November 10, 2025 — The Core Concept: Every culture develops problem-solving patterns over centuries. These cultural algorithms are like behavioral code – efficient, repeatable processes that run on people instead of computers and get passed down through shared experience.

The core message of this talk is to encourage leaders to view their teams not just from what their skills and career highlights, job descriptions, and even their outward personalities bring to the workplace.

Instead, Dee suggests that we look deeper at the inherent, unique cultural contexts contributors bring to the table that may jolt us out of our own ingrained ‘ways of working’ to novel paths to innovative solutions.

November 25, 2024 — Our local Aussie WordPress communities copped a fair bashing during the COVID-19 pandemic and have been slow to recover.

Recent upsets in the WordPress community haven’t helped either.

Our panel will discuss ways to reinvigorate and rebuild local communities to their pre-pandemic state – if possible!

September 21, 2020 — Speaker, Dee Teal is a Project Manager for large-scale WordPress projects at Human Made, where she leads their team of PMs. Dee will participate in WordCamp Ogijima 2020 from Australia where she lives and works remotely.

Dee will share her challenges she has experienced while working in a full remote, cross global company, and how she and her team has worked to overcome them.

Dee Tealさんが文化やタイムゾーンを超えて、グローバルに分散したチームで仕事をして学んだことをお話しします。異なる文化・言語を話し、同じ場所や時間にいることが少ない、国を超えた仕事では、あらゆる課題が生まれます。このセッションでは、Deeさんがそうした環境の中で学んだ、真のつながり、共感、そしてハードルを減らして物事を達成していくのに役立つ教訓を紹介します。

Deeさんからのコメント
「国境を超えた仕事の課題は仕事を難しくしますが、課題を受け入れ、その価値を認識し、受け入れるように努力すれば、仕事をより魅力的に、より面白く、より冒険的にすることができます。」

August 28, 2019 — Dee has been using WordPress as a blogger since 2008, as a web developer since 2009, and has transitioned to being a Project Manager (PM) for large-scale WordPress projects as a ‘Human’ with Human Made where she leads their team of PMs.

Dee is a huge fan of the WordPress community, organises WordPress events in Australia, and speaks at them whenever she gets the opportunity, both at home and around the world.

August 19, 2018 — Regardless of its size, the most critical pillar of maintaining and growing your business is going to be servicing clients. For some of us, this is one of the most invigorating parts of what we do, for others, it can be one of the hardest.

In this talk the speaker will propose answers to the following questions:

1. How do you keep sensible boundaries with your clients?
2. How do you say NO without ruining your relationship with your client?
3. How do you make your client an ally instead of feeling like they’re an interruption?
4. How will really serving your client actually serve you?

In the whole gamut of clients, from solopreneurs to international global corporations, one thing is constant, you need your them more than they need you. How this often plays out is that you find yourself bending over backwards to keep them happy… sometimes to your own detriment.

In this talk you’ll learn how to make yourself indispensable to your clients, without becoming a doormat.

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August 19, 2018 — Following from Luke’s talk on the Future of Web Content we’re kicking off a special panel on Gutenberg (new WordPress Editor).

We’ll start by taking Gutenberg specific questions from the audience and field them to our expert panellists, then if we have time we can move on to more general WordPress related questions and issues for our panel to help you with.

August 9, 2018 — Project Management Principles to improve Life, Work, and your Mental Health
Whether you work alone as a freelancer or solopreneur, as a product maker, a developer, content writer, home maker, blogger, or business owner, there will be times you have to deliver things. It may be a product, it may be a renovation, it may be a website, a bunch of cakes for the PTA cake stall, heck, it could even be a tiny human… but you have made a commitment and now have to deliver..

November 24, 2017 — This talk will deliver some easy to implement principles you can use in across the board facilitating more efficient, transparent, delivery of your ‘projects’ whatever they may be.

April 27, 2017 — WordPress is being used in more and more enterprise level projects, so what are the best practices for building these systems ensuring they scale and perform correctly?

Our panel of experts are:
– Dee Teal (MC)
– Rheinard Korf
– Dion Beetson
– Peter Wilson
– Jeremy Kelaher

More info about panelists

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December 19, 2016 — It was the Greek Philosopher Heraclitus who said “There is nothing permanent except change” and another, perhaps more well known American philosopher, Billy Crystal who, said “Change is such hard work.” Both of them though millennia apart recognise two existential certainties, change happens and navigating change can be difficult.

We as WordPress users and developers are navigating an ecosystem that’s rife with change, Matt Mullenweg counselled us in the last State of the Word to Learn Javascript deeply, the REST API is changing the game in terms of what’s possible with WordPress… Furthermore, it’s almost as if every day there’s some new framework, toolkit or productivity hack that could ‘totally change your workflow’. Quite frankly, it’s overwhelming.

Such looming changes may fill you with either excitement, or dread, so in this talk Dee will be discussing the kinds of ways you can adjust your trajectory, and your mindset to confidently navigate large scale change as it approaches.

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