{"id":692,"date":"2017-04-10T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2017.oc.wordcamp.org\/?p=692"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:09:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:09:16","slug":"up-up-and-away-meet-our-second-batch-of-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/up-up-and-away-meet-our-second-batch-of-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Up, Up and Away! Meet our Second Batch of Speakers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wowza! Our second round of WordCamp Orange County speakers is sure to keep you captivated! Check out the names below and save the date to make sure you have a chance to watch them in action!<\/p>\n<h2>Zac Gordon<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7935c73cce64694600738d5ed4a6e464d2ba445af9a7ba375708a815dc90b585?s=128&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7935c73cce64694600738d5ed4a6e464d2ba445af9a7ba375708a815dc90b585?s=256&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo' height='128' width='128' \/><\/div>\n<p>Zac Gordon is a professional educator, currently working with the JavaScript for WordPress Master Course. Previously, Zac taught WordPress for Treehouse. He has years of experience teaching WordPress and JavaScript at the college level and high school level. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, the world\u2019s largest hosting company dedicated to students and teachers.<\/p>\n<h2>Chris Ford<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/09674fe9f16f8dee8f088f5f0bbf4076d781da065027f4f382829f89c43c34fb?s=128&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/09674fe9f16f8dee8f088f5f0bbf4076d781da065027f4f382829f89c43c34fb?s=256&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo' height='128' width='128' \/><\/div>\n<p>Over the course of her 20 year career Chris has been a visual and UX designer, brand strategist, front end developer, professional scrapbooker, magazine art director, project manager, and support lead. She also loves to write, speak and teach other people about all of those things.<\/p>\n<h2>Alex Vasquez<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0c736f01ecbb2bf63e1f091c098f47733a3d387182ce3e54278a6bd50fa2287?s=128&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0c736f01ecbb2bf63e1f091c098f47733a3d387182ce3e54278a6bd50fa2287?s=256&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo' height='128' width='128' \/><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m Alex Vasquez, a WordPress Developer and owner of DigiSavvy, a boutique digital studio providing digital marketing and custom web development services. My hair could qualify as a super power.<\/p>\n<h2>Jason Cosper<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6005e5fe0471f4c6b135bfae8c43f3a50487ba797cab4f0b5b587b61861c7962?s=128&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6005e5fe0471f4c6b135bfae8c43f3a50487ba797cab4f0b5b587b61861c7962?s=256&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo' height='128' width='128' \/><\/div>\n<p>Jason Cosper is currently employed as the Developer Advocate for WP Engine. Honestly, that\u2019s just a fancy way of saying \u201cI get paid to chat with people about WordPress.\u201d Nice work if you can get it.<\/p>\n<p>Jason spends a ton of time with his wife Sarah and two chihuahuas, Rowdy &amp; Gomez. They watch a lot of bad TV, scary movies and premium cable programming. He also enjoys hanging out in musty record stores, drinking whiskey, smoking meats, and sampling craft beers.<\/p>\n<h2>Andrew Bergeron<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a44f442e3260f021552481f67b6953fce4b1839161a9cfeeb474a2e3111ad98c?s=128&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a44f442e3260f021552481f67b6953fce4b1839161a9cfeeb474a2e3111ad98c?s=256&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo' height='128' width='128' \/><\/div>\n<p>Andrew Bergeron is a designer, speaker, and proud new father. Currently, he is the UX Design Manager for Everyone Counts, a rapidly growing start-up leading the transformation of modern election systems. When he is not focused on improving lives through design you will likely find him surfing, walking in nature or finding a way to make his son giggle.<\/p>\n<h2>Verious B. Smith III<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d49cbeb7a3fcae3a7977c64c76f5c8eb0a372e459fd550ab7a1486e038c0e5eb?s=128&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d49cbeb7a3fcae3a7977c64c76f5c8eb0a372e459fd550ab7a1486e038c0e5eb?s=256&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo' height='128' width='128' \/><\/div>\n<p>Verious Smith the Creative Director of Philoveracity Design, a firm that specializes in Brand Development with work that spans the scope of strategic planning to custom branded campaigns &amp; clients that have included local &amp; national start-ups to medium sized corporations.<\/p>\n<p>He is a BFA VisCom Graduate and has a thorough command of Conceptual Communication with a myriad of mediums.<\/p>\n<p>His current career focus is to build important new relationships while nurturing current connections by properly stewarding my God given time &amp; talents.<\/p>\n<h2>Scott Buscemi<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/853f3acf00d06f28afa42a3bb1a7ce48423e3fe9c345975773be533aae91c1a0?s=128&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/853f3acf00d06f28afa42a3bb1a7ce48423e3fe9c345975773be533aae91c1a0?s=256&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo' height='128' width='128' \/><\/div>\n<p>Scott Buscemi is the Co-Founder of Lumen Foundry, a next-generation marketing agency based in LA. Since version 2.9 of WordPress in 2010, Scott has been bringing clients into the cutting edge of website and marketing technology. He\u2019s also co-organizer of the LA WordPress Meetup.<\/p>\n<h2>Rachel Cherry<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speaker-avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c47f25cb051a0ae3c8929aeb4af45f1c2ccbdb62b42115569424b3924bd989d?s=128&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3c47f25cb051a0ae3c8929aeb4af45f1c2ccbdb62b42115569424b3924bd989d?s=256&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo' height='128' width='128' \/><\/div>\n<p>Rachel Cherry is a Senior Software Engineer for The Walt Disney Company with over ten years experience in back and front-end web development and digital design. Before Disney, she spent over nine years working in higher education and is the Director of WPCampus, a community and conferences focused on using WordPress in the world of higher education. When she\u2019s not using WordPress to help build the web, she enjoys promoting the importance of accessibility and working to encourage openness, collaboration, and professional development as a conference and meetup organizer. Rachel lives in Pasadena, California but you can find her on Twitter, GitHub, and bamadesigner.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing our second batch of speakers announced for WordCamp Orange County June 10-11, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15047831,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/04\/WCOC-SecondSpeakerBatch-1200x628-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Ozwx-ba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15047831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}