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Speaker: Sarah Moore – Video’s Place in Social Media Marketing

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sarah-mooreGive a high five to Sarah Moore who will be joining our speaker line-up at WordCamp Sydney 2016.

As a social media strategist Sarah is passionate about content creation – specifically in the form of video – and is known for her creativity and ability to help brands stand out in this noisy space that is the interwebs.

Specifically, Sarah has grabbed the live-streaming bull by its horns and leveraged the beast for business by building her email list, showcasing her authority in the social arena, securing clients and contributing to the 2016 Periscope Summit (San Francisco) as an international speaker.

She is passionate about using traditional video and live video to help businesses differentiate themselves in order to win the one thing every business is after – customer attention.

Sarah is going to take an in depth look at the current trend in social media marketing – video.

She’ll be presenting case studies and stats for live and pre-recorded video marketing as well as tips for what every business can do now to get ahead of the game.

You can follow Sarah on Twitter.

 

Speaker: Robert Wilde – WordPress Workflow – From Development to Staging to Production

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Say “Hi” to robert-wildeRobert Wilde who will be speaking this year at WordCamp Sydney.

Robert is currently a Cloud Technology Developer and Consultant, but he has had a lot of roles over the years.

For more than two decades he was worked in many different fields of technology from Associate Electronic Engineer to Technical Director at of one of Australia’s biggest Nightclubs. Then after many years working with small businesses, focusing on server and networking support, he made the logical transition to the CLOUD.

Now with a strong focus on WordPress custom themes and plugins, as well as other online CRM/CMS’s including Microsoft Office365 and Google Apps, he assists clients with building and adopting online business solutions. After developing a love for frameworks like Laravel PHP and AngularJS, he also enjoys teaching his young son, Hunter, the joys of code.

In his talk, Robert will be introducing us to his development workflow moving websites from development to staging and finally production.

He’s share all the tools, tips, and tricks you need to ensure each and every project runs as smooth as silk.

You can follow Robert on Twitter

 

Speaker: Peter Wilson – Contributing to WordPress Core

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We’d like to introduce Peter Wilson to our line-up of WordCamp Sydney speakers.

Peter is a web-developer with twenty years experience, a CSS junkie, a WordPress Engineer at Human Made and a guest committer to WordPress core.

He has worked in both client services and on enterprise applications.

His portfolio includes working on sites for some of Australia’s largest listed companies and highest profile performers.

Peter has spoken at many WordCamp events over the past few years.  More recently he has just spoken at WordCamp Europe.

Peter’s talking about contributing to WordPress core.

Almost everyone will have heard the phrase “don’t hack WordPress core” before, what’s less known is that it’s only the start of the saying. Don’t hack WordPress core, without contributing the hacks back.

Contributing to WordPress core is like riding a bike, it takes a little effort to get started but once you learn it’s a skill you’ll never forget.

In this talk you will be given a jump start on contributing, from how to use the bug tracker all the way to contributing a patch and getting your first props.

You can follow Peter on Twitter.

Speaker: Luke Carbis – What’s next for the Customiser?

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We’re stoked to announce our very first WordCamp Sydney speaker Luke Carbis.

Luke is a product manager at XWP, lead developer for Stream, and inventor of various other secret projects.

His daily focus is building products which help companies serve clients, and inspire growth.

Luke will be talking about the feature plugin Customise Posts, coming soon to a future version of WordPress.

The talk will include a demonstration of Front-End Editing done through the Customiser, and the technical details on how to easy it is to add support to your theme.

He will finish with a discussion and Q&A on the future of editing in WordPress so get your questions ready!

You can follow Luke on Twitter.

Wapuura

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Meet Wapuura aka Sydney Wapuu. He’s our official mascot for WordCamp Sydney 2016.

I’m sure you’ll see lots of Wapuura popping up everywhere before and during the conference.

Sydney Wapuu aka Wapuura

Design and permission to use by Raoul Wegat -thanks dude!

We have some 300×300 WordCamp Sydney badges that you can use on your own sites.  Download the images or paste the code directly into a text widget or page.

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