The festival of WordPress
January 22, 2021

This is an archive of the January 2021 event

Speakers

Abha Thakor

Abha Thakor

Abha Thakor has been a communications professional for more than 25 years. She initially worked as a newsprint and online journalist and editor before becoming

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Akshat Choudhary

Akshat Choudhary

Hey there! I’m Akshat Choudhary, the founder and CEO of BlogVault, MigrateGuru & MalCare. I love building products that solve real problems for real people,

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Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman helps nonprofits and wellness-based businesses build thriving online communities. As a Customer Success Manager at GiveWP she works diligently each day to assist

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AmyJune Hineline

AmyJune Hineline

AmyJune Hineline is the Open Source Community Ambassador and QA Engineer at Kanopi Studios. With a dual focus on both open-source community development and inclusivity,

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Anchen Le Roux

Anchen Le Roux

Anchen runs Simply Digital Design a boutique studio that focuses on Website and Summit Development on the Day Rate Model. She’s been an avid contributor

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Angela Jin

Angela Jin

An inveterate volunteer, Angela has a longstanding passion for building strong, inclusive communities. She joined Automattic in 2018 as a community organizer for the WordPress

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Arun Bansal

Arun Bansal

Arun Basal is Founder & CEO of ServerGuy, a Managed eCommerce Hosting Company. He has been helping businesses & agencies build, scale and secure their

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Birgit Pauli-Haack

Birgit Pauli-Haack

Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg Times, a site with news around WordPress block editor and beyond. Birgit hosts regular Gutenberg Live Q &

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Camber Clemence

Camber Clemence

Camber (she/her/hers) is a mother of two, an unapologetic Swiftie, and an ice cream aficionado. Camber is the Director of Client Success at Content Journey

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Cameron Jones

Cameron Jones

Cameron Jones is the founder of the premium plugin store Mongoose Marketplace, best known for the Mongoose Page Plugin used by more than 30,000 WordPress

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Chris Butterworth

Chris Butterworth

Having worked in multiple agencies for over 10 years, Chris has a diverse background and has worked with some infamous organisations such as Accenture, Tata

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Chris Ford

Chris Ford

Chris Ford has 25 years experience in design and project management, spending the last decade working in the WordPress community. She has been a remote

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Chris Lema

Chris Lema

Chris has been helping people build membership sites and online learning solutions for more than a decade. A trusted name in eCommerce, he’s the VP

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Cinthya Anand

Cinthya Anand

Cinthya Anand is a freelance journalist and copywriter based in Cambridge, with nearly a decade of experience helping impact businesses communicate better. She is skilled

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Daisy Olsen

Daisy Olsen

Daisy has worked in and around the WordPress community since 2007. She has spoken at WordCamps in New York City, Boston, and Chicago. She also

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Danielle Zarcaro

Danielle Zarcaro

Danielle Zarcaro is the founder of Paperback Web Development (PBwebD) and partners with businesses to support and develop their websites and online systems to ensure

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Fatima Sarah Khalid

Fatima Sarah Khalid

Fatima is a Developer Programs Engineer at Pantheon where she works on developer tools and trainings. When she’s not giving talks at conferences or volunteering,

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Graham Armfield

Graham Armfield

Graham is a Web Accessibility Consultant with his own company Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to help them improve the accessibility of their websites

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Imran Sayed

Imran Sayed

Imran is a WordPress Developer at rtCamp. He is also a WordCamp Speaker, WordCamp India Organizer, WordPress Meetup Organizer, and a regular contributor to the

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Jamie Hill

Jamie Hill

A sales and marketing professional with a focus on digital marketing Beard Marketing Solutions CEO Jamie Hill holds a Bachelor’s in business and marketing with

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Joe A. Simpson, Jr.

Joe A. Simpson, Jr.

Joe A. Simpson, Jr. is a Front-End Web Developer and User-Experience Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. He is also a SiteGround Ambassador. During endless, sun-soaked

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Joe Casabona

Joe Casabona

Don’t let Joe Casabona’s Master’s Degree in Computer Science intimidate you; he is a passionate and approachable guy.   Joe started his career almost 20 years

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Larry Swanson

Larry Swanson

Larry Swanson is an independent content strategist, content engineer, and information architect, focusing on structured content and the semantic web. He hosts the Content Strategy

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Leonardo Losoviz

Leonardo Losoviz

Leonardo Losoviz is an open source developer and freelance technical writer, with an ongoing quest to bring innovative paradigms (Serverless PHP, server-side components, GraphQL) to

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Lindsey Miller

Lindsey Miller

Lindsey Miller is owner and Lead Guide at ConentJourney.com, but has been working towards her Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health since fall of 2018.

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Mary Job

Mary Job

Mary currently works as a Support Engineer at Paid Memberships Pro, a plugin that allows you get paid by selling Membership on your WordPress Website.

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Masni Mustafa

Masni Mustafa

Masni is a very much sought-after trainer specialising largely in Human Resources, Leadership, Coaching and Customer Services. She is a Certified Coach, Master Performance Coach

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Matt Cromwell

Matt Cromwell

Matt has served nonprofit organizations since early 2000’s as a web developer, educator, fundraising consultant, marketing consultant, board member and more. Currently, he is Partner

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Matt Medeiros

Matt Medeiros

Matt’s latest role is Director of Podcaster Success at Castos, a podcast hosting company. He will serve to educate, inspire, entertain (probably 🙂 ) and

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Mike Demo

Mike Demo

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,

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Mike Killen

Mike Killen

Mike Killen is the best selling author of Five Figure Funnels. He’s obsessed with motivating funnel builders to sell marketing funnels for five figures, increasing

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Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab

Miriam is the co-Founder and CEO of Strattic, a static publishing platform for WordPress websites. Over the past 14 years, Miriam founded and built a

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Naomi A. Bush

Naomi C. Bush

Naomi’s been working with WordPress as a professional developer since 2005, and is going on her 9th year helping businesses and organizations — including household

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Nestor Angulo Ugarte

Nestor Angulo Ugarte

Technology enthusiast, Computer Science Engineer, early adopter, photographer, coffee lover and passionate about learning… Living in Spain, I get my huge curiosity satisfied about cybersecurity

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Abha Thakor

Abha Thakor

Abha Thakor has been a communications professional for more than 25 years. She initially worked as a newsprint and online journalist and editor before becoming

VIEW SPEAKER »
Akshat Choudhary

Akshat Choudhary

Hey there! I’m Akshat Choudhary, the founder and CEO of BlogVault, MigrateGuru & MalCare. I love building products that solve real problems for real people,

VIEW SPEAKER »
Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman helps nonprofits and wellness-based businesses build thriving online communities. As a Customer Success Manager at GiveWP she works diligently each day to assist

VIEW SPEAKER »
AmyJune Hineline

AmyJune Hineline

AmyJune Hineline is the Open Source Community Ambassador and QA Engineer at Kanopi Studios. With a dual focus on both open-source community development and inclusivity,

VIEW SPEAKER »
Anchen Le Roux

Anchen Le Roux

Anchen runs Simply Digital Design a boutique studio that focuses on Website and Summit Development on the Day Rate Model. She’s been an avid contributor

VIEW SPEAKER »
Angela Jin

Angela Jin

An inveterate volunteer, Angela has a longstanding passion for building strong, inclusive communities. She joined Automattic in 2018 as a community organizer for the WordPress

VIEW SPEAKER »
Arun Bansal

Arun Bansal

Arun Basal is Founder & CEO of ServerGuy, a Managed eCommerce Hosting Company. He has been helping businesses & agencies build, scale and secure their

VIEW SPEAKER »
Birgit Pauli-Haack

Birgit Pauli-Haack

Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg Times, a site with news around WordPress block editor and beyond. Birgit hosts regular Gutenberg Live Q &

VIEW SPEAKER »
Camber Clemence

Camber Clemence

Camber (she/her/hers) is a mother of two, an unapologetic Swiftie, and an ice cream aficionado. Camber is the Director of Client Success at Content Journey

VIEW SPEAKER »
Cameron Jones

Cameron Jones

Cameron Jones is the founder of the premium plugin store Mongoose Marketplace, best known for the Mongoose Page Plugin used by more than 30,000 WordPress

VIEW SPEAKER »
Chris Butterworth

Chris Butterworth

Having worked in multiple agencies for over 10 years, Chris has a diverse background and has worked with some infamous organisations such as Accenture, Tata

VIEW SPEAKER »
Chris Ford

Chris Ford

Chris Ford has 25 years experience in design and project management, spending the last decade working in the WordPress community. She has been a remote

VIEW SPEAKER »
Chris Lema

Chris Lema

Chris has been helping people build membership sites and online learning solutions for more than a decade. A trusted name in eCommerce, he’s the VP

VIEW SPEAKER »
Cinthya Anand

Cinthya Anand

Cinthya Anand is a freelance journalist and copywriter based in Cambridge, with nearly a decade of experience helping impact businesses communicate better. She is skilled

VIEW SPEAKER »
Daisy Olsen

Daisy Olsen

Daisy has worked in and around the WordPress community since 2007. She has spoken at WordCamps in New York City, Boston, and Chicago. She also

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Danielle Zarcaro

Danielle Zarcaro

Danielle Zarcaro is the founder of Paperback Web Development (PBwebD) and partners with businesses to support and develop their websites and online systems to ensure

VIEW SPEAKER »
Fatima Sarah Khalid

Fatima Sarah Khalid

Fatima is a Developer Programs Engineer at Pantheon where she works on developer tools and trainings. When she’s not giving talks at conferences or volunteering,

VIEW SPEAKER »
Graham Armfield

Graham Armfield

Graham is a Web Accessibility Consultant with his own company Coolfields Consulting. He works with organisations to help them improve the accessibility of their websites

VIEW SPEAKER »
Imran Sayed

Imran Sayed

Imran is a WordPress Developer at rtCamp. He is also a WordCamp Speaker, WordCamp India Organizer, WordPress Meetup Organizer, and a regular contributor to the

VIEW SPEAKER »
Jamie Hill

Jamie Hill

A sales and marketing professional with a focus on digital marketing Beard Marketing Solutions CEO Jamie Hill holds a Bachelor’s in business and marketing with

VIEW SPEAKER »
Joe A. Simpson, Jr.

Joe A. Simpson, Jr.

Joe A. Simpson, Jr. is a Front-End Web Developer and User-Experience Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. He is also a SiteGround Ambassador. During endless, sun-soaked

VIEW SPEAKER »
Joe Casabona

Joe Casabona

Don’t let Joe Casabona’s Master’s Degree in Computer Science intimidate you; he is a passionate and approachable guy.   Joe started his career almost 20 years

VIEW SPEAKER »
Larry Swanson

Larry Swanson

Larry Swanson is an independent content strategist, content engineer, and information architect, focusing on structured content and the semantic web. He hosts the Content Strategy

VIEW SPEAKER »
Leonardo Losoviz

Leonardo Losoviz

Leonardo Losoviz is an open source developer and freelance technical writer, with an ongoing quest to bring innovative paradigms (Serverless PHP, server-side components, GraphQL) to

VIEW SPEAKER »
Lindsey Miller

Lindsey Miller

Lindsey Miller is owner and Lead Guide at ConentJourney.com, but has been working towards her Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health since fall of 2018.

VIEW SPEAKER »
Mary Job

Mary Job

Mary currently works as a Support Engineer at Paid Memberships Pro, a plugin that allows you get paid by selling Membership on your WordPress Website.

VIEW SPEAKER »
Masni Mustafa

Masni Mustafa

Masni is a very much sought-after trainer specialising largely in Human Resources, Leadership, Coaching and Customer Services. She is a Certified Coach, Master Performance Coach

VIEW SPEAKER »
Matt Cromwell

Matt Cromwell

Matt has served nonprofit organizations since early 2000’s as a web developer, educator, fundraising consultant, marketing consultant, board member and more. Currently, he is Partner

VIEW SPEAKER »
Matt Medeiros

Matt Medeiros

Matt’s latest role is Director of Podcaster Success at Castos, a podcast hosting company. He will serve to educate, inspire, entertain (probably 🙂 ) and

VIEW SPEAKER »
Mike Demo

Mike Demo

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,

VIEW SPEAKER »
Mike Killen

Mike Killen

Mike Killen is the best selling author of Five Figure Funnels. He’s obsessed with motivating funnel builders to sell marketing funnels for five figures, increasing

VIEW SPEAKER »
Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab

Miriam is the co-Founder and CEO of Strattic, a static publishing platform for WordPress websites. Over the past 14 years, Miriam founded and built a

VIEW SPEAKER »
Naomi A. Bush

Naomi C. Bush

Naomi’s been working with WordPress as a professional developer since 2005, and is going on her 9th year helping businesses and organizations — including household

VIEW SPEAKER »
Nestor Angulo Ugarte

Nestor Angulo Ugarte

Technology enthusiast, Computer Science Engineer, early adopter, photographer, coffee lover and passionate about learning… Living in Spain, I get my huge curiosity satisfied about cybersecurity

VIEW SPEAKER »