WordCamp Jacksonville is excited to announce our final set of confirmed speakers for this year’s conference!
If you missed our previous speaker announcements, check out our first round, second round, third round, and fourth round of speakers too!
James Tryon
James is lead ambassador of Wapu.us, founder of Easily Amused and BizTender. He is an organizer of WordCamp Orlando and the Orlando WordPress Meetup group. He been in the creative industry since 1998. James has an eye for design and usability along with the know-how to plan, design, and code it all.
James is married with three children. When James is not working, he is finding something interesting to spark his creativity. An avid collector of random awesomeness and thrift-store artifacts, James is building something, playing with someting, or hanging with his friends and family. Cate DeRosia
In 2015, Cate stepped into the WordPress community to investigate if it was possible to find work outside of development or design. She discovered that as WordPress usage increases and businesses grow, many jobs are opening up for people with soft business skills and/or a talent for content.
After test driving some of these options, she currently works editing and writing content and using her soft business skills to run operations at Pressware.
Beyond answering her questions and finding employment, she’s had the opportunity to meet some amazing people. Her commitment to community building has lead to being a co-organizer of the Grand Rapids meetup, regular WordCamp speaker, and the previous organizer for the 2018 and 2019 Grand Rapids (MI) WordCamps.
She has dedicated the last 20 years to family development and enjoys sports, exploring new places, and making pretty things, often with yarn. When she writes, you’ll find it at atypical.ink
David Wolfpaw
David is a professional web developer focused on WordPress theme and plugin development. He emphasizes helping small businesses, providing ongoing support, and educating users through his service FixUpFox. He helps organize both WordPress Orlando and WordCamp Orlando.
Steve Schwartz
Steve is the owner of AVT Marketing in Charlotte, N. C. and has been a WordPress developer for over 10 years. After experiencing a hacked site in 2012 he became obsessed with website security and educating others on end-to-end online security. His teaching style is to simplify technical jargon to make it understandable for all end users. As an educator, he stresses the why and not just the what. He uses many stories in his teaching.
He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and is currently pursuing the Offensive Security Certified Professional certification (OSCP) through Kali Linux
Mama Trish
Mama Trish is a musician, performer, and former festival organizer, who, after illness and injury, turned her talents to Self Care. She now shows others how to do the same, with no time, little money, and hella fun and creativity. She built her webpage, SelfCareCircus.com, to share all the things that make her happy and healthy.
Scott Mann
Scott is an Emmy-winning creative director, a business mentor, a board member for a number of regional non-profits, an SEO specialist, a certified Google Partner and a social impact advocate.
He founded Highforge in 2001 as a boutique digital agency with the purpose of helping good people grow good businesses online and beyond. Since then the agency has designed work for thousands of companies and helped clients reach millions of new viewers and customers. They build high-end brand identity and messaging guidelines, SEO, Google Ads and WordPress development and support.
He’s an avid sci-fi reader, racquetball player, and backpack traveler. He enjoys music festivals, tequila and loves promoting BeTheMatch.org to save lives.