Aaron Reimann
Aaron is a designer that turned into a developer and now an agency owner (but he still tries to write code when he can). He’s been working with WordPress since 2008 and has worked with a couple of Fortune 100 companies but also with the local sewing machine shop. Aaron co-leads a WordPress developer Meetup and the Atlanta WordPress Meetup.
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne has been working in tech and open source sales since 2005. He knew as soon as he started working with Java middleware developers he never wanted to work outside of open source ever again. Dwayne first started building in Drupal and WordPress when he needed to build projects for the San Francisco Improv scene. He fell in the love the community of developers and then found his position at Pantheon at the end of 2013.
As a Community and Agency Success Manager he has had the privilege of presenting at Stanford DrupalCamp, Drupal Northern Lights (Iceland), WordCamp Europe and many other conferences.
Outside of tech he loves producing and performing improv theater, and also loves comic books and karaoke!!!
Reach out at https://mcdwayne.com or on twitter @mcdwayne
Evan Mullins
Evan Mullins uses WordPress daily at the office as well as for his own projects. He is currently Lead Web Developer at Brown Bag Marketing, an integrated marketing agency in Atlanta. He blogs at circlecube.com and has even been known to dream in WordPress. With a background in digital media art, he now embraces the dark side and has found a strong creative outlet programming websites. Evan loves the problem solving aspect of web development and shines at harnessing WordPress as a true CMS & making interactive designs interactive. He strives to make the web a prettier, more pleasant and all-around better place for you & your grandma. Outside of work, Evan is a dedicated husband, father of four and soccer coach who loves rock music, audiobooks, chocolate and good pizza.
Irina Blumenfeld
Irina Blumenfeld is a founder of Netmagik, a WordPress development agency, based in Orlando. She has been building websites for more than 15 years. Irina is passionate about website performance and security.
John Hughes
Golf Professional, Entrepreneur, and WordPress User
Micah Wood
Micah Wood is the Technical Director at Narwhal Digital, an agency in Atlanta. He’s written and publicly released over a dozen WordPress plugins, is a core contributor and specializes in enterprise WordPress development. He has a passion for learning best practices and sharing his knowledge with the greater WordPress community.
Michelle Schulp
Michelle is an independent graphic designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.
She loves the open source community, and when she is not working on projects she speaks/volunteers/organizes at events and workshops around the country. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”
Congrats Dwayne and Michelle!!! I look forward to seeing you both speak.