This is it! Today we’re bringing you the fifth and final round of fantastically talented WordPressers who will be leading sessions at WordCamp Sacramento 2018.
WordCamp Sacramento is happening once again on September 15-16, 2018 at the Sacramento Convention Center. The event includes two days of WordPress learning, networking, food trucks, swag, snacks, a WordPress help desk, and fun.
The event includes two full tracks of mixed sessions and two days of beginner sessions in a third track — and all tracks will run on the same schedule so you can easily move between them to attend any session that grabs your interest.
Meet the fifth group of speakers below:
Heather Hogan
Heather Hogan has been making websites for a long time. She has taken on many roles in the communications sphere including: webmaster, designer, developer, artist, project manager, event coordinator, and marketing specialist. She has had the pleasure to work with organizations like the Sacramento Public Library, The Nature Conservancy, The World Economic Forum, Sacramento State University, and the City of Rocklin. Currently, she divides her time teaching web design at Sacramento City College, coordinating web and marketing for Sierra 2 Center, juggling freelance web projects, and making fine art.
Josh Smith
Josh Smith is a Software Engineer at Dice.com; a company that uses WordPress to publish some of the best tech content on the web. At Dice, Josh works with content authors, marketers, and application developers to ensure Tech Professionals can access the highest quality content. He’s created dozens of themes and plugins to help promote content for Dice. Before he was an engineer, Josh served in the US Navy for twelve years as a Navy Diver. He’s removed our country’s ships’ propellers, inspected shipping lane buoys, and entered submarines through the business end of a torpedo tube. He’s learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable, which is a large part of writing software. Josh lives in Folsom, CA with his wife and two sons. He and his family love being outdoors. They went camping six times in 2017. He likes to be outside as much as he likes to be in front of his computers. He loves cycling for hours at a time and teaching his sons the value of running long distances.
Corey Walker
Corey Walker is the owner of The Marketing Specialist, a digital marketing agency in El Dorado Hills, California. She is also the co-author of Instagram for Business for Dummies, a how-to guide for using Instagram to market your business. Corey works with several clients to produce social media strategies, including creating graphics and written content, scheduling content, buying ads and tracking analytics. She loves helping businesses achieve success in the online world!
Chris Ford
Chris Ford is a Project Manager with a background in graphic and user experience design. She’s currently leveraging the skills learned in those roles to manage projects at Reaktiv Studios, a WordPress.com VIP partner. In her spare time she antagonizes her dog with guitar practice, grows stuff in her garden, and makes stuff with her hands.
Emily Lema
Emily Lema, from San Diego, has been blogging off and on since she was eight. Equally she’s been speaking to crowds of people for years. She’s truly her father’s daughter. She’s excited to give her first WordCamp presentation.
Kenneth Schnetz
Ken Schnetz is an experienced developer specializing in creating e-commerce and site deployment tools for WordPress. Ken is especially interested in using the latest frameworks and APIs to make WordPress sites and plugins faster, easier to use, simpler to deploy, and more lightweight than ever.
Stewart Savage
Stewart Savage is a website designer, graphic designer, photographer, and videographer for his business, Abaton Consulting. Stewart has been involved in the technology field for over 20 years with experiences ranging from desktop support to network management. Since 2009 he has focused on using WordPress to provide a full suite of website design services for small businesses and non-profits in Davis, CA and Northern California.
Outside of website design, Stewart keeps a busy schedule. At home, he is a husband to a wonderful wife and a father to a wonderful daughter. As an artist, he shares his love for ceramic arts by teaching pottery classes at two local art studios. With what time he has left, he enjoys backyard BBQs and sampling regional craft beers with his friends.
Brian Bourn
Brian Bourn is managing partner at Bourn Creative, a full-service design agency and Genesis recommended developer. He has been working with WordPress since 2009 and has created over 170 custom WordPress sites. With a passion for business, an eye for design, and a predilection for code, he provides consulting for small to medium-size businesses, works with clients around the globe on website strategy, and brings their vision to life through UX design and development. Brian is a big believer in giving back and supporting the WordPress project and community and volunteers his time as lead organizer for the monthly Sacramento WordPress Meetup.
Michael Helmke
Michael Helmke has been building custom websites and web applications for years and has recently discovered the joy of WordPress. His work centers around helping performing arts groups promote themselves, grow their audiences and increase donations. Michael enjoys helping clients translate big ideas into reality, and making sure the technology all runs smoothly. He is also a blogger, enjoys cooking, and sudden changes in weather.
Blair Williams
Blair Williams is a Software Developer and Online Entrepreneur. Blair has been developing websites, web-apps, and plugins for almost 20 years. Some of his past clients have included Raytheon, AMC, and FranklinCovey. For the last ten years, Blair has been focused on developing software and businesses around WordPress. He’s the creator of several popular plugins for WordPress including MemberPress, Pretty Link & Affiliate Royale and currently runs a full-time business that supports them.
Jeremy Hawes
Jeremy Hawes is a project manager and front-end developer for website and software applications.
He served in the military for five years, including two tours of duty in Iraq/Kuwait, where he worked in the headquarters of one of the largest transportation battalions in theatre and helped develop a convoy tracking and predicting database to help improve convoy forecasting. After leaving the military he pursued a degree in business management while help building a non-profit from the ground up, which still is running in the Del Paso Heights area of Sacramento.
After obtaining his bachelor degree he began a business in Sacramento where I offered web design contract services and helped build websites for businesses like SMUD, California Crane School, AAA Crane Services, and more. Our team grew and we became one of the lead third-party plugin developers for a software called RapidWeaver. Our company still today develops one of the largest collections of Themes and Stacks (similar to Plugins) under the name One Little Designer.
In 2015, he began working for a fast growing company in Sacramento, Capitol Tech Solutions. Today he is the lead front-end developer and helps manage the design and development of websites using platforms including WordPress, Shopify, NationBuilder, RapidWeaver.
He is married with five boys, so when I’m not working I’m usually out doing some fun and adventurous kid stuff… or taking a rest from it.