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Friday, December 1st

Time	Fiddle - Room 101	Banjo - Room 103	Guitar - Room 104
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	Opening Remarks
9:30 am	Evolving WordPress with GraphQL Jason Bahl Favorite session: Evolving WordPress with GraphQL	Accessibility Testing, Tools and Workflow Rian Rietveld Favorite session: Accessibility Testing, Tools and Workflow	Beginner’s Guide to Contributions Josepha Haden Favorite session: Beginner’s Guide to Contributions
10:15 am	Scalable, Highly-Available WordPress on AWS Nathaniel Schweinberg Favorite session: Scalable, Highly-Available WordPress on AWS	Managing Accessible Content on Thousands of Sites Jeremy Felt Favorite session: Managing Accessible Content on Thousands of Sites	Standalone Contributor Days: help make WordPress with your Community! Francesca Marano Favorite session: Standalone Contributor Days: help make WordPress with your Community!
11:00 am	PAH! Jamaican Sign Language and WordPress Bianca Welds Favorite session: PAH! Jamaican Sign Language and WordPress	Upgrading the WordPress.org Support Forums (How to Eat an Elephant) Jennifer Dodd Favorite session: Upgrading the WordPress.org Support Forums (How to Eat an Elephant)	The Impact of Open-Source Contributors in Journalism RC Lations Favorite session: The Impact of Open-Source Contributors in Journalism
11:45 am	Security, the VIP Way Ryan Markel Favorite session: Security, the VIP Way	Fat, Happy, and Fifty Marc Benzakein Favorite session: Fat, Happy, and Fifty	Contributing to WordPress core: Techniques and expectations for successful long-term contributions Felix Arntz Favorite session: Contributing to WordPress core: Techniques and expectations for successful long-term contributions
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	How Working Remote Saved My Life Aaron Douglas Favorite session: How Working Remote Saved My Life	Computer Science Intro: How To Avoid Reinventing The Wheel Alain Schlesser Favorite session: Computer Science Intro: How To Avoid Reinventing The Wheel	The Next Phase of Growth for WordPress Chris Taylor Favorite session: The Next Phase of Growth for WordPress
1:30 pm		Documentation for Developers Katherine White Favorite session: Documentation for Developers
1:45 pm		Gender-fair WordPress: Fixing translation inequality at the core Yoav Farhi Favorite session: Gender-fair WordPress: Fixing translation inequality at the core
2:15 pm	Lesbians, Damn Lesbians, and Statistics Mika Epstein Favorite session: Lesbians, Damn Lesbians, and Statistics	Help Me, Help You: Things to know from inside support. Brooke Dukes Favorite session: Help Me, Help You: Things to know from inside support.	The Importance of Information Architecture: How to Organise Content to Improve User Experience Monique Dubbelman Favorite session: The Importance of Information Architecture: How to Organise Content to Improve User Experience
2:30 pm		Preparing for and Dealing With Websites Imploding Patrick Garman Favorite session: Preparing for and Dealing With Websites Imploding
2:45 pm		I Started Telling the World I was Born Amish Meg Delagrange Favorite session: I Started Telling the World I was Born Amish
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Diversity Works Tracy Levesque Favorite session: Diversity Works	Five Attitudes Stopping You From Building Accessible WordPress Websites Josh Pollock Favorite session: Five Attitudes Stopping You From Building Accessible WordPress Websites	Better Webpack Builds K Adam White Favorite session: Better Webpack Builds
3:45 pm		CSS Secrets for Beginners Kathryn Presner Favorite session: CSS Secrets for Beginners
4:00 pm		Ten Tips for Better Type Mel Choyce Favorite session: Ten Tips for Better Type
4:30 pm	How To Create A Multilingual Website In WordPress Shawn Hooper Favorite session: How To Create A Multilingual Website In WordPress	Why Tech Conferences Can Suck for Women (and How to Fix It) Andrea Zoellner Favorite session: Why Tech Conferences Can Suck for Women (and How to Fix It)	I Am JavaScript (And So Can You!) Gary Pendergast Favorite session: I Am JavaScript (And So Can You!)
4:45 pm		How A Woo-Commerce Platform Almost Became an Economic Development Initiative Winstina Hughes Favorite session: How A Woo-Commerce Platform Almost Became an Economic Development Initiative
5:00 pm		What I Learned from 200 Posts, 600 Comments, and 2 Broken Laptops Nicole Kohler Favorite session: What I Learned from 200 Posts, 600 Comments, and 2 Broken Laptops
5:30 pm	What It Means To Be a Developer Andrew Nacin Favorite session: What It Means To Be a Developer	Remote Control: Establishing accountability and shared expectations in a distributed environment. Zandy Ring, Elizabeth Urello Favorite session: Remote Control: Establishing accountability and shared expectations in a distributed environment.	Gutenberg and the WordPress of Tomorrow Morten Rand-Hendriksen Favorite session: Gutenberg and the WordPress of Tomorrow

Saturday, December 2nd

Time	Fiddle - Room 101	Banjo - Room 103	Guitar - Room 104
8:00 am	Registration
9:30 am	Lessons Learned Trying to Commercialize a Major Open Source Project Andrew Roberts Favorite session: Lessons Learned Trying to Commercialize a Major Open Source Project	Designing for dynamic WordPress content with CSS Grid, Flexbox (and more CSS trickery) Bob Visser Favorite session: Designing for dynamic WordPress content with CSS Grid, Flexbox (and more CSS trickery)	Conquering Continuous Integration & Deployment Tessa Kriesel Favorite session: Conquering Continuous Integration & Deployment
10:15 am	Financial Forecasting for WordPress Businesses Christie Chirinos Favorite session: Financial Forecasting for WordPress Businesses	Web Content as Usability Susan Walker Favorite session: Web Content as Usability	Don’t Build a Death Star Chris Teitzel Favorite session: Don’t Build a Death Star
11:00 am	Running Your Service Business on WordPress David Laietta Favorite session: Running Your Service Business on WordPress	Media handling in WordPress, explained. Joe McGill Favorite session: Media handling in WordPress, explained.	Kids and Code: The Facts and The Future Sandy Edwards Favorite session: Kids and Code: The Facts and The Future
11:45 am	How to teach clients to effectively use WordPress. Sarah Benoit Favorite session: How to teach clients to effectively use WordPress.	Media Matters Tammie Lister, Mike Schroder Favorite session: Media Matters	Raising kids with code Jonathan Brinley Favorite session: Raising kids with code
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Building with JavaScript in the Customizer Weston Ruter Favorite session: Building with JavaScript in the Customizer	Designing a theme navigation? Here’s 7 things to keep in mind. Dmitry Mayorov Favorite session: Designing a theme navigation? Here’s 7 things to keep in mind.	Watch Edit Repeat: Today’s Story of User Tracking James Tryon Favorite session: Watch Edit Repeat: Today’s Story of User Tracking
1:30 pm		Handling Clients – The Human Way! Vivek Jain Favorite session: Handling Clients – The Human Way!
1:45 pm		Designing for the Community Sonja Leix Favorite session: Designing for the Community
2:15 pm	The Story of Your Life: Using WordPress as Your Memory Warehouse Brianna Privett Favorite session: The Story of Your Life: Using WordPress as Your Memory Warehouse	5 Simple Steps to Better WordPress Performance for Non-Developers Philip John Favorite session: 5 Simple Steps to Better WordPress Performance for Non-Developers	Designing for Generation X, Baby Boomers and Beyond Michael Hill Favorite session: Designing for Generation X, Baby Boomers and Beyond
2:30 pm		WordPress of Things: Connecting your digital presence to your physical footprint. George Stephanis Favorite session: WordPress of Things: Connecting your digital presence to your physical footprint.
2:45 pm		Testing for Accessibility Before You Hit Publish Brian DeConinck Favorite session: Testing for Accessibility Before You Hit Publish
3:00 pm	Break
4:00 pm	State of The Word – 4th Floor Matt Mullenweg, Weston Ruter, Mel Choyce

Sunday, December 3rd

Time	Contributor Day - Grand Ballroom A
9:00 am	Contributor Day Registration
10:00 am	Morning Sessions Favorite session: Morning Sessions
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Afternoon Sessions Favorite session: Afternoon Sessions
4:30 pm	Contributor Day Closing Remarks Favorite session: Contributor Day Closing Remarks

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