Meet your Podcasting panelists!

Edward Domain.

Edward is the founder and CEO of Techli.com.

A writer, U.S. Army veteran, serial entrepreneur and chronic early adopter, he worked for startups in Silicon Valley and Chicago and then founded, grew and successfully exited his own previous startup.

Now, Edward loves telling the tales of innovators everywhere. Follow him on Twitter: @EdwardDomain

Danielle Tillis. 

Danielle Tillis is the host of Hollywood Breakthrough Show. With the flexibility and open platform of WordPress, Danielle ignited her website to launch the well-received podcast it is today.

Danielle has interviewed some of the most talented people in the business, including

  • Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage;
  • Misan Sagay,  screenwriter of the film “Belle”;
  • Steve James, documentary film director of “Life Itself – Roger Ebert,”
  •  Reggie Rock Bythewood, producer of the film “Beyond the Lights,”
  • Kat White, Tony Awards Show producer of “Kinky Boots” & “Rocky on Broadway”;
  • John Russo, screenwriter of “Night of the Living Dead”;

And many more.

In every episode, you’ll get the inside story from screenwriters, directors, producers and entertainment industry professionals, as they share their inside perspective on everything Hollywood:

  • writing and filmmaking,
  • breaking into Hollywood and
  • navigating SHOW BUSINESS,

And the inspiring stories of how they finally achieved success!

Check out Hollywood Breakthrough Show on Itunes, Stitcher and the Google Play Store.

Also, coming soon! Danielle’s new podcast, Tech Descendant.

Steve Stewart.

Steve Stewart has been using WordPress for almost a decade to build his coaching business.

In that time, he’s released a podcast that regularly ranks in iTunes’ Top 20 for investing, and in 2014 his blog won Best Debt-Focused Personal Finance Blog.

While he truly lives on the internet, he calls St. Louis home.

Find out more about Steve at SteveStewart.me.

Kevin Harvell.

Kevin Harvell is a professional podcaster who’s accumulated more than 300+ episodes of hosting, co-hosting and production experience in his company, STL Tech Media.

What’s more, Kevin either hosts, produces or does both on these shows: 

He also loves to teach, sharing his passion for podcasting far and wide. He regularly speaks on the topic at technology conferences (like this WordCamp!) – and he recently started writing for Mobile Nations.

Dev panel: Meet your panelists!

Where in St. Louis can you find a bunch of WordPress core committers in one room and ask them anything you want?

Usually, nowhere.

But Saturday, right after lunch, you’ll have exactly that experience in our Dev Panel.

Scheduled for the big auditorium for now, it’s a chance to find out almost anything you want to know about code, Core and why things work the way they do.

Really!

A few highlights of the panel include:

Michele Butcher

Michele is an active member of the WordPress community with a broad range of experience including web site security, user support, site maintenance, and hosting.

She’s also a natural instructor, having been a featured speaker at several WordCamps. Find her at her website, cantspeakgeek.com, or on Twitter.

Mike Schroder

Known as Shredder to many, Mike Schroder is a cross-cultural kid, coffee-drinking sailor, and lover of Open Source.

By day he’s a WordPress platform lead at DreamHost; by night, and sometimes by day, he’s a Core Committer. In fact, Mike was the release lead for WordPress 4.5, which just happens to be the latest version of the core platform.

You can find him blogging on geeky things at http://getsource.net

Pippin Williamson

A WordPress plugin developer from Hutchinson, KS, Pippin runs PippinsPlugins.com,  the founding/parent company of Restrict Content Pro, Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP and many more.

He’s is the lead developer on those products as well.

Outside WordPress, Pippin loves for sour beer, home brewing and cycling.

Reach him on Twitter: @pippinsplugins

Your moderator: Joe McGill

St. Louisan Joe McGill, a web developer at our own Washington University, will moderate the panel.

An active WordPress contributor, Joe helped lead the new respsonsive image feature in WordPress version 4.4, which came out this past winter.

Find him on Twitter: @joemcgill.

 

More panelists are still to be added, so check back and don’t forget to grab tickets.

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WordCamp St. Louis Speakers Announced: Round 1

We’re happy to announce our 1st round of speakers for WordCamp St. Louis.

Please welcome our first 10! We’ve included their Twitter handles so you can follow them.

If you’d like to learn more about each of our speakers, you can find them on our WordCamp St. Louis Speakers page.

Please stay tune to further speaker announcements. We’ve got a lot of news to roll out, including our Keynote speakers!

Also, don’t miss out on WordCamp St. Louis. Get your ticket today!