Peter Flaschner (Keynote Speaker)
A veteran of online marketing, Peter has worked in online strategy and design since 1997, for clients like Turner Broadcasting, Unicef, The Yellow Pages, MaRS, Hot Docs, Fox News, and many more. Peter brings a high degree of empathy, a killer eye for design, a sixth sense for business, the ability to teach, a desire to help, lateral thinking skills, and a love of technology to each and every project he takes on.
Peter is a bonafide expert in the field of social marketing and social design for the web. In 2004, he founded The Blog Studio, the world’s first design studio focussed specifically on the then emerging social web. He regularly speaks and writes about social media, and has been featured in numerous books and articles and interviews. His web and identity design work have won a number of awards, is seen by over a million people per week, and generates millions in revenue for his clients.
Nick La (Workshop Leader)
Join Nick La, creator of the popular blog Web Designer Wall, owner of N.Design Studio, IconDock, and Best Web Gallery for a one-day immersion into WordPress, the world’s most popular publishing platform.
If you want to learn how to create your own WordPress themes, understand how to use template tags and conditional tags to format and display the data you want, or how to use WordPress as a content management system, Nick will take you from WordPress Zero to Hero in 7 hours flat.
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