Steph Wells is the lead developer of Strategy11- a company specializing in WordPress plugins. Formidable forms and Display Widgets are a few of their most popular projects. She started her career as a Registered Nurse, and later self-taught herself Ruby on Rails and PHP after the first little bundle-of-joy came along in 2007. In less than four years, the Wells team graduated from client work with a self-sustaining plugin of their own.

After learning about CMS’s his last semester in college, Jared realized that it would be a lot easier to build a website using a framework. He originally learned Joomla, but after learning WordPress he’s never looked back. Jared is currently self employed as a freelance web developer. WordPress makes building websites fun and easy.

Garth is a full stack/perl developer at Bluehost. Previous to his current position he was the WordPress Project Manager, in which role he managed all WordPress related projects at Bluehost. Garth is still very involved in WordPress and regularly contributes to WordPress core.

Brent has been using WordPress since 2005 and is the founding partner of WPSlopes, a WordPress website agency. Brent has an MBA from a top 25 business school, and focuses on helping businesses grow through growth hacking and marketing technologies.

Brent’s talk will help users, business owners and developers have a better understanding and get the most out of analytics.

After an unexpected layoff from NuSkin 10 years ago Joel fell into Website Design and hasn’t looked back. Currently he is Freelance for his own LLC and focuses on Design & Development of Websites and iOS Apps. He’s been hacking around WordPress for about 5 years now, and his bread and butter are full custom designs and from-scratch WordPress themes for his clients. He also has an App called FiveThings in the iOS App Store (http://apple.co/1dn0wmV ) that he designed and built himself that is currently ranked somewhere in the bottom millions. Joel is a Utah native and lives in Pleasant Grove with his wife and 1.75 children (#2 is due October 15). He loves being creative, Toyota Land Cruisers, Cruises, and Japan. He can be found on twitter @unculturedswine