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Saturday, February 29th, 2020

Our main day of the conference is stuffed full of a variety of topics and includes a number of informative lightning talks.

Time	WordPress & the Web (CBC 155)	Business & Marketing (CBC 233)	Building Developers Skills (RDB 1100)
8:00 am	REGISTRATION
8:30 am	Opening Remarks Patrick Alexander
9:00 am	Are you designing for your user? All of them? Tracy Apps Favorite session: Are you designing for your user? All of them?	Make Friends and Make Money in WordPress Scott Mann Favorite session: Make Friends and Make Money in WordPress	Developing with Privilege Adam Soucie Favorite session: Developing with Privilege
9:40 am	Raising The Creative Generation David Yarde Favorite session: Raising The Creative Generation	How to Make Your WordPress Business Support Driven Matt Cromwell Favorite session: How to Make Your WordPress Business Support Driven	Creating Gutenberg Blocks with Advance Custom Fields Jean Felisme Favorite session: Creating Gutenberg Blocks with Advance Custom Fields
10:20 am	Create Stunning Layouts with Various Image Blocks in Gutenberg Birgit Pauli-Haack Favorite session: Create Stunning Layouts with Various Image Blocks in Gutenberg	10 tips on how to improve your website user experience Maria Lopez Favorite session: 10 tips on how to improve your website user experience	What's New in PHP 7.4 Cal Evans Favorite session: What's New in PHP 7.4
11:00 am	Introduction to WP security Nile Flores Favorite session: Introduction to WP security	Monetize Your Genius – Add eLearning to Your WordPress Website Vivian Olodun Favorite session: Monetize Your Genius – Add eLearning to Your WordPress Website	WordPress Web Performance in 2020: Modern Techniques for Sub-second Page Loads Mike Herchel Favorite session: WordPress Web Performance in 2020: Modern Techniques for Sub-second Page Loads
11:40 am	Ideate, Plan and Execute your Online Community Diana Franco Favorite session: Ideate, Plan and Execute your Online Community	Why your favorite eCommerce site might be a secret dumpster fire Marc Gratch Favorite session: Why your favorite eCommerce site might be a secret dumpster fire	Clever Ways to Help Automate Content Creation with WordPress! Brian Messenlehner Favorite session: Clever Ways to Help Automate Content Creation with WordPress!
12:00 pm	You Have to Speak. Now What? (The Ins and Out of delivering Impactful Speech Presentations) E. Anita Newman Favorite session: You Have to Speak. Now What? (The Ins and Out of delivering Impactful Speech Presentations)	5 Lessons I Learned the HARD WAY While Running My Own WordPress Agency … AND HOW YOU CAN AVOID MAKING MY MISTAKES Tara Claeys Favorite session: 5 Lessons I Learned the HARD WAY While Running My Own WordPress Agency … AND HOW YOU CAN AVOID MAKING MY MISTAKES	The Ultimate Guide to UTMs Chris Edwards Favorite session: The Ultimate Guide to UTMs
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:50 pm	From WordPress to blockchain: The future is 100% Open Source Sebastiaan van der Lans Favorite session: From WordPress to blockchain: The future is 100% Open Source	Content Creation and the Tools You Need to Be Effective Jean Perpillant Favorite session: Content Creation and the Tools You Need to Be Effective	Securing WordPress in the age of 0-day vulnerabilities Rahul Nagare Favorite session: Securing WordPress in the age of 0-day vulnerabilities
2:10 pm	The 3 Essentials of Designing Your Plan Wendy Guess Favorite session: The 3 Essentials of Designing Your Plan	How to Grow Your Business With Video Marketing Antoine Dupont Favorite session: How to Grow Your Business With Video Marketing	Accessibility: Digital Transformation or Social Digital Transformation Merary Alvarado Favorite session: Accessibility: Digital Transformation or Social Digital Transformation
2:30 pm	Use WordPress to Share Your Voice To Address Social Issues William Jackson Favorite session: Use WordPress to Share Your Voice To Address Social Issues	It’s A Date: Event Calendar Plugin Showdown Melanie Adcock Favorite session: It’s A Date: Event Calendar Plugin Showdown	Command line basics for WordPress Tara King Favorite session: Command line basics for WordPress
3:10 pm	Web Design For Non-Profits: Website best practices, collecting donations, increasing exposure online. Charles Johnston Favorite session: Web Design For Non-Profits: Website best practices, collecting donations, increasing exposure online.	#SecureHer: Cybersecurity Practices for the Female Entrepreneur Jihana Barrett Favorite session: #SecureHer: Cybersecurity Practices for the Female Entrepreneur	The Transients API – Caching with WordPress Marco Berrocal Favorite session: The Transients API – Caching with WordPress
3:50 pm	Product Doesn’t Matter: Service Design is the Future of Good UX Michael Schofield Favorite session: Product Doesn’t Matter: Service Design is the Future of Good UX	Tough Lessons I Learned Managing a Remote Team Victor Drover Favorite session: Tough Lessons I Learned Managing a Remote Team	Thinking about Diversity and Inclusion in Website Development Korene Stuart Favorite session: Thinking about Diversity and Inclusion in Website Development
4:30 pm	Let's Talk Accessibility (And why Wheelchairs are not a Disability) Andreas Lopez Favorite session: Let's Talk Accessibility (And why Wheelchairs are not a Disability)	Defeat the Dreaded Impostor Syndrome with A Dose of Audacious Confidence Alicia Couri Favorite session: Defeat the Dreaded Impostor Syndrome with A Dose of Audacious Confidence	User Centered Design Tips for Developers Michelle Wiltshire Favorite session: User Centered Design Tips for Developers
5:00 pm	GAMESHOW, PRIZES, CLOSING REMARKS
6:30 pm	CHILI’S AFTER PARTY
8:30 pm	END OF AFTER PARTY

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Sunday, March 1st, 2020

Time	Design & Community (CBC 155)	Developers (CBC 233)	Business (RDB 1100)
9:00 am	REGISTRATION
9:30 am	CSS Grid is Here: The Sequel, now with 100% more Subgrid Juan Pablo Gomez Favorite session: CSS Grid is Here: The Sequel, now with 100% more Subgrid	Beyond the Block: Cool Stuff with Gutenberg Besides Blocks Victor Ramirez Favorite session: Beyond the Block: Cool Stuff with Gutenberg Besides Blocks	Show Your Business Who is BOSS! Jocelyn Mozak Favorite session: Show Your Business Who is BOSS!
10:15 am	Clever Content Creation to Build Businesses and Brands Anthony Miyazaki Favorite session: Clever Content Creation to Build Businesses and Brands	What does your brand look like in a voice-first world? Chip Edwards Favorite session: What does your brand look like in a voice-first world?	Mastering the Client Consultation Nathan Ingram Favorite session: Mastering the Client Consultation
11:00 am	How to create a torrential downpour of hot leads in the next 90 days using WordPress Carlos Vazquez Favorite session: How to create a torrential downpour of hot leads in the next 90 days using WordPress	Rethinking Themes: Embracing Atomic Design With Gutenberg Michelle R. Schulp Favorite session: Rethinking Themes: Embracing Atomic Design With Gutenberg	Creating a Recurring Revenue Stream through Maintenance David Wolfpaw Favorite session: Creating a Recurring Revenue Stream through Maintenance
11:45 am	#IamRemarkable workshop Sandra Wong Favorite session: #IamRemarkable workshop	Testing 101: How to Bulletproof Your Deployments with Automated Code Testing Chris Wiegman Favorite session: Testing 101: How to Bulletproof Your Deployments with Automated Code Testing	Don’t Sell WordPress, Sell a Solution Instead Pat Ramsey Favorite session: Don’t Sell WordPress, Sell a Solution Instead
12:30 pm	LUNCH
1:30 pm	Kids Panel Favorite session: Kids Panel	Joy of JavaScript Luis Atencio Favorite session: Joy of JavaScript	Understanding Cash Flow to Make Better Decisions Nev Harris Favorite session: Understanding Cash Flow to Make Better Decisions
2:10 pm	Cups, Community, and CoffeeTalk: Lessons Learned Over 100+ episodes of WPCoffeeTalk Michelle Frechette Favorite session: Cups, Community, and CoffeeTalk: Lessons Learned Over 100+ episodes of WPCoffeeTalk	The Developer’s Spectrum – From Junior to Lead Jeffrey Holland Favorite session: The Developer’s Spectrum – From Junior to Lead	Growing Pains: Staying Strong Through Business Expansion Jessi Gurr Favorite session: Growing Pains: Staying Strong Through Business Expansion
3:00 pm	Contributing to WordPress: From Just Getting Started to Closed Ticket Keanan Koppenhaver Favorite session: Contributing to WordPress: From Just Getting Started to Closed Ticket	Power & Scale-Up WordPress Products with Atomic Design Dave Ryan Favorite session: Power & Scale-Up WordPress Products with Atomic Design	The Three Things all Web Professionals Need to Know About Privacy Donata Kalnenaite Favorite session: The Three Things all Web Professionals Need to Know About Privacy
3:30 pm	Why WordCamp Miami? The Open Door for Youth in South Florida STEM Annejeanette Washington Collins Favorite session: Why WordCamp Miami? The Open Door for Youth in South Florida STEM	Images: What's in Your Library? Kim White Favorite session: Images: What's in Your Library?	Lift and Shift WordPress to the JAMstack Daniel Olson Favorite session: Lift and Shift WordPress to the JAMstack
3:50 pm	How to Reduce Work Loneliness Anelle Valdes Favorite session: How to Reduce Work Loneliness	SEO Tech 2020, Voice Search, Google's New Natural Language recommendation, New Google Blocks and other new critical SEO issues. Dan Gudema Favorite session: SEO Tech 2020, Voice Search, Google's New Natural Language recommendation, New Google Blocks and other new critical SEO issues.	How to Plan a Great Event Cindy Beckles Favorite session: How to Plan a Great Event
4:15 pm	The 5 step framework for writing words that persuade Fernando Gomez Favorite session: The 5 step framework for writing words that persuade	Andrew Norcross Ask Me Anything Andrew Norcross Favorite session: Andrew Norcross Ask Me Anything	Ask the Speakers Anything – Business Panel Favorite session: Ask the Speakers Anything – Business Panel
5:00 pm	GAMESHOW, PRIZES, CLOSING REMARKS
6:00 pm	END OF EVENT

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Friday, February 28th

WordPress 101 Beginner Course

If you have never used WordPress before, this is the workshop to attend. This is a hands-on workshop and you must bring your own laptop and laptop charger.

Purchase your ticket here

Click here for the guide to Friday 28th Beginner’s Workshop

Beginner’s Workshop will be held at FIU. 

Time	Beginners Workshop
8:30 am	REGISTRATION
9:00 am	INTRO/SET EXPECTATIONS – HIGH-LEVEL OVERVIEW
9:30 am	OVERVIEW OF DASHBOARD, EDITOR, THEMES, CUSTOMIZER, PLUGINS
10:30 am	GENERAL QUESTIONS/BREAK
10:50 am	HOSTING OVERVIEW
11:00 am	LOGIN TO WORDPRESS
11:20 am	GUIDED TOUR OF DASHBOARD, BLOCK EDITOR AND CUSTOMIZER
12:30 pm	LUNCH
1:30 pm	PERFORMANCE, SECURITY, PRIVACY
2:30 pm	Q&A
2:45 pm	HANDS-ON W/HELP
4:15 pm	WRAP-UP: LEARNING RESOURCES, NEWS SOURCES, NEXT STEPS
5:00 pm	END OF BEGINNERS WORKSHOP

Developer’s Workshop

The focus of the developer workshop this year is on identifying and addressing your weaknesses as a developer. There are several focus areas that every developer should be well acquainted with, and we will be covering many of them during this workshop.

We will kick off with a self-assessment that will reveal the areas that are holding you back. Armed with this information, we will delve into some commonly overlooked areas that can significantly increase not only your productivity, but also your reliability and reputation as a quality developer.

Join in as we turn these valuable insights into actionable next steps! Developers of all levels should expect to come away with a treasure trove of knowledge, or at least several really good nuggets.

Make sure you bring:
– Laptop and charger so you can follow along
– Pen and paper so you can complete the self-assessment
– Water bottle so you can stay hydrated (even mild dehydration can impact your memory and cognitive abilities!)

Purchase your ticket here

Click here for the guide to Friday 28th Developer’s Workshop

The Developer’s Workshop will be held at FIU.

Time	Developers Workshop
8:30 am	Registration
9:00 am	INTRODUCTION
9:30 am	SCAFFOLDING Favorite session: SCAFFOLDING
10:30 am	CODE GENERATION Favorite session: CODE GENERATION
11:30 am	DEBUGGING Favorite session: DEBUGGING
12:30 pm	LUNCH
2:00 pm	LINTING & STANDARDS Favorite session: LINTING & STANDARDS
3:00 pm	AUTOMATED TESTING Favorite session: AUTOMATED TESTING
4:00 pm	DEPLOYMENTS Favorite session: DEPLOYMENTS
5:00 pm	END OF DEVELOPERS WORKSHOP