We are thrilled to announce the speakers for WordCamp DFW 2019! 

• Aaron Campbell

  

  Aaron is an international speaker, open source advocate, and outgoing introvert. He’s been a regular contributor to WordPress for more than a decade, and is currently employed by GoDaddy as the head of WordPress core and ecosystem.

  @aaroncampbell

• AJ Morris

  

  AJ Morris is the Product Innovation and Marketing Manager for iThemes, a WordPress plugin and training company that helps businesses, bloggers, and freelancers protect their investments in their sites. He spends most of his time helping store or site builders solve challenging problems through online education and consulting with businesses build digital storefronts.

  @ajmorris

• Alex Juchniewicz

  

  Alex is a California native who now lives in Houston, TX with his family. Having worked with WordPress since 2010, he has had the opportunity to work for some of the top WordPress companies in the community such as Pagely, Pantheon, Valet (formerly WP Valet), cPanel, and SkyVerge, where he grew personally and professionally dealing with support, processes, partnerships, and site development. He currently works at LyntonWeb, a WordPress and Diamond level HuBspot agency partner, as a Project Manager. He is also on the partnerships team at WP&UP where he talks to companies about the mission of supporting & promoting positive mental health within the WordPress community. He’s always had a passion for other people, relationships, and being open about his story dealing with mental health and how he has navigated it. If you want to chat or hear his story, come find him and just ask.

  @atjuch

• Brent Jett

  

   Brent Jett is a designer and developer in Plano, Tx and the Design Lead at Beaver Builder. He has a cute beagle and loves filling the web with pictures of him. Brent loves working on tools for creating things on the open web and helping web creatives do their work better.

  @brentjett

• Bridget Willard

  

  Bridget Willard is a marketing consultant who brings her teaching and accounting background together to help small businesses. She began her marketing career in construction, then worked in franchise development, nonprofits, and tech. She is especially known for her brand building for Riggins Construction, GiveWP, and the Make WordPress Marketing Team.

  Website: Bridget Willard |@youtoocanbeguru

• Cory Webb

  

  Cory Webb is a senior full stack developer at Reaktiv Studios. When he’s not busy manipulating 1’s and 0’s, you can usually find him spending time with his wife and 3 kids, traveling, watching movies, and serving at his local church.

  @corywebb

• Dave Ryan

  

  Dave Ryan is an Interdisciplinary WordPress Developer at Bluehost, where he focuses on helping build WordPress and supporting the WordPress community.

  Website: Dave Ryan | @0aveRyan

• Deepti Boddapati

  

  Deepti is a self taught developer who caught the coding bug when she worked on building websites with WordPress at an online marketing firm. Since then she has gone on to freelance for large and small companies such as WPEngine, and work at agencies like Crowd Favorite. Now, she works as a WordPress developer at Indeed. Outside of work, Deepti is active in the WordPress community. She has given talks at WordCamp and in her local WordPress community in Austin. When she’s not passionately working on WordPress, she bird watches, watches anime, studies music, and writes poetry.

  @Deeptiboddapati

• Desiree Johnson

  

  Desiree is a passionate writer and storyteller who advocates for diverse and multiracial audiences. She currently works as a WordPress Content Specialist for Bluehost and enjoys all facets of WordPress. You can catch her front and center for a weekend movie or sweating it out at the gym.

  @dezij7

• Dominick Montgomery

  

  I’m inspired by the vision and intricacies of internet marketing and motivated by creating great content that is effective in opening the doors for engagement. At the beginning of 2015, I decided to venture off on my own after working for agencies for 5+ years. I grew tired of the “quantity-over-quality” method of thinking and started The Montgomery Group. TMG focuses on “digital brand advancement”. We pride ourselves in actually taking the time to learn about a customer’s company and provide them with whatever tools we feel will help them reach their goals quickly and effectively. I embrace challenges, take educated risks, and learn from failures.

  @Dominick_TMG

• Elisha and Elyssa Fernandez

  

  Elisha and Elyssa are homeschooled 16 and 15 year-old sisters, best-selling authors, artists, entrepreneurs, and public speakers. They live in Fort Worth with their mom and sisters Eliana and Elydia. They wrote I Love ME! at ages nine and ten, because they love helping other kids become bully-proof, love themselves, and be the best they can be. They teach children and teens to love themselves and have self-confidence through their books, blog posts, and artistic expressions.

  Website: WhollyART | @whollyart

• Heather Baker

  

  Heather’s love of tech and branding became a multi-industry digital marketing career. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs create and execute killer marketing strategy. Currently Heather lives in Houston with her husband & two dogs.

  @heatherthedogs

• James Bullis

  

  James Bullis is a marketing technologist based out of Jenks, OK. Twenty years ago he taught himself how to code in HTML with a borrowed library book, a pen, and paper. He didn’t even have access to a computer or the Internet. Since that time, he has been passionate about helping people get online so that they can make an impact on the world. James is passionate about helping people create attractive websites that capture leads and educate their prospects so that they can sell their products or services.

  @jmbullis

• John Bloch

  

  John has spent much of the last decade working with, speaking about, and advocating for WordPress as an excellent palette on which to paint a beautiful web.

  Website: John Bloch

• Justin Kopepasah

  

  My first experience with computers was in grade school with the same teacher who introduced me to tennis. While I did not grow up to be a tennis champion, my love for technology never faded and lead into a long term passion for open source and the World Wide Web.

  @kopepasah

• Keisha McKinney

  

  Keisha (Pittman) McKinney lives in South Arkansas with her husband and sweet Boxer, Bailey and her new little man! Keisha is passionate about connecting people and building community, seeking solutions to the everyday big and small things, and encouraging others through the mundane, hard, and typical that life often brings. She put her communications background to work as a former Non-profit Executive Director, college recruiter and fundraiser, and Digital Media Director at a large church in Northwest Arkansas. Now she is using all of those experiences as Founder of Arkansas Influencers, a social media marketing talent agency, McKinney Media Solutions and her blog @bigpittstop which includes daily adventures, cooking escapades, #bigsisterchats, the social justice cases on her heart, and all that she is learning as a #boymom!

• Kimberly Lipari

  

  I am a wife and mother of 3 living in Louisiana. I started in WordPress writing plugin documentation and doing support for WPMUDEV. I had the great fortune to help roll out the original WordPress maintenance company nearly a decade ago. Since then I’ve been helping in the day to day operations of Valet, formerly WP Valet, covering everything from support to HR to my current role as CEO. I am a certified Yoga Teacher and enjoy learning about ways we can better understand and balance ourselves.

  Website: Valet.io | @thewpvalet

• Kyle Van Deusen

  

  After spending 15 years in print as a graphic designer I decided to leave the employed world & start my own WordPress business. While the experience in design was helpful, it was my business knowledge that helped me be profitable from day 1.

  Website: OGAL Web Design | @kylevandeusen

• LaToya Frazier

  

  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 program launches driving efficiency and results.

• Michael Perrin

  

  I am a full-stack developer from France, currently living in Texas. I have developed an expertise on PHP development (mainly with Symfony) and React. This different background made me have a different approach on WordPress, which has been a good choice for some projects I have worked on.

  @michael_perrin

• Mike Demo

  

  Former MousePlanet MouseStation Podcast co-host Mike “Demo” Demopoulos is a lover of open source first, specific tools later. Because of this, he speaks at Ignite! Conferences, Meetups, WordCamps, Joomla! Events, and more. Mike volunteers with The Joomla! Project as the former treasurer of Open Source Matters (the not for profit organization for Joomla!) as well as serving on the Joomla! board. Mike Demopoulos has spoken on various open source topics including WordPress and Joomla! in addition to marketing-related talks which include A/B testing content. Before coming to BoldGrid as a community evangelist, Mike spent years building a strong client base in the financial and insurance industries. He believes in sharing his business acumen and marketing insight as it fits within his main goal of building a community. When he’s not spending time with his wife Kayla, you may find Demo at a Disney Theme park, collecting artwork, or hanging out with his dog B’Elanna.

  @mpmike

• Nathan Allotey

  

  Nathan is a web designer and digital marketing strategist based in Houston, TX. He first started working with WordPress in 2009 after taking a position at one of the leading web hosting companies. Since that time he founded inPhocus Media, an independent web design studio that uses WordPress as a part of their digital marketing strategy.

  Nathan holds an MBA from the University of Houston and has been freelancing for 10 years. 

  Nathan is the author of Freelance Jumpstart, a clear step by step guide to the business of freelancing for creative entrepreneurs. You can find Nathan teaching on business, creativity and marketing on YouTube as well as the Freelance Jumpstart Podcast.

  Website: Nathan Allotey | @nathanallotey

• Nathan Blair

  

  Nathan is a Web Developer on the Marketing team at Indeed. Before learning to code, Nathan spent years building a successful freelance career as a Cinematographer in New York City. He went from scraping the bottom of Craigslist for the oddest of odd jobs to being on set with celebrities like Kate McKinnon and Stephen Baldwin. Over the years, he was gradually drawn toward web development, and this eventually became his passion when he developed custom WordPress themes for actors. After moving to Austin in 2015, Nathan fully committed to the tech industry. He worked for the tech startup, Givepulse, for two years and helped them to double their active users. He did contract work for a large energy consultancy named 5, building custom analytics software that shaved hours off their work every week. He also took on freelance consulting work with renowned Austin architect and UT professor, Larry Speck, helping him to redesign his website for modern best practices. Nathan loves bringing ideas to life with cutting edge technology. Outside work he also loves photography, gardening and travel.

• Nathan Ingram

  

  Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.

  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 working with clients to build websites since 1995. He is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he has been an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham (WP Y’all) for several years.

  Website: Nathan Ingram | @nathaningram

• Nick Batik

  

  I’m an inventor, story teller, artist, traveler, martial artist, and programmer whose learned and used more computer technologies than most people know exist.

  @nick_batik

• Patrick Garman

  

• Sandi Batik

  

  Sandi co-founded Pleiades Services in 1992 and is a Business Process Analyst and Project Manager. She has been a Co-organizer of the Austin WordPress Meetup since 2010 and Co-Organizer of the Austin WooCommerce Meetup since 2015.

  @sandi_batik

• Sandy Edwards

  

  Sandy is the Owner of Data Driven Labs and has been in the WordPress space since 2014. She has a passion for education and helping others find their niche. She teaches kids across the country about how to engage with writing through blogging. She can be found on Twitter at @Sunsanddesign, on her business site, DataDrivenLabs.io, on her hobby site FloridaSunAdventures and on her personal site at SandyEdwards.me.

• Sara Graybill

  

• Shay Banks

  

  Hi my name is Shay Banks and I am a digital marketer. I help small businesses and soloprenuers get a steady flow of leads and sales online using proven strategies.

• Stefanie Young

  

  Stefanie is a front-end web developer who works first-hand with clients and their users to create fantastic UI/UX through interactive and responsive designs. She has taught and spoken on the subject of responsive design, SEO and asset control at local venues, coding schools, and conferences across the US. She has a serious passion for user experiences and the ability to access products and information via mobile devices. She loves educating business owners on using websites to help profit, user retention, and internal business development.

  Website: Innov8

• Stevica Golosin

  

  WordPress Specialist (developer, designer, implementer), SEO Specialist 10+ years. Software Engineer

  Website: Actual SEO Media | @golosins

• Toyin AKinmusuru

  

  Toyin is a longtime web developer and software architect based in Austin, Texas. He has worked on an assorted array of commerce packages and teaches the basics of ecomm at the WooCommerce meetup in Austin. Toyin primarily develops for Magento and has worked on ecommerce site for large retailers like Balfour, Kendra Scott and Canon USA. In his non-work time, Toyin tinkers with what he calls his greatest project, daughter Annika.

  @mrosprey

• Treva Marshall

  

  By day, Treva Marshall is a Technical Consultant at a financial software company and by side hustle, she works as a webmaster serving solo entrepreneurs through her company Marshall Web Studio. Treva also mentors other ambitious women on how to start a side business while working in their day job so they can enjoy a creative outlet and profitable passion alongside a successful corporate career. Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Search Engine Journal, and more. When Treva isn’t geeking out on WordPress, websites and business, you can find her planning out her family’s next road trip adventure.

• Victory Harbin

  

  Victory Harbin is a content strategist who helps businesses get their messages online. She helps remove nonsensical corporate-speak from their message and replace it with authentic language that helps them connect with their audience.