Please note that the time and track information below is not yet final, and minor adjustments are expected. BuddyCamp Miami (May 9th) schedule will be posted soon. Please check this schedule regularly before you attend WordCamp Miami.

Fri May 9 Beginners · Fri May 9 BuddyCamp · Sat May 10 · Sun May 11

Friday, May 9th (Beginner’s Workshop)

Time	Beginner's Workshop (May 9th)
9:00 am	Registration
9:45 am	Buying Domain Names / Selecting Hosting / WordPress .ORG vs .COM Syed Balkhi Favorite session: Buying Domain Names / Selecting Hosting / WordPress .ORG vs .COM
10:30 am	Installation and Setup David Laietta Favorite session: Installation and Setup
11:15 am	Getting Started with WP Steven Alig Favorite session: Getting Started with WP
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	All About WordPress Themes Zac Gordon Favorite session: All About WordPress Themes
2:15 pm	Plugins Hristo Pandjarov Favorite session: Plugins
3:00 pm	Troubleshooting WordPress Gabriela Levit Favorite session: Troubleshooting WordPress
3:45 pm	General WordPress Q&A Hristo Pandjarov, Zac Gordon, Syed Balkhi, Gabriela Levit, David Laietta Favorite session: General WordPress Q&A
4:30 pm	Closing Remarks

Friday, May 9th (BuddyCamp Miami)

Time	BuddyCamp Miami
9:00 am	Registration
9:45 am	BuddyPress 101 Sarah Gooding Favorite session: BuddyPress 101
10:30 am	BuddyPress 2.0 And Beyond John James Jacoby Favorite session: BuddyPress 2.0 And Beyond
11:15 am	The Best Of BuddyPress Plugins Karla Campos Favorite session: The Best Of BuddyPress Plugins
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Building Mobile Apps With BuddyPress Brian Messenlehner Favorite session: Building Mobile Apps With BuddyPress
1:30 pm	Developers: Getting Involved With BuddyPress John James Jacoby Favorite session: Developers: Getting Involved With BuddyPress
2:15 pm	Scaling BuddyPress Michael Eisenwasser Favorite session: Scaling BuddyPress
3:00 pm	BuddyPress Theme Dos/Donts Tammie Lister Favorite session: BuddyPress Theme Dos/Donts
3:45 pm	bbPress 101 Jared Atchison Favorite session: bbPress 101
4:30 pm	Open Q&A And Closing Remarks Michael Eisenwasser, John James Jacoby, Sarah Gooding, Tammie Lister Favorite session: Open Q&A And Closing Remarks

Saturday, May 10

Time	Users Track	Designers Track	Developers Track
7:30 am	Shuttle Service from Garages until 9:30am
8:00 am	Registration Starts
8:30 am	Opening Remarks
9:00 am	Be the Peacock: Online Branding For New Bloggers Rebecca Gill Favorite session: Be the Peacock: Online Branding For New Bloggers	Intro to Theming with SASS Josh Eaton Favorite session: Intro to Theming with SASS	First There Was The Command Line Adrian Cardenas Favorite session: First There Was The Command Line
9:45 am	Content is NOT King … It’s Core! John Carcutt Favorite session: Content is NOT King … It’s Core!	Staying Productive & Sane Working From Home Alison Foxall Favorite session: Staying Productive & Sane Working From Home	Building Themes in 2016 Aaron Jorbin Favorite session: Building Themes in 2016
10:30 am	Lead Generation With WordPress Rosie Taylor Favorite session: Lead Generation With WordPress	Responsify All the Things! Tracy Rotton Favorite session: Responsify All the Things!	Writing Testable WordPress Plugins Jonathan Brinley Favorite session: Writing Testable WordPress Plugins
11:15 am	Real WordPress Security – Kill the Noise Dre Armeda Favorite session: Real WordPress Security – Kill the Noise	A Website Is Not A Poster: Designing Successfully For The Web Michelle Schulp Favorite session: A Website Is Not A Poster: Designing Successfully For The Web	I don’t hate you, I just hate your code Brian Richards Favorite session: I don’t hate you, I just hate your code
11:45 am	Lunch
1:15 pm	The Next Generation of Bloggers Anna Tuttle Favorite session: The Next Generation of Bloggers	Create a Killer Video for Your Blog Pascal Depuhl Favorite session: Create a Killer Video for Your Blog	Cool Things To Do With Rarely Used Templates Zac Gordon Favorite session: Cool Things To Do With Rarely Used Templates
1:30 pm	Kickstart Your Non-Profit or Small Business with WordPress Rick Tuttle Favorite session: Kickstart Your Non-Profit or Small Business with WordPress	User Experience, WordPress, and the Future Cody Landefeld Favorite session: User Experience, WordPress, and the Future	Designing Web Applications Noel Tock Favorite session: Designing Web Applications
2:15 pm	Get Your Site Built Without Getting Burned Amanda Blum Favorite session: Get Your Site Built Without Getting Burned	Homeschooler to Hero Mika Epstein Favorite session: Homeschooler to Hero	Playing Nicely with Other Plugins Pippin Williamson Favorite session: Playing Nicely with Other Plugins
3:00 pm	How to Keep Your WordPress Site Running Mason James Favorite session: How to Keep Your WordPress Site Running	Getting Comfortable With Child Themes Kathryn Presner Favorite session: Getting Comfortable With Child Themes	Building Web and Mobile Apps with WordPress Brian Messenlehner Favorite session: Building Web and Mobile Apps with WordPress
3:45 pm	WordPress and Journalism Rebekah Monson Favorite session: WordPress and Journalism	E-commerce and WordPress with WooCommerce Sze Liu Favorite session: E-commerce and WordPress with WooCommerce	Database Deployment Strategy: Avoid Merging Brad Touesnard Favorite session: Database Deployment Strategy: Avoid Merging
4:30 pm	Upcoming Trends in Branding and Digital Content Creation Tomas Puig Favorite session: Upcoming Trends in Branding and Digital Content Creation	WordPress Podcasting: The Panel Dre Armeda, Brad Williams, Suzette Franck, Matt Medeiros, Pippin Williamson, Brad Touesnard Favorite session: WordPress Podcasting: The Panel	I Can’t JavaScript, and So Can You! Mark Jaquith Favorite session: I Can’t JavaScript, and So Can You!
5:15 pm	Closing Remarks Day One
6:00 pm	Networking Party

Networking Party Info and Directions

Sunday, May 11

We are proud to host a business track for a second year in a row. Business track is good for any business owners or freelancers. If you still want to learn more about WordPress, our Explorer track covers a wide range of topics suitable for any level of WordPress user or developer.

Time	Business Track	Explorers Track	Workshops
8:00 am	Shuttle from Garages until 10:00am
9:00 am	Networking Brunch
10:00 am	Managing Yourself, Projects and Clients Diane Kinney Favorite session: Managing Yourself, Projects and Clients	Tips for Better Website Conversion Jackie Jimenez Favorite session: Tips for Better Website Conversion	WordCamp For Kids Sarah Gooding, Tammie Lister Favorite session: WordCamp For Kids
10:45 am	10 Things We’ve Learned Building a Product Business Nathan Hangen Favorite session: 10 Things We’ve Learned Building a Product Business	So Obvious, You Miss It! Blanca Stella Mejia Favorite session: So Obvious, You Miss It!
11:30 am	The Business of WordPress Karim Marucchi, Carl Hancock, Cory Miller, Syed Balkhi, Chris Lema Favorite session: The Business of WordPress	Podcasting with WordPress Jared Easley Favorite session: Podcasting with WordPress
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Pricing Your Development Projects Chris Lema Favorite session: Pricing Your Development Projects	Working With a Pesky Host David Parsons Favorite session: Working With a Pesky Host
2:15 pm	Successes and Failures of A Large Free Plugin Chris Wiegman Favorite session: Successes and Failures of A Large Free Plugin	WordPress Themes And Plugins Hector Torres Favorite session: WordPress Themes And Plugins
2:45 pm	Ice Cream Social
3:15 pm	Crush your Marketing Fears and Grow An Audience Matt Medeiros Favorite session: Crush your Marketing Fears and Grow An Audience	Web Development Trends for 2014 David Laietta Favorite session: Web Development Trends for 2014
4:00 pm	Business Q&A Panel Syed Balkhi, Matt Medeiros, Chris Lema, Nathan Hangen, Chris Wiegman, Diane Kinney Favorite session: Business Q&A Panel	WordPress Beginner’s Q&A David Parsons, Jackie Jimenez, Hector Torres Favorite session: WordPress Beginner’s Q&A
4:30 pm	Closing Remarks / Giveaways

WordCamp Miami 2014

Schedule

Friday, May 9th (Beginner’s Workshop)

Friday, May 9th (BuddyCamp Miami)

Saturday, May 10

Networking Party Info and Directions

Sunday, May 11

Celebrating Our 5th Anniversary (May 9-11, 2014)