Announcing WCSD 2016 Development Track Speakers

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WordCamp San Diego 2016 Development Track Speakers

WordCamp San Diego 2016 Development Track Speakers

Want to hear from some top notch development experts? This year’s development track lineup features some of the top local, national, and international names in the game:

Stephen Carnam

stephen-carnamStephen Carnam is the founder of ServerPress, LLC, a technology firm that creates tools using open source technology for creative web designers and professional web developers. Stephen has 20+ years of software development and consulting experience. He is also co-admin for the Advanced WordPress Facebook group and a co-organizer for Advanced WordPress Meetup. Previously, Stephen held positions as a senior software developer and technology director specializing in interactive graphic engines for 3D game development, industrial applications, and defense simulations. When not writing code, Stephen enjoys graphic design, circuit board hacking, or sculpting new ideas for 3D printing in his garage shop.

Konstatine Obenland

konstatine-obenlandKonstantin is a WordPress aficionado, and Core Developer based in Ventura, CA. You might remember him from projects like WordPress 4.3 or the new WordPress.org Theme Directory. At Automattic he’s is part of a team that contributes to Core and WordPress.org full time. He enjoys bourbons, craft beers, and good food‚ sometimes so much that he blogs about it.

Zack Tollman

zack-tollmanZack Tollman is the application architect on the WIRED tech team. Before joining WIRED, Tollman worked as technical lead at the Theme Foundry and senior web engineer at 10up. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Lawrence University and PhD from Washington State University. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife.

Josh Cummings

josh-cummingsJosh Cummings is an avid WordPress user and plugin and theme developer. He is currently a front-end developer at Grizzly where he and his team use the power and flexibility of WordPress every day. Along with his passion for translating beautiful design into code, he enjoys teaching, speaking and contributing to the WordPress community.

Alicia St Rose

alicia-st-roseAlicia St Rose began her adventure with WordPress when a UX friend offhandedly suggested using the CMS for a mutual friend’s website. That was nearly 8 years ago and the adventure has turned into a torrid love affair. Now she is a freelance developer, exclusively powered by WordPress, and has yet to find a limitation in this magical piece of software. Not only does she design and develop custom themes, but she also coaches folks on how to use WordPress like a Pro. She currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with her two rambunctious cats, Oscar and Milo. She divides her time between that seaside town and Black Rock City, Nevada. Oh, and her favorite color is red.

AJ Zane

aj-zaneI can jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace. I focus on WP, Sass, Angular, & beer. Organize FrontEndAuthority.org, admin Advanced WordPress, and front end development for Veyo Logistics.

Josh Pollock

josh-pollockJosh, is a WordPress plugin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He is the owner of CalderaWP, makers of Caldera Forms, and a co-founder of Ingot, the easiest A/B testing framework for WordPress. In addition he is a contributor to WordPress core, the WordPress REST API, and plugins by Foo Plugins, Postmatic, Pods, Aesop Interactive, WordImpress, GravityView and more. One of Josh’s favorite things to do is to share what he has learned about WordPress plugin development, business and community. He writes regularly for Torque Magazine and has contributed to other top WordPress tutorial sites including, Smashing Magazine, Tuts+, and WPBeginner. He is also the author of the book The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress REST API.

Carl Alexander

carl-alexanderHi! I’m Carl. I have a website where I publish articles on a regular basis. It’s my way to help you with these hard-to-learn topics. That’s also why I’m excited to speak at WordCamp San Diego 2016. . It’s another way for me to help you. Besides that, I’ve been a WordPress Montreal organizer since 2010. I also help organize other WordPress events during the year. You can find me on Twitter and GitHub.

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Tickets go on sale tomorrow!

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Friendly reminder! Tickets for WordCamp San Diego 2016, to be held at NTC at Liberty Station on April 23-24, officially go on sale tomorrow at 10 am PST. We have assembled an excellent list of top notch speakers (to be announced soon) with a great lineup of tracks and sessions for WordPress users of all skill levels.

So be sure to schedule your reminders and tell your friends because in the past the tickets have gone quickly. See you here in April!

Meet the Organizers: Devin Walker

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Devin Walker is the founder of WordImpress, a San Diego based WordPress development company. He and the WordImpress team also serve as WordPress Community Consultants for Media Temple.

Walker has extensive experience creating free, premium, and commercial WordPress plugins and themes. Popular plugins include Give, a highly rated WordPress Donations Plugin, Google Maps Builder, Yelp Widget Pro and WooCommerce Quick Checkout. In total, his plugins have more than 100,000 active installs.

Outside of the WordPress world, Devin enjoys traveling, going to concerts, and playing a leisurely round of disc golf.

Meet the Organizers: Kim Blake

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kimKim Blake is a Web designer/developer and enjoys working with small businesses and non-profits. She’s currently rebranding her business for 2016 and plans on getting back to blogging at Theatre Geek very soon. This is her first year as a WordCamp organizer and she is super excited to work with an awesome team to ensure a really great turnout.

Meet the Organizers: J.J. Springer

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1488060_10103932115206480_270299964_n (1)A San Diego resident, J.J. Springer is a graphic and web designer that has worked across many spectrums of media: print, digital, and television. She is currently spending her time freelancing for major clients including Automattic, FiscalTrak, and the Southern California Golf Association while also co-founding a technology company that serves governmental clients. She loves setting up, tweaking, and designing WordPress sites so that they shine for her clients.

First Round Tickets Go On Sale February 16th, 2016

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Tickets go on sale February 16th 2016

Tickets Go On Sale February 16th 2016

It’s time to mark your calendars: the first round of WordCamp San Diego 2016 tickets will go on sale on February 16th at 10am (PST).

Like a perfect wave, we anticipate high demand in the water.  Tickets last year went quickly! As news spreads, the WordPress Community responds. That’s why this year we are having a second round of ticket sales.

The second round of ticket sales will be a more limited release of tickets and is slated to crest on February 23rd, 2016 at 6pm (PST).

Mark your calendars, grab your tickets, pack up your boards, and head west for the best WordCamp south of Orange County! See you here dudes and dudettes!

Meet the Organizers: Chris Lema

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Chris Lema is the Chief Technology Officer & Chief Strategist at Crowd Favorite.

He’s also a blogger, a public speaker, and product strategist.

For more than twenty years Chris has developed and managed high performing engineers to build software products – particularly SaaS products in a variety of B2B vertical markets. He’s also spent the last ten years coaching startups on product development & marketing strategies.

He runs the North County San Diego WordPress meetup, is a co-founder and producer of the most watched WordPress podcast on YouTube: WP WaterCooler, and has been a WordCamp San Diego organizer for 2013, 2015 & 2016.