We’re very excited to announce our speakers and sessions for the inaugural WordCamp for Publishers. This is the first of four posts introducing our full lineup.
They will be sharing insights and perspectives that span many different roles within the publishing industry. We hope you’ll join them in Denver to hear what they have to offer!
Andres Escobar
Andres Escobar is the Lead Platform Developer at IOneDigital. He is a self-taught digital architect that believes in the WordPress mission to democratize publishing.
In his spare time, Andres volunteers teaching kids how to code in his home town of Hoboken, NJ.
Ben Ilfeld
Ben is Lead Audience & Revenue Strategist at 10up, a full service digital agency focused on creating amazing web and content management experiences with a passionate team of 135+ full-time strategists, designers and engineers working around the globe.
Ben has 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur, publisher and innovator, that make him well suited to 10up’s monetization, content conversion, and ad ops business. He has led product development, analysis and iterative design processes, while overseeing all business operations at The Sacramento Press and AdGlue. Ben has consistently stepped over the edge to experiment with new models for creating healthy media ecosystems.
In 2008, Ben launched The Sacramento Press as a new breed of local publication dedicated to rethinking how media interacts with a local audience. In just a few years, his team built an army of over 1,500 volunteer community contributors. During this time, Ben built the first independent online local ad network (SLOAN) that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars for over 60 publishers. He was also a founding board member of the Local Independent Online News publishers (LION).
Daniel Bachhuber
Daniel is currently the principal at Hand Built and has previously worked with a number of impressive companies. He also maintains WP-CLI, the command line interface for WordPress, and contributes to many other open source projects.
Daniel Olson
Dan is COO at DigitalCube, a WordPress solutions company with offices in the US and Japan. He lives and works in Philadelphia PA, home to the first WordCamp US.
His work includes building WordPress SaaS products focused on security and scalability, offering advanced security services through AWS, and providing managed web hosting support for eCommerce clients, large media organizations, and higher education.
Away from the keyboard he enjoys experimenting in the kitchen, eating everything, tasting all the beers, traveling to meet new people and helping with the family business, a pet boutique and bakery named after his dog, Amelie’s Bark Shop.
Deepti Boddapati
Deepti is a full stack developer at Crowd Favorite. During her career, she has implemented location based content search, and delivery features for large high traffic sites, as well as smaller sites. In doing these implementations, she discovered that the biggest obstacle wasn’t a technical challenge but a knowledge challenge. She’s now committed to bridging this gap by providing everyone with the jargon free knowledge to implement these solutions effectively.