Schedule 2012

Here is our working schedule. We expect it will be subject to a few last minute changes. There may well be some extra lightning speakers on Sat for example.

8:15 amRegistration and coffee – meet & greet10:25amCoffee break12:15 pmLunch3:05pmCoffee break6:00 -9:00pmWordCampNZ party – Cassette 9 upstairs 9 Vulcan Lane

Time Speaker / Topic Other Notes
9:00am Welcome from organisers intro 15mins
9:15 am Denise Teal -Getting involved in the WordPress Community 30mins
9:50 am Dan Milward – Gamefroot – WordPress for Gaming 30mins
10:40am Sam Cooke – How to Pick a Theme 30m
11:15 am Nikolasa & Potaua Biasiny-Tule – DigitalMāori & WP Magazine Stylz 40m
12:00 pm Alex Shiels – Akismet – Automattic WordPress by the Numbers 15m
1:15 pm Panel – Featuring Vaughan Rowsell, Simone McCallum, Gianpaolo Grazioli + others. Chair: Bill Bennett – How being Online is transforming business in 2012 incl WordPress & other platforms
2:00pm Amanda Blum – Hello World! – What your site should Say 30mins
2:35pm Julianne Taylor – Blogging on a Hot Topic 15mins
2:50pm Craig Deveson – Making a WordPress Plugin 15mins
3:20 pm David Blair – Effective WordPress Video 30mins
3:50 pm Lightning Sessions Nathaniel Flick, Dan Hesson, Glenn Williams – Radio Wammo showcase
4:50 pm Ukuleles in the house ? 10m
5:00 pm Wrap up & last words 15mins

12:15 pmLunch – Imperial Lane Cafe – 7 Fort Lane

Time Sunday – Advanced Tech & Developers Meet-Up – Digital Brewery – (Young & Shand) Other Notes
10:00am Welcome to devs & advanced tech users Thanks to Young & Shand 15mins
10:15am Owen Harris – CMS – the Developers View 30mins
10:45am Aaron Rutley – WordPress as a Client Friendly CMS 30mins
11:15am Liz Quilty – Security, Scaling & High End Hosting for WordPress sites 30mins
11:45am Bronson Quick – How to “client-proof” your WordPress Theme 30mins
1:15pm Unconference & code / projects 120mins
3:15pm Tech & Developers wrap-up 15mins