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.

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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.

“All else being equal, people will buy from their friends. So make everything else equal then go make a lot of friends.”

Colin is currently the CEO of RAINCLOUD, a B2B outbounding engine focused on helping digital agencies, SAAS providers, and hosting companies fill the funnel with great future prospects. RAINCLOUD’s singular focus is getting more of the right client to know your business exists then putting you in a position to be top of mind when the time is right. We can’t control when someone will need the service or product you offer, but we can insure that when they need it they will think of you.

• Former VP of Channel Sales for Liquid Web
• Former VP of Sales for Media Temple (a GoDaddy company)
• First Enterprise & Agencies Executive at WP Engine
• Former VP of Sales at ISON Managed IT Services

Pat Ramsey oversees all aspects of the technology group at Crowd Favorite as Director of Technology. He brings over 20 years experience in web development, including higher education, government and enterprise digital implementations. Active in technology communities since the early 2000s, Pat is one of the founders of the Austin WordPress meetup, having worked with WordPress since 2004, integrating it into higher education IT and faculty publishing systems. He’s also been a trainer and advisor for Knowbility’s Accessible Internet Rallies and AccessU.

Annejeanette Washington Collins is a dedicated educator and professor in Broward County, Florida for the past 26 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 encouraging moms at Magnific Mom Moments. Annejeanette has presented at local, state, and international platforms notably Edu-Match and Site Leaders Connect.

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 Broward Alliance of Black School Educators, DadsBeonDuty.com, and The Faith Center Ministries Youth Department just to name a few.

Her greatest joy is spending time with her husband Major, her daughter Jayda (former Word Camp Panelist), and her family.

Zac Gordon is a professional educator, with a current focus on JavaScript development with and alongside WordPress at javascriptforwp.com. Zac has years of experience teaching at 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’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers. You can also catch his free Office Yoga sessions on OfficeYoga.tv.

Chris Lema has been building eCommerce sites since 1997, back when it would take a lot of time, cost a lot of money, and still didn’t work perfectly. Today he’s the VP of Products at Liquid Web, where he’s designed and launched a new platform dedicated to WooCommerce stores.

Antonella is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) specialist that is always on top of the latest trends and news.

She has experience in optimizing blogs and copy writing for websites.

She’s been consistently working with WordPress since 2015 and is always looking to learn more. She has recently really committed to learning a lot more about WordPress.

Fun fact: This is Antonella’s first time being a speaker for any conference. So, even if you didn’t get that much out of her talk, she’d still love it if you smiled and nodded like you did.

Santiago Leon is President & Founder of sleon productions, a agency that provides web, apps, video and audio services to clients. Santiago is a Miami native with ten years of experience in technology and multimedia.

Whitney Lubin is a Full Stack Web Developer, entrepreneur, YouTube content creator, and occasional fanfiction writer.

“Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, -should learn a computer language. Because it teaches you how to think.”- Steve Jobs.
Learning how to code shouldn’t just be for those who can afford it. After starting her self-taught journey in learning various computer languages in 2016 , Korene Stuart felt there was more she could do to improve the lives of under served communities. With the help of her sister, they launched a non-profit organization, MAScode( Minorities Advancing through STEM) an initiative to expose both children and adults to the amazing careers of S.T.E.M.(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

Joe Casabona is a college-accredited course developer and professor. He also has his Master’s Degree in Software Engineering, is a Front End Developer, and hosts multiple podcasts. Joe started freelancing in 2002, and has been a teacher at the college level for over 10 years. His passion in both areas has driven him to build Creator Courses, a school for those who want to create online businesses. As a big proponent of learning by doing, he loves creating focused, task-driven courses to help students build something. When he’s not teaching, he’s interviewing people for his podcast, How I Built It.

Mom | Vegan | Entrepreneur
Jessi runs a website development agency in Minnesota. She loves creating jobs and talking about her experience.
Jessi enjoys traveling with her kids and organic gardening.

A professional WordPress developer for over a decade, Micah has worked on sites for Fortune 100 companies, has released over a dozen WordPress plugins, is a frequent speaker at WordCamps, co-organizes the WordPress Gwinnett meetup, is a co-host on the WP Square One podcast and shares his knowledge by blogging on WordPress development topics.

Topher has been a web developer for over 25 years, and a WordPress developer for 8 years. He recently began working with BigCommerce as a WordPress Developer Evangelist.

Topher hails from Grand Rapids MI, where he lives with his wife, two daughters, and two little dogs.

Rian Kinney, founder of The Kinney Firm and eCommLegal is a privacy expert and online business, privacy, and tech attorney assisting businesses of all sizes from freelancers to enterprise, currently representing and working with some of WordPress’s biggest names.

Rian holds the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ CIPM and CIPP/E Designations and has spoken at conferences all over the country and Europe on issues ranging from contracts, CYA’ing your site, the future of open source, to ethics, and privacy.

Scott Mann is an Emmy-winning creative director, a business mentor, a board member for a number of regional non-profits, an SEO specialist, a certified Google Partner and a social impact advocate.

He founded Highforge in 2001 as a boutique digital agency with the purpose of helping good people grow good businesses online and beyond. Since then the agency has designed work for thousands of companies and helped clients reach millions of new viewers and customers. They build messaging and identity platforms and guidelines, art illustration, SEO, Google Ads and website development and support for WordPress and Shopify.

He’s an avid sci-fi reader, racquetball player, and backpack traveler. He enjoys music festivals, tequila and loves promoting BeTheMatch.org to save lives.

David is a professional web developer focused on WordPress theme and plugin development. He emphasizes helping small businesses, providing ongoing support, and educating users through his service FixUpFox. He helps organize both WordPress Orlando and WordCamp Orlando.

Dr. Tracy Timberlake is an Award Winning Digital Strategist, but began her online career as an Award Winning Beauty and Lifestyle Vlogger on YouTube. She went from making videos on her bathroom floor to being a pioneer and industry expert in the field of digital entrepreneurial world. With over 70,000 followers, 3.1+ million video views and a Doctorate in leadership, she focused her academic study specifically in the area of online entrepreneurship so that she can give the most up to date, backed by research processes!!! Dr. TT coaches clients on how to get use their influence and expertise to build successful businesses in the online space. She has collaborated with Forbes, featured in The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, and more. She has also worked with brands such as Herbal Essence, Marc Jacobs, and Cosmopolitan Magazine. Digital Leadership and Transformation is the of the game, and Dr. TT is here to help you every step of the way.

Roberto Remedios is a UX / UI Designer and Frontend Developer who always enjoys learning and sharing his knowledge about WordPress with others. He is a community and WPTV team Volunteer / Speaker / Mentor on WordPress.org and other several Camps across the globe, including: Miami, NYC, Boston, US (Philly/Nashville), Atlanta, Jacksonville, Europa (Paris), Managua, Puebla, CMX, Sao Paulo, Cusco, San Jose organizer at WordPress Meetup Costa Rica. User, designer, developer and evangelizer of WordPress and accessibility since 2006.

Teaching and mentorship come naturally to dog-lover and Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon, Tessa Kriesel. She wears many hats in her life — all with sass and finesse — including instructor for Girl Develop It, lead organizer for WordCamp Minneapolis, and founder of Outspoken Women and Coders of TMRW.

Tessa has spoken on many topics including helping beginners with workflow, mentorship, configuration management, and shedding light on continuous integration and deployment. She has also been a panelist on a wide range of topics at Conferences and Meetups.

When Tessa isn’t working on her development chops or mentoring junior developers, she is using her extroverted super hero skills to make people feel welcome and included at whatever event she attends.
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Adam Soucie is the founder and CEO of Impossibly Creative, a small business agency focusing on WordPress. He is also a member of the WordPress Orlando organizing team.

Hi! Joe here. I’m the Head Buff at WP Buffs, a 24/7 WordPress website maintenance service for serious website owners and white-label partners. Whether you’re looking after 1 site or 1000, we’ve got your back! I also run WPMRR, a robust video course that teaches WordPress professionals how to implement, sell and execute ongoing care plans for their clients and increase their revenue every single month. Or you can just tune into The WPMRR WordPress podcast entirely focused on growing successful WordPress businesses and monthly recurring revenue without taking itself too seriously. Boom!

Beth built her first WordPress website in 2009 for a side business, was immediately smitten, and began building websites for other small businesses. In 2016, after a long history as an IT Business Analyst and Instructional Designer, Beth left the corporate world to become a full time WordPress Coach and Designer, and now owns WP Roadmaps and Coaching, providing project and productivity management education to WordPress practitioners.

Beth also administers the WordPress Project Management Facebook group and serves as an organizer for the Triad WordPress Meetup Group where she has hosted several “happiness bar” type events for those needing help.

Kathy Zant is a seasoned digital executive with over 20 years of web development experience for companies large and small. She’s been using WordPress for over a decade. For the last three years, she’s been a security analyst for Wordfence, developing services for WordPress users to better understand and manage their site security.

Michelle is an independent graphic designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.

She loves the open source community, and when she is not working on projects she speaks/volunteers/organizes at events and workshops around the country. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”

Bianca is a diehard WordPresser who first joined the community in 2005. From personal blogging to boutique consulting, she has now evolved into a community leader, helping the Jamaican WordPress community grow and become an active part of the wider WordPress world. When not working on community, she can be found with her nose in a book or floating in water.

David Carr is a writer, editor, speaker and digital consultant. He has been an editor for publications including InformationWeek, Baseline, and Internet World and is the author of Social Collaboration for Dummies. His WordPress plugins include RSVPMaker, Facebook Tab Manager and Floating Callout. He founded the WordPress for Toastmasters project and the Online Presenters Toastmasters club, which focuses on presentation skills for webinars and online events.

Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.

He is also the creator of ADVANCE Coaching, working with WordPress business owners individually and in groups to help them become more successful in their businesses. Nathan has been a freelance web developer since 1995, and is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he is an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham. You can learn more about Nathan at https://nathaningram.com.

Andrea is the Chief Content Creator at SiteGround and the lead organizer for WordCamp Montreal. She trained as a broadcast journalist and worked in corporate communications before trading it for a career in tech. Now she spends her days developing brand messaging, copy editing and blogging. When she’s not at home in Montreal, she’s sampling the digital nomad life and documenting her adventures on her travel blog.

When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of “management by wandering around”.

These days, when not working with PHP, Cal can be found working on a variety of projects like CoderFaire. He speaks at conferences around the world on topics ranging from technical talks to motivational talks for developers. If you happen to meet him at a conference, don’t be afraid to buy him a shot of Bourbon.

Cal is based in Jupiter, FL where he is happily married to wife 1.31, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 wonderful kids who were both smart enough not to pursue a job in IT.

I have been working with websites since 2013. But I’ve been designing stuff since I was small. I grew up in theatre, learning how to collaborate with others, work toward a common goal, and create something that is larger than the sum of its parts.
In 2013, I started teaching myself web design and coding out of books. My first job as a junior designer introduced me to WordPress, one of my favorite things in the world. I also learned about SEO, social media marketing, website security, and just how to run a business well. I struck out and started my own business (Allie Nimmons Creative) in 2016. I rebranded as Pixel Glow Web Design in 2018.

Gayle Williams, owner of Vision Marketing in Sarasota, FL, has spent the majority of her career as a marketing professional directing marketing operations for not-for-profits and small businesses. Gayle moved over to agency account management in 2002 and founded her own agency in 2008. From directing strategy and client relations she moved into hands-on design and development—growing in the opposite direction than most designers has had its strategic advantages. Today she runs a thriving digital marketing and WordPress design business from her home office, and enjoys the work-family balance it provides.

Gayle was an early inbound marketing adopter as a Hubspot partner agency and maintains her Inbound Marketing certification. She is also a WP Elevation-certified Digital Business Consultant. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Masters in Adult Learning and Development.

Chris is an engineer at WP Engine who has been working on WordPress since 2008. Over the years he built one of the largest security plugins on WordPress.org as well as numerous other plugins, themes and solutions for sites large and small. When not coding Chris loves to teach and has presented at numerous WordCamps and other conferences as well as taught computer security for St. Edward’s University and other University courses ranging from computers to aviation.