a Contributor Day where anyone can get involved with contributing to the WordPress Project with code, design, writing, translation, marketing and more!

Make sure to get your tickets soon as this event frequently sells out!

Crystal Taggert

All About AI: Marketing Technologies in the 21st Century

Crystal Taggart is an entrepreneur and data scientist. She is the founder of Atlas AI, an Open Source marketing analytics platform that enables SMBs to leverage AI and analytics.

Chris Klosowski

Succeeding as a Remote Worker

Chris is a partner and lead developer at Sand Hills Development, creators of Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, Restrict Content Pro and others.

Machielle Thomas

Maximizing Your Business Impact by Choosing the Right Clients

Machielle is a Sr. WordPress Content Marketing Manager at Bluehost and freelance photographer based in Austin, TX.

Jocelyn Mozak

Building a Profitable WP Agency

Jocelyn Mozak has over a decade of experience building, running and wrangling a 6-Figure WordPress Website Design Agency all while having two boys at home under the age of thirteen.

Nathan Ingram

Dealing with Problem Clients – Fencing in the Friendly Monsters

Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.

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The WordCamp Phoenix Team

Announcing Our First Round of WordCamp Phoenix 2019 Speakers

Posted on November 30, 2018 November 30, 2018 by Dave Ryan

We’re excited to begin announcing our first round of speakers for WordCamp Phoenix 2019 in February!

Our schedule includes sessions for everyone — beginners, writers, digital creatives, developers and entrepreneurs. We’ll have three tracks of sessions plus workshops.

In this first round, we’ll be highlighting one of our workshop speakers and four of our speakers for the developer track.

There’s lots of exciting changes in WordPress Development in recent years and lots of cool new frontiers for WordPress code. These speakers will be teaching us to build WordPress blocks in React, create Amazon Alexa skills, modern PHP techniques, local development using containers and using GraphQL and Gatsby.js to build powerful, fast static sites.

Stay tuned, as we have dozens more speakers contact and announce over the next few weeks!

First Round: Developer Track

Zac Gordon

Workshop: Building Custom Blocks with React

Zac Gordon is a professional educator, with a current focus on JavaScript development with and alongside WordPress at javascriptforwp.com.

Pattie Reaves

Make your website talk: How to use WordPress to power an Alexa Skill

Pattie Reaves is a senior user experience developer at Alley Interactive. Her passion is building accessible, delightful, and beautiful experiences online.

Drew Jaynes

WordPress Development in a Modern PHP World

Drew Jaynes is a software architect at Sandhills Development, where he works on a variety of eCommerce products. He has been a WordPress Core Developer since 2013.

Maura Teal

Develop with Docker: Containers for Everyone!

Maura is a Software Engineer at Pagely and previously worked on scaling WordPress at Time, Inc.

Jason Bahl

Building Static Sites with WordPress, Gatsby and WPGraphQL

Jason is a Senior Web Engineer at Digital First Media in Denver, CO where he works on high-traffic, high-volume publishing websites built on WordPress.

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