WordCamp Toronto 2015’s call for speakers is now open!

Do you have something to share about WordPress that will benefit the community? Are you a confident presenter who can gel with an audience and deliver something awesome? If so, we’d like to hear your idea for a 50 minute presentation.

Submit Your Speaker Application

Our general categories are making a return for 2015:

• Accessibility (a11y)
• Coding / Development (Beginner & Advanced)
• Content
• Design
• Business
• Meta (Getting involved with the WordPress community)

There’s no specific agenda this year, so feel free to submit whatever topics you’re interested in presenting. Here are some tips for standing out from the rest of the crowd:

• Put a new spin on old talks.
  WordPress 101, Choosing Plugins & Themes, Posts vs. Pages – they’re all great, but they’ve been done to death. Do you have a fresh approach for covering these beginner topics? We’d love to hear it.
• Introduce us to the cutting-edge.
  What’s on the horizon for WordPress users and developers?
• Tell us a story.
  Case studies & success stories with actionable takeaways make for a compelling presentation. We love hearing about the different ways WordPress is being used.
• Teach us something new.
  Get hands-on with practical sessions that give your audience something they can use immediately.

We’ll be accepting submissions until late August. Get yours in soon!

This year’s WordCamp Toronto will take place October 3-4 2015 at Humber College’s Lakeshore Campus in the city’s west end. This will be our third annual WordCamp at Humber and we couldn’t be more excited. You can learn more about the venue on our Location page.

Our annual after-party will be taking place in downtown Toronto at the Duke of Devon pub. A short walk from Union Station, this’ll also be at the heart of our city’s annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festivities.

Want to sponsor the event? It’s a great opportunity to support the local WordPress community. Find full details on levels and recognition on the Sponsor page.

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Meet Your Organizers

Tom Auger

Tom Auger is a Senior Partner at Zeitguys, where he directs the web and interactive practice. As an educator, he has taught every aspect of digital design and production over the last 15 years at various academic institutions in Ontario, most recently Centennial College. He is also a core contributor to the WordPress project and is always excited to evangelize and share his knowledge with the community. Tom is co-organizer of the Toronto WordPress Meetup Group, and organizes Contrib2Core sessions that introduce WordPress developers to the joys of contributing back to the Open Source project through bug fixes, patch submissions and Trac tickets. Tom blogs about a variety of technological topics, is a co-host of AgencyChat, a monthly webcast, and is active on a variety of Stack Exchanges.

Brent Kobayashi

Brent Kobayashi has been making the online world friendly for more than 19 years as president of Toronto digital marketing firm Kobayashi Online. Heavily involved with the WordPress community, Brent helps organize the Toronto WordPress meetup group of over 1400 people, has been a co-organizer of WordCamp Toronto since 2013, and runs the meetup group Online Friendly TO. He thinks he’s funny, but we’re not so sure – check out his shenanigans on twitter and judge for yourself… @brentkobayashi

Dejan Markovic

Dejan Markovic is the president of NYTO Group, a premium web development company with offices in both Toronto and New York city. He is an experienced web developer with the extensive knowledge of both front and back-end technologies (PHP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, ColdFusion, HTML5, CSS3, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, to name just a few).
Dejan wrote the book WordPress Responsive Theme Design and he was a technical reviewer of the book Learning Yeoman. As Dejan strongly believes in returning back to the community, he is the contributor/author to 2 free WordPress plugins: Buffer My Post and Tweet Old Custom Post. Dejan is also one of the organizers of WPToronto meetup group and WordCamp Toronto. Together with his wife he have recently created a site dedicated to all things WordPress.

You can always find him on various WordCamps (especially the ones within driving distance from Toronto) or exploring nature, art & love for food across Canada & US.