July 4, 2016 — I will cover different tools for faster and easier development of WordPress projects from the local set up to acceptance testing. The focus is on the improvements that we all can do in our daily development work that can help us write cleaner code, deploy it safely on remote servers, test it and also to be able to include easier new people in our teams and onboard them.

April 11, 2016 — Costruire un business vincente e ritagliarsi nuove opportunità di lavoro grazie ad un prodotto totalmente open source: non è utopia ma una realtà concreta, soprattutto per chi sa porsi nella giusta prospettiva mentale.

In questo intervento fornirò una panoramica sui nuovi modi di fare business attraverso WordPress, una piattaforma che ad oggi fa girare milioni di dollari e dà lavoro a centinaia di migliaia di persone in tutto il mondo.

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February 10, 2016 — Ivan ci racconta come usare Slack per partecipare alla comunità di WordPress italiana e quella internazionale. Da questo speech potresti trarre degli spunti anche per usare Slack nel tuo team di lavoro.

December 13, 2015 — LeeAnn will give you a brief overview on the principles of accessible front-end design and show you how easy it is to start building a better web experience for everyone. We will cover what accessibility means in WordPress design and development and go over a few simple steps to audit a website for accessibility. You will be provided with tools and tips on how to easily add accessibility into your workflow and will walk away with a better understanding of how you may be excluding certain users from your sites and immediate actions to prevent it from happening.

December 13, 2015 — When asked, 100% of the developers asked respond that they are lifelong learners. Yet, a life is short while projects are long.
We see ourselves struggle with the overwhelming amount of new concepts, technologies, languages, frameworks, and tools. In addition to that WordPress development can be an island and requires extra effort learning something new.
In this talk we will see how few qualities can help us better structure and navigate our learning efforts.

December 12, 2015 — 10up open sourced their WordPress Best Practices (PHP, JavaScript, tools, and workflows) in late 2014. As the Director of Engineering at 10up, I drove this project and am the lead contributor to the docs. These Best Practices allow developers to build sites that scale, perform, and are secure one sites receiving millions of page views per day. They also standardize development practices in such a way that facilitates team collaboration. This talk will highlight some important parts of the Best Practices and reveal some valuable tips about how we (10up) engineer some of the most complex and most viewed WordPress sites in the world.

December 12, 2015 — Digital Project Management is one of the fastest growing career fields in tech today. While it doesn’t require the ability to push change to a code base, it does require a high level of technical proficiency. This talk will cover tools and best practices for 21st century digital project management and would be appropriate for a business track.

November 13, 2015 — Affrontare lo sviluppo di applicazioni WordPress in modo professionale richiede l’utilizzo di strumenti capaci di automatizzare parte del lavoro e di ridurre l’errore umano. Nel talk vengono presentati alcuni di questi strumenti (yeoman, git, gulp e deployer) ed alcune implementazioni specifiche per WordPress.

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October 7, 2015 — Teamwork is a critical part of making your WordPress project a success. While defining a workflow and establishing development tools can help your team code together efficiently, it is equally important to establish processes for pushing content live.
This session is intended for developers and site builders looking to fine tune the tools they use to work better as a team and will focus on development environment, deployment, workflow and processes.

August 6, 2015 — This talk is a behind-the-scenes look at building a publications website from scratch using our recent work on the acclaimed Harvard Law Review website. We look into the design systems that publications need and the WordPress tools to make a complex publication come together.