Speakers

Keith Casey has been a developer and professional agitator within the PHP community for nearly a decade. To pay the bills, he works as the Chief Stuff Breaker for Blue Parabola where he takes tools, concepts, and projects and applies them in unplanned ways.. often breaking things. It’s led to a deep understanding of good and bad code and to write less of the second and more of the first.

Prior to joining Blue Parabola, he led development on large-scale PHP-based systems for organizations ranging from major media companies and startups to small non-profits. In his spare time, he is the Project Lead for web2project, works to build and support the Austin PHP and Flash communities, and blogs regularly on technology and random geekery at http://CaseySoftware.com/blog and http://phparch.com/

Larry Dailey is a professor of journalism and D. W. Reynolds Chair of Media Technologies at the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno. He teaches courses in innovation and usability testing and in designing and building serious games. He conducts research about organizational culture.

Previously he was an assistant professor of journalism and the director of the Digital Media Minor at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. He has also been a journalism instructor at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, IL. Prior to
that, he taught multimedia and advanced photojournalism courses as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Missouri – Columbia.

He worked for three years as a multimedia producer for MSNBC Interactive, one of the Internet’s top news sites. He has been a picture editor for the Associated Press and United Press International in Washington. And he has worked as a newspaper photographer and photography department manager.

Larry holds a master’s degree in photography from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He also holds degrees in journalism and education from the University of Missouri.

mitcho is a PhD student in Linguistics at MIT with primary interests in formal syntax / semantics. He is also an active coder who works on projects such as Ubiquity andPanorama at Mozilla and the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for WordPress. He lives a life full of music, code, and fun.

Mitcho.com | @themitcho

Mike Pomranz is a writer, comedian, musician and beer aficionado living in Brooklyn, NY.

Mike is best known as the senior blogger for Comedy Central’s hit television show, Tosh.0.  As a Tosh.0 blogger, he was credited by numerous national news sources for his role in launching the success of Rebecca Black’s YouTube hit, “Friday.”

He also created and helps run the world’s most popular single-serving bong image blog, What-A-Bong.

Previously, Mike has blogged for AOL’s Slashfood.com and Cheezburger Network’s My Food Looks Funny.  He initially launched his blogging career by creating and single-handedly writing and maintaining the independent election satire site, Slander ’08, which was a surprise hit during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Mike is also a notable comedic tweeter.  He’s a proud Witstream member and his tweets are regularly syndicated on popular comedy sites such as Someecards and Splitsider.

In the flesh, you can catch Mike performing stand-up comedy in New York City and across the country.

In his limited free time, Mike enjoys performing music either with one of his two bands or as a solo acoustic performer, homebrewing, not-at-home-drinking, and participating in general mayhem.  He also tutors math on the side.

Sara Cannon has a love for WordPress, design, and typography. Intersect these things and you’ve found her passion. She loves keeping up with the latest trends in design, typography, and the technology that we can use make our WordPress sites beautiful. Sara a core contributor working with the WordPress UI group and works as interaction designer & developer at Scout Branding Company in Birmingham, AL.

Sara Cannon | @saracannon