WordCamp Miami is happy to announce the seventh round confirmed speakers and panelists for WordCamp Miami 2018.
Annejeanette Washington
Annejeanette M. Washington is a dedicated educator and professor in Broward County, Florida for the past 25 years. A graduate of The University of Miami and Nova Southeastern University, she shares her passion for educational technology teaching her students WordPress, Microsoft Office 365, Canvas, Edmodo and other LMS platforms. Most notably, Annejeanette uses WordPress to spotlight STEM trends and empowering mothers. Annejeanette has presented at local, state, and international platforms notably Edu-Match Podcasts.
In addition to teaching, Annejeanette is a conference speaker, photographer, website designer, social media blogger, and community servant. She volunteers with Dare to Care Outreach, Black Girls Code Miami Chapter, The National Alliance of Black School Educators- Broward County Chapter, DadsBeonDuty.com, and The Faith Center Ministries Women and Youth Department just to name a few.
Jayda Washington-Boothe
Jayda Washington-Boothe is a 4th grade Honor-Roll Student at Manatee Bay Elementary. This is her 2nd year at WordCamp Miami 2018. The experiences she gained at last year’s event has thrusted her into the local, state, and national spotlight as a girl who loves STEM. Currently, she is learning more features in WordPress, and continues using Microsoft Office 365 ‘s SWAY, Minecraft, Code.org. and was introduced to the MIT AI2 App Companion.
Jayda is a member of Black Girls Code- Miami Chapter, Manatee Bay Elementary Student Council Secretary and the US Track and Field Association. She volunteers at Dare to Care Outreach, The Faith Center Ministries Youth Department, The Mayors Chess Challenge of Broward County, and loves dancing Hip-Hop! Her future career path is to become an engineer.
Rian Kinney
Rian Kinney, founder of The Kinney Firm, is a licensed Florida attorney, legal consultant and author; with experience in market and business strategy. In the spirit of the open source community, she wants to take the mystery and FUD out of CYA’ing your site and contracts. Today her firm represents and advises founders and businesses of every size, across industries in the areas of corporate formation, copyright, trademark, e-commerce, as well as strategy and long-term planning.
Andrew Norcross
Andrew (or Norcross, as most know him) is a Senior Engineer and Developer Advocate at Liquid Web, focusing on internal product development and being a voice inside the WP community itself.
Victor Santoyo
Victor is an Account Executive for Sucuri. A technology enthusiast focused on expanding his knowledge of online security. When away from the keyboard, going out for long runs or watching sports with his family.
Adam Warner
Adam W. Warner discovered WordPress in 2005 and has been working within the community ever since. To feed his entrepreneurial spirit, he founded several WordPress-focused businesses that provide education, plugins and consulting services for online business owners.
He is a true WordPress Evangelist in spirit and personality, and that happens to have been his job title when joining SiteLock.com. Today, he’s the Open Source Community Manager there, continuing to bring his experience and knowledge of the web, business, and security to many other communities.
Adam is also passionate about his family, robots, and of course Life, the Universe and Everything.
Beka Rice
Beka Rice is the Head of Product at Jilt, where they focus on helping merchants increase revenue through automated lifecycle emails. Jilt’s goal is to level the playing field for e-commerce growth by taking enterprise-level tools and strategies, and making them available to any merchant.
Jilt is built by SkyVerge, the top WooCommerce.com extension provider, and maker behind some of the most popular extensions, such as WooCommerce Memberships.
When she’s not keyboard-punching, Beka enjoys hiking, reading, and playing music.
Patrick Alexander
Patrick Alexander is the founder of WPBICO, an all in one WordPress platform which provides every tool (domain,email,theme,hosting, plugins & training) required for a WP website at one affordable price. An avid WordPress enthusiast and lover of all things tech, Patrick has devoted himself to the tech industry for over 15 years gaining extensive experience in Programming, Web Development, System Administration and Technician; and a resume with related positions in the U.S military, Universities and several Internet Start Ups. He is also Professor at MiamiDade College and the founder of www.balambico.co, www.wpbico.com and www.collegepaperreview.com.