We’re very happy to announce our speakers for WordCamp Kent, June 9-10. They have volunteered their time to share their knowledge and expertise in order to give back to the WordPress community.
Keynote: Kyle Maurer
Kyle works at Sandhills Development on Easy Digital Downloads which is a WordPress plugin that makes selling digital products ridiculously simple. He’s a native of Jackson, Michigan, co-hosts the Get Options podcast, and helps organize meetups and WordCamps in the region while brewing fine beer and playing guitar as often as possible.
Adam Warner
Adam W. Warner discovered WordPress in 2005 and has been working within the community ever since. To feed his entrepreneurial spirit, he founded several WordPress-focused businesses that provide education, plugins and consulting services for online business owners.
He is a true WordPress Evangelist in spirit and personality, and that happens to have been his job title when joining SiteLock.com. Today, he’s the Open Source Community Manager there, continuing to bring his experience and knowledge of the web, business, and security to many other communities.
Adam is also passionate about his family, robots, and of course Life, the Universe and Everything.
Lee Drozak
Lee Drozak is a Web Designer and Digital Strategy Expert for people who love their online business but haa-ate their websites.
She’s here for those who are tired of fitting into everyone else’s mold. Those who are rebelling against sleazy online marketing. Those who want a website that takes your customer on a journey and allows you to solve the problems that brought them to Google search.
Her straightforward advice has been featured at WordCamps, Soar To Success Magazine, and Pittsburgh Biz TV Shows. She’s presented to organizations large and small to share her love for website creation and passion for making the process simple.
And when she’s not teaching small business owners how to create effective and client attractive websites, you can find her exploring the outdoors, listening to the horse and buggies in her Amish town or enjoying a glass of wine.
To learn more about Lee Drozak and discover how a solid WordPress process can help you reign in your client projects. visit www.leedrozak.com.
Stoney deGeyter
TL;DR: Author, speaker, teacher, husband, father, web marketer!
Graduating high school at the age of 16, Stoney has always had an entrepreneur spirit. In 1998 he founded Pole Position Marketing, now one of the longest-running digital marketing agencies in the US. Over the past twenty-plus years, he has become a leader in the digital marketing space, helping hundreds of businesses grow their online authority through strategic and effective digital marketing strategies.
He authored The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period! which is the perfect desk-reference for digital marketers and managers of all skill levels. You can also see his articles published on Search Engine Land, Marketing Land, Search Engine Journal, as well as Pole Position Marketing’s E-Marketing Performance blog, and he has also written a number of ebooks that can be found on the Pole Position Marketing website.
And if that’s not enough, Stoney frequently teaches digital marketing at conferences nationwide, including PubCon, Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Affiliate Summit, and can also be hired to provide in-house training to help your in-house digital marketing team.
What Stoney loves most about digital marketing is that it’s all about creating jobs. The more businesses Pole Position Marketing helps, the more people find jobs and improve their standard of living, which in turn provides even more jobs.
Contact Stoney or the Pole Position Marketing pit crew at www.PolePositionMarketing.com or by phone at 330-768-7067 for digital marketing, to speak at your conference, seminar or workshop, and/or provide in-house training for your team.
Alex Riddle
Alex Riddle is a serial entrepreneur, and founder of Monarch Wave Marketing, a full-service digital agency serving small and medium-sized businesses and franchises. He’s built over a hundred sites on WordPress, and started building websites for clients before he could even drive at the age of 15.
Please Note: The speakers are listed in no particular order.