{"id":1051,"date":"2019-08-15T20:58:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T03:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.vegas.wordcamp.org\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2019-08-26T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:15:25","slug":"announcing-our-speakers-round-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/announcing-our-speakers-round-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Our Speakers: Round 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just weeks away, WordCamp Las Vegas is coming together! We’ve finalized our schedule of talks and events<\/a> and our speakers. So, let’s keep our announcements going with Round 4\u2014an impressive group of marketers, developers, and business owners. Tickets<\/a> are still available. Get yours now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridget Willard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Bridget Willard is a marketing consultant who brings her teaching and accounting background together to help small businesses. She began her marketing career in construction, then worked in franchise development, nonprofits, and tech. She is especially known for her brand building for Riggins Construction, GiveWP, and the Make WordPress Marketing Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bridget co-hosts WPblab with Jason Tucker \u2014 a podcast and live YouTube show on the WPwatercooler network. Besides speaking at WordCamps near and far<\/a>, Bridget was an organizer for Los Angeles for a few years and Orange County since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she\u2019s not writing about marketing or social media, she is spending time with her friends, changing her hair style, learning languages on Duolingo, or walking by the ocean. Say hi to her on Twitter and check out her site at bridgetwillard.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: Backward Compatibility is Good for WordPress, Not Mental Health <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter: @YouTooCanBeGuru<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Copeland<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Joshua Copeland has been building software for over a decade. Using the skills he has developed over the years with the help of great mentors; he can build systems from A-Z. His main focus has been PHP over the last seven years and continues to use the language everyday via great frameworks like WordPress, Symfony, Laravel, and more. DevOps and other architectural topics are also of importance to his craft. He is very active with the community at large and has been hosting the PHP Vegas Meetup<\/a> for over four years. Over the last year, he has been building RemoteDevForce.com<\/a> (a remote software development shop) and is blessed to work with very talented programmers. When he isn’t coding, he is spending time with his beautiful wife and 2 adorable kids. Come say hello if you catch him around!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: Plugin Development in a Block Editor World<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter: @OGProgrammer <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desiree Johnson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Desiree is a passionate writer and storyteller who advocates for diverse and multiracial audiences. She currently works as a WordPress Content Specialist for Bluehost<\/a> and enjoys helping users learn more about WordPress through blogs, webinars, and media content. She considers herself a walking IMDB and loves to talk about anything pop culture and movie related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: How To Utilize Trending Moments To Create Killer Content<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter: @dezij7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Walsh<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tom has been a Certified Constant Contact Solution Provider since 2015. A marketing expert with 40 years of experience, he has helped small businesses and nonprofits achieve meaningful marketing results through Inbound Marketing practices centered around WordPress websites. In-depth knowledge of email marketing with Constant Contact offerings and an integration with WooCommerce helps to grow client\u2019s businesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: Integration\u00a0of Constant Contact API into WordPress and WooCommerce<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Demo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Former MousePlanet MouseStation Podcast co-host, Mike “Demo” Demopoulos is a lover of open source first, specific tools later. Before coming to BoldGrid as a community evangelist, Mike spent years building a strong client base in the financial and insurance industries. He believes in sharing his business acumen and marketing insight and has spoken on various open source topics including WordPress and Joomla! (where he was a board member) in addition to marketing related talks which include A\/B testing content. Be sure to say hi to Mike on Twitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: Accidental Business Owner: Now What?<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter: @mpmike<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just weeks away, WordCamp Las Vegas is coming together! We’ve finalized our schedule of talks and events and our speakers. So, let’s keep our announcements going with Round 4\u2014an impressive group of marketers, developers, and business owners. Tickets are still available. Get yours now! Bridget Willard Bridget Willard is a marketing consultant who brings her teaching … Continue reading “Announcing Our Speakers: Round 4”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13288061,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/files\/2019\/08\/speakers-round-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMxYK-gX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13288061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vegas.wordcamp.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}