SATURDAY 7 th FEBRUARY - WordCamp Birmingham UK 2015

DAY 1

SATURDAY 7th FEBRUARY Time

Room 1 Explore

Room 2 Innovate

Room 3 Think & Smile

09:30

Registration

10:15

Introduction

10:30

Improving the UX of search in WordPress Steven Jones

Turbo-speed your WordPress website! Mike Pead

11:00

Theme building tricks of the trade Jonny Allbut

Workshop (2 hrs): Hands-on introduction to WordPress Mike Little

Get your Git on Matt Radford

11:30

Training clients on how to use WordPress Brian Duffy

Making WordPress realtime Josh Hillier

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Catering for WordPress Kirsty Burgoine

Content manage everything! Mark Wilkinson

14:30

Building a business by using WordPress as an application framework for universities Nathan Monk

Mind your language! A practical guide to implementing ‘proper’ language encoding on multilingual WordPress websites Belinda Mustoe, Doug Lawrence

15:00

WOW plugins 2015 Kimb Jones

Automate & integrate WordPress with other Applications Jason King

15:30

Lightning talks

17:00

First day wrap-up in main room

17:15

First day ends

Silver Sponsors:

Workshop (2 hrs): How to build better businesses for your customers Mike Killen

Bronze Sponsors: Helpful Technology, Make Do, Stinkyink.com WordCamp Champions: Blue Host, Jetpack, Planet Hoster WordCamp Accomplice: WPML.org

Event website: http://2015.birminghamuk.wordcamp.org - Event hashtag: #wcbrum

DAY 2

SUNDAY 8th FEBRUARY Time

Room 1 Explore

10:15

Introduction

10:30

Be a brand not a commodity Petra Foster

11:00

WordPress for small and not for profit enterprises Ted Ryan, Pauline Roche

11:30

Customers and the Web Paul Cherry

12:00

Why it’s time to stop using Photoshop for Web design Ben Furfie

12:30

Lunch

14:00

WordPress in local government Nivi Morales

14:30

Content is king Rachel McCollin

15:00

Crowdfunding WordPress plugins – the case of QPress Jonathan Bishop

15:30

Easy lazy SEO Jessica Rose

16:00

Second day wrap-up in main room

16:30

Second day ends

Silver Sponsors:

Room 2 Inspire

Room 3 Think & Smile

Workshop (2.25 hrs): Manage your WordPress Website now and for the future Rachel McCollin

Workshop (2.25 hrs): Theme builders workshop Jonny Allbut

Workshop (2.25 hrs): How to market and sell more WordPress websites Karl Craig West

Workshop (2.25 hrs): Custom fields workshop Nathan Roberts, Kirsty Burgoine

Bronze Sponsors: Helpful Technology, Make Do, Stinkyink.com WordCamp Champions: Blue Host, Jetpack, Planet Hoster WordCamp Accomplice: WPML.org

Event website: http://2015.birminghamuk.wordcamp.org - Event hashtag: #wcbrum