Friday December 4th

Time	Independence - Room 121	Liberty Bell - Room 120	Kite & Key - Room 119
8:00 am	Registration
8:15 am	Yoga for Desk Jockeys Erica Varlese Favorite session: Yoga for Desk Jockeys
9:00 am	Opening Remarks
9:25 am	Demystifying accessible websites Nancy Thanki Favorite session: Demystifying accessible websites	Curing a Critical Security Bug Gary Pendergast Favorite session: Curing a Critical Security Bug	Beyond Gantt Charts and Dependencies: The Emerging WordPress Project Manager Sarah Pressler Favorite session: Beyond Gantt Charts and Dependencies: The Emerging WordPress Project Manager
9:35 am			The Techie Continuum Kathryn Presner Favorite session: The Techie Continuum
10:10 am	The Modern WordPress Developer’s Toolbox Tracy Rotton Favorite session: The Modern WordPress Developer’s Toolbox	The State of Spam Anthony Bubel Favorite session: The State of Spam	A Bolt of Backbone Adam Silverstein Favorite session: A Bolt of Backbone
10:20 am			WordPress + The Internet of Things RC Lations Favorite session: WordPress + The Internet of Things
10:45 am	Break
11:05 am	The Future Stack: Running WordPress with Tomorrow’s Technologies Zack Tollman, Aaron Jorbin Favorite session: The Future Stack: Running WordPress with Tomorrow’s Technologies	The Art of Minimalist Design Lauren Pittenger Favorite session: The Art of Minimalist Design	Communities and The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense Josepha Haden Favorite session: Communities and The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense
11:15 am			Contributing To WordPress Meta Kyle Maurer Favorite session: Contributing To WordPress Meta
11:50 am	Themes are for Users David Kennedy Favorite session: Themes are for Users	React + WordPress Matías Ventura, Gregory Cornelius Favorite session: React + WordPress	Github for the Rest of Us Morten Rand-Hendriksen Favorite session: Github for the Rest of Us
12:00 pm			How Your Worst Clients Make You Better Hilary Fosdal Favorite session: How Your Worst Clients Make You Better
12:10 pm			Starting/Growing your WordPress Meetup Community Judi Knight Favorite session: Starting/Growing your WordPress Meetup Community
12:25 pm	Lunch
1:45 pm	Intent in Software Design Helen Hou-Sandí Favorite session: Intent in Software Design	How to Build Online Courses Using WordPress Kim Shivler Favorite session: How to Build Online Courses Using WordPress	Real Talk About Website Performance: 5 Must-Haves For High Speed Sites Josh Koenig Favorite session: Real Talk About Website Performance: 5 Must-Haves For High Speed Sites
1:55 pm			Streamlining the Web Design Process Using Style Tiles Stephanie Brinley Favorite session: Streamlining the Web Design Process Using Style Tiles
2:30 pm	Build a Theme with the REST API Rachel Baker Favorite session: Build a Theme with the REST API	Managing WordPress with Ansible David Murphy Favorite session: Managing WordPress with Ansible	How to Build a Compelling WordPress Product or Service Brian Krogsgard Favorite session: How to Build a Compelling WordPress Product or Service
2:40 pm			Make a Good WordPression: Tech Blogging for a Reluctant Audience Joe Schaffner Favorite session: Make a Good WordPression: Tech Blogging for a Reluctant Audience
3:15 pm	REST in Action: The Live Coverage Platform at the New York Times Scott Taylor Favorite session: REST in Action: The Live Coverage Platform at the New York Times	WordPress: Changing Lives Andrea Rennick Favorite session: WordPress: Changing Lives	Pushing The Creative Limit Sara Cannon Favorite session: Pushing The Creative Limit
3:25 pm			Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist Ryan Rudolph Favorite session: Get It Right The First Time: WordPress Launching Checklist
4:00 pm	Break
4:20 pm	Dynamic CSS: Transforms, Transitions, and Animation Basics Beth Soderberg Favorite session: Dynamic CSS: Transforms, Transitions, and Animation Basics	A Survey of Elasticsearch Usage Greg Brown Favorite session: A Survey of Elasticsearch Usage	From Blog to Book: Re-purposing Your WordPress Blog into an eBook Lisa Melegari Favorite session: From Blog to Book: Re-purposing Your WordPress Blog into an eBook
4:30 pm			7 Typography Rules I wish I Knew Before Designing a Theme Dmitry Mayorov Favorite session: 7 Typography Rules I wish I Knew Before Designing a Theme
5:05 pm	Introduction to WordPress unit testing Carl Alexander Favorite session: Introduction to WordPress unit testing	Building Next-Generation Projects With BuddyPress David Bisset Favorite session: Building Next-Generation Projects With BuddyPress	Designing For Those Who Matter – Your Users David Laietta Favorite session: Designing For Those Who Matter – Your Users
5:15 pm			Unintentional Exclusion – Web accessibility and how we’re failing our users LeeAnn Kinney Favorite session: Unintentional Exclusion – Web accessibility and how we’re failing our users
5:50 pm	Advanced Topics in WordPress Development Andrew Nacin Favorite session: Advanced Topics in WordPress Development	Conferences For The Ultimate Connected Brand Experience Tina Kesova Favorite session: Conferences For The Ultimate Connected Brand Experience	Publish in 10 Minutes Per Day Andrea Badgley Favorite session: Publish in 10 Minutes Per Day
6:00 pm			What I Learned When My Blog Post Went Viral Dennis Hong Favorite session: What I Learned When My Blog Post Went Viral

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Saturday December 5th

Time	Independence - Room 121	Liberty Bell - Room 120	Kite & Key - Room 119
9:00 am	WordPress: The Next Generation – A Look Into WordPress Sites 5, 20, and 50 Years into the Future Rami Abraham Favorite session: WordPress: The Next Generation – A Look Into WordPress Sites 5, 20, and 50 Years into the Future	Decoupled Development with WordPress JSON APIs Matt Cheney, Mark Llobrera Favorite session: Decoupled Development with WordPress JSON APIs	You can learn a lot from WordPress: Learning by building the Web Andrea Forte Favorite session: You can learn a lot from WordPress: Learning by building the Web
9:10 am			How Giving Back to WordPress Grows My Network Shayda Torabi Favorite session: How Giving Back to WordPress Grows My Network
9:45 am	Make WP_CLI Work For You: Extending WP_CLI With Custom Commands Chris Wiegman Favorite session: Make WP_CLI Work For You: Extending WP_CLI With Custom Commands	Build and Launch a Custom Site Using Only Your Phone Anthony D. Paul Favorite session: Build and Launch a Custom Site Using Only Your Phone	10 tips for clean code Michael Toppa Favorite session: 10 tips for clean code
9:55 am			Asynchronous Events Aaron Brazell Favorite session: Asynchronous Events
10:05 am			Scaling Dynamic WordPress Websites Aaron Edwards Favorite session: Scaling Dynamic WordPress Websites
10:30 am	Break
10:50 am	Gamify With the WordPress.com API Timmy Crawford Favorite session: Gamify With the WordPress.com API	Accessibility: Proven, easy integration into design and development workflows Robert Jolly Favorite session: Accessibility: Proven, easy integration into design and development workflows	E-Commerce in 2015 Patrick Rauland Favorite session: E-Commerce in 2015
11:00 am			Things you always wanted to know about WordPress (but were afraid to ask) Evan Volgas Favorite session: Things you always wanted to know about WordPress (but were afraid to ask)
11:35 am	Unite and Prosper: How WordCamp Europe helped reinvigorate WordPress communities Luca Sartoni Favorite session: Unite and Prosper: How WordCamp Europe helped reinvigorate WordPress communities	WordPress in the White House: Development of the Open Innovation Toolkit Sara Cope Favorite session: WordPress in the White House: Development of the Open Innovation Toolkit	I Wanna Go Fast: Advanced Techniques To Optimize Front-End Performance Allen Moore Favorite session: I Wanna Go Fast: Advanced Techniques To Optimize Front-End Performance
11:55 am			ARIA: Roles, States and Properties Joe Dolson Favorite session: ARIA: Roles, States and Properties
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:40 pm	Godzilla CSS Michael Arestad Favorite session: Godzilla CSS	WordPress In Higher Education Curtiss Grymala Favorite session: WordPress In Higher Education	The Future of WordPress is Low-Tech Eric Mann Favorite session: The Future of WordPress is Low-Tech
1:50 pm			Making use of a little known gem: The WordPress HTTP API Ryan Duff Favorite session: Making use of a little known gem: The WordPress HTTP API
2:25 pm	WordPress, Open Source, and Museums: A look at the tools and processes of moving our collections online Mel Choyce, Courtney OCallaghan Favorite session: WordPress, Open Source, and Museums: A look at the tools and processes of moving our collections online	Meeting the New York Times Challenge: delivering the news over HTTPS Paul Schreiber Favorite session: Meeting the New York Times Challenge: delivering the news over HTTPS	Scratching an Itch: Taking the First Step to Becoming a WordPress Contributor Morgan Estes Favorite session: Scratching an Itch: Taking the First Step to Becoming a WordPress Contributor
2:35 pm			Robots Write the Docs Luke Woodward Favorite session: Robots Write the Docs
2:45 pm			Take Care of Each Other: How to Contribute to WordPress Without Writing Code Rich Robinkoff Favorite session: Take Care of Each Other: How to Contribute to WordPress Without Writing Code
3:10 pm	Learning for WordPress Developers Nikolay Bachiyski Favorite session: Learning for WordPress Developers	Playing well with others: writing solid code in large community projects Dennis Snell Favorite session: Playing well with others: writing solid code in large community projects	Teaching the next generation of WordPress bloggers and hackers Charlie Reisinger Favorite session: Teaching the next generation of WordPress bloggers and hackers
3:20 pm			Never Assume when Teaching WordPress Joe Casabona Favorite session: Never Assume when Teaching WordPress
3:55 pm	Break
4:15 pm	WordPress Best Practices for Enterprise Taylor Lovett Favorite session: WordPress Best Practices for Enterprise	Navigating Today’s Website Threats!! – A Stroll Through WordPress Security Tony Perez Favorite session: Navigating Today’s Website Threats!! – A Stroll Through WordPress Security	Explaining Hard Things to Humans: The Principles of Effective Technical Communication Frederick Meyer Favorite session: Explaining Hard Things to Humans: The Principles of Effective Technical Communication
4:25 pm			Community Spark: How to start a discussion on community engagement Winstina Hughes Favorite session: Community Spark: How to start a discussion on community engagement
5:00 pm	State of the Word
7:00 pm	After Party Favorite session: After Party

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Sunday December 6th

10:00 am – 5:00 pm	Contributor Day

WordCamp US 2015

Philadelphia, PA | Dec. 4th-6th, 2015

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