Chris has a passion for technology and its ability to create an impact on lives around the world. He’s driven by simplifying website security and privacy, working in both WordPress and Drupal to further core privacy initiatives. Recently he’s been appointed to advise the Department of Homeland Security on privacy matters, worked with US/EU Trans-Atlantic Privacy Initiatives, and helped form the new Cross-CMS Privacy Working Group.

Jamie Schmid has a particular passion for creating excellent content experiences, and a big ol’ enthusiasm for all things WordPress. Formerly Community Evangelist at SiteLock, she is now a WordPress Strategy and Development consultant based in Portland, OR, taking site concepts through a well-managed process that encourages communication, planning, and smart use of content.

Aida is a mom & grandma, lover of the Lord, writer, multi-media artist, poet, speaker, and blogger. She owns LoveBuilt Life LLC, a Creative Arts & Lifestyle Company, where she teaches people to live “Life from the art”.

She also builds websites for start-ups on a budget and enjoys regularly attending WordCamp conferences (as a volunteer, speaker, attendee and, now an organizer), where she can relish in the WordPress Community and fan the flame of her ongoing love of Wapuu.

Works at Sandhills Development. Friend to WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress fans. Cohost WordPress Weekly w/ Jeff Chandler. East Troy Village Trustee. 11 time WordCamp Miami heavyweight champion.

Keri is Head of Growth at OptinMonster, lead generation software made by the company behind WPBeginner. She first started working with WordPress around 2011, when she founded the blog Amazing Women In History.

James Tryon is the lead ambassador of Wapu.us, co-founder of BizTender.io among other things. James is married with 3 kids. He also helps organizer of WordCamp Orlando & the WordPress Orlando meetup group. He has been in the creative industry since 1998. Tryon has an eye for design and usability, and also possess the know-how to plan, design, and dev it all if needed.

An avid collector of random awesomeness and unique creations, James always finding something interesting to spark his creativity. When James not working, he is more than likely making something, playing with toys, or hanging with friends and family.

During his career, Nemanja has been involved with numerous aspects of building high-scale production systems as well as mentoring and teaching. For the past 2 years, he’s been working at Enki (enki.com) where he currently oversees the day to day engineering operations across multiple educational products (a Slack bot, a mobile app, a web app) supporting close to 1M users. Over the years, Nemanja has leveraged JavaScript to build software ranging from web, hybrid and native mobile applications to backend and infrastructure systems in the cloud.

Outside of his day job, you can find him occasionally contributing to OSS or learning funky tunes on his saxophone.

Josepha has been organizing and promoting events in Kansas City, and across the nation, since 2010. With experience in SEO, data science, and excellent written communication skills, she began working with MMGY Global, the largest travel and tourism marketing firm in North America. In 2015, after five years of volunteering her time to the WordPress open source project, she was hired by Automattic. At Automattic Josepha helps guide the future and support the ongoing health of the world’s largest volunteer open source community. This includes financial planning, sponsorship relations, volunteer training programs, and several diversity initiatives on a global scale. She is well-versed in conflict mediation tactics and has a knack for explaining complex topics clearly and respectfully.