It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Plugin Bootcamp, We’ve brought together Yaron Guez and Matt Cromwell in guiding you each step of the way in building a WordPress Plugin.

• Philosophy & Setting Up a Dev Environment
• How to Structure Your Plugin (files & directories)
• Actions and Hooks – The Keys to WordPress
• Debugging and Optimizing
• Submitting Plugin to the Repo

So set your Calendars, prepare to invite your friends and co-workers who’ve always wanted to build a plugin from scratch for a day they won’t soon forget. We will be posting profiles on our speakers and panel members shortly after all of the speakers are announced so that you can get to know them better.

It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Theme Bootcamp, We’ve brought together AJ Zane, Richard Sherman, Suzette Franck in guiding you each step of the way in building a WordPress Theme.

• Setting up a dev environment
• Getting started with theme files
• Integrating your HTML and WP tags
• Functions.php / Registering Enqueuing scripts and styles
• Troubleshooting

So set your Calendars, prepare to invite your friends and co-workers who’ve always wanted to build a theme from scratch for a day they won’t soon forget. We will be posting profiles on our speakers and panel members shortly after all of the speakers are announced so that you can get to know them better.

It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Developer’s Track, We’ve put together a slew of local and international talents that have years of experience plugins and applications in WordPress. We also have an exciting panel hosted by Derek Springer from Automattic that will blow you away.

Tabitha Chapman – What You Can do with the Heartbeat API
Roy Sivan – The WordPress REST API – Web Apps
Pippin Williamson – Best Practices for Plugin Development
Dave Jesch – Object Oriented programming and WordPress
Tomás Puig – WordPress Development Trends in 2015 & Beyond
Mendel Kurland – Making Sense of Structured Data
Marty Thornley – Integrating WordPress with External APIs
Pippin Williamson, Tomás Puig, Konstantin Kovshenin – Panel called ‘Writing Code for Other Developers’ with host Derek Springer

So set your Calendars, prepare to invite your Developer friends for a day they won’t soon forget. We will be posting profiles on our speakers and panel members shortly after all of the speakers are announced so that you can get to know them better.

It is with great pleasure that we announce our Speakers for the Designer’s Track, We’ve put together a slew of local and international talents that have years or experience putting together some awesome design projects in WordPress. We also have an exciting panel hosted by Shaimoom from Exaktime that will blow you away.

Chris Ford – Finding Design Resources
Corey Ellis – Intro to Themes (Do’s and Don’ts)
Bobbie Wilson – Child Themes (How to choose and set one up)
David Sutoyo – Styles (What’s Under the Hood?)
Natalie MacLees – Designing for Responsive
Nikhil Vimal – Enqueuing (Properly registering styles and scripts)
Natalie MacLees, Dave Winter, Rick Knudston, Nikhil Vimal – Panel called “What’s your Workflow?” with host Shaimoom Newaz
Alicia St. Rose – Functional Design (Design Development)

So set your Calendars, prepare to invite your Theme and Design friends for a day they won’t soon forget. We will be posting profiles on our speakers and panel members shortly after all of the speakers are announced so that you can get to know them better.