WordCamp Birmingham is thrilled to announce the first half of our speakers in the Business track.
Tickets are available now. Just $50 for the full weekend, including 2 days of talks and workshops, lunch both days, event t-shirt, other event swag, and a fantastic after party!
Jessi Gurr
Topic: Creating a Sustainable Template for Agency Growth
Jessi has been hand-coding websites since the day her dad brought home an AOL floppy disk in 1993. She started working with WordPress in 2005, and today runs a full service WordPress development agency in Minnesota. A passionate entrepreneur, Jessi loves creating jobs, speaking about her experience growing a company, and coaching freelancers and aspiring entrepreneurs.
Jessi lives in Anoka, MN. When not running a business or chasing her two young boys, you can find her in the vegetable garden or in the window seat of an airplane, traveling to her next adventure.
Nathan Ingram
Topic: Mastering the Client Consultation
Nathan is the creator of MonsterContracts, battle-tested contracts for WordPress client work. As the founder of >ADVANCE Coaching, Nathan is a Growth Coach for WordPress Business owners, helping them become more successful in their businesses.
You may also have heard Nathan as the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and business development topics via live webinar. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, he has been working with clients to build websites since 1995.
You can learn more about Nathan at https://nathaningram.com, and MonsterContracts at https://monstercontracts.com.
Victory Harbin
Topic: The Content Approach
Victory Harbin founded The Social Brand, a marketing agency in Knoxville, TN, in 2018. She leads a team of 14 amazing creative professional and holds 35 marketing certifications. Her passion is content-driven marketing and helping businesses utilize content in an effective way to talk to the right people, on the right platform, in the right way.
Stephanie Hudson
Topic: Payment Plans are for Suckers
Stephanie Hudson is a geek, entrepreneur, inventor, and notebook hoarder. Her current passion is helping digital agencies to scale and thrive, through coaching, courses, and her white label company FocusWP.
Beth Livingston
Topic: How to Get Paid for Every Little Thing You Do
Beth built her first WordPress website in 2009 for a side business, was immediately smitten, and soon began building websites for other small businesses. In 2016, after a long history as an IT Business Analyst, Instructional Designer, and Project Manager, she left the corporate world to form her WordPress agency, WP Roadmaps). Soon after, while attending WordCamps and seeing how folks were struggling with project management, she decided to share her knowledge to help others by forming the WP Project Manager’s Academy. She now enjoys providing real-life project management skills training to all types of WordPress practitioners (designers, developers, consultants, project managers, and agencies).
In addition to continuing to run her agency (rebranded as Triad Web Advisors) and serving as the Academy Director, Beth also administers the WordPress Project Management Facebook group, and serves as an event organizer for the Triad WordPress Meetup Group.
Beth considers teaching her one true joy and has presented project management-related talks at various WordCamps across the US, international WordPress meetups, at Venture Cafe Winston-Salem, and has taught project management classes at Guilford Technical Community College’s Small Business Center in Greensboro NC.
In her spare time, what there is of it, Beth also enjoys visiting live music venues and occasionally acting and singing in local theater productions.
Joseph Lopreste
Topic: How to Easily Audit your WP Site for Accessibility
I am co-owner of a web development company and a web accessibility advocate that has a passion for helping people and WordPress. I bring over 15 years of business and technology experience.
I believe that I can help my community by explaining and teaching how easy web accessibility is to implement for developers, designers, and agencies who build and maintain over 1/3 of the internet by using WordPress.
