Introducing our second round of speakers for WordCamp Philly 2020!
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David Artiss
By day, David Artiss works as a support engineer and hiring lead on the WordPress VIP team at Automattic. His nearly thirty years of experience in IT support roles has given him the chance to cultivate the art of truly taking care of people and writing so anyone can understand.
David has been active in the WordPress community for 12 years, first as a plugin author, then as a speaker and volunteer at various WordCamps, as well as contributing to core, support, documentation, translations, and WordPress.TV.
By night, David has performed in 18 musicals and concerts, so he is no stranger to the stage. He also writes for the straight-talking technology site The Big Tech Question. He lives in Nottingham, England, with his wife, two daughters, and a room full of Legos.
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David Vogelpohl
David serves on the senior leadership team at WP Engine, where he leads WordPress strategy and the Genesis business unit within WP Engine. David is a digital veteran with more than 20 years of experience leading teams building, growing, and scaling digital businesses. David also owned and operated an advanced WordPress agency serving clients globally including marquee clients like WP Engine, Pioneer Electronics, and Esurance.
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Jason McClintock
Jason is a designer with experience ranging from non-profit to agency work. He is currently a product designer at DigitalCube, where he works to use design to make lives easier.
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Joost de Valk
Joost de Valk is the founder of Yoast and currently the chief product officer. Joost has a background as an SEO expert, digital marketer and web developer. In the early days of his career, he worked at several IT companies, ranging from enterprise hosting to online marketing agencies. This allowed him to work with several large brands around the world.
In 2010 he founded Yoast, a company with a mission to allow as many people as possible to build a findable website.
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Lindsay Grow
Lindsay Grow is an award-winning product and design leader. Currently, she works as lead product designer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she focuses on digital transformation and storytelling. Before that, she was the lead information architect at Comcast, designing the future of entertainment for cross-platform video applications.
Additionally, Lindsay worked as a design consultant in Philadelphia, where she helped to create human-centered enterprise business systems through research. Before creating products, Lindsay had a successful career in documentary film and video production.
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Marieke van de Rakt
Marieke studied sociology and communication sciences at the Radboud University in Nijmegen and earned her doctorate in social sciences in 2011. Since the beginning of Yoast, she has been involved in the company. Since 2019, she has served as the CEO. Her main focus is on marketing, human resources, and company culture. But she also loves to think of ways to improve Yoast SEO. Her expertise is on SEO copywriting and site structure.
