May 1, 2010 — Stephan Spencer shows techniques and pointers for optimizing WordPress for search engines in this lightning session.

April 24, 2010 — Jonathan Dingman demonstrates his choices for WordPress plugins that should be standard issue for new installs and methods for squeezing the best performance out of your new WordPress blog.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

January 23, 2010 — Is your WordPress or WPMU install beginning to feel a bit lethargic? In this session Daniel Collis-Puro shares real, honest-to-goodness, rubber-hits-the-road tips on performance optimization, nginx front-end proxy caching, and optimizing the LAMP stack. Feed your need for speed and your love of WP at the same time, and leave other WP admins in the dust.

Special thanks to the Microsoft NERD Center for hosting WordCamp Boston.

October 17, 2009 — Hitoshi Omagari’s presentation “Professional Techniques for WordPress Optimization” at WordCamp Kyoto 2009 in Japan.

「WordPress を高速に表示させるプロのテクニック」 大曲仁氏講演 ワードキャンプ京都2009 （日本語音声）

Video by Hiro Shinohara & Ian Cheung (Messaliberty).

September 26, 2009 — Eric Amundson teaches quick, free, and effective ways to make WordPress installations more usable, accessible, secure, and satisfying—all in one five minute session.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 26, 2009 — Ian Lurie reviews a few WordPress blogs for the audience, providing tips to improve SEO, readability, performance and subscribership.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 20, 2009 — A couple of SEO professionals who think that SEO is very important for every blogger (Scott Hendison and Amber Case) and a couple bloggers who think that SEO is overrated (Dawn Foster and Rick Turoczy) take pointed questions from moderator Nate DiNiro and the WordCamp Portland audience.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 19, 2009 — Jason Grigsby of Cloud Four discusses the bloat that’s crept into web site design processes and how to combat it to keep your WordPress installation lean and optimized. He shares tips and tricks for caching, choosing the right resources for your blog, compression, and other optimization strategies for your WordPress-powered site.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 12, 2009 — Ben Huh discusses the beginnings of the Cheezburger Network, the principles and ideas behind the network, some lessons learned, and how those things can inform you when planning a business venture.

July 11, 2009 — Jeremy Clarke presents on why your site might be going slow and show you how to squeeze more out of your cheap hosting (and avoid upgrading to expensive dedicated servers!), including a look at caching plugins to help you in case of a traffic spike and tuning plugins to help you identify expensive features that need work.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.