This group will join our other speakers for 3 days of sessions on November 8th – 10th. We hope you’ll join us for their sessions. View the Full Schedule Here & Get your ticket today!
WordPress is more than a platform for building websites. It provides the tools you need to target your audience and build a brand.
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Candice Gilliatt
My passion lies in helping small businesses establish an online presence that rocks results. With 12ish years in the industry, I have been blessed to work alongside some stellar companies and help them create long term success. The building blocks start with strategy and being able to communicate goals in a way that fosters a 2-way flow of information so we can be effective quickly.
Session
- Discover How You Can Leverage Yoast to Achieve Massive Results for Your Clients Even if You Don’t Have a Lick of SEO Knowledge November 9, 2019 at 2:30 pm PST in Arts
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Chris Aldrich
Chris is an engineer and developer with interests in the entertainment, publishing, education, and journalism sectors. He is a strong advocate of the IndieWeb.org movement and uses their ideas, philosophies, and technology with WordPress as a replacement for his social media presence and to power his online commonplace book.
Session
- Welcome to Web 3.0, the internet you always wish you had. November 9, 2019 at 11:00 am PST in Innovation
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Keith Frey
Keith’s career began when his employer, whom he worked for as a podcast producer, asked him to build a website for one of their clients. He stumbled through creating that first website and has been building websites and web applications ever since. Now, more than ten years later, he has gained a broad range of experience as a full-stack engineer. He has had the opportunity to work in many different industries including public relations, advertising, card services, music and radio, as well as spending more than four years as the Senior Web Technologist for Western Digital. He is currently a Senior Back End Developer for WebDevStudios.
Session
- Headless WordPress and You: A Practical Guide to Headless WordPress November 10, 2019 at 10:00 am PST in Innovation
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Lloan Alas
Full-stack web developer based in Rialto, California. Application Developer for Esri in Redlands, CA. Founder of Inland Empire Software Development, Inc – a nonprofit based in Riverside, CA.
Session
- Using WordPress with GraphQL, ACF, Apollo and NextJS to build a dynamic website. November 10, 2019 at 11:00 am PST in Innovation
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Sumner Davenport
Sumner specializes in Web Accessibility on WordPress. Through her long-standing organization, she and her team build, maintain, evaluate and remediate WordPress websites to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards. She consistently reviews legal documents related to web accessibility lawsuits and communicates with attorneys on both sides of the issue.
She is active in accessibility and legal conferences and educational venues, including Small Business conferences, WordCamp and local WordPress groups where she regularly speaks on topics related to compliance issues for WordPress websites. She is popularly known for her presentation “Compliance, Traps & Trolls.” Sumner provides presentations to business groups on the benefits, importance and overall value of having an accessible website and conducts ongoing educational events for web designers who use WordPress, so they can better understand the ease and value of inclusive design and accessibility. She also teaches designers and DIYers who use WordPress the steps to remediating a WordPress site. She is a member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) and several industry specific associations.
She is owned by a rescue dog named Tigger and his rescue cat, Merlin.
Sessions
- Remediation of a WordPress Site November 9, 2019 at 3:30 pm PST in Innovation
- Accessibility Panel Discussion November 10, 2019 at 12:30 pm PST in Innovation