With WordCamp DFW just 47 days away, the organizing team is ready to announce the next round of speakers for this year’s event. The schedule for WordCamp DFW 2017 will be released in the near future.
So, here is the next round of confirmed speakers for WordCamp DFW 2017:
Kevin Fontenot
Topic: Chatbots: Why Your Business Must Adopt Conversation Based Marketing
Kevin Fontenot is the Director of Marketing at TrainedUp.Church. He also likes to refer to himself as a professional interneter. In the past, he was worked on all kinds of WordPress projects including building (and selling) a marketplace built using EDD. Kevin is passionate about helping organizations reach people with marketing that is actually engaging. He lives in Carrollton, TX, with his wife Brooke and their two dogs.
Tanner Moushey
Topic: Javascript – Beyond jQuery
Tanner is a web developer and entrepreneur located in the small town of Granite Falls, Wa. He’s passionate about using technology to promote community. When he’s not tracking down new leads or coding, he loves playing music and spending time with his wife and 5 kids.
Susan Ramsey
Topic: Customizing a theme in the browser
Susan is the owner of One Happy Studio, where she creates and customize themes, and develops custom websites using the Genesis Framework. Creating the website is just part of the story for Susan – she is somewhat obsessed with the process, and loves to help others by answering support questions for a number of theme developers including Pretty Darn Cute Design, and on the StudioPress community forums. Susan is honored to be a StudioPress recommended developer.
Dave Navarro, Jr.
Topic: Advanced Custom Fields; Beyond the Basics
When not working as an International Spy for the ACME Donut Corporation, Dave lives his secret identity as a mild-mannered web developer for the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library. In additional running numerous WordPress web sites for the library system, he custom codes plugins and child themes for the library and his side-hustle as a freelance web developer. When not blending in with the general public, you will often find him out flying his camera drone or taking pictures with his extensive camera collection… usually of his teenagers, who hate having their picture taken, of course.
Aaron Campbell
Topic: The Future: Why Open Matters
Aaron is the WordPress Security Team lead, has been a regular contributor to WordPress for more than ten years, and is currently funded by GoDaddy to work full time on the WordPress open source project. He has over seventeen years of web development experience and worked with clients ranging from small local businesses to Google, Yahoo, Disney, and Harvard. He’s been called both a coffee snob and a beer snob, but considers both to be compliments. When not buried in code, he enjoys spending time with his wife and son, riding his motorcycle, and reading sci-fi/fantasy books.
Tom McCracken
Topic: Getting to ROI – The Shift to Results Oriented Google Analytics
Tom McCracken is a 20+ year web industry veteran. He has a blended background ranging across web development, UX, marketing, content strategy, data analysis, and agile project management. His passion is helping organizations leverage technology to drive measurable impact. Tom has consulted on over 100 interactive projects for organizations such as AT&T, U.S. Bank Corp, Simon & Schuster, IBM, Miami Dolphins, NEC, McDonald’s, SMU, Abbott Labs, Pratt & Whitney, ADP, E*TRADE, Nationwide Insurance, and Tektronix. An avid open source contributor, he has built more than two dozen Drupal modules and WordPress plugins. Today, his core focus is developing results-oriented, data-driven tools to enable teams to deliver decisively better web experiences and ROI.
Alex Juchniewicz
Topic: How Losing My Son Gave Birth to So Many Blessings
Originally from California, Alex now lives in Houston with his beautiful wife Marie and their cat Zeke. Having worked with WordPress since 2010, he got his real start by working as an Internet Marketer at a digital agency building WordPress sites for local SEO clients. Since then Alex has had the opportunity to work for some of the best WordPress companies in the community such as Pagely, Pantheon, and Valet (formerly WP Valet) where he had the opportunity to grow personally and professionally dealing with support, processes, partnerships, and site development. Currently he works at cPanel, Inc as a Scrum Master (Agile Coach) for an internet development team. He also leads efforts in Business Development over at Jilt.com, part of the SkyVerge family, in helping merchant store owners recover lost revenue due to abandoned cart orders. Growing up he has always had a passion for other people, whether be just talking to someone he just met or serving others by loving on them. The WordPress community has provided many opportunities to meet so many people and build relationships. If you see him walking around please do not hesitate to come up and say hello!
You can see all of the confirmed speakers here.
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s WordCamp DFW held on Nov. 11-12. There are also plenty of opportunities to sponsor the event or help run it. We hope to see you there!