WordCamp Sacramento, happening September 21-22, 2019 at The Falls Event Center, is thrilled to bring you another fantastic lineup of talented WordPressers to speak from not only the greater Sacramento region and Northern California, but far beyond for an incredible two-day event centered around WordPress.
Check out all of the speakers below in alphabetical order:
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.
AmyJune Hineline
AmyJune has been an active participant in the Open Source community for over 3 years. A self-described “non-coder”, she has been a top 20 contributor to the Drupal project two years in a row. She is an active organizer of the A11yTalks meet-up and is passionate about accessible and inclusive information for all. Outside of doing work, she enjoys mycology, geocaching, and has a love for air-cooled Volkswagens.
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, copyediting 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.
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.
Billy Young
Billy Young is a corporate techie turned entrepreneur who enjoys solving complicated problems and the challenge of bringing new software products to life. He is a co-founder/partner at FastLine Media LLC, the makers of Beaver Builder. When not tackling strategy and wrangling efficiency in the business, he enjoys spending time with his wife, three kids, and dog.
Brent Jett
Brent is the Design Lead at Beaver Builder. He’s been working for nearly a decade as a graphic designer and web developer building websites on WordPress. Now he gets to design tools to help people create for the web. He spends his free time filling Instagram with pictures of his beagle.
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
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.
Chris Ford
Chris Ford has been managing WordPress projects for over a decade. For most of that time she was managing her own projects as an independent contractor focusing on design, branding and UX. A year and a half ago she traded that in for a position as a remote Project Manager at Reaktiv Studios, a WordPress VIP partner.
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.
Chris Teitzel
Chris has a passion for technology and its ability to create an impact on lives around the world. He’s dedicated to simplifying security and privacy, working in both WordPress and Drupal to further core privacy initiatives. Recently he’s been appointed to advise the Department of Homeland Security on privacy matters, worked with US/EU Privacy initiatives, and helped form the new Cross-CMS Privacy Coalition.
Colin Dowling
“All else being equal, people will buy from their friends. So make everything else equal then go make a lot of friends.”
Colin is the CEO and Founder of RAINCLOUD, a business development firm that works with agencies, SAAS, and hosting providers to develop top of the funnel strategies. Prior to founding RAINCLOUD Colin served as VP of Channel Sales at Liquid Web, VP of Sales at Media Temple, and was the first Enterprise and Agencies Executive at WP Engine.
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne McDaniel has been working in tech and open source since 2005. Once he dipped a toe into the world of Free and Open Source Software, he knew never wanted to work outside of it again. Over his years of sales and marketing roles, including Developer Advocate at a Pantheon, he developed a passion for optimizing business processes and project workflows. He has since founded Process Digital Consulting to focus on helping people design internal procedures to improve productivity. As a speaker, Dwayne has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland and from MIT and Stanford.mcdwayne.com
Emily Lema
Emily is a sophomore in High School that plays around with WordPress. She has been blogging off and on since she was eight and has been speaking to crowds of people for years. Everything that she knows, she learned from her father, Chris Lema!
Ginger Wiseman
Ginger Wiseman is a voice artist and podcast producer and cohost. Having completed degrees in classical vocal performance, foreign language, and instructional science and technology, she has a instinctive ear and a wide and expressive vocal range. Since beginning her first podcast in 2013, she has covered fan events, premieres, red carpets, book releases, and San Diego Comic Con, and organized and co-led bespoke Outlander tours across Scotland. With her cohost, she works to build the podcast and wider fan communities around the world to foster conversation about the people, places, and times of the Outlander novels by Diana Gabaldon.
Ginger’s interests include language, music, technology, animal welfare, and travel. She can be seen later this summer at San Diego Comic Con’s ‘Outlandish Confabulation’ Panel.
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.
Jake Goldman
Jake is the President & Founder of 10up, a digital agency that finely crafts websites and tools for content creators, leveraging open platforms like WordPress. 10up has delivered hundreds of digital projects for some of the largest brands in the world, including Microsoft, Google, Starbucks, The New York Times Co, and AMC Networks – to name a few. 10up’s projects have earned multiple Webby Awards, and 2 Emmy Award nominations. Part marketer, part engineer, and part UX designer, Jake has been making websites since the 1990s, is a core contributor to WordPress, has spoken at dozens of conferences, been quoted in publications like Time and CNet, and built plugins that are still active on hundreds of thousands of websites. He bootstrapped 10up from a 1 man operation in 2011 to more than 160 full timers around the globe.
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 my awesome wife, rock climbing, and adventure!
Jeremy Ward
A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Jeremy first got his start in web development as a hobby, when he learned to build static websites for his bands and friends. This part-time curiosity blossomed into interests in database queries and server-side languages, and by 2013, he began a full-time career in computer programming.
Today, Jeremy works as a Senior Back-end Engineer at WebDevStudios, where he’s passionate about software architecture, modular design, sussing out acceptance criteria for website features, and promoting the merits of the hottest new board games.
Justin Busa
Justin Busa is a developer and co-founder at FastLine Media, the parent company behind Beaver Builder. Prior to the success of Beaver Builder, FastLine Media specialized in a range of digital services for clients all over the world.
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.
Kathy Zant
Kathy has been working with WordPress for well over a decade. She leveraged her WordPress expertise to help site owners recover from hacks three years ago, and now helps agency and enterprise customers understand site security and how to get the most out of WordPress. She’s passionate about security, owning your own content, open source, helping beginners, and making technology accessible to everyone.
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 give back to the WP community on her YouTube Channel https://YouTube.com/koriashton 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.
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.
Mario Cano
Mario Cano started as a web designer in 2010 after a few years at the local Art Institute and community college. He then spent a few years as a freelancer learning as much as he could about the business and how to efficiently communicate with clients. He has been using WordPress for five years and it just makes his job much easier—effective and efficient!
Mary Baum
Mary Baum is the founder and principal of RacquetPress, a digital consultant to the tennis industry. Trained as a print designer before the web was born, Mary built her first site (wrong) in 1999 and started to learn real CSS and HTML in 2007 — at the tender age of 47.
Today she’s a big fan of design in the browser (after a few thumbnail sketches!) and all the modern CSS the browsers will support. She’s also started hanging out in the core developer chats and helping write the blog posts (and it’s giving her a swelled head.)
Also high on her list: rare steaks, homemade hot fudge sauce, high backhand volleys and high-contrast serif type; the Genesis Framework, Boeing fighter jets and repeating patterns in Illustrator; and finally, Atomic Blocks for Gutenberg and the ad court.
Matt Cromwell
Matt Cromwell is Head of Support and Community Outreach at GiveWP.com and Impress.org. He is the author of several popular free plugins and the Lead Admin of the Advanced WordPress Facebook group (which boasts over 30K+ members). He is also a popular blogger.
Michele Butcher-Jones
Michele is a WordPress Technical Specialist at Thrive Internet Marketing Agency and runs her own WordPress shop at 13Core. When not working her jobs, Michele is an organizer for WordCamp St Louis, WordCamp US 2019, and the Lead Organizer of the Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup. When not logged in to her computer, she loves traveling with her family, enjoys reading, taking pictures, and a lover of fine food and better drinks.
Michelle Schulp
Michelle is an independent graphic designer and front-end developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.
She loves the open source community, and when she is not working on projects she speaks/volunteers/organizes at events and workshops around the country. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”
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 co-founder 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.
Mitko Kochkovski
Mitko aims for perfection and he is eager to expand his knowledge and skill base and always looks forward to new challenges. His love for WordPress and the need to stay up-to-date has driven him to attend WordPress Conferences all over Europe and has benefited from his connection to the small but growing WordPress community in Macedonia. He likes to give back to the WordPress community by adding plugins and helping with core updates. Last year he founded webpigment.com that specializes in WooCommerce themes and plugins.
Natalie Bourn
Natalie Bourn is a Junior at Whitney High School and the Public Relations Officer for the school’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter. Natalie began blogging with a free account on WordPress.com and moved to a self-hosted, custom designed WordPress blog one year later. She’s been blogging for nearly seven years and writes about adventures, life lessons, her journey through school and being a teenager, and her friends and family.
When she’s not busy with homework or adventuring with her family, she loves to dance, read and write, bullet journal, and play games with her brother—she also fancies herself a Netflix connoisseur and a sleep specialist, so feel free to ask her about both.
Natalie MacLees
Natalie MacLees is an web developer and UI designer. She is founder + principal of Digita11y, an accessibility-focused interactive agency. She is the author of jQuery for Designers, now in its second edition. She was the lead organizer for WordCamp Los Angeles 2013 and 2014. She founded Website Weekend LA, a 48-hour hackathon matching web professionals with nonprofits in need to websites. Along with Nathan Tyler, she’s a founder of N Squared—a tiny software company that has made Draw Attention, Simply Schedule Appointments, Plugin Detective, and other awesome WordPress plugins. She makes her online home at nataliemac.com.
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.
Nick Leffler
Nick Leffler is the owner of Exprance, a Sacramento web design agency and several other businesses that use WordPress. Nick has been working with WordPress since about 2013 and has developed several WordPress multisites for WordPress (or Website) as a Service (WaaS).
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.
- Beaver Builder
- @robbymccullough (Twitter)
- @robbymccullough (Instagram)
Rory Heaney
Rory Heaney has led and created successful, tailored application and website solutions for top brands, including Betsy Farms and PetAction Plus as well as for celebrity personalities such as Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Emily Henderson. As the Senior Front End Developer for Cie Digital Labs, Rory steers the ideation/execution of web applications as well as mobile and portal development for clients across industries, including Pilot Flying J and Nitto Tire. He’s proficient in CSS, CSS3, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, jQeury, Vue, and PHP languages, and has successfully built more than 500 websites over the past eight years. WordPress rules, He’s out!
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.
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.
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.
Tessa Kriesel
Teaching and mentorship come naturally to dog-lover, and Developer Community Manager at CircleCI, Tessa Kriesel. She wears many hats in her life—all with sass and finesse—including instructor for Girl Develop It, organizer for WordCamp Minneapolis, and founder of Outspoken Women and Coders of Tmrw. Tessa has spoken on many topics including helping beginners with workflow, teaching on configuration management, and shedding light on conquering continuous development and deployment. She has also been a panelist on a wide range of topics at Meetups and Conferences.
When Tessa isn’t working on her front and back-end chops or mentoring junior developers, she is using her extroverted superhero skills to make people feel welcome and included at whatever event she attends be it a WordCamp, DrupalCon, or Joomla!Day.
Topher DeRosia
Topher is from Grand Rapids, Michigan where he lives with his wife, 2 daughters, and 2 little dogs. He’s been a web developer for over 25 years, a WordPress developer for 9 years, and currently works for BigCommerce bringing better eCommerce to WordPress.
Vasken Hauri
Vasken is currently the VP of Platforms and Systems at 10up, a leading provider of digital creative services for content creators. A strong believer in open source technologies, Vasken has spoken and hosted panels at numerous WordCamp, NERCOMP, and EDUCAUSE events, on subjects ranging from Green Computing to WordPress-based centralized authentication systems.
Verious Smith
Verious Smith is the Creative Director of Philoveracity Design, a firm that specializes in Interactive Brand Development with work that spans the scope of strategic planning to custom branded campaigns. Philoveracity’s clients have included everything from local & national start-ups to medium sized corporations.
He is a BFA VisCom Graduate and has a thorough command of Conceptual Communication with a myriad of mediums.
His current career focus is to build important new relationships while nurturing current connections by properly stewarding my God given time and talents.
William Earnhardt
William works as a WordPress developer and core contributor at Bluehost. He’s been doing web development for over a decade in a variety of forms—at a major university, a global non-profit, a Fortune 500 company, and as a freelancer.
Prior joining Bluehost he spent 6 years building and running WordPress multisite and multi-network environments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
When not doing WordPress things, he loves hanging out with his two sons, playing soccer, working on his old Willys Jeep, fishing (especially from a kayak) and cheering on the Tar Heels.
- https://wearnhardt.com
- @earnjam