The festival of WordPress
WordFest Live
WordFest Live – a 24-hour celebration of all that is WordPress.
March 4th 2022 - 24-hour festival of WordPress
The journey:
- We start in Australia
- 12:00am March 4th - 4:00am March 4th your local time 10:30am - 2:30pm ACDT 12:00am - 4:00am UTC
- Then onto Asia
- 4:00am March 4th - 8:00am March 4th your local time 9:30am - 1:30pm IST 4:00am - 8:00am UTC
- Next up it's Africa
- 8:00am March 4th - 12:00pm March 4th your local time 10:00am - 2:00pm CAT 8:00am - 12:00pm UTC
- Then to Europe
- 12:00pm March 4th - 4:00pm March 4th your local time 12:00pm - 4:00pm GMT 12:00pm - 4:00pm UTC
- Next stop is South America
- 4:00pm March 4th - 8:00pm March 4th your local time 1:00pm - 5:00pm BRT 4:00pm - 8:00pm UTC
- Then finally to North America
- 8:00pm March 4th - 12:00am March 5th your local time 2:00pm - 6:00pm CST 8:00pm - 12:00am, March 5th UTC
- You can also chill-out in Antarctica all day!
24-HOURS CELEBRATING WORDPRESS. TOGETHER.
A global community
Join members across 93 global territories, and be part of the celebration
What to expect
After the success of the two previous WordFest Live events, we’re back with more.
WordFest Live is a celebration of YOU, the WordPress community. You’ll find sessions focused on WordPress, remote working, and your mental wellbeing.
Join us as we spend 24-hours connecting, learning and celebrating together.
Your WordFest Organisers
Hauwa Abashiya
Describing herself as a ‘creative soul,’ Hauwa discovered WordPress in 2018. She fell in love with the community and was the WordCamp London Sponsors Lead in 2019. She is in the process of transferring her project management skills to web development and becoming a contributor to WordPress and a member of the WordPress 5.6 Release Squad. She is our Sponsors Lead, and has been liaising with established and potential new sponsors. We want our sponsors to be part of the event and thank them for making WordFest 2021 possible.
- WordCamp London 2019 Sponsors Lead
- 1-2 years working with WordPress
Amanda Gorman
Amanda is the Director of Customer Success at GiveWP, where she is a fundraising expert, and works with nonprofits all over the world. She is a yoga instructor, mom to Ronan, aunt to Jackson, wife to Casey, and pet parent to Topanga, Sylvie, Loki, and Anna.
- 5+ years working with WordPress
So, what's in it for you?
Talks, panels, and conversation from all over the globe:
48 Sessions over 24 hours
Watch live session and join live Q&As.
Connect with speakers and the community through live sessions.
Talks and Workshops
Practical sessions focused on you.
Develop practical life and business skills in our interactive sessions.
Socials and Celebrations
Connect with the community, freely.
Use our custom social space to move about, as you would IRL.
24 hours of programming for you to consume within your time zone, or at any time in the WordFest day!
We love them.
What the community are saying:
The WordFest Live was a historic event because of the diversity of the speakers and global access to influencers, creators, innovators and even dreamers.
The world is a better place because WordFest Live showed how there are people globally with wonderful skills that are needed in business, entrepreneurialism, education and arts that influences the digital places we travel to and apply.
We love them.
What the community are saying:
You are not alone.
Connect with the remote working communities.
Frequently Asked Questions
March 4th, 2022. But if you want to get technical about it - it depends where you are in the world. WordFest Live is a 24-hour event, which will cover multiple timezones.
Of course, the event is virtual, so you can join us at any time and in any location. How fun is that!
All over the world, all at the same time. WordFest Live is omnipresent! This just gets better.
So to join the festival, you’ll need to register, we’ll then send you a magical link that will let you jump on board our global festival via the interwebs.
On a slightly more practical note; WordFest Live is an online festival and will take place right here, at WordFest.Live!
About 4-24 hours of your life. You won’t have to hand over any of your hard-earned cash though. Tickets are free!
There is an optional $10 donation that can be made when registering. We’d be over the moon if you selected this option, it will help us continue to provide free wellbeing and mental health support in remote work communities. But it isn't necessary to do so, to claim your ticket.
Nope, because there’s nothing to refund. Tickets are 100% free.
An optional donation can be made to Big Orange Heart when you select your ticket but the tickets themselves are free, zero, nothing, not-a-one! Cha-ching!
Yes, 100% without a doubt, please do!
If you have something to share with the community, we want to know about it. You can apply right here on the website. Although we won't be able to accept all applications (due to a limited number of sessions) we want to hear your ideas! You can apply under the Open Calls tab at the top of this page.
We want to ensure there is representation from each of the continents we’ll be delivering WordFest Live from, so please hit that speaker registration as soon as it's live.
You know how this goes… hand your marketing budget, we’ll throw up a logo.
No, no, no, no. We can not stand this model. We recognise times are different and so we’ve developed a truly social experience for our attendees. We want to see how we can partner with you to keep building on this best experience, for all involved.
If you want to join us as a partner of WordFest Live, we’re very open to ideas and discussions. We have to ensure this is mutually beneficial for you, the attendees and us the charity.
We love WordCamp! We’re a team of WordCamp organisers. We wholeheartedly support and encourage WordCamp. But we’re delivering this event, in part, to raise awareness as well as funds for Big Orange Heart (BOH). BOH is a registered non-profit with a mission to support and promote positive wellbeing and mental health within remote working communities.
WordCamps do not permit fundraising for specific charitable organisations and as such we are delivering this event independently.
100% of your donations will go directly to Big Orange Heart. This will enable the continued growth of free well-being and mental health support for the remote working community. If you’re interested to know more about how funds are used, please see https://big.ht/open.
