{"id":2814,"date":"2017-02-06T04:35:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T04:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2017.miami.wordcamp.org\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2017-02-06T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:34:12","slug":"third-round-of-wordcamp-miami-speakers-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2017\/third-round-of-wordcamp-miami-speakers-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Round of WordCamp Miami Speakers Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordCamp Miami is happy to announce the third\u00a0wave of approved and confirmed speakers for WordCamp Miami 2017.<\/p>\n

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Syed Balkhi<\/h2>\n
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\"\"Syed Balkhi is an award winning young entrepreneur with several 7 figure online businesses. He was recognized as the top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by United Nations. His work has been featured in Forbes, Inc, Washington Post, FoxBusiness, Entrepreneur, Wired, and many top publications.<\/p>\n

In 2009, he created WPBeginner<\/a> which is now one of the largest free WordPress resource site on the web. In 2011, he created a site called List25<\/a>, an extremely popular site that within 3 months of launch was receiving 5 million page views per month. List25 has over 2.1 million subscribers and 470 Million video views on Youtube.<\/p>\n

Aside from these, Syed is also the founder of WPForms<\/a>, MonsterInsights<\/a>, Soliloquy<\/a>, and Envira Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Adam Soucie<\/h2>\n
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\"\"Adam Soucie<\/a> is a WordPress developer based in Orlando, FL. For the past two years, he has run Impossibly Creative, a WordPress-focused creative agency that specializes in Accessibility. Adam has participated on the core WordPress Accessibility Team and is also a member of the WordPress Orlando & WordCamp Orlando organizing teams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Carrie Dils<\/h2>\n
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Hailing from Fort Worth, Texas, Carrie Dils is a fixture in the WordPress community. In addition to helping organize her local WordCamp and meetups, Carrie enjoys attending and speaking at WordCamps around the US. For many years she\u2019s provided consulting and front-end development services as a freelancer and she now teaches others how to do the same through her courses at Lynda.com<\/span><\/a> and her book, Real World Freelancing<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pete Nelson<\/h2>\n
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\"\"Pete is a full-time senior web engineer with 10up. He\u2019s been working with WordPress the past 5+ years, but has been doing web development professionally since the mid 90s, and is the creator of baconipsum.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Carl Alexander<\/h2>\n
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Carl is a PHP developer from Montr\u00e9al, Canada. He lives and breath advanced programming topics (and memes). He shares a lot of my passion for those topics on my website where I publish articles on a regular basis. He has\u00a0been a\u00a0WordPress Montr\u00e9al organizer since 2010 and helps organize other WordPress events during the year.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Patrick Rauland<\/h2>\n
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\"\"Patrick Rauland is an e-commerce geek. He worked for WooCommerce as Product Manager and helped them to grow into the most popular e-commerce platform on the web. He now creates consults with WooCommerce as an e-commerce expert, he coaches companies on how to optimize their store, and he creates the e-commerce content for Lynda.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Christie Chirinos<\/h2>\n
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\"\"Christie Chirinos is a Partner in & the Business Manager at Caldera Labs, a WordPress plugin company. Caldera is the company led by Josh Pollock behind Caldera Forms, a leading drag-and-drop form builder for WordPress, and a handful of other free and premium plugins. She has been selling online since 2007, having worked on ecommerce sites, monetized blogs, technology strategy for nonprofit organizations, and now, digital downloads. Christie received her Master of Business Administration degree with a specialization in information systems management from Florida State University, and is currently based out of New York City.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Scott Mann<\/h2>\n
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\"\"Scott is the Creative Director and Founder of Highforge, a digital marketing agency founded in 2001 to build businesses online using WordPress, Drupal, and Shopify for professional services, technology and medical industries.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s an Emmy-winning commercial writer, an executive board member for a number of organizations in Orlando, an SEO specialist, a certified Google Adwords Partner (has been since 2002) and a community advocate in Orlando.<\/p>\n

In high school he worked as a tour guide at Disney where he learned deeply about creating customer-driven experiences.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a gamer, travel backpacker, chess player and he enjoys racquetball recklessly in his free time. He\u2019d also like you to check out www.BeTheMatch.org<\/a>, a non-profit organization that saves lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WordCamp Miami is happy to announce the third\u00a0wave of approved and confirmed speakers for WordCamp Miami 2017. Syed Balkhi Syed Balkhi is an award winning young entrepreneur with several 7 figure online businesses. He was recognized as the top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 30 by United Nations. His work has been featured in … <\/p>\n

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