November 12, 2019 — Taking the eCommerce plunge: my ups and downs as an entrepreneur

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November 12, 2019 — Opening Remarks

November 12, 2019 — Tina Peterson recounts the journey of the Sprint Accelerator. Learn how and why corporations work with innovative young companies, what’s been learned along the way and why none of this would have been possible without the community. Bonus: If you join this discussion, you might even get magic formula for innovation.

November 12, 2019 — This talk about – WordPress. How “open” is WordPress, anyway? What makes WordPress open source, how open is the process, and how does the project participate in the open web?

November 12, 2019 — If you build websites, you inevitably run into problems. Maybe there’s no way to achieve an aspect of your design using CSS. Or maybe there’s a device feature you really wish you could tap into using JavaScript. Or perhaps the in-browser DevTools don’t give you a key insight you need to do your job. We want to know your pain.

November 12, 2019 — WordPress is built on a database, but have you ever taken a look at what’s in it? Come take a stroll through the tables and fields in the WordPress database and learn how they work together to make your site.

November 12, 2019 — In this session, attendees will learn how to optimize WordPress sites for important technical SEO best practices. All levels of technical optimizations will be covered from basic to intermediate to advanced, including both traditional optimizations that have been around for a long time, as well as newer modern SEO optimizations including AMP and Schema markup. We will walk through a checklist of important technical SEO best practices, and I will highlight our favorite SEO plugins, tools, and resources along the way.

November 11, 2019 — Learning to think like a hacker in the security realm is a big part of keeping your assets safe, and there are additional benefits. In this session, Kathy will use the stories of defeating hackers to help you make better security decisions. She’ll also illustrate how the hacker mindset is much more than protecting your site and information. Thinking like a hacker can also help you break through perceived limitations, overcome obstacles, and capitalize on opportunities to innovate.

November 11, 2019 — Being both a UX designer and a front-end developer, I decided to take this UX challenge into my own hands. With WordPress being open source–as well as the WordPress community being so open and helpful–we have the ability to really truly customize a user’s experience for visitors… but ALSO for the user experience for site owners & writers. Want to know how I do this? Well… I guess you’ll have to attend this talk to find out!

November 11, 2019 — It’s not the start of a joke. It’s me. I’m a mom, lesbian, entrepreneur and I found my community in this industry when I found WordPress. Awareness for inclusion is growing in our culture, but how does a community this size facilitate and cultivate such diversity? How do you cultivate that dynamic in your own team and allow for an environment of LGBTQ, women, and minorities to thrive?

Let’s take a moment to look at how to build a culture that not only welcomes diversity but affirms and applauds it.