May 1, 2020 — The need to have multiple streams of income and how to use what you already do and how to create other streams of income from it.

This talk will provide you with ideas and strategies to branch out and up in your current business or business you desire to create.

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April 27, 2020 — The objective of this presentation is to encourage others to navigate through challenges by continuing to tap into their talent, skills, and tools even through adversity. The presentation will cause the listener to focus not only on their current objective, but also seek to cause them to recognize opportunities within their chosen effort.

April 26, 2020 — Michael gives some insights in his learnings of working on and with WordPress. With his 10 years of experience and countless finished projects expect some helpful inputs for your own business.

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April 25, 2020 — Feeling overwhelmed as a freelancer? We all want to be as productive as possible each day. Learn some practical solutions for freelancers to maximize productivity while lower your stress level.

We will talk about some tools and techniques to streamline your workflow.

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April 22, 2020 — Let’s build a Gutenberg block! Tom will cover building a basic block in javascript, and in PHP. A great opportunity to refresh on the basics and lay a solid foundation. Suitable for intermediate developers.

April 22, 2020 — It’s a new decade and for many of us, new starts. For me this year is all about productivity and workflows. In this talk, I walk through my workflows and processes I have been optimising to keep me going as a developer, a sysadmin, and a tinkerer. From terminals, to running shoes, everything is hackable.

April 22, 2020 — Over time, products get tangled. There’s a race to add new features, fix the most bugs, enhance the user experience – until eventually, your product is a confusing and complicated mess, like a tangled ball of yarn. This complexity is a natural progression for any product, but it’s possible to improve the situation. Join Tammie to discuss methods to distil a product flow down to its most essential parts, using the WordPress user experience as an example.
Good for all experience levels, and for people who work with other people.

April 22, 2020 — Every time, you load a website — even this one — a certain amount of carbon is emitted to the atmosphere. These emissions are tied to the amount of energy consumed in the process of delivering the websites content to your browser.
Let’s explore options for both, reducing your own websites greenhouse gas emissions and helping others to do the same by making a third of the web smarter, leaner and more efficient.

April 22, 2020 — As somebody who has been both a developer and marketing team leader in my career, I’ve been able to see when projects go wrong between developers and outside or internal marketing team. In this talk, I’ll share a few areas on where relationships break down, how to avoid problems before they arise, and also tips to get marketing teams on your side so you can both serve a happy client.

April 22, 2020 — I’ll start by trying to convince folks why they should be considering the subject of security testing in relation to their WordPress sites. Assuming I’ve managed to convince you why, then I’ll move onto showing you just how anyone can use Kali (don’t worry, I’ll explain what Kali is!) as a tool for doing some basic security testing with a minimal learning curve to get started. This is being aimed at the novice level in terms of ‘security people’ but very inclusive in terms of anyone who is part of the WordPress community.