Category Archives: Speaker Spotlight

Mikey is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic where his day to day job is helping people use WordPress, and he absolutely loves it.  In previous jobs, Mikey led support efforts at a computer repair shop, a creative firm, and a … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Mikey Arce →

Rick Radko has been creating web sites and applications since 1996. He launched his first WordPress site in 2008. Rick is at home coding plugins, designing custom themes, building multilingual sites and teaching others to do all of those. His … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Rick Radko →

Stéphane was a Senior Advisor for the Federal Liberal party for 4 years leading the party to radical growth in online data acquisitions and donations. He currently works for Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com as a VIP Engineer. Stéphane is … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Stéphane Boisvert →

Jasmine is a WordPress evangelist who enjoys helping people share their most important stories and ideas. She loves teaching and regularly contributes as both an instructor and a mentor to The Ottawa WordPress Group and Ladies Learning Code . This is her second year … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Jasmine Vesque →

James is an accomplished, forward-thinking marketing professional with 25+ years of multi-disciplinary experience in marketing and marketing communications companies serving high-profile, global brands and B2C clients in consumer packaged goods, durables, transportation, telecommunications and financial services. He has been involved … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: James Hipkin →

I am a Canadian websites designer, developer, speaker, teacher, and consultant who enjoys long walks with shortcodes, functional arguments, and playing with other people’s APIs. Chris is presenting: Tips for WordPress Freelancers (Business) 1) Why do you like using WordPress? WordPress … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Christopher Ross →

Mo lives in Toronto and wrangles code at WordPress.com (Automattic). He enjoys ice cream and other sugary things. Mo is presenting: The Database Schema 1) Why do you like using WordPress? Extremely flexible for both UI and developers. It’s an easy … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Mohammad Jangda →

An online content, design, and production professional, Elizabeth Kricfalusi is often referred to as “the most technical non-technical person I know.” Elizabeth publishes the blog Tech for Luddites, providing tips and tricks for working with WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Office … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Elizabeth Kricfalusi →

Alan Lok is the principal owner of WirelessLinx Inc., providing consultant services to business small and large including Trader Corporation, University of Toronto, Toronto Region and Conservation Authority and many others. Previously he was the YellowAPI Developer Advocate at Yellow … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Alan Lok →

Michal has been around the web for over a decade but has only recently decided to pursue his quest for Internet domination full-time. Having tried his hand at Office automation, Motion Graphics and 3D, he finally realized that the web … Continue reading Speaker Spotlight: Michal Bluma →