Schedule

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We aim to have a safe and inclusive event. We take our Code of Conduct seriously. In order to meet various accessibility needs, we have an accessibility page covering things such as captioning, quiet spaces, visa services, etc. If there is anything we can do to assist you further, let us know.

Sunday, November 3rd

Time	Contributor Day (Room 220)	KidsCamp (Room 230)
9:00 am	Registration
10:00 am	Morning Session	Morning Session
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Afternoon Session	Afternoon Session
4:30 pm	Closing Remarks

Want to know more about what Contributor Day is? Check out this post, attend one of the sessions called Everyone Can Help Make WordPress Better – How to Contribute to WordPress , or stop by the Get Involved table in the Sponsor Hall.

Friday, November 1st

Time	Regular Sessions (Room 220)	Regular Sessions (Room 230)	Regular Sessions (Room 240)	Workshop (Room 275)	Workshop (Room 276)	Community (Room 274)
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	Opening Remarks (in Room 220)
9:15 am	Creating an Environment of Innovation Tina Peterson Favorite session: Creating an Environment of Innovation	WordPress: An Operating System for the Open Web Jonathan Wold Favorite session: WordPress: An Operating System for the Open Web	Behavior-Driven Development in WordPress with Behat Mauricio Dinarte Favorite session: Behavior-Driven Development in WordPress with Behat
10:00 am	Open Source, Open Process, Open Web Helen Hou-Sandi Favorite session: Open Source, Open Process, Open Web	How to Perform a Quality UX Audit on a Budget Maddy Osman Favorite session: How to Perform a Quality UX Audit on a Budget	Contributing to Core, No Coding Necessary Jeffrey Paul Favorite session: Contributing to Core, No Coding Necessary	Align SEO Efforts with Your Target Market and Today’s Search: Learn How to Perform Keyword Research and Map Them to Content Rebecca Gill Favorite session: Align SEO Efforts with Your Target Market and Today’s Search: Learn How to Perform Keyword Research and Map Them to Content	Automating Your QA with Visual Regression Testing Andrew Taylor Favorite session: Automating Your QA with Visual Regression Testing	Grow Your Meetup! Victor Ramirez, Meagan Hanes, Andy McIlwain Favorite session: Grow Your Meetup!
10:15 am			Using WordPress to do_action Tess Coughlan-Allen Favorite session: Using WordPress to do_action
10:30 am			The Cost of Contribution Alain Schlesser Favorite session: The Cost of Contribution
10:45 am			Level Up Your Technical Troubleshooting Ben Meredith Favorite session: Level Up Your Technical Troubleshooting
11:00 am	User Personas as an Inclusive Design and Development Tool Carie Fisher Favorite session: User Personas as an Inclusive Design and Development Tool	A Mom, a Lesbian, and an Entrepreneur Walk into a WordCamp Kori Ashton Favorite session: A Mom, a Lesbian, and an Entrepreneur Walk into a WordCamp	The Power of CSS: Cool Things To Do With Styles David Wolfpaw Favorite session: The Power of CSS: Cool Things To Do With Styles
11:15 am			The Hierarchy of Needs for High-Performing Websites Steve Persch Favorite session: The Hierarchy of Needs for High-Performing Websites
11:30 am			Practical Project Management Tips Chris Ford Favorite session: Practical Project Management Tips
11:45 am			The Content Framework that Powers Stories, Landing Pages & More Chris Lema Favorite session: The Content Framework that Powers Stories, Landing Pages & More
12:00 pm	Lunch – Friday
1:00 pm	A Tour Through the WordPress Database Julie Kuehl Favorite session: A Tour Through the WordPress Database	How I Built WPBingo: a PWA That Uses Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, and the WP REST API Brian Richards Favorite session: How I Built WPBingo: a PWA That Uses Vue.js, Tailwind CSS, and the WP REST API	WordPress with Friends: What Board Games Teach Us about Creating for the Web Taylor Morgan Favorite session: WordPress with Friends: What Board Games Teach Us about Creating for the Web	Brand Messaging 101: How to Clearly Communicate Your Value and Get Clients to Say Yes Jennifer Bourn Favorite session: Brand Messaging 101: How to Clearly Communicate Your Value and Get Clients to Say Yes	Making Your Website Work for Everyone: Accessibility and Inclusive Design Natalie MacLees Favorite session: Making Your Website Work for Everyone: Accessibility and Inclusive Design	Creating a Welcoming and Diverse Space Allie Nimmons, Aurooba Ahmed, Jill Binder, David Wolfpaw Favorite session: Creating a Welcoming and Diverse Space
1:15 pm			Code Like a Writer Alex Ball Favorite session: Code Like a Writer
1:30 pm			Thinking remotely through games Tammie Lister Favorite session: Thinking remotely through games
1:45 pm			Securing WordPress in the age of 0-Day Vulnerabilities Rahul Nagare Favorite session: Securing WordPress in the age of 0-Day Vulnerabilities
2:00 pm	Technical SEO Checklist: How to Optimize a WordPress Site for Search Engine Crawlers Pam Aungst Favorite session: Technical SEO Checklist: How to Optimize a WordPress Site for Search Engine Crawlers	Privacy: How to Survive aCCPAcalypse 2020 Rian Kinney Favorite session: Privacy: How to Survive aCCPAcalypse 2020	Wrangling Multisite: Tools and Tricks to Tame Your Network Matthew Rodela Favorite session: Wrangling Multisite: Tools and Tricks to Tame Your Network
2:30 pm			ROI of UX, How to Assign Money Value to Your Designs Olesya Boreyko Favorite session: ROI of UX, How to Assign Money Value to Your Designs
2:45 pm	Afternoon Break Sponsored by Cloudways
3:15 pm	The Hacking Mindset: How Beating WordPress Hackers Taught Me to Overcome Obstacles & Innovate Kathy Zant Favorite session: The Hacking Mindset: How Beating WordPress Hackers Taught Me to Overcome Obstacles & Innovate	Disrupting the Enterprise Nick Gernert Favorite session: Disrupting the Enterprise	The REST API and Authentication Jonny Harris Favorite session: The REST API and Authentication	Crafting an Effective Bio for Your Website and Social Profiles Bridget Willard Favorite session: Crafting an Effective Bio for Your Website and Social Profiles	Everyone Can Help Make WordPress Better – How to Contribute to WordPress Favorite session: Everyone Can Help Make WordPress Better – How to Contribute to WordPress	Running a Successful Contributor Day Remkus de Vries, Ptah Dunbar, Milana Cap, Cal Evans Favorite session: Running a Successful Contributor Day
4:15 pm	Is Something Not Very Usable or Accessible? Change it! Tracy Apps Favorite session: Is Something Not Very Usable or Accessible? Change it!	How to Leverage Your Online Presence to Get More Clients and Better Job Offers Andrea Zoellner Favorite session: How to Leverage Your Online Presence to Get More Clients and Better Job Offers	Using WordPress With Static Site Generators Jason Bahl, Muhammad Muhsin Favorite session: Using WordPress With Static Site Generators			Accepting and Applying to Speak at WordCamps David Bisset, Tessa Kriesel, Carrie Dils, Aaron Jorbin Favorite session: Accepting and Applying to Speak at WordCamps
7:00 pm	WordFest at the City Museum

Saturday, November 2nd

Time	Regular Sessions (Room 220)	Regular Sessions (Room 230)	Regular Sessions (Room 240)	Workshop (Room 275)	Workshop (Room 276)	Community (Room 274)
7:00 pm	WordFest at the City Museum
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	Morning Office Yoga: Second Floor Atrium Zac Gordon Favorite session: Morning Office Yoga: Second Floor Atrium				Everyone Can Help Make WordPress Better – How to Contribute to WordPress Favorite session: Everyone Can Help Make WordPress Better – How to Contribute to WordPress	The Gameshow! Favorite session: The Gameshow!
9:30 am	Working with WordPress and External APIs Naomi Bush Favorite session: Working with WordPress and External APIs	Feeling Fried? A WordPresser’s Guide to Preventing Burnout Sherry Walling Favorite session: Feeling Fried? A WordPresser’s Guide to Preventing Burnout	WordPress Automated Updates: A Panel Discussion Jenny Beaumont, Andrew Nacin, Jake Spurlock, Mika Epstein Favorite session: WordPress Automated Updates: A Panel Discussion	How to Create Your First Business Plan Francesca Marano Favorite session: How to Create Your First Business Plan		How the WordPress Community Can Embrace the Next Generation (Talk + Panel) Dina Butcher, Ema DeRosia, Emily Lema, Olivia Bisset, Natalie Bourn, Nathan Ingram Favorite session: How the WordPress Community Can Embrace the Next Generation (Talk + Panel)
10:30 am	Just Enough React for WordPress Shannon Smith Favorite session: Just Enough React for WordPress	Unlocking six-figure eCommerce growth with automations Beka Rice Favorite session: Unlocking six-figure eCommerce growth with automations	Responsible Tracking: Learning from Your Users Without Being Creepy Katherine White Favorite session: Responsible Tracking: Learning from Your Users Without Being Creepy		Templates & Plugins & Blocks, Oh My! Designing the Theme that Thinks of Everything Michelle Schulp Favorite session: Templates & Plugins & Blocks, Oh My! Designing the Theme that Thinks of Everything	How to Organize Events for Youths (Discussion) Michele Butcher-Jones, Shawn Hooper, Sandy Edwards, Nathan Ingram Favorite session: How to Organize Events for Youths (Discussion)
11:30 am	From Developer to Manager — How to Survive Brian Thompson Favorite session: From Developer to Manager — How to Survive	Design Systems: Crafting For Crafters Jon Quach Favorite session: Design Systems: Crafting For Crafters	Defining Fast: The Hardest Problem in Performance Engineering Zack Tollman Favorite session: Defining Fast: The Hardest Problem in Performance Engineering	WebWeWant Rich Tabor, Helen Hou-Sandi, Carie Fisher, Alain Schlesser Favorite session: WebWeWant		Unconference! Joe Simpson Favorite session: Unconference!
12:30 pm	Lunch – Saturday
1:30 pm	SOTW Setup	How to Disagree on the Internet K Adam White Favorite session: How to Disagree on the Internet	Confidently Testing WordPress Steve Grunwell Favorite session: Confidently Testing WordPress	Structuring Modern WordPress Sites for Scale Chance Strickland Favorite session: Structuring Modern WordPress Sites for Scale	The Building Blocks of Building Blocks Rich Tabor Favorite session: The Building Blocks of Building Blocks	Organizing a WordCamp While Staying Sane Winstina Hughes, Jenny Wong, Brad Morrison Favorite session: Organizing a WordCamp While Staying Sane
2:30 pm		How to Beat Technical Writer’s Block Carl Alexander Favorite session: How to Beat Technical Writer’s Block	Take Back Your Web Tantek Çelik Favorite session: Take Back Your Web
3:30 pm	Afternoon Break – Saturday
4:00 pm	State of the Word Matt Mullenweg Favorite session: State of the Word

Friday Saturday Sunday

Your $50 ticket covers all three days of the WordCamp US programming, lunch each day, and admission to our WordFest Party on Friday night. This year we are also offering free childcare and KidsCamp. Remember, no plus one’s. You must have a ticket/badge to attend.

TBA slots are designed to cover “recent developments/current news items.” The schedule is subject to change.

Exciting new items this year

• Saturday Morning Yoga
• The WP Game Show (win prizes) Saturday Morning
• Contributing to WordPress 101. Wondering how you can contribute on Contributor Day? Both folks who know and don’t know how to code are vital to the WordPress project. Stop in and we’ll help find the right fit for you.
• Our Workshop track. No special tickets needed to attend.
• Our Community Track. Great ideas for folks running Meetups and WordCamps.