Chill out, listen, and learn from our third round of speakers! These WordPress experts are prepping to get personal with stories, process, and experience that deserve mad props. Feel me? Plus, sessions on Gutenberg, Cypress and hooks will have the developer in you crunk.
Round Three speakers are keepin’ it real, challenging you to think differently and possibly say, “Hasta la vista, baby,” to some of your current processes. On the real, you won’t want to miss these O.G. speakers!
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Chris Klosowski – From Maker to Manager: Lessons learned while transitioning my role
Chris is a Partner and the CTO at Sandhills Development, LLC, the creators of plugins like Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, Restrict Content Pro, and others. When he’s not busy helping build products to help your business, you can find him with his family, brewing beer, or tinkering around with something computer related.
Maura Teal – The Self-Documenting Developer
Maura is a Software Developer at Pagely and previously developed for WordPress at scale at a large media company. She is an open source and emoji enthusiast, and is a firm believer that speaking about —and sharing— life experiences (both failures and successes) builds lasting connections.
Michelle Schulp – Rethinking Themes: Embracing Atomic Design With Gutenberg
Michelle is an independent graphic designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.
Now, she collaborates on projects with clients ranging from solopreneurs to enterprise. She loves the open source community, and when she is not working on projects she speaks/volunteers/organizes at events and workshops around the country. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”
Rich Tabor – Designing & Building Gutenberg Blocks
As a WordPress entrepreneur, designer and developer all wrapped up in one, Rich Tabor is recognized as one of the top leaders in this post-Gutenberg era of WordPress. His ever-precise design chops have topped the 2018 Automattic Design Awards and led him to co-found CoBlocks, a top-notch set of page builder blocks and tools for Gutenberg, and ThemeBeans – a premier WordPress theme shop.
In early 2019, Rich sold CoBlocks, ThemeBeans, and Block Gallery to GoDaddy and joined the team as the Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience. Day in and day out, he focuses on making a real difference on how millions of folks use WordPress everyday on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress platform and beyond.
Aida Marie Correa – Panelist on Hero Panel
Aida is a modern-day renaissance woman who brings her love of teaching and creative background together to help women live more inspired lives. She is now a coach for women looking to reboot their lives, either by living more creatively or by starting new businesses. She is especially known for being an artist with a passion for her AfroLatinx culture, a floral designer, a speaker, and a writer. She is currently a Ford VIP Experiential Blogger and is a published author.
Aida regularly teaches kids at STEAM workshops and speaks at WordCamps and community events locally, nationally and internationally. Besides speaking on blogging, inclusivity, and the overall fun of WordCamps, Aida is an Organizer at WordCamp Jacksonville and loves to volunteer at any WordCamps she attends, especially at KidsCamps!
When she is not traveling or getting into shenanigans with her honey, she enjoys downtime at home, scrolling through Pinterest, hanging out at Starbucks or enjoying a crafty activity. She also has a thing for wapuu.
Micah Wood – Cypress Testing and WordPress
A professional WordPress developer for over a decade, Micah has worked on sites for Fortune 100 companies, has released over a dozen WordPress plugins, is a frequent speaker at WordCamps, is a WordCamp Atlanta organizer, is a co-host on the WP Square One podcast, and shares his knowledge by blogging on WordPress development topics. Currently, Micah works at Bluehost and spends most of his time contributing back to WordPress.
Marco Berrocal – Hook into WordPress hooks!
Hello! I am a WordPress developer with over 10 years of experience out of San Jose, Costa Rica. I am extremely passionate about contributing with fellow WordPress maniacs both at home (which I help organize) and abroad in Latin America.
My field of work is design and front end development. I love what I do and when I am not coding I am all about my kids, food and travel.
John has been building things on the internet for over 2 decades. He found WordPress in the summer of 2003 and has been fully immersed in it ever since. John was the organizer of the first WordCamp conference in Las Vegas in 2009 and has been involved with organizing it (almost) every year since. John has a passion for teaching others to use WordPress. He founded and organizes the monthly Las Vegas WordPress meetup where he’s a frequent presenter and has traveled the country speaking at WordPress conferences from coast-to-coast.
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