Schedule

We’ve got a packed schedule this year! Note that sessions are subject to change based on speaker availability and last-minute adjustments. We’ll do our best to communicate all changes on the site.

Saturday, August 6th

 

8am
Registration & Coffee
8:30am
Opening Remarks (Auditorium)
TRACK 1: AUDITORIUM TRACK 2: RM 1-073 TRACK 3: RM 1-147 TRACK 4: RM 1-149
9am
CONTENT/MARKETING

SEO It’s Not Just Ranking Anymore
Tamara MacDuff & David Mackey

USER

Fixing a Hacked Site

Seth Alling

BEGINNER

Organizing Your First Website Usability Test

Anthony D Paul

DEVELOPER

JavaScripting Now in WordPress

Jacques Surveyer

10am
CONTENT/MARKETING

SEO It’s Not Just Ranking Anymore (continued) with Q&A

Tamara MacDuff & David Mackey

USER

WordPress Upgrade Anxiety No More: 5 Steps to Having a No Surprise Upgrade

Dustin Meza

COMMUNITY

Things I Wish I Knew When I Started in Accessibility

Billy Gregory

DEVELOPER

Build a Better Editing Experience with Advanced Custom Fields

Jeseph Meyers

11am
BEGINNER

eCommerce 101 for WordPress

Jai Sangha

DESIGN

Why Design Matters

Andrea Trew

COMMUNITY

Raising Awareness About Digital Accessibility (panel)

Billy Gregory, Anthony D Paul, Shawn Hooper & Tom Auger

DEVELOPER

WP JSON API – A Deep Code Dive Into How To Extend It

Paul Bearne

12pm
Catered Lunch
1pm
CONTENT/MARKETING

Advanced Online Marketing for WordPress

David Vogelpohl

DESIGN

Designers != Pixel Pushers

Tracy Apps

USER

A Contact Form Is Boring – 5 Creative Ways To Use Forms In WordPress

Adam W. Warner

DEVELOPER

Unlocking the Awesome Magical Power of MU-Plugins

Mikel King

2pm
BUSINESS

How To Manage The Highs And Lows in Business

Cory Miller

CONTENT/MARKETING

Content Creator’s Toolbox

Andy McIlwain

USER

Creating Videos For My WordPress Blog

Florian Gottschall

DEVELOPER

Building Ambitious User Experiences With Ember.JS

Taras Mankovski

2:15pm
BUSINESS

Running A Successful Business With WordPress (panel)

Cory Miller, Rebecca Gill, John Eckman, Brian Messenlehner & Tom Auger

3pm
Afternoon Break
3:30pm
BUSINESS

Stop Gathering Requirements: Start Designing Successful Projects

John Eckman

COMMUNITY

Fearlessly Creating, And Why It’s Important

Mendel Kurland

CONTENT/MARKETING

Podcasting and WordPress: Getting Started, Launching, And Promoting Your Show

Cesar Abeid

DEVELOPER

Using Docker To Create WordPress Development Environments

Thiago Loureiro

4:30pm
CONTENT/MARKETING

Tips & Tricks for Marketing Effectively (panel)

David Vogelpohl,Brian Rotsztein& Guests

USER

Domain Names and DNS Demystified

James Koole

BUSINESS

Next-Generation Data-Driven Plugin Development

Vova Feldman

DEVELOPER

Docker For Production

Ian Edington

WORKSHOPS

TRACK 5: RM 1-003
9am-12pm
BEGINNER/USER

Site Review Clinic
Brian Rotsztein, Brent Kobayashi & Guests

1pm-2pm
DEVELOPER/USER

Code Review Clinic

Paul Bearne, Shawn Hooper & Guests

3:30pm-5:30pm
DEVELOPER

Creating A Child Theme

Laurie M. Rauch, Dejan Markovic & Chrissie Pollock

7pm
After Party at 3Brewers, 120 Adelaide St W, unit 100

 

Sunday, August 7th

TRACK 1: AUDITORIUM TRACK 2: RM 1-073 TRACK 3: RM 1-147 TRACK 4: RM 1-149
11am
CONTENT/MARKETING

How To Succeed As An Independent Blogger

Brian Rotsztein

USER

Tools for Managing Multiple WordPress Sites

Christina Varro

BEGINNER

WordPress Page Builders: A New Tool To Build Awesome Pages Quickly

Rick Radko

DEVELOPER

Clean Code

Shawn Hooper

12pm
BEGINNER

“Hidden” Features Of WordPress

Michelle Ames

COMMUNITY

Giving Back to WordPress.org – No Code Required!

Meagan Hanes

USER

The Power Of A Video Library
Lauren Jeffcoat

DESIGN/BUSINESS

Crafting Brilliant WordPress User Experiences

Tom Auger

1pm
Catered Lunch
2pm
CONTENT/MARKETING

Blogging & Social Media

Michelle Arbore

USER

The Hateful Weight

Henri-R Brisard

DESIGN

Contextual Personas for Content Design

Jesse Emmanuel Rosario

DEVELOPER

Beginner’s Guide to Single Page Applications with WordPress + AngularJS

Daniel Kanchev

3pm
BUSINESS

Agency Chat

Brent Kobayashi, Tom Auger & Guests

CONTENT/MARKETING

The Power of The Inbox

Melanie Martin

COMMUNITY

Move All The Things To WordPress!

Brian Messenlehner

DEVELOPER

Repeatable WordPress Installs

Alan Lok

CONTRIB2CORE

TRACK 5: RM 1-003
11am-4pm
COMMUNITY

Contrib2Core
Paul Bearne, Thiago Loureiro Ian Edington & Guests

4pm
Closing Remarks (Auditorium)