Meghan Dove
Meghan Dove is a graphic designer and front end developer who enjoys applying design thinking to information architecture and UX. She believes technology based design systems and graphic identities will eventually help bridge the gap between marketing, designers, and developers. A longtime volunteer with WordCamp Montreal, and a mentor and occasional teacher with Ladies Learning Code Montreal, 2018 is her first year helping to organize WordCamp. When not deep diving into design for technology she immerses herself in historic design practice like calligraphy, papermaking, book binding and letterpress.
Ann Cascarano
Ann started using WordPress several years ago when she quickly needed to get a site up and running. Realizing that she would need to get ‘under the hood’ in order to make some of the changes she had in mind, Ann quickly became hooked and hasn’t looked back since. She now teaches students how to use WordPress and build and customize their first themes, as well as how to use Git both for version control and as a tool to deploy and share their sites with the world. She is also a regular mentor a Ladies Learning Code events.
Dana Dragomir
I am a multidisciplinary, bilingual digital communications specialist. I draw on my diverse experience in content creation, social media management, copywriting, and digital strategy to develop an integrated communications strategy that makes sense in today’s increasingly pluralistic communications ecosystem. My passion for meaningful projects, namely in the educational sector, led me to my current position in digital communications at Dawson College, the largest English-language College in Quebec.
Sergio Ortega
Traducteur de formation, Sergio utilise WordPress.com depuis 2010. Ses passe-temps préférés sont observer les avions, découvrir les publicités du monde entier et répondre aux questions des utilisateurs sur les forums communautaires de WordPress.com en français, en anglais, en espagnol et (une fois par lune bleue) en allemand.
Emmanuel Décarie
Programmeur tous azimuts, il aime plus les cadres d’application comme Ember.js que les systèmes de gestion de contenu, fan du motif MVC (Modèle-vue-contrôleur).
Brian Rotsztein
Since 1997, Brian has worked with clients of all sizes on their websites and Internet presence, including online marketing strategies, search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing, web design, social media, and conversion tactics. His popular book, Content Marketing Ideas, is one of the top guides to success with content marketing for businesses and bloggers. Brian balances his commitments between speaking at large international conferences with time as CEO of Uniseo, President of the Canadian Internet Marketing Association, Founder of WordPress support and maintenance brand WP Phone Support, Head of RedstoneX, Editor-in-chief of Citynet Magazine, and Photographer at Redstone Photography, among other brand ventures. Brian also holds two Master’s degrees and has taught at McGill University and Boston College. Visit www.rotsztein.com
Tippi Thole
Tippi Thole is a freelance graphic designer and zero waste striver. She’s the happy owner of Bright Spot Studio (https://brightspotstudio.com) where she does branding, web and print design for clients around the world. She’s also the proud owner of tinytrashcan.com where she shares simple strategies to reduce waste. Early on in her zero waste journey, she adopted a tiny trash can, which helped her shrink her trash and measure her progress. When she’s not talking trash, you’ll find her tending her vegetable garden, shopping neighborhood garage sales or salsa dancing way past her bedtime.
Emmy Grand-Maison
Passionnée de la gestion de projets numériques, compétences avancées en informatique et Bachelière de l’Université de Sherbrooke en rédaction, communication et multimédias avec 7 ans d’expérience. Elle travaille avec WordPress depuis 7 ans.
Gary Thayer
Gary is a WordPress Developer at Hall Internet Marketing who specializes in eCommerce websites and analytics tracking. He is an active member of the WordPress community, acting as an organizer for the Southern Maine WordPress Meetup and WordCamp Portland, ME.
Mike Dickson
I am a content strategist, designer and developer. I’ve spoken at WordCamps in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, am a core contributor, and am a member of the WordPress documentation team. I’m an entrepreneur at heart, and I run my WordPress development business (and my dogs Sophie and Lucy) from my home in Ottawa.
Jer Clarke
Jer Clarke has been using WordPress since version 1.2 in 2005, when there were no menus, widgets or even pages. Jer builds Global Voices, a non-profit journalism site with thousands of contributors, and works on all aspects of WP, from design and workflow to backend programming.
Jer has spoken at WordCamps in San Francisco, New York, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, and was an original founder of WordCamp Montreal in 2009.
More recently, a trip to Sri Lanka for work set Jer on a path to explore the many nuances of early Buddhist philosophy and practice, which has turned out to be a very rewarding and life-affirming experience.
Anna Takahashi
For 20 years, Anna has been exploring the fascinating connection between body and mind through the daily practice of conscious sounds and movements. In 2012, she created Kinéson, a “yoga for voice and body”, in order to offer an integrated experience of all the elements that fuel her practice: Gaiayoga, Brain Gym®, integrated and archetype movements, Jin Shin Jyutsu®, Hatha Yoga, PneumacorpsMD Respiratory Relaxation… She teaches in France, Germany, Japan and Montreal (WordCamp 2015, 2017). The simple and powerful exercises that she uses everyday also help her in her work as a translator specialized in self-help and wellness, and her exploration of WordPress.
Brian Hogg
Hello! I’m the creator of several free/premium plugins, author of several courses including Working with WordPress and JavaScript and Plugins for Beginners, former lead organizer of WordCamp Hamilton, and co-host of the Selling Plugins Podcast. You can find me online for all the things at brianhogg.com 🙂
Jeremie Bergeron
Du plus loin que je me souvienne, j’ai toujours aimé l’informatique. J’avais une dizaine d’années et je lisais déjà des tutoriels en ligne sur le CSS et le HTML pour créer des sites internet sur les autos. Quelques années plus tard, à l’âge de 16 ans, j’enregistrais ma compagnie au nom d’INTEK PLUS. À ce moment, je faisais plutôt du support technique et de la réparation d’ordinateur. Au cégep, vers l’âge de 18 ans, j’ai commencé à m’intéresser à la programmation et j’ai par la suite été admis à l’université en Science informatique et Génie logiciel. Depuis, j’y ai d’ailleurs animé des démos à leurs locaux, dans le cadre de leur cours de web. Après les études, j’ai décidé de pousser ma compagnie un peu plus loin et après plusieurs années d’effort, j’ai maintenant 4 employés qui travaillent avec moi chez INTEK PLUS et la compagnie croit d’année en année.
Jennifer Doré Dallas
Jennifer Doré Dallas est une « corporate dropout » devenue blogueuse voyage professionnelle à Moi, mes souliers et fondatrice de Voyage numériQC, un réseau de mise en relation de marques, destinations et influenceurs. Passionnée des technologies de l’information et du monde nébuleux des blogues, elle navigue et vulgarise l’interface WordPress depuis plusieurs années.
Karalyn Thayer
Karalyn is a passionate web and user experience designer from Scarborough, Maine. She loves creating elegant websites that accomplish business’s needs. When not creating websites she enjoys sharing her passion for design as a TA at Skillcrush.com.
Elana Rudick
Elana is the Founder and driving force behind DESIGN IS YUMMY; an award-winning graphic design studio based here in Montreal, Quebec. She has been passionately communicating brand messaging across web and print mediums for over a decade. Elana has been an avid WordPress user since 2009 and brings insight into using it as a tool to build profitable websites from the perspective of a designer, project manager and studio owner. She eats way too much chocolate and still believes high fives are cool.
Maxime Jobin
Maxime Jobin est le cofondateur de SatelliteWP, un service d’entretien pour WordPress où les propriétaires d’entreprise peuvent oublier l’aspect technique de la gestion d’un site web et se concentrer sur leurs objectifs d’affaires. Il gère plusieurs entreprises dans différents secteurs où règne le même objectif: augmenter la productivité grâce à l’automatisation. Il agit comme un conférencier pour partager son expertise et ses connaissances. En mettant l’accent sur l’efficacité et le retour sur investissement, il est expert en analyse et développement de solutions informatisées.
Neha Patel
As I grow and learn more It has become evident that with the power of technology and the online media we can make great things happen. My Goal is to empower women and the young generation with the strength of online tools and resources, to make their lives better, to make their voice heard and to fight for the right cause. I am a Web Developer, Digital Marketer and a Mentor for kids and adults at non profit organizations like Ladies learning code and For us girls.
Rafael Scapin
I work at Dawson College in Montreal as the Coordinator of Educational Technology. I’ve taught “Intro to WordPress” and “How to Create an Online Store Using WordPress” here for our Continuing Education department for 5 years. I am also passionate about open and free software. I am the current president and one of the co-founders of the Association for the Development of Technology in Education (ADTE.ca), a non-profit organization devoted to fostering the development of Educational Technology in Quebec.
Michal Bluma
I’m a CMS guy. I’ve been using WP for a long time. Content planning has always been my jam. It’s also one of the things that seems to be skipped (after “”not hiring an actual designer) in the WP world.
Guillaume Hamel
Je gravite dans le Web depuis environ 20 ans, dont les 10 dernières années de façon professionnelle. Je gagne me vie grâce à WordPress depuis plus de 4 ans comme lead technique.
Travaillant maintenant chez SatelliteWP depuis près d’un an. J’y ai vu ma part de scénarios où mes clients avaient été mal conseillés (ou laissés à eux-même) et étaient victimes de tristes histoires qui auraient pu être évitées.
Après avoir pu donner ma première conférence l’an dernier, je répète l’expérience cette année et partage mes expériences avec le reste de la communauté.
Jean-Francois Arseneault
Avec plus de 20 ans d’expérience en TI, co-propriétaire de l’agence web S2B Solution et co-fondateur de SatelliteWP, Jean-François aime redonner à la commmunauté par son implication dans divers forums de discussion et fait également partie de l’équipe de bénévoles responsable des traductions fr_CA pour WordPress.
Dennis Hall
I am a 37 year Training Development veteran, 21 year veteran in Web Development and have focused my efforts solely on WordPress Learning Management related development since early 2015. I am also a contributing author to the ADL xAPI, CASS, and cmi5 specifications.
Sam Jadali
As a cybersecurity researcher and crypto activist, Sam’s dedication and passion in the cloud space has been alive and well before the term cloud was born. He has spent the last 20 years in the hosting industry and he founded Host Duplex 8 years ago. Since the launch of HD, Sam and his company have been not only managing WordPress sites but educating clients on security and performance to assist in their success. His clients include some of the most visited WordPress sites on the internet including MacRumors and AppShopper. He quickly realized that client education is vital for not only his success but for their success. With his depth of knowledge of plugin security and compliance regulations, he continually educates his clients on how to be preemptive with security while maintaining the performance they expect.
Sam escaped the cold of the mid-western United States and moved to Southern California 7 years ago. He currently resides in downtown San Diego and is currently learning the ropes of raising a new puppy.
Sarah Rennick
Sarah is an internet wizard who took to coding at a young age. After training in digital media design, Sarah embarked on a great adventure as a front end web developer. During this time she slayed many dangerous bugs, completed many epic quests and has built, broken and fixed numerous websites. Her most recent great adventure is working at Prospress as a support wizard.
Sheridan Scott
Sheridan Scott is the Senior Customer Lifecycle Manager for Bluehost web hosting, where she develops and maintains communications and marketing strategies for the Bluehost customer base. Spanning a career of over 15 years in publishing, communications, and marketing, she works and lives by the motto “Content is King,” and wields her red pen in the name of grammatical correctness.
Sheridan’s hobbies include arguing the importance of the Oxford comma to anyone who will listen, attending local poetry slams, and proofreading billboards while riding in cars.
Vincent Claeys
I’ve been hammering away at WordPress for over 7 years now, gathering experience with theme/plugin development, user experience, web strategy and fundamentals of design, all while having a lot of fun and meeting cool people.
Michelle Ames
Marketing is intuitive for Michelle which is why she pursued and gained her MBA from the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business. Michelle has over twenty years of experience in higher education; ten years owning a web design and marketing company; and currently serves as the Head of Customer Success for GiveWP.com
Michelle is a veteran of public speaking. Teaching is in her DNA. She’s been an instructor for a wide variety of topics including Using Quantitative Data Analysis Software, Meditative Drawing, Intro to WordPress, and Marketing for Massage Therapy. Michelle speaks at conferences all over North America. You can find many of them recorded on WordPress.tv including “Little Things That Make a Big Difference” and panel discussions on marketing and women in technology.
When Michelle isn’t organizing events, she’s attending them, exploring photography, and mentoring people in her local community.
Michelle is the author of the soon-to-be-released “A Good Firm Handshake (and other essential business tips)” available soon on Amazon.com.
Say hi to Michelle on Twitter at @michelleames and check out her website at marketedbymichelle.com.
Myriam Jessier
Myriam is a digital marketing consultant in Montreal. She likes long romantic walks to the fridge, technical SEO and dinosaurs. After more than a decade as an SEO, she’s been encouraged to share her knowledge.
Kathryn Presner
Kathryn Presner is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, where she helps people customize, configure, and troubleshoot their sites. As a member of the CSS Guild, she promotes CSS education and best practices among her colleagues. Kathryn is also part of the WordPress.org support team, and enjoys mentoring and encouraging new public speakers and people learning to code.
Corey Maass
Corey Maass is a full-stack web developer with a love for entrepreneurship and building web apps on WordPress. He built his first website in 1995, his first SaaS app in 2003, and his first WordPress plugin in 2009. In 2015, after 4 years of full-time WordPress development, he combined his passions and launched his first commercial plugin, Kanban for WordPress. He’s spent the last few years growing the business. He currently lives in Saugerties, New York, USA.
Hugues Tennier
Depuis dix ans, Hugues a occupé différents postes dans le domaine du Web en tant que directeur artistique, chargé de cours ainsi que cofondateur d’une petite agence de publicité. Il occupe maintenant le poste de développeur front-end chez Shopify où il se concentre sur l’expérience utilisateur, l’accessibilité et les techniques de CSS modernes.
Étienne Bélanger
Je suis un développeur web qui travaille avec WordPress depuis plus de 10 ans. J’ai fais plusieurs types de sites: blogs, ecommerce, journaux, site d’artistes, site d’entreprises. Je crée des thèmes wordpress personnalisé ainsi des extensions pour des clients. Voici quelques réalisations : rabaischocs.com, leveil.com, nordinfo.com, equipementbeaudoin.com, restaurant-escudo.ca, groupejcl.com. Depuis plus d’un an, j’étudie et expérimente avec ReactJS et son environnement. Je suis actuellement, à terminer la refonte complète de mon site Web. Il sera construit avec ReactJS et GraphQL comme un projet Headless donc WordPress en backend. Mes connaissances avec ReactJS me permet maintenant d’introduire cette nouvelle façon de faire dans les projets de mon employeur.
Alexandre Boivin
Alexandre est un développeur back-end, il a d’excellentes connaissances en PHP, ce qui lui permet de s’adapter aux différents CMS et défis qu’il rencontre. Au cours de la dernière année, il a créé différents plugins WordPress et différents branchements d’API. Il a participé à la mise en place de plusieurs sites Web dont deux intranets pour Desjardins, la refonte du site e-commerce d’ActionTi et la refonte du site Web de Stardust, une firme de test QA.
Alexandre est diplômé en multimédia au Cégep de Saint-Jérôme, il a eu à apprendre l’édition sonore et vidéo, le game design (de base) et la création de jeu (de base). Au travail, il est un joueur d’équipe, toujours prêt à aider. Il a de l’expérience avec le CMS WordPress et différents plugins, dont WooCommerce, ACF, Gravity Forms, et plusieurs autres. Il est en constante recherche de défis afin d’adapter les solutions aux besoins client.
Passions : jeux vidéo et programmation.
Francis Paquet
Développeur solutions
Chef d’équipe (Team lead)
Francis est un programmeur de formation avec un esprit entrepreneur très développé. Par sa persévérance et son leadership, il travaille avec l’équipe afin de livrer des projets de qualité. Sa confiance et son dynamisme font de lui un chef d’équipe respecté et il sait mettre les clients en confiance. Francis travaille chez Parkour3 depuis près de 4 ans. Depuis environ 1 an, il a été nommé chef d’équipe. Il accompagne les chargés de projets et l’équipe de développement au niveau technique.
Il a participé à l’élaboration de plusieurs projets d’envergures dont la refonte du site web e-commerce d’ACTION TI et Collège Letendre, la création de deux intranets pour Desjardins et l’utilisation de logiciel de marketing automation dont Mautic et Pardot.
Passion: L’entrepreneuriat & la collection sportive.
Jamie Schmid
Jamie Schmid has a particular passion for creating excellent content experiences. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, she has been working as a WordPress freelancer and consultant since 2012, regularly taking sites from conception through a well-managed build process that encourages communication, planning, and smart use of content. She has a background in Information Architecture and Content Strategy and a big ol’ enthusiasm for all things WordPress. Now living in Portland, OR, Jamie is a Community Evangelist for SiteLock, traveling the country and helping build awareness of website security best practices and solutions.
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne has been working in tech and open source sales since 2005.
He knew as soon as he started working with Java middleware developers he never wanted to work outside of open source ever again. Dwayne first started building in Drupal and WordPress for the San Francisco Improv teams and projects. He fell in the love the community and then found a position at Pantheon at the end of 2013.
As a Developer Advocate he has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland to MIT and Stanford.
Outside of tech he loves producing and performing improv theater, reading webcomics and singing karaoke!
Reach out at https://mcdwayne.com or on twitter @mcdwayne
Emil Falcon
As acting President of Web Hosting Canada, a Montreal-based hosting & infrastructure provider, Emil has been immersed in and working with bleeding-edge Internet technologies for the past 15 years. With a strong technical background and a decade of industry experience, Emil has excelled by applying his knowledge within a business context, helping start-ups and established companies alike make smart, educated decisions when it comes to launching or expanding their online ventures.
Julie Rochon
Julie Rochon aide les travailleurs autonomes et les petites entreprises à être plus visibles en ligne en leur proposant des actions organiques (sans pub!) efficaces et pertinentes pour leur clientèle cible. Après une dizaine d’années à oeuvrer dans le monde des communications, elle se découvre une passion (intense!) pour le Web lors de son passage en agence comme rédactrice Web et coordonnatrice des campagnes numériques. C’est ce qui l’incite, en juin 2016, à tout quitter pour créer son propre emploi : formatrice visibilité Web. Depuis juin 2016, elle est d’ailleurs reconnue comme la nouvelle meilleure amie du Web sur les réseaux sociaux. Tenter de devenir plus visible avec elle est tout sauf plate!
Josh Pollock
Josh Pollock is the founder and lead developer of Caldera Labs, creators of Caldera Forms, a drag and drop responsive form builder for WordPress. He is also a WordPress core contributor and the author of two books about WordPress development.
Kaylynne Johnson
Kaylynne Johnson conçoit des sites WordPress et habite au bord de la rivière, en Beauce. Elle est également graphiste et possède un compte Pinterest bien garni. Ex-enseignante au primaire (elle fait partie du 25% des enseignants qui délaissent l’enseignement au cours des 5 premières années de leur pratique) elle recycle son baccalauréat en faisant de la formation et du coaching WordPress. En juin 2016, elle délaisse son emploi salarié de 9 à 5 pour vivre le rêve du travailleur autonome et travailler de 7 à 10 #liberté Elle a un excellent sens de l’adaptation et aime relever des défis. La preuve : elle a deux enfants de moins de 5 ans.
Francesca Marano
Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround, web hosting company. She is also part of the WordPress community team, organizing Meetups and WordCamps in Torino.
She has years of experience as a small business owner, having transformed her passion for the web into a successful WordPress business. She published three books in Italian to help freelancers with business planning, productivity and websites.
She also founded C+B, a blog with an editorial staff of sixty authors offering advice to more than 35.000 Italian female creative entrepreneurs that reads it every month.
Francesca is a passionate speaker and you can find her in Italy and around the world talking about WordPress, community, open source, women in tech and small businesses.
Alexanne Laplante
Mon premier blogue WordPress était une pollution visuelle (on commence tous quelque part!) alimentée dès 2008. Les études m’ont menée à une carrière en communication, où j’ai appris les règles de l’art du blogue sous WordPress, puis en intégration Web où je me suis vraiment amusée à opérer WordPress à coeur ouvert. J’ai fait le saut entre la vie d’agence et la pige où je développe maintenant de solutions Web sous WordPress pour des clients d’un peu partout.
Quentin Clarenne
Près de 12 ans d’expérience dans la conception/maintenance de sites et d’infrastructure WEB. La sécurité, performance et référencement ont toujours étés des points importants afin de trouver la perfection !
Miriam Goldman
Miriam is the lead developer at Pondstone Digital Marketing, a boutique agency in Ottawa. She started playing around with WordPress for personal projects in 2009, and for professional projects two years later. Miriam is also one of the co-organizers for WordCamp Ottawa, and helps run the social media for the Ottawa WordPress community. She also speaks at various WordCamps across North America.
Outside of her web development life, she is an instructor at her local karate dojo, and also competes in the pro-am categories in international latin ballroom dance.
Remy Perona
Lead développeur de WP Rocket, célèbre plugin de cache pour WordPress, installé sur plus de 500 000 sites.
Je suis régulièrement conférencier aux WordCamps au Canada et en Europe, et un des instigateurs du slack WordPress Canada qui regroupe plus de 100 membres.