Organizers

John has been building things on the internet for over two decades. He found WordPress in the summer of 2003 and has been fully immersed in it ever since.

John was the organizer of the first WordCamp conference in Las Vegas in 2009 and has been involved with organizing it (almost) every year since. John has a passion for teaching others to use WordPress. He founded and organizes the monthly Las Vegas WordPress meetup where he’s a frequent presenter and has traveled the country speaking at WordPress conferences from coast-to-coast.

Speaker, blogger, father. Russell Aaron is the dedicated father of two wonderful kids and a Full Stack Developer for the Plaza Hotel & Casino. He is also the co-organizer and a regular speaker at the Las Vegas WordPress Meetup Group.

Russell is trying to become a better WordPress role model. He was the Lead Organizer of WordCamp Vegas 2015 and is a former WordPress Support Technician for WebDevStudios. Learn more about Russell Aaron, WordPress Developer.

Robert has been building websites with WordPress since 2010. For those in the know, he was introduced by Thelonious. Since then, he’s worked exclusively with WordPress, writing custom code, themes, and plugins. Robert took first place in the 2016 WCOC Plugin-a-Palooza, and took third place the following year. He’s a frequent presenter at the Las Vegas WordPress Meetup, and is a frequent WordCamp attendee in Nevada and Southern California.

As well as being a competent developer, vell, Robert’s just zis guy, you know?

With a love for all things marketing and communications, Laura Coronado is a communications specialist at WebDevStudios where she manages the blogs, website content, and social media profiles for the WordPress design and development agency and its family of brands. She also runs her own women’s lifestyle blog at LollieShopping.com and freelances as a travel writer covering Las Vegas. She’s writing a book and launching a podcast about divorce, dating, and how there are no nice guys.

Jason Janes is the owner of BrightAdvice.com, a Las Vegas-based digital marketing company. He has been designing and developing websites since 2005, originally focusing on affiliate marketing (online poker and gaming) and later expanding into other verticals.

Jason is also a frequent contributor at many of the Las Vegas Meetup groups and is the organizer of the Las Vegas A.I. & Chatbots Meetup. In his free time, Jason loves cooking, fine dining, adventure travel, and scuba diving. In addition to being an avid scuba diver, he is also a certified PADI Divemaster.

Emanuel Costa built his first website back in 1993 and is still passionate about helping companies with their online initiatives. In 1997, he built an eCommerce site from scratch, using Perl and text files as database layer. In 1999, he relocated to work for a dotcom company in South Florida. In 2005, Manny started to work directly with online marketing. He is also a web entrepreneur and owns many websites that he built himself, of course, and has very large social media accounts (over 2 million combined followers).

Currently, he wears many hats and oversees his company’s (High Tech Web, INC) day-to-day operations, specifically digital marketing initiatives and web development tasks. He is a co-organizer of the Las Vegas WooCommerce meetup and the Las Vegas Digital Marketing and Online Sales meetup groups.

You can find Manny online. He is @emanweb everywhere. Feel free to connect with him at LinkedIn