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Announcing Our First Round of WordCamp Phoenix 2019 Speakers

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 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Maura Teal

Develop with Docker: Containers for Everyone!

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

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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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The WordCamp Phoenix Team

Speaker Selection Update

The WordCamp Phoenix team is working on reviewing a record number of speaker applications for next year’s WordCamp Phoenix in February.

We’re hoping to start announcing speakers before the end of the year and are so grateful to the Arizona and greater WordPress community for their interest in sharing their gifts.


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