Apply to speak at WordCamp Vienna 2018
WordCamp Vienna is happening again on the 7th of April 2018 and we are looking for excellent speakers. The game is very simple: we give you a stage, you rock it!
Talk Format & Submission Guidelines
As WordCamp Vienna is an opportunity to showcase the best of WordPress, and of WordPress in Central Europe, we want speakers who are experienced and we look forward to well-prepared applications. Our sessions will be 25 minutes long with 10 additional minutes for Q&A with the audience. If you have more than one idea, please submit them all, we’ll pick the one we like best. Please send one submission per talk.
We are planning 3 tracks, and our Call for Speakers is open for presentations in English and German. The cut-off for speaker applications is the 1st of March deadline for submissions extended till Monday March 5th.
What can I talk about?
We are looking for great stories about WordPress, that dig into a specific area while still inspiring the audience. We’re particularly interested in hearing from those who have used WordPress in interesting, innovative, and significant ways. The WordPress ecosystem and community do such a wide variety of different things with WordPress – whether that’s designing, writing content, building businesses, or expanding functionality – we want to hear it all.
Here a few example topics to inspire you:
Beginner
Setup – Getting Started
Choosing Plugins
Benefits of WordPress
Community
State of WordPress
Future of WordPress
Accessibility
Best practices
Multi-lingual Websites
Accessibility Testing
Development
Plugin best practices
Coding best practises
Performance – Caching, Optimisation, Scaling big
Server setups
Gutenberg page templates
GitHub
Design / Other
Mobile first approach
Gutenberg Editor
Responsive web design
Security Basics
Advanced Security, htaccess
Legal, setting up a business in Austria
DSGVO – Data Privacy Laws for EU
Marketing
SEO
Social Media
Analytics
Content Creation
Business Growth
Successful content strategies
Have something else in mind already? Well go on then, please apply now!
If you want to discuss your idea ahead of submission you can email us at vienna@wordcamp.org
In addition, if you don’t feel you can talk for 30+ minutes there will also be some Lightning Talks of 10 minutes with 5 minutes afterwards for questions. If you are thinking of presenting a lightning talk – please also use the submission form to aid us in planning.
Submission Deadline
We’re expecting your awesome speaking proposal by March 5th 2018. All candidates will be contacted by 7th March. Oh, and don’t buy your ticket just yet. All approved speakers get a free ticket for the event.