We’re thrilled to announce our lineup of speakers for WordCamp Kent 2019! Our speakers have volunteered their time to share their knowledge and expertise to the WordPress community.
Learn more about them in our Meet the Speakers series and meet them in person by joining us at WordCamp Kent, June 15-16, 2019.
Abby Buzon
Abby (Armstrong-Lehman) Buzon is the owner of The Helpful Marketer.
She helps small business owners improve their online presence and local visibility with marketing and web design services aimed at drawing new business and increasing customer retention.
Based in Medina County, Ohio, she loves working with local businesses but also work with small businesses across the U.S. She believes that honesty, communication, transparency, and hard work are vital in all relationships, business or personal.
She worked in marketing and website administration for 7 years before starting my own company in 2017. She and her husband have a baby boy who’s in preschool already. Abby is also a dogless dog-lover, love being in the woods, coffee, gardening, painting, and talking sociology…. over coffee of course (or beer or wine).
John Aron
Aronetics prefers preemptive hack analysis versus the hacked rescue of WordPress sites.
David Jackson
Dave Jackson is an award-winning Hall of Fame podcaster who has been podcasting since 2005.
He is a featured and keynote speaker at many events but is best known for founding the School of Podcasting and help hundreds of podcasters launch successful podcasts
His School of Podcasting show has over 2 Million downloads. His position at Libsyn.com (a podcast hosting companies) enables him to help more podcasters than any other human on the planet. For more information visit schoolofpodcasting.com
Rory Heaney
Rory Heaney has led and created successful, tailored application and website solutions for top brands, including Betsy Farms and PetAction Plus as well as for celebrity personalities such as Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Emily Henderson.
As the Senior Front End Developer for Cie Digital Labs, Rory steers the ideation/execution of web applications as well as mobile and portal development for clients across industries, including Pilot Flying J and Nitto Tire.
He’s proficient in CSS, CSS3, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, jQeury, Vue, and PHP languages, and has successfully built more than 500 websites over the past eight years.
Josh Gellock
Josh is the SEO and Content Strategist at Expander Digital, an SEO studio he founded in 2014. He helps other businesses drive website traffic from organic search. When he’s not meeting with clients, you can find Josh fishing, hiking, or biking on trails.
Tim McKenna
Tim McKenna is a design professional with 13 years of experience creating meaningful products and services. He is the Director of Experience Design at Pennsylvania Interactive, part of NIC Inc, where he leads a team of designers and developers to creating products and services for State Government.
Please Note: The speakers are listed in no particular order.