As Obi-Wan Kenobi says, “In my experience there is no such thing as luck.” That’s why we leave nothing to chance when planning WordCamp Sacramento. We hand-craft the Beginner Track curriculum, find speakers and create sessions on topics you specifically asked for, and invite our community to apply to speak.
Securing speakers is one of the hardest parts of organizing a WordCamp—public speaking is the number one, biggest fear after all—but this year we received awesome applications and we’re confident that when we publish the schedule, you’ll be just as excited as we are.
For now though, get to know our second round of awesome speakers:
WordCamp Sacramento 2019 Speakers: Round 3
Jason Adams
Jason is a senior developer with over 15 years of experience at Impress.org with an eclectic development background ranging from home automation systems, to scientific inventions, and many websites/plugins. Otherwise, he enjoys hiking with his awesome wife, rock climbing, and adventure!
Chandrika Guntur
Chandrika Guntur is a freelance WordPress developer. She works with small businesses and individuals to provide custom WordPress solutions for their businesses. She started working with WordPress in 2011. She worked for a small web development company but quit that to start freelancing in 2014. She is the lead developer for the Chamber Dashboard plugins which provide an easy way for Chambers of Commerce to build a membership site. She was the lead organizer for the Seattle WordCamp in 2017 and an active member of the Seattle WordPress Meetup. She currently lives in Cupertino, CA with her husband and two boys. She started the Cupertino WordPress Meetup in Jan 2019. She is part of the Diversity Outreach Speaker Training project where they run workshops to help more women speak at WordCamps. In her free time she loves to read and spend time with her family.
Robby McCullough
Robby McCullough is a Bay Area native and a co-founder of Beaver Builder, a drag-and-drop design framework for WordPress. Robby enjoys travel, photography, hiking, and a good cup of coffee. You can find him in person on the mountain bike trails or virtually on Twitter and Instagram.
Mika Epstein
Working for DreamHost as a full stack WordPress developer on DreamPress, Mika helps make the internet better for everyone. She is passionate about code, open source technology, open data, and mindful development practices. The cofounder of LezWatch.TV, the greatest database of queer characters and shows, she develops software and trawls queer representation on television to make the data visible. You can find her traveling internationally to speak about the intersection of software, fandom, and humanism.
Anthony Tran
Anthony Tran is the Director of Marketing at Beaver Builder. He loves Starbucks iced coffee, watching NBA basketball, and catching the latest Marvel movie in theaters.
Amy Hall
It’s not a surprise that Amy Hall is referred to as the MacGyver of MailChimp. For the last ten years, Amy has been taking content management out of the hands of business owners who are already juggling too many tasks. Not only is she a certified MailChimp Partner & Expert, but she builds WordPress websites, writes optimized content, and provides hands-on WordPress training to her clients.
When it comes to speaking, Amy is a natural. After all, she teaches blogging and WordPress at Mira Costa College. Amy is in her element when showing Meetups and WordPress users how to optimize their forms, perfect their lead generation, and make their WordPress sites perform.
When she’s not training clients on how to best create their business funnel, she spends time with her husband, a minister in Carlsbad, takes her grandkids to museums, painting classes, and enjoying nature.
Tabitha Turton
Tabitha Turton is the Customer Success Lead at Jilt.com, the email marketing app built for eCommerce. She has 7+ years of experience in customer support and success roles and even ran her own eCommerce store for a time. In a past life, she was an entertainment writer hunting down the choicest gossip and movie news. She still makes time for pop culture pursuits whenever possible.
Scott Dahlstrom
Scott Dahlstrom is a veteran web developer and designer that has spent the last 11 years building WordPress sites big and small. His current focus is on running a high-traffic, heavy content website and trying not to break it too often. He has a marginally acceptable addiction to podcasts.
Stay Tuned!
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You might want to update Jason Adams’ bio, unless he does, indeed, enjoy hiking with your wife! 😁 “Otherwise, he enjoys hiking with my awesome wife”.
Done! Thanks 🙂