How Young Ones Can Build Their WordPress Skills

WordPress Skills Speakers

Samientha Tellus

Samientha Tellus, a senior at Lauderhill 6-12 who is passionate about computers and coding. I’m pursuing a Computer Science degree after high school.

Amaya Matias Medina

Amaya Matías Medina is a fifth-grade student at Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston. She has successfully completed The Hour of Code, Learning.com Digital program, and several other Coding trainings and is a beginner WordPress user. Amaya and her fellow classmates participated in Day of the Girl, hosted by the United Nations, and was featured on NBC 6 and Our City Media with her classmates for their involvement with Robotics.

Amaya has been coding for two years and is part of the VEX Robotics Team at her school, which, thanks to outstanding guidance from her teachers, teamwork and exceptional coding skills, won first place at the Broward VIQC Elementary Tournament and was awarded the Excellence Award and the Teamwork Champion Award. Amaya loves coding, robots and she wants to study Robotics.

Aidan Lacayo

Aidan Lacayo is a sixth grade student at Falcon Cove Middle School in Weston, Florida. Aidan participates in his school’s science competition class and is enrolled in the Broward County Public School’s Elements of Mathematics Foundations (EMF) advanced mathematics curriculum. Aidan’s current favorite class in school is debate. During the summer he will attend Eckerd College for a Duke Tip summer camp program. Aidan plays tennis and enjoys playing the electric guitar. He is currently a member of a music band named Inspiration.

Andrew Lacayo

Andrew Lacayo is a fifth grader at Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, Florida. Andrew is active in his school’s VEX Robotics and SECME teams and plays the piano. Andrew is on student council, recently completed a semester on the school’s morning announcements team, and is a best buddy at his school. His favorite subject in school is science and he enjoys sketching and video games.

Alicia Eugene

Edward Pratt

Edward began learning how to use WordPress his tenth-grade year. He attended many WordPress workshops which was sponsored by his Oracle club at school. He was then able to use his knowledge with WordPress during a summer internship he had with the Yeager Companies. He also participated in a competition within his Oracle club where he was placed in a team and had to develop a website, a WordPress powered blog and an application using the Agile Process(Scrum). Edward describes his WordPress experience as interesting and fun. During his learning, Edward has successfully learned how to use HTML, CSS, SQL, PHP, and Python. Prior to him joining the Oracle club, he was learning how to make animations and has also participated in a Drone Competition FAU High School. Edward is also a very active person and takes part in his school’s activities. He is a member of his school’s Yearbook club, T.V Production club, NHS, L.I.N.K.S club, Chess Club, and T.U.G.A. On his days off, Edward can be seen reading, drawing, playing music, hanging out with friends, going to the gym or writing a poem. He also enjoys going for walks and admiring nature’s beauty. He aspires to travel the world and enjoy life.

Victoria Dameus

Victoria Rollie Dameus, a senior at Lauderhill 6-12 STEM-MED magnet school, arrived from Haiti in 2013. She managed to develop her leadership role as the Secretary of National Honor Society’s Lauderhill 6-12 chapter, a lead anchor and writer of the school’s television production studio, Copy Editor of the Yearbook club, and Vice President of Future Educators of America’s Lauderhill 6-12 chapter. It was her active involvement in the coding group that propelled Victoria forward. As if learning English as a third language was not enough to keep her occupied, Victoria found the time to learn HTML, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, Python, SQL, JavaScript, and PHP. This opened a new world for her. Identifying problems and developing computer science solutions came naturally for Victoria, her work has gained the attention of the South Florida community and she has already made a footprint of her unique user experience web style. Virctoria’s determination to lead by example has provided Victoria with 1st place recognitions for Human Capital Management Jr. End of the Year competition and the Yaegar Redesign Project and 2019 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing National Award winner. Her community involvement led her to present at the 9th and 10th annual WordCamp Miami where as part of a panel discussion she shared her insights on web tools and publishing in the 21st century. She parlayed these experiences into a summer job at Conceptual Communications. She also has an AWS Certification.

What you need to know about Privacy and Security in 2019

This Privacy and Security panel includes a cross-section of industry experts, with diverse Open Source backgrounds, from hosting and security companies to a privacy attorney that will discuss the biggest challenges and tips when dealing with privacy and security for you and your clients in the rapidly changing privacy and security landscape. Join us for a live Q & A and receive takeaways you can implement immediately.

This panel discussion is for YOU, to get your questions answered! If you would like to submit your privacy and security questions before, or during the panel on Sunday, March 17th. Go to: www.sli.do or download the Slido app and look for Event: WordCampMiami Event Code: #Privacy

Privacy and Security Panel Speakers

Chris Teitzel

Chris is the founder of Lockr, a company focused on making secrets management simple and affordable. He’s been involved in WordPress and Drupal for a number of years and is a founding member of the Cross-CMS Privacy Working Group bringing together WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Umbraco, and Typo3. Chris is also appointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.

Tony Perez

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.

Chris Wiegman

A veteran of the WordPress world who has been developing plugins and sites for over a decade. Currently working on helping other developers succeed at WP Engine.

Pat Ramsey

Pat Ramsey oversees all aspects of the technology group at Crowd Favorite as Director of Technology. He has over 20 years of 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 WP into higher education IT and faculty publishing systems. He’s also been a trainer and advisor for Knowbility’s Accessible Internet Rallies and AccessU, advocating for accessible web design.

Host

Rian Kinney, Esq.

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Rian Kinney, founder of eCommLegal and The Kinney Firm, is a US Privacy and Tech Attorney, assisting businesses of all sizes from freelancers to enterprise. She is 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 US and Europe on issues ranging from contracts, CYA’ing your site, to ethics, and privacy.

Promote Your Business And Get An Audience With Podcasts

Yes, we all know podcasts are hot right now. Everyone’s listening and many people have gone down the path of launching their own. But what really defines a “successful” podcast? Have people in the WordPress space truly found ways to capture the attention of an audience (and make it financially sustainable)?

Join Joe, Christie and a fantastic panel featuring (a way cooler) Joe Casabona, Windy Pierre and Santiago Leon on the WPMRR WordPress podcast live from #WCMIA as they discuss their own journeys podcasting and you get an insider’s perspective.