July 6, 2018 — 40% of disability worldwide is due to depression & anxiety. However, there’s still so much stigma surrounding the issue, that it rarely gets discussed. This has resulted in people with anxiety feeling like they have to suffer in silence, and employers not fully understanding the condition. Laura will share her personal experience of dealing with an anxiety disorder and how it impacted her working life. By openly discussing this issue, she hopes to diffuse some common misunderstandings of the condition, give practical advice on how anxiety sufferers can help themselves and what workplaces can do to support this, and give people the confidence to communicate mental health issues.

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July 5, 2018 — Screen time, sedentary lifestyle and solo remote work can lead to a variety of physical and mental health problems. As a full time freelancer for almost 10 years, I have suffered a variety of sleep disorders, physical health problems, and anxiety disorders. Freelance designers, developers, and other remote workers rarely have access to occupational health specialists or know how to solve their health issues related to heavy computer work. Come learn a variety of tips for stay healthy when you work in the digital space.

July 5, 2018 — Content security policies (CSPs) are a relatively new security element on the web horizon. CSPs use browsers to detect and mitigate certain types of attacks like cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking and other code injection attacks resulting from execution of malicious content in the trusted web page context. CSPs can be used for simple purposes like enforcing https on SSL-enabled sites, to more sophisticated uses like authorizing only truly trusted sources and blocking others.

Most sites do not have CSPs installed, but it’s important to be aware of them and how they can be used to add an additional layer of security to your website.

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July 5, 2018 — The design of a website can support, but also hinder the accessibility of the site. In this taIk I would like to show the most common problems in the web in terms of accessible design and give an overview over good practices and also over potential conflicts between different accessible needs and how to deal with them.

In the talk I will show you tools and resources to that will help you to design accessible websites and also how to integrate accessibility from the beginning into the design process.

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July 5, 2018 — Leading a cross-functional group of skilled individuals from all around the world, in front of their computers, hands on the keyboard, a headset on, solving together complex problems in a limited timeframe.

This description covers my activities for the past ten years, from online gaming to the WordPress community, to my work at Automattic.

Technology has blurred the lines between playing, working, and contributing to an open source project, I will use my experience leading a distributed team to show you how to professionally grow while having fun, and giving back to the community that changed your life.

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July 4, 2018 — A 50 minute session with Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress: it includes a 30 minute keynote, followed by and 20 minutes of Q&A from the audience.

July 3, 2018 — A major change to Google’s search results is coming. For the first time ever Google will be ranking sites across all devices based on how well a site performs on a mobile device. That’s right, ranking in the desktop results will be determined by how a site works on a mobile device. This change could have a dramatic impact on ranking and traffic. This session will give attendees tips for diagnosing the potential impact on their site as well as providing helpful WordPress tweaks, plugins and best practices for staying Mobile First.

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June 25, 2018 — From zero calls to over 1,000 each month, I’ve learned the hard way how to drive direct calls from Google AdWords for Bob Hamilton Plumbing, Heating, A/C, Rooter, & Electrical without increasing the budget.

Save yourself the pain and join in for a helpful AdWords Q&A discussion. While this is geared towards B2C, there is plenty of info for all you B2B-ers out there! Everyone will leave with actionable takeaways to help make your AdWords more productive.

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June 25, 2018 — Nobody likes a slow site. Every year the weight of an average site keeps increasing, mainly because of image sizes. Optimizing images is the biggest win when it comes to your website speed.
In this presentation we will focus on different image formats and steps to follow before uploading them to a website. We’ll discuss PNG, JPG, GIF, SVG and when to use each one.
We’ll set up a process to prepare images for the web, and go over tools to measure loading time. We’ll also look at some examples of before and after image optimization.

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June 25, 2018 — When you look back at the history of WordPress, what distinguished WordPress was an emphasis on design. As the years passed, the definition of design changed and WordPress fell behind. How can WordPress leap ahead? The answer is inclusive design.