WordCamp Jacksonville is excited to announce our fourth set of confirmed speakers for this year’s conference! Stay tuned for announcements about the rest of our speakers.
If you missed our previous speaker announcements, check out our first round, second round, and third round of speakers too!
April Wier
April helps individuals and businesses become the best versions of themselves. This may come in the form of a new, or better, web site or coaching to break through self-imposed limitations. She specializes in helping high-performers reach their goals online. She is heavily involved in Atlanta WordPress community, as a co-organizer of the Woodstock WordPress Meetup and as a former organizer for WordCamp Atlanta. For fun, she runs the digital marketing company Sugar Five Design. Tony D’Angelo
Tony was born and raised in Jacksonville. He is passionate about the local small business and tech communities. As a digital marketing specialist, He combines analytics with creativity to help businesses build an audience of raving fans and to build their business online. When he is not working on projects he enjoys obsessing over Jaguars football, cooking, video games, pondering the mysteries and wonder of the universe and finding the newest music.
Aisha Adams
Aisha is the blogger behind NappyThoughts.com. Her written work has appeared in publications such as The Asheville Citizen-Times, The Asheville Grit, and WNC Woman Magazine. She is also the founder of Aisha Adams Media Group.
Topher DeRosia
Topher is a husband and father from Grand Rapids, Mich. He’s been a web developer since 1995 and a WordPress developer since 2010. Random fact: he’s met the guy that invented individually sliced Kraft cheese, AND wrote the Oscar Meyer wiener song (same guy).
Chris Gregory
Chris founded DAGMAR Marketing and directs all of the agency’s SEO strategy development and implementation. He is a Certified Master SEO by Market Motive and OMCP. DAGMAR Marketing was recently honored by Search Engine Land with a Landy’s award for best local SEO initiative.
Chip Edwards
Teacher, Speaker, Designer, Technologist, and Founder of Create My Voice. Creator of multiple Amazon Alexa skills for well know podcasters and bloggers including Seth Godin’s Akimbo podcast, BiggerPockets, History Unplugged, The Blind Blogger, and many others. Create My Voice is a SaaS company dedicated to helping content producers engage their audience in a Voice First, Smart Speaker world.
Chris Edwards
Chris is co-owner of Data Driven Labs, a WordPress maintenance and marketing agency. He is a 19-year internet marketing veteran with experience in web design and 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 Orlando WordPress community. Chris has held development and internet marketing positions in some of Orlando’s top technology companies.
Jean Perpillant
Jean started Design Theory in late 2008. With a background in IT, Jean has found that web design is a wonderful way to unleash his creativity. He finds there is a great sense of fulfillment when a client is happy with a finished project—taking someone’s concepts and ideas and make them a reality. Jean loves to incorporate photography into his services.
Charles Johnston
Charles is a self-proclaimed digital ninja. Charles has a heart for nonprofits and small businesses that are doing good in their communities. Charles knew, after many mission trips, that he had to use his gifts, talents, and passion for technology for good. After spending many decades in the IT industry, he started a boutique web design agency, HeartWired Digital Solutions. It focuses on putting compassion back into technology. HeartWired does not just offer web design services; it provides web design and technology solutions with heart.
AJ Morris
AJ is a product manager at Liquid Web by day, site and store builder by night, AJ has spent the last decade building anything he can with WordPress. He spends most of his time focusing on helping small business build digital storefronts and web presence. He is devoted to his family and spending the weekends at the family cottage.
Nick Freiling
Nick is a market research strategist and founder of PeopleFish. He helps startups and innovators use survey technology to understand their target markets. In 2018, his business surveyed consumers for over 40 clients. He has consulted on survey market research projects for Proctor & Gamble, Getaround, Bissell, University of South Florida, MIT-Sloan Business School, and dozens of startups around the world.
Nick is a long-time WordPress enthusiast and a top-performing market research analyst on Upwork, a global freelancing platform.
Frank C Jones
Frank is the host of the WordPress Help Desk in RTP, organizer of the Raleigh SEO Meetup, founding member of the Triangle Wikipedians user group, and Marketing Director at OptSus Marketing. He has been building websites since 1995 and started using WordPress in 2008. The Learn-Do-Teach ethos and open knowledge are central to his work.
Christie Chirinos
Christie Chirinos is the Product Manager for the Managed WooCommerce Hosting product at Liquid Web, Inc. Before Liquid Web, she oversaw the growth of Caldera WP’s Caldera Forms plugin to 2 million+ downloads from the WordPress.org plugin repository. Christie started making websites at the age of 14, running her own blog, business websites, and later working professionally on the sites of major national non-profit organizations – on WordPress, of course. Christie has a Master of Business Administration degree from Florida State University and is currently based out of Washington, DC, where she lives with her cat, Snickers.