Cowabunga! Our fifth round of speakers tell it like it is, sharing testing strategies and Google Analytics, and tackling topics on website scalability, benefits learned from listening to users, and code vulnerabilities. Just to shake things up, you’ll also see a session on life as a digital nomad. Score!
Additionally, if you’ve been thinking about adding a course to your repertoire, you won’t want to miss Zac Gordon’s, “100 Things to Know About Building, Selling and Supporting Online Courses and Content.”
These Round Five speakers will double dare you to consider your audience and scale carefully, tighten up your code, conquer reporting and testing fears, and travel while doing so! These sessions are pure class.
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Aaron Jorbin – Automated Tests: An investment strategy
Aaron is a polyhistoric man of the web who knows rabble-rousers get shit done. Currently, Aaron is the Director of Editorial Technology for Penske Media Corporation, where he supports the editorial and business teams on over 20 brands including Rolling Stone, Variety, and Footwear News. He is also a WordPress Core Committer that focuses on improving developer happiness and making the internet usable and enjoyable by everyone. He tweets at @aaronjorbin and writes regularly at daily.jorb.in.
Kimberly Lipari – Website Health, The Big Picture
Kimberly the CEO of Valet, the original WP Maintenance company. She has a background in Industrial Technology and found WordPress 10 years ago. Kimberly is a wife and mother of 3 living just outside of New Orleans LA.
Joshua & Micah Dailey – Listening Party! Podcasts and Multiplying Growth by Letting Others Talk
Micah and Josh Dailey are brand and content strategists based in Phoenix, AZ. With specialties in audio engineering and video production, Micah and Josh have been using WordPress since 2012 to share creative content for small local businesses, musicians, non-profit organizations, and large SaaS products alike. In their podcast, “Hello, WP!” Micah and Josh were commissioned by WPMU DEV to listen to and learn from professionals, critics and tech industry leaders about WordPress, including security experts, Google, and WordPress co-founder, Matt Mullenweg.
Ed Perry – Implementing and Understanding Google Analytics
Ed is the President and Founder of BEACON.agency, a digital agency based in Houston, TX that provides marketing, advertising, and technology products and services to small businesses across the country. Beacon specializes in helping local small businesses and e-commerce stores attract and convert more leads. We’re focused on relationship building with our clients and providing a data-first approach to decision making.
Outside of Beacon, Ed provides business and nonprofit consulting in the areas of business process, sales, marketing, and technology. He is an active outdoorsman and can often be found fishing, kayaking, and camping. He is a digital nomad and travels around North America by RV in search of beautiful sights and outdoor adventures. Ed is a philanthropist and serves on the board of several nonprofits and associations. He is a proud and active alumnus of the University of Miami and the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Chloe Chamberland – How to Succeed at Working Remotely as a Nomad
Trains, buses, planes, cars, cruise ships, parks… In today’s digital age, every single one of these places can be your office. Are you curious what it is like to work remotely while traveling the world? I am happy to share my experiences as I ventured off to China, Japan, Europe, and more over a 2 month span, in addition to many other adventures I have taken. If you have been provided with the opportunity to work from home I highly recommend taking the opportunity to travel while doing so. During this session you can learn tips and tricks that can help you start traveling the world today all while being successful at your day to day job, and learn why you HAVE to try it!
Zac Gordon – 100 Things to Know About Building, Selling and Supporting Online Courses and Content
Zac Gordon is a professional educator, with a current focus on JavaScript development with and alongside WordPress at javascriptforwp.com. Zac has years of experience teaching at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites like Treehouse, Udemy and Frontend Masters. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers. You can also catch his free Office Yoga sessions on OfficeYoga.tv.
Ramuel Gall – Shut the front door! – How to avoid the most common critical vulnerabilities when developing your plugin
Ram learned to use a computer keyboard around the same time he learned his ABC’s, and never really stopped. He’s spent the last 10 years tackling odd problems in IT-land, classifying and cleaning malware, and cobbling together tools to make life easier. Ram is a GIAC certified Web Application Penetration Tester and a member of the GIAC Advisory Board, and is currently leveraging his ability to break things (usually by accident) to help ensure that they work correctly for others. In his spare time he likes reading (mostly fiction), building odd electronic projects, tinkering with his car, and even going outside during the half of the year when Arizona is habitable.
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