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Announcing our Final Round of Speakers

Posted on by Dave Ryan

In a little over a month, some of the best and brightest in the WordPress community will be descending on Downtown Phoenix for WordCamp Phoenix 2019!

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 February. 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!

Dwayne McDaniel

Nobody wants a website. They want results!

Dwayne has been working in tech and open source since 2005. Once he dipped a tow into the world of Free and Open Source Software, he knew never wanted to work outside of it again. As a Developer Advocate at Pantheon he has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland and from MIT and Stanford.

Cory Crowley

Better Debugging for Better Troubleshooting

Cory is a Partner and Lead Developer at Fly Plugins, a WordPress plugin company that develops WP Courseware, S3 Media Maestro, and Churnly.

David Blackmon

Over the Shoulder Email Marketing

David is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aspen Grove Studios, a WordPress product development company. We create products for WordPress, Divi and WooComerce. I also share my passion as co-host of WP the Podcast and Divi Chat.

Joe A. Simpson Jr.

90 Days: Finding Your Place in the WordPress Community

Joe A. Simpson, Jr. is a Front-End Web Developer and Graphic Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. During sun-soaked days he works at a top-five transit agency, fighting the good fight to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County.

Travis Balinas

5 Ecommerce Trends to Implement Now

Travis is the the Director of Product Marketing at BigCommerce, leading the Commerce-as-a-Service initiative for their platform, focused on delivering headless commerce to WordPress.

Patrick Rauland

10 Things I Learned After Launching My First eCommerce Store

Patrick Rauland is an eCommerce Educator & Entrepreneur. He’s written books, created video courses for LinkedIn Learning, he helped run WooConf all three years, and he’s the co-founder of WooSesh.

Announcing our Eighth Round of Speakers

Posted on by Dave Ryan

In a little over a month, some of the best and brightest in the WordPress community will be descending on Downtown Phoenix for WordCamp Phoenix 2019!

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 February. 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!

Pam Aungst

⚡️ Killer Keywords: How to Write Content for Both Humans and Search Engines

Pam is the owner of Pam Ann Marketing and Stealth™ Search and Analytics. Both specialize in SEO, PPC, and Analytics. She is a passionate advocate of WordPress and regularly gives talks at WordCamps around the country about SEO, Google Analytics, and business topics.

Aaron Edwards

Introduction to WordPress Multisite

CTO of WPMU DEV (140+ premium plugins, services, and support) and Edublogs (hosting 3 million+ education blogs), managing a team of 30 developers and sysadmins around the globe. cloud architect and WordPress plugin developer specializing in Multisite for 10 years, working from home in Dallas. Proud father of 3 and a world travel nut.

Art Enke

Technical SEO for eCommerce & Large WordPress Sites

A digital marketing professional with substantial in-house and agency SEO experience. Art has lead multiple SEO teams and works directly with Fortune-500 brands and high-growth accounts.

Michael Hunter

Panel: Growth & Scaling

Today, Michael is focused on building software and educational tools to help people increase their income, and make a bigger impact in the world. Over the past 3 years, Michael has worked on a software company called Spiffy, that has helped influencers, and small business owners collect over $200M in sales.

Mike Jones

Panel: Growth & Scaling

Remarkable brands require authenticity and a die-hard commitment to values & purpose. Mike passionately preaches these beliefs as Co-host on AZ Brandcast and pursues them with clients as the Managing Partner of Resound – an Arizona brand agency.

Aaron D. Campbell

⚡️ Succeeding as an Introvert

Aaron is the WordPress Security Team lead, has been a regular contributor to WordPress for more than a decade, and is currently funded by GoDaddy to work full time on the WordPress open source project.