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2020 WordCamp Miami Speakers: Round One

 

WordCamp Miami is happy to announce our the first round speakers and panelists for WordCamp Miami 2020.

MERARY ALVARADO

9+ years of proven experience in executing, development and leadership of QA processes in digital strategies for Fortune 100 clients. Experience as a Digital Accessibility Consultant establishing guidelines, best practices and standards related to designing and maintaining accessible websites, responsive sites, native applications, and digital documentation. Train clients on using accessibility monitoring software and assist in identifying Accessibility First strategies and solutions focus on innovating products, services, and projects.

Founder of Quality Assurance Costa Rica #QACR and Accesibilidad Web Costa Rica group in Facebook. Vice President of Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Costa Rica chapter and member of Asociación Centroamericana de Aeronáutica y del Espacio (ACAE) working on the Spatial Spin-off Initiatives in Latinamerica.

BIRGIT PAULI-HAACK

Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg Times, a site with news around WordPress block editor and beyond. Birgit hosts regular Gutenberg Live Q & A on YouTube and co-hosts the podcast Gutenberg Changelog with Mark Uraine.

Birgit Pauli-Haack started working on websites in 1996 and has since then worked with publishers, artists, small businesses and nonprofit organizations. She founded Pauli Systems, LC in 2002, and leads a team of six dynamic online experts. Pauli Systems is a one-stop agency for web design, web publishing, online training and application development. Since 2010, her team has used WordPress to build new websites and web applications.

Birgit is a native German. When not in front of a computer, she runs, plays tennis, or hangs out with friends. She and her husband of 28 years love to travel and visit city art museums.

JESSI GURR

Jessi has been hand-coding websites since the day her dad brought home an AOL floppy disk in 1993. She started a website development company in 2005, and today runs a website development agency in Minnesota. A passionate entrepreneur, Jessi loves creating jobs, speaking about her experience growing a company, and sharing her experiences with freelancers and aspiring entrepreneurs. Jessi frequently speaks on business and management topics at local events and conferences throughout the US.

Jessi lives in Anoka, MN. When not running a business or chasing her two young children, you can find her in the vegetable garden or in the window seat of an airplane, traveling to her next adventure.

ANDREAS LOPEZ

Andreas first encountered Web Design back in Germany while taking Media Design classes where he learned HTML & CSS raw – no CMS, no aiding tools, just notepad and a cheat sheet of tags.

He moved to South Florida, US in 2012 where he became an IT Admin in 2013 and Webmaster by default at a small startup. This is when he used WordPress for the first time in a professional way. And from there on it was a deep dive journey straight into E-Commerce which is why he considers himself now an E-Commerce specialist & Accessibility Advocate.

He works full-time at a local business in West Palm Beach while building and selling Business, Gaming & Workstation PCs under his company ‘Omakase Consult’ – a hardware consulting & custom assembly company.

JEAN PERPILLANT

Strategy Architect for Design Theory. A small creative agency in business over 11 years based in Orlando, FL.

CHIP EDWARDS

Love’em or Hate’em, Smart Speakers like Amazon Alexa are being used by millions of people. Even more people are talking to their phones using Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri. Voice Technology is everywhere and is changing how people consume content. I’ve helped many well-known people like Seth Godin, William Jackson, and The Blind Blogger make their content available on Smart Speakers and Smart Phones using Voice Technology. If you’re interested in making your WordPress content available through Voice Technology, let’s talk.

CHRIS WIEGMAN

Chris is a Senior Software Engineer devoted to improving the developer experience for WordPress developers of all kinds. His work focuses on the intersection of development, privacy, ethics and usability of software and development to help improve the lives of everyone who uses the modern technology.

DIANA FRANCO

An accomplished Graphic Designer and Marketer from Bogotá-Colombia and now living in Miami, with demonstrated success implementing integrated marketing to create high-quality and engaging content. Creative, strategic, and analytical thinker efficiently implementing marketing tools to enhance user experience and to increase social media engagement. Founder of the community @Uxbestdesigns Created to 💆‍♀️inspire, 🤳🏻promote and 🤝connect with other UX/UI designers, marketers and researchers.