Author: Tricia Isham

Imran has a passion for teaching and sharing knowledge. In addition to teaching programming on WordPress and Laravel on his YouTube channel, Imran is a WordPress Developer at rtCamp. He is also a WordCamp Speaker, Organizer, WordPress Meetup Organizer, and a regular contributor to the WordPress community. He is also a core contributor in WordPress and has a rich experience in Node, React and Laravel.

In his session called Fastest way of creating Gutenberg block with minimal javascript knowledge, Imran will share his story, research and methods that helped him build blocks quickly with the power of Gutenberg. If you want to create reusable blocks quickly with minimal JavaScript, you should come to this session!

Shanta is going to share all the motions and emotions that she went through starting up her own web development business during a pandemic.

As a Wapuu, I never realized you could do so much with Gutenberg blocks, but Jill Caren showed me! She’s a great teacher and I can say her specialty is making even the most technical explanations – be understood by even the most non-technical person, or, um, Wapuu.

If you want to learn how to make your blocks talk to your visitors with outside of the box ideas, you should really go to No More Boring Blocks!

Joe brings expertise in User-Experience, Search Engine Optimization, and Accessibility to Metro LA’s Digital Strategy team.

He’s a busy man! Joe is a Front-End Web Developer and User-Experience Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. He is Lead Organizer for WordCamp Santa Clarita, is very active in the Community as a volunteer, a speaker, is a member of the WordCamp US 2020 Programming Team, and is also a SiteGround Ambassador.

Joe is going to talk with us about accessibility in his session Ouch! WordPress Accessibility That Should Not Hurt!

Nathan has been in the web business for a long time (since 1995) and has been the organizer for WordCamp Birmingham for several years.

In his talk, What I wish I’d known about business, he’s going to draw on his 25 years of experience to share some important lessons that he’s learned.

He said to be prepared to laugh, cringe and think. This session sounds interesting!

She has held numerous roles at Wordfence helping customers optimize their security posture and is a frequent speaker at WordCamps around the world. Kathy was also Executive Producer of the documentary short Open | The Community Code about the WordPress community.

I’m looking forward to her keynote speech, Thriving in Uncertain Times, Finding Security Through WordPress.

Did you know that many developers don’t make changes to a live website? Miriam is going to touch on why it’s so important, and discuss the plethora of options available in her session Level Up Your Coding: The whys and hows of local development.

Francesca is the WordPress Community & Partnerships Manager at SiteGround, one of the largest independent web hosting companies where the quality of service stands above it all.

Francesca is also part of the global WordPress Community Team and co-led the release of WordPress.org 5.3 and 5.4.

Join Francesca, the current release co-lead, to hear the latest news and plans from the WordPress project.

Bonus info: Did you know that SiteGround is one of our sponsors for this year’s WordCamp Rochester!

Jocelyn has over a decade of experience building, running and wrangling a WordPress Website Design Agency all while having two boys at home and being a mentor and coach to other creative professionals.

While Jocelyn is an expert in thinking outside the box and filtering out the key points amidst all the noise, in her session, she’ll be talking all about the 5 Essential Questions you need to be asking on a sales call to not only ensure you don’t waste your time, but that you land the project and Nail the Sale.

I met Michelle Hayes last year when she gave her first WordCamp talk ever here in Rochester! She had only been working with WordPress for about two years and had just started coming to WordPress meetups!

This year, Michelle is going to be talking all about plugins in her session What is a Plugin and How Do You Find the Good Ones? Come get your plugin questions answered (Like: Where do you find plugins? How do you know which plugins are good? How many plugins should you have? and more…)