We are so proud to be bringing over 20 local, national and international speakers to Halifax. These fine folks will be touching on topics around development, design, content, marketing, admin, community, mental health, business and more. So much variety to experience on June 16th!
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Alanna MacNevin
Adventurer, coder, and dog-owner.
Chris Van Patten
Chris Van Patten is the founder and creative director of Tomodomo, which helps magazines (and other content publishers) build powerful subscription websites that editors and readers love. He has spoken at WordPress events in Barcelona, Boston, Houston, Toronto, and many other cities around the world. Chris writes at tomodomo.co and chrisvanpatten.com, and tweets as @ChrisVanPatten.
Chris Wiseman
Chris is a WordPress developer born and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Currently living in Halifax and working in Bedford, he has been developing professionally with WordPress for the past four years. He has spent a lot of time looking into a dev stack that makes WordPress easier to maintain, and more enjoyable to develop with.
Christian Oxner
Student and Aspiring WordPress Developer
Crystal Picard
Crystal Picard is a Halifax-based graphic designer and content strategist. Passionate about building community and helping others achieve their dreams; Crystal works one-on-one with Small Businesses to develop content strategies, create effective print and web design, and implement audience-focused digital marketing to achieve their business goals. @crystalpicard
David Moore
Founder, Director of Operations at ShadesColour & Associates. David Moore is an eCommerce expert and developer, with over 10 years of real world experience both building online stores, and running them.
Enrique Hoyos
Enrique helps businesses identify unmet needs, goals, opportunities and challenges. His main focus is digital marketing, where he leverages quantitative and qualitative data to develop integrated marketing strategies that connect brands to their consumer needs.
Floria Aghdamimehr
Floria Aghdamimehr is the catalyst and facilitator from information to transformation. Recognize Your Potential (RYP) creates and fosters a Growth Mindset. Floria has a Solutions-based focus and works on Leadership Through People & Effective Interpersonal Communication Skills. She offers training on Growth Mindset, Gratitude at Work, Difficult Conversations Simplified, and Diversity & Inclusion. RYP becomes the Co-Creative Partner to achieving your goals. Floria has developed the Performance Unleashed program to enhance trust and respect, while building a strong engaged team that collaborates and improves Productivity & Innovation in the workplace!
Attitude = Outcome
Floria has many years of experience working with Dalhousie University, RCMP, Trade Centre Limited, Teachers Provincial Professional Development conferences, and Correctional Services Canada, to name a few. Floria is a coach, trainer, keynote and speaker for Professional Development events and conferences. Floria serves on Creating a Positive Business Environment task force, co-chair of Partners for Human Rights and Ability Employers.
“Leaders Embrace difficulties to find opportunities.” ~ Floria
Gary Thayer
Gary Thayer is a WordPress Developer at Hall Internet Marketing who specializes in eCommerce websites and analytics tracking. He is an active member of the WordPress community, acting as an organizer for the Southern Maine WordPress Meetup and as Lead Organizer for WordCamp Portland, ME.
Heather Deveaux
Heather Deveaux is a full-time freelance writer who works with clients all over the world from her home in New Waterford, Nova Scotia. Heather launched her career as a freelance writer within hours of losing her job as an executive director of a career college in Cape Breton. After the college closed, Heather decided she was ready to dedicate her skills and abilities to her own business and has been successfully growing her freelance writing business ever since. She’s recently branched out to create The Freelance Writing School, in which she’ll teach others how to start and run their own freelance writing businesses in rural areas across Canada. Heather holds a Master of Adult Education degree and taught herself how to use WordPress when she realized she needed a website that was fully customizable that she could build when she wasn’t working on client projects.
Ifo Ikede
Ifo Ikede, is Isoko, from the Niger-Delta region of the west coast of Africa. They are in the launch phase of a social media and marketing company, which will focus on helping non-profits and businesses to better market to clients from non-English and non-French cultural background.
Their experience as an immigrant to Canada, as well as active participation in settlement for both immigrant and refugee groups as well as their involvement in first nations and African-Canadian integration issues puts Ifo in a unique position to be able to provide insights from lived experience as well as the thousands of years of wisdom from the ancestors, to create healthy and healing communities.
Ifo is addicted to drumming and dancing, often dancing 3 to 5 times a week, is a competitive soccer player and martial artists… and like many African grandmas loves to cook and share yummy treats…
Jason Tremere
I’ve been on the Internet since the dial-up modem days and Netscape beta. Now I’m amazed with how far things have come since the 90s. While my music tastes may be stuck in the 80s, let’s do WordPress web design like it’s 2018.
Jennifer Gyuricska
Jennifer Gyuricska is a digital marketer and strategist from Fredericton, NB. Jennifer began her career hosting small town radio and has since accumulated over 15 years experience in marketing and communications.
Jeremy H Josey
Corporate Web Developer for Newcap Radio in Dartmouth Nova Scotia for 11 years, I have been working as a developer professionally for over 16 years.
Lisa Patts
Lisa Patts is an entrepreneur who enjoys learning new things. She has been using WordPress as her web hosting platform for various websites since 2012.
She operates PianoVideoLessons.com where she teaches adults who have never played piano before how to play and read music. Lisa has been teaching piano since she graduated from University. She is also a YouTube Creator with a Silver Play Button, and she is a Voice Actor who can often be heard on local radio ads. Taking the advice she is giving in today’s talk, she has just launched FreelanceToFreeLaunch.com on the WordPress.com platform.
Michael MacMillan
While working as a developer for an agency in Vancouver around 2009, Mike started noticing the patterns in the action items sent by third-party SEO consultants. In an effort to save his customers communication time and reduce costs he offered to not only consult on the onsite optimization opportunities but also work with the developers to implement them. After moving into an in-house SEO position with a startup SaaS company in 2013 he was able to round out his skill set to include off page ranking factors and a more in-depth understanding of analytics. Currently he leads up the SEO team at VERB Interactive. When not digging through spreadsheets Mike enjoys skateboarding, grappling and getting records to make weird noises.
Remy Perona
I am the lead developer of WP Rocket, a popular premium WordPress plugin to optimize the speed of websites. I love sharing my knowledge about website performance optimization, loading time & development for and with WordPress, by speaking at WordCamps in France and Canada.
Renée Downs
Renée Downs is an avid culinary adventure traveller and creator. Never leaving home without paper and pen, this published author is an accomplished wordsmith. Once upon a time she called herself a reluctant blogger. She has come a long way since her first post back in November 2013. Her WordPress love is strong but there were other platforms before trying it on for size; this non-techie writer could not find her groove until WordPress. Now she is hooked for life. Her blog, Gettin’ Fresh with R.H. Downs, is the place to find everything from what’s hot around Halifax to topics on self-care and mental health. Renée is also one of the founding members and producers for BlogJam Atlantic; a fun, informative, and unique event for the region’s blogging community.
Shawn Hooper
Hailing from Ottawa, Canada, Shawn has been building web applications since the late 90s, with a focus on WordPress since 2011. He is the Director of IT at Actionable, a learning and development startup based in Toronto. He is a core contributor to the WordPress open source project, and has spoken at WordPress events in Canada, the United States and Australia. Shawn is the lead organizer of WordCamp Ottawa 2018.
Tim Covell
Tim is a technical writer by day, and a freelance writer and editor/web consultant/film studies academic by night. He built his first website, using Notepad, in 1997, after deciding there was room on the internet for one more site. He looks after several WordPress sites, both .com and .org, and assists individuals and small organizations maintain and update their sites.Tim is a writer and editor/web consultant/film studies academic. He built his first website, using Notepad, in 1997, after deciding there was room on the internet for one more site. He looks after several WordPress sites, both .com and .org, and assists individuals and small organizations maintain and update their sites.