We had a record – or should we say – “super” year of talk submissions this year! While we wish we could accept everyone into the WCORL Speaker League, time only allows us to choose the speakers with the powers we need most.
That being said, join us as we reveal some of the superpowered speakers for WCORL 2017!
Alex Sanfilippo
Alex specializes in business consulting and life coaching. He’s also passionate about WordPress! His purpose is to help businesses and individuals grow and develop into their full potential. His vision is to help you achieve yours.
Brian Richards
Brian Richards, creator of WPSessions.com, has been using WordPress since 2007 and training and leading development teams since 2011. In addition to investing his time into training, Brian has had the opportunity to work with many amazing WordPress agencies and experts over these last several years. This has allowed Brian to help develop sites for Microsoft, Disney, TIME, YMCA, and numerous others. Brian has an affinity for self-directed learning and helping others to develop skills and workflows to better solve important and complicated problems. He can’t resist helping good people do great things.
Carol Gann
Carol understands the beauty and power of WordPress, that it can give a voice to people who otherwise may not be heard. Carol is a WordPress developer, public speaker, consultant and WordPress trainer. She is a Lead Generation Specialist and Project manager for Orlando Web Wizard a local WordPress hosting and development company.
Chad Windnagle
Chad Windnagle is an experienced software engineer who has experience working with a wide array of software development teams, languages, and organizations. He has worked with nearly every well known, and even some obscure CMS on the market – examples include WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. He spent nearly 10 years working with the Joomla Project with roles varying from the Joomla Framework Development team, Google Summer of Code coordinator, and documentation team member. He is currently working as an software engineer in Port Orange, Florida.
Chris Edwards
Chris is co-owner of CE Squared, a WordPress Maintenance and Marketing agency. He is a 17-year Internet marketing veteran with experience in web design & development, search engine optimization, online marketing, social media marketing and mobile development. He specializes in WordPress custom development utilizing either Genesis Framework or underscores and is very active in the WordPress Orlando community. Chris has held development and Internet marketing positions in some of Orlando’s top technology companies.
Chris Wiegman
Chris is a developer for UF Health at the University of Florida who has been working on WordPress since 2008. Over the years he built one of the largest security plugins on WordPress.org as well as numerous other plugins, themes and other solutions. When not coding Chris loves to teach and has presented at numerous WordCamps and other conferences as well as taught computer security for St. Edward’s University and other University courses ranging from computers to aviation.
Christina Siegler
Christina is the Director of Operations and Project Management at Crossfield Digital. What does that mean? She plans out resourcing and leads the project teams on all of the awesome sites and apps we build. Christina loves process and think it is important to provide a fun and rewarding working environment for my team and clients. She has over 7 years of Project Management and is a certified Scrum Master. Yay process! In her free time you can find her running! Last year she did the “Dopey Challenge” which consisted of a 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Marathon- in FOUR days! Because of all the running, she is super obsessed with carbs- most notably donuts and french fries.