With WordCamp Philly just over a month away, we have been working very hard to select the final round of speakers for Saturday, June 14th.

We are delighted to announce that these great folks will be presenting at WordCamp Philly 2015:

• Lauren Pittenger
• Sal Ferrarello
• Nile Flores
• Sharon McMullen
• Justin Sternberg
• Zac Gordon
• Davis Shaver
• Melodie Laylor
• Aaron D. Campbell
• Carolyn Sonnek
• Courtney Robinson
• Andrew Nacin
• Danny Santoro
• Tim Sisson
• Bryan Nelson
• Jamie Schmid
• Joel Bronkowski

Congratulations to all the speakers this year! We look forward to your talks!

Our Thanks to All the Applicants!

As we post this final list of speakers, we wanted to extend our deep thanks to all the wonderfully talented and amazing people who submitted an application to speak at WordCamp Philly. The Philadelphia area WordPress Community is so lucky to have so many people willing to offer their time and talent for our benefit. Thank you!

As WordCamp Philly draws ever closer, we’re very excited to share the next round of speakers.  We are thrilled to welcome these great women and men:

• Maura Teal
• Rami Abraham
• John Eckman
• George Stephanis
• Pete Schuster
• Chris Lauzon
• Erica Varlese

We’re still working on the schedule of sessions, but once we have that finalized, we’ll be sure to post it.

And many, many thanks to all the amazing people who have applied to speak. We received so many outstanding applications. We’re working very hard to schedule as many talks as we can.

We’re pleased to announce that Aaron Jorbin will be the Keynote speaker for WordCamp Philly 2015!

Why WordPress Works This Way

WordPress’ biggest strength is not the user experience, hundreds of contributors or widespread adoption; it is its philosophies. Successful projects share this common trait: A unified system for making decisions. Let’s look inside the philosophies of WordPress core and how those influence the decisions that it makes. This will help you understand the principles that guide WordPress. From there we’ll look at how defining philosophies in your own projects will make them better, too.

About Aaron

Aaron Jorbin is a polyhistoric man of the web. Currently Technical Architect on the Conde Nast Platform Team and a WordPress Core Committer, he works to improve developer happiness and is dedicated to making the internet usable and enjoyable by everyone.

He tweets at @aaronjorbin and writes regularly at aaron.jorb.in.

We’re officially looking for speakers for this year’s event. You, the speakers, are a huge part of what makes WordCamps great, so we need your ideas and your talks. Please, fill out the form below and we’ll get in touch!

We are happy to announce that WordCampPhilly 2015 is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, June 13th and 14th! While we don’t have all the details yet, please save those dates. Here’s what we know so far:
– WordCampPhilly will take place at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. University of the Sciences has a modern campus at 600 South 43rd Street in University City. We’ll be in new, fully equipped, air-conditioned classrooms with AV and wifi, and there is free parking on campus. Public transportation is also available.
– The main event is on Saturday, June 13th. It’s a full day of sessions and panels on a wide variety of topics. Regardless of your area of interest or level of knowledge, you’ll find a lot to learn from. We’ll be posting the session details as we progress.
– On Sunday, June 14th, we’ll have a 4-hour Contributor Day. As in prior years, this is a less-structured event aimed at somewhat more advanced WordPressers. We don’t know the venue for the Contributor Day yet, but we’ll update you as soon as we do.
– We’ll provide a light breakfast, a full lunch (with vegetarian options) and two snack breaks (am and pm) for that extra lift we all sometimes need.
– And – of course – there will be a terrific after-party!

SAVE THE DATES: June 13-14, 2015. It’ll be the best WordCampPhilly yet!