Meet the Speakers for the National Guard Track

Increase your knowledge on a variety of WordPress topics with these fantastic speakers in the National Guard track.

Michelle Ames

Overextended, overcommitted, entrepreneur, volunteer, and social butterfly. Avid Scrabble player. Photographer. School board member. Marketing enthusiast. 11th hour expert. WordPress fanatic. Lead organizer of WordCamp Rochester, NY. Co-organizer of WordCamp Buffalo. Michelle is the Head of Customer Relations at GiveWP.com.

Natalie Bourn

Natalie Bourn is currently a freshman in high school. She’s been a WordPress blogger for four years and writes about adventures, life lessons, her journey through school and being a teenager, and her friends and family. She has recently started a YouTube channel sharing videos about her life and travels. When she’s not busy with homework and exploring with her family, she loves to dance and choreograph, read, write, and play with her brother. Check out nataliebourn.com for more.

Chris Lema

Chris Lema is Vice President of Products & Innovation at Liquid Web, a blogger (at chrislema.com and leaders.blog), the author of several ebooks and a public speaker. He loves to tell stories – helping people learn how to leverage technology for their business and personal use.

Mike Demo

Mike “Demo” Demopoulos is a longtime lover of Open Source Software. He currently works at BoldGrid (a WordPress Site Builder) as an Evangelist. He has spoken at numerous open source events around the world. Mike is also a contributor to Huffington Post as well as other publications. In addition, he volunteers as Treasurer for Open Source Matters.

Lindsay Halsey

Based in Basalt, Colorado, Lindsay Halsey is a co-founder of WP SEO Hub, a do-it-yourself WordPress SEO platform, and partner of webShine, a search engine marketing agency. Her primary interest is search engine optimization for WordPress websites. Lindsay enjoys teaching business owners about holistic SEO practices with a focus on actionable tactics that create results.

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