We’re excited to announce our last round of speakers, including the keynote speaker for Word Camp Ann Arbor 2015!

John Eckman

John Eckman is the CEO of 10up and is the keynote speaker at WordCamp Ann Arbor 2015. 10up is one of the most well known and respected WordPress agencies in the industry. They have 40+ WordPress core contributors on staff and produce great open source WordPress solutions like Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV.)

Previously to 10up John was a Managing Director at ISITE Design, a Senior Director at Optaros, Director of Application Development at PixelMEDIA, and held a number of different roles (across front-end development, software engineering, and user experience) at Molecular.

He also blogs at Open Parenthesis on many things related to work: open source, web design, and general internet culture stuff.

Marguerite Halley

Marguerite has been working in digital content and design for universities and nonprofits through her entire career. As a digital content strategist at Washington University in St. Louis and a usability/content strategy consultant for nonprofits, she’s a champion for the user and an advocate for clear, engaging content on the web.

Mathew Clancy

Clancy began working with GoDaddy in customer support in 2005 and shortly after began building sites using WordPress for family and friends. Currently based in Phoenix, AZ he is a Project Manager for GoDaddy Hosting Support designing Hosting training and standing up international hosting customer support teams. In his free time he teaches becoming Agile, gaming, and watching his two children grow up too quickly.

Ben Cool

Benjamin Cool is the Application Optimizer at A2 Hosting in Ann Arbor Michigan where he focuses on building “one click” tools for improving Web application performance.

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We’re excited to announce our fourth round of speakers! Make sure to check out the other speakers and see who else will be sharing their knowledge this year.

Declan O’Neill

Declan is the 3.7 DESIGNS client liaison. He is a friendly, funny and extremely knowledgeable native of Ireland with over fifteen years of experience in the web design industry. Declan can help translate your ideas into actionable plans while giving you practical advice along the way.

Not just a people person, Declan is well versed in usability, strategy, and WordPress. He can talk tech, recommend and implement solutions.

Very active in the local WordPress community and is the co-lead organizer of WP Ann Arbor, a monthly meetup for those interested in WordPress.

Tana Dean

Tana began developing websites and blogs in 2008. She switched to wordpress.com in 2011 and then to wordpress.org in 2013 to expand into developing wordpress websites. Currently she’s developing a business site, DeanDesign.co, for developing WordPress websites, ready in about 2 weeks.

Carol Davis

Carol is a freelance web designer from Charlotte MI. She’s been designing websites since 2011 and has been using WordPress for about two years now. She’s am a member of JXN WordPress MeetUp and has attended four Wordcamps in the past year. She enjoys working and learning with the WordPress community.

Ira Horowitz

With 15 years’ experience, Ira has become an expert in nonprofit online communications and online fundraising. Working with hundreds of organizations, Ira has managed and executed many web projects that have resulted in increased funds and resounding engagement.

Mark Montague

Mark is a High Performance Computing consultant at the University of Michigan who has been running web infrastructure services since 1995 and WordPress since 2006.

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Last year we sold out… twice! Tickets are going fast, over half of them have already been sold. Purchase your ticket today and make sure you can attend.

We’re excited to announce our third round of speakers! Make sure to check out the other speakers and see who else will be sharing their knowledge this year.

Ross Johnson

Ross is a man of many passions, the most interesting is new age retro antiques. Google it… it’ll change your life. When not pursuing said passions, he’s working at his design agency 3.7 DESIGNS, working on his project management plugin Panorama or teaching at Michigan State University.

Shanta Nathwani

Shanta R. Nathwani is a Consultant and Instructor in Web Design and CCIT Capstone at Sheridan College, which includes teaching WordPress. The ICCIT program is a joint program with the University of Toronto at Mississauga. She thrives on teaching beginners, as well as content architecture.

Phil Hoyt

Phil Hoyt is a web developer and he likes to create cool things. Ever since he was a child he’s had a DIY attitude towards life. Most days he would pluck away at his keyboard late into the night until the caffeine wore off. Now he develops creative and technical solutions with user experience always in the forefront.

Kellen Mace

Kellen is a web Engineer at 10up. He was born in Toronto, then raised in the Metro Detroit area. College at Grand Valley State took him to West Michigan, where he got to know several of his good friends. A few years after marrying his adoring wife and high school sweetheart, the two of them moved to Colorado for a short time, only to trace their roots back home, settling in beautiful Rochester Hills, Michigan.

When not slinging code, he loves to make music on guitars, drum kit, keyboards and in digital audio workstations like Reason, Pro Tools and Logic. He also likes to read quite a lot about technology, nutrition and science, with some fiction thrown into the mix to spice things up. Lastly, he’s a huge fan of the marvelous WordPress community of developers and designers that he feels privileged to be a part of.

Justin Ferriman

Justin Ferriman is the co-founder and CEO of Ann Arbor based LearnDash, a WordPress based LMS and strategy provider.

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Last year we sold out… twice! Tickets are going fast, over half of them have already been sold. Purchase your ticket today and make sure you can attend.