We are excited to announce the first round of speakers for WordCamp NYC 2017! Stay tuned for the full schedule!
John Eckman
After a first career as an academic, John‘s been working in professional services agencies for the last 15+ years, and as the CEO at 10up for the last 3+.
He’s been focused on open source (primarily WordPress and Drupal) since 2006, as one of the organizers of WordCamp Boston and a frequent speaker at WordCamps (US, Ann Arbor, Toronto, New York, Rhode Island, Maine, and Boston) and DrupalCamps (Montréal, Western Mass, Connecticut, Boston). He’s also presented at many conferences outside of the WordPress community: Gilbane, Confab Higher Ed, CMS Expo, etc.
He received a BA from Boston University, an MA & PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an MIS from Northeastern University.
He lives in Salem MA with his wife and dogs.
Keanan Koppenhaver
Keanan Koppenhaver is the Lead Developer at How-To Geek, one of the top 300 sites in the US, where he help the editorial team share all their awesome, geeky knowledge with the world.
He is passionate about mentoring other developers as well as teaching people that WordPress can be more than just a blogging platform.
Miriam Goldman
Miriam is a developer for a boutique digital marketing agency in Ottawa, Canada. She has been developing for over twelve years, and working with WordPress for eight.
She has spoken at WordCamp Ottawa and Montreal, and is one of the organizers for WordCamp Ottawa.
Outside of her development life, she is a black belt in karate, and also is a competitive latin ballroom dancer.
Kevin Langley Jr.
Kevin has been working with WordPress since 2010. He recently joined Human Made in mid 2017, as a WordPress Engineer. Before working with Human Made, he has worked for various agencies and had a large stint freelancing as well. Over the years, Kevin has expanded his knowledge of WordPress by working on projects ranging from small microsites to enterprise level customizations for companies such as ESPN, Disney, and BigTen Networks.
Kevin resides in sunny Orlando, FL and when not working can be found spending time with his two children, tinkering on a side project, or riding his bicycle.
Jarrett Gucci
Jarrett Gucci comes from a retail background that started at Home Depot in Buffalo NY as cashier and 18 months later was asked to be a project manager based out of Carson California with a goal of opening 12 stores in 14 months. This goal was accomplished. He has also been an area manager at Big Lots and Bed Bath and beyond. He left his very last retail career as a district manager at Linens & Things in 2007 to pursue a hobby of website development as hope he could make some money doing it. After 4 years of building and managing WordPress sites, he founded a company called WP Fix It and since 2011 his company has serviced over 54,000 WordPress support tickets. Something you may not know about Jarrett besides all this, is that when he was 15 his neighbor gave him a 1962 dodge dart and he completely took it apart and rebuilt it.
Jarrett Gucci also know in the WordPress support world as Quicksilver has the superhuman ability to troubleshoot WordPress issues at great speeds. He is a mutant that was born in darkest depths of open source with superhuman support powers. He is the product of a genetic experimentation with the goal of solving WordPress issues as fast as possible. Jarrett Gucci (cough) Quicksilver is most commonly know as the owner and founder of WP Fix It where he and his superhero team have serviced over 58,000 WordPress issues since 2009. Clap as fast as you can for Jarrett Gucci and WP Fix It.
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Dan is COO at DigitalCube, a WordPress solutions company with offices in the US and Japan. He lives and works in Philadelphia PA, home to the first WordCamp US.
His work includes building WordPress SaaS products focused on security and scalability, offering advanced security services through AWS, and providing managed web hosting support for eCommerce clients, large media organizations, and higher education.
Away from the keyboard he enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, eating everything, tasting all the beers, traveling to meet new people and helping with the family business, a pet boutique and bakery in South Philadelphia.
Juan Pablo Gomez
NYC based Web Designer. Built my first table-based site in 2004. Currently designing for FC Harlem, New York City FC. UX Design Mentor at Bloc.io
Daniel Schutzsmith
Daniel Schutzsmith is a rare breed – a hybrid of equal parts business, design, coding, and strategy – ready to change the world for the better!
As the Digital Technology Manager / Senior Web Developer for Amnesty International USA, Daniel is creating websites and mobile apps that engage supporters through great user experience design to advance human rights.
In addition to his work with AIUSA, he is also the Co-Founder of:
– Hudson Valley Tech Meetup, a monthly meetup bringing together technologists, designers, entrepreneurs and educators to share their passion and craft.
– Catskills Conf, a weekend-long event gathering of technologists and creators at The Ashokan Center in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains.
He also gives back his time by teaching our next generation of web designers at SUNY New Paltz as an Adjunct Professor. Previously he taught at NYU SCPS and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Over the past decade he has worked with clients such as Adobe, Greenpeace, The Pixies, MTV, Phish, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Oxfam, PBS, They Might Be Giants, TBS, Pepsico, Dave Matthews Band and many more.
In his free time he enjoys inspirational wanderings through the streets of NYC, single malt scotches, and evenings at the drive-in with his wife and three kids around the corner from his house in rural upstate NY.
Andrew Roberts
CEO and founder of Ephox, the company behind TinyMCE. Andrew has led the TinyMCE team’s contribution to Gutenberg – the new WordPress editor – and has been involved in Gutenberg since its inception. TinyMCE is also an important open source project in its own right with over 100,000 downloads per month.