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 …
Category Archives: WordCamp Ottawa 2019
Speaker Spotlight: Chris Wiegman
Chris is an Senior Software Engineer at WP Engine who has been working with WordPress since 2008. He built one of the largest security plugins on WordPress.org, WordPress plugins and themes, Google Chrome extensions, WordPress development environments and solutions for sites large and small. When not writing code, Chris, a teacher at heart, has presented …
Speaker Spotlight: Christie Witt
Christie Witt is the lead designer for the Canadian Physiotherapy Association in Ottawa. She’s been a member of the WordCamp Ottawa organizing team since 2017. She has spoken at WordCamp Toronto, WordCamp Ottawa and the WordPress Ottawa Meetup. She’s passionate about goal-oriented design, user-experience design, and has deployed corporate re-brands across both print and digital …
Speaker Spotlight: Paul Bearne
Paul is a Senior WordPress Full Stack Developer (Paul & Gina Bearne) and Partner/Developer at Matador Software, LLC Paul will be speaking at 2:00pm on Saturday, July 13th in the Rideau room. He will also be running a workshop on Sunday, July 14th at 2:00pm in the Manotick room. His talk is entitled, Child Themes …
Speaker Spotlight: Matt Graham
Matt is a jack of all technical trades – development, devops, and he has a wire for pretty much anything. His day-to-day includes working on a start-up, troubleshooting WordPress sites and managing more servers than he thought he ever would. Helping people is what gets him up in the morning, and he uses his knowledge …
Guest Post : Be selected as the case study!
Guest post by Shanta R. Nathwani. Are you planning on attending my workshop, “How to organize your content through navigation and wayfinding” at WordCamp Ottawa on Sunday? Would you like to be selected as our case study that day? Fill in this form! Make sure you buy your ticket first! If you have any questions, …
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Speaker Spotlight: Jamie Oastler
Jamie is one who believes there will be time to rest when you’re dead. He’s a developer for Gravity Flow, one of the best business process management plugins available for WordPress. He is also the lead PHP/WordPress developer at Innovapost and an important DevOps resource for the Canada Post Group of Companies. His experiences across …
Speaker Spotlight: Devon Kunkel
Devon has an educational background in Interactive Multimedia from Algonquin College. Throughout his time at Algonquin he was valued as a quick learner that enabled him to focus on both the creative and technical sides of web development. Being involved from the beginning of a project right through to the completion of a website makes …
Speaker Spotlight: Amy Lynch
Amy Lynch is a writer and freelancer focused on travel, international family life, creativity and flexible work. She is founder of ‘Babies, Business + Breakfast’, a community for parents who want to invest in themselves alongside their loved ones. As a former expat, she currently lives in Ottawa with her young international family, where she …
Speaker Spotlight: Felice Miranda
Felice is: *Recipient of the Mayor’s Community Builder Award for being on the United Way Speakers Bureau.* Advocate for people with intellectual disabilities and mental health*Inspirational speaker*Award winning Real Estate Agent for the past 20 years*Stand-Up Comedian*Producer of a monthly Stand-Up Comedy show, raising over $3000 for charity in the last 5 years.*Award winning parent. …