As WordCamp approaches (Can you believe it? In 3 weeks time we’ll be writing a Thanks for Coming! post!) we’re finalising locking down Shirt orders, Catering, and other Swag. If you’ve not yet got a ticket, now would be a good time to nab one of the remaining 0 tickets!
So without further adieu, here’s another 4 great presentations we’re all looking forward to!

Myles Agnew

Myles Agnew is a practicing defensive cyber security advisor to QLD Government. Previous clients include NSW Government, and several multinational companies.
He is a member of Australian Information Security Association (AISA) Leading body for information and cyber security professionals with over 9 years experience in the Information Security industry.
Passionate WordPress user since 2006.

Presenting: Cyber Security the Journey down the rabbit hole
Join Myles on his Cyber security journey of his past failures and how he has grown in to practical cyber security to reduce the fears in your client and stakeholders when making the move or starting out with WordPress.

This is live interactive presentation using a mobile phone voting platform to guide the presentation to answer the big questions and solve the big problems around securing WordPress and Cyber Security in general.

Rheinard Korf

At the age of twelve Rheinard discovered a love for programming languages and writing software for friends and family. Whilst studying Information Technology Rheinard also discovered a love for teaching programming and has done so for over a decade before turning to programming as a career.

After working with other platforms such as Drupal and Moodle, Rheinard decided to settle on WordPress in 2014; developing plugins as products and for client projects. More recently Rheinard has fallen in love with API design and development, within the WordPress space as well as other frameworks and languages.

Presenting: Finding REST: When machines talk to each other
Designing APIs for machines can be exciting and challenging. In this talk we will be exploring what it has been like to build a service for machine clients using the WordPress REST API.

Topics that we will touch on include: custom endpoints vs. content endpoints; authentication; documenting your API with an API Definition Language; non-WordPress machine clients; and of course the challenges and opportunities we faced building an API with WordPress.

Paula Glynn & Melinda Samson

Paula is the search specialist at PixelStorm, a web development agency specializing in conversion focused websites. A true data nerd, paula will find ways to use data to improve any digital outcome, from PPC to website UX and conversion rates!

Melinda is the founder and co-owner of Click-Winning Content and is a Premier Google Partner with over ten years of AdWords experience. She provides consulting, training and management services to help Australian business owners maximise their investment in Google AdWords & use their Google Analytics data to improve their business performance.

Presenting: Google Analytics: Your secret weapon for conversion focused websites

In this talk, Paula and Mel will demonstrate the power of Google Analytics to win clients, and help you add value to your website projects, including:

• How to produce reports that you can give to clients
• The importance of conversion tracking & how to setup
• Lighting “How to” guide for Google Tag Manager
• Using Google Analytics data in web pitches
• Using Google Analytics to influence web design & development

Sarah Brown

Sarah Brown is a freelance web designer and developer specialising in custom WordPress websites for business and organisations, providing services to clients across Australia, supported by a network of creative freelancers in the co-working community.

Sarah is most passionate about the internet’s ability to connect people online so that they may forge even stronger connections offline. She is dedicated to helping people get their ideas of the ground and helping businesses grow through a beautiful blend of marketing and technology. Alongside her freelance career, she is also an aspiring tech communicator, and has run sessions at local co-working spaces aimed at helping small businesses better understand their needs for the web.

Presenting: User-Centered Design – front and back – with WordPress
As WordPress developers, we should aim for a true user-first strategy to design and develop customised WordPress Installations, and not fall back on ‘premium’ themes, page builders, and one-size-fits-all approaches. So many times I have taken over WordPress websites that look like the original ‘developer’ just chucked the business description into a theme marketplace and bought the first theme on the list (cafe/gym/photographer etc). While this sort of thing can be great for a small business DIYers, it should not be too pervasive in the world of professional service providers.

Sarah will explore all of what she’s seen and show how we can design for what the end-user needs and how to setup the WordPress dashboard in a way which allows your client to manage their website easily using tools such as Advanced Custom Fields and theme frameworks such Genesis.

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Kristen Symonds

Kristen Symonds, aka kristarella, works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic. She is a WordPress fanatic with a love for photography, craft, SciFi and Fantasy, board games, and more.

Kristen is married to Dave and has two pet rabbits named Monty and Zoë.

Presenting: How to build a website in 20 minutes
There is so much available for WordPress, how can you find what you need?

I will explain some common gotchas and give some tips on finding and testing themes and plugins.

Cath Hughes

Cath Hughes runs Phase Creative, a Sydney-based web agency specialising in bespoke WordPress sites. Most recently, she’s launched a bouncing baby web service – Live By 5 – which combines her expert WordPress skills with training DIY’ers and gets clients WordPress websites live – in a day.

She’s also a passionate member of the WordPress and freelance community, a WordPress tutor and a coach with WP Elevation.

Presenting: How To Deliver A WordPress Website To A Client
Over the time I’ve been building and teaching people how to use WordPress websites, I’ve encountered dozens of sites that needed resuscitating. So I thought it was a good time to talk about how to deliver a WordPress website to your client, the RIGHT way. In this talk I’m going to discuss WordPress, plugin licences, your responsibilities, your clients responsibilities, what files to handover, maintenance and support and how to ensure your clients sites don’t end up in the WordPress ER 6 months after you deliver them.

Warren Denley

I love WordPress and I’m passionate about teaching solo-entrepreneurs how to leverage its power and simplicity to build, manage and promote their own business websites.

Apart from WordPress, I love spending time with my wife and young son, spending time in the sun and a good coffee.
Presenting: Better Put An “S” On It
The Why, What and How of implementing SSL on your site.

This talk will look at:
* The importance of moving your site from HTTP to HTTPS
* Various types of SSL certificates available, and which is best for you
* How to install the certificate and force your site to HTTPS
* Problems that may occur, and how to resolve them

By the end of the talk, attendees will know how to get the lovely green bar to show up in the browser for their site, giving their visitors confidence to interact more with the site.

Steven Cooper

Sniip CTO. Payments Evangelist. Aust Web Industry committee member. LocalhostAU Brisbane Lead. Remarkable mentor. The New Garde Mentor. International Speaker/MC/Hackathon Mentor/Judge. Prev XeroDev PayPalDev

I’ve always had a passion for all things tech and pushing it to its limits. I love keeping up with the latest tech trends. Love the stage/presenting and sharing of ideas and knowledge.

Presenting: Build a WordPress ready server in 20 mins or less for free
In this talk we are going to cover everything you need to know to build a multisite WordPress ready LEMP stack thats got enough grunt to handle over 4 million hits a day. We will look at how to connect, configure and get up and running an entire website from create instance to hello world and to s3 and beyond.

Complete with self renewing SSL (Via letsencrypt) and automated repo backups this is the one of the most internet battle hardened and user ready stacks around that will get your project up and running before you can say “apt-get update”.

Also we will look at some of the latest monitoring options to track performance and load plus downtime tracking.

Have you got your ticket for WordCamp Brisbane yet, if not, why not, with a line up of amazing speakers and all the swag and fun you get for the low price of $50 you will kick yourself if you miss out.

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We have an fantastic line up of amazing and talented speakers presenting at WordCamp Brisbane this year, so here are some more to whet your appetite!

Nik Cree

Nik is a Gold Coast / Brisbane based WordPress web developer specialising in Digital Strategy for SME’s using WordPress & a variety of online marketing tools, he uses WordPress & the StudioPress Genesis Framework to create effective high performing web solutions.

He enjoys working to grow businesses online with the tools available and is an avid online explorer.

Presenting: How To Create Full Website Content Easily And Effortlessly in 7 Days

Whether for your own website or as a developer for client websites, writing content is often akin to pulling teeth without anesthetic, using pliers and a hammer.

The 3 step process we have developed and now use for our own projects and with clients, makes content generation a breeze (and enjoyable – just like having a conversation with a bestie over a couple of glasses, which is in fact, how we actually do it). In this presentation we’ll talk about the process and templates you can use to create compelling content that converts with less effort.

Robey Lawrence

Robey has worked in IT for 5 years, straight out of High School. Then decided to pivot to web design when he discovered WordPress in 2013. He moved to the Gold Coast in 2014 where he started attending the WordPress Meetups, and that’s where his networking and learning exploded and he’s been hooked (no pun intended) ever since.

The community around the WordPress platform has been such an encouragement for him over the last few years, having grown and learnt so much from the generosity and time of others.

Presenting: Just Do It!

Basically a story about how opportunities can open themselves up to you when you make the decision to overcome your fears and anxieties and ‘Just Do It!’

Starting from the beginning of how he got into the WordPress centred career he’s in today, by punching his fears in the face and putting himself out there.

Bronson Quick

When Bronson isn’t collecting and playing vinyl or some of his many guitars, he’s coding WordPress goodness with the wonderful team at Human Made! He has a passion for APIs, WordPress integrations, and building WordPress sites that scale. Bronson also maintains Chassis, a lightweight WordPress + Vagrant + Puppet development environment.

Presenting: How To Setup A Consistent Development Environment Across Your Team On A Per Project Basis
One of most important things for a team of developers is having a development environment that matches or closely matches the production environment.

Bronson will teach you how to use Chassis and it’s suite of extensions to create a development environment which can be used be everyone on your team so you don’t end up with different developers with different local environments for development.

Bronson will also deep dive into using Xdebug & PhpStorm to show you why you should stop using `var_dump` during development because you can save time with real time PHP debugging using breakpoints.

Tarei King and Stuart Shields

Tarei King is a WordPress engineer for Human Made based in Auckland working alongside enterprise clients to help them realise their goals and perform like rockstars in their industry. He has 4 years experience and started working with WordPress around version 3.7.

In his spare time he will be BBQing, playing Kubb in the backyard or hosting lawn parties for family and friends. Tarei also co-organises the WordPress Auckland Meetup and WordCamp Auckland, he believes in helping the WordPress community however he can.

Stuart Shields is a WordPress engineer who recently joined the team at Human Made and is based in Toowoomba. He has over 5 years experience helping a full range of clients from small business to high-end enterprise and started working with WordPress since version 3.4.

When he isn’t pumping out code, he’s pumping iron at the gym and getting ready for the next big race. He also enjoys drinking Scotch and Coffee when he’s not on a health kick.

Presenting: Throw away the commute: Stories of two remote workers.
Remote working often conjures images of beaches, laptops and cocktails, but for some – remote working can be as simple as swapping the office, for a space at home.

Stuart and Tarei discuss some of changes, challenges and benefits when working from home as WordPress engineers for a distributed WordPress agency.

These discussions are for the freelancers, remote workers, digital nomads, misfits and those who are interested in potentially making the move to remote working.

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