Schedule

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Friday, July 14

Registration begins at 8 am.

Time	Theater, Track 1	Banneker, Track 2	Map Room, Track 3
9:00 am	Opening remarks	Opening remarks	Opening remarks
9:15 am	Growing WordPress in the Federal Government: Sites.USA.gov Kyle Jennings, Ken Fang Favorite session: Growing WordPress in the Federal Government: Sites.USA.gov	How to be the G.O.A.T. at Social Media Campaigns Tkeyah Lake Favorite session: How to be the G.O.A.T. at Social Media Campaigns	Beginners Guide to WordPress Workflow Tessa Kriesel Favorite session: Beginners Guide to WordPress Workflow
10:00 am	Decentralized Content Strategy for the National Park Service Tori Peterson, Rebecca Wyatt Favorite session: Decentralized Content Strategy for the National Park Service	How Kiplinger used WordPress for a paid digital service Greg Krehbiel Favorite session: How Kiplinger used WordPress for a paid digital service	Introduction to Post Meta Sal Ferrarello Favorite session: Introduction to Post Meta
10:45 am	WordPress for Intranet Knowledge Management David Zweigel Favorite session: WordPress for Intranet Knowledge Management	5 Steps to Personal and Website Security Adam Warner Favorite session: 5 Steps to Personal and Website Security	Adding Functionality with Custom Post Types and Custom Fields Shayna Diamond Favorite session: Adding Functionality with Custom Post Types and Custom Fields
11:30 am	How a Local Government Ditched a Proprietary CMS and Embraced WordPress Maureen Dilg, Katie Pegoraro Favorite session: How a Local Government Ditched a Proprietary CMS and Embraced WordPress	Alternative Hacks: WordPress security from the outside looking in Daniel Olson Favorite session: Alternative Hacks: WordPress security from the outside looking in	An exploration of Users and Roles Aaron Jorbin Favorite session: An exploration of Users and Roles
12:00 pm	Lunch from local food trucks
1:30 pm	On Internationalization and Localization Pascal Birchler Favorite session: On Internationalization and Localization	From the Frontlines: Battling Technical Debt Lauren Burton Favorite session: From the Frontlines: Battling Technical Debt	Raiders of the Lost Archives Michael Dance Favorite session: Raiders of the Lost Archives
2:15 pm	Un-Scaling WordPress Mike Schroder Favorite session: Un-Scaling WordPress	Effective Bug Discovery and Management Scott Stancil Favorite session: Effective Bug Discovery and Management	Accessibility is More than an Add-On: The Responsibility of the Open Source Community Marissa Goldsmith Favorite session: Accessibility is More than an Add-On: The Responsibility of the Open Source Community
3:00 pm	Using WordPress To Get More Women To Run For Office Christie Chirinos Favorite session: Using WordPress To Get More Women To Run For Office	Easy Design Tips for Non-Designers Annie Smidt Favorite session: Easy Design Tips for Non-Designers	Screen Readers Galore: Creating Accessible Rich Sites with ARIA Lindsey Kopacz Favorite session: Screen Readers Galore: Creating Accessible Rich Sites with ARIA
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Using WordPress to Bridge the Digital Divide Josepha Haden Favorite session: Using WordPress to Bridge the Digital Divide	ABCs of A/B testing and how to start testing in WordPress Antti Koskenrouta Favorite session: ABCs of A/B testing and how to start testing in WordPress	Code Security Fundamentals George Stephanis Favorite session: Code Security Fundamentals
4:45 pm	The Passion of Change Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) Favorite session: The Passion of Change	Measuring your organization’s impact with MORI Ryan Sholin Favorite session: Measuring your organization’s impact with MORI	Ten tips for securing your WordPress JavaScript Adam Silverstein Favorite session: Ten tips for securing your WordPress JavaScript
5:30 pm	How to Win at Information Architecture John Cornthwait Favorite session: How to Win at Information Architecture	WordPress is for Blogs? CMS Diversity in Museums Courtney O’Callaghan Favorite session: WordPress is for Blogs? CMS Diversity in Museums	Advanced Topics in WordPress Development Andrew Nacin Favorite session: Advanced Topics in WordPress Development

Saturday, July 15

Registration begins at 8 am.

Time	Theater, Track 1	Banneker, Track 2	Map Room, Track 3
8:00 am	Morning yoga upstairs with Zac Gordon
9:00 am	Opening remarks	Opening remarks	Opening remarks
9:15 am	What I’ve Learned from asking, “How did you built that?” Joe Casabona Favorite session: What I’ve Learned from asking, “How did you built that?”	Being Agile at a Small Agency Mark Wahl Favorite session: Being Agile at a Small Agency	Pixel Imperfect: A Practical Approach To Responsive Design Michelle Schulp Favorite session: Pixel Imperfect: A Practical Approach To Responsive Design
10:00 am	Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community Ed Finkler Favorite session: Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community	Running an Agency: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Clifton Griffin Favorite session: Running an Agency: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job	Modern CSS: You can do it! Alexis Findiesen Favorite session: Modern CSS: You can do it!
10:45 am	Growing open source communities on GitHub Ben Balter Favorite session: Growing open source communities on GitHub	It’s Not You, It’s Your Ticket: Ticketing Lessons from your Apartment Emilia Kubo Kirschenbaum Favorite session: It’s Not You, It’s Your Ticket: Ticketing Lessons from your Apartment	SVG 101 Sang-Min Yoon Favorite session: SVG 101
11:30 am	Website Usability & Libraries: a WordPress based approach Tim S Favorite session: Website Usability & Libraries: a WordPress based approach	The art of stealing Teia Atkins Favorite session: The art of stealing	Be Better By Doing Less: Front End Automation Jason Wasser Favorite session: Be Better By Doing Less: Front End Automation
12:00 pm	Lunch from local food trucks
1:30 pm	Democratizing dynamic Mobile interpretive tools with WordPress Deepti Boddapati Favorite session: Democratizing dynamic Mobile interpretive tools with WordPress	How to Build a Popular Blog and Master WordPress Even If You’re a Liberal Arts Major Tracy Schorn Favorite session: How to Build a Popular Blog and Master WordPress Even If You’re a Liberal Arts Major	Support, Customer Experience, and WordPress Kyle M Brown Favorite session: Support, Customer Experience, and WordPress
2:15 pm	Parlez-vous Taxonomy? Savannah Gignac Favorite session: Parlez-vous Taxonomy?	Essential Tools for Productivity (and knowing when to try the new toy) Tara Claeys Favorite session: Essential Tools for Productivity (and knowing when to try the new toy)	Don’t Fear the Regex Sandy Smith Favorite session: Don’t Fear the Regex
3:00 pm	The Andy Warhol Museum Website Redesign Desi Gonzalez, Marty Spellerberg Favorite session: The Andy Warhol Museum Website Redesign	10 Reasons Why Your Site Is Nowhere To Be Found On Google (And What To Do About It) John Victoria Favorite session: 10 Reasons Why Your Site Is Nowhere To Be Found On Google (And What To Do About It)	Efficient plugin design using advanced WordPress hooks Nick the Geek Favorite session: Efficient plugin design using advanced WordPress hooks
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Playing Ball with Plugins Marc Gratch Favorite session: Playing Ball with Plugins	Building Traffic with Passion, Social Media & Engagement Corey Brown Favorite session: Building Traffic with Passion, Social Media & Engagement	Does your website “spark joy”? Refresh and declutter your website to attract your ideal clients Lisa Petrovich Smith Favorite session: Does your website “spark joy”? Refresh and declutter your website to attract your ideal clients
4:45 pm	How to Understand & Use HTTP Without a CS Degree Jay De Lanoy Favorite session: How to Understand & Use HTTP Without a CS Degree	How to be Dope and Lit on Social Media – Be an Online Community Activist William Jackson Favorite session: How to be Dope and Lit on Social Media – Be an Online Community Activist	Four Data-Driven Ways to Overcome Redesign Drama Emily Patterson Favorite session: Four Data-Driven Ways to Overcome Redesign Drama
5:30 pm	Modern WordPress Theme Development with Sage 9 Casey Driscoll Favorite session: Modern WordPress Theme Development with Sage 9	Creating metadata to showcase the best of journalism Adam Nekola Favorite session: Creating metadata to showcase the best of journalism	How to Deliver Pain-Free Content Migrations for WordPress Redesign Projects Mia Orantes Favorite session: How to Deliver Pain-Free Content Migrations for WordPress Redesign Projects

8:00pm – 11:00pm: WCDC After Party! Open to all conference attendees. Come back to the historic Carnegie Library to enjoy a night of conversation, drinks, snacks, board games, karaoke, and fun. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks served from 8-10pm.

Sunday, July 16

Time	Literary Hall	Theater	Map Room
10:30 am	Contributor Day Favorite session: Contributor Day	Beginning WordPress Benjamin Bradley Favorite session: Beginning WordPress	Introduction to HTML Karen Wolf Favorite session: Introduction to HTML
12:15 pm	Lunch
12:45 pm	Contributor Day Favorite session: Contributor Day	Beginning Marketing Lauren Jeffcoat Favorite session: Beginning Marketing	Introduction to CSS Ellen Amaral Favorite session: Introduction to CSS
2:30 pm	Snack break Favorite session: Snack break
2:45 pm	Contributor Day Favorite session: Contributor Day	Beginning Branding/Design Ashleigh Axios Favorite session: Beginning Branding/Design	Introduction to JavaScript Zac Gordon Favorite session: Introduction to JavaScript

Workshops and Contributor Day will wrap at 4:30pm!