June 4, 2018 — WordPress powers almost a third of the internet, making it not only powerful, but as an open source project, WordPress is a tremendous gift to all of us. So what do you do with an amazing gift like this?

Make a living from it.
Have fun with it.
Give back.
Pay it forward.
All of the above!

I make a living with WordPress, but I’m also what you might call a “serial volunteer.”
In the years that I’ve created a career with WordPress, I have also set aside time to help others through:

Mentoring
Organizing Meetups
Organizing Hackathons
WordCamp organizing and speaking
Creating WordPress classes and clinics
Setting up WordPress coworking days
Creating free and discounted non-profit websites
and more!

There’s a side effect to giving and giving back with WordPress: I’ve found that the more I give…the more I’ve gained: friendships, clients, jobs, and the warm feeling that only comes from sharing good things.
Attendees can expect to learn more about the social power of WordPress, how the WordPress community functions, and how giving back is really a way to give to yourself.

June 4, 2018 — As someone who builds WordPress websites for clients, you’ve probably learned that offering (or requiring) monthly maintenance contracts is smart business. It’s likely you’re including core software, plugin and theme updates as part of your maintenance plan, which ensures a steady income stream you can rely on and helps with your financial forecasting. But are you including website security as part of your project proposal and scope?
The security of your clients’ websites is often not a priority or is left until the end of a project (or sale?) as an optional add-on for the client to consider after going live. The value of a strong website security posture can be difficult to explain to clients, but when put in the context of their business and possible loss of revenue, it can become an integral part of your offering that separates you from the rest.
In this session, Adam will cover simple website security best practices that you can implement immediately for your own site and those of your clients. In addition, he’ll also offer advice and examples on how to best present the importance of website security during the proposal, scope, and maintenance package stages to your clients. Not only does this ensure your maintenance plans offer what every website needs, but also presents an additional revenue stream opportunity for your business.

June 4, 2018 — The idea of this talk is to provide some insight and show a possible way of using WordPress as a headless CMS and take advantage of modern JS frameworks. Part of the presentation will be focused on showing how to build a simple application using this approach and the cool possibilities of using React + WP.

June 4, 2018 — Security is important, but can also be complex, overwhelming, and downright scary. Thankfully, as a WordPress user you don’t have to do it all yourself. Find out what WordPress and the WordPress Security Team do to keep your websites safe, how you can help, and what you can do to compliment that security on your own site.

June 4, 2018 — We all want to improve our websites, but “best practice” guesses aren’t enough – we want real data to help us understand where to focus our limited time and resources. But so often, the data and stats are intimidating – and the complexity of tools like Analytics can reinforce that. In this presentation, we’ll discover seven specific ways our own data can narrow down for us where to optimise for the most impact. We’ll learn specific ways to tweak our analytics to collect more critical decision-making information and how to use that data to make SEO, conversion optimisation, page speed, and usability improvements for a more powerful, successful website.

discover what content our own visitors are begging us to write.
learn how fast our website pages really are for our actual users and which need improvement. Bonus: What if our site could notify us when important pages got slower?!
understand what parts of the site’s navigation/calls to action our visitors find helpful and which ones they ignore.
key in on the pages that would provide the greatest benefit if we worked to improve them. (And what is bounce rate really?)
and more, including teaching Analytics how to show you the important data you care about, instead of having to dig it out every time you want to check it.

Don’t miss this chance to get a better handle on how we can our own data to improve our websites!

June 4, 2018 — Joey Coleman discusses how he became one of Canada’s leading bloggers in the 00s, got hired by Macleans, and then decided to be Canada’s first local crowdfunded journalist, and how you can similarly use WordPress to be your online home instead of Facebook or another platform you don’t own.

June 4, 2018 — Go on the journey of a “mere mortal” (someone without a computer background) on how they learned WordPress, designed two business sites and opened an on-line store with Woo Commerce. Your trip guide will take you through the WP basics, identify tripping and stumbling points, direct you to where to get information, introduce you to the language of WordPress, where to “hotel” your site, and overview safety tips for your journey.

June 4, 2018 — So you have your website and you keep blogging and updating but no one other then your mother sees it? You need a bigger audience who are interested in not only what you have to say in your blogs but what you have to offer as a service or product. Posting on social media is not just about you it has to be a full integration with your website and marketing plan. I will share some of my favourite plugins and tools for integrating WordPress and social media together.

June 4, 2018 — This session will offer the beginner entrepreneur an outline of how to start their own WordPress website without feeling intimidated or overwhelmed. A how-to about taking your idea from your head, to having a functioning website that showcases who you are and why you do what you do. A step-by-step process that brings WordPress and your very own website into view and makes it feel achievable complete with resources, hosting information, beginner SEO, social media presence, and the Coach to get you there.

Presentation Slides »

June 2, 2018 — Title of his talk would be something you would get curious about
Here are some punch points he will be talking on.

90’s Kid -The Beginning – How I started out
First computer
Forums
Amit Agarwal & Blogging

2. Major Mistakes
Not choosing WordPress
SEO Mistakes
Not defining TA

3. Traction
DailySEOblog
Comments & Freelance Gigs
Money

4. Lift
Social Media
Invitation to the USA

5. Experience & Learning
Working for small & big companies
Versatile WordPress projects
Differences in work culture
How startups think

6. Today
Entrepreneurial Bug
Return to India
How WordPress is the core
Helping others with blogging & WordPress