Schedule

Friday, February 16th, 2018

Time	Auditorium	Pima/Pinal	Workshop
8:00 am	REGISTRATION
9:00 am	Opening Remarks Favorite session: Opening Remarks
9:15 am	How To Run a Successful WordPress Agency Business Development Steve Zehngut Favorite session: How To Run a Successful WordPress Agency Business Development	WPGraphQL: Interacting with WordPress Data in a new way Development Jason Bahl Favorite session: WPGraphQL: Interacting with WordPress Data in a new way Development	Workshop – Getting Started With WordPress General WordPress/Beginning User April Holle, Chris Carson Favorite session: Workshop – Getting Started With WordPress General WordPress/Beginning User
9:55 am	Building Your First Plugin – A Complete Newbie’s Guide to Creating a Plugin Development Scott DeLuzio Favorite session: Building Your First Plugin – A Complete Newbie’s Guide to Creating a Plugin Development	Blast, Drip, and Nurture—Automated Marketing to Your Website Visitors Content/Strategy/Marketing Cyndie Shaffstall Favorite session: Blast, Drip, and Nurture—Automated Marketing to Your Website Visitors Content/Strategy/Marketing	Workshop – Getting Started With WordPress (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User April Holle, Chris Carson Favorite session: Workshop – Getting Started With WordPress (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User
10:35 am	BREAK
10:50 am	Which Way Does Your Duck face? Design Mike Demo Favorite session: Which Way Does Your Duck face? Design	Imposter Syndrome: Stories from Two Different Perspectives General WordPress/Beginning User Sheila Hoffman, Dashon Hawkins Favorite session: Imposter Syndrome: Stories from Two Different Perspectives General WordPress/Beginning User	Workshop – Getting Started With WordPress (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User April Holle, Chris Carson Favorite session: Workshop – Getting Started With WordPress (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User
11:35 am	SEO Panel Content/Strategy/Marketing Lindsay Halsey, Ashten Fizer, Vicki DeLuzio, Tanya Moushi Favorite session: SEO Panel Content/Strategy/Marketing	Lessons Learned in the Fast Lane: Developing and Supporting a High-Interest Plugin Development Andy Fragen Favorite session: Lessons Learned in the Fast Lane: Developing and Supporting a High-Interest Plugin Development	Workshop – Getting Started With WordPress (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User April Holle, Chris Carson Favorite session: Workshop – Getting Started With WordPress (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User
12:15 pm	LUNCH
1:30 pm	Why the Open Web Matters General WordPress/Beginning User Aaron Campbell Favorite session: Why the Open Web Matters General WordPress/Beginning User	Leveraging Viral Videos on Social Media to Get More Clients Content/Strategy/Marketing Isaac Irvine Favorite session: Leveraging Viral Videos on Social Media to Get More Clients Content/Strategy/Marketing	Workshop – Get a Personality! Differentiate your brand in a sea of ‘sameness.’ Content/Strategy/Marketing Mike Jones Favorite session: Workshop – Get a Personality! Differentiate your brand in a sea of ‘sameness.’ Content/Strategy/Marketing
2:15 pm	Discovery, discovery, discovery, discovery! The most import part of the project Content/Strategy/Marketing Dwayne McDaniel Favorite session: Discovery, discovery, discovery, discovery! The most import part of the project Content/Strategy/Marketing	The Anatomy Of A Hacked Site General WordPress/Beginning User Michael Veenstra Favorite session: The Anatomy Of A Hacked Site General WordPress/Beginning User	Workshop – Get a Personality! Differentiate your brand in a sea of ‘sameness.’ Content/Strategy/Marketing Mike Jones Favorite session: Workshop – Get a Personality! Differentiate your brand in a sea of ‘sameness.’ Content/Strategy/Marketing
2:55 pm	BREAK
3:15 pm	Content for the Modern World Content/Strategy/Marketing Machielle Thomas Favorite session: Content for the Modern World Content/Strategy/Marketing	What The West Wing can teach us about building products Business Development AJ Morris Favorite session: What The West Wing can teach us about building products Business Development	Workshop – Using proper Object-Oriented Programming in your Plugins Development Felix Arntz Favorite session: Workshop – Using proper Object-Oriented Programming in your Plugins Development
4:00 pm	Introduction to automated WordPress deployments Development Carl Alexander Favorite session: Introduction to automated WordPress deployments Development	WordPress for Everyone: Delivering Inclusive Design Design Lance Willett Favorite session: WordPress for Everyone: Delivering Inclusive Design Design	Workshop – Using proper Object-Oriented Programming in your Plugins (cont.) Development Felix Arntz Favorite session: Workshop – Using proper Object-Oriented Programming in your Plugins (cont.) Development
4:45 pm	Adjourn Day 1

Saturday, February 17th, 2018

Time	Auditorium	Pima/Pinal	Workshop
9:00 am	Registration
10:00 am	Gutenberg: Changing the Landscape of the Open Web Design Brandon Payton Favorite session: Gutenberg: Changing the Landscape of the Open Web Design	Overcoming Your Fear of Sales Business Development April Wier Favorite session: Overcoming Your Fear of Sales Business Development	Workshop – Getting your WooCommerce Store Launched General WordPress/Beginning User Chris F Lema Favorite session: Workshop – Getting your WooCommerce Store Launched General WordPress/Beginning User
10:45 am	Coopetition: Banding together with your competition to help grow your business Business Development Tim Strifler, David Blackmon Favorite session: Coopetition: Banding together with your competition to help grow your business Business Development	Yes, And: How improv basics build stronger teams, foster creativity and make the creative process more fun and less frustrating Content/Strategy/Marketing Amber Pechin Favorite session: Yes, And: How improv basics build stronger teams, foster creativity and make the creative process more fun and less frustrating Content/Strategy/Marketing	Workshop – Getting your WooCommerce Store Launched (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User Chris F Lema Favorite session: Workshop – Getting your WooCommerce Store Launched (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User
11:30 am	BREAK
11:45 am	Eat, Blog, Love: How I stopped waiting, and started doing Content/Strategy/Marketing Shayda Torabi Favorite session: Eat, Blog, Love: How I stopped waiting, and started doing Content/Strategy/Marketing	Headless and Brainless WordPress Development Ben Moore Favorite session: Headless and Brainless WordPress Development	Workshop – Getting your WooCommerce Store Launched (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User Chris F Lema Favorite session: Workshop – Getting your WooCommerce Store Launched (cont.) General WordPress/Beginning User
12:30 pm	LUNCH
1:45 pm	All-Star WordPress Panel: Runways to Success J.R. Farr, Chris Klosowski, Sally Strebel, Chris F Lema Favorite session: All-Star WordPress Panel: Runways to Success
2:30 pm	Financial Forecasting: pssst the secret is working backwards Business Development Jason Knill Favorite session: Financial Forecasting: pssst the secret is working backwards Business Development	You’ve Inherited a Website – Now What? General WordPress/Beginning User Chris David Miles Favorite session: You’ve Inherited a Website – Now What? General WordPress/Beginning User	Workshop – Taming The Whirlwind – Growing Your Business While You’re Busy With Client Work Business Development Nathan Ingram Favorite session: Workshop – Taming The Whirlwind – Growing Your Business While You’re Busy With Client Work Business Development
3:15 pm	BREAK
3:30 pm	User Stories Made Simple General WordPress/Beginning User Sarah Wefald Favorite session: User Stories Made Simple General WordPress/Beginning User	Spinning up local sites with Local by Flywheel Development Dennis Dinsmore Favorite session: Spinning up local sites with Local by Flywheel Development	Workshop – Taming The Whirlwind – Growing Your Business While You’re Busy With Client Work (cont.) Business Development Nathan Ingram Favorite session: Workshop – Taming The Whirlwind – Growing Your Business While You’re Busy With Client Work (cont.) Business Development
4:15 pm	Why Expression is So Important Content/Strategy/Marketing Tanya Moushi Favorite session: Why Expression is So Important Content/Strategy/Marketing	Getting in your audience’s shoes General WordPress/Beginning User Tyler Golberg Favorite session: Getting in your audience’s shoes General WordPress/Beginning User	Workshop – Taming The Whirlwind – Growing Your Business While You’re Busy With Client Work (cont.) Business Development Nathan Ingram Favorite session: Workshop – Taming The Whirlwind – Growing Your Business While You’re Busy With Client Work (cont.) Business Development
5:00 pm	Closing Remarks Favorite session: Closing Remarks