WordCamp Us 2017 is going to be an awesome event. We are excited to announce the second round of fantastic speakers who will be with us December 1-3, 2017 in Nashville.
You don’t want to miss out on this event. Make sure you buy your ticket today. Even better, tell a friend who has never come to a WordCamp before, or who doesn’t regularly come to a WordPress Meetup. Let them know what the WordPress community is all about.
Brian DeConinck
Brian DeConinck is a front-end designer and developer with NC State University’s Office of Information Technology. As part of the OIT Design team, he builds custom WordPress themes and plugins for academic and administrative units on campus, helps run campus Multisite environments, and advises campus clients on their content strategy. In all of his projects, Brian is committed to universal design principles of accessibility, usability and user empathy.
Brian is also co-host of the WPCampus Podcast, where he gets to talk to interesting people about the interesting things they’re doing with WordPress in higher ed.
Philip John
Philip John has been working with WordPress since (almost) the beginning. He spent most of his career as a freelancer before joining the WordPress.com VIP team as an engineer, looking after some of the most high profile, interesting and challenging implementations of WordPress on the web.
Apart from WordPress, Phil’s other big passion is politics. He’s a contributor to an open source manifesto and co-founder of a political party in the UK, and sees these two passions as inextricably linked.
Rian Rietveld
Rian is a WordPress engineer who has enthusiastically worked with WordPress since 2009, and has a strong interest in web standards and making the web usable for everybody. She works for the WordPress agency Human Made and is part of the WordPress Accessibility Team.
When not coding, you can find her working in her garden.
Ryan Markel
Ryan engineers happiness for WordPress.com VIP from St. Louis, and loves helping others have great experiences. He’s been blogging in some form or another for a very long time, eventually learning and loving WordPress.
He enjoys the study of games and helping his wife (try to) control his five children.
Sonja Leix
Sonja is a location-independent Web Designer and Digital Strategist. She’s an active member of the WordPress community, contributes to various teams, and co-organizes WordCamp Europe. She helps businesses create unique online experiences that connect deeply with their customers.
If you missed our first round of speaker announcements, check it out here.