A 2 day event in NYC on E-Commerce for both developers and business people.
28 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10010
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Relive OpenCommerce Conf Speaker's talks and absorb some of their know how and wisdom - look for Slideshare links below each Speaker profile below.
Join us and chat on Spree slack!
OpenCommerce Conf talk videos are coming soon. Stay tuned for all the invaluable insights coming from the Spree experts.
Technical Lead for GoDaddy Online Store (OLS) built on top of Spree, customized for multi-tenant model and to scale. Today OLS hosts tens of thousands of stores running on the Spree based foundation. OLS team keeps adding new features continuously. This also allowed GoDaddy to become more active on the Open Source community.
Lead Developer at Mitchell Stores, a family-owned and -operated conglomerate of retail and online luxury stores—including Mitchells of Westport, Richards of Greenwich, Wilkes Bashford in San Francisco and Palo Alto, and Marios in Portland and Seattle—with over $100 million in annual sales. Eric has previously worked as a developer for Teladoc and Yale University.
Has a great mix of technical skills and marketing prowess that provide Scratch with a unique advantage. In just one year, Chris jumped head first into the Scratch Academy overhaul SpreeCommerce, CRM /ERP, project, rebuilt the Scratch Events website and is now expanding the features of the Scratch portal web-app for talent and clients.
Daniel Rodriguez Libreros is the Head of Product of ÉCOLE. As the Lead Full Stack Engineer, Daniel has brought to life a mobile-first e-commerce platform. Daniel is a skilled engineer with experience in UX/UI design. No stranger to the startup landscape, Daniel co-founded two startups prior to ÉCOLE.
Founder & CEO of Best Class, a discovery platform that lets anyone create, discover and share new learning experiences for children, that fuel their passions and enrich their lives. Art, Music, Dance, Sports, Fitness, Language, Culture, Technology - you name it, we power it!
Entrepreneur and technologist, owner of Vinsol whose developers serve at Spree Core Team. Expert in building both software and high performance development teams. For over 16 years, he's been exceeding the expectations of demanding clients ranging from large enterprises to start-ups in the United States and Europe.
Entrepreneur and Design Thinker. Co-Founder & Technical Lead of B/C Designers, a strategy & business consulting meets experience design firm headquartered in St.Louis.
Success story: Greetabl.com business streamlined by a custom Spree Commerce 3.0 implementation & fulfillment integration
E-Commerce hacker, open source icon, board gamer, whiskey drinker. Sticker Mule CTO. Spree Commerce Co-Founder and former CTO. Professionally specializing in E-Commerce systems and helping clients letverage open source software stacks to meet their daily business requirements.
A globally recognized speaker, Christine Souffrant is a Haitian American entrepreneur with 7 years of business management experience across 30+countries. She was selected for the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30, AdAge 40 Under 40, and has spoken on leadership, disruptive entrepreneurship and social impact innovation at the United Nations, TEDx and multiple other conferences.
Spree Commerce open source project Core team member and Tech Lead since 2016. Creating web apps since 2004. Founded or worked in several startups. Co-founded Spark Solutions, a software house crafting ambitious E-Commerce projects in Ruby on Rails, ReactJS and Spree Commerce.
Solutions Consulting Manager at PayPal with 16 years’ experience of Software Engineering in Sweden, Australia and USA. Sparked and oversaw development of a new open-source Braintree v.zero extension for Spree Commerce 3.x and 2.x for slick buying experiences, customizable drop-in UI, and for the first time Pay with PayPal. See the extension.
Entrepreneur, developer, E-commerce influencer, Ruby evangelist, activist and influencer since 2006. Co-Founder of Codeminer 42 America LLC, a Brazilian based and USA incorporated Rails and New Tech offshore outsourcing boutique. Blogs at AkitaOnRails.com. Also founder and organizer of Rubyconf Brazil since 2008.
Terena Bell is CEO of TVRunway, a backend API search engine that women use to identify clothes in online videos while they watch. Before starting TVRunway, Terena was a producer with CBS & NBC and served on the White House Business Roundtable. TVRunway is her second startup; she sold the first, an international translation company, in 2015.
Senior e-comm developer on GoDaddy Online Store (OLS) team built on top of Spree. OLS serves tens of thousands of GoDaddy customers in reaching their e-commerce and small business goals. He also helps host the local Ruby::AZ meetups at GoDaddy. Jason has worked for companies like Nationwide Insurance and Anheuser-Busch distributors.
CEO of token, a FinTech startup that disrupts fraud, he is an international serial entrepreneur with extensive background in Data Security, Strategy, Marketing and Product. Zohar is a valuable member of various entrepreneurs clubs, such as YEC, and his startup token was recently selected to join prestigious Startup Bootcamp.
Project Manager and Senior Software Engineer at MagmaLabs, a leading eCommerce Consultancy and proud organizers of MagmaConf. Thomas previously worked for Railsdog as VP of Client Services, responsible for leading both Account and Project Management. Passionate about Spree, he has successfully led many large scale deployments.
Meeting of the people crafting beautiful E-commerce experiences, keeping those websites running, inventory & stock levels syncin', maintaining those pesky 3rd party integrations and investigating order anomalies so the business owners and managers may focus on growing the business.
An opportunity to discuss various E-commerce platforms pros and cons, debate and challenge, get a different perspective, a fresh look and a second opinion. We've talked about the future of E-commerce... and making it happen. We got inspired and inspired others. It was both fun and productive.
Learning experience about the latest in E-commerce and Fintech thanks to meeting the most forward thinking influencers from around the world. A display of E-Commerce success stories from the people who made them happen. A chanve to get a drink, enjoy the company. It's New York, baby!
Rise New York is part of a global community of the world’s brightest thinkers and doers creating the future of financial technology.
We listen, nurture and oxygenate through our international network of Rise spaces, and connect, co-create, and scale innovation, in partnership with Barclays.
Rise New York also houses a world-class event space and is home to the U.S. cohort of the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars.
2 days packed with E-Commerce know-how, discussion, platform debates for both devs and business people.
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