Christina Harris started working with WordPress in 2008. After spending years building WordPress sites on the side, she realized how much she enjoys teaching WordPress to others.

In 2014, she joined WPBeginner to create WordPress training videos. WPBeginner is the largest free WordPress resource sites on the web.

Over 20+ years of project management experience with a demonstrated history of working in the health and wellness, technical, and automotive industries. Transferable skills include: customer service, nonprofit organizations, negotiation, event planning, marketing planning, social media: strategy, implementation, and coaching, strong professional training.

Rachel S. Lucas is the co-founder of BICO Desk Website Training & Support, which aims to support people who are creating and maintaining their own websites. A techie at heart, Rachel brought to Balambico a sophisticated level of creativity from her architecture background.

As a female minority in tech, Rachel strives to serve as an inspiration to other young ladies in her demographic to find the joy in coding. She is also an aspiring Young Adult (YA) author working on her debut novel.

Michael is a service designer specializing in the hyperlocal (libraries, higher-ed, local journalism), where the success of product and service suites is determined by their user experience. He is the lead of user experience development at WhereBy.Us, a WordPress-based media startup dedicated to connecting curious locals to their communities.

Cindy Montgenie, former award-winning HP executive, is a high-performance strategist, international keynote speaker, and certified executive coach whose subject matter expertise includes the future of work, change leadership, and influence.

Cindy leverages her C-Suite experience and 20-year international career managing billion-dollar businesses and leading multicultural teams through mergers, company splits, and internal reorganizations to help leaders and organizations navigate the hurdles of change and become winning power players in today’s complex, disruptive digital era.

Cindy is the CEO of New Skies Nation, a boutique advisory firm where leaders strengthen their leadership competencies to build unstoppable organizations.

She holds an MBA from Grenoble Ecole of Management, France, and speaks three languages

Without boxing myself in too much, I describe myself as always curious, overly energetic, and a holistically inclined person. I’m licensed as a clinical psychologist with a small private practice in Midtown (Miami) and a Product Designer of digital products. In 2017 I chose to evolve my career to include design and development with a focus on Front-end development. My everyday motivation is to bridge gaps between need and resources. I feel inspired by tech/design’s ability to have a positive impact on a grand scale. Right now I am a Product Design Consultant and UX Consultant at two startups. In my spare time, I’m building, designing, and launching passion products.

Tony is the GoDaddy General Manager (GM) responsible for the Security Product Group and Sucuri brand. He oversees the Certificate Authority (CA), Content Distribution Network (CDN), Website Application Firewall (WAF), Website Backups, Monitoring, DNS and Incident Response product and services. He is the former CEO / Co-Founder at Sucuri and US Marine.

With 20 years experience as a graphic designer, 14 years experience as a web designer, 13 years as a creative agency owner, and 10 years as a blogger, Jennifer Bourn has worked with hundreds of small-medium sized service-based businesses to build brands, establish profitable online platforms, and claim authority positioning in their niche. She is also a sought-after speaker and writer, earning rave reviews for her workshops, trainings, and valuable articles.

Through Jenniferbourn.com, Jennifer focuses on providing the information, tools, and resources freelancers need to build thriving, successful businesses and delivering courses that help freelancers make more money. Through her agency, Bourn Creative, she offers a suite of services designed to maximize results and increase profits that include brand strategy, content strategy, and website strategy, as well as copywriting and content implementation. And over at her personal blog Inspired Imperfection, she shares recipes, family adventures, and more.

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 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 to help you build your brand (for free of course).

Christie Chirinos is one of the owners of Caldera WP, makers of Caldera Forms. She also received her MBA from Florida State University in 2015.

Gutenberg blocks give us a new level of freedom without clogging up our theme files with 600 page templates. And we can still keep styling on brand with CSS, so our users can get crazy creative — but everything will still go together!

Mark has been building cool things with WordPress since 2004. He runs Covered Web Services which focuses on solving tricky WordPress development challenges.

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.

I am an award-winning graphic designer and website developer based in Fort Lauderdale, FL. In 2001, I founded Big Max’s Studio, a woman-owned design firm specializing in startups and small businesses, with their branding and marketing, websites and publications.

In 2016 I won the “American Graphic Design Award” for the logo design for my invitation company Patti & Hank, and in 2017 I again won the award for my website design for Italian winemaker Terralsole. In 2018 I won the award for the book cover “Think you can’t write? Think again!”

I am a Certified Digital Business Consultant, as well as a WordPress Care Plan Specialist. In 2010, I switch from HTML websites and began developing and designing all websites in WordPress. Many website designers choose to pick one field, I on the other hand like the challenge of all trades. Some of my website designs have included lawyers, accountants, independent book publishers, wineries, florists, and media companies.

I have written three books and am the primary blogger for Tropic Moon Media.

Joseph LoPreste is co-owner of St Pete Design, a web development company that specializes in web accessibility and custom WordPress software. He brings over 12 years of business and technology experience along with a passion for web accessibility and the knowledge to help. He also oversees all aspects of software development from design to launch.

He has 2 amazing daughters Mekenzie and Kennedie who have taught him what’s important in life. They bring balance to him and his life/work ratio. He brings the mindset that as a company we should cultivate creativity and individuality so that allows us to create solutions at the highest levels while still loving what we do.

“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”

“I get to wake up every day to a fresh set of challenges and the opportunity to solve these challenges with new and unique solutions.”

As CEO, Karim leads Crowd Favorite and has been actively engaged in the WordPress community for over a decade. His career has included a range of opportunities including founding startups, working for large web agencies, and taking companies public. This wealth of experience in leading digital teams across the globe has provided Karim with the vision to lead Crowd Favorite in helping Enterprise organizations transition to Open Source solutions.

Website Security Analyst with a passion for WordPress security. I have been working with WordPress for over a decade, now with a heavy focus on educating the community about the importance of proactive cybersecurity on open source applications.

I started in web hosting technical support, server administration, terms of service enforcement for a managed WordPress platform, and now as a technical writer and security analyst.

Wendy is passionate about what makes people tick, why they do what do….and how they become your loyal clientele. You have a service that helps business become stronger, so….you need the right systems in place to build the right community with the right communication.

Passions: Being Inspired, learning, harmonious living, Healthy Change, Healthy Marketing, Systemic Coaching, outdoorsy stuff, energy, and sound healing; WordPress enthusiast, Choreographing communication and yep, even social dances!

She teaches in FIU’s Master of Marketing program and is a 6-time award-winning professor for FIU’s PMBA Online.

@DrWendyGuess

#SassySage #HealthyChange

Heya! I’m Carl.

I’m a PHP developer from Montréal, Canada. I live and breath advanced programming topics (and memes). I share a lot of my passion for those topics on my website where I publish articles on a regular basis.

It’s my way to help you with these hard-to-learn topics. That’s also why I’m excited to speak at WordCamp Miami. It’s another way for me to help you.

Besides that, I’ve been a WordPress Montréal organizer since 2010. I also help organize other WordPress events during the year. You can find me on Twitter and GitHub.

Chloe has been with Wordfence for the past two years originally starting out as a customer service engineer and now as a security analyst. On a daily basis, she works with people that have had their WordPress sites compromised by restoring them and provides them with insight on what they can do to better secure their sites. With a few years of customer service and security experience under her belt she loves teaching what she has learned about security so the internet can be a safer place.

She holds several industry certifications like Security+, CySA+, SSCP, and CEH, and she is currently working towards her CHFI. When she’s not learning about security or raising security awareness she enjoys traveling the world finding fun and unique coffee shops, donuteries, and tasty restaurants.

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.