WordCamp Detroit – April 28th, 2018
A conference for all things WordPress
Here all the slide links that our speakers have made available for you! We will post more if they become available.
From Discovery to Design: A Collaborative Approach to a User-Centric Website
You’re Doing it All WRONG: How to Restructure Your Business to Generate More Sales
Storm the Castle: Paths to a career in tech (and WordPress)
Building a mini-theme with WordPress REST API
All my favorite WordPress life hacks
Pantheon is a website operations platform for WordPress (and Drupal!), running more than 200,000 sites in the cloud and serving over 10 billion pageviews a month. Our platform delivers the fastest, most secure platform for developing, testing, and hosting websites. Pantheon’s collaboration tools enable web teams to iterate on their websites daily and launch new campaigns and features regularly. Our customers include the United Nations, Cisco, SendGrid, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Pantheon believes in the open source community and its importance in the success of the WordPress project. From Pantheon founders’ roots as agency owners building open source projects, to organizing local events, sponsoring events is one way in which they strive to contribute to the community.
“WordCamps are such an important part of what makes WordPress unique among the open source world and we hope to help all WordCamps grow.”
On Saturday, meet Pantheon’s Tessa Kriesel who is giving a talk on a very important subject for professional development: “Configuration Management: WordPress Configuration in Code”
Learn more: Pantheon.io
Facebook: facebook.com/getpantheon
Twitter: @getpantheon
Thank you Pantheon for being a WordCamp Detroit Woodward Avenue sponsor!
37% of all online stores are powered by WooCommerce. Built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open source eCommerce solution.
Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise level eCommerce business – WooCommerce will get you set up and selling fast and scale securely as you grow. Plus your content will be forever yours and customizable down to the finest button color.
Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com.
Learn more at: WooCommerce.com
Twitter: @woocommerce
Facebook: facebook.com/woocommerce
Thank you to WooCommerce for being a WordCamp Detroit Woodward Avenue Sponsor!
Nexcess is a hosting provider that offers a range of hosting platforms with a focus on performance, security, and support. They’ve created an improved hosting experience with the Nexcess Cloud; to empower users and provide stability to anyone who needs hosting.
“Nexcess likes to stay involved with the local dev community. Events like WordCamp offer us a chance to give back by sharing our knowledge and expertise. They are a great way to stay in touch with developers and up-to-date on the latest trends and practices. After all, Nexcess loves WordPress!”
Meet Jason and Robert at the Nexcess sponsor table. Don’t forget to catch a Nexcess Cloud demo and grab some awesome Nexcess swag too.
Nexcess has generously offered to sponsor the afterparty for WordCamp Detroit. Attendees are invited to come play a round of ping pong at Drive Table Tennis Social Club from 6pm-9pm on Saturday. Food & your first drink are complimentary when you show your WordCamp Detroit badge. Thank you Nexcess!
Learn more at: nexcess.net
Twitter: @nexcess
Facebook: facebook.com/nexcess
Thank you to Nexcess for being a WordCamp Detroit Woodward Avenue Sponsor and After Party sponsor!
DreamHost customers love WordPress.
Did you know that the average Dreamhost customer has 1.8 WordPress installations? That’s a whole lot of WordPress all over Dreamhost servers.
WordPress brings the creativity of people and the power of computers together in a way that few platforms have been able to accomplish. The WordPress community is incredible and never ceases to amaze us! It’s full of thousands of helpful people, all focused as much on improving the core platform as it is to ensuring that anyone who wants their voice heard online gets that chance.
DreamHost supports WordPress with staff time, talent, and technology. They’ve built incredible managed WordPress hosting options like DreamPress that make WordPress run like lightning!
WordCamps take the best of the WordPress community and bring it offline. WordPress users, designers, and developers of all skill levels gather together for two days of learning and networking in one of the most supportive environments you’ll find in the tech world.
Learn more at: Dreamhost
Twitter: @dreamhost
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DreamHost
Thank you to Dreamhost for being a WordCamp Detroit Woodward Avenue Sponsor!
The BoldGrid suite of tools empowers users of all types and skill levels – from developers to bloggers – to build and maintain powerful websites. This ecosystem of plugins allows you to easily create content with a drag and drop interface, optimize SEO for better rankings, automate your backups, and much more.
Because the BoldGrid suite of tools and plugins are designed specifically for WordPress, the WordPress community is very important to the BoldGrid team. There is no better place to interface with the WordPress community than at WordCamps, where users from all different backgrounds and experience levels collaborate together.
Learn more about BoldGrid: boldgrid.com
Twitter: twitter.com/boldgrid
Facebook: facebook.com/boldgrid/
Thank you to BoldGrid for being a WordCamp Detroit Woodward Avenue Sponsor!
Since 2003, A2 Hosting has specialized in performance-based, developer-friendly hosting. They cater to the WordPress community by offering a robust platform at an affordable cost. Their offerings include Managed WordPress complete with Staging, WP CLI, Backups and Security all out of the gate, and they back up their hosting with 24/7 support by phone, ticket, or live chat.
A2 Hosting is an active member of the WordPress community, sponsoring numerous WordCamps. But this event is especially close to home, since the company is headquartered out of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Take a pitstop at the A2 Hosting booth where Patrick, Andy, and Jon will walk you through a few laps on the race track. They are happy to answer any questions, and one visitor will be taking home the Anki Overdrive race track.
Learn more at: a2hosting.com
Twitter: @a2hosting
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/a2webhosting/
Thank you to A2 Hosting for being a WordCamp Detroit Woodward Avenue Sponsor!
We are ramping up yo have a great WordCamp on April 28th, 2018 in Downtown Detroit. With help from the WordCamp Detroit organizing team and the great support of the local community we have great lineup of sessions with fantastic speakers!
We have an awesome lineup of speakers for all around, but as most of you know WordPress is all about community, so we focused on finding speakers in the local Metro Detroit communities. We have speakers from out local Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup, as well as other groups in the area. We will be highlighting the speakers and sessions a bit more in the coming weeks.
Our awesome speakers, create a great lineup of sessions, naturally. We have 3 tracks we are working on: Developer, Business, and Design, with a splash of beginner-focused sessions and diversity. We want to have a WordCamp that can benefit our diverse community, their knowledge and their needs.
This conference would be possible without our sponsors. Thanks to them we can bring together all the little things that make a conference worth it: lunch provided, swag, snacks and more. Check out our sponsors when you get a chance, and visit with them when you come to the conference!
If you want to attend and do not have a ticket, sign up for the waitlist.
Join the Waitlist!If you have a ticket and cannot make it, let us know. There are others that would like to attend.
We are in the process of confirming speakers/sessions and setting up a schedule, which will be announced in the coming weeks.
This is the local WordPress event of the year.
A WordCamp offers something for everyone; especially web developers, content producers, designers, hosting companies, SEO pros, UX strategists, and project managers.
Did you know that this will be Detroit’s first WordCamp in 6 years? Yes, 6 years! And the excitement is real. April 28th cannot come fast enough.
Bringing together 100+ WordPress professionals and enthusiasts in one place for one weekend is hard work but it is worth doing.
You can volunteer, present a talk, buy a ticket, and share the news of this event on Social Media. Those are all helpful and great ways to get involved.
In order to keep this event affordable, the volunteer-led team relies on sponsorships from individuals and companies (large and small).
Sponsorship helps keep ticket prices low and keep the learning accessible to many. Sponsorships help pay for event space, food, videography and all of the supplies needed.
Continue reading “5 Great Reasons To Sponsor WordCamp Detroit” →
WordCamp Detroit – April 28th, 2018 is over. Check out the next edition!