We’re delighted to announce our eighth round of speakers. If you missed any of our other speaker announcements, you can find them here: Round One, Round Two, Round Three, Round Four, Round Five, Round Six, and Round Seven.
And now, our eighth round of speakers:
Tina Wells
Tina Wells is the CEO and founder of Buzz Marketing Group, a marketing agency that creates strategies for clients within the beauty, entertainment, fashion, financial, and lifestyle sectors. For more than two decades, Tina has connected thousands of influencers and consumers to brand clients. Since founding her company, she’s developed and managed 30,000 “buzzSpotters” and 7,000 “momSpotters” – influencer and research networks for her clients that include Dell, The Oprah Winfrey Network, and American Eagle Outfitters.
Tina sits on the board of the Young Entrepreneurs Council, the United Nations Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council (emeritus), and the Council of Emeritus Directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. She currently chairs the Programs, Marketing, and Business Development committee of The Franklin Institute where she also serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee.
She is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute and the Academic Director (Practicum) of Wharton’s Leadership in the Business World program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her list of honors includes The Girl Scouts’ Woman of Distinction, Cosmopolitan’s Fun Fearless Phenom Award, Essence’s 40 Under 40, Billboard’s 30 Under 30, Inc’s 30 Under 30, and Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Wells is the author of the best-selling tween fiction series Mackenzie Blue and the marketing handbook, Chasing Youth Culture And Getting It Right. Wells’ writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Journal of the American College of Radiology, Inc, Black Enterprise, MediaPost, and Retail Merchandiser Magazine. Follow her on Twitter @tinacwells or visit her website at tinawells.com.
Andrew Taylor
Andrew currently works for Pantheon as a Developer Programs Engineer providing consulting to their agency partners around complex workflows and automation. He also enjoys giving back to the WordPress community through the hosting group, plugin development and speaking at WordCamps.
Lara Schenck
Lara Schenck is an independent front-end and WordPress developer living in Los Angeles, CA. She is passionate about exploring the fundamentals behind web technologies (especially CSS) and loves to share her findings through speaking, teaching, writing, and mentorship. Lara is an active member of the LA tech community, and co-organizes the Hollywood WordPress meet up and CSS.la.
Jason Bahl
Jason Bahl is a Senior WordPress Developer at Digital First Media in Denver, CO. He’s been working full-time with WordPress since 2009. He’s the creator and maintainer of WPGraphQL a free Open Source WordPress plugin that adds an extendable GraphQL API to any WordPress site. He’s passionate about open source and sharing knowledge and code with the WordPress community.
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