WordCamp Lancaster proudly announces the second wave of confirmed speakers. Join us March 14th in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a full day of learning and celebrating WordPress, the software that powers 33% of the web. One ticket is $25, and two tracks of presentations deliver value to web professionals of all skill levels.
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Austin Ginder
Austin Ginder is a Lancaster, Pennsylvania local seen frequently working out of coworking spaces and coffee shops. He’s a husband, father of six children and runs Anchor Hosting, a hassle-free WordPress hosting service for web professionals. He helps agencies and freelancers keep their customers WordPress sites running smooth.
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Eric Karkovack
Eric Karkovack is a freelance web designer and writer. A 20+ year veteran of the industry, Eric both works with and writes about his journey in using WordPress to tackle everyday challenges for clients.
He is constantly amazed at the kindness and generosity of the WordPress community. It has inspired him to pay it forward through writing, speaking and sharing what he has learned.
In addition, he enjoys writing about his adventures, including a lot of ups and downs, in running a freelance design business.
Eric resides in Carlisle, PA, with his wife and daughter. He enjoys cheering on his New Orleans Saints and Baltimore Orioles, along with seeing how many types of birds he can feed in the backyard.
He writes for several online publications, including Speckyboy Web Design Magazine, 1stWebDesigner, Envato Tuts+ and the Advanced Custom Fields blog.
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Kerch McConlogue
Kerch McConlogue, retired ADHD coach and frontend developer, has been writing code by hand for 20 years and using WordPress since version 1.5.
Her passion is helping WordPress novices to understand the basic care and feeding of their own sites and to get past their fears of breaking the internet. A one-person shop, building sites mainly for small to midsized businesses, she handles a lot of the design work. -
Kevin Kresge
Kevin Kresge is the Digital Marketing Director at Visual Impact Group based in York, PA where he manages all digital marketing projects like search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM) and social media marketing (SMM), as well as other pay-per-click campaigns (PPC) for clients from a large variety of industries.
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Sal Ferrarello
Sal is a WordPress developer at WebDevStudios who is passionate about code and web development. He has contributed repeatedly to WordPress Core, Genesis, and is the author of the Bootstrap Genesis Theme.
Sal’s previous experience as a Magician/Juggler, Computer Science & Mathematics teacher, and Radio DJ makes him an entertaining and engaging speaker. He has spoken on a wide variety of topics including object-oriented PHP programming, enforcing code standards with PHP Codesniffer, WordPress Post Meta, and avoiding the pitfalls of DNS.
Sal is also a proponent of developers blogging and shares his development notes and tips at salferrarello.com as well as on Twitter at @salcode.
We are working to confirm the rest of our presenters and will release a full schedule as soon as possible.