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Announcing Products Business Track Speakers

It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Product Business Track.

Our goal this year was to build a business track that would be useful to everyone. And to that end, we broke it into two – a product side and a services side.

In our product side, we’ve assembled five speakers we know you’ll love – from across the United States. These are names you know – and the perfect people to give you insight on your product business.

Listed in the order of their sessions:

Andrew Norcross – Sizing a Market (Are there buyers for this product?)
Chris Lema – Pricing (What will they pay?)
Justin Sainton – Building It (Put it on GitHub? Collab? Just team? Outsource?)
Syed Balkhi – Launch & Marketing (How do I get traction?)
Pippin Williamson – A Lead Developer’s Role in Customer Support

So set your calendars and prepare to invite your co-founders and business partners for a day they won’t soon forget.

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Announcing Services Business Track Speakers

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It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Services Business Track.

Our Services Business Track is exactly that – a focus specifically around the world of professional services. When you’re doing custom development you don’t want advice from product people. You want to talk to people who “get” what you’re up to. And that means talking to the well-known and trusted people we’ve invited, from all across California (and Michigan and Texas).

Here they are, in order of their sessions:

Jared Atchison, Bill Erickson – Choosing Clients (They’re not all the same)
Jennifer Bourn – Pricing the Unknown (Dealing with Uncertainty)
Karim Marucchi, Rebecca Gill – Expectations Management (Contracts & Scoping)
Wes Chyrchel – Milestones & Delivery (Tough Conversations / Scope Creep)
Steve Zehngut – Getting Paid (Invoicing & Maintenance Plans)

So set your calendars and prepare to invite your co-founders and business partners for a day they won’t soon forget.

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Announcing Admin Track Speakers

It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Admin’s Track, We’ve put together a slew of local and international talents that have a long history of helping WordPress power users and are putting together some awesome talks. We also have an exciting panel hosted by Michael from Advanced WordPress that will blow you away.

Hristo Pandjarov – Why Is My Website Slow?
Christina Hills – Simple Solutions for Website Backups
William Bay – What You Need to Know About Local SEO
Vid Luther – SSL: How Does That Work?
Pamela Bey – Migrating Websites to/from WordPress
Mika Ipstenu, Matt Cromwell, Ansel Taft – Panel called ‘HELP ME! How to Help Others Help You’ with host Michael Bastos
Chris Weigman – Vetting a Plugin
Michele Butcher – Your Site Has Been Hacked, What’s Next?

So set your Calendars, prepare to invite your coworkers and day to day WordPress power users for a day they won’t soon forget. We will be posting profiles on our speakers and panel members shortly after all of the speakers are announced so that you can get to know them better.

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Announcing Beginner Track Speakers

It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Beginner’s Track, We’ve put together a slew of local and international talents that as we speak are already working hard at putting together talks which will teach WordPress newbies in a manner rarely seen in WordCamps. We also have an exciting panel hosted by Hristo from SiteGround that will blow you away.

Heather Baker Steele – What is WordPress really?
Stephen Carnam – Installing WordPress Remotely and Locally
Jason Tucker – Understanding the WordPress Interface
Evan Scheingross – Switching Themes Like a Boss
Russell Aaron – When to Add or Not Add a Plugin
Matt Cromwell – Properly Setting Up your Site
Ben Fox, Devin Walker, Steve Zehngut – Panel called ‘Making Money With WordPress’ with host Hristo Pandjarov
Rob Marlbrough – WordPress Social and Tracking Tools

So set your Calendars, prepare to invite your clients and family members which are new to WordPress for a day they won’t soon forget. We will be posting profiles on our speakers and panel members shortly after all of the speakers are announced so that you can get to know them better.

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Call for Speakers

Wanted: Awesome speakers from the WordPress community that can communicate clearly and articulately, since we want to show off the local San Diego WordPress talent, most preferences will be given to local speakers who have not yet had a chance to present at a WordCamp.

Speaker applications are now closed
Decision will be made on speakers November 25th.