Schedule

Saturday, July 13th

Time	Parliament	Rideau	Manotick
8:00 am	Registration/Check In
8:45 am	Opening Remarks
9:00 am	There’s a Person at the End of this Project! Cami Kaos Favorite session: There’s a Person at the End of this Project!	How to help your Non-Profit (or Non-Profit clients) connect better with donors Michelle Ames Favorite session: How to help your Non-Profit (or Non-Profit clients) connect better with donors	Your First Headless WordPress Project with ReactJS and GraphQL Etienne Belanger Favorite session: Your First Headless WordPress Project with ReactJS and GraphQL
10:00 am	WooCommerce Fundamentals Jonathan Perlman Favorite session: WooCommerce Fundamentals	Modernize & Standardize Your PHP Development for WordPress Remy Perona Favorite session: Modernize & Standardize Your PHP Development for WordPress	Update Smart: Using a Staging Site! Meagan Hanes Favorite session: Update Smart: Using a Staging Site!
11:00 am	WordPress and Accessibility Amy Young Favorite session: WordPress and Accessibility	Ethical Behavior in an Open Source Community: a Panel Discussion Shanta R. Nathwani, Cami Kaos, Tricia Isham, Matt Graham, Chris Wiegman, Michelle Ames Favorite session: Ethical Behavior in an Open Source Community: a Panel Discussion	Building for the future: Developing a maintainable code base Kevin Andrews Favorite session: Building for the future: Developing a maintainable code base
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Content Marketing: Brand, Voice & Story Ari Black Favorite session: Content Marketing: Brand, Voice & Story	The Three P’s to Success, A Personal Story Felice Miranda Favorite session: The Three P’s to Success, A Personal Story	Humans in hallways getting help Jamie Oastler Favorite session: Humans in hallways getting help
1:20 pm		Baby In The Boardroom Amy Lynch Favorite session: Baby In The Boardroom
1:40 pm		How to optimize your WordPress instance for Pagespeed Devon Kunkel Favorite session: How to optimize your WordPress instance for Pagespeed
2:00 pm	Page Builders in the Age of Gutenberg Matt Graham, Michelle Ames, Miriam Goldman Favorite session: Page Builders in the Age of Gutenberg	Child Themes and other tips Paul Bearne Favorite session: Child Themes and other tips	Migrating 1,300 websites from HTML to WordPress, a business process case study Christie Witt Favorite session: Migrating 1,300 websites from HTML to WordPress, a business process case study
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Privacy Tech for Everyone: How to Improve the Privacy of Your Site for You and Your Users Chris Wiegman Favorite session: Privacy Tech for Everyone: How to Improve the Privacy of Your Site for You and Your Users	How to Monetize Your Passion Project Mike Demo Favorite session: How to Monetize Your Passion Project	Create a 3-page Website in 30 Minutes Shanta R. Nathwani Favorite session: Create a 3-page Website in 30 Minutes
4:30 pm	SEO is Evolving Faster Than Ever. How to survive and benefit from all the recent changes. Paul Thompson Favorite session: SEO is Evolving Faster Than Ever. How to survive and benefit from all the recent changes.	“I manage 100+ projects in a spreadsheet” said no one ever Jean-Francois Arseneault Favorite session: “I manage 100+ projects in a spreadsheet” said no one ever	Lessons from the Dojo: How being a sensei make me a better mentor in tech Miriam Goldman Favorite session: Lessons from the Dojo: How being a sensei make me a better mentor in tech
7:00 pm	Afterparty – Boston Pizza (521 W Hunt Club Rd)

Sunday, July 14th

Time	Parliament	Rideau	Manotick
10:00 am	Doors Open/Check In
11:00 am	How Gutenberg shakes up our WordPress projects Stephanie Fournier, Michael Bontyes Favorite session: How Gutenberg shakes up our WordPress projects	Generate Recurring revenue with WordPress Care Plans Frederic Sune Favorite session: Generate Recurring revenue with WordPress Care Plans	WordPress Migrations 101 Michael Benoit Favorite session: WordPress Migrations 101
12:00 pm	How to empower clients to use their website – and client-proof them at the same time Michelle Ames Favorite session: How to empower clients to use their website – and client-proof them at the same time	Permissionless Software Ron Rennick Favorite session: Permissionless Software	Hooked on WordPress: An Introduction to Actions and Filters Shawn Hooper Favorite session: Hooked on WordPress: An Introduction to Actions and Filters
1:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Workshop: How to organize your content through navigation and wayfinding Shanta R. Nathwani Favorite session: Workshop: How to organize your content through navigation and wayfinding	Workshop: Startup blogging: Using WordPress to validate a business idea, write a book and build community Amy Lynch Favorite session: Workshop: Startup blogging: Using WordPress to validate a business idea, write a book and build community	Workshop: Contrib 2 core Paul Bearne Favorite session: Workshop: Contrib 2 core
3:00 pm
4:00 pm
5:00 pm	Closing Remarks