WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul is a 500 person event held at the McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis, MN on August 23rd thru the 25th. We are focusing on tracks in development, including more advanced development, design, business & community. Thursday, August 23rd will be Training Thursday including focused workshops running from 12pm to 4pm. Friday, August 24th will be a full day of sessions with registration starting at 8am and sessions going until 5pm. Saturday, August 25th will full a partial day of conference sessions running from 8am to 1pm and an afternoon after party starting at 1pm. WordCamp Minneapolis / St. Paul is the same weekend as the infamous Minnesota State Fair opener – a must see event! Come for WordCamp and stay for the fair & our beautiful state filled with tons of outdoor activities and beautiful scenery.

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Thursday, 23rd August 2018

Coding & Development Business Design
12:00

Intro to Programming

Jennifer Brueske

Onboarding New Clients to Set Expectations and Create Extraordinary Experiences

Jennifer Bourn

12:00
14:00

WooCommerce and You - A Love Story

Patrick Rauland

Design Thinking for WordPress

Michelle Schulp

14:00

Friday, 24th August 2018

The Commons Being Human Coding & Development Business Community Content & Blogging Design Memorial Hall
08:00

Registration

08:00
09:00

Be Smart and Helpful: Success, Generosity and the Business of People

Michelle Schulp

09:00
09:30

Building Better Themes

Josh Leuze

Business is Thriving and the Rest is Only Surviving

Katie Elenberger

Steering the Open Web

Michael Babker

09:30
10:30

Simple Strategies for "Business-Proofing" your Family

Sherry Muterspaugh Walling

Growing Great Teams

Drew Gorton

Implementing a Content Strategy at the Wrong Time

Lynn Winter

10:30
11:30

Discover Grid

Jacqueline Quintanilla

What I’ve Learned from asking, “How did you built that?”

Joe Casabona

Death to Photoshop: Rebooting an Enterprise Design System

Reid Peifer

11:30
12:15

Lunch

12:15
13:00

Estimate Better by Understanding Uncertainty

James Grumish

Community Building: From Twitter to #IRL

Raquel Landefeld

Image is Everything: Perking Up Your Website

Laura Byrne Cristiano

13:00
13:45

Getting Started with Creating Gutenberg Blocks

Eric Debelak

Back to the Future

Thomas McMahon

For Blogging Out Loud! Use your voice to blog.

Russell Aaron

13:45
14:30

Having My Website Hacked Was the Best Thing That Could Have Happened to Me

Laura Byrne Cristiano

14:30
15:00

Conquer the Imposter

Brenda Cimbura, Ed.D.

Do more, faster, by extending WP-CLI

Ben Byrne

Taming the Whirlwind - Growing Your Business While You're Busy with Client Work

Nathan Ingram

15:00
16:00

Better Search and Beyond: An Introduction to ElasticPress

Vasken Hauri

Ask Me Anything SEO Panel

Jennifer Bourne, Jen Jamar, Tyler Golberg

WordPress Marketing Automation

Marcus Genzlinger

16:00

Saturday, 25th August 2018

The Commons Coding & Development Business Being Human Design Outdoors
08:00

Registration

08:00
09:00

So, you want to UX?

tracy apps

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Freelancing Biz

Toby Cryns

09:00
09:45

Modernizing Your Development Workflow Using Composer

Jeremy Ward

Project Management for Developers

Jessi Gurr

How To Be The Action Hero of Your Own Life

Ellen Goodwin

09:45
10:45

Automating your QA with Visual Regression Testing

Andrew Taylor

Building a Profitable WP Agency (Business)

Jocelyn Mozak

SVG vs Everybody

Joshua Giowaya

10:45
11:30

Your code stinks. WPCS can help.

Cory Webb

How to NOT be a Broke Web Developer

Kimberly Pigeon

Building a Startup into a Brand

Andrea Trew

11:30
12:30

The Blob, The Chunk, and The Block: Structured Content in the Era of Gutenberg

John Eckman

Rethinking Requirements: A Non-technical Guide to Project Definition

Travis Totz

12:30
13:00

After Party + Lunch

13:00