Speakers

  • AmyJune Hineline

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    AmyJune Hineline is the Open Source Community Ambassador and QA Engineer at Kanopi Studios. She co-organize various open-source camps and conventions throughout North America, empowering individuals to forge deep community connections. Her ongoing experience as a hospice nurse keeps her in touch with the challenges faced by many end-users.

  • Ashiquzzaman Kiron

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    A professional WordPress marketing guy with developing experience, working at weDevs as Digital Marketing Manager. He’s been involved with WordPress since 2014 and founded few companies along the way – Asphalt Themes & wpplugindiretory.org. When not involved with WordPress, he loves to go out for long-distance runs.

  • Brenda Malone

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    Brenda Malone is a self-taught Technical SEO Specialist and front-end web developer. She currently works at Advance Local as a key member of the SEO and WebDev teams. Her passion is an intersection of helping people and a love of web technology. She has decades of conventional marketing, corporate communication and website development experience. Fun fact, her sister, then seven years old, was allowed to name her after the current famous singer, Brenda Lee.

  • Chris McGrath

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    Chris McGrath (@wp_contractors) is a veteran developer, entrepreneur and strategic advisor. He has started an agency and staffing platform and grown them both successfully to seven figures. He has also worked on contract and via his agency for some of the largest brands. In 2019 his company Esteemed founded WPContractors.com, a platform with 250+ WP developers available for hire.

  • Cousett Hoover

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    Cousett has been working, designing, developing, and teaching WordPress since 2005. Former academic and Educational Technology Ph.D. Student turned Mompreneur with a mission to empowering all to automate, build, and grow their business. Cousett has been featured in several summits including Social Media into the Next Decade, Passive Profit Summit, Blogger Breakthrough Summit. Podcasts have included Women in WordPress and others. She is also a regular contributor to the WordPress community and can be found organizing and speaking at various WordCamps.

    Cousett is known as Techie Mamma. She is the mom of 2 boys and loves all things tech-related. Cousett teaches DIY Mompreneurs how to maximize technology, so they can scale their business, and live the lifestyle they want. The Tribe Membership helps DIY Mompreneurs learn all the technology and strategies needed to succeed. DIY Mompreneur Life FB Group and Blog focuses on all things from home life to raising kids and beyond.

  • Craig West

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    Craig is freelance trainer and architect that focuses on bringing together the WP and non-WP worlds by advocating WP-HTML, ‘where there is HTML, there is WP’.

    He is based in Brighton and attends the local WordUp meetings. With a previous career in business and accounting, as well as having run his own non-IT business, Craig can speak both technical and business. He believes that technology serves the user, not the other way around, so the user experience is paramount.

    He has started to speak at WP and non-WP events and is interested in Web Components, Progressive Web Apps, RxJS and WP REST API with a developing interest in pages that are ‘instant’ and/or offline capable.

  • Daisy Olsen

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    Daisy has worked in and around the WordPress community since 2007. She has spoken at WordCamps in New York City, Boston, Chicago, India, and Greece. She also helped to organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010. Currently, Daisy works for Automattic as a Developer Relations contributor on the WordPress open source project. In her spare time, you’ll often find Daisy listening to audiobooks while knitting. She loves to travel with her family and has often spent many weeks throughout the year visiting different places.

  • Joe A Simpson Jr

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    During endless, sun-soaked days Joe A Simpson Jr works at Metro LA, one of the largest transit agencies in the country, fighting the good fight to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County. Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, Joe A Simpson Jr pivoted, focusing FIRST on rediscovering the things he truly loved — WordPress, creative passions, teaching tech, and truly giving back.

    He twilights by actively contributing to the WordPress Community — founding two WordPress-based Meetups (WordPress, Elementor), speaking or volunteering at WordCamps, is currently on the Organizing team for WordCamp Santa Clarita 2021, part of a WordPress initiative at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), and is a SiteGround Ambassador.

    Joe is a fledgling Front-End Web Developer, User-Experience Designer, a11y advocate specializing in WordPress solutions, and the host of the Back Down Memory Lane Podcast.

  • Kyle Maurer

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    Kyle is an ambitious creator who lives to bridge gaps and bring people together. He used to be an entrepreneur but in 2017 walked away from the marketing agency he had cofounded five years prior. Since then he’s been working for Sandhills Development, a software company primarily focused on WordPress plugins. He’s currently the Director of Operations and also Product Manager for Easy Digital Downloads.

    Kyle’s background includes lots of web development, marketing, management, teaching, public speaking, consulting, event organizing, podcasting, and product management.

    He is also a father of three, a Toastmaster club president, a musician in a band, a craft beer lover, and a travel enthusiast.

  • Maestro Stevens

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    Maestro Stevens loves helping minority-owned brands connect with their audience utilizing marketing strategy and automation. He is the founder of The Iconic Expressions marketing consultancy specializing in content marketing strategy based in Ohio.

    Fun facts about Maestro: he’s a life-hacking martech nerd who loves Marvel movies and engineering with WordPress plugins.

  • Megan Rose

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    Megan is a web developer in the Cleveland area specializing in WordPress. She is currently a Senior Developer at Blackbird Digital, an award-winning digital agency. Megan was first introduced to coding through Neopets.

    Megan co-organizes her local WordPress Meetup, was on the organizing team for WordCamp Kent, and volunteers for Cleveland GiveCamp. She’s also a co-host of Blackbird Digital’s WordPress podcast, In The Loop!

  • Michelle Frechette

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    Michelle Frechette is the Head of Customer Success at GiveWP. Michelle and the Customer Success team work with fundraisers all over the world to make the world a better place. Part of that is helping customers evaluate their websites and researching what works to convert site visitors to supporters and donors.

    In addition to her work at GiveWP, Michelle is the Podcast Barista at WPCoffeeTalk.com, co-founder of underrepresentedintech.com, creator of wpcareerpages.com, a volunteer for BigOrangeHeart.org, author, business coach, and a frequent speaker at WordPress events. You can find out more at her website WorksByMichelle.com.

  • Mikaël Mayer

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    Mikaël Mayer has a PhD in Computer Science and just finished his postdoc research at the University of Chicago. Former Googler and Microsoft researcher, Mikaël is the inventor of two software patents.
    On the side Mikaël is a multimedia artist.

    Mikaël’s mission is to make programming languages and websites more accessible.

  • Mike Straw

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    Mike first used WordPress in 2008, and turned into a “WordPress professional” in 2017 when he joined Automattic as a WordPress.com Happiness Engineer. He’s now wrangling code on the WooCommerce.com website.

    When he’s not learning and writing code, Mike leads the Athens, Ohio, WordPress meetup and helps write the rules of roller derby. Once the world returns, he’ll return to refereeing roller derby.

  • Ronald Gijsel

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    I am the partnership manager for YITH, Co-host for WooCommerce London, and the WooCommerce Builder Community Events from Do the Woo, together with Bob. Before all these roles in the Woo ecosystem, I built many stores and helped entrepreneurs to start selling online.

  • Steve Grunwell

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    Steve Grunwell is a Senior Software Engineer at Liquid Web, working primarily on the Managed WordPress and WooCommerce platforms. Specializing in WordPress and web application development, he has a passion for teaching and contributing back to the development community through speaking, blogging, and open-source work.

    When he’s not writing tests or finding new ways to automate the world around him, Steve is off spending time with his family, enjoying a fine cup of coffee, playing guitar, or otherwise getting away from the keyboard.