Schedule

WordCamp Tampa will feature two days filled with awesome content about our favorite publishing platform – WordPress! Saturday will have two tracks: Design/Development and Publishing/Marketing. Sunday’s track will be all about WordPress businesses and various other topics.

Saturday, October 4th, 2014

Time Design & Development Publishing & Marketing
8:00 am
Registration Begins
8:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:00 am
Putting things where they belong: child themes and functionality plugins Dave Clements
Favorite session: Putting things where they belong: child themes and functionality plugins
Ps and Qs of Intellectual Property, Privacy Policies and Open Source Licenses Chrissie Scelsi
Favorite session: Ps and Qs of Intellectual Property, Privacy Policies and Open Source Licenses
9:50 am
Designing and Developing for Content Diane Kinney
Favorite session: Designing and Developing for Content
Research and Discovery Phase James Tryon
Favorite session: Research and Discovery Phase
10:40 am
WordPress and Microsoft Azure Blain Barton
Favorite session: WordPress and Microsoft Azure
WordPress and the Enterprise: API Driven Business System Integration Chris Jenkins
Favorite session: WordPress and the Enterprise: API Driven Business System Integration
11:30 am
Multilingual WordPress – How to make your WordPress site multilingual Steven Sorenson
Favorite session: Multilingual WordPress – How to make your WordPress site multilingual
30 Things You Must Do Before Launch Drew Barton
Favorite session: 30 Things You Must Do Before Launch
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:40 pm
Automating Your Repetitive WordPress Development Tasks David Parsons
Favorite session: Automating Your Repetitive WordPress Development Tasks
Against the Grain: Success in Publishing by Breaking All the Rules Willie Jackson
Favorite session: Against the Grain: Success in Publishing by Breaking All the Rules
2:30 pm
How to Improve Your Store and Make More Money Chris Christoff
Favorite session: How to Improve Your Store and Make More Money
WordPress Empowerment: Moving from Idea to MVP David Laietta
Favorite session: WordPress Empowerment: Moving from Idea to MVP
3:20 pm
The Art of Web Design, for Print Designers Kelly Housholder
Favorite session: The Art of Web Design, for Print Designers
Spring Cleaning: How to De-Clutter Your WordPress Content Lisa Melegari
Favorite session: Spring Cleaning: How to De-Clutter Your WordPress Content
4:10 pm
Customizing BuddyPress And Impressing Your Friends David Bisset
Favorite session: Customizing BuddyPress And Impressing Your Friends
Blogging as a Career (Everything You Need to Know) Syed Balkhi
Favorite session: Blogging as a Career (Everything You Need to Know)
5:00 pm
Day 1 Concludes
6:30 pm
Networking After Party @ Lee Roy Selmon’s

Saturday Night’s Networking After-Party

Our after party will be at another venue, tentative times from 6:30pm-10:00pm. We will have appetizers and a free drink ticket for you.

Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Time Business & Other Workshops These Sessions are 2 Hours.
9:30 am
Networking Breakfast & Registration
10:30 am
Opening Keynote: WordPress Will Change Lives, If You Let It Chris Lema
Favorite session: Opening Keynote: WordPress Will Change Lives, If You Let It
11:30 am
Go Your Own Way – The Path of a Product Company Nathan Hangen
Favorite session: Go Your Own Way – The Path of a Product Company
WordPress Fundamentals: Women Who Code Sarrah Vesselov
Favorite session: WordPress Fundamentals: Women Who Code
12:20 pm
Performance Max: The Motivated, Productive, and Energized Remote Worker Lenny Gale
Favorite session: Performance Max: The Motivated, Productive, and Energized Remote Worker
1:10 pm
LUNCH
2:10 pm
Lessons from the Brink of Failure Robert Neu
Favorite session: Lessons from the Brink of Failure
WordPress Performance Workshop Mark Jaquith
Favorite session: WordPress Performance Workshop
3:00 pm
Everything Isn’t Awesome Jesse Petersen
Favorite session: Everything Isn’t Awesome
3:50 pm
Teaming Up: Going from Solo Development to Working with a Team Josh Eaton
Favorite session: Teaming Up: Going from Solo Development to Working with a Team
Improving your WordPress WorkFlow with Vagrant and Composer Micah Wood
Favorite session: Improving your WordPress WorkFlow with Vagrant and Composer
4:40 pm
Y U NO TELL ME: Lessons learned building a WordPress development company John Hawkins
Favorite session: Y U NO TELL ME: Lessons learned building a WordPress development company
5:30 pm
Closing Remarks & Giveaways