Friday, May 29th

Beginner’s 101 Course

Time	WordPress 101 Beginner’s Course
8:00 am	Registration
8:55 am	Opening Remarks
12:00 pm	Lunch
4:30 pm	Closing Remarks (In The All Users Track Room – CBC 155)

Front-End / WordPress Theme Course

Time	Front-End & WordPress Theme Course
8:00 am	Registration
8:55 am	Opening Remarks
9:00 am	Discovering Design: Break It Before You Build Michelle Schulp Favorite session: Discovering Design: Break It Before You Build
10:00 am	CSS: Responsive Media Queries Ibis Arrastia Favorite session: CSS: Responsive Media Queries
11:00 am	The Beauty of CSS Preprocessors – An Introduction to Sass Enrique Canals Favorite session: The Beauty of CSS Preprocessors – An Introduction to Sass
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	The Core Concepts of WordPress Themes David Hayes Favorite session: The Core Concepts of WordPress Themes
2:00 pm	Building Themes From Scratch Using Underscores Morten Rand-Hendriksen Favorite session: Building Themes From Scratch Using Underscores
4:00 pm	Q&A Panel
4:30 pm	Closing Remarks (In The All Users Track Room – CBC 155)

BuddyCamp Miami

Time	BuddyCamp Miami
8:00 am	Registration
8:55 am	Opening Remarks
9:00 am	BuddyPress 101 David Bisset Favorite session: BuddyPress 101
10:00 am	Cultivating Community John James Jacoby Favorite session: Cultivating Community
11:00 am	Creating Private Networks with BuddyPress Rami Abraham Favorite session: Creating Private Networks with BuddyPress
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Move all the things to BuddyPress! Brian Messenlehner Favorite session: Move all the things to BuddyPress!
2:00 pm	Social Mobile Apps: BuddyPress + WP-API Ryan Fugate Favorite session: Social Mobile Apps: BuddyPress + WP-API
3:00 pm	State Of The Buddy John James Jacoby Favorite session: State Of The Buddy
4:00 pm	Q&A Panel
4:30 pm	Closing Remarks (In The All Users Track Room – CBC 155)

Saturday, May 30th

Time	How-To Track	Content & Design	Developers Track (Sat)
8:00 am	Registration
8:30 am	Opening Remarks
9:00 am	How-To Manage All of Your WordPress Sites with Jetpack Chase Livingston Favorite session: How-To Manage All of Your WordPress Sites with Jetpack	Personal Branding: Stand Out From The Crowd Online Nancy Richmond Favorite session: Personal Branding: Stand Out From The Crowd Online	Intro to Git Adam Culp Favorite session: Intro to Git
9:50 am	How To Improve Your SEO With WordPress Sarrah Vesselov Favorite session: How To Improve Your SEO With WordPress	The Quick Tech Checklist for Your WordPress E-Commerce Website Hristo Pandjarov Favorite session: The Quick Tech Checklist for Your WordPress E-Commerce Website	Introduction To AJAX In WordPress Josh Pollock Favorite session: Introduction To AJAX In WordPress
10:40 am	How to Start a WordPress E-commerce site using WooCommerce Sze Liu Favorite session: How to Start a WordPress E-commerce site using WooCommerce	Content Marketing + WordPress: A Match Made Online Darcy Sullivan Favorite session: Content Marketing + WordPress: A Match Made Online	Modernizing WordPress Search with Elasticsearch Taylor Lovett Favorite session: Modernizing WordPress Search with Elasticsearch
11:30 am	How to Take Your WordPress Site Security to the Next Level Chris Wiegman Favorite session: How to Take Your WordPress Site Security to the Next Level	Streamlining the Web Design Process Using Style Tiles Stephanie Brinley Favorite session: Streamlining the Web Design Process Using Style Tiles	Beyond The Post: Pushing the limits of Custom Post Types Dan Beil Favorite session: Beyond The Post: Pushing the limits of Custom Post Types
12:05 pm	Lunch
1:25 pm	How To Start A WordPress Membership Website Steve Burge Favorite session: How To Start A WordPress Membership Website	Blog Topics: How to come up with articles for your blog Chris Lema Favorite session: Blog Topics: How to come up with articles for your blog	Building Web Apps with WordPress Jason Coleman Favorite session: Building Web Apps with WordPress
2:15 pm	How To Find The Best WordPress Plugins For You Adam Soucie Favorite session: How To Find The Best WordPress Plugins For You	Constructing a large informational site Becky Davis Favorite session: Constructing a large informational site	WP-CLI: Save Time by Managing WordPress from the Command Line Shawn Hooper Favorite session: WP-CLI: Save Time by Managing WordPress from the Command Line
3:05 pm	How To Structure Your Content In A WordPress Site Shanta Nathwani Favorite session: How To Structure Your Content In A WordPress Site	How To Speak Unicorn: Improving Designer/Developer Collaboration Michelle Schulp Favorite session: How To Speak Unicorn: Improving Designer/Developer Collaboration	Cache Money Business Mark Jaquith Favorite session: Cache Money Business
3:55 pm	How To Optimize Your WordPress Site Matt Cromwell Favorite session: How To Optimize Your WordPress Site	Understanding your Project before you start James Tryon Favorite session: Understanding your Project before you start	Integrating Third-party APIs with WordPress Nikhil Vimal Favorite session: Integrating Third-party APIs with WordPress
4:45 pm	How To Contribute to WordPress Without Coding Michele Butcher Favorite session: How To Contribute to WordPress Without Coding	Designing for Informational User Experiences: A Responsive Web Design Workflow Morten Rand-Hendriksen Favorite session: Designing for Informational User Experiences: A Responsive Web Design Workflow	Dev Like You Mean It: Using Vagrant to take your development to the next level Doug Stewart Favorite session: Dev Like You Mean It: Using Vagrant to take your development to the next level
5:30 pm	End Of Day Remarks
6:00 pm	Networking Party at Dave & Busters

Networking Party Info and Directions

Sunday, May 31st

We are proud to host a business track for a third year in a row. Business track is good for any business owners or freelancers. If you still want to learn more about WordPress, our All Users track covers a wide range of topics suitable for any level of WordPress user. And for the first time we are bringing “mini-workshops” to our Developer track on Sunday. Mini-workshops will fit any range of WordPress developer.

Time	Business Track	All Users	Developers Track (Sun)
8:30 am	Registration
8:45 am	Breakfast Social at the CBC Lobby
10:00 am	The Highs & Lows of the 7 year WordPress Product Journey Cory Miller Favorite session: The Highs & Lows of the 7 year WordPress Product Journey	Move all the things to WordPress! Brian Messenlehner Favorite session: Move all the things to WordPress!	Genesis Mini-Workshop (Part 1) Andrea Rennick Favorite session: Genesis Mini-Workshop (Part 1)
10:40 am	First Things First – Your Business Model Counts Chris Lema Favorite session: First Things First – Your Business Model Counts	How To Step Up Your Videos Pascal Depuhl Favorite session: How To Step Up Your Videos	Genesis Mini-Workshop (Part 2) Jesse Petersen Favorite session: Genesis Mini-Workshop (Part 2)
11:20 am	Marketing Your Product (Launch & Beyond) Syed Balkhi Favorite session: Marketing Your Product (Launch & Beyond)	Using Expertise, Authority and Trust in Your Content to Boost Search Ranking Lisa Melegari Favorite session: Using Expertise, Authority and Trust in Your Content to Boost Search Ranking	Introduction to Plugin Development Topher DeRosia Favorite session: Introduction to Plugin Development
12:00 pm	Building and Leveraging Your Reputation Aaron Campbell Favorite session: Building and Leveraging Your Reputation	Avoiding Dangerous and Low-Quality Plugins and Themes Rami Abraham Favorite session: Avoiding Dangerous and Low-Quality Plugins and Themes	Writing WordPress Plugins with Standards Devin Vinson Favorite session: Writing WordPress Plugins with Standards
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Contract Basics for Web Professionals Chrissie Scelsi Favorite session: Contract Basics for Web Professionals	Gathering Sales Intelligence Through Web Design Jeremy Pound Favorite session: Gathering Sales Intelligence Through Web Design	Intro to WP-API Justin Sainton Favorite session: Intro to WP-API
2:15 pm	PANEL: Scoping, Contracts, Invoicing, Legal OH MY Bill Erickson, Jared Atchison, Karim Marucchi, Chrissie Scelsi Favorite session: PANEL: Scoping, Contracts, Invoicing, Legal OH MY	Growing Your Non-Profit With WordPress Tim Sisson Favorite session: Growing Your Non-Profit With WordPress	Building Client Side Web App using WP-API Roy Sivan Favorite session: Building Client Side Web App using WP-API
3:00 pm	PANEL: Expectation Management and Retaining Clients Bill Erickson, Jared Atchison, Karim Marucchi, Aaron Campbell, Jesse Petersen Favorite session: PANEL: Expectation Management and Retaining Clients	Writing For The Web Nakeesha Charles Favorite session: Writing For The Web	Intro to Developing Web Sites with WordPress and AngularJS Joseph Van, Ben Newton Favorite session: Intro to Developing Web Sites with WordPress and AngularJS
3:45 pm	PANEL: Sales, Onboarding, Customer Support Mason James, Chris Christoff, Cory Miller, Andrea Rennick, Syed Balkhi Favorite session: PANEL: Sales, Onboarding, Customer Support	Open Source CMS: How Joomla and WordPress Influence Each Other Jason Nickerson Favorite session: Open Source CMS: How Joomla and WordPress Influence Each Other	Build Your Dev Environment with Docker Jonathan Brinley Favorite session: Build Your Dev Environment with Docker
4:30 pm	End Of Day Remarks

WordCamp Miami 2015

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