Schedule

Friday December 4th

Time	Track A	Track B	Lightning Talks
8:00 am	Registration and Yoga Erica Varlese
9:00 am	Opening Remarks
9:25 am	Demystifying accessible websites Nancy Thanki	Curing a Critical Security Bug Gary Pendergast	Beyond Gannt Charts and Dependencies: The Emerging WordPress Project Manager Sarah Pressler
9:35 am			The Techie Continuum Kathryn Presner
10:10 am	The Modern WordPress Developer’s Toolbox Tracy Rotton	The State of Spam Anthony Bubel	A Bolt of Backbone Adam Silverstein
10:20 am			WordPress + The Internet of Things RC Lations
10:45 am	Break
11:05 am	The Future Stack: Running WordPress with Tomorrow’s Technologies Zack Tollman, Aaron Jorbin	Visual Design and UX: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Linda Daniels	Communities and The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense Josepha Haden
11:15 am			Contributing To WordPress Meta Kyle Maurer
11:50 am	Themes are for Users David Kennedy	React + WordPress Gregory Cornelius	Github for the Rest of Us Morten Rand-Hendriksen
12:00 pm			How Your Worst Clients Make You Better Hilary Fosdal
12:10 pm			Starting/Growing your WordPress Meetup Community Judi Knight
12:25 pm	Lunch
1:45 pm	Intent in Software Design Helen Hou-Sandí	How to Build Online Courses Using WordPress Kim Shivler	Real Talk About Website Performance: 5 Must-Haves For High Speed Sites Josh Koenig
1:55 pm			Streamlining the Web Design Process Using Style Tiles Stephanie Brinley
2:30 pm	Build a Theme with the REST API Rachel Baker	Managing WordPress with Ansible David Murphy	How to Build a Compelling WordPress Product or Service Brian Krogsgard
2:40 pm			Make a Good WordPression: Tech Blogging for a Reluctant Audience Joe Schaffner
3:15 pm	REST in Action: The Live Coverage Platform at the New York Times Scott Taylor	WordPress: Changing Lives Andrea Rennick	Pushing The Creative Limit Sara Cannon
3:25 pm			Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist Ryan Rudolph
4:00 pm	Break
4:20 pm	Dynamic CSS: Transforms, Transitions, and Animation Basics Beth Soderberg	A Survey of Elasticsearch Usage Greg Brown	From Blog to Book: Re-purposing Your WordPress Blog into an eBook Lisa Melegari
4:30 pm			7 Typography Rules I wish I Knew Before Designing a Theme Dmitry Mayorov
5:05 pm	Introduction to WordPress unit testing Carl Alexander	Building Next-Generation Projects With BuddyPress David Bisset	Designing For Those Who Matter – Your Users David Laietta
5:15 pm			Unintentional Exclusion – Web accessibility and how we’re failing our users LeeAnn Kinney
5:50 pm	Advanced Topics in WordPress Development Andrew Nacin	Conferences For The Ultimate Connected Brand Experience Tina Kesova	Publish in 10 Minutes Per Day Andrea Badgley
6:00 pm			What I Learned When My Blog Post Went Viral Dennis Hong

Saturday December 5th

Time	Track A	Track B	Lightning Talks
9:00 am	WordPress: The Next Generation – A Look Into WordPress Sites 5, 20, and 50 Years into the Future Rami Abraham	Decoupled Development with WordPress JSON APIs Matt Cheney, Mark Llobrera	How WordPress can be a vehicle for people to create and learn about the Web Andrea Forte
9:10 am			How Giving Back to WordPress Grows My Network Shayda Torabi
9:45 am	Make WP_CLI Work For You: Extending WP_CLI With Custom Commands Chris Wiegman	Build and Launch a Custom Site Using Only Your Phone Anthony D. Paul	10 tips for clean code Michael Toppa
9:55 am			Asynchronous Events Aaron Brazell
10:05 am			Scaling Dynamic WordPress Websites Aaron Edwards
10:30 am	Break
10:50 am	Gamify With the WordPress.com API Timmy Crawford	Accessibility: Proven, easy integration into design and development workflows Robert Jolly	E-Commerce in 2015 Patrick Rauland
11:00 am			Things you always wanted to know about WordPress (but were afraid to ask) Evan Volgas
11:35 am	Unite and Prosper: How WordCamp Europe helped reinvigorate WordPress communities Luca Sartoni	WordPress in the White House: Development of the Open Innovation Toolkit Sara Cope	I Wanna Go Fast: Advanced Techniques To Optimize Front-End Performance Allen Moore
11:45 am			Getting a feature into core from start to finish Scott Clark
11:55 am			ARIA: Roles, States and Properties Joe Dolson
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:40 pm	Godzilla CSS Michael Arestad	WordPress In Higher Education Curtiss Grymala	The Future of WordPress is Low-Tech Eric Mann
1:50 pm			Making use of a little known gem: The WordPress HTTP API Ryan Duff
2:25 pm	WordPress, Open Source, and Museums: A look at the tools and processes of moving our collections online Mel Choyce, Courtney OCallaghan	Meeting the New York Times Challenge: delivering the news over HTTPS Paul Schreiber	Scratching an Itch: Taking the First Step to Becoming a WordPress Contributor Morgan Estes
2:35 pm			Robots Write the Docs Luke Woodward
2:45 pm			Take Care of Each Other: How to Contribute to WordPress Without Writing Code Rich Robinkoff
3:10 pm	Learning for WordPress Developers Nikolay Bachiyski	Playing well with others: writing solid code in large community projects Dennis Snell	Teaching the next generation of WordPress bloggers and hackers Charlie Reisinger
3:20 pm			Never Assume when Teaching WordPress Joe Casabona
3:55 pm	Break
4:15 pm	WordPress Best Practices for Enterprise Taylor Lovett	Navigating Today’s Website Threats!! – A Stroll Through WordPress Security Tony Perez	Explaining Hard Things to Humans: The Principles of Effective Technical Communication Frederick Meyer
4:25 pm			Community Spark: How to start a discussion on community engagement Winstina Hughes
5:00 pm	State of the Word