Speaker Spotlight: Ron Rennick

Ron helped bring WordPress multi-site into WordPress core. Over the last 13 years he has made regular contributions to the WordPress community – sometimes working full time on those contributions. Ron qualified with honours in Computer Programming Technology from New Brunswick Community College – but he also puts his knowledge down to life long learning. …

Speaker Spotlight: Michael Benoit

Michael Benoit is a migrations specialist at Rebel.com, a hosting company and domain name registrar, where he crushes other hosting companies’ dreams by seamlessly migrating their customers’ sites. Mike’s approach is full concept, providing top quality support and recommending a variety of hosting platform solutions for both websites and email.In his down time, Mike dives …

Speaker Spotlight: Frederic Sune

I am a Creative Multipreneur – a person with multiple interests and talents who is happiest and most fulfilled when developing multiple profit centers and pursuing multiple careers. I am also the CEO of WP Expert, a web agency that builds websites only using WordPress. I love helping entrepreneurs & working on multiple projects at …

Speakers Spotlight: Stephanie Fournier and Michael Bontyes

Michael started building websites with WordPress 10 years ago. Since then, many things change in the CMS but one remains the same: his enthusiasm to learn and discover new ways to make the web better, especially for end users and content managers. Today, Michael is a technical lead for a digital agency where he contributes …

Speaker Spotlight: Miriam Goldman

Miriam is the lead developer at Pondstone Digital Marketing. She started playing around with WordPress for personal projects in 2009, and for professional projects two years later. Miriam speaks at various WordCamps across North America, and is also a mentor and instructor for Ottawa’s chapter of Canada Learning Code. She has been a member of the …

Speaker Spotlight: Jean-Francois Arseneault

Jean-François is Co-Founder of SatelliteWP (a WordPress maintenance server), has been using WP for 14 years, participates as speaker / volunteer at WordCamp Montreal since 2010 and since 2018, supervises the translation of WordPress, Beaver Builder and WP Rocket in “Français du Canada”. In his spare time, he’s preparing for his marathon… of 10km, and …

Speaker Spotlight: Paul Thompson

Often called a geek translator by his clients, Paul specialises in helping website owners and creators transform the buzzwords of web marketing into business results for bloggers and small/medium businesses as well as enterprise clients. As an SEO and web marketing consultant at Buzzwords to Business https://www.buzzwordstobusiness.com, Thompson focuses on optimising existing sites into powerful …

Thank you to our Gold level sponsors!

WordCamps could not run without the help of sponsors. We want to give a shoutout to them, for helping us make WordCamp Ottawa a success! Thank you to the following Gold level sponsors. GreenGeeks GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated hosting provider. Our specially engineered platform offers WordPress users web hosting that is designed for …

Speaker Spotlight: Shanta R. Nathwani

Shanta has spoken at more than 30 WordCamps, mostly in beginner and content architecture talks. She was a professor in Web Design and Development at Sheridan College for 5 years before joining Weever Apps Inc. in Hamilton, Ontario a year ago as the Customer Service Co-ordinator. She is now the Quality Assurance Supervisor, overseeing the …

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