The response to our call for speakers has been fantastic.
Speakers and sessions
We’ve started presenting details about our speakers and sessions, and plan to complete the line-ups soon.
Meanwhile, here’s a list of confirmed speakers along with a little information cribbed from our Speakers page, where you can learn more about them.
WordCamp Ottawa 2016 speakers announced so far include:
- Michelle Ames, the owner and marketing diva at Marketing by Michelle, where she makes a living though WordPress
- Jonathan Bardo, a senior product engineer at GoDaddy who engineers and scales WordPress products, and enjoys crunching data
- David Bird, the owner of Bird’s Eye Marketing who uses data to guide content development and better marketing decisions
- Stéphane Boisvert, a team lead for WordPress.com VIP who consults clients on architectural decisions and helps review code for security and performance
- Mike Dickson, a programmer and WordPress web developer who has contributed to the WordPress core and engaged in custom theme and plugin development
- Ryan Erwin, a web strategist at Orbit Media and CTO of Internet Marketing Chicago who is the lead organizer of WordCamp Chicago and Startup Weekend Chicago
- Miriam Goldman, a front-end web developer specializing in WordPress and focusing mainly on theme and plugin enhancement
- Brian Hogg, the creator of Event Calendar Newsletter who is a lead organizer of WordCamp Hamilton and a WordPress consultant
- Alison Knott, a web designer who runs the WordPress Halifax Meetup as well as E3C, a meetup for visual artists
- Jamie Oastler, lead WordPress developer at Innovapost who works as a front-end designer, plugin developer, DevOps resource or solution architect
- Anthony D Paul, who builds great digital experiences and software through usability research, IA concepts and prototypes
- Jonathan Perlman, a web develop and teacher at Dawson College who builds custom web solutions and creates custom themes and plugins
- Kathryn Presner, a theme whisperer with Automattic, where she helps folks with customization, configuration and troubleshooting
- Rick Radko, owner of R-Cubed Design Forge, where he develops custom plugins, themes and multilingual web sites, and a WordCamp Ottawa 2016 organizer who led the launch of the first Ottawa WordCamp and is a founder and organizer of the Ottawa WordPress Meetup
- Jai Sangha, who writes posts for two eCommerce blogs, works in the digital strategy team at TD Bank in Canada and does freelance web strategy
- Toufic Sbeiti, manager of the web operations team at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada managing day-to-day postings to web sites, leading major web projects, and providing guidance and recommendations to implement web accessibility standards and responsive design approaches
- Jordan St Jacques, owner of Digitera Interactive and founder of LottoProxy.com who currently is extensively researching web security for WordPress sites
- T-Rave, a happiness engineer at Flywheel managed WordPress hosting who dabbles in code when time allows
- Jasmine Vesque, a digital and design officer at the Micronutrient Initiative and a freelance web specialist, consultant and trainer who is in her third year as a WordCamp Ottawa organizer
Ticket sales
With speakers being announced and the schedule nearly ready, tickets are going to sell fast. Don’t miss out—get yours now!
