June 3, 2017 — It takes work to get people to your website, between short attention spans and competition, how do you keep them there? Your website was built with a purpose, when a new visitor lands on your site, there is something you want them to do. Are your visitors sticking around long enough to take that desired action? We’re going to focus on some ideas that might help you boost visitor engagement.

June 3, 2017 — CEO Perfect Dashboard. OpenSource CMS aficionado. Joomla Extension Directory team member, and WordPress Directory aspiring team member. A Foodie and computer games freak. Huge fan of London parks and English tea rooms.
The purpose of this session helped plugin developers to prepare their plugins for the upcoming implementation of WordPress Plugin Directory 3.0.
Years of experience in working with Joomla Extensions Directory data and his recent enrollment in the WordPress Plugin Directory gives him a possibility to advise how to make the transition from the old to the new directory smoothly for all parties involved: plugin developers, plugin users, and the directory team.

June 3, 2017 — How open source contribution benefits businesses and practical help on getting management and technical teams on the same page and contributing on a regular basis.

Chris “legolasbo” Jansen and Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire present practical, actionable ways to better unify our beliefs and our actions regarding open source contribution based on an extensive academic study Chris carried out in 2015. Our goal is to get management and developers on the same page about open source contribution and help you make it happen.

June 3, 2017 — Ronald Ashri is Deeson’s Technical Strategy Director. Analysing emerging enabling technologies and market trends he identifies new opportunities and improved methods for solving problems.
He is an active member of the Drupal community for the past 9 years, Ron’s first WordCamp was last year in Vienna and it was a great experience.

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June 3, 2017 — Nevena originally trained as a simultaneous interpreter, but now she is responsible for two way “interpreting” at GoDaddy. She translates the team’s geek talk and product features into a language that normal people can understand, and customer wishes and needs to requirements for engineers.
Her talk she addressed how to empathize with the customer, it touches on how UX research, journalism, and psychology form the basis of Customer Marketing. You can expect concrete product examples, but also get ready to participate in the discussion.

June 2, 2017

June 2, 2017 — Ilia is a content marketer who has helped organisations of all sizes and industries – from SaaS to government – to succeed with growing their audience and their business with content. His guilty pleasure is that he tries to use every trip to the UK to watch his beloved Southampton FC.

In his talk, he discusses how you should be measuring the performance of your content. Which tool should follow, the tools (WP and beyond) that can help track them, and how to set them up. By the end of the talk, he clears the understanding of what takes to create a content report.

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June 2, 2017 — Jim Bowes is a Scrum coach, regular speaker at Agile events and CEO of Manifesto Digital. Manifesto uses Agile methods to deliver bespoke digital solutions to organisations such as Cancer Research UK, Unicef UK and the National Trust. He’s used WordPress for over 8 years and loves converting people to its simplicity and the speed at which great sites can be created.
Jim Bowes introduced the Agile project management – covering both KanBan and Scrum. He Covered a little around history, Agile vs Waterfall and examples from real projects.

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June 2, 2017 — John is one of the WordPress core developers, a member of the WordPress security team, and was the release lead for WordPress 4.1. He works as a senior developer at Human Made, and has over ten years experience developing with WordPress.
In his presentation, he goes through the basics and goes on to explain some of the more interesting and advanced use cases of working with roles and capabilities.

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June 2, 2017 — Panne discussion is on ‘How do you Build a Custom Theme?’
It was short (2-3 minute) talk from each panel member on their chosen preferred development model, followed by an open discussion with the audience of QandA’s on building custom themes.