We are happy to announce the second round of speakers for WordCamp NYC 2017! Stay tuned for the full schedule!
Angelica Yarde
Angelica Yarde is the co-founder of Sevenality, a brand strategy agency, located in Orlando, Florida. She is also the owner of Studio 404 Paper and co-host of the Heart + Hustle Podcast, a weekly podcast focused on giving creative entrepreneurs the tools they need to achieve with life-work balance. She has been a designer and developer for over a decade and is passionate about helping brands achieve their goals using design and user-experience based solutions. She helps out with the WordPress Orlando meetup group and the Central Florida Branding & User Experience meetup group.
Chris Rogers
I am a professional actor with BFA in Acting & Minor in Voice from U of Louisville and started my dance training the Louisville Ballet.
Rahul Bansal
Rahul is the founder and CEO of rtCamp – only WordPress.com VIP Partner from Asia.
His WordPress journey began in 2007 when he was looking for ways to customize his blog. Later on, he moved from professional blogging to freelancing, and from freelancing to starting rtCamp in 2009.
At work, Rahul plays multiple roles, switching between sysadmin (his favorite), to sales and everything else company demands from him.
Over the years, Rahul has contributed to the WordPress community in different ways as a WordCamp speaker, organizer, volunteer, polyglot, theme/plugins developer.
Outside of WordPress, he loves spending time with his son and is a self-proclaimed foodie.
Sam Brodie
Sam is a big proponent of the productized mentality, having built a successful productized web design business (https://jurispage.com) that was acquired for 7 figures in 2016. He now teaches about the productized service business model (http://productized.com) and has started a new business, Offsprout (https://offsprout.com), a website building platform, being built with React, specifically for web design agencies who want to build and manage their client sites faster.
Bruce Chamoff
Bruce Chamoff has been a web developer for over 21 years and has worked on over 1,000 websites. He has worked on WordPress since 2006 building themes and plugins for Fortune 500 companies as well as mom and pop shops. His Udemy courses have taught WordPress development to web designers in over 150 countries as he loves to teach!
His most recent involvement was with the Radio City Rockettes website in New York City and he is the senior director of technology and development for American Media Inc, the publisher of top gossip magazines in the US including National Enquirer, OK, Star, and Soap Opera Digest. In his spare time, he performs with this band and is a dedicated father.
Alonso Indacochea
Born in Lima, Peru and a proud East Coaster, Alonso taught English as a Second Language and spent time in the non-profit world before becoming a WordPress evangelist. Le gusta hablar en castellano y também em português. Although he misses the rain and clouds every once in a while, New Mexico, where he started a WordPress business, is his home for good. He lives with his wife, Kathleen, his energetic daughter, Josephine, toddler twin boys, Francisco and Iñigo, a neurotic dog, Rafa, and the various rabbits, quail, road runners and spiders that roam his backyard.
Pam Ann
I own an agency in NJ that specializes in SEO & PPC. We have a very strong reputation for being experts in results-driven white-hat SEO and highly-effective PPC campaigns. We recommend WordPress to almost all of our clients, and consult with developers on how to maximize its search-engine-friendliness.
Brian Rotsztein
Brian is a renaissance man whose passion and enthusiasm as an experienced digital entrepreneur has shined over the last two decades. With a unique constellation of talents, he successfully multitasks between being a CEO, Internet marketing professional, conference speaker, author, consultant, content creator, mentor, photographer, web designer, and startup founder. His highly praised book, Content Marketing Ideas, is a complete guide to content creation and maintains an influential five-star rating on Amazon. He is in demand as the head of established brands such as Uniseo.com and RedstoneX.com, President of the Canadian Internet Marketing Association, Editor-in-chief of Citynet Magazine, Founder of WordPress support and maintenance brand WP Phone Support, and Editor at The WP Crowd, among other accolades. You may have caught his many appearances on local and national news, radio shows, podcasts, and other online media as a go-to expert. Brian holds two Master’s degrees and has taught at McGill University and Boston College. Visit www.rotsztein.com and connect with him on Instagram and Twitter: @brianrotsztein
David Wank, DMD
Dr. David A. Wank is a practicing general dentist and an authority on dental website development, search engine optimization, and social media. He received his dental degree from Harvard in 2003, is an active speaker, and is the president of Short Hills Design, LLC, a WordPress-based web development and Internet marketing firm for dentists and physicians that provides solutions across North America.
Dr. Wank is the the author of the The Web Design Workbook for Dentists, an 100+ page non-technical, online guide for dentists and dental team members that explains the website development process, search engine optimization, and social media in detail. He is the founder of the “Internet Marketing for Dentists” group on Google+ and Facebook, and maintains an active Internet Marketing blog for dentists at his website: www.shorthillsdesign.com.
Corey Maass
Corey Maass is a full-stack web developer with a love for entrepreneurship and minimum viable everything. He built his first website in 1995, his first SaaS app in 2003, and his first WordPress plugin in 2009. In 2015, after 4 years of full-time WordPress development, he combined his passions and launched his first commercial plugin, Kanban for WordPress. He currently lives in Saugerties, New York.