With WordCamp DFW just 37 days away, the organizing committee is ready to announce the second round of speakers for this year’s event.
So, without any further delay, here are the second round of confirmed speakers for WordCamp DFW 2018:
Elayna Fernandez
Topic: How To Use Your Blog To Become A Digital Influencer
Elayna Fernández, known worldwide as The Positive MOM, is an award-winning storyteller, a master digital strategist, and an avid student of pain. Elayna helps moms transform their pain story into positive growth, step into balance, and create joy and success on their own terms – in all areas of life. Elayna travels the world as an International keynote speaker and panelist in the topics of motherhood, mindset, and mompreneurship. Her guidance encourages, empowers, and equips millions of moms in 134 countries to increase their impact, income, and influence, without guilt, shame, or regrets in motherhood. As an influencer for over 13 years, Elayna has partnered with over 250 brands and has made her blog her main source of income. She loves to teach, train, and mentor others to do the same! Elayna is Certified Guerrilla Marketing Master Trainer, Certified Passion Test Facilitator, Certified DreamBuilder Coach, Certified Success Principles Trainer, a graduate of the Steve Harvey School for Business Acceleration, and a web designer for over 20 years. She has been awarded as Best Marketer, Mom Entrepreneur of the Year, Best Latina Lifestyle Blogger of both 2015 and 2016, and the 2017 Best Family and Parenting Creator at the TECLA Awards, and she has been named one of the Top Latina Influencers in the USA two consecutive years. ThePositiveMOM.com, has been ranked one of 100 Top Moms Blogs Worldwide both in 2016 and 2017. Elayna is often featured in global media including ABC, NBC, FOX, Telemundo, Univision, Latina Magazine, CNN en Español, The Huffington Post, and is a contributing writer to Thrive Global! Elayna has spoken on stages such as S.H.E. Summit, Texas Conference for Women, eWomenNetwork, BlogHer, Hispanicize, Mom 2.0 Summit, Texas Social Media Conference, Work Hacker, Rocks Digital, Boy Scouts of America, Rotary International, and more! She’s also been a member of both the BlogHer and Hispanicize advisory boards. Born and raised in a slum in the Dominican Republic and a single mom for many years, Elayna now lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with her family. Her philosophy is “BE Positive and You’ll BE Powerful!”
Brent Jett
Topic: CSS Jam Session
Brent Jett is a designer and developer in Dallas, Tx and is currently the Design Lead at Beaver Builder. He likes exploring new tools and technologies for creating things on the open web as well as finding ways to bring more of traditional graphic design into the digital creative space.
Brent is also a photography nerd and enjoys filling instagram with adorable photos of his beagle.
Jacob Martella
Topic: Keeping Your Themes and Plugins Separate
Writing. Web Development. Storytelling. These are a few of Jacob’s favorite things. He first loved writing stories, specifically sports stories, and it eventually became my major in college. But along the way, he began to fall for web development, and finding ways to help others tell their stories through websites. He’s created a couple of WordPress plugins and themes and currently works with Faith Growth, Inc., and as a freelancer.
David Ryan
Topic: 10 Strategies To Teach Yourself Before Taking a Development Class
Dave Ryan is an Interdisciplinary WordPress Developer at Bluehost, where he focuses on contributing to WordPress. In the past Dave has worked for large publishers and universities scaling high-traffic WordPress sites, blending his skills in information design, journalism and web development. Dave lives in Phoenix, loves a good taco and will like every photo of your dog on Instagram.
Zach Stepek
Topic: Immaterial Woo – eCommerce Without Products
Zach is the CEO of Mindsize, an eCommerce -focused agency that builds and maintains stores for mid-market and larger eCommerce store owners. He’s been in the digital space for the last two decades as a designer, developer, and instructor. When he isn’t sitting in front of a screen, he’s behind a camera capturing images of musicians or pretending to be a musician himself.
Mia Mian
Topic: WP DIY Gone Awry… NOW WHAT?!
Startup and Tech Enthusiast byways of San Diego, CA. WordPress was my true entry point into the world of development and I wouldn’t have it any other way… from working in agencies to now as a client facing lead for a WP development firm. I’m stoked to represent and advocate for the non-technical WordPress user.
Summer Alexander
Topic: Cut the Copy: Take Your Marketing Message from “Meh” to Mesmerizing
With a unique background which includes education and work experiences in technology, market research, and marketing communications; Summer Alexander is uniquely qualified to help businesses combine their data with their story to create client-centered messaging.
Cory Webb
Topic: Build your first custom Gutenberg block
Cory Webb is a senior full stack developer at Reaktiv Studios hailing from Waco, Texas, home of Dr. Pepper, Baylor University, and shiplap. Before joining the team at Reaktiv, Cory ran a small web development company specializing in WordPress and Joomla development. His educational background is in engineering and business, but his true passion has been web development since he built his first web page as a freshman electrical engineering student at the University of Texas in 1997. When he’s not busy manipulating 1’s and 0’s, you can usually find him spending time with his wife and 3 kids, traveling, watching movies, and serving at his local church.
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s WordCamp DFW held on Nov. 10-11. There are also plenty of opportunities to sponsor the event or help run it. We hope to see you there!