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Announcing WordCamp for Publishers Speakers: Part 2

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.

Distribute All The Things: WordPress & The Era of Multiple Content Channels

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.

Monetize All The Things: How Condé Nast Profits From Multiple Channels

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.

Syndicating Content with the WP REST API and WPGraphQL

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.

The project scope will change. Here’s how you make it a tolerable – if even pleasant – experience.

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Announcing WordCamp for Publishers Speakers: Part 1

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.

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Apply for an OpenNews Ticket + Travel Scholarship to WordCamp for Publishers

UPDATE: The opportunity to apply for an OpenNews Ticket + Travel Scholarship has passed, but we do have a number of travel scholarships available thanks to the support of Pantheon. You can apply for those here through July 7.

WordCamp for Publishers is eligible for the OpenNews Ticket + Travel Scholarship. If you work for a news organization with a tight budget or are a freelance developer interested in attending, you can apply to help yourself attend our event.

Read more about the scholarship on the OpenNews site and apply before the deadline on Monday, June 26th.

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Tickets now available

We’re happy to announce that tickets for Wordcamp for Publishers: Denver 2017 are now available for purchase.

Tickets are $40 per person. The event size is limited due to venue constraints so we expect to sell out quickly. We recommend purchasing your ticket ASAP if you plan on attending!

We hope to bring together folks who use WordPress to manage publications, big or small. We want this event to empower participants by coaching them on best practices, and to encourage collaboration in building open source tools for publishers.

If you know of folks at publishers that could benefit greatly from attending, but who may not really follow the WordPress space (and therefore may not have heard about our event), please don’t hesitate to let them know. We are expecting the event to sell out quickly.

Here’s a quick outline of our tentative schedule:

  • Thursday, August 17: Presentations and workshops, followed by a brewery tour.
  • Friday, August 18: Presentations and workshops, followed by an after party.
  • Saturday, August 19: Publisher plugin contributor day, followed by a Rockies baseball game.

The event will be at The Denver Post in Denver, CO. Here’s our speaker list.

 

Purchase tickets now!

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Welcome to WordCamp for Publishers: Denver

We’re happy to announce that WordCamp For Publishers: Denver is officially on the calendar!

What is WordCamp for Publishers?
WordCamp for Publishers is a community-organized event bringing together folks who use WordPress to manage publications, big or small. This event will empower participants by coaching them on best practices, and encourage collaboration in building open source tools for publishers.

Who attends WordCamp for Publishers?
Anyone who actively manages a publication with WordPress will benefit from attending this event. Tracks will appeal to engineering, product, and editorial teams. Our speakers and attendees will come from national media organizations and smaller publications.

WordCamp for Publishers: Denver will be August 17-19 in Denver, Colorado. For more information, please see our FAQ.

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