Schedule

This year’s WordCamp Toronto kicks off bright and early! Registration opens at 8:00am and sessions begin at 9:30am. Sessions run until 6:15 pm (18:15) in the afternoon.

60+ Sessions over 2 days organized in 10 tracks for your convenience.

Please bear with us as we finish the data entry of all confirmed speakers and sessions. Please check back often as the schedule is being updated in real time!

Update:
This year’s afterparty kicks off at 8:30pm at The Gladstone Hotel!
(Doors open at 8:00pm.)

Saturday, November 15th

Time A11y Advanced Developer Beginner Developer Community Content and Business Designer User/Admin
9:30 am
Selfish Accessibility Adrian Roselli
Favorite session: Selfish Accessibility
Introduction to Backbone.js Brian Hogg
Favorite session: Introduction to Backbone.js
Don’t Fear the Custom Theme: How to build a custom WordPress theme with only four files Linn Øyen Farley
Favorite session: Don’t Fear the Custom Theme: How to build a custom WordPress theme with only four files
Community: Getting Involved Aaron Campbell
Favorite session: Community: Getting Involved
How to Rock a WordCamp Even if You’re a n00b Marc Benzakein
Favorite session: How to Rock a WordCamp Even if You’re a n00b
10:30 am
Accessibility – A feature you can build Monika Piotrowicz
Favorite session: Accessibility – A feature you can build
Put a little Backbone in your WordPress! Adam Silverstein
Favorite session: Put a little Backbone in your WordPress!
Getting Comfortable With Child Themes Kathryn Presner
Favorite session: Getting Comfortable With Child Themes
Organizing fully accessible communities Jordan Quintal
Favorite session: Organizing fully accessible communities
WordPress 101 Al Davis
Favorite session: WordPress 101
11:30 am
Next-gen A11y Testing Tools Karl Groves
Favorite session: Next-gen A11y Testing Tools
Improving Performance with Responsive Images David Newton
Favorite session: Improving Performance with Responsive Images
Disaster-Proof Your WordPress Site Kate Newbill
Favorite session: Disaster-Proof Your WordPress Site
Level up: review themes on WordPress.org Tammie Lister
Favorite session: Level up: review themes on WordPress.org
Congratulations! You’re having a WordPress site! Joe Rozsa
Favorite session: Congratulations! You’re having a WordPress site!
12:30 pm
Saturday Lunch with Abokichi
Favorite session: Saturday Lunch with Abokichi
1:30 pm
Lunch (continued)
2:30 pm
WordPress Theme Accessibility Jordan Quintal
Favorite session: WordPress Theme Accessibility
Multilingual WordPress – How to make your WordPress site multilingual Matt Smith
Favorite session: Multilingual WordPress – How to make your WordPress site multilingual
Contrib2Core: Saturday Tom Auger, Paul Bearne
Favorite session: Contrib2Core: Saturday
Grow Your Audience with Savvy Content Marketing Tactics Brian Rotsztein
Favorite session: Grow Your Audience with Savvy Content Marketing Tactics
The Human Side of UX Design James Archer
Favorite session: The Human Side of UX Design
3:30 pm
Use ARIA Now! Billy Gregory
Favorite session: Use ARIA Now!
Multisite for Multilingual Rick Radko
Favorite session: Multisite for Multilingual
Google Analytics and WordPress for Beginners David Bird
Favorite session: Google Analytics and WordPress for Beginners
Wireframe Secrets Revealed Elida Arrizza
Favorite session: Wireframe Secrets Revealed
4:30 pm
How to Perform an Accessibility Audit Janis Yee
Favorite session: How to Perform an Accessibility Audit
1000 sites: MultiSite as an intranet hosting platform Tom Sommerville
Favorite session: 1000 sites: MultiSite as an intranet hosting platform
Demystifying SEO Alex Rascanu
Favorite session: Demystifying SEO
Typography in Web Design Jasmine Vesque
Favorite session: Typography in Web Design
5:30 pm
Fixing Inaccessible Content Sean Yo
Favorite session: Fixing Inaccessible Content
It’s ALIVE!!! – Using AJAX to bring WordPress sites to life. Brian Layman
Favorite session: It’s ALIVE!!! – Using AJAX to bring WordPress sites to life.
Pump up your search visibility with structured data Mendel Kurland
Favorite session: Pump up your search visibility with structured data
Designing for Content David Hickox
Favorite session: Designing for Content

Sunday, November 16th

Time Advanced Developer Agency Community Content and Business Designer Developer User/Admin
9:30 am
Powering Business Sites with WordPress Luca Sartoni
Favorite session: Powering Business Sites with WordPress
So You Want to Be a WordCamp Speaker: A practical workshop for beginners Tammie Lister, Kathryn Presner
Favorite session: So You Want to Be a WordCamp Speaker: A practical workshop for beginners
Website Assessment clinic Dawn Comber, Ruth Maude
Favorite session: Website Assessment clinic
WordPress for Designers James Hipkin
Favorite session: WordPress for Designers
Writing Cleaner, Sturdier Code With Unit Testing David Herrera
Favorite session: Writing Cleaner, Sturdier Code With Unit Testing
10:30 am
Back To Square One: Building A WordPress Starter Development Kit Kyle Unzicker
Favorite session: Back To Square One: Building A WordPress Starter Development Kit
So You Want to Be a WordCamp Speaker (continued)
Favorite session: So You Want to Be a WordCamp Speaker (continued)
Website Assessment clinic (continued)
Favorite session: Website Assessment clinic (continued)
Sass and WordPress Brian Hoke
Favorite session: Sass and WordPress
Setting up Vagrant for Unit Testing Paul Bearne
Favorite session: Setting up Vagrant for Unit Testing
11:30 am
Pick the right CMS for your job Alan Lok
Favorite session: Pick the right CMS for your job
So You Want to Be a WordCamp Speaker (continued)
Favorite session: So You Want to Be a WordCamp Speaker (continued)
A Quick Guide to Long-form Content on WordPress David Hamilton
Favorite session: A Quick Guide to Long-form Content on WordPress
Designing Creativity Lucas Cherkewski
Favorite session: Designing Creativity
The Ghost of Metadata Past, Present, and Future Scott Kingsley Clark
Favorite session: The Ghost of Metadata Past, Present, and Future
12:30 pm
Sunday Lunch with Abokichi
Favorite session: Sunday Lunch with Abokichi
1:30 pm
Sunday Lunch (Continued)
2:30 pm
WordPress and Client Side Web Applications Roy Sivan
Favorite session: WordPress and Client Side Web Applications
WordPress Project Management 101 Chris Van Patten
Favorite session: WordPress Project Management 101
Contrib2Core: Sunday Tom Auger, Paul Bearne
Favorite session: Contrib2Core: Sunday
Save Time By Managing WordPress from the Command Line Shawn Hooper
Favorite session: Save Time By Managing WordPress from the Command Line
19 Plugins You Should Be Using Renee Moore
Favorite session: 19 Plugins You Should Be Using
3:30 pm
Developer Panel *NEW
Favorite session: Developer Panel *NEW
Content Architecture *NEW Shanta Nathwani
Favorite session: Content Architecture *NEW
Levelling up your development workflow Dara Skolnick
Favorite session: Levelling up your development workflow
WP Front-End Editors Jacques Surveyer
Favorite session: WP Front-End Editors
4:30 pm
Integrating WordPress with External APIs Aaron Campbell
Favorite session: Integrating WordPress with External APIs
Agency Panel Tom Auger, Dre Armeda, Brent Kobayashi, Avery Swartz, Robyn Larsen, Brian Rotsztein
Favorite session: Agency Panel
Core Functions You (Maybe) Don’t Know Exist Nicole Arnold
Favorite session: Core Functions You (Maybe) Don’t Know Exist
How to take a free theme and make it yours James Strang
Favorite session: How to take a free theme and make it yours
5:30 pm
The Database Schema Mo Jangda
Favorite session: The Database Schema
Agency Panel (continued)
Favorite session: Agency Panel (continued)
Everything you know about AB testing is wrong Stephane Boisvert
Favorite session: Everything you know about AB testing is wrong
WordPress Media Tools for Creatives Denise Williams
Favorite session: WordPress Media Tools for Creatives