With WordCamp DFW just 31 days away, the organizing committee is ready to announce the second round of speakers for this year’s event.
So, without any further delay, here are the second round of confirmed speakers for WordCamp DFW 2018:
Nick Batik
Topic: Rapid Application Development with the PODS Framework
Nick Batik Chief Technical Officer, Senior WordPress Back-end Developer & Information Architect Nick Batik co-founded Pleiades Publishing Services in 1992, has been building websites since 1994 and has been a WordPress consultant and developer since 2007. A WordPress Evangelist, and a Co-organizer of the Austin WordPress Meetup, he has presented technical WordPress classes at numerous meetups, PodCamps and WordCamps. Nick specializes in the system design and implementation of custom, often complex WordPress-based solutions that address client data management issues. As the back-end developer, he creates the core computational logic of the website or information system to implement the customized functionality. Nick has dedicated his professional career to information architecture and information design.
Sara Graybill
Topic: Working with a developer on your next website project
Sara is the owner of Graybill Creative and a WordPress developer. She creates custom WordPress websites for designers that are beautiful and easy for their clients to use. She also organizes the OKC WordPress Users Group where she works to get the word out about WordPress. When she isn’t building websites you can find Sara outside with her husband chasing their son.
Gayle Williams
Topic: Born This Way
Gayle Williams, owner of Vision Marketing in Sarasota, FL, has spent the majority of her career as a marketing professional directing marketing operations for not-for-profits and small businesses. Gayle moved over to agency account management in 2002 and founded her own agency in 2008. From directing strategy and client relations she moved into hands-on design and development—growing in the opposite direction than most designers has had its strategic advantages. Today she runs a thriving digital marketing and WordPress design business from her home office and enjoys the work-family balance it provides. Gayle was an early inbound marketing adopter as a Hubspot partner agency and maintains her Inbound Marketing certification. She is also a WP Elevation-certified Digital Business Consultant. At WordCamp Dallas-Ft. Worth Gayle will be talking about those parts of her life that might be surprising, but that’s the fun of it, right?
Aaron Edwards
Topic: Building API Services for your Plugins Using the WordPress REST API
CTO of WPMU DEV (140+ premium plugins, services, and support) and Edublogs (hosting 3 million+ education blogs), managing a large team of developers and sysadmins around the globe. Cloud architect and WordPress plugin developer specializing in Multisite for 10 years, working from home in Dallas. Proud father of 3 and a world travel nut.
Pratik Ghela
Topic: Our 6 months journey around AMP, WordPress & AMP Stories
Pratik Ghela has been working on WordPress since 2011 and has worked on 500+ WordPress projects for clients across the world. His core interest has now focused to Customer Satisfaction. Apart from just working as a bridge between his Dev Team and Clients, he regularly keeps an eye over upcoming technologies. Currently, he is working exclusively on Google AMP based projects and developing a product MakeStories for building web based stories.
Cate DeRosia
Topic: Finding Work in WordPress When You’re Not a Developer or Designer
In 1994, I left my incredibly small town for what I thought would be a short 4-year tour in Grand Rapids, MI where I planned to pitch a little softball and get my teaching degree. Instead, I met my husband who’d just fallen in love with website development, as well as me, and the rest was a whirlwind I could have never imagined. I exchanged the dreams I had to take on the full-time education of our two daughters. But now, as the youngest graduates this year, it’s my turn. I am embracing this next stage of life full on. Instead of taking a well-deserved vacation, I’m using what I’ve learned from twenty years of contracting alongside my husband to branch out on my own. Recently I soft-launched my business, Paradev.io, where I use my language, communication, and operations skills to make developers lives easier.
LaToya Frazier
Topic: Managing Your WordPress Projects With Ease
LaToya is an Online Project Manager who helps busy entrepreneurs streamline their processes and get their creative ideas out into the world. She gets excited about timelines, due dates and clear plans. She has over a decade of project management and consulting expertise and a knack for translating project needs in a way that makes them understandable and executable. With a foundation in learning and development, business operations, process improvements, and new products she uses her skills in project management and digital marketing to specialize in managing membership and e-learning site launches driving efficiency and results.
Doug Stewart
Topic: WP Local SEO Basics: How to Get Your WordPress Powered Website Listed in Google’s Local Map Pack
Doug Stewart is a former tech salesperson turned SEO professional. Doug started what is now DSC Web Services, Inc. in 1999. Doug taught a class helping small business owners get found online at Tulsa Tech. He also spoke at several Social Media Tulsa conferences and a 140 Characters Conference.
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s WordCamp DFW held on Nov. 10-11. There are also plenty of opportunities to sponsor the event or help run it. We hope to see you there!