The WordCamp Scaramento organizing team has been hard at work behind the scenes nailing down the details for our fifth annual two-day WordPress conference—and we’re so excited to finally begin the speaker announcements. I know that every year we say, “This is going to be the best year ever,” and every year we truly mean it.
The lineup of speakers for the 2019 event, happening September 21-22, 2019, is pretty spectacular and today we’re starting the official announcements (done in no particular order).
WordCamp Sacramento 2019 Speakers: Round 1
Sean Dietrich
Sean strives to help clients not only solve technology problems, but to reach their goals. Whether it’s performance or hosting hurdles, Sean is there to help.
With 15 years of experience, Sean initially started off with Java and Visual Basic and later expanded into PHP. These last 8 years, however, he has been devoted towards Drupal development. Sean prides himself on being a self learner with PHP as one of his main accomplishments, followed by Drupal and many other skills now under his belt. His most recent challenge is React Native, and who knows what is next!
He’s a strong believer in the open source community at large, and that working collaboratively is best for creating awesome projects. His community work extends into maintaining and building the BADCamp website build, as well as helping to maintain Docksal, a tool used for managing development environments.
When Sean is not busy developing, he spends most of his time with wife Erica and his two daughters Emma and Kaitlyn. He’s enjoying taking fitness classes together as a family, though he’s admittedly frustrated that his daughters can do a pushup better than he can.
Nathan Ingram
Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar. He is also the host of the WP Business Podcast, which offers news, tools and insights for people who build websites for clients using WordPress. As the founder of >ADVANCE Coaching, Nathan works with WordPress solopreneurs and 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 has been an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham for several years.
Andrea Zoellner
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.
Chris Lema
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.
Cate DeRosia
In 2015, Cate stepped into the WordPress community to investigate if it was possible to find work outside of development or design. She discovered that as WordPress usage increases and businesses grow, many jobs are opening up for people with soft business skills and/or a talent for content.
After test driving some of these options, she currently works editing and writing content and using her soft business skills to run operations at Pressware. Beyond answering her questions and finding employment, she’s had the opportunity to meet some amazing people. Her commitment to community building has lead to being a co-organizer of the local meetup, regular WordCamp speaker, and the previous organizer for the 2018 and 2019 Grand Rapids (MI) WordCamps.
She has dedicated the last 20 years to family development and enjoys sports, exploring new places, and making pretty things, often with yarn. When she writes, you’ll find it at atypical.ink
Justin Doyle
Justin Doyle is the Lead Designer/ Web Team Lead at Tytanium Ideas Inc. He has 15 years of experience in web design. He worked for a high-end marketing company based out of Utah before starting his own company and then selling it to Tytanium Ideas in 2017. Now he spends his days applying his UI/UX skills and brand development to large design projects that help scale businesses.
Lindsay Halsey
Lindsay Halsey teaches business owners and freelancers how to get found in Google, Yahoo, and Bing. After ten years as a partner in a search engine optimization agency, Lindsay noticed that the two traditional approaches to SEO – hiring an agency and doing it yourself – left many people behind. Either the cost of hiring an agency was prohibitive or the DIY solution was overwhelming. Lindsay and the team at Pathfinder SEO thought there must be another way and developed guided SEO. Through Pathfinder SEO, trainings, webinars and WordCamps, Lindsay shares an SEO process to go from lost to found in the search engines. She lives in Basalt, Colorado and enjoys hiking, biking, and skiing with her family.
Kori Ashton
Kori Ashton has been listed as one of seven women who run tech startups in San Antonio, Texas, to watch. She started her first company at the age of 12, and has had an entrepreneur’s heart ever since. She built her first HTML website in 1998, and was instantly hooked on Web design. Currently Kori is the CEO of WebTegrity, a WordPress agency, and hosts a weekly giveback to the WP community on her YouTube Channel and via PressTribe. In every workshop or webinar, Kori is determined to share actionable takeaways to our growing community. No boring workshops. No death by PowerPoint.
Stay Tuned!
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