The excitement for announcement of speakers featured at our TBEX North America 2025 conference, taking place in the one and only Québec City in June, is palpable. We’ve now firmly planted in 2025, which means that we’re inching ever closer to what we firmly believe will be one of the marquee events on this year’s calendar for travel creators.

Beyond the Pre and Post BEX trips, and the marvelous array of events taking place, we’ve also lined up an incredible group of individuals that we know are going to be ready to help attendees take their game to the next level. At our core, that’s what TBEX is all about, after all.

We’re proud to highlight this group of speakers, and cannot wait for them to grace the stage, and empower our audience.

Jonathan Kriner is the Director of Ad Marketing at Roku, helping grow Roku’s advertising business through digital marketing and insights, brand-building and storytelling, and growth marketing. Prior to Roku, Jonathan held various marketing leadership roles at startups in the advertising technology space. He currently lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife and two children.

Jonathan will explore how streaming is becoming the next frontier for both consumers and creators, and how you can take advantage.

Certified Master Mindset & Success Coach, Kim McCarter, is seen as an entrepreneurial firebrand who has immersed herself in helping business owners reach the highest levels of growth, profit, and success.

An innovative thinker, Kim has masterfully integrated her savvy as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, and business coach to ignite passion, infuse purpose, and inspire excellence in business owners all over the globe.

Through her authentic messaging and “Make It Happen!” attitude, Kim helps ambitious and eager business owners get supercharged about strategies that shape how customers perceive and interact with their businesses, yielding effective and lucrative results. Described as “THE sales funnel strategist and gospel truth on business,” Kim’s advanced funnel strategies have helped clients find and bank over $10 million in reclaimed profits since 2016. Kim’s methods continue to help business owners find profitability from their purpose and passions.

Communicating clear business solutions with wit and razor-sharp insight, Kim engages and fascinates audiences with an interactive learning style, invoking an educational and entertaining atmosphere.

Embodying the essence of her core message, Kim is living proof that it’s never too late to make your dreams a reality. She uses her experience to empower entrepreneurs to live & be their authentic selves. She firmly believes in spontaneous road trips, great shopping, delicious and spicy romance novels, and having your cake and eating it too … preferably in bed!

Kim will dive into the world of funnels, and how being a sales funnel strategist can help you take your game to the next level.

With over 16 years of experience in the digital landscape, Ty Kilgore has dedicated the last 5 years exclusively to empowering professional bloggers and influencers. His passion for SEO and digital marketing has made him a sought-after expert, lighting up stages as one of the most requested and top speakers at major conferences like the Everything Food Conference, Alt Summit, and Flavor Media Summit.

But Ty doesn’t just speak; he transforms. Hosting dozens of mastermind retreats and working one-on-one with hundreds of bloggers, Ty crafts personalized SEO strategies rooted in data, extensive experience, and a deep understanding of individual blogs and the unique needs of each website. Featured in numerous blogger podcasts, he shares invaluable insights and strategies that help creators unlock their full potential and elevate their online presence.

Whether you’re looking to boost your visibility or connect with your audience in new ways, Ty is your go-to guide in the ever-evolving world of SEO. Join him on a journey to digital success!

Ty will be focusing on how you can regain traffic from declining posts. For him, it’s all about one phrase – “revive and thrive!”

Shina Nova is a 25-year-old Inuk creator based in Montreal, Canada. On TikTok, she brings her Indigenous culture (and style) to the app.

“It’s important for me to educate others on my platform because not a lot of people know about our history, or know about the Inuit culture. It has always been brushed off. My goal is to change that and not be afraid to speak about it.”

Shina will be keynoting the main stage to share how she has leveraged her channels to become not only a top-tier content creator, but also an impactful activist. She’ll talk about how she’s used her stories and experiences to effect change.

Andrew Wilder is the founder and CEO of NerdPress, a collaborative team that provides WordPress support, optimization, and maintenance for hundreds of travel and food blogs. He has been building, breaking, fixing, and maintaining websites since 1998, and started his first blog in 2008. Andrew has spoken on a wide variety of technical topics (in plain English!) at many conferences, and is a regular contributor to the “SEO for Bloggers” webinars. He lives in Santa Monica, CA with his husband Matty and their dog, Harry — and they’ve been known to fly halfway around the world just for a really good meal (totally worth it!).

TBEX North America 2025 Speakers, Andrew Wilder

Andrew will draw upon his wide breadth of experience to share 25 improvements you can make to your WordPress site to help shift things into another gear!

Steve Noel lives in Reno Nevada, He is a viticulturist, winemaker, wine writer, and wine industry speaker. He has visited wineries on four different continents, as well as wineries in more than twenty of the United States and several Canadian provinces. He is a member of the Nevada Grape Growers and Winemakers Association, an Aragón Wine Expert, a B.C. Wine Ambassador, member of the Biodynamic Demeter Alliance, a wine blogger, and the monthly wine columnist for the Reno News and Review.