WordCamp Sydney 2019

Weekend of 16th and 17th November, 2019
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)

What is WordCamp Sydney?

WordCamp Sydney is a volunteer-run and not-for-profit conference for designers, developers, marketers, business owners, and everyone in between that use WordPress or even any website.

What can I do at WordCamp Sydney?

WordCamp Sydney features two action-packed days of talks from industry experts who are sharing their knowledge with the community. There are no sales pitches, just educational content. Each day has two types of tracks, a Business & Marketing, and Designer & Developer track. There is also an afterparty on Saturday night with drinks and canapes.

What if I have been to WordCamp before?

No two WordCamp experiences are the same. Different speakers, sponsors, and, of course, camp attendees will be different. Whether you’re attending your first WordCamp or your 100th, you’re bound to have fun, learn a lot, and widen your circle of WordPress friends.

Come with an open mind. Be open to meeting new people, learn new ideas & explore new experiences. Leave your comfort zone!

– Lauren Jeffcoat, WPML

Sessions

• Why No One Is Reading Your Blog Posts (And How To Change That)

  

• Zero To Website: From Planning To Launch In 9 Steps

  

• Pre-Selling A Premium Plugin With WordPress

  

• Goodbye Themes, Hello Elementor – Beyond Creating Basic Websites.

  

• How Outsourcing Can Allow You To Thrive

  

• Gutenberg Block Editor Tips & Tricks

  

• The Future Of WordPress SEO – What’s New In 2020

  

• Preparing For The Flood. How Do You Conduct Load Testing To Ready Your WordPress Site For Viral Events?

  

• WordPress Plugins – Initial Growth to Global Scale – What I Wish I Knew Before!

  

• The Science of WordPress

  

• Escaping Client Hell: 6 Practical Tips To Make Freelancing Fun Again

  

• Ways To Use Zapier And WordPress To Automate Your Life

  

• Planning Your Website Roadmap: Why Every Website Project Needs One To Save It From Expensive Mistakes

  

• The Healthy Baker – Flipping the Brief

  

• Website Delivered – It’s The START Of The Relationship!

  

• 5 Steps To Avoiding Burnout: Creating A Healthy Work/Life Balance

  

• 7 Ways To Generate Your First 1,000 Customers

  

• Our Wild Journey Implementing A Headless WordPress Blog

  

• When Good Clients Go Bad

  

• WordPress Hosting Survival Guide

  

• Building Powerful Subscription And Membership Sites That Scale

  

• Networking & After Party

• Panel of Experts – Q&A – Business Ops

  

• Panel of Experts – Q&A – Page Builders

  

• Divi 4.x and WooCommerce Changes

  

• Strategy Is Not Negotiable

  

• Positioning For Profit

  

• I’m New To WordCamp

  

• Elementor Support Session

  

• Let’s Get Engaged

  

• Don’t Panic: How To Troubleshoot Your WordPress Site

  

• Speed Networking

  

• Gravity Forms

  

• ACF | Advanced Custom Fields

  

• Beaver Builder

  

• Getting Involved With WordPress And Its Community

  

Recent News

• Budget and Survey Feedback23rd December, 2019
• Join Us On Slack And At The Meetups22nd November, 2019
• Review from Berri Marketing18th November, 2019
• Friday Night Social14th November, 2019
• Meet Your Speakers14th November, 2019
• Thank you to our Bronze sponsors12th November, 2019
• Thank you to our Silver sponsors12th November, 2019
• The Code Company – WCSyd 2019 After Party Sponsor12th November, 2019
• WooCommerce – WCSyd 2019 Gold Sponsor12th November, 2019

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The Organising Team

• Briana Graydon

  

  Lover of all things social media! I put the social, in social media. Trust me, you’ll understand once I start talking.

  Owner of Pink Cow Social – a boutique social media company bringing the fun into socials for small business owners.

  Teacher of social media, as well as lover of all things social.
  Experience in Business and Marketing and have a background in corporate,
  sport and associations.

  Lover of chocolate, tea, handbags and sport.

  Hate snakes, spiders and licorice.

• James Carmody

  

  James Carmody works as a Technical SEO Specialist at Prosperity Media who are based in Sydney. Prosperity is an SEO only agency who work with enterprise and mid-tier clients for advisory and implementation of strategy.

  James has been involved with the WordPress meetups since 2015 and is the lead organiser for WordCamp Sydney 2019.

  James has a love for WordPress and has created several websites for clients such as Boat Deal or Sydney Shade and his own WordPress websites such as CPAP Online Australia.

• Kristen Symonds

  

  Kristen Symonds, aka kristarella, works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic. She is a WordPress fanatic with a love for photography, craft, SciFi and Fantasy, board games, and has all the hobbies.
  Kristen is married to Dave and has two pet rabbits named Monty and Zoë.

• Mitch Menghi

  

  Mitch is the director of Brain Child Labs which is the parent company of Web Chemistry and Menkom. They offer web design and marketing, servicing the western suburbs of Sydney, offering high-quality services for small businesses.

• Peter Shilling

  

  Partner at The DMA, a Sydney based WordPress development agency. Peter has a long history with WordPress, domain names and website hosting.

• Wil Brown

  

  Scottish-born Wil lives in Sydney with his wife and 4yo son.

  He plugged into the WordPress community back in 2008 developing websites and quickly finding a passion for plugin and API development work to extend the CMS.

  He jump-started the Dublin WordPress community in 2010 while living there and today is co-organiser of the WordPress Sydney meetup group.

  Wil runs a WordPress consultancy company called Zero Point Development and a WordPress care site called WP Wingman.