WordCamp Toronto 2017

Tamara is joining us from Rochester, NY, just south of the border. She is speaking Saturday afternoon at 4pm in the auditorium. Her topic is about making a name for yourself. Let’s get to know her…

I’m a little bit country and a little bit of rock and roll. I prefer the real talk about your online presence instead of encouraging you to follow the next shiny object or a “”best practice”” that is only best practice because someone with more followers than you said it was. I think those are the wrong questions to be asking when looking for a process for your online presence. The right question is how will this new thing bring value to my followers and does it feel right for me? A strong online presence isn’t about how many followers or likes you get – that’s for the popular kids. How many popular kids are now experts in their field? Not as many as you think. Be YOU. WordPress allows you to do just that with your website and blog theme. I show you how to put it all together so you can strategically rule your online real estate.

When I’m not doing online strategy, you can find me watching Football and participating in my Fantasy Football league. I love great conversations, online and off with a great cup of coffee or glass of wine and awesome people. Let’s meet up at WordCamp Toronto and I’ll help you breakthrough some of your blocks to being known in the social sphere.”

Let’s face it, unless people know who you are and what you do, nobody is going to know you are awesome, right? To do this means you have to have both online and offline strategies to become known in your community. My presentation will outline a process for you to follow and how to implement that process so that it aligns with YOU as a human being.

I have the solution to the problem business owners have about becoming Known in their industry or niche. To get the business, people have to not just know what you do, they have to know WHO you are. While there are a million ways to do this, having a strategy and following a process is where you will succeed. The most important question to answer though, is WHY? Why do you want to do what you do? Why do you bring value to your community. My presentation will help you find your space and place on the internet so you can focus – and grow yourself and your business. My presentation is for all levels, though someone with some content already created will have a head start. Never fear, though – that’s what I’m here for – hit me up before or after my presentation and maybe I can help you create some content we can then help you promote.

I’m visiting from Rochester NY. This is my second WordCamp Toronto and I loved the first one. I love TO because it is always evolving; it never seems to be the same city twice. Likewise, I find WordCamps always evolving too; and even going to the same city twice, I don’t attend the same WordCamp twice. I’m looking forward to this year’s #WCTO and am honored to be speaking again.

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Alan is one of our local speakers. He is speaking Sunday afternoon at 3:30pm in Rm 129. His topic is in the Dev Track and address WordPress in containers. Let’s get to know Alan…

Tech is what I do during the day, but music is my passion. At day I lead the Cloud DevOps PS practice at Scalar Decisions, and at night I run a music school. It gets me to switch between being super analytical and highly creative. The cool part is that there is an intersection – ask me what I am piano piece I am practicing at my talk (and it will show my inner geek!) 🙂

Containers are hot, and it’s not just the cool kids talking about it now. From your local computer to the public cloud, you can deploy containers easily and make idempotent deployments for a start-up or a bank. How does WordPress fit into this ecosystem and what are some of the considerations on deploying for mobility and high availability?

There’s something for developers of all levels in this talk. I hope by the end of the talk that everyone starts thinking about when it is the right time to use containers in your WordPress development.

I love Toronto for all that it has to offer – people, places and food!

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Michelle is joining us from just south of the border. She is speaking Saturday afternoon at 3pm in Rm 149. Her topic is on tweaks and changes you can make to WordPress that increase productivity. Let’s get to know her…

I’m an avid photographer. I do photoshoots for families, seniors, newborns, and pets. I love event photography. But, most of all I love photographing nature…especially birds and insects.

My presentation is about ways to make your website incrementally better – and a much better experience for your site visitors. My experience as a marketer has provided me with opportunities to help others hone their sites.

A good website isn’t just about technical strength – it’s about the nuances that make your visitors feel better about spending time with your site. This talk will share those things with you.

WordCamp Toronto is always amazing – great people, great topics, and the hallway track is always great, too!

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Guy (pronounced “ghee”) is joining us from Paris. He is speaking Sunday afternoon at 3:30pm in Rm 147. His topic is about outsourcing your site development to get the best results at the lowest investment. Let’s get to know him…

WordPress user since 2012, I’ve been project manager for various WordPress websites and freelance since 2014.

Curious about technologie in general, sciences, social, travelling, knowledge & education…

I am also interested in all form of “competition” : E-sports, speed-running, sports, competitive eating…

All time racket sports player, I host table tennis Meetup every week at Trinity Bellwood Community Center.”

“Can a professional website be created by the low cost freelancers on marketplace sites ? What will you get ? at what price ?

Let’s find out !” “Why did I choose to do this presentation? I was simply curious; curious to discover this way of working; to discover the talent of those freelancers and to discover how much it would cost.

This presentation won’t be only about the cheapest possible price you can get for a WordPress website, but it will also be an introduction to more complex questions such as the upside/downside of globalization, the competition that it creates for the local market etc…”

The thing I like most about Toronto is its multiculturalism : traveling from Greece to Korea with a stop in Italy within the same city !

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Shanta is one of our local speakers. She is speaking Saturday morning at 10:05am in Rm 129. Her topic is on her experiences while exploring options for learning code. Let’s get to know her…

My profile on #WCTO is not everything I am, though this will be my 5th time speaking at WordCamp Toronto!

In my spare time, I practice martial arts. Namely, Tai Chi, Karate and Ancient Weaponry. I’ve been studying the arts for 15 years. I’ve been a teacher for most of my life, starting at the age of 12 when I taught my Grade 6 class about India. My teacher never lifted a finger.

I’m also a Meetup junkie. I sometimes attend upwards of 5 or 6 meetups a week, sometimes multiple ones on the same day. Some of my favourites are DevTO, HackerNest, and, of course, WordPress Toronto!

One of the largest trends these days is learning code, regardless of the language. The number of programs out there, whether teaching children or adults is immense! Where do you start? Is coding for you? What is the best method for me? What should I be learning? The best question that will help to answer that is: What is your goal? I hope to help guide you through Continue reading “Shanta Nathwani – Featured Speaker”

Brian is travelling to us from Montreal. He is speaking Saturday morning at 10:05am in the auditorium. His topic is how WordPress is changing lives. Let’s get to know him…

I love fishing! There are few experiences in life like heading to a quiet lake or calm river in northern Quebec, in search of monster pike.

I’ll be talking about the power of the WordPress community.

You have never heard a talk like this, I guarantee it.

I enjoy socializing with my Toronto WordPress community friends.

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Jesse is one of our local speakers. He is speaking Sunday afternoon at 2:30 pm in Rm 147. His topic about user experience (UX) and the role played by site design. Let’s get to know him…

My official bio says that I’m a UX designer who specializes in building insightful, creative, and usable digital experiences. That’s the nice, standard, boilerplate conference introduction I’ll always send (WordCamp Toronto being one of them).

These days, though, I’ve been introducing myself through my Twitter bio where I say, “”[I’m a] UX designer by day, Indoor Cycling instructor by night””. Yep, I’m one of those peppy instructors who make you climb, sprint, and dash for your life in spin class, and I’m a better designer doing all of it.” “”

“WordPress, Design, and You”” is a roadmap to the User Experience (UX) design process. It’s where we look at the stages of a web design project and the activities that happen per stage.

Throughout the talk, I’ll be relating Jesse James Garrett’s 5 planes of user experience – strategy, scope, structure, skeleton, and surface – to the Continue reading “Jesse Emmanuel Rosario – Featured Speaker”

Shannon comes to us from Mont-Saint-Hilaire in Quebec. She is speaking Saturday afternoon at 3pm in Rm 129. Her topic is about new CSS toys for theme development. Let’s get to know her…

I’m a writer, open source web developer, sewist, hiker, modern quilter, slam poet, and mum of 4.

The W3C’s CSS Working Group is introducing a ton of new CSS modules in 2017. These include CSS Filters, Feature Queries, Native Mixins, Grid Layout, Native Variables, and more! We’ll learn how they work and when to use them.

This talk is intended for people who already have a basic understanding of CSS and theme development. We’ll be looking at code, but beginners will be able to follow along. And there will be lots of links to outside resources so that you can learn even more on your own after the talk.

My favourite things about Toronto: roti, gelato, bento boxes, dim sum, latkes, spanakopita! Pass me a fork, or a spoon, or chopsticks!

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Chris is one of our local speakers. He is speaking Sunday afternoon at 1:30pm in the Auditorium. His topic is on virtual reality and integrating WordPress. Let’s get to know him…

I‘m a huge gamer! I’ve been a hooked on video games since the Sega Genesis and I currently love playing online multiplayer games on my PlayStation 4.

When I’m not gaming, I enjoy traveling around the world. I love visiting new countries, experiencing the culture and eating their delicious local foods.

I’m a fan of all things Disney! I love going to Disneyland and Walt Disney World, my dream is to visit every Disney theme park around the world.

That about covers my non-WordPress interests! My presentation will cover the basics of creating and adding 360° Virtual Reality content to your WordPress site. It also explores Continue reading “Chris Yee – Featured Speaker”

Neha is venturing to us from Montreal. She is speaking Saturday morning at 10:05am in Rm 149. She is showing you how to give your site an SEO checkup. Let’s get to know her…

I am born and brought up in India. I am a Web designer and developer by profession and an artist and entrepreneur at heart as I always tell everyone. Other than working full-time as a developer I also do henna tattoos and teach Web and Graphic design. I like to work with non profit organizations and volunteer for causes whenever I can and learn so that I can build my own non profit organization for kids and people in need in near future.

These days I am also really fascinated by the art of marketing on Instagram and Facebook. I regularly learn and practice different marketing tactics for my personal clients, my own business and my hobbies. When it comes to Marketing I am a great fan of Ryan Deiss, Brian Dean and Neil Patel.

I have different hobbies such as arts and craft, henna, cooking, hiking and learning about marketing. I am a great cook and love Continue reading “Neha Patel – Featured Speaker”