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We have an amazing pool of speakers to choose from and we’re in the middle confirming them all.\u00a0 Check back to this page often as it will be updated regularly over the course of the next week!<\/p>\n

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Nathan is the Web Coding & CMS Specialist at eHawaii.gov<\/span><\/a>. Starting his professional career in print advertising, he eventually moved on to the wonders of website design. He is passionate about making user friendly web sites and accessibility for all. Outside of work, Nathan is a certified rescue diver and loves to hike. If it is the weekend, he’s probably outside away from a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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As an outdoor enthusiast, Mendel loves backpacking, camping, gourmet coffee, and prototyping new web apps. From scrappy beginnings as an entrepreneur and Web consultant for local businesses, he found his way to corporate America as a developer, marketer, and inventor. As a GoDaddy Evangelist, he spends his time hanging out with developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and web pros around the world and making sure their opinions and suggestions are heard.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJake Goldman\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Jake is the President of 10up<\/a>, a full service digital agency that makes web publishing and content management simple and fun. At 10up, he serves name brand clients like TechCrunch, ESPN, Consumer Reports, NBC Universal, and Google. In just 4 years, Jake built 10up from 1 to more than 100 full time employees. Jake has been quoted on publications like c|net, written for Smashing Magazine, taught at Boston University, and presented at conferences around the country. He is a core contributor to WordPress, maintains some highly rated WordPress plug-ins, and co-organizes the Sacramento WordPress Meetup.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAdelle Lennox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Adelle loves media, publications, and technology. She fell in love with computers as a teenager and began building websites in 1999. Her love affair with WordPress began in the spring of 2008. Adelle is a trained journalist and small business owner who enjoys helping others navigate websites and online technology. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising and “actually uses it.” Her skills include: graphic design, writing, research, website building, SEO, content development, photography, and social media marketing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRosie Warfield\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Rosie Warfield is the Manager of eGovernment services at eHawaii.gov. Starting with the company in October 2005 in tech support and working her way through the ranks, she has happily landed in the world of website building and design. You\u2019ll never find Rosie indoors. She spends most of her free time in the mountains or traveling to as many corners of the world as she can fit in to her schedule. Her favorite thing to do is run 100 mile ultra-marathons.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKevin Bates\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Kevin is a traffic and conversion specialist, author of traffic courses, and marketer for WooThemes.\u00a0 After spending 5 years as a traffic consultant he’s now moved into the realm of paid advertising and sales funnel optimization, helping businesses acquire new customers and achieve positive ROI.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTamara Olson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Prior to starting Tamara Olson Designs<\/a>, Tamara spent several years at Google as a design lead. She has also crafted user experiences for Apple, numerous startups, media companies, and countless small business websites. A hybrid designer\/developer, Tamara has been building websites for nearly 17 years and lives in New York City.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tChris Norberg\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Project Manager of Maui\u2019s own Hawaii Web Group (@maui), Chris has admittedly been riding the internet roller coaster with some success and much failure. \u00a0Providing exposure for Hawaii businesses to visitors before arriving on island, Hawaii Web Group builds and promotes their own high-traffic websites and concentrates on community development and social media engagement. \u00a0Largely due to viral posts, last year their sites reached over 1 million users and enjoyed over 156 million impressions socially.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTravis Totz\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Part designer, part aspiring astronaut reaching for the cosmos, part business owner at Westwerk. Travis is all about connections \u2013 with travel, with people and with design. What started out as a combination of all three \u2013 a trip to Hawaii, some good friends and brilliant design \u2013 has since become a thriving WordPress business known as Westwerk. Most recently, Travis led the acquisition of WordPress theme creative house, Press75 and now heads Westwerk\u2019s product division of the same name.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJack Lenox\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Jack Lenox is a Design Engineer on the Theme Generation team at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. He has been building websites since 1998, and building them with WordPress since 2008. In 2011 he set up writing community jottify.com<\/a>, powered by WordPress. He lives in the north of England where he enjoys mountain biking, skiing, visiting Roman ruins, appreciating great design and drinking good coffee.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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I am a theme wrangler at Automattic. This means I am lucky enough to spend my days arm deep in themes. I get to not only work on WordPress.com with themes, but also as part of the theme review team for WordPress.org. When I’m not themeing, I like to spend time with my husband and two dogs around the beach we live by. I like to balance the time spent online with offline crafts, yoga and photography.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tArlen Nagata\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Arlen makes Tech and WordPress web design simple.\u00a0\u00a0 If it\u2019s all \u201cGeek\u201d to you, you need Arlen. \u00a0For years, Arlen has been keeping up with the trends of technology and WordPress web design. \u00a0He provides simple, easy to understand help for others with their technology and website needs.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
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Tracy (or @tapps) is a graphic designer, a front-end web developer, a photographer, a drummer, a crossfitter and lifelong Milwaukean. She has been creating for the web since 1996, and started developing with WordPress before it was WordPress. As a continual student, Tracy enjoys breaking things and pushing the limits in web design whenever she can. She also could probably deadlift you.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKimanzi Constable\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Kimanzi Constable is a former bread delivery guy who self-published two books that have sold over 82,000 copies. He is a published author and business coach. He is a speaker who has spoken at 13 WordCamp conferences all over the world.\u00a0He is a contributing writer for the Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Mind Body Green. He is a weekly columnist, and editor at The Good Men Project. His mission is to help men and women create true freedom in life. Join him at\u00a0KimanziConstable.com<\/a>\u00a0and on Facebook at\u00a0Kimanzi Constable<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKirk Wight\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Kirk works as a Theme Wrangler at Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com. He lives in Vancouver, BC, and co-organizes WordCamp Vancouver. Lover, not a fighter.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGregg Franklin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Gregg Franklin is a WordPress Developer and team member over at ServerPress LLC., the creators of DesktopServer. Loves to help in any way he can solving WordPress problems.<\/p>\n

He also can be found co-facilitating the Inland Empire WordPress meetup group and loves to travel with his wife.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Hawkins\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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John was an early adopter of WordPress. He moved his blog to the brand new platform a few short months after it was released and never looked back. After doing countless updates to his own site and those of a few dozen friends, John co-founded 9seeds.com<\/a> to focus full time on WordPress development. In his spare time, John is the lead organizer of the Las Vegas WordPress meetup<\/a>, blogs at vegasgeek.com<\/a> and recently became addicted to CrossFit.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBen Howard\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Ben Howard has been building websites longer than most people have surfed the Internet. He was working with business websites back in 1995, and was one of the tester\/developers for the original edition of Adobe Flash.\u00a0 He has worked with many WordPress sites over the years, even building custom plug-ins and themes. He has taught Internet Development at UH Maui for more than fifteen years, and has spent the last seventeen years building a reputation as an experienced teacher and programmer on Maui. He would much rather be painting and sculpting, but its easier to make a living with code.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKathryn Presner\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Kathryn<\/a> thrives on helping people get the most out of WordPress. After a career designing and building websites for clients, she joined Automattic as a Happiness Engineer in
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDavid Morgan\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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David Morgan is the co-founder, designer and developer of Invulu, Inc.<\/a>, the company responsible for Organic Themes, Kahuna Host and more. He co-founded Invulu with Jeff Milone in 2009 on the Hawaiian island of Maui. David enjoys surfing, swimming, golfing and creating new web applications and products.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Jeff is Co-founder of Invulu \u2013 a web software, service, and application company known for the popular brands Organic Themes, KahunaHost, and more. He started Invulu on Maui with David Morgan in 2009. Jeff also contributes time as an advisor to several nonprofit organizations. An avid globetrotter, Jeff enjoys traveling to WordCamps around the world.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Successfully bootstrapped a company in eastern Europe, reaching over $1mn in revenue in the first year. Won EY Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 award. Ranked among top 100 most influential people on Social Media in the world in 2012.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKarim Marucchi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Karim Marucchi is the Founder and Chairman of the VeloMedia Group, the parent of several boutique professional service firms around the world. Over the last twenty years he\u2019s run startups, taken companies public, managed mergers and acquisitions, and led professional service organizations across the globe. Today he is also the CEO of Crowd Favorite, which continues to grow beyond its current offices in Los Angeles, Denver, Bucharest, Las Vegas, New York, and Rome due to its unique blend of localized project management and high quality digital solutions. As the first premiere WordPress agency for the Fortune 500, National Geographic, DirectTV, Lexus, the Dallas Mavericks and major entertainment studios count among the company\u2019s client roster.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Hotchkiss\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t
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Sam was the founder of BruteProtect, a distributed brute force attack protection tool which was acquired by Automattic in August 2014. Sam is now hard at work on integrating BruteProtect into Jetpack, and exploring the future as an Automattician.<\/p>\n

Sam travels with his wife, Becky<\/a> (and, quite often, their three\u00a0dogs, Barkley, Izzy and Stanley) to WordCamps around the world. \u00a0He presents on topics ranging from security to building web apps to building and managing large blog networks to the future of WordPress and the internet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Syed Balkhi is the founder of WPBeginner and List25 an extremely popular entertainment site with over 1.2 million subscribers and 200 Million video views. Syed\u2019s work has been featured in NYTimes, HuffingtonPost, Yahoo Small Business, Wired, Mashable, and countless other well-reputed online magazines.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Owns and operates A Silver Lining Productions based in Redondo Beach and teaches a WP101 course at the local adult school.\u00a0 He also runs the SouthBay WordPress Meetup and creates a weekly podcast over at kitchensinkwp.com.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Chris Lema is the\u00a0CTO and Chief Strategist at Crowd Favorite. He\u2019s also\u00a0a daily blogger, a public speaker, and product strategist. He helps companies leverage WordPress, and helps WordPress companies find leverage.<\/p>\n

For twenty years Chris has developed and managed high performing engineers to build software products \u2013 particularly SaaS products in a variety of B2B vertical markets. He\u2019s also spent the last ten years coaching startups on product development & marketing strategies.<\/p>\n

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