We have some
incredible speakers
lined up for you!
Meet Your Hosts
Nathan Wrigley
WP Builds
Nathan has been working in the WordPress space for nine years. He podcasts over at WP Builds and WP Tavern, and this has enabled him to connect with lots of interesting people in the WordPress community, many of whom are speaking at this summit.
He likes to help other people to get their ideas out there, so that their plugins and themes find their audience.
Anchen le Roux
Simply Digital Design
Anchen is the creative director at Simply Digital Design, a boutique studio that focuses on Summit, Funnel and Website Development on the VIP Intensive Model. She’s been an avid contributor to the WordPress community for the last 7 years. Besides organizing WordCamps, speaking, and contributing to Core, she loves speaking at, hosting and producing Summits. She is the creator of the 30 Day Summit Site Bootcamp and Summit SiteKick all the Page templates, brand assets and step by step videos to create your Summit platform on WordPress.
Meet the Speakers
Jamie Marsland
PootlePress
I’ve spent my career building online businesses and have held board level technical and commercial roles at private and publicly listed companies. Prior to founding Pootlepress, I was Managing Director of Pavilion Publishing Ltd and before that Chief Technical Officer of Documedia PLC.
I’ve trained over 5000 people on WordPress in the past 10 years, and our plugins are used by thousands of customers worldwide. My YouTube channel is dedicated to helping people with WordPress and has now over 23,000 subscribers.
Visit https://www.youtube.com/@jamiewp. Also, catch me on Twitter @pootlepress.
Shannon Mattern
Web Designer Academy
Shannon Mattern is the founder of the Web Designer Academy which provides strategic business, marketing and sales coaching for women web designers.
She’s also the host of the Profitable Web Designer Podcast, your go-to resource for mindset and mentorship to help you create a more profitable, sustainable and fulfilling web design business.
Lindsay Halsey
Pathfinder SEO
Lindsay Halsey is the co-founder of Pathfinder SEO, a software for web designers that includes everything you need to offer SEO services. She enjoys helping web designers deliver holistic SEO services that create great results for clients while growing their agency’s recurring revenue.
Amber Hinds
Equalize Digital
Building an accessible website – one that works for people with disabilities and complies with accessibility laws around the world is easiest if you start from a solid foundation. Choosing the right page builder is key if you want to build an accessible website without having to spend a lot of time remediating problems. But which one is the best?
In this presentation, Amber Hinds, CEO of Equalize Digital, will compare the accessibility of popular page builders, including Beaver Builder, Divi, Elementor, and others. Want to find out which provides the best foundation for accessibility? Tune in.
Paul C
WPTuts
I’m an online educator whose journey spans over a decade in adult education and 17 enriching years at the helm of a design business. My enthusiasm for technology and design is boundless, and I’m eager to share the wealth of knowledge and skills I’ve gathered during my career.
Josh Hall
Web Designer Pro™
Josh is a proud work-from-home husband and father of 3 littles. 5 if you include 2 Golden Retrievers.
He was a professional web designer who built and scaled his own agency for over a decade before selling it in 2020 to focus full time on teaching web designers on how to build businesses of their own.
Josh is a web design business coach, podcast host and web agency founder based out of Columbus, Ohio. Through his podcast, youtube channel, online courses and web design community Web Designer Pro™, he teaches web designers how to build a web design business that gives them freedom and life they love.
Sarah Masci
Day Rate Mastery
Sarah is the CEO and Founder of Day Rate Mastery®, an online company that teaches expert service providers how to work less and make more with a streamlined “VIP Day” or “Day Rate” business model. Years of running a traditional design business, filled with scope creep, inconsistent timelines and overlapping client projects, eventually resulted in classic burnout– becoming the catalyst that sparked Sarah’s desire to create a better process. Since its inception in 2019, Day Rate Mastery® has helped thousands of freelancers rediscover joy in their work and the freedom they’d lost along the way.
Danbee Shin
Danbee Shin
Danbee Shin is a web design mentor and global inclusion specialist. Through her signature course, The Fast Track System, she helps freelance web designers streamline their workflows and earn a full-time income without overworking. She also supports web designers through 1-on-1 mentorship, helping them charge more and sell more while showing up as their whole selves.
Danbee draws on her experience building a six-figure web design business and serving high-profile clients at startups and Fortune 500 companies across Asia and Europe.
Candy Phelps
1 Day® Works
Discover how to go from from offering low-budget page builder websites to selling $25,000 websites by expanding the 1 Day® Website model. After creating her unique 1 Day Website framework in 2015 aimed at startups and small businesses, agency owner and founder of 1 Day Works Candy Phelps evolved the model to serve larger organizations…with bigger budgets. In this session, you’ll get strategies to sell more expensive websites, tips to control scope creep, sample 1 Day Sprint agendas and juicy tips on turning your page builder websites into serious revenue generators. And the best news is, you don’t have to start writing WordPress themes from scratch!
Dave Foy
Dave Foy
Dave Foy is an online educator and course creator who is well-known and respected in the WordPress community.
As a qualified teacher, Dave spent 10 years teaching 5-11 year olds in the UK, before leaving the classroom behind to create his own web design agency.
With 20 years’ experience building websites, Dave has spent the last 7 years helping tens of thousands of non-coder WordPress web designers build their businesses faster and more profitably with his training.
Dave is the creator of several popular online courses, including No Stress WordPress and Build with Bricks.
Build With Bricks has so far taught nearly 1000 Bricks-beginners a step-by step process for creating Bricks websites with an efficient best-practice workflow. And Dave is about to begin production of his most anticipated course yet, Build With Bricks 2.0.
Adam Zieliński
Automattic
Adam is the creator of WordPress Playground, a WordPress core committer, and Tech Editor release lead for WordPress 6.0. Adam works as a WordPress developer at Automattic and lives in Wrocław, Poland. In his spare time, he’s bouldering, practicing improv comedy, and playing badminton.
Alicia St Rose
WP with Heart
Alicia St Rose began her adventure with WordPress when a UX friend offhandedly suggested using the CMS for a mutual friend’s website. That was over 10 years ago and the adventure has turned into a torrid love affair. Now she is a freelance developer, exclusively powered by WordPress, and has yet to find a limitation in this magical piece of software.
She is owner, principal designer and developer at WP with Heart, a micro agency that employs one…so far. In addition to creating for WordPress, she provides an online one on one DIY website coaching entrepreneurs and content creators.
She has become a fierce Web Accessibility Advocate after witnessing the struggles that those with disabilities endure to simply surf the web.
She has spoken at several So Cal WordCamps including WordCamp Orange County, WordCamp Los Angeles, WordCamp Phoenix and was also co-organizer of the one and one time only WordCamp Ventura County. She currently organizes the only WordPress Meetup between Santa Cruz and Thousand Oaks called The South Central Coast WordPress Adventure Group.
Alicia currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with her two delightful cats, Oscar and Milo. She divides her time between that seaside town and Black Rock City, Nevada.
Amanda Cormier
Catching Creative
Amanda is an experienced brand strategist with 18 years of branding and marketing experience. She has developed successful brands for a wide range of clients including government agencies and software companies. Her true passion is creating brands and sub branding for fellow business owners who run courses group programs and membership businesses.
PK Son
Almost Inevitable Tutorials
PK is a frontend web developer with UI/UX design experience and training which helps him deliver high-end websites on any major platform, but especially WordPress (of course!). His digital design agency has clientele including digital agencies, national corporations, filmmakers, political figures, and property developers. Also, in his off time for the past seven years, PK has been publishing WordPress tutorials and courses for designers and developers of all skill levels. With a background in teaching, performance, and science, PK’s content is practical, passionate, and… phun (alliteration, sort of) to learn from, helping thousands of people find their potential and improve their game in web design and development.
Nicole Osborne
Wunderstars
Talk to Nicole Osborne, your LinkedIn Meister, who’s all about helping digital agency owners to knock through their inner Berlin Walls to build a WUNDERBAR LinkedIn presence that gets the right clients raising their hands.
With her signature blend of German efficiency, fun approach, and infectious enthusiasm, Nicole’s the ace up your sleeve, ready to make LinkedIn less of a chore and more of a kunden-magnet (client magnet) for who you want to attract.
Drawing on her 20+ years in marketing, Nicole is a popular speaker too, captivating audiences from BrightonSEO to Chris Do’s ‘The Futur’ podcast.
Nicole has been working with digital agencies worldwide since 2016, helping them attract their best clients through done-for-you LinkedIn content, 1:1 marketing, and agency growth coaching.
Last summer, Nicole launched her LinkedIn Aktivator Playbook, a game-changing done-with-you LinkedIn strategy service.
Imran Siddiq
Web Squadron
Imran’s journey into web design began as a side passion 20 years ago, while he was making strides in the world of Health Analytics. In 2022, he took the bold step of diving full-time into web design, a field where his heart truly lies. Imran’s unique background in analytics has armed him with a problem-solving prowess. He thrives on crafting innovative solutions that not only bring visionary designs to life but also focus on reducing website overheads, thereby offering more efficient, cost-effective digital solutions.
As an advocate of WordPress, he has contributed significantly to various brands, including Elementor, Code Snippets, and Termageddon, to name a few. Imran is a prominent YouTuber who has fostered an incredible online community. His mentoring extends beyond the digital realm, as he guides designers and businesses, helping them to navigate the complexities of building a brand and finding comfort and confidence in their websites.
Sometimes he remembers to sleep.
Nicola Tweed
NT Web Design & Development
Mama, smoothie-maker, web designer and your new WordPress and business bestie. I embarked on my WordPress & Web Designing journey in the early 2000s after stumbling upon a book at an airport. Since then, I’ve gone on to design beautiful websites for 7 figure female entrepreneurs from New York to Melbourne and Bali for over 9 years. Throughout this experience, I have encountered and successfully tackled a wide array of challenges and frustrations associated with creating online spaces. Now, I am obsessed with showing new business owners just how easy it is to start an online business and the immense joy and freedom the online world gives you! I share my expertise on YouTube through short, easy to understand tutorial videos and through my WordPress course. My desire is to empower business owners and designers with all the resources you need to create a simple yet effective website that is done for now instead of aiming hopelessly for a non-existent, expensive picture of perfection.
Nikki Hamilton
Seedling Digital
Nikki Hamilton, originally from New Zealand and now residing on Australia’s Gold Coast, is the creative force behind Seedling Digital and Women Wealth WordPress. Drawing from her diverse background that spans teaching, corporate marketing, and entrepreneurship, Nikki’s digital agency, Seedling Digital, crafts memorable strategic brand identities and custom WordPress websites. In addition to her design work, she champions female web developers with her e-course, Women Wealth WordPress, empowering them with the tools, skills and confidence to launch their own successful web development business.
Mat Casner
Freelance CEO
Mat designed his first website in 1996, and has been a part of the web design movement ever since. Mat left his corporate cubicle in 2003 and founded his freelance web design studio, Redlogic Communications, Inc to be able to spend more time with his young family. 20 years later, Mat is still rocking the soloprenuer life, having served hundreds of brands around the world, with individual client lifetime values over $1.5M.
Mat is also the founder of the IGNITE Design Business Academy and Accelerator. And today, he mentors other web desginers, graphic designers, creative entrepreneurs, business owners and freelancers who want to leverage their skills, talents, experiences and passions to find joy, freedom and purpose by launching, growing and scaling a sustainable and profitable business.
Haley Brown
WP Mavens
We’re web designers, WordPress fangirls & design geeks on a mission to help female web designers build their dream WP design business!
Because we get it. We’re designers just like you. We get goosebumps over a gorgeous font combo, cringe over a premature popup, and can get physically ill over an ugly colour palette. But, more than that, we’ve been where you are, have made a LOT of mistakes and had to learn things the hard way.
But we did learn them. And now, we’re living our dream web design businesses.
Today, you can find us living the cafe life (Haley), taking our sausages to the beach (Emma – if you’re intrigued, check out my Insta 😉) and high-fiving each other as we help our Mavens become the masters of their destinies and web design businesses.
Bud Kraus
Joy of WP
Bud Kraus has worked with WordPress as an in-class and online instructor, site developer, and content creator for over 14 years. He’s been hanging around the WordPress Community even before his first talk at WordCamp NYC 2017 at the UN. He’s a completely reformed web designer no longer building WP sites even if someone wants to over pay him. (But they never do). Today, his focus is on Creating WordPress Content for WordPress Businesses. To him, it’s just another way to teach and have fun working with clients he loves and admires – his friends.
Bud is very active and well-known in the WordPress community in and around the New York City and Northern New Jersey areas. He has contributed to several lessons on Learn.WordPress as well as doing many webinars for the Community.
As he loves to say, “WordPress software is pretty good but the Community is the absolute best.” In 2024 he launched his first podcast, “Seriously, BUD?” which features an unexpected conversation with someone in the WordPress Community.
Donata Stroink-Skillrud
Termageddon, LLC
Donata Stroink-Skillrud is an attorney licensed in Illinois and a Certified Information Privacy Professional. She is the President and Legal Engineer of Termageddon, LLC, a SaaS that has generated tens of thousands of Privacy Policies and successfully kept them up to date with changing legislation. Donata is the Chair of the American Bar Association’s ePrivacy Committee, member of the ABA’s Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and member of the ABA’s Science and Technology Council. Donata is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Sarah Guilliot
Sarah Design Agency
Sarah Guilliot is a Website Copywriter & Sales Page Pro (+ former designer) with 20 years experience in Web Design & UX Architecture. While in corporate she created sales pages, site architecture, and ad campaigns for tech giants like Microsoft, GoDaddy, and T-Mobile. In her own business she has provided design and copy support for respected leaders such as Shannon Mattern, Paige Brunton, Claire Pelletreau, and MemberVault. Now, Sarah offers copywriting services (& white label copy support) at www.sarahdesign.com where she helps web designers & devs (+ their clients!) get more sales through conversion-focused copywriting, messaging, and positioning.
Davinder Singh Kainth
The WP Weekly
I am Davinder Singh Kainth – a WordPress creative, an entrepreneur, and an open book of sharing.
I have been in the online ecosystem for over 20 years, and my journey from blogging to design, development, and entrepreneurship is anchored in the WordPress world.
I write about awesome WordPress things every week in TheWPWeekly.com newsletter. Also, with website creation, coaching, and consulting – the circle of learning, sharing, and earning keeps moving.
Imogen Allen
Umbrella Digital Media
I’m a Website Strategist and the creator of The Website Identity Framework aka The WIF®, on a quest to help stop projects waiting on content for all web agencies once and for all. Passionate about helping others find their website identity and championing websites which speaks to humans in a language they understand.
Emilia Farrace
The Launch It Co.
Hi, I’m Emilia, an entrepreneur in the business of helping people follow their dreams and create organizations that impact their communities.
At The Launch It Co. Through WP themes, template kits and hosting – I help business owners in the health, wellness and lifestyle space a sustainable online presence so you can focus on your passions, impact and sharing your voice with the world.
Offline, you can find me connecting with other moms of neurodivergent children, moving her body with yoga and exploring the local trails and restaurants close to home in Niagara, Ontario with her husband and two young daughters.
Kristin Falkner
Kristin Falkner
Kristin Falkner is a web developer with more than fifteen years experience building custom WordPress websites for clients. She strives to make each client love WordPress as much as she does by developing sites that are a joy to work with moving forward, stressing intuitive admin control for even the most complex front-end features. Her development expertise powers numerous small business websites and projects for global brands like NBC Universal and AT&T, and she partners with agencies across the country to ensure their next WordPress projects are a success.
Marc Benzakein (He/Him)
MainWP
Marc Benzakein is a seasoned professional in the online and technology sectors, with a career spanning back to the mid-1990s when he started as a Network Administrator for a small, independent ISP in Southern California. Over the years, Marc has engaged in nearly every facet of technology, marking a significant milestone in 2009 when he began developing with WordPress, first for personal projects and then extending his expertise to clients. His involvement with WordPress deepened in early 2013 when he joined ServerPress, LLC, the company behind DesktopServer, a local development tool designed for WordPress designers and developers. His presentations at WordCamps highlight his commitment to the WordPress community, emphasizing the importance of giving back to a community that has provided so much to him.
Currently, Marc is involved with two companies: SiteDistrict, a managed WordPress hosting company, and MainWP, a self-hosted WordPress site management plugin.
In addition to his involvement with SiteDistrict, Marc plays a pivotal role at MainWP, a self-hosted WordPress site management plugin. This platform is designed for users who manage multiple WordPress sites and seek to streamline their processes from a central dashboard. Marc’s engagement with MainWP underscores his dedication to the WordPress community, focusing on providing tools that simplify site management and enhance productivity for WordPress professionals.
Tim Strifler
Divi Life & Exclusive Addons
Tim Strifler is an entrepreneur, WordPress product creator, course creator, podcaster and speaker. Tim is the founder and owner of Divi Life, established in 2016 as one of the original product creators dedicated to enhancing the Divi ecosystem. Through his leadership, Divi Life has become synonymous with innovative solutions and robust tools for web designers using Divi. In addition to his prominence in the Divi community, Tim also owns Exclusive Addons for Elementor, further expanding his influence in the WordPress community by providing specialized add-ons that enhance the Elementor page building experience.
An avid contributor to the WordPress community, Tim is also a seasoned podcaster, engaging speaker at WordCamps, and a respected course creator to thousands of students, sharing his extensive knowledge and unique insights to help others build and improve their own WordPress sites with ease.
When not running his companies, Tim enjoys life in San Clemente, CA with his wife and two kids.
Miriam Schwab
Elementor
Miriam co-founded and built Strattic to bring an innovative and comprehensive approach to WordPress security and performance to the web at large. After being acquired by Elementor, Miriam continued to lead the Strattic unit until recently when she took on the role of Head of WordPress Relations at Elementor to act as a liaison between Elementor and the greater WordPress ecosystem.
Prior to founding Strattic, Miriam founded and managed one of Israel’s leading WordPress development agencies, which was also subsequently acquired. In both of the companies she founded, Miriam and her team worked with top executives and enterprise organizations to help them build and deploy effective web presences.
With over fifteen years of experience in the web and WordPress industry, Miriam is an active member of the WordPress community and WordCamp organizer, as well as a recognized expert and global speaker.
Brenda Malone
Brenda Malone Digital
Leveraging 10+ years of industry experience, I am a Technical SEO Strategist and Consultant, with a deep understanding of technical analysis and remediation strategies. I have done technical SEO audits for many enterprise companies, including Adobe, Champion, Claire’s, Hickory Farms, Intuit, NCSA Sports and many others. My expertise extends beyond this technical focus, and includes a strong command of content strategy, search engine marketing, and crafting impactful meta elements. I also have been developing websites since 1996, concentrating in WordPress websites.
Throughout my career, I have established a proven track record of building and leading diverse marketing teams to successfully execute complex SEO initiatives. My ability to analyze market trends and leverage data insights allows me to consistently identify opportunities for enhanced keyword optimization, ultimately driving exceptional results.
Lydia Kitts
Data + Delight
Lydia Kitts is an ex-professor and extra nerdy. As a designer and educator she helps design geeks and go-getters hone their strategic design skills, using the magic of her Data + Delight method — to develop a data-based approach to persuasive, trust-building site design that blows clients and their customers away (and builds their businesses in the process).
She’s had a design business for over a decade, been a professor, VP of Design Experience for SaaS, and once upon a time… a costume designer. Based in Berea, Kentucky she designs and develops brands and sites through Turnquist House and educates designers through her Data + Delight Mentorship.
Britta Just
bj Marketingstudio
Britta Just is the owner of bj Marketingstudio, a marketing services & web design boutique. Besides creating kick-ass Elementor websites, landing pages, and membership areas, she teaches entrepreneurs, service providers, and business owners how to take their online visibility to the next level and use their websites as a 24/7 marketing machine – without causing extra stress or overwhelm.
Britta is also the host of the MASOMECO Online Summit, a digital conference for German-speaking entrepreneurs that focuses on how to attract their ideal clients with the help of marketing, social media & content.
Chantal Edouard-Betsy
Hey Chantal
I am a WordPress lovin’, Beaver Builder huggin chick with a taste for good wine, and painless tech. My passion is online business … yours and mine! And yes, I’m also an award-winning serial entrepreneur, super mom and website designer and developer. Six years ago, I refined my dated, stressful web design business so that I could create amazing, high converting websites in the shortest time frame possible. Now I work with successful entrepreneurs who want to increase their revenue and elevate their businesses with the click of a button.
Andrew Palmer
Somebodys Hero
As the Co Founder of Bertha Ai an awesome opportunity for WordPress users to write where they work. I am in touch daily with the WordPress Community. Bertha AI is also available as a Chrome Extension.
I offer paid coaching, Advocacy and support for Product Makers, companies and Individuals who are aiming to be the very best.
I am also the founder of WP PLUGINS PLUS a company based in London UK and Kolkata. We make plugins, act as support for various Agencies and offer guided Web Site Design and Build Services through Somebodyshero.co.uk.
Erin Flynn
Design Bread
Erin Flynn is the founder of Design Bread, where she helps web designers raise their rates and get consistent high-ticket clients.
After starting her own web design business in 2012 and finding that she was glued to her computer 24/7, Erin started simplifying and systematizing her business which allowed her to raise her rates while cutting her work hours. By providing a great client experience, Erin now works with high-ticket clients she adores while making incredible websites.
Erin is on a mission to help other web designers do the same. Find out more:
Mor Cohen
Brands By Sage
Mor is the founder of Brands By Sage, where is consult and teach conversion-centered brand strategy and design, and the Sage Brand Shop, where she creates branding & marketing templates for Elementor, Kadence & Canva – not Just beautiful designs, but more importantly, beautifully designed to convert™. Mor is a design for conversion expert with over 20 years of experience as a creator and business owner, she helps entrepreneurs and business owners create high-converting brands for themselves and for their clients.