We are proud to announce the third round of speakers for WordCamp NYC 2017! Stay tuned for the full schedule!
Steve Bruner
Steve Bruner is the CEO of SlipFire, New York City based WordPress development studio established in 2007, and a partner in Piklist LLC. where he is creating the most powerful framework available for WordPress.
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon is a professional educator, currently working on the JavaScript for WordPress Master Course. Previously, Zac taught WordPress for Treehouse. He has years of experience teaching WordPress and JavaScript at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers.
Chris Edwards
Chris is co-owner of CE Squared, a WordPress Maintenance and Marketing agency. He is a 17-year Internet marketing veteran with experience in web design & development, search engine optimization, online marketing, social media marketing and mobile development. He specializes in WordPress custom development utilizing either Genesis Framework or underscores and is very active in the WordPress Orlando community. Chris has held development and Internet marketing positions in some of Orlando’s top technology companies.
Mikel King
Mikel is a 20+yr Technology Leader, Public Speaker, Columnist, USCG Veteran, Brewer of beer, Coffee Evangelist – Director of Customer Experience & Software Development at Trusted Media Brand home of such iconic brands as Reader’s Digest, Taste of Home, and The Family Handyman.
His personal blog: JAFDIP and tweets constantly @mikelking.
Christie Chirinos
Christie Chirinos is a Partner at Caldera Labs, a WordPress plugin company, and in charge of business development and marketing. Caldera Labs is the company led by Josh Pollock behind Caldera Forms, a leading drag-and-drop form builder for WordPress, and a handful of other free and premium plugins. Christie started making websites at the young age of 14 due to an interest in internet business, and has since launched an ecommerce site, sold on third-party marketplaces, created sites for service businesses to generate leads, and then focused in for 3 years on tech for nonprofit organizations. Now, she has gone from WordPress user to WordPress products. Christie received her Master of Business Administration degree with a specialization in information systems management from Florida State University, and is currently based out of New York City.
Josh Pollock
Also, he is a WordPress core contributor, the author of two books about WordPress development and a member of The WPCrowd.
Adam Silverstein
Adam wrote games in assembly code, and then applets and of course the obligatory CMS in Java when Netscape Navigator ruled the web – eventually embracing WordPress as his platform of choice. He is a WordPress Core committer and works on the WordPress security team. He is currently helping lead an effort to improve core JavaScript. Adam is a Lead Web Engineer at 10up where he helps make the web better by finely crafting websites & tools for content creators. Adam loves long rafting trips, playing mbira, travel, taking walks and tending his over-sized garden.