{"id":297,"date":"2016-08-18T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/?p=297"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T17:09:01","slug":"2016-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/2016-keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Our 2016 Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-312\" src=\"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/files\/2016\/08\/Cory_Miller-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cory_Miller\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Cory_Miller-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Cory_Miller-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Cory_Miller-301x300.jpg 301w, https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/files\/2016\/08\/Cory_Miller.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We are excited to announce <strong>Cory Miller<\/strong> as our keynote speaker for <a href=\"https:\/\/2016.birmingham.wordcamp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Birmingham 2016<\/a>! Cory is <a href=\"https:\/\/ithemes.com\/our-founder\/\" target=\"_blank\">the founder and CEO of iThemes<\/a>, a leading web design software firm that has provided WordPress plugins, themes and training to thousands of people around the globe since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>So he knows a thing or two about sharing top tips and skills with others.<\/p>\n<p>Cory is also co-author of the <em>WordPress All-in-One for Dummies<\/em> book and has delivered dozens of WordCamp addresses and keynotes.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Cory\u2019s title, at iThemes, is CEO &#8211; that\u2019s Chief Entertainment Officer &#8211; so you can expect to hear big ideas, clear advice and have a good time during his WordCamp Birmingham Keynote Address on October 29, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, you can check out Cory\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/corymiller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">personal site<\/a>, his company <a href=\"https:\/\/ithemes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">iThemes<\/a>, follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/corymiller303\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/leader.team\/id1136344989?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\">check out his new podcast Leader.Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce Cory Miller as our keynote speaker for WordCamp Birmingham 2016! Cory is the founder and CEO of iThemes, a leading web design software firm that has provided WordPress plugins, themes and training to thousands of people around the globe since 2008. So he knows a thing or two about sharing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/2016-keynote-speaker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introducing Our 2016 Keynote Speaker<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15059817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[917930,29,917150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-event-update","category-speakers","category-wordcamp-birmingham-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7pEJ8-4N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15059817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birmingham.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}