We are excited to share the third and final group of our awesome speaker lineup! Check back soon for the release of our speaker session schedule and other updates on WordCamp Baltimore!
Antti Koskenrouta
Antti is the principal and owner of Mukava, a Washington, DC-based WordPress agency. He spends his days building custom WordPress sites and plugins, and advising clients in their web strategy.
In addition to WordPress work, Antti stays busy by running his own websites and making hand-popped kettle corn and roasting coffee in a Roanoke, VA -based company he co-founded, called Two Roosters. He enjoys walks in the park with his two dogs and an occasional gin&tonic.
Corey Brown
Corey Brown is the Director of Web Services at Knucklepuck (Knucklepuck acquired his agency in 2018). He offers expertise from over 23 years of designing, inventing, building, leading and tweaking successful websites spanning publishing, e-commerce, social platforms and user-generated content. He’s also a WordPress evangelist and enthusiast, working exclusively with that platform as a CMS.
Corey is the CEO and founder of No Treble (notreble.com), now the most read magazine for bassists, online or off. No Treble reaches over 200,000 people a month, with over 220,000 Facebook fans.
Corey was the COO and cofounder of Squidoo.com, the popular user-generated content platform he started with Seth Godin in 2005. Squidoo consistently ranked in the top 200 sites for traffic in the U.S, and at one point reached the rank of #35. HubPages acquired Squidoo in August 2014.
From 1998-2003, Corey was the CEO of Solutions Factory, a web strategy, custom content, design, and development firm based in the Washington, DC area. Solutions Factory worked with companies including Raytheon, Time Warner Cable and Columbia Energy Group on a wide range of web-based initiatives.
During the go-nuts-now, make-money-later 1990’s, Corey still managed to run the highly profitable web division of Another Universe, where he designed and led development on a contextual commerce platform. He also led business development on e-commerce partnerships with The Sci-Fi Channel, Marvel, and Sony. Corey was one of the first to use Paul Graham’s Viaweb, soon generating the highest sales of all Viaweb stores.
Corey has been staring at a computer screen for hours on end since the 1980s (first, a VIC-20). To keep his eyes from crossing, he spends time goofing off with his daughters and granddaughter, playing bass and piano, and tinkering with his always growing list of new ideas.
Drew Poland
Drew Poland is a WordPress developer in the Baltimore area specializing in custom theme design & development with a focus on ecommerce. He is also a regular WordCamp speaker, Meetup organizer, and contributing member of the community.
Eli White
Eli has been building Web Applications for 20 years, starting back in the days of writing CGI-BIN programs in C. He’s worked for a laundry list of companies & startups such as Digg, TripAdvisor, and the Hubble Space Telescope Project. He is currently the Vice President of One for All Events LLC, and Conference Chair for php [architect]. He is a strong advocate for “Just getting it done” when it comes to coding, and speaks at numerous conferences each year.
Gayle Williams
Gayle Williams, owner of Vision Marketing in Sarasota, FL, has spent the majority of her career as a marketing professional directing marketing operations for not-for-profits and small businesses. Gayle moved over to agency account management in 2002 and founded her own agency in 2008. From directing strategy and client relations she moved into hands-on design and development—growing in the opposite direction than most designers has had its strategic advantages. Today she runs a thriving digital marketing and WordPress design business from her home office, and enjoys the work-family balance it provides.
Gayle was an early inbound marketing adopter as a Hubspot partner agency and maintains her Inbound Marketing certification. She is also a WP Elevation-certified Digital Business Consultant.
Kerch McConlogue
Kerch McConlogue, retired ADHD coach and front end developer, has been writing code by hand for 19 years and using WordPress since version 1.5. Speaking plain-English to nonGeeks, her passion is for helping WordPress novices understand the basics of care and feeding of their own site and to get past their fears of breaking the internet.
Liam Dempsey
A community organizer in suburban Philly, Liam Dempsey works to bring people together for the empowerment of all. He’s the organizer of the Philly ’burbs WordPress Meetup and the lead organizer of WordCamp Philly. He served on the organizing team for WordCamp US in 2015 and 2016. Liam owns and runs the friendly marketing and design consultancy, LBDesign.
Lynne D’Autrechy
I have been working with WordPress for the 6 years building websites for customers in all different sectors. I have a computer science background and started doing web development in 2011.
Matthew Rodela
Matthew Rodela is a freelance web consultant and marketer. He has a passion for teaching and breaking down complex technical challenges so non-techies can harness the power of technology to build their business. His specialty is automating the website delivery process using WordPress Multisite to create a turnkey website platform, which he refers to as a WaaS (Websites as a Service).
He teaches other WordPress professionals how to set-up their own WaaS through his turnkey websites community and course at www.turnkeywebsitesblueprint.com.
Nathan Ingram
Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.
He is also the creator of >ADVANCE Coaching, working with WordPress business owners individually and in groups to help them become more successful in their businesses.
Nathan has been a web business owner since 1995, and is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he is the lead organizer of WordCamp Birmingham.
You can learn more about Nathan at https://nathaningram.com.
Rahul Nagare
Rahul has been working in the web hosting industry since 2005 and started using WordPress in 2008. Since then he has helped scale web and cloud infrastructure for companies like General Mills, Saks, CSX, and PetSmart. Rahul is now the co-founder and CTO at Nestify, where he manages 10,000+ WordPress and WooCommerce sites.