WordCamp US 2018 Speakers: Round Six

Announcing WordCamp US 2018 Speakers - Round 6 - Bios below

We’re excited to announce our sixth round of WordCamp US 2018 speakers! If you missed any of the other announcements, you can find them here: Round One, Round Two, Round Three, Round Four, and Round Five. This group will join our other speakers for 2 days of sessions on December 7th and 8th. We hope you’ll join us for their sessions and contributor day on the 9th. Get your ticket today!

And now, our sixth round of speakers:

Rian Rietveld

Rian RietveldRian is a WordPress engineer and who has enthusiastically worked with WordPress since 2009, and has a strong interest in web standards and making the web usable for everybody. She works as a senior accessibility consultant for the WordPress agency Level Level. In her free time you can find her working in her garden.

Chris Coyier

Chris CoyierChris is a web designer and developer. He created and runs CSS-Tricks, a website all about building websites, now going strong for 10 years.

He is also the co-founder of CodePen, a playground for front-end web development. It’s a social development environment for front end designers and developers.

Along with Dave Rupert, he is the co-host of a podcast called ShopTalk, a show about (you guessed it), building websites.

Chris has spoken at events and given workshops all over the world, as well as written two books: Practical SVGand Digging Into WordPress.

Kelly McCausey

Kelly McCauseyKelly McCausey is an instigator of communities and lover of people. When you love a community of people, seek to meet their needs and share the best resources possible, you are well on your way to making money. Blogging, podcasting, creating courses, managing memberships, it’s all part of my business and I love helping others create what they want online.

Jason Cohen

Jason CohenJason is the founder and CTO of WP Engine, which serves 80,000 global customers and employs more than 500 in Austin, San Francisco, San Antonio, London, Limerick and Brisbane. As a successful, repeat entrepreneur (founded Smart Bear; sold 2008 and IT WatchDogs; sold 2004), Jason became a founding mentor of Austin’s top incubator, Capital Factory. He writes about software and startups at blog.asmartbear.com.


Check back soon for the next round of speaker announcements! While you’re at it, purchase a ticket to WCUS if you haven’t already.