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WordCamp Toronto (#WCTO)
Event Info
Event: WordCamp Toronto 2017
Dates:
- Friday, 29 Sept ‘17
- Saturday, 30 Sept ‘17
- Sunday, 1 Oct ‘17
Location: Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School of Management
55 Dundas St. W., 7th Floor
Tickets: $40 https://2017.toronto.wordcamp.org/tickets
Website: https://2017.toronto.wordcamp.org
Lead Organiser: Conrad Hall
Email: wordcampto at gmail dot com
Phone: 647.278.0188
Address: 610-341 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON M5S 1W8
Attendance:
- 500 attendees
- 56 Volunteers
- 40 speakers
- 20 sponsors
Demographics:
- Retail and service business owners (from shoe stores and hair salons to carpenters and lawyers to agencies and freelancers)
- $150,000 to $20,000,000 in annual sales
- 30 – 72 years of age
- Approximately 60% female
A brief history
#WCTO is 10 years old this year. #WCTO helped thousands of business owners, WordPress users, and coders to learn and grow in the past decade. We are looking forward to a new decade of growth in the WordPress community and for local business owners, coders and youth.
WordPress runs 28.5% of websites in the world (source: w3techs.com), and the total economic effect is measured in trillions of dollars. Locally, that means tens of millions of dollars injected into the GTA economy through jobs, freelancers and service providers. In just two days this year #WCTO is injecting $69,810.40 into the local economy. Add the ripple effect of new clients, joint ventures, and product development that comes out of WordCamp Toronto, and you get a million dollar boost to the Toronto economy.
Then there’s the fun and networking. Hundreds attend #WCTO every year from Ottawa, Montreal, New York, Syracuse, as well as England, Bulgaria, Japan, France, and Australia. #WCTO is a global, multi-cultural event in the world’s most multi-cultural city.
#WCTO starts Friday evening with a welcome dinner for speakers, sponsors and volunteers. The learning starts bright and early Saturday morning, then we relax Saturday evening with an after party at a local venue. Then more learning Sunday (with a slightly later start time) before everyone heads for home.
WordCamp Toronto Today
2017 kicks off a new decade of programs and growth in Toronto.
KidsCamp
This is our first year running KidsCamp. It’s an opportunity to introduce kids age 7-14 to WordPress and the world of coding.
All day Saturday kids (in company with parents) discover WordPress and build a working site. They leave at the end of the day with their own site and the knowledge to manage it.
Wapuu Drawing Contest
Wapuu is the official WordCamp mascot with local variations encouraged. WordCamp Toronto wants its own Wapuu and invites the community to choose.
Everyone is welcome to enter their idea for a Toronto Wapuu. Draw it hugging the CN Tower, Skydome, or City Hall. Put it in Greektown, Chinatown, or Little Italy. Every idea is welcome, and the community chooses Toronto’s new Wapuu during WordCamp.
Enter the Wapuu Drawing Contest: https://2017.toronto.wordcamp.org/wapuu-drawing-contest/
Ambassador Program
WordCamp Toronto is a community driven and focused event. For the first time, we are moving attendees out of the event venue and into the community for lunch both days.
Several local restaurants are providing tables of 12 where attendees can have lunch with speakers or sponsors. We’re also listing restaurants within walking distance so everyone has a lunch option. The idea is to move the $22,000 typically invested in food at the venue out into locally owned restaurants.
