{"id":2254,"date":"2018-02-01T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.miami.wordcamp.org\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:56:11","slug":"wordcamp-miami-speakers-round-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wordcamp-miami-speakers-round-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"WordCamp Miami Speakers: Round Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.miami.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/02\/8th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/02\/8th.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/02\/8th-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/02\/8th-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/02\/8th-417x300.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Miami is happy to announce the eighth round confirmed speakers and panelists for WordCamp Miami 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker\">\n<h2>Georgina Lewis<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker-description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b17a84f4e47bf123b8cd1bdf4cf6e78c?s=80&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Georgina is the Chief Executive Officer at Shazzam Media, a Branding and Marketing company offering innovative leading-edge solutions. She is a leader in SEO services, industry analytics, social media ecosystem strategies, building trendy websites and storefront eCommerce solutions for over a decade. She is a speaker at WBO groups, Meetups and Wordcamps in Florida, an active organizer, and sponsor at Wordcamp Jax. As a previous IBM VAR business owner, Georgina is a consummate professional! When she\u2019s not working, she is spending time with her husband and 4 kids, or traveling the world with their oldest daughter, a professional golfer on the world&#8217;s leading tour, the LPGA .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker\">\n<h2>Sze Liu<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker-description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b16eb8d8654a1599f0c2a88ed67314df?s=80&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Miami speaker for a third time, Sze has been speaking at WordCamp Miami, WebCongress and other conferences focused around E-commerce and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). She has been a WordPress designer and developer since she started her first web and marketing company in 2010. Since then, Sze has become a WooCommerce expert and launched many WordPress websites specifically with E-commerce solutions for myriad of clients. In 2017, she co-founded WM.Digital, a creative agency based here in Miami focusing on bringing the best in online experiences and interfaces for clients focused on all things digital. Prior to starting her own companies, Sze had worked for Fortune 500 companies in strategy and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Sze holds a B.S. in Marketing and International Business from Florida Atlantic University, as well as an MBA from University of Miami.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker\">\n<h2>Natalia Real<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker-description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d1d0545b7b45adcebe5d84092ace5d00?s=80&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Natalia Real started building websites on WordPress in 2012 and has been learning nonstop ever since. She&#8217;s a Web Designer\/Developer-turned-Digital Strategist at <a href=\"https:\/\/website-superhero.com\">Website Superhero<\/a> and loves using technology to help make the world a better place.<\/p>\n<p>Nat&#8217;s career path has taken her from copywriting and WordPress maintenance and optimization, to content marketing, team management, and SEO. She&#8217;s passionate about meditation, psychology, mountains, and bad puns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker\">\n<h2>Alejandro Sanchez<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker-description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s.gravatar.com\/avatar\/40a7257932de02349a18ca5febaffe06?s=80&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Alejandro Sanchez, its a Computer Science Engineer that has been coding websites since he was 13 years old, currently a founder and Managing Director at 4Geeks Academy a Miami based coding school with advanced courses in WordPress, React and other technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Before the coding academy, Alejandro founded and managed 4Geeks, a software development company with operations in 4 countries in Latin America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker\">\n<h2>Zac Gordon<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker-description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s.gravatar.com\/avatar\/de0a01122ca4a619004332ab04431b7b?s=80&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Zac Gordon is a professional educator, with a current focus on JavaScript development with and alongside WordPress.  Zac has years of experience teaching at and developing curriculum for high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites like Treehouse, Udemy and Frontend Masters.  In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world\u2019s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker\">\n<h2>Chris Lema<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker-description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s.gravatar.com\/avatar\/282d599b414022eba5096510f675b6e2?s=80&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chris Lema is Vice President of Products &amp; Innovation at Liquid Web, a blogger (at <a href=\"http:\/\/chrislema.com\">chrislema.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/leaders.blog\">leaders.blog<\/a>), the author of several ebooks and a public speaker. He loves to tell stories &#8211; helping people learn how to leverage technology for their business and personal use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker\">\n<h2>Pascal Depuhl<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker-description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc30cc40a2d4b01f93ffaf19a44df8df;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pascal Depuhl is a visual content creator at Photography by Depuhl, a Miami-based production company. He\u2019s been capturing still images for over 25 years and even though he got into video only 5 years ago, you\u2019ll find his award-winning and mind changing videos on National Geographic, Netflix, the BBC and many of his clients&#8217; websites. It\u2019s common to find him in the mountains of Afghanistan or the jungles of South America and it\u2019s just as common to walk away from one of his short documentary style films with your mind blown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker\">\n<h2>Jean Felisme<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wcmia-speaker-description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-100 photo alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c1aa4193160f228452a50a2c30046095?s=80&amp;r=g\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jean Felisme has been a builder of things on the web for 10 plus years, as a freelancer and entrepreneur. He fell into WordPress back in 2008 and has never looked back. Now, he is a co-founder of RateMyBarber.com and a teacher of web development skills to students of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>Father of two sugar filled girls and husband of a very forgiving wife. Best friend to the Stewmister, Miniature Schnauzer, that always has his back. He is also a big Football fan and music lover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordCamp Miami is happy to announce the eighth round confirmed speakers and panelists for WordCamp Miami 2018. Georgina Lewis Georgina is the Chief Executive Officer at Shazzam Media, a Branding and Marketing company offering innovative leading-edge solutions. She is a leader in SEO services, industry analytics, social media ecosystem strategies, building trendy websites and storefront &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wordcamp-miami-speakers-round-eight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordCamp Miami Speakers: Round Eight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[352076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9i5nN-Am","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miami.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}