The remote landscape allows leaders to really strip back to the fundamentals of guiding teams forward. And what has become apparent, is the traditional “cogs-of-a-machine”, “well-oiled”, and “everything-automated” focus on leadership is dying out. THANK GOD!

Leading in the remote world means having a greater awareness of and skills to manage the diverse, messiness, and wonderfulness of human beings. This talk will take a look into key principles that leaders in the remote world need to specialise in to successfully serve their teams.

Join Michele as she shares her experience of giving back to the community.

Michele is the Lead WordPress Technical Specialist at Thrive Internet Marketing Agency and runs her own WordPress shop at 13Core. She is also the Head Geek over at Can’t Speak Geek. When not working her jobs, Michele is an organizer for WordCamp St Louis and the Lead Organizer of the Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup. You can usually find her snapping pictures, at the gym, hanging with her family, or reading a book. She is always down for an adventure, especially if it involves great food or drinks.

Join Devin as he shares how Bluehost giving back to the community.

You may not realize it but your words matter. They can make or break a sale, keep or lose relationships, can can have lasting affects on your future. They also matter every time you write an email, send out a text, or put them online. Stop using qualifiers and fillers, start being inclusive and setting expectations.

We will discuss what words work and do not work in a professional setting, ways to break the habits of toxic communication, and ways to grow in different ways of communication.

Freelancing is stressful enough. Being forced to do it from home can make matters worse. You might feel scattered, overwhelmed, and just plain stressed. Dedicating a single day of the month to managing that stress in an organized fashion can help you not only keep your head above water, but get you swimming! In this talk, Allie will break down what Admin Day is, why it’s helpful, and how you can build your own customized Admin Day that will set you up for less stress and more success.

We all love to see sites that are fast, user-friendly, accessible, secure and reliable. But how do you get there? In this talk, we’ll share how we use the various aspects of “performance” to guide decisions from product ideation through actual software, and how we measure and tool for success.

This is a mindset, not just a single metric: We care a lot about page speed, conversion and beyond. and in our opinion, “a better web” is a more performant web, which starts with a core practice is to love our customers (and our customers’ customers). We’ll share tactics you can take back to your team to argue for a better, more performant way to engage with your users.

We’ll cover:

1. How do you foster collaboration across product, design and engineering stakeholders without losing collective sight of success?
2. What does “performance” mean to the different stakeholders in your organization?
3. Why is it more important than ever to think about your website performance and how to measure your success?

Join Dan as he shares her experience of giving back to the community.

Dan is the Founder of Big Orange Heart, where he helps deliver a vision of better well-being and mental health support within remote working communities.

Join Thomas as he shares how Weglot is giving back to the community.

Thomas is a Partnership Manager at Weglot. Establishing new connections and organizing events every day. Breathing, talking and dreaming about Weglot and a multilingual world.

Weglot is a WordPress multilingual plugin to translate and display your website in multiple languages. It provides a fast first layer of automated translation which you can easily edit yourself or by adding teammates or collaborating with pro-translators through the Weglot dashboard. 

In this particular talk, Sumant will take you especially developers through the journey of starting podcasting all from SCRATCH. He will begin from podcasting basics, types of podcast, when is the right time to start to execute it rightly. He will also highlight essential points to overcome the fear of expressing yourself among the audience or interviewing a guest.

Interestingly, Sumant will also tell you all those benefits of starting podcasting for yourself and how can you leverage your knowledge to the admired level within the WordPress community at the cost of implementing your skillsets and experience over the years.

A lot of people in today’s world post-pandemic are full-time working from home. As a freelancer, WHF does become lonely and difficult to connect with the world. Hence this topic will cover the different communities around which you can engage and reasons why you should be activate and engage with others.

Some goals are straightforward and success is easy to measure. Sometimes, though, your goals are more abstract. So how do you measure success of those goals? In this talk, you’ll learn how to set meaningful KPIs, or key performance indicators.

Join Topher as he shares his experience of giving back to the community.

Topher DeRosia is Senior WordPress Architect at Camber Creative. He brings more than 25 years of experience as a web developer, over a decade of which has been spent building out WordPress sites. In addition, Topher curates http://HeroPress.com. Fun fact: Topher is responsible for making the official International Space Station Windows95 desktop theme. He currently lives in Grand Rapids, MI with his wife Cate and two daughters, Ema and Sophia. You can find Topher on Twitter talking about e-commerce, web development, general technology, and culture. He’s also a regular on the Make WordPress and Post Status Slack channels.

Join Taco as he shares how Yoast is giving back to the community.

Hi! I’m Taco and I’m community manager here at Yoast. Of course, I’m much more than just a job title. Let’s do the short version first. After being in Customer Support for the better part of 7 years at Yoast, I transitioned into my current position as Community manager early 2020. This allows me to spend even more time with the community that became my 3rd family; the WordPress community. Third? Well yeah. I have a wife and two amazing daughters, and consider my friends and colleagues at Yoast to be my second family. I love meeting and connecting people. Being at social events gives me more energy than one can imagine. I do have strong opinions and I’m prototype Dutch, so I can be quite direct and rather blunt, even when I try really hard not to be. If we haven’t met yet, I’d love to meet you. And in the meantime, please do reach out on Twitter or the WordPress Slack.

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WooCommerce is the most popular plugin which turns a WordPress website into a highly customizable and user-friendly online store.

However, most owners of small WooCommerce stores don’t utilize its full potential and waste so much time on updates, content-entry, calculations, and other everyday tasks without realizing that they can automate them and with proper tools, they can save time and money which can sometimes make a difference between success and failure.

In this interactive lecture, we will cover the must-use tools, best practices, and tips on how you can pull the best out of a WooCommerce store and save your precious time and money by making smart investments in your WooCommerce store.

Together we will briefly go through case studies which are common in the eCommerce world, explore many different solutions suited for any skill level and get practical knowledge we can instantly use while engaging in trivia and mini-games that will challenge your eCommerce mindset.

I’ve been living with epilepsy for a very long time, I had a few seizures as a kid, they stopped and started again at the age of 14, and this is accompanied by several mental disorders.

I will be talking about:

• how I’ve been dealing with this
• the difficulties I have faced
• how the community has helped
• what the community can do better to help people with mental health issues and hidden disabilities
• and some other few points

How do you design something when everyone is remote, and what particular challenges does it raise? Where does design fit into the product cycle when remote and collaborate? How can even a designer or team grow and flourish when remote? From ideation, feedback sessions to iterations and collaboration during building – let’s look at how it can be perhaps even better when designed remote. I’ll draw on my background working remotely in different design roles, sharing what worked and didn’t, and sharing some practice suggestions. Designing remote is powerful, but it needs adaption – let’s talk about that together.

Join Chris as he shares his experience of giving back to the community.

Chris is a Senior Software Engineer at WP Engine and has been working with WordPress since for over a decade. During that time he built one of the largest WordPress security plugins as well as various plugins and themes for clients of all sizes, Google Chrome extensions and even WordPress development environments. A teacher at heart, Chris has spoken at numerous WordCamps and other conferences as well as taught both computer science and aviation for universities throughout the US.

Join Carrie as he shares how Nexcess is giving back to the community.

Carrie serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Liquid Web’s Hosting & Applications business. In this role, Carrie is responsible for defining and driving the growth for Liquid Web’s strategic product lines including Traditional and Sophisticated Hosting, Cloud Services, Managed WordPress, Managed WooCommerce, Managed Magento, and several other managed applications.

Carrie is passionate about building products, services and comprehensive solutions for entrepreneurs, designers, developers and digital agencies who are building their business on the web.

Nexcess provides a fully managed, high-performance, and best-in-class cloud solution built to optimize WordPress and WooCommerce sites and stores. Our holistic, hands-on approach to managed products and solutions includes providing users with tools that help them create better websites and e-commerce stores along with expert, on-demand support.

Did you know that the internet is thought to produce about the same carbon emissions as the aviation industry’s fuel consumption? And if the internet was a country it would be the seventh biggest polluter in the world. It’s shocking, isn’t it!? The cloud isn’t as fluffy and harmless as we’re led to believe…

Digital technologies provide wonderful opportunities to reach and engage others, often in ways that aren’t possible using offline methods. But digital does have significant hidden costs, which many in the tech industry aren’t conscious of.

In this talk, we’ll discuss how digital technologies cause pollution and how technologists can take action to improve the sustainability of the tech they build, manage and use. We’ll also go beyond digital carbon emissions and get into some of the deeper issues around sustainability and climate justice.

In this talk I’ll share my WordPress story with your audience in an inspiring and actionable way. Your audience will discover:

• How contributing to WordPress as a self-sponsored contributor could help them get valuable work experience, boost their resume, build a healthy level of self-confidence, be seen as an expert and get doors to open they would never dare dream of
• How contributing can help you get out of a funk
• That there are dozens if not hundreds of ways to contribute, no matter how much or how little time you have available.
• Take home some tips on how to get started, how to deal with some of the negativity around contributing these days and how to set healthy boundaries.

Are you ready to create a content system that works for you again and again? In this live session, attendees will learn:

✅ How to create a content system that works for you
✅ How to decide what content to repurpose
✅ What the rules are for repurposing content on social media (and how to repost content without getting penalized)
✅ How to layer repurposed content into your overall social media content plan
… and more!

Join Amanda as she shares her experience of giving back to the community.

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.

Join Jason as he shares how Cloudways is giving back to the community.

A 20 year veteran of the web industry, from e-commerce to web development, content management, open-source, events, and web hosting. As an Open Source Executive and a past Board Member of Open Source Matters, Jason has shared his love of Open Source worldwide.

Cloudways is all about simplicity and freedom for online businesses. From the choice of five industry-leading cloud providers to 1-Click WordPress operations, Cloudways ensures that your visitors do not have to face slow loading websites and security issues.

Many of us have open source projects out there for WordPress. I’d love to discuss what issues we’ve come across while doing this at various scales including but not narrowly limited to — working on open source project outside of your normal full time work.

Passion for the work you do can drive a ‘good stress’ reaction; however, the roadblocks, lack of outcome-control and other negative factors cause anger &/or anxiety which works against the positive gains. Understanding the neurochemistry of stress gives the person new insight into their own behaviour. Techniques to combat the effects of prolonged stress are explored. Current research articles will be referenced to support Karen’s approach to ‘moving on’ in order to renew your commitment to the journey.

Participants will learn about the neurochemistry of stress (specifically the biogenic amines: dopamine, norephinephrine and serotonin) and how it directs behaviour. Through a presentation, small group learning and whole group activities, particpants will leave with a plan to reduce the effects of stress on the body and brain.

Everyone has the same number of hours in a day. So why do some people get so much more done than others? It’s not because they have superpowers. And there isn’t a big secret you don’t know. The trick to getting more done and enjoying a workday with less stress is embracing productivity strategies and tactics that align with the way you like to work. This session will share tips and tricks that will help you take charge of your workday so you start each day inspired, feel proud of what you accomplished, and end each day satisfied.

Join Kathy as she shares her experience of giving back to the community.

Kathy is a Product Marketing Manager for Kadence at StellarWP and has been working with WordPress for over a decade. She has both technical and marketing experience and has worked with a number of brands in the WordPress space. She has helped numerous organizations empower their businesses with WordPress. She’s helped organize both WordCamp Phoenix and WCUS. She currently lives outside of Denton, TX where she can often be found walking golden retrievers or hanging out in horse barns.

Join Adam as he shares how GoDaddy Pro is giving back to the community.

As the Director of Field Marketing for GoDaddy Pro, Adam works fearlessly for the Pro brand with passion and enthusiasm for the Web Designer and Developer community as an advocate for freelance web professionals across the globe. Adam is also passionate about his family, robots, and of course Life, the Universe and Everything.

GoDaddy Pro was built by and for website designers and developers. Whether you’re new to web design or growing your existing business, you’ll find free tools, products, guidance and expert support to help you manage your clients, websites and tasks.

Just over ten years ago, I took the plunge into working from home. Two years ago, the majority of knowledge workers around the world had the opportunity to try the remote work lifestyle out for themselves.

For those of you who have decided that you’re never going back to the office, I’d like to share with you what you can expect from the next 8+ years of your life.

Whether forced into a change due to the recent pandemic, or selected as a choice in pursuit of more freedom or balance, many creative and technology professionals have found themselves working from home. Though the perks of a short commute, casual attire, and pets-as-officemates can’t be beat, blending work life with home life can often lead to a dismantling of boundaries between the two. If you are finding yourself feeling even more exhausted, unhealthy, anxious, stressed, and overworked than ever before, despite all the flexibility available, then this talk is for you. We will discuss the nature of work, things to watch out for, and thoughtful, realistic actions you can take to restore your health, wellness, and sanity.