Author Archives: Rick Radko

Ariadni Athanassiadis is an attorney advising entrepreneurs and professionals about their opportunities to make their expertise, innovations and creativity work for their enterprises and the communities they serve.  Drawing upon her combined experience in science, the arts, teaching and business, … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Ariadni Athanassiadis →

Joey is a Code Wrangler at Automattic, where he works on partnerships, third party integrations, APIs and other projects for WordPress.com. He contributes to several open-source projects including WordPress.org plugins and WordPress core. Joey’s also an enthusiastic world traveller and … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Joey Kudish →

Shanta R. Nathwani is an IT and Social Media Consultant and an Instructor in Web Design and CCIT Capstone at Sheridan College, which includes teaching WordPress. The ICCIT program is a joint program with the University of Toronto at Mississauga. … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Shanta Nathwani →

Julie loves to play with words – for business and pleasure. As an independent communications consultant with CaffeineCommunications.ca, Julie develops strategies and creates content for businesses. As a personal blogger, she shares travel tales and family anecdotes on CoffeeWithJulie.ca. She’s … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Julie Harrison →

Shawn Hooper has been a web developer for almost 20 years, creating applications for both the public and the private sectors.  He is a GIAC certified secure software programmer. At Fivesense Technologies, his current projects include work in e-commerce, 3rd … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Shawn Hooper →

Ben Fox is an entrepreneur, consultant and tech skills instructor. He and his team are based out of the Ryerson Digital Media Zone in Toronto. A self-described geek of all trades, he’s that guy you call when {insert technology here} … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Ben Fox →

Alison Barrett has been working with WordPress since 2008, when she started building custom sites for clients and creating plugins for fun. She enjoys speaking at WordCamps and various local meetups, and is a passionate advocate for women in WordPress … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Alison Barrett →

With 17 years of Internet marketing experience, Brian is a strategic consultant, entrepreneur, author, and speaker. As the head of well-established brands such as Uniseo (a boutique Internet marketing agency) and RedstoneX.com (a web design and online marketing company), he … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Brian Rotsztein →

Brendan Sera-Shriar a.k.a. digibomb Brendan Sera-Shriar has been an interactive designer, developer, college and university professor, community manager, author, consultant, and professional speaker at some of the largest corporations and festivals in the world, including Microsoft, Mozilla Firefox, Sun Microsystems, … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Brendan Sera-Shriar →

A newspaper reporter by trade, Christoph left the newspaper industry in 2007 to research, write and produce training videos for the U.S. financial services industry. He then started a community news site and currently works as a communications executive in … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Christoph Trappe →