May 31, 2018 — Shrista Pradhan is a Front End Developer who has been working on WordPress for the past 3 years.
The main purpose of her topic is to highlight the scope for all the Front End developers in the WordPress community. WordPress is not only for the developers who code but it also provides a huge platform for Front Enders to boost their career in many different aspects.

May 31, 2018 — A apresentação focará em como WordPress alavancou sua carreira de freelancer e como um freelancer pode fazer o mesmo utilizando WordPress.

Os seguintes temas serão abordados:

Minha primeira visão do WordPress como um estagiário recém formado;
A importância de ter um mestre Yoda na sua carreira;
Os aprendizados de comprar templates;
O aprendizado de desenvolver templates;
O aprendizado de ter cometidos erros.

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May 17, 2018 — Sujal, an electronics Engineer who loves coding either front-end or backend. Besides coding, he spent his most of the time reading blogs related to new trends and technology. He is currently working as a project coordinator at Last Door Solutions.
His topic covers how technical/non-technical people can build their career in IT related field.

April 3, 2018 — 1. The entrepreneurs on the stage of beginning their journey
2. The users who believe that WordPress as a platform has its limitations.
– The Journey:
An in depth talk shall follow including his journey as an entrepreneur having formulated and built a platform for his Startup that shall enlighten the fact that WordPress empowers your startup to be a solid foundation.
– The Hiccups:
Following this, he will discuss how hiccups can be avoided. But this pointer shall be on the non-tech front simply enhancing and strengthening his point that WordPress can serve to solve that one problem that you face in EVERY entrepreneurial journey i.e. having limited technical knowledge like he did.
– The Proposed Solutions:
He will then be discussing the key points that he followed to avoid these hiccups including taking help on the community forum etc.
– The Convincing Strategy:
Finally, the talk shall take a turn onto the service providing entrepreneurs who shall understand how to convince their client to begin the project foundation on WordPress be it a simple company profile website or a full fledged E-commerce portal.
– The Conclusion:
In the end, the talk shall conclude with his notes to compile everything he mentioned above giving a gist and opening the house for discussion and questions.

February 26, 2018 — Imposter Syndrome affects minorities and Women in Tech at a much higher rate than in other professions. Dashon Hawkins and Sheila Hoffman will share their own experience on this important topic.

February 22, 2018 — When more people from underrepresented groups start speaking at WordPress events, everybody benefits. At WordCamp Vancouver, we started by focusing on women. In 2013, not many had applied. The following year, three times as many women applied and fully half of selected speakers were women. This dramatic shift was no accident. My talk will share how we accomplished it, some of the lessons we learned along the way, and the positive changes that resulted in our community.

February 20, 2018 — “I will be sharing my experiences in the theme business sector and the ways to succeed on it during my speech. I will be presenting many ideas, views, concepts, and strategies to elongate one’s Theme Business by emphasizing my own personal story. I, like any other person, have had many ups and downs in my professional life and I have had to make many changes within myself to be where I am today. So, I will be sharing all my life’s work amongst all my colleagues in the crowd.

I will not be just talking about myself though. I will also be enthusiastically introducing the businesses that I currently am involved in, using WordPress, like DevotePress, NepalBuzz, ThemePalace, ThemeReview.co, etc., along with my theme site – Catch Themes. Most importantly, I will be telling people that theme business is a fun and innovative business to be in. With just a little bit of perseverance and dedication, one can have a fun and financially sound life ahead of them.”

February 16, 2018 — My WordPress journey started with working on small projects as a freelancer.

Over nine years, we have grown to reach the other end of the spectrum, regularly handling large enterprise WordPress projects.

At this scale, the rules for “selling” WordPress change. WordPress’ traditional advantages don’t necessarily apply anymore.

I will start by addressing the two biggest apprehensions that enterprises have about WordPress, i.e., security & scalability, and will also cover other pain points like:
– Integration with existing systems
– Ownership and responsibility
– Extensibility and long term viability
– “Free” and “GPL” concerns

I hope the lessons I share in this talk from our learning will help fellow agencies increase the WordPress adoption in enterprises.

February 15, 2018 — Health, both physical and mental, are topics that are not usually openly discussed. But they are also topics that should not be ignored especially in work environments where we sit in front of screens all day and some of us even work remotely, which adds different stressors to life. I talk openly about the journey of my career, the health issues that came along the way, and the lessons I’ve learned and want to pass on to help employees and employers shape a healthy work/life balance with a strong emphasis on physical and mental health.

February 9, 2018 — Follow my journey from being just a stay at home homeschooling mom of 4 to author, speaker, and working for one of the biggest premium theme shops in the WordPress marketplace, becoming a WordPress influencer along the way AND staying in the Maritimes.