{"id":338505,"date":"2014-02-17T17:33:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.miami.wordcamp.org\/?p=338505"},"modified":"2014-05-12T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:21:52","slug":"first-round-of-speakers-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/first-round-of-speakers-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"First Round of Speakers Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordCamp Miami is happy to announce the first wave of approved and confirmed speakers for 2014. We decided to announce some of our “out of town” speakers first. We will be announcing additional speakers – including a wave of local speakers – very soon. But for now we welcome…<\/p>\n

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Noel Tock<\/h2>\n
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Noel<\/a> is Swiss web guy that enjoys building solutions online. He is a Partner at Human Made, a top tier WordPress agency (and VIP Partner). As Chief Product Officer, he oversees the product portfolio and acts as liaison for the Swiss client market.<\/p>\n

He’s a jack of all trades, master of none, usually bouncing between project management and front-end development. The projects he enjoys working most on target small businesses and the long tail, democratizing opportunity so that smaller players have a shot at being successful online (happytables<\/a> & Clickbank Powered both being excellent examples).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chris Lema<\/h2>\n
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Chris Lema has been building web applications since 1995. He\u2019s also started and sold several software startups and has been coaching entrepreneurs for the last decade. He\u2019s the author of two eBooks on high performing and virtual teams and currently manages innovation and product development for Emphasys Software. A regular conference speaker, his blog (chrislema.com<\/a>) covers WordPress, Presentations & Coaching advice..<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mika Epstein<\/h2>\n
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Mika Ariela Epstein is better known as Ipstenu, the Half-Elf Support Rogue. Working for DreamHost, she solves any WordPress problem that comes up, and still finds time to slash unanswered WordPress.org forum threads by night and wrangle plugins by day. A self-taught guru on Multisite and .htaccess, she has a passion for writing and technology and blogs about them on her own site, as well as for DreamHost.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sarah Gooding<\/h2>\n
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Sarah Gooding is an Editorial Ninja at Audrey Capital. When not writing about WordPress, she enjoys baking, knitting, judging beer competitions and spending time with her Italian Greyhound. She also writes for the popular WordPress news blog WPTavern.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pippin Williamson<\/h2>\n
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If you are a WordPress plugin developer, you probably have used or seen one of Pippin\u2019s plugins. He\u2019s written more than 100 plugins (we are looking to see if he has a social life) He has spent a long time working on improving community involvement on projects by developers \/ designers. Not to mention contributing to the WordPress core and WordPress Codex. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rebecca Gill<\/h2>\n
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Rebecca Gill is founder of Michigan based Web Savvy Marketing – where graphic designers, WordPress coders, and SEO consultants are all rolled up into one. From stock Genesis themes and custom WordPress design to full blown website development with organic SEO, Rebecca and her team deliver websites fantastic web sites to satisifed clients.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WordCamp Miami is happy to announce the first wave of approved and confirmed speakers for 2014. We decided to announce some of our “out of town” speakers first. We will be announcing additional speakers – including a wave of local speakers – very soon. But for now we welcome… Noel Tock Noel is Swiss web … Continue reading First Round of Speakers Announced<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338505"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655710,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338505\/revisions\/655710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}