{"id":1022,"date":"2016-05-17T18:16:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2016-05-31T20:58:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:58:19","slug":"speakers-line-up-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ottawa.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speakers-line-up-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers Line-up Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The response to our call for speakers has been fantastic.<\/p>\n<h2>Speakers and sessions<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve started presenting details about our speakers and <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/sessions\/\">sessions<\/a>, and plan to complete the line-ups soon.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here\u2019s a list of confirmed speakers along with a little information cribbed from our <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/our-speakers\/\">Speakers<\/a> page, where you can learn more about them.<\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Ottawa 2016 speakers announced so far include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michelle Ames, the owner and marketing diva at Marketing by Michelle, where she makes a living though WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Bardo, a senior product engineer at GoDaddy who engineers and scales WordPress products, and enjoys crunching data<\/li>\n<li>David Bird, the owner of Bird\u2019s Eye Marketing who uses data to guide content development and better marketing decisions<\/li>\n<li>St\u00e9phane Boisvert, a team lead for WordPress.com VIP who consults clients on architectural decisions and helps review code for security and performance<\/li>\n<li>Mike Dickson, a programmer and WordPress web developer who has contributed to the WordPress core and engaged in custom theme and plugin development<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>Miriam Goldman, a front-end web developer specializing in WordPress and focusing mainly on theme and plugin enhancement<\/li>\n<li>Brian Hogg, the creator of Event Calendar Newsletter who is a lead organizer of WordCamp Hamilton and a WordPress consultant<\/li>\n<li>Alison Knott, a web designer who runs the WordPress Halifax Meetup as well as E3C, a meetup for visual artists<\/li>\n<li>Jamie Oastler, lead WordPress developer at Innovapost who works as a front-end designer, plugin developer, DevOps resource or solution architect<\/li>\n<li>Anthony D Paul, who builds great digital experiences and software through usability research, IA concepts and prototypes<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Perlman, a web develop and teacher at Dawson College who builds custom web solutions and creates custom themes and plugins<\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Presner, a theme whisperer with Automattic, where she helps folks with customization, configuration and troubleshooting<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>Jordan St Jacques, owner of Digitera Interactive and founder of LottoProxy.com who currently is extensively researching web security for WordPress sites<\/li>\n<li>T-Rave, a happiness engineer at Flywheel managed WordPress hosting who dabbles in code when time allows<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ticket sales<\/h2>\n<p>With speakers being announced and the schedule nearly ready, tickets are going to sell fast. Don\u2019t miss out\u2014get yours <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.ottawa.wordcamp.org\/register\/\">now<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The response to our call for speakers has been fantastic. Speakers and sessions We\u2019ve started presenting details about our speakers and sessions, and plan to complete the line-ups soon. 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