Lightning talk speakers announced!

This year at WordCamp Salt Lake City, we’re doing something we’ve never tried before: lightning talks!

Lightning talks are short (5 minute) presentations about a simple idea or project. All of the talks submitted fall under the general “entrepreneur/business” heading so, together with the keynote from Lisa Sabin-Wilson, we’ll be having a bit of a mini-business track after lunch!

Don’t worry if business isn’t your thing. You can hang out downstairs where the food will be served and have a long lunch, then head up to the main level to catch Lisa’s talk and the rest of the WordCamp.

Now let’s meet the lightning talk speakers!

Brenner Adams

Founder and CEO of the LINK Group, Advisor at Church & State and Adjunct Professor of Startup at the U of U. Former game designer at Xbox. Years of experience in software design, marketing, payments, snowboarding and skateboarding.

Kyle Gray

Kyle Gray is an entrepreneur, storyteller and author of the bestselling book The Story Engine. He believes in the power of storytelling to grow businesses. Content is not only a tool for driving traffic and getting customers, but it can grow teams and build relationships with influencers.

Kyle has helped startups grow to seven-figure success using digital marketing content. Most entrepreneurs struggle finding time and energy to create content and tell their story. Kyle loves to take the hassle out of this process. When companies get clear on their strategy and voice they can bring on writers to create great content in their voice while they focus on their own genius.

Duke Speer

By day, Duke is a site builder specializing in cause messages and fundraising for non-profits. By evening, Duke is an Open Source evangelist, being an active contributor in three FOSS projects. He is currently immersed in Recovery Elevated, an open source, Joomla-curated, smartphone-hosted, graph database driven, non-linear learning management application designed for addicts coming out of rehab. This project is focused on replacing substance addiction with electronic addiction and healthier lifelong learning habits. A serial volunteer, in the winter, you will find him volunteering his 38th season as a weekend warrior on the Canyons Ski Patrol.

Chris Fontes

Founder and CEO of Inbound Brew, Chris Fontes has decades of software engineering, marketing, sales, customers service, and operations management background. His passion is enabling small business by developing tools at a price they can afford.

Father of 4, loving husband, and avid Electric Vehicle enthusiast, Chris loves to talk with passionate people about any topic.