Announcing 2018’s Keynote Speaker: Bridget Willard

When you buy your ticket to WordCamp Raleigh 2018, you are (whether you know it or not) planting yourself in the midst of a global community, more than just taking part in a local conference.

I’m so excited personally to announce this year’s Keynote speaker: Bridget Willard. In addition to being one of my favorite people in the WordPress space, she’s one of the most engaging speakers I’ve heard at a WordCamp.

Bridget Willard is a marketing consultant and educator with a passion to help small businesses. She began in construction, and worked in franchise development, nonprofits, and tech. She is known for her brand building for Riggins Construction and GiveWP.

She is the co-host of WPblab, a show on the WPwatercooler network, co-organizer of Women Who WP Meetup, and Marketing Team Rep for Make WordPress.

She writes about social media and WordPress on her site at bridgetwillard.com and teaches social strategy on her YouTube channel.

Here’s her talk description:

WordPress is awesome. Open Source is great. But what does that mean? It means that this free and open source software is maintained and written by a volunteer labor base. When you contribute to WordPress, that’s you.

With now 30% of the market share, WordPress is scaling fast — as a software and as a community.

In this talk, Bridget Willard will give actionable tips to help us be mindful of our entire health: physical, emotional, and financial.

The goal of the Keynote is to set the tone for the rest of the event, and I feel confident the remaining two days of the conference will be better for having started with Bridget’s talk.

Don’t miss your chance to hear Bridget. Get your ticket today!