We’re so excited to have a great line-up of completely awesome speakers at our very first WordCamp Saratoga to be held October 11, 2014. We think this event will throw our local WordPress community into a higher gear—something we’re revved up to do.

• JR Tashjian is a Code Wrangler for VaultPress, an Automattic team.
• Danika Atkins works at at Outspoken Media and runs Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley.
• Andrea Bishop is a Happiness Engineer for Automattic and works closely with WordPress.com VIP.
• Natalie Semczuk is a digital project manager specializing in content strategy.
• Jason Cortés is a co-organizer of the Albany UX Meetup group.
• Kevin Fodness is a developer at local marketing firm Fingerpaint and teaches Computer Science at Skidmore.
• Matt Banks is co-owner and lead developer of Collectiv THKG and blogs about task runners and deployment optimizations.

Stay tuned for more awesome speaker announcements, or head over to the main speakers page to see them all.