Ari Black is Content Circus Ringmaster at WebMarketers, a boutique digital marketing agency based in Ottawa. He comes from an old school, Mad-Men-esque advertising background, having made the leap to digital to avoid becoming a dinosaur. He’s still admittedly an old man (relatively speaking) playing a young person’s game, but welcomes the challenge and embraces …
Category Archives: WordCamp Ottawa 2019
Thank you to our Silver 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 Silver level sponsors. Dreamhost Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers worldwide bring their dreams to life on the Internet. A …
Speaker Spotlight: Kevin Andrews
Kevin is a User Experience Developer with 5+ years of experience working in the web development industry. He currently works for a Westboro based web design/development agency called Industrial and have worked with them for nearly his entire career. He has worked with many different tech stacks but Kevin focus primarily on WordPress and Drupal …
Speaker Spotlight: Tricia Isham
Tricia is a web designer who creates sites for small service-based businesses. She believes every business deserves a strategic, professional-looking website, not just a pretty one. She goes the extra mile to help business owners get online and loves to come alongside others and help them learn WordPress. Tricia will be speaking at 11:00am on …
Speaker Spotlight: Amy Young
WordPress GeekIndie AuthorDisability/accessibility advocate (visually/physically impaired)Sometimes programmer Amy will be speaking at 11:00am on Saturday, July 13th in the Parliament room. Her talk is entitled, WordPress and Accessibility. Easy ways to make your WordPress site more accessibility friendly without sacrificing speed and appeal to a non-impaired audience.
Pre-Camp Hallway Track Tips & Topics of Interest Questionnaire
Guest post by Jamie Oastler The hallway track is what happens outside of the scheduled sessions. It is the side conversations, the interesting discussions, the networking opportunities and the in-person connections you make which most often leave you feeling like a WordCamp is equal parts conference and community. The organizers of WordCamp Ottawa were equally …
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Speaker Spotlight: Meagan Hanes
Meagan Hanes is the Technical Project Manager for Maintainn at WebDevStudios. She is responsible for managing ongoing development across a wide range of projects and ensuring Maintainn clients receive top-quality support and communication. Her experience in relating client needs and developer technicalities in order to produce elegant solutions has been valued by clients and partners alike throughout …
Speaker Spotlight: Remy Perona
Remy is the lead developer of WP Rocket, a premium caching plugin installed on more than 750 000 websites. He is also a regular speaker at WordCamps in Canada and Europe. Remy will be speaking at 10:00am on Saturday, July 13th, in the Rideau room. His talk is entitled, Modernize & Standardize Your PHP Development …
Speaker Spotlight: Jonathan Perlman
Jonathan Perlman is an experienced web developer working for Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec. Having 15+ years of experience in web development, he builds custom solutions for the educational institution.Jonathan is also an instructor for Dawson College’s Centre for Training and Development specializing website and database technologies such as HTML & CSS, PHP and WordPress …
Speaker Spotlight: Etienne Belanger
Étienne Bélanger is a full-stack developer working @ District Web. He love WordPress and been working with it for more then 10 years. He has built custom themes, plugins, extensions of plugins. His experience range from small sites to large ecommerce multisites ecosystem. He loves learning new things everday. From WordPress to nodejs, from backend …