Here we are – the second round of speakers at WordCamp Minneapolis/St. Paul 2019! Stay tuned for our full schedule, which will be announced within the coming weeks.
Check out round 2 of 3 of speakers you will meet this August. You can grab your tickets to #WCMSP 2019 right here!
Andrew Wikel
I am your friendly neighborhood geek. I am passionate about my family, coffee, and other nerdy things.
I work for Automattic on WooCommerce Payment Gateway Support.
Barbara Schendel
Barbara got her start doing graphic design and static HTML websites back in the 1990s when hover effects were a huge deal. She’s been developing exclusively in WordPress since 2010, and now specializes in custom websites for small and medium sized organizations.
Cami Kaos
Cami lives, works, and parents in the rainy city of Portland, Oregon. She’s had a love of WordPress and WordCamps since the last century, when she happened to stumble upon the first WordCamp Portland. Since 2013, she has worked at Automattic, as a community organizer for the WordPress open source project. In that role, she gets to work with WordCamps and their organizers from around the world, every day.
She continues to write on an irregular basis at camikaos.com where she explores concepts from the plight of modern parents to mental health to marveling at the seemingly mundane. Cami is active on a number of social platforms but can be most readily found as @camikaos on Twitter.
Candy Phelps
Candy Phelps is the founder of Bizzy Bizzy, a Madison, Wisconsin-based experiential creative company. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs achieve their dream working for themselves, whether they are freelancers or small business owners in another industry. She is the creator of the 1 Day™ Website and other 1 Day™ digital marketing services and author of “Grow Your SEO: Search Engine Optimization Concepts Even Your Grandma Could Understand.”
Fun facts: Candy once got to drive a police car from Chicago to Milwaukee as a civilian. She has been known to eat other people’s leftovers. Her first job was a milk route when she was in 4th grade!
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne McDaniel has been working in tech and open source since 2005. Once he dipped a toe into the world of Free and Open Source Software, he knew never wanted to work outside of it again. Dwayne first started building in Drupal and WordPress for the San Francisco Improv community in 2013, which lead him to his current role. As a Developer Advocate at Pantheon he has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland and from MIT and Stanford.
Reach out at mcdwayne.com or on twitter @mcdwayne
Jeremy Ward
A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Jeremy first got his start in web development as a hobby, when he learned to build static websites for his bands and friends. This part-time curiosity blossomed into interests in database queries and server-side languages, and by 2013, he began a full-time career in computer programming.
Today, Jeremy works as a Senior Backend Engineer at WebDevStudios, where he’s passionate about software architecture, modular design, sussing out acceptance criteria for website features, and promoting the merits of the hottest new board games.
John Havlik
First introduced to WordPress in 2005, John Havlik has been an avid WordPress user, theme creator, and plugin author ever since. Among his various plugins is the popular breadcrumb plugin, Breadcrumb NavXT. When not working on his own projects, John helps support the small, 150 user, WordPress community at Weblogs.us.
Kori Ashton
Kori Ashton has been listed as one of seven women who run tech startups in San Antonio, Texas, to watch. She started her first company at the age of 12, and has had an entrepreneur’s heart ever since. She built her first HTML website in 1998, and was instantly hooked on Web design.
Currently Kori is the CEO of WebTegrity, a WordPress agency, and hosts a weekly giveback to the WP community on her YouTube Channel and via PressTribe https://YouTube.com/koriashton
In every workshop or webinar, Kori is determined to share actionable takeaways to our growing community. No boring workshops. No death by PowerPoint.
Matt Christenson
I was very young when I was born. I am a GEEK and I am proud of it! In 1985 I got my first computer, an Apple IIc (which I still have!). Once I got my hands on it the GEEK Presence was born, and the rest, well, is history! I’ve been using WordPress since 2005 and been full time freelancing since 2013. I never dreamed I’d be a freelancer, but it has been a fantastic journey that I wouldn’t trade for anything. My focus is on WordPress website design, monthly maintenance, training, and SEO.
In my spare time I write instrumental acoustic guitar music, obsess about finding and eating the best food in town (just ask!), take awesome naps in my recliner, and I love to make people laugh!
Nile Flores
Nile Flores is a long time WordPress designer and Developer. While she grew up a military brat, she’s settled in the St. Louis metro east region. Nile blogs at Blondish.net, where she covers topics on WordPress, Blogging, SEO, Social Media, and Web Design. Nile also works as an Infection Cleanup Specialist at WP Fix It, and a regular contributor to the GoDaddy blog.
She also loves contributing to WordPress, and that includes speaking at WordCamps across the United States. She loves helping people and supporting Open Source projects. When Nile isn’t knee deep in coding and design, she’s spending time with her son, who is also a WordPress user.
Pete Klein
I’ve been a professional developer since 2006, working with and researching technologies such as WordPress, Vue, React, .NET, Ruby on Rails, Bash scripting and Python scripting. I like the WordPress community for it’s inclusive, practical and down-to-earth attitude.
I’ve been fairly active in the non-profit world as well. I was the Director of Technology for AIGA Minnesota for 4 years, during which we did user testing and redesigned and re-engineered our website.
I live in Minneapolis and currently work at Ackmann & Dickenson as a Senior Web Developer.
William Ranney
Wil Ranney is the founder of Aboundant, a 100% remote firm that specializes in WordPress design and development with Nonprofits and Religious Institutions. He occasionally teaches design at Wartburg College. He’s a political junkie who likes to put his design skills to use fighting for social justice. Wil recently gave a Tedx talk titled, “#HotTake: Why Civility on the Internet is Overrated” where he argued what the internet really needs is good allies. He is a husband and father of two, including a newborn. Wil hails from Waverly, Iowa.