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Aaron D. Campbell
Aaron is an international speaker, open source advocate, and outgoing introvert. He’s been a regular contributor to WordPress for more than a decade, and is currently Head of Product at A2 Hosting. His passion is helping companies work with the WordPress project to improve and support WordPress while providing better and more secure WordPress offerings to their customers.
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Aaron Reimann
Aaron is the owner of ClockworkWP. He has built sites for companies of all shapes and sizes, ranging from small nonprofits to Fortune 100 companies, since beginning his work with WordPress in 2008. An organizer for WordCamp Atlanta and the Atlanta WordPress Meetup, Aaron provides leadership and speaks regularly at events throughout the WordPress community.
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Aida Correa-Jackson
Aida Correa-Jackson is an accomplished multi-media artist who dedicates her work to uplifting individuals from diverse backgrounds through her artistic expression, writing, poetry, and creative endeavors. With her international recognition as a speaker and workshop facilitator, Aida brings a wealth of expertise to the WordPress space and beyond.
Drawing on her extensive experience, Aida actively fosters diversity, equity, and inclusivity at the intersection of art and technology. Currently serving as an instructor at Lenoir-Rhyne University, she imparts valuable knowledge on inclusivity, diversity, and equity for the web and various technological platforms, including the metaverse.
Aida shares a deep passion for technology, education, and creativity with her husband, William Jackson. Through educational workshops conducted both in-person and virtually, they strive to inspire youth, teens, young adults, and their parents by emphasizing the significance of STEM/STEAM careers.
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Alexis Soucie
Alexis Soucie has spent 10 years building with WordPress and have worked with small businesses, major brands, and everything in between. Based in Central Florida, she is also a YouTuber and trans rights advocate.
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Bobby Kircher
Bobby Kircher is the hands-on founder and CEO of Papaya Search, a digital marketing agency specializing in search engine optimization (SEO). With roots in web development, Bobby leveraged his knack for SEO and search advertising to launch and grow Papaya Search since 2004. Immersed in the latest SEO algorithm updates, tools, and techniques, he leads a team that helps businesses harness the power of search engines for growth.
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Chris Malone
Chris embarked on his web development journey in 2011, shortly after relocating to Ukraine with his family, where they serve as missionaries near Kyiv. His passion for the latest digital solutions, industry knowledge, and problem-solving skills led him to join Brilliant Web Works. There, for the past three years, he has served as both Client Success Manager and Web Developer. Chris’s unique life journey with his wife of 32 years, enriched by the joys and challenges of parenting nine wonderful children—five of whom have Down Syndrome—gives him a distinct perspective on adaptability, resilience, and persistence. He leverages his diverse experiences, both personally and professionally, to help clients be successful.
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Christian Taylor
Christian is a YouTuber, entrepreneur, and content creator from Nashville, TN. His primary YouTube channel, Craylor Made, features content about online tech, including WordPress. Christian is passionate about sharing honest and easy-to-digest info with his audience of over 35,000 subscribers. His channel has received over 5M lifetime views.
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Christine Laikind
Christine Laikind, freelance digital strategist and wordpress designer of professional websites for small business owners in the health and wellness, beauty sectors. She also works part time as Director of Client Services for ecommerce agency based out of New York.
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Damon Cook
Damon Cook is a Developer Advocate at WP Engine. Previously, he navigated the WordPress agency land for a decade. He is a purveyor and discoverer of musical frisson. He can be found in the realms of WordPress Slack, WooCommerce Slack, and Twitter.
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Dan Maccarone
For the past 20 years, Dan has been helping startups and media companies shape their online product strategy, including Foursquare, Rent The Runway, The Skimm, Blade and Skift. His experience also includes television, music and print media, and he has worked with The New York Times, CNN, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Newsweek, Gawker, Saturday Night Live, Universal Music and The Wall Street Journal. One of his most noted projects was creating the original strategy and user experience for Hulu. Prior to Charming Robot, Dan co-founded the design agency Hard Candy Shell. He is the host of the podcast Story in a Bottle and the author of Audible Original book The Barstool MBA. Dan received his Master’s Degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and his Bachelor of Arts from Colby College in English and Performing Arts.
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david wolfpaw
david wolfpaw (they/them) is a professional web developer focused on WordPress theme and plugin development. They emphasize helping small businesses, providing ongoing maintenance and support, and educating users through their service FixUpFox. david has been a proud and happy SiteGround client since 2013, and is a partner in the SiteGround WordPress Ambassador program.
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David Zimmerman
David Zimmerman has been consulting companies on their SEO strategies and tactics for over 15 years. He’s helped everyone from publicly-traded companies to mom-and-pop businesses. 8 years ago, David started his own SEO company in Charlotte, NC- Reliable Acorn, LLC. Recently he launched CuriousAnts.com, to share what he’s learned about SEO best-practices with others.
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Devin Sears
After giving up on his aspirations to play in the NBA, Devin has found his place in the marketing world. As the Field Marketing Manager of Bluehost, he travels the country in quest of the perfect milkshake while working with the WordPress community to help SMBs grow a successful online presence. In his free time he can be found in the middle of a marathon (Netflix, not running), cruising on his motorcycle, swinging from a hammock somewhere in nature, or playing ping-pong.
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Dustin Filippini
Dustin (Dusty) Filippini is a freelance full-stack developer specializing in WordPress. He first used WordPress in 2005 and later started working full-time with it developing websites starting in 2011. With experience in front-end, back-end, design, and project planning working on projects with clients ranging from small businesses, non-profits, education, and large corporate clients, his experience runs the gamut. Dustin lives in the great white north of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula near the shores of Lake Superior where he enjoys skiing in the winter and mountain biking during the summer.
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Jenny Munn
Jenny is an independent SEO Consultant and Strategist with over 13 years of experience in driving brand awareness, traffic, and conversions for organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to micro businesses. Jenny is on the faculty for the American Marketing Association, teaching SEO to marketers all around the country. Passionate about her field, she is also a frequent speaker at various digital marketing and industry organizations, such as WordCamp, PRSA, Business Marketing Association, EdNET, and NAIS.
Jenny has been providing training on AI and SEO to make sure marketers, agencies, and brands stay relevant, visible, and competitive. Check out her AI articles and SEO blogs at https://jennymunn.com/blog/.
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Jonathan Wold
I love WordPress and I’m focused on helping the WordPress ecosystem grow. My intention with the topics I speak on is to provide anchors and reference points to support the WordPress ecosystem, especially extenders. I’ve had the privilege of being full-time in the WordPress ecosystem for 18+ years.
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Josh Koenig
Josh Koenig is a Co-Founder of Pantheon, a platform for extraordinary websites with a mission to put the magic of the internet into everyone’s hands.
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Karena Kreger
The talk will be led by Karena Kreger of Open Sky Agency, a WordPress professional since 2009. Karena has successfully transitioned from freelance work to running a thriving micro-agency. With years of hands-on experience and a track record of satisfied, recurring clients and successful projects, Karena is passionate about supporting the many small agencies in the WordPress ecosystem.
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Karim Marucchi
Karim Marucchi, CEO of Crowd Favorite, has over 25+ years of experience in digital strategy and leading technology development teams. From opening one of Los Angeles’ first digital agencies, to leading global delivery teams within the WPP Group, to taking agencies public. His wealth of experience and expertise is in helping Brands across the globe create Open Source based digital architectural solutions in industries throughout media, technology, and manufacturing. He has led enterprise wide transformations for companies such as Disney, Nvidia, and Lexus that successfully integrate Open Source solutions that provide innovative digital marketing and decrease total cost of ownership. Along with Karim’s expertise in Digital transformations, his passion for supporting environmental education and empowering the next generation of change makers, has led him to several non-profit Board of Directors, including, and currently, the Captain Planet Foundation.
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Lehel Matyus
Lehel Matyus works as as Director, Front-End Engineering at Urban Insight inc. A top rated web agency based in Los Angeles, California that mostly serves non profits, universities and museums. Lehel has a passion for WordPress a deep love for the WordPress community and likes to share tips and tricks on his blog
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Luke Odom
Luke grew up on a small farm between Claxton and Glennville, Georgia. He has his BBA and MBA in Information Systems from Georgia Southern. He works at DreamHost as the Director of IT Operations where he has been for 13 years. He currently resides in Macon, GA with his wife and 4 kids.
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Marco Berrocal
I am a WordPress developer with over 13 years of experience and code and me, we are one. I love this. Still do after so many years.
Currently I work all over the world as a developer as well as with GreenGeeks teaching the WordPress ways to pretty much anybody!
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Matt Pritchett
Matt is a seasoned software engineer and co-owner of several notable digital solutions including SendWP, a trusted transactional email service tailored for WordPress sites, and Quillbee, an innovative AI-assisted writing tool. With 16 years of hands-on experience, Matthew combines deep technical expertise with a keen entrepreneurial spirit, consistently delivering tools that address genuine user needs.
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Matt Schwartz
Matt Schwartz is an accomplished entrepreneur and technology expert based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder of Inspry, a WordPress web development and e-commerce agency that has been providing reliable technology solutions to clients since 2011. With over a decade of experience in the industry, Matt is passionate about optimizing the processes behind web agencies, in turn creating higher quality websites that help clients achieve their business goals.
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Michele Butcher-Jones
Michele Butcher-Jones is a lover of all things Open Source, a WordPress Core Contributor, an international speaker, and an avid campaigner to leave the world in a better place. She has spent over a decade helping others with their online presence including site building, maintaining, hosting, and security. Michele spends her working time between agency support and higher education. She also runs her own WordPress shop at 13Core and is the Head Geek at Can’t Speak Geek.
Her passion for making the web a better place doesn’t stop there! She gives back to the community as a Meetup Organizer for St Louis and the Lead Organizer for the Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup. Michele is typically up for any type of contributing to the WordPress Community often as a speaker, volunteer, answering questions in the forums, and teaching WordPress to beginners.
Now that she is an empty nester, Michele is spending her time as a photographer, traveler, and collector of jewelry. She is currently working on her first book set to be completed in 2023, and is always down for an adventure, especially if it involves great food or drinks.
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Michelle Schulp Hunt
Michelle is an independent UX designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. She studied Visual Communications, Psychology and Sociology, branching into front-end development and user experience design as her career progressed. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design and development, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.
Now, she collaborates on projects with clients ranging in size from solopreneurs to enterprise. She loves the open source community, and when she is not pursuing professional, personal, or wellness goals, she enjoys giving back through speaking, writing, and connecting with others. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”
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Nathan Ingram
Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and business development topics via live webinar. He is also the creator of MonsterContracts, proven contracts for WordPress client work.
As the founder of >ADVANCE Coaching, Nathan is a Growth Coach for WordPress Business owners individually and in groups, helping them become more successful in their businesses.
Nathan has been working with clients to build websites since 1995. He is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he has been an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham (WP Y’all) for several years.
You can learn more about Nathan at https://nathaningram.com.
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Pat Ramsey
Pat Ramsey oversees all aspects of the technology group at Crowd Favorite as Director of Technology. He has worked with WordPress since 2004, using it as a publishing platform, marketing tool, and content management system in higher education, small-business, publishing, and enterprise spaces. Active in the Web and WordPress communities since 2005, Pat is one of the original organizers of the WordPress meetup in Austin, a tech community that has grown from a little over 200 members meeting once a month, to over 1700 members and three or four events a month. He’s also a core member of the web tech networking community, Refresh Austin and has been a trainer and advisor for Knowbility’s Accessible Internet Rallies and AccessU.
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Philip Levine
Philip Levine is the President / Owner of South Florida Web Advisors, Inc. Started in 2014 Philip has taken an HTML website agency to WordPress agency which Managed, Builds and Supports WordPress websites for both direct clients and other agencies. Philip has been doing website design and development since 1997 and been involved with various business operations since 2003
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Rachel Winchester
Rachel Winchester, or Win for short, is an independent product designer and startup founder who occasionally dabbles in internet art and other creative projects. Catch her hosting the Philly WordPress Meetup every month.
Win began her career by teaching herself digital marketing, participating in WordPress meetups, and creating arts-related websites for fun. She deepened her knowledge by completing a UX Design bootcamp while building websites for artists academics and entrepreneurs. Recently, she completed a contract with DigitalCube, working on their WordPress hosting products, client websites, and other initiatives for DC’s users and their communities. Drawing on her art history and interpretation studies at Swarthmore College, Win now runs Visual Webmaster L.L.C., a boutique internet art and product design consulting firm.
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Rob Pugh
Rob is the Marketing Lead for Jetpack. He has worked in marketing and product development for more than 15 years, primarily at Automattic, Mailchimp, and UPS. He thinks the best thing ever is delivering an aha moment through a product that solves a real problem.
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Shane Bader
Shane is the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Iceberg Web Design. He has been working in lead generation and digital marketing for more than 15 years. He has extensive experience with generating new business and promoting brand images in a multitude of industries.
Shane enjoys building relationships with business owners locally and nationwide. He helps them find the right website and digital marketing solutions to help them grow.
Shane graduated from the University of Iowa, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and Communication Studies. Shane was born in San Francisco, California and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Today, he lives in Fridley with his wife Britta, his daughter Adilyn and their dog Lenny. In his spare time, Shane enjoys mixing records, kickball, and fishing.
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Tricia Clements
Tricia Clements founded Your Biz Watchdog (https://yourbizwatchdog.com), a digital marketing agency focusing on Local SEO. She helps agencies add recurring revenue with White Label Google Business Profile (GBP) Services, formerly Google My Business. Due to the extensive work with GBP, she also offers GBP Fix It™ Services.
Tricia was an expert contributor to Whitespark’s 2023 Local Search Ranking Factors and is a regular speaker on the subject at various online and in-person conferences.
She has been involved in the WordPress community since 2012 and is a co-organizer of the Atlanta SEO for Local Businesses Meetup.
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Will Middleton
Will is a WordPress developer, specializing in funny photo edits, that started in WordPress at age 15 building very simple websites for personal online course projects. In his ventures, he learned the ins and outs of WordPress and building applications on top of the WordPress framework for online courses (LMS) and application-style interfaces built in WordPress. Will currently works at LifterLMS managing customer support & inbound sales. MagicWillMiddleton.com is his personal website.
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William Jackson
William has been a member of the WordPress community since 2010. He has participated as a volunteer, speaker, organizer, teacher with youth and teen camps.
William is a certified VR and STEAM+M Educator that has been involved in multiple levels of education from public to higher education. Even working for NASA as Educational Technology Advisor.
William is passionate about WordPress where he shares the platform and the community where ever he and his wife speak, teach and mentor.
They are not just local speakers (Jacksonville, Florida), but engage globally with their energetic excitement for multiple areas of technology and how there can be a blending and evolution to empower, inspire and excite people.
