Schedule

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Saturday, August 4

Time	Content	Business	Development	Happiness Bar
8:00 am	Registration
9:00 am	Opening Remarks
9:30 am	Repurpose Your Words Kathryn Lang Favorite session: Repurpose Your Words	So You Want to Start a Web Design Business? Mickey Trivett Favorite session: So You Want to Start a Web Design Business?	Using the Command Line: Bash and WP-CLI Marc Gratch Favorite session: Using the Command Line: Bash and WP-CLI	WordPress 101 (Workshop) Sheila Oliver Favorite session: WordPress 101 (Workshop)
10:30 am	12 Lessons from Daily Blogging Helen Rittersporn Favorite session: 12 Lessons from Daily Blogging	Overcoming Your Fear of Sales April Wier Favorite session: Overcoming Your Fear of Sales	Google Data Studio Chris Edwards Favorite session: Google Data Studio
11:30 am	Lunch (Sponsored by Taziki’s Mediterranean Cafe)
12:30 pm	Keynote – Empowered by WordPress (Gordon Seirup)
1:30 pm	Gutenberg 101 Jacob McKinney Favorite session: Gutenberg 101	The New WordPress Paradigm – How Gutenberg Will (Eventually) Empower WordPress End-Users AND Professionals Alonso Indacochea Favorite session: The New WordPress Paradigm – How Gutenberg Will (Eventually) Empower WordPress End-Users AND Professionals	Gutenberg Developers (Workshop) Micah Wood Favorite session: Gutenberg Developers (Workshop)	Happiness Bar Favorite session: Happiness Bar
2:30 pm	Video For WordPress – The Engagement, Search, and Vlogging Trifecta! Steve Schwartz Favorite session: Video For WordPress – The Engagement, Search, and Vlogging Trifecta!	The Top 5 Legal Liability Risks of Building a Website Anna Blanch Rabe Favorite session: The Top 5 Legal Liability Risks of Building a Website
3:15 pm	Refreshments
3:45 pm	Use Yoast to Improve the SEO of Your Website Bobby Kircher Favorite session: Use Yoast to Improve the SEO of Your Website	WordPress Business Owners (Panel) Favorite session: WordPress Business Owners (Panel)	Continuously Delivering Value as a Developer Kyle B. Johnson Favorite session: Continuously Delivering Value as a Developer	Happiness Bar Favorite session: Happiness Bar
4:45 pm	So You’ve “WordCamped” – Now What? Aida Correa Favorite session: So You’ve “WordCamped” – Now What?	The Most Important Thing You’re Not Telling Your Clients David Zimmerman Favorite session: The Most Important Thing You’re Not Telling Your Clients	Speeding Up WordPress Frank Corso Favorite session: Speeding Up WordPress
5:30 pm	Day One Closing Remarks
6:30 pm	Afterparty at Oak Mountain Lanes (Sponsored by Boldgrid)

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Sunday, August 5

Time	Content	Business	Working with WP	Happiness Bar
9:30 am	Venue Open
10:00 am	Strategies Beyond SEO and Google to Build Your Brand and Market Your Social Media Awesomeness William Jackson Favorite session: Strategies Beyond SEO and Google to Build Your Brand and Market Your Social Media Awesomeness	Crafting the Perfect Proposal Melanie G Adcock Favorite session: Crafting the Perfect Proposal	How to Create Accessible Websites (Workshop) Rachel Cherry Favorite session: How to Create Accessible Websites (Workshop)	Podcasting 101 (Workshop) Kathryn Lang Favorite session: Podcasting 101 (Workshop)
11:00 am	5 Things WordPress Users Need to Know about Copyright and Intellectual Property Anna Blanch Rabe Favorite session: 5 Things WordPress Users Need to Know about Copyright and Intellectual Property	Tips to Being an Awesome Freelancer (And Not Failing… Too Hard) Marc Gratch Favorite session: Tips to Being an Awesome Freelancer (And Not Failing… Too Hard)
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	How to Grow Your Business with Podcasting (Workshop) Adam Silver Favorite session: How to Grow Your Business with Podcasting (Workshop)	How to Improve Any Web Project with Communication Laura Bosco Favorite session: How to Improve Any Web Project with Communication	Using Surveys To Better Understand Your Users Frank Corso Favorite session: Using Surveys To Better Understand Your Users	Happiness Bar Favorite session: Happiness Bar
2:00 pm		Picking your Project Management Software for Success Sandy Edwards Favorite session: Picking your Project Management Software for Success	Making Security Makes Sense to Clients Adam Warner Favorite session: Making Security Makes Sense to Clients
2:45 pm	Afternoon Break
3:15 pm	Photography for WordPress – Create Beautiful Images for your Websites Steve Schwartz Favorite session: Photography for WordPress – Create Beautiful Images for your Websites	Full-Time to Freelance: Practical and Self-Care Advice for When the 9-To-5 Has to Stop Kerry Putman Favorite session: Full-Time to Freelance: Practical and Self-Care Advice for When the 9-To-5 Has to Stop	A/B Testing – Which Way Does your Duck Face? Mike Demo Favorite session: A/B Testing – Which Way Does your Duck Face?	Happiness Bar Favorite session: Happiness Bar
4:15 pm	Tracking Your Website with Google Analytics Chris Edwards Favorite session: Tracking Your Website with Google Analytics	Code on the Road: Freelancing WordPress from an RV Cindy Cullen Favorite session: Code on the Road: Freelancing WordPress from an RV	What The West Wing Can Teach Us about Building Products AJ Morris Favorite session: What The West Wing Can Teach Us about Building Products
5:00 pm	Closing Remarks and Giveaways!

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