Amanda is a past lead organizer of a various WordCamps, and a speaker at WordCamps and WP Meetups all over the world.  As Project Manager and Head of UX at Etch Software, she helps companies execute strategy and sites that makes the best use of technology and sustainable processes. She talks about information architecture, bending the WP workflow to your will,  and how to keep clients from f’ing up the sites you make them.

When not Pressing, she makes pickles, knits scarves and manages her batshit crazy doberman Clementine in Portland, Oregon.

Adventurous sailor and Seattle WordPress(Camp) organizer, Ben Lobaugh has been working with open source communities for 15-plus years and is an active contributor to the WordPress community. Ben currently works as a Jetpack Engineer with Automattic.

Billie is a blogging addict {second to being a domain junkie}. With over 15 years in traditional and internet marketing in her back pocket, she loves helping others master marketing techniques to benefit their businesses.

Individuals and businesses seek her knowledge to build their marketing strategies, plan paths of execution and leverage the results to take them to the next tier to meet their business goals.

When she is not consulting on a personal level she can often be found speaking to groups at blogging and internet marketing events.

She has authored multiple ebooks on blogging, WordPress, internet marketing, social media and search engine optimization.

Feeling that there was a need to help women entrepreneurs grow their online presence with a thorough understanding of what it takes to be successful, she recently founded Education Thru Collaboration (previously Mommy Blogger U).

Located in sunny Las Vegas, her goal is to build a local community with a common bond of bloggers, social media junkies and techies.

A newspaper reporter by trade, Christoph left the newspaper industry in 2007 to research, write and produce training videos for the U.S. financial services industry. He then started a community news site and currently works as a communications executive in the nonprofit sector.

His career has focused on helping organizations tell their stories in authentic and meaningful ways. He uses and teaches brand and traditional journalism as well as content marketing techniques in the pursuit of great stories.

He’s currently helping United Way of East Central Iowa tell its stories in an authentic way through a multi-channel content delivery strategy that engages all of United Way’s key audiences.

Desiree Peeples is a mom, published author and blogger, and teaches individuals and small businesses how to integrate social media into their promotion and marketing strategies. She worked in traditional broadcast media as a reporter for almost ten years before moving her skills to the online space.

She is the creator of MommyReporter.com and has a passion for online video blogging. Her newest eGuide titled The EVERYTHING Video Blogger’s Guide for Non-Video Bloggers can now be purchased on Amazon. Desiree has worked with many notable companies in online and offline media campaigns, including LogiTech, Proctor and Gamble, AT&T, PBS KIDS Sprout, The Dial Corporation, and Sky Angel, LLC.

Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Desiree currently is the head organizer of the Las Vegas Bloggers Meetup Group, a monthly meeting that connects local bloggers and digital media enthusiasts.

She has one son, Kadin, who is five years old and an adopted female rat terrier named “Bentley.”

Dre Armeda is the Co-Founder of Sucuri Inc., the best website security company of today, and of the future.

Dre is a Harley enthusiast, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Practitioner, and a Chargers fan. He wears many hats, and love tacos. Dre is infatuated with tech startups, software as a service, and website security. Dre hopes to make the internet a safer place!

Dre is the Co-Host of the DradCast, the worlds most popular podcast about WordPress. Tune in on Wednesday nights at 8 PM by visiting DradCast.com.