WordCamp Boston-ON THE WAY

WordCamp Boston is officially on the calendar!

WordCamp Boston will be July 18-19th at Boston University.

LOCATION

George Sherman Union

775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

The venue is accessible via the Green Line “B” Branch at the “BU Central” stop. Parking will be available but not free, we encourage you to take public transportation if possible.

PARKING

Attendees can park in the Granby lot at BU for a $12 flat rate. This is about a 5 minute walk to the venue.

HOTELS NEARBY

Holiday Inn Boston-Brookline, 1200 Beacon Street, Brookline

This hotel is about 1 mile from the conference venue, also in Brookline along the MBTA Green “C” Line, in a nice residential neighborhood, surrounded by brownstones and tree lined streets.

• Special rate for WordCamp Boston attendees: Jul 17 & 18 $199 p/n. This rate is subject to availability and can be sold out at anytime so book early.
• Reservation department: 617-277-1200
• Booking Code: WCB
• Booking Link: WordCamp Boston Rooms

Not included: Room tax (11.7%) & Parking – currently $32 p/n

The Courtyard By Marriott, 40 Webster Street, Brookline

This hotel is about a 2 mile walk from the Boston University George Sherman Union, or you can use the MBTA Green line (Green line C inbound to Kenmore, switch to outbound B line, or just take the C line inbound to Hawes Street and walk half a mile).

SESSIONS

Q & A WITH WORDPRESS CORE DEVELOPERS

Presented by Konstantin Obenland in Auditorium, Ballroom, Keynote, Upstairs.

XSS, CSRF, SQLI, WTH(?!?): THE TRUTH ON THEME SECURITY

Presented by Michael Cain in Developers, Upstairs.

VISIBILITY = OPPORTUNITY

Presented by Bobbie Carlton in Auditorium, Ballroom, Keynote, Upstairs.

CONTRACTS AND COPYRIGHT FOR THE DEVELOPER, BLOGGER AND WORDPRESS GURU

Presented by Louise Leduc Kennedy in Ballroom, Beginner, Business Owners / Entrepreneurs.

GIT STARTED WITH VERSION CONTROL

Presented by David Parsons in Beginner, Developers, Upstairs.

LOCAL AND STAGING ENVIRONMENTS FOR MULTI-PERSON DEVELOPMENT THAT ACTUALLY WORK!

Presented by William P. Davis in Advanced, Developers, Upstairs.

HTTP/2 AND YOU

Presented by Zack Tollman in Developers, Intermediate, Upstairs.

CONTENT MIGRATION: BEYOND WXR

Presented by Matt Johnson in Advanced, Developers, Upstairs.

EXPLAINING HARD THINGS TO HUMANS

Presented by Fred Meyer in Auditorium, Beginner, Developers.

BUILD A SOCIAL NETWORK WITH WORDPRESS AND BUDDYPRESS

Presented by Daniel Miller in Auditorium, Developers, Intermediate.

MISSION-BASED WORDPRESS

Presented by Michael McWilliams in Business Owners / Entrepreneurs, Intermediate, Upstairs.

7 WAYS TO TURN YOUR COMPANY WEBSITE INTO A LEAD MAGNET

Presented by Christina Inge in Ballroom, Business Owners / Entrepreneurs, Intermediate.

HOW MUCH CAN I CHARGE? PRICING ISN’T JUST A NUMBER

Presented by Adam Juda in Auditorium, Beginner, Freelancers.

USING THE YOAST SEO TOOL TO THE FULLEST

Presented by Sandy Edwards in Ballroom, Beginner, Business Owners / Entrepreneurs.

A BETTER INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

Presented by Jesse Friedman in Ballroom, Beginner, Designers.

START SELLING IMAGES WITH WORDPRESS IN UNDER 10 MINUTES

Presented by Scott Wyden Kivowitz in Ballroom, Beginner, Users & Bloggers.

AGILE CONTRACTING

Presented by Mike Toppa in Auditorium, Beginner, Freelancers.

FORMS SHOWDOWN

Presented by Aaron Reimann in Ballroom, Beginner, Social Media / Marketing, Users & Bloggers.

CONQUERING WORDPRESS WITHOUT KNOWING ANY CODE

Presented by Steffinie Blankenship in Auditorium, Beginner, Business Owners / Entrepreneurs, Users & Bloggers.

HOW BEING A MUSICIAN MADE ME A BETTER DEVELOPER

Presented by Ryan Kanner in Beginner, Developers, Upstairs.

BLOGGING FOR BUSINESS

Presented by Amy CQ in Ballroom, Beginner, Business Owners / Entrepreneurs.

HOW TO CREATE OUTSTANDING CONTENT

Presented by Suzette Martinez Standring in Ballroom, Intermediate, Users & Bloggers.

WORDPRESS DEVELOPMENT FOR THE FUTURE: A LOOK AT THE POWER OF WP-API

Presented by Phil Crumm in Advanced, Auditorium, Developers.

THE FINAL 20%

Presented by Jeremy Green in Developers, Freelancers, Intermediate, Upstairs.

PODCASTING ON A BUDGET WITH WORDPRESS

Presented by Paul Michaels in Ballroom, Business Owners / Entrepreneurs, Intermediate.

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF WEB/WORDPRESS ACCESSIBILITY

Presented by Jordan Quintal in Auditorium, Designers, Developers, Intermediate.

BEST FRIEND OR WORST ENEMY: MULTISITE NETWORK DO’S & DON’TS

Presented by Taylor McCaslin in Auditorium, Developers, Intermediate.

WORDPRESS UPGRADES: READY, SET, GO!

Presented by Dustin Meza in Business Owners / Entrepreneurs, Intermediate, Upstairs, Users & Bloggers.

DEVELOPING WORDPRESS THEMES USING MODULAR SASS

Presented by Michael DeWitt in Auditorium, Developers, Intermediate.

SMALLER, FASTER WEBSITES

Presented by Mat Marquis in Auditorium, Ballroom, Keynote, Upstairs.

SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, JULY 18TH

AFTERPARTY

5:30pm at Holiday Inn Boston-Brookline (1200 Beacon Street, Brookline)
Light appetizers and a cash bar.

Parking available at the Holiday Inn for $5 or street parking.

SUNDAY, JULY 19TH

SPEAKERS

MICHAEL CAIN

Michael is a Portland, Maine-based Theme Generator for Automattic‘s Theme Team. He spends his days creating, converting, and improving the theme experience on bothWordPress.com and WordPress.org, his nights dreaming about how to make tomorrow’s WordPress blogs and sites even better.

LOUISE LEDUC KENNEDY

Louise Leduc Kennedy is a business attorney and Founder and President of West Hill Technology Counsel, a boutique business and technology law firm. Louise has extensive experience advising companies on strategic and commercial matters relating to the development, marketing and sale of products, services, and software, as well as expertise in intellectual property and on-line business.

DAVID PARSONS

David Parsons, a recent Computer Science graduate over at The University of Central Florida, has been working with WordPress for over seven years now. He is currently working at BrandCo as a Web Developer.

ZACK TOLLMAN

Zack Tollman is lead engineer on the WIRED tech team. Before joining WIRED, Zack worked as Technical Lead at the Theme Foundry and Senior Web Engineer at 10up.

MATT JOHNSON

Matt Johnson is co-founder and CTO of Alley Interactive, a full-service digital agency in New York City that works with large media companies and non-profit organizations. Matt has led the development of many large content sites with, including Capital New York, The New Republic, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Chalkbeat, Foreign Policy Magazine, and Kveller.com.

BOBBIE CARLTON

Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing,Innovation Nights and Innovation Women, is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional.

CHRISTINA INGE

Christina Inge is the founder of Sleek Marketing University, Boston’s leading source of do-it-yourself marketing ideas and training for small businesses. Christina Inge is a digital marketing strategist with over 15 years’ experience. She’s helped a variety of organizations from Fortune 100 to nonprofits and startups hone their message and increase their conversions.

ADAM JUDA

Adam Juda is the founder of TapRun, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in the pricing and monetization of software systems. Prior to founding his company and authoring The Software Pricing Handbook, he worked for Fortune 500 and government organizations as a software engineer and technical project manager.

JESSE FRIEDMAN

Jesse Friedman has been building websites for 17 years, and exclusively with WordPress. Since then he has written several books, taught 100?s of students as a professor, and organized dozens of local meetups along with a few WordCamps. He has spoken at tech conferences worldwide and has utilized his expertise as a consultant for small agencies and billion dollar international companies.

MIKE TOPPA

Mike Toppa has been coding for the web since the days of HTML 1.0, and he caught the WordPress bug when he wrote his first plugin. He moved to Boston from Philly this month, and he’s the CTO for Poka Yoke Design. Mike was previously the Director of Development for WebDevStudios, and he’s also worked at U Penn, Stanford, Georgetown, Ask Jeeves, and E-Trade.

STEFFINIE BLANKENSHIP

Steffinie is a WordPress enthusiast, WordPress web designer and developer in San Antonio, TX. Steffinie?’s experience with WordPress Web design goes back to, and she?s been hooked ever since. As the Creative Engineer at WebTegrity, she brings experience with Google Analytics, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Photoshop and Illustrator, and bonus?, developing WordPress websites! Steffinie was on the organizing team for the first-ever WordCamp San Antonio in early, which was a huge success with more than 300 attendees.

RYAN KANNER

Originally from the east coast, Ryan is the lead WordPress Developer for Fruition marketing in Denver, Colorado. He has spent the last few years developing custom WordPress websites for clients all over the world.

SUZETTE MARTINEZ STANDRING

SUZETTE MARTINEZ STANDRING is a syndicated columnist with GateHouse Media. She authored The Art of Opinion Writing: Insider Secrets from Top Op-Ed Columnists, an Amazon bestseller and a First Place winner in the New England Book Festival.

PHIL CRUMM

Phil is currently a senior strategist at 10up, a leading WordPress consulting agency, where he works to bring clients and developers together to bring WordPress to its full potential. Previously, Phil was a VIP Engineer at Automattic, where he worked with third-party developers to leverage WordPress for secure and high-performance deployments.

PAUL MICHAELS

Obsessed with the pursuit of excellence in visual story-telling, Paul Michaels took a deep dive into; fashion and beauty photography, film, TV production, entertainment software development, website design and mobile app development.

JORDAN QUINTAL

Jordan Quintal is a successful Online Multipreneur, a seasoned Web Developer, as well as a WordPress Contributor and Community Member. Jordan is the current President at The Genius Web Media Inc. that was founded , which specializes in WordPress Development and Web Accessibility.

TAYLOR MCCASLIN

Taylor McCaslin is a Technical Product Manager living in Austin, Texas. He currently works at WP Engine, a managed hosting platform for websites and apps built with WordPress. WordPress has been Taylor?s platform of choice for over 5 years. He even paid his way through college by freelancing as a WordPress developer!

DUSTIN MEZA

Dustin Meza is the Director of Customer Experience Operations at WP Engine. He has been in the hosting industry for 7 years and has been with WP Engine for 2 years. At WP Engine, Dustin oversees many aspects of the WordPress platform including WordPress upgrades for over 100,000 WordPress installs.

MICHAEL DEWITT

Mike DeWitt is currently a front end developer at Buildium, a Boston-based SaaS company specializing in software for property managers. As a member of the marketing team, he works with WordPress daily on various marketing campaigns for buildium.com, in addition to contributing to the company?s core application.