Author: David Bisset

Lenora is a creative unicorn who decided to merge her love for art, psychology, and technology into a lucrative career called User Experience Design. She attended the University of Florida and graduated (2014) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Family, Youth, and Community Sciences. She knew her degree did not reflect the traditional route toward a career in technology so she became a lifelong learner. With the use of Youtube, Udemy, and attending a coding boot camp (Wyncode Academy), Lenora was able to transition from a High School Math Teacher to a Product Designer. Currently, she’s one of the awesome designers disrupting the business VoIP world at IDT Corporation.

When she’s not at work, Lenora enjoys spending time in her community speaking about design, mentoring students, and inspiring future creatives. Lenora believes tech is much more colorful and artsy than it seems. Through her story, she hopes to shed light on the arts and its place in technology.

US Marine combat veteran turned digital marketer by prank calling Fidel Castro. Now he builds automated systems attracting customers predictably and profitably. (…and some say he’s dang good at it)

William Jackson graduated from South Carolina State University earning a Bachelor’s in Education degree, he furthered his education earning a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Webster University with a focus on Educational Technology, Social Media and STEM. William’s career involves past teaching with NASA as an Internet and Technology instructor, technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education and current Professor with Edward Waters College teaching Educational Technology, Social Media and STEM. He has been involved in the field of education over 25 years in elementary and higher education. William has been involved in blogging as a national and international writer. Writing in media in the United States, Europe and on the African continent. Using the #myquesttoteach as a foundation to share content that is diverse in the way information can be applied and integrated in many areas.

An employee at Awesome Motive, Keri is the Head of Content Marketing for OptinMonster, easyWPForms, & MonsterInsights.

My name is Nakeesha Charles. I was born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. I lived in Atlanta, Georgia for ten years. I completed my undergraduate degree in journalism at Georgia State University in 2004. I have lived in the greater Baltimore, Maryland area. I have been dumb struck in love with Miami since my first visit in 2000. I relocated to Florida in 2005.

I am a writer. I teach English.

I’m a studious and dedicated eCommerce and Digital Marketing Professional that develops and implements digital marketing strategies for organizations, ensuring their messages, products and services reach all the right targets.

Jesse Velez is founder and Lead Creative at WeDoInternet.net. He enjoys working with web technologies and has for over 15 years. He continues to enjoys creating websites and building them with WordPress for the past 5+ years. In addition, Jesse spends some of his time working with Non-Profits and Churches, helping them to either build or fine tune their websites (among other things).

Karla Campos is a famous Latina entrepreneur mom, influencer, and author. She is a technical founder with a passion for education, community, and making the world a better place.

Karla has been featured on Entrepreneur.com, Inc.com, NBC6, Telemundo, and several media outlets for her knowledge and work with moms, entrepreneurship, and education.Karla Founded the consulting and education company Social Media Sass, and the Entrepreneur Moms Club with the mission of helping moms through the journey of entrepreneurship.

Karla enjoys teaching, writing, and discussing business, marketing, social media, issues affecting women, startups, all things digital, entrepreneurship, economic development, life, people relations, news, tech and apps, trending topics, and life as a mom to boys.

Andreas first encountered Web Design back in Germany while taking Media Design classes where he learned HTML & CSS raw – no CMS, no aiding tools, just notepad and a cheat sheet of tags.

He moved to South Florida, US in 2012 where he became an IT Admin in 2013 and Webmaster by default at a small startup. This is when he used WordPress for the first time in a professional way. And from there on it was a deep dive journey straight into E-Commerce which is why he considers himself now an E-Commerce specialist and knowing his way around Google Analytics to make sales happen.

He works full-time at a local business in West Palm Beach while freelancing on the side, allowing him to maximize his knowledge and make the dreams of others come true by creating their web presences and e-commerce channels.

Anthony is a brand-builder and spends his time building brands for people, programs, and organizations. He founded and currently directs the FIU Master of Science in Marketing program, the only one in the world with a three-part focus on Digital Marketing, Brand Development, and Marketing Analytics. He leads FIU’s Marketing and Logistics department, and was recently appointed as the college’s Executive Director of Marketing and Analytics. Online, you can connect with him on LinkedIn, follow him on Twitter (@SensibleFolk), and catch his weekly YouTube #MarketingMinute videos (be sure to subscribe). Anthony’s a firm believer in people, truly constructive feedback, and the value of tangible results. If you cross paths with him at the conference, ask him when he’ll help you build your brand (for free of course).

Dr. Nancy Richmond is a professor and leading speaker in social media, personal branding and marketing. Her passion is to empower and train leaders in effectively leveraging social media for their careers and business. She teaches social media classes for the College of Business and is the co-founder of the Social Media Association at Florida International University

Dr. Richmond has worked with leading universities including MIT, Harvard University, Florida International University and Northeastern University.

Nancy has a passion for social media with over 80,000+ followers on Twitter, 5,000+ connections on LinkedIn and 7,000+ followers on Instagram. Nancy’s most recent project and research #LeadersGetSocial explores how leaders can use social media to succeed in their careers and organizations.

Mark is a Sales Manager at Avalara, a company that works within your own financial, billing, ecommerce, or point of sale system to deliver accurate tax calculations in real time via a secure Internet connection.