We hope that you all have had an enjoyable summer. Fall is right around the corner, and there’s now less than 2 months until Cincinnati’s inaugural WordCamp on October 15th and 16th. Leading up to the event, we’ll be detailing our speaker tracks and introducing the sponsors who make our event possible. If you aren’t already receiving our posts by email, subscribe to receive updates through the form in the sidebar.

Call for Speakers Deadline Next Week

Our call for speakers is quickly coming to a close, with just over a week until the deadline (August 31st). If you haven’t already submitted a talk proposal and are interested in speaking, head on over to our speaker submission form. We’ve received an assortment of fantastic talk proposals, and we can’t wait to share them with you over the coming weeks leading up to the event in October! We’ll be contacting speakers in the next two weeks to confirm sessions, so be on the lookout for an email if you’ve already submitted a proposal.

WordCamp Columbus This Weekend

WordCamp Columbus takes place this weekend, August 26-28th, at the Columbus State Conference Center. Columbus is a short drive from Cincinnati, so we encourage local WordPress enthusiasts to attend. Tickets are still available and can be purchased at their official website. A number of the WordCamp Cincinnati organizers will be in attendance, and we hope to meet many of you there.

Speaker Announcements

Today we’re happy to announce our first batch of speakers! In the coming weeks, we will be posting to our website introducing a few speakers at a time, so be sure to subscribe for the latest updates.

David Brecount, “How to win with WordPress”. David co-founded US Digital Partners fourteen years ago with the primary mission of helping clients compete in the digital marketplace. He has worked with hundreds of clients on creative digital marketing projects including; websites, mobile apps, video productions, social media campaigns, email marketing, and online advertising. In recent years, David has led the USDP team in award-winning WordPress projects for some of Cincinnati’s most important transformation efforts like WashingtonPark.org, MyFountainSquare.com, HCkids.org, and CatholicCincinnati.org.

Dustin Hartzler, “Customize Your Site the Right Way”. Dustin is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, providing support for the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. He is also the host of the weekly WordPress podcast at Your Website Engineer. When not spending time with WordPress, he can be found traveling around the world, biking and reading.

Carmen Krupar, “Website Maintenance with WordPress”. Carmen Krupar is the founder of Cybervise Inc. and a Website Consultant. Carmen has 15 years experience in Software and Website Development, that began at Encyclopedia Britannica. Over the years she has been webmaster for GeneralMills.com, Chex.com, GreatClips.com and many others, including over 50 financial institutions across the United States. Carmen holds a Master’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction and a certificate of Organization Development Leadership from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. As a Website Performance Architect at Cybervise, Carmen now focuses her practice on webmaster best practices, website performance and usability engineering.

Thanks To Our Sponsors

The success of WordCamp events worldwide would not be possible if not for the sponsors who generously donate their time and resources. Today we thank Plesk and WPML for their support of the WordPress community.

Plesk simplifies web management activities to align with the way infrastructure is used today for hosting websites and web applications. A widely used web management solution, Plesk provides everything a web professional needs to set up a website quickly and securely – including a WordPress Toolkit, an easy-to-navigate control panel, server level automation, supportability tools, and complete protection with our server-to-site security core.

WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites. WPML allows users to translate everything in the site, including content, menus, widgets and even theme and plugin texts. WPML powers over 500,000 commercial websites from all over the world.

Register to Attend

Tickets for WordCamp Cincinnati are still available and can be purchased right here on this site. We look forward to bringing together our local WordPress community, and hope to see you there!