Come join these excellent speakers in the Navy track and learn about support and client relations.
Ben Meredith
Ben is the Senior Support Technician at WordImpress, the makers of Give, the most robust donation platform for WordPress. He also created Better Click To Tweet, the most popular WordPress Plugin for adding Click to Tweet boxes to WordPress posts and pages. A lifelong North Carolinian (with a 4-year break in Middle Tennessee just after college), Ben is also one of the organizers for WordCamp Raleigh, leading the team in 2017 and 2018. When not coding or solving code puzzles to support users, you’ll find him with a guitar in hand or perhaps playing a round of disc golf. He’d lobby for it being called just “golf” and making that other game “ball golf” or perhaps “expensive ball golf.”
Jason Knill
Jason is a partner at co-founder of GiveWP.com, a WordPress donation plugin powering more than 40k+ active installs. He works on managing the businesses growth, buys the ads and does pre-sales support tickets, too. He grew up in Jefferson Park (blue line), too—though he lives in San Diego now, he’s a Blackhawks and White Sox fan.
Jamie Schmid
Jamie Schmid has a particular passion for creating excellent content experiences. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, she has been working as a WordPress freelancer and consultant since 2012, regularly taking sites from conception through a well-managed build process that encourages communication, planning, and smart use of content. She has a background in Information Architecture and Content Strategy, a passion for all things WordPress, and a whole lot of cats back home in Portland, OR. In her role as SiteLock WordPress Evangelist Jamie helps build awareness of website security best practices and solutions.
Ellen Goodwin
Ellen Goodwin is a TEDx speaker, trainer and productivity expert who inspires digital entrepreneurs to cut the BS, turbo-charge their results and become the Action Hero of their business and their life!
No stranger to the entrepreneurial roller coaster, she nearly fired herself from her own graphic design business after procrastination, uninspiring projects and playing way too many computer games nearly shut it down. Something had to change. And fast.
So, like any good Action Hero, she pulled herself up by the bootstraps and dove headfirst into the world of neuroscience to understand the brain’s natural triggers and signals related to productivity and focus. Through trial and error, she took what she learned, coupled with 20+ years experience as a business owner, and transformed her life and livelihood… in record time. And has made it her mission to help others do the same. Today she is founder and CEO of EllenGoodwin.com where she empowers other entrepreneurs to create the business and life they’ve always imagined too.
When she’s not talking about brains and saving the world one entrepreneur at a time, Ellen can be found podcasting, bike riding or hosting a Dive Bar of the Month club
Kitty Lusby
Kitty Lusby is a long time professional blogger based in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she blogs both at a day job and as her nighttime gig. About 5 years ago, Kitty decided to start a blog to hone her writing skills and build an audience, and after a perfunctory Google search for “how to start a blog,” she created her first WordPress site. That simple search led to a full-time career within 6 months, and today, Kitty spends most of her day on a WordPress dashboard. She’s known for her humor and wit, her knack for picking up a brand’s voice in her writing, and also for her minor obsession with all things taco. You can find Kitty’s personal blog at kittylusby.com, her most prominent professional blog at NeONBRAND.com, and articles with her name on them all over the web.