We’re very excited to continue to announce our speakers and sessions for the inaugural WordCamp for Publishers. This is the second 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!
Gabriel Koen
VP of Technology at PMC, overseeing product and engineering for our brands. Have worked on solutions for print workflow tools for the topic with Variety, WWD, Robb Report, and other PMC brands.
Integrating print and digital / print workflow tools in WordPress
Jake Goldman
Jake is the owner and President of 10up, a full service agency that makes a better web with finely crafted websites and tools for content creators. Whether you’re a political junky glued to FiveThirtyEight, a car enthusiast reading MotorTrend, a Windows user who keeps up with Microsoft’s newsroom, an Apple fan reading 9to5mac daily, a tech entrepreneur keeping up with TechCrunch or VentureBeat, or even if you just use WordPress itself, you’ve experienced a small sample of 10up’s work, built atop WordPress. Jake grew 10up from a 1 man show (himself!) to over 100 employees with dozens of brand name clients in under 5 years.
Jake started focusing on web content management platforms like WordPress in 2006, releasing free plug-ins, diverting new projects to the platform, contributing code to the open source project, and engaging the community. He has been a writer and expert reviewer for Smashing Magazine, taught WordPress development at Boston University, and has spoken at conferences, universities, and programs around the country. He helped organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010, founded the WordPress meetup in Providence, and rebooted the Sacramento meet up in a format that continues on to this day. He is a core contributor to WordPress, and maintains some of the highest rated plug-ins on the official repository, with over 500,000 active installations.
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Jake Spurlock
Jake is a senior member of the WIRED Tech team, He spends most days working on engineering tasks that encompass digital publishing, API authoring, and web performance. He was the chief architect on WIRED’s Apple News integration, which was highlighted in the WWDC keynote. He also open-sourced the Facebook Instant Articles plugin for WordPress, and was then featured by Facebook during their F8 developer event, and has since become a member of their Open Source advocacy group at Facebook. In addition to personal projects, He has built tools for better handling of podcasts, and other editorial tools like Curator, WIRED’s front-page scheduling app.
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Jason Bahl
Jason is a Senior WordPress Engineer at Digital First Media where he works on large publishing sites such as DenverPost.com, OrangeCountyRegister.com and TwinCities.com. He’s been using WordPress since 2009 and has been working with WordPress full-time since 2010. He’s currently the project lead of the open source WP Plugin “WPGraphQL,” which brings a GraphQL API to WordPress.
Jay Moore
Jay is a strategic marketer with experience spanning a number of industries over nearly 15 years. Starting off as a freelance graphic designer and marketer for small businesses, he fell into a career in non-profits before shifting focus to the advertising world. Jay’s understanding of websites and their traffic patterns has led to cutting edge application of analytics and website architecture, improving the visitor experience and driving revenue for clients. After rising to the level of vice president of a national advertising agency, Jay came to 10up to focus on developing successful strategies and tactics for clients of all sizes in all industries.
Having worked on more than 40 website builds (mostly on WordPress), Jay embraces an entrepreneurial spirit that makes websites come to life. From start up inventors to global retailers, Jay thrives on the challenge of maximizing audience impact.
Jay lives in Oklahoma with his wife and son, and enjoys playing golf, traveling, and photography. In his spare time he is typically found chasing his son around the backyard or splashing in the pool, but also enjoys grilling and spending time with family and friends.
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