Our Speakers

  • Aida Marie Correa

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    Aida is a modern-day renaissance woman who brings her love of teaching and creative background together to help women live more inspired lives! She is especially known for being an artist with a passion for her AfroLatinx culture, a floral designer, a speaker, and poet. She is currently a Ford VIP Experiential Blogger and is a published author.

    Aida regularly teaches kids at STEAM workshops and speaks at WordCamps and community events locally, nationally and internationally. Besides speaking on blogging, inclusivity, and the overall fun of WordCamps, Aida is an Organizer at WordCamp Jacksonville and loves to volunteer at any WordCamps she attends, especially at KidsCamps!

    When she is not traveling or getting into shenanigans with her honey, she enjoys downtime at home, scrolling through Pinterest, hanging out at Starbucks or enjoying a crafty activity. She also has a thing for Wapuu.

    Say hi to her on Twitter @lovebuiltlife and check out her site at https://lovebuiltlife.com. Follow her adventures with William at https://thatwordcamplife.com

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  • Ben Meredith

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    What makes a guy with a bachelors in Religious Studies and no formal web training into a web developer with hundreds of thousands of downloads of his projects?

    WordPress does.

    Ben is a developer, focused on the human interaction with WordPress. He thrives on making users (and their sites) play nicely with developers (and their products), like an ambassador from one to the other.

    A graduate of the University of North Carolina and a lifelong North Carolinian (if you don’t count 4 years in Middle Tennessee), Ben is a father of two + a foster toddler and a husband of one very patient wife. He works full-time for Give, the donation platform for WordPress, where he spends his time wowing customers, cracking jokes, and solving problems.

    When he’s not working, he’s likely parenting and reminiscing about having free time to play disc golf and guitar.

    Fun facts: Once he gave a Bible to a drunken former KGB agent who was nearly naked. He flew east all the way around the world (with the help of commercial airlines) one summer. He used to have significantly more hair. To an embarrassing extent.

  • Clifton Canady

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    If you’re looking for WordPress Help and Tutorials you’re in the right place. WPCliffsNotes is a WordPress Youtube Channel that puts out weekly WordPress help and tutorials to help you get the most out of your WordPress website. We have over 10 years of experience working on WordPress websites. We teach tips and tricks for making your web design workflow better by using WordPress as a Content Management System.

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  • David Zimmerman

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    David Zimmerman has been advising companies on their SEO strategies and tactics for over 12 years. He’s helped everyone from publicly traded companies to mom-and-pop businesses. 5 years ago, David started his own SEO consultancy in Charlotte, NC- Reliable Acorn, LLC. His secret to success: measure everything!

    Reliable Acorn LLC: https://reliableacorn.com/

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  • Erick Arbe

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    Erick Arbe is a full-stack developer and entrepreneur who has owned his web development company, AO Studios for the past 10 years. He was been working with WordPress since 2008 and has built hundreds of websites for clients across the country. He has spoken at numerous web development and WordPress conferences around the US over the past 7 years. When not building something with WordPress or Vue.js, he can be found at his local CrossFit gym.

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  • Kevin Dees

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    Kevin Dees is a speaker, entrepreneur, blogger, and developer. He’s best known for his work in WordPress and podcasting for the retired SitePoint show. Kevin has developed sites for the brands Verizon, Denny’s, RIDGID, Michelin, and others. Currently, he is working on TypeRocket and TypeRocket Pro, which power over 7,000 professional websites and products internationally.

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  • Kori Ashton

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    Kori Ashton has been listed as one of seven women who run tech startups in San Antonio, Texas, to watch. She started her first company at the age of 12, and has had an entrepreneur’s heart ever since. She built her first HTML website in 1998, and was instantly hooked on Web design.

    Currently Kori is a brand ambassador for Liquid Web, the co-founder & CEO of WebTegrity, a growing WordPress agency, and hosts a weekly giveback to the WordPress community on her YouTube Channel. And you can network with her via PressTribe – an online slack channel that she started in 2019 for WordPress freelancers and agency owners.

    In every workshop or webinar, Kori is determined to share actionable takeaways to our growing community.

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  • Mark Marzeotti

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    I’m a WordPress developer currently located in Charlotte, North Carolina. I generally build custom WordPress themes. I specialize in lightweight and easily maintainable WordPress sites. I’m a big fan of Gutenberg and the block editor, have released a Google Maps block, and will be releasing more blocks to the Plugin Directory.

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  • Micah Wood

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    A professional WordPress developer for over a decade, Micah has worked on sites for Fortune 100 companies, has released over a dozen WordPress plugins, is a frequent speaker at WordCamps, is a WordCamp Atlanta organizer, is a co-host on the WP Square One podcast, and shares his knowledge by blogging on WordPress development topics. Currently, Micah works at Bluehost and spends most of his time contributing back to WordPress.

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  • Mike Coleman

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    Mike works at AWS as a developer advocate focusing on getting people started in the cloud as quickly and as easily as possible. In this role he focuses on creating and delivering technical content at all levels. Before joining AWS he worked at Docker, VMware, and Microsoft in various roles centered around product management and technical content delivery. In his spare time he enjoys riding motorcycles, “playing” guitar, and watching soccer (Go Timbers!)

  • Shelly Peacock

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    Shelly is the Digital Lead for Zimmer Broadcasting. Having worked with WP for over a decade, she specializes in DESVELOPMENT- design mingled with code.

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  • Stephen DeLorme

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    I’m a Digital Media Director at Delineator, where I do video production and web development for manufacturers, scientists, and tech companies. In my free time, I direct independent films, raise chickens, tinker with cryptocurrencies, and volunteer for WordPressTV and the Atlanta WP community.

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  • Thomas Griffin

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    Thomas is the Co-Founder and President of OptinMonster, the #1 most powerful conversion optimization toolkit in the world. He’s also a partner at Awesome Motive, a global technology company known for many popular WordPress plugins such as WPForms and MonsterInsights. Combined, his software powers organizational success for more than 10 million WordPress websites across the globe.

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