October 23, 2023 — Uncover Cracking the Code: Women’s Journeys in Tech Careers, a revealing panel that showcases the outstanding accomplishments of women thriving in the technical realm of the WordPress industry. Join us for insights from accomplished female professionals, including programmers and DevOps engineers, who have shattered industry norms.

Through personal stories, they’ll share triumphs, challenges, and pivotal moments. From conquering imposter syndrome to advocating for diversity, they’ll delve into experiences that shape their journey and provide guidance to aspiring women in tech.

Whether you’re an industry veteran or just starting, this panel uncovers strategies, resilience, and unique perspectives that fuel success in this stereotypically male field. Join us to decode the techniques behind their achievements and find inspiration to carve your own path in the dynamic tech world.

October 22, 2023 — Editorial styling has made significant progress since Snowfall, which inspired Gutenberg. With the evolutions, you can automatically generate styles considering content, mood, or data input. As a result, it has become more sophisticated and accessible, truly generative. We’ll review the past looking at generative art and upcoming AI technology, and then explore current tool availability. Discover the need for intent, understand what happens beyond simple prompt-based styling and explore the true power of generative styling.

October 22, 2023 — Are you facing aggressive, resistant, or defensive reactions from your design or development colleagues, your marketing department, your managers, or even your full-service advertising agency as soon as you start talking about accessibility? Do you want to learn how to counter and motivate them? Join my talk, and you’ll leave with some fantastic techniques and tactics to persuade them!
This talk is aimed at those who already work in the field of digital accessibility and hold a leadership or inspirational role. It’s essentially a peer-to-peer boost.
One of the worst things that can happen to people in creative professions is feeling confined in their creativity, tools, and toys. Whether it’s graphic design, content, or code, it leads to unproductive frustration.
But in reality, it’s not the rules and guidelines of digital accessibility that cause frustration. It’s the assumptions and misunderstandings associated with it.
In this talk, I will share how I guide and inspire designers, developers, and content creators to rock accessibility.
What’s in it for you?
First: You’ll take home some great analogies that will help you convince your colleagues.
Second: You’ll know how to calculate and present the hidden/unexpected and usually significant financial consequences for stakeholders who rely on money.
Third: You’ll receive a list of ways to discuss this topic with your colleagues worldwide.

October 22, 2023 — We are well aware of the immense possibilities that WordPress offers, yet convincing large businesses to embrace its capabilities can be a rewarding challenge. Together, we will delve into proven strategies to confidently present WordPress as the ideal solution for enterprise-level projects. Discover valuable insights on addressing objections, showcasing WordPress’s enterprise-ready features, and effectively demonstrating its ability to exceed the most demanding business needs. Let’s make WordPress the go-to choice for businesses of all scales.

October 21, 2023 — Writing readable code is one of the most important aspects of web development. A developer should write code which another human is able to understand without the help of too many comments.

This talk will show you how to tidy up your code and write readable PHP.

October 21, 2023 — Community is not only for networking. It can help with other aspects of one’s life. In this talk, Meher will share her learnings and insights into why being part of a tech community is important and how it can help people to grow.

October 21, 2023 — Managing multiple analytics and marketing tags for your site can be a challenge. Redundant or incorrect tags can distort data measurement and reduce your site performance. In this session, you’ll learn how Google Tag Manager can simplify the tag implementation and management process for marketers, analysts, and developers.

October 21, 2023 — Content is the King, or is content here to KILL totally depends on you. And why not. The world runs on content and data. Data derived from the content attracts users to your brand, or you. Content today derives your sales and provides your brand with a unique identity. Does that mean content creation is tough? Not really. Ashutosh’s talk defines a breakdown of content creation that can be taken into consideration the next time you write or create content for yourself and your audience/brand. His talk would also define what to keep in mind and how the changing trends should be kept up to date while creating content.

October 21, 2023 — This talk is meant to be an advanced deep dive into how we can extend the block editor to fit our needs for highly customized WordPress builds in 2023. It will go into details how to build custom blocks that interface with the query loop, using block variations, theme.json filters and much more.

October 21, 2023 — Leerpodium (Dutch name) / Portfolio.education (international name) is a platform dedicated to portfolio learning. Within this platform, students can build and design their own portfolio site, as a full-fledged autonomous WordPress website. Teachers can organize and facilitate the learning process from a powerful learning system which is fully integrated with the student portfolios.
We are currently hosting thousands of WordPress portfolio’s for multiple educational institutions in the Netherlands, both higher education and secondary schools.
In our talk, we would like to share our insights and lessons learned from developing and hosting WordPress multisite networks for the educational field in the Netherlands.
For more info: leerpodium.nl | portfolio.education