{"id":1995,"date":"2019-07-08T19:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2019-07-12T12:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T12:46:15","slug":"first-round-of-speakers-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2019\/first-round-of-speakers-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"First Round of Speakers Announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The #WCMSP 2019 Organizers are excited to announce the first round of speakers at WordCamp Minneapolis\/St. Paul 2019<\/a>! Stay tuned for our full schedule, which will be announced within the coming weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here we have it – Round 1 of 3 of speakers you will meet this August. You can grab your tickets to #WCMSP 2019 right here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Andrea Endstrom<\/h2>\n\t\"Andrea<\/a>Andrea Edstrom is a Senior Web Developer and Designer at Minnesota Public Radio. She enjoys designing, illustrating, painting and using her creatives skills to do unique projects such as live sketching for the Terrible Thanks for Asking podcast. Andrea can be found on andreaedstrom.com and andreasartgallery.com\n\t\n

Andrew Norcross<\/h2>\n\t\"Andrew<\/a>when i was about 3 years old, my daycare was at a church, which my father was the minister of. i would sneak off from the group and hide behind the organ pipes, since i knew how to get in there. they\u2019d find me asleep or laughing, and then take me to my dad for \u201cpunishment\u201d.

\n\ni was never punished.\n\n

Courtney Deer<\/h2>\n\t\"Courtney<\/a>Courtney Deer is an experience designer and entrepreneur living in Minneapolis. She\u2019s a Minnesota Business Magazine Mostly to Succeed and Twin Cities Startup Award recipient, and her work has earned multiple awards including SIlver at Ad Fed\u2019s The Show, and a Webby Honoree. Awkward conversations for the greater good are her favorite kind of conversations to have.\n\n

Dan Flies<\/h2>\n\t\"Dan<\/a>Dan Flies has been making large scale projects with WordPress since 2010 for the education and SMB markets. Currently working with Gannett and the LOCALiQ brand who\u2019s mission is to simplify local marketing and provide businesses with a smarter way to reach local customers.

\n\nDan has had a varied career starting as an IT auditor for KPMG, General Mills and Lawson Software. Dan then was co-founder of education startup Kidblog, using WordPress to teach students how to write for audience of the peers and the greater world. He then worked in the marketing world with Ciceron and Relationship One before joining Gannett to be the technical lead on it\u2019s WordPress based Websites \n\n

James Grumish<\/h2>\n\t\"James<\/a>James Grumish is a Minneapolis-based developer and account manager at Windmill Strategy where data-backed websites are built for smart-minded business marketers. Aside from creating and maintaining agency-built websites, James\u2019 10+ years of software experience includes specific roles in marketing\/SEO and hosted e-commerce application development. James believes that the best developers work to improve their listening and analysis skills in order to identify systems and recognize patterns.\n\n

Justin Foell<\/h2>\n\t\"Justin<\/a>In 2003 Justin started doing web development in Las Vegas, building the backend of several sites using home-grown PHP libraries.

\n\nAfter moving back to his home state of Minnesota in 2008, he attended WordCamp Minneapolis in 2010, and has been steeped in the WordPress world ever since. Justin helped reboot and co-organize WordCamp Minneapolis in 2013 after going dormant for a couple years. It has been going strong every year since.\n\n

Kathy Zant<\/h2>\n\t\"Kathy<\/a>Kathy Zant is a seasoned digital executive with over 20 years of web development experience for companies large and small. She\u2019s been using WordPress for over a decade. For the last 3+ years, she\u2019s been a security analyst for Wordfence, developing services for WordPress users to better understand and manage their site security.\n\n

Lon Koenig<\/h2>\n\t\"Lon<\/a>Lon Koenig is a communications technologist with a broad background in education, advertising, and games. And he\u2019s been at this awhile; writing his first programs on a teletype. A coder and writer who has embraced the dark disciplines of Marketing and Advertising. Dabbling in WordPress in the early days, it became his main platform about 10 years ago.

\n\nBy day, he creates websites that scale, and manages Google Analytics and other integrations for commercial clients. Under cover of night, Lon uses the skills he picked up \u201cin the early days\u201d to develop for Arduino and similar IoT microcontrollers.\n\n

Mia Mian<\/h2>\n\t\"Mia<\/a>Startup and Tech Enthusiast byways of San Diego, CA.

\n\nWordPress was my true entry point into the world of development and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way\u2026 from working in agencies to now as a client facing lead for a WP development firm. I\u2019m stoked to represent and advocate for the non-technical WordPress user.\n\n

Nate Finch<\/h2>\n\t\"Nate<\/a>Nate has been building websites since 2011. He loves web development because it is the perfect mix of problem solving, building, and lifelong learning. As VP of Development at The Digital Ring, Nate splits his time between developing websites and developing developers. Prior to joining TDR, Nate freelanced, working with dozens of clients through platforms like Toptal and Codeable, and completed a brief stint as a web engineer with 10up.

\n\nNate collects masters degrees, has traveled to six continents, lived on four, speaks Spanish, and outside of work, family, friends, food, coffee, and cooking are his favorite activities. He lives in Wisconsin with his wonderful wife and two daughters.\n\n

Sherry Walling<\/h2>\n\t\"Sherry<\/a>Dr. Sherry Walling helps smart people do hard things. She works with leaders around the world to tackle the common mental health and relationship challenges that go along with running businesses, and disrupting the status quo. As a clinical psychologist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, yoga teacher, podcaster and best-selling author, she draws from her professional expertise as well as her personal experience in the trenches. Her best-selling book, The Entrepreneur\u2019s Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together, combines the insight and warmth of a therapist with the truth-telling mirth of someone who has been there. She can also be found at ZenFounder.com or SherryWalling.com.\n\n

Steve Persch<\/h2>\n\t\"Steve<\/a>Steve is a Lead Developer Advocate at Pantheon with more than 12 years of experience building large-scale sites. He started out of college as a freelance developer building sites in WordPress 2. Steve built sites for a range of clients including The Joffrey Ballet, Foreign Affairs, Marketplace, Public Radio International, and many higher education institutions. You can find commits from Steve all over Pantheon\u2019s WordPress plugins and example repositories.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The #WCMSP 2019 Organizers are excited to announce the first round of speakers at WordCamp Minneapolis\/St. Paul 2019! Stay tuned for our full schedule, which will be announced within the coming weeks. And here we have it – Round 1 of 3 of speakers you will meet this August. You can grab your tickets to … <\/p>\n

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