Our First Wave of Sessions

Confirmed Sessions

We’re very happy to finally unveil our first wave of confirmed sessions for WordCamp Toronto 2015! In no particular order, we have:

** Keep in mind that these sessions may change over the next couple of weeks, depending on speakers’ availability suddenly changing at the last minute. (It’s happened before!) **

There’s a lot of content this year, so the actual schedule (times, tracks, and whatnot) is still being finagled. More updates to come this week!

Featured Speaker: Alan Lok

“I am the director of DevOps at Mercatus Technologies, a Toronto-based company that provide SaaS based eCommerce platform for grocery retailers. I also own WirelessLinx Inc., a consulting company in the GTA area that helps with website development (WordPress, Joomla, Liferay) and stack performance tuning/analysis. Previously I was the developer advocate for YellowAPI, development manager for Mercatus Technologies and have worked on almost all development roles.” Continue reading →

Featured Speakers: Élise Desaulniers & Alexandre Simard

Élise Desaulniers rediscovered the pleasure of writing with WordPress and has been blogging (in French!) for more than 6 years. She is a founding partner at Desaulniers Simard, a boutique consulting firm based in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She has trained hundreds of people to use WordPress and has developed dozens of sites. She has been a speaker at all WordCamp Montréal conferences since 2012 and she thinks multilingual sites are to blame for her grey hair.

Alexandre built his first of many websites in 1998. His browser of choice was Netscape 2.02 and he really liked BBEdit. Since 2009, Alexandre Simard has been making a living as an independent WordPress developer. He has spoken at (almost) all WordCamp Montréal editions. In 2014, he founded Desaulniers Simard with Élise Desaulniers.
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Featured Speaker: Shanta R. Nathwani

Shanta R. Nathwani is a Consultant and Instructor in Web Design and CCIT Capstone at Sheridan College, which includes teaching WordPress. The ICCIT program is a joint program with the University of Toronto at Mississauga. She thrives on teaching beginners, as well as content architecture.

Shanta has spoken at numerous WordCamps over the last four years, including Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles and three times at Toronto, so far. In Milwaukee this year, she delivered most of the beginner track for Foundation Friday and then delivered her Content Architecture talk on Saturday for a total of five talks in a single weekend. She was a co-organizer for WordCamp Hamilton’s second event this year and has now joined Toronto’s team. She has spoken at five WordCamps this year and seven last year. Continue reading →