We’re thrilled to announce our lineup of speakers for this year’s WordCamp SLC!

Brett Palmer is a software developer and says he has the best parent job of “traveling around the country watching my daughter compete in Big Mountain ski events – much more fun than dance recitals.”

Ryan Sullivan founded WP Site Care in 2012 and enjoys writing…really!

Andres Arias is a full stack developer who’s also a drummer, coffee drinker and cat lover.

Chris Reynolds is a Senior Engineer at Human Made and a loyal Utah Royals FC season ticket holder.

Velda is an artist raised by geeks and can snap her toes but has spent most of her life not knowing how to snap her fingers properly.

Dustin Nay has started a number of businesses over the years in marketing, web design and event planning, plays Dungeons & Dragons but has never broken a bone.

Dustin Olsen has been building websites based on Elegant Themes for over a decade and buckled down to pay off $45,000 in student load debt in 2 years and now teaches others how he did it.

Alex Young has a small, WordPress-centered YouTube channel called WPCasts.

Cheryl Montgomery is the web director at Oozle Media and her first website was about the Beatles, built in 1997 using Netscape Navigator.

Tyrel Kelsey runs the UtahWP meetup group and is the lead organizer of this year’s WordCamp SLC!

Ben Jenkins is the owner of Wodobo, building websites and providing training and also shares his love of making bread and, in particular, pizza with the world via his Instagram account.

Mike Adams is a system administrator, instructor, consultant and courseware author who has been playing with computers since the TI 99/4A.

You can check out everyone’s full bios on our Speakers page or check out the schedule.

WordCamp SLC is right around the corner and we are crossing our t’s and dotting our i’s. Along with that is preparing an awesome speaker schedule for you.

To that end, we need to get all your submissions in and make our final selections. If you haven’t submitted a talk, we’d love to hear from you. We’re still looking for submissions from all experience levels and topic types — even things outside of WordPress, specifically. If you’ve never presented before, WordCamps can be an awesome place to start to flex those muscles and step outside your comfort zone in a positive and supportive environment.

The final deadline for speaker applications is at the end of this month, September 30. That gives you about a week and a half to get your idea in, so do it soon!