There are only a few days (and a few tickets!) left until WordCamp Orlando begins! Make sure you spread the word, we want to sell out and make this the biggest and best #WCORL yet! If our amazing schedule and speakers haven’t enticed you to grab your tickets yet, maybe these new details about all the fun, food, and fellowship will do it!
Friday, November 13th
Our Friday Workshops are filling up fast. Whether you’re just getting started with WordPress, or you’ve already got your own site up and running and want to learn about building your own themes or plugins, we have a workshop for all levels of users!
We will have coffee service all day for the entire weekend, courtesy of Downtown Credo! Friday’s lunch will be catered on-site by Nature’s Table Cafe. They’ll have a variety of sandwiches and wraps, as well as pasta and green salad, and some tasty treats for dessert!
Once the day is over at 4 p.m., we invite you to stick around (your parking pass is good all night) and enjoy some of Downtown Orlando! There are plenty of awesome bars and restaurants within walking distance of the venue, you can catch dinner AND a movie at the super-comfortable Plaza Cinema Cafe across the street, and we have an exclusive discount offer from our friends at SAK Comedy Labs! Show your WordCamp Orlando badge at the ticket counter to get $5 off your ticket price! They have two shows on Friday, the Duel of Fools show starts at 7:30 p.m. and their Gorilla Theater show starts at 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 14th
Registration opens at 8 a.m. and we’ll have hot cups of Downtown Credo coffee waiting for you! Feel free to come grab your swag early and mingle with our sponsors before the first sessions start at 9 a.m. – Noble Juice will also be in the house, sampling their fresh juice blends all morning.
Saturday’s lunch will be a real treat – we’ve partnered with 4 local restaurants within walking distance of the venue (and the weather looks like it’ll be not too hot, no rain!). You’ll get a lunch voucher Saturday morning at registration that’s good for a combo meal at any of the participating venues. Check out their menus on our Saturday Lunch page! Note that we will also have a limited amount of on-site catering from Gringos Locos for our attendees who cannot easily leave the venue. We want to make sure everyone eats well!
Sessions end at 5, but the fun doesn’t end! Grab a bite to eat in the area (again, your parking is good all night!) because our free After Party will start at 7 p.m. at Big Belly bar! Come mingle, network, and have a drink on us!
The party runs until 10 p.m, and if you’re a night owl, skip out early and head to SAK Comedy Labs (remember your $5 badge discount!) for their new King of the Hill improv show at 9:30 p.m.!
Sunday, November 15th
It’s the last day, but we still have plenty in store for you! Come early for our annual Networking Brunch from 9-10 a.m. – we’ll have light bites, coffee, and Noble Juice available for you to enjoy as you make new friends and reconnect with old ones.
Sunday’s lunch will be provided on-site – if you’re not from Florida you’ll get to experience the wonder that is the Publix Sub! And if you are from Florida, don’t worry, you also get PubSubs, you just know how delicious they are already. We’ll also have a variety of chips and snacks to keep you going for the rest of the sessions. Make sure you stick around for the closing remarks – some fun stuff is bound to happen there!
Remember – spread the word about WordCamp Orlando, because we don’t want anyone to miss out on this fantastic event! If you have any questions about the events, shoot us a message and we’ll get back to you ASAP!
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Stephanie. Her toes were cold. Like many little girls, Stephanie loved to dance, she loved to draw, and she loved to try out every typeface available on the computer when designing birthday cards for her family. Several years passed, and the little girl grew up. Now Stephanie loves to dance, she loves to draw, and she maintains a library of countless typefaces so she can always have just the right one for birthday cards, logos, and websites. After discovering a place where her toes are sometimes warm, Stephanie moved her family and her business to North Florida, where she attempts to balance web design, homeschooling, and exploring the world of flavors she can invent in her kitchen.
David Khourshid is a front-end web developer and speaker in Orlando, Florida. He is passionate about JavaScript, Sass, and cutting-edge front-end technologies. He is also a pianist and enjoys mathematics, and is constantly finding new ways to apply both math and music theory to web development.
I am the owner of Design Theory, which is a local web design business based out of Orlando, FL. I’ve been freelancing in web design and photography for over 7 years. My main goal is to help people get their ideas and visions into reality.
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Jonathan has been building WordPress websites and plugins for eight years, taking the plunge into full-time freelancing shortly thereafter. He has collaborated with the distributed team at Modern Tribe for five years to build delightful and creative solutions on top of the WordPress platform. When he’s not coding, Jonathan is busy homeschooling his two children and enjoying the beautiful weather of Northeast Florida.
Chris Lawson is an Interactive Strategist that helps solve issues through the use of technology. With over a decade of digital product development and marketing, Chris has helped organizations from start-ups to Fortune 1000’s grow their digital footprint by crafting and growing their online communities.
David Parsons, a recent Computer Science graduate over at The University of Central Florida, has been working with WordPress for over seven years now. His passion for the web originally started by making a simple website with WordPress back in high school. Over the years he has branched out his skill set with responsive design, web apps, SEO, theme and plugin development.
James Aubele attended the University of Pittsburgh where he got his masters of Arts Teaching and Rochester Institute of Technology for his MBA. He takes MBA topics and makes them practical for small business owners.
Andrea has been a WordPress developer and website builder for nearly ten years and currently also servers as a technical consultant for several major startups and online businesses. She also has a strong background in community management, having professionally managed online communities and social networks of up to 8 million people, so her passion is helping businesses develop strong online communities with the WordPress platform. Her web development and consulting agency, WP Sesame, was recently named one of Seminole County’s Top 30 Small Businesses of 2015, which was super exciting. When not geeking out about all things WordPress, she resides in sunny Lake Mary, FL, which she enjoys very much.
Cliff is a Senior UX Engineer at Pardot, a Salesforce company, where he’s also the resident WordPress nerd.
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Adam Soucie is the Founder and CEO of Orlando web development agency Impossibly Creative. He is a member of the WordPress Orlando organizing committee where he helps wrangle both monthly Meetups and WordCamp Orlando. You can find more of Adam’s musings on WordPress on at impossiblycreative.com.
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Mike Hansen is a WordPress Developer and core contributor working on the Open Source Team at Bluehost. He is active in his local community, lead organizer for WordCamp SLC and co-organizer for the UtahWP meetup. He enjoys helping WordPress users solve their problems.
Thomas is in charge of venue logistics, lunch, signage placement, and has all around been an integral part of WordCamp Tampa. Thomas is the owner of Gear Spinners LLC. A company whose sole goal is to provide small to medium businesses great online solutions and online presence. Thomas began his career with a degree in design in 2006, leading to a degree in management in 2011. Started using WordPress in 2007. In his spare time, Thomas enjoys the fruits of life including Xbox 360, learning Python on Raspberry Pi, family, and friends.
Michelle is an independent graphic designer in Minneapolis (formerly Chicago). Her formal education is in design including print, branding, packaging, etc., with additional education in Psychology and Sociology, all tying together in a love of How To Solve Problems. Lately she has been specializing in WordPress websites and high-end presentations for her clients. She loves the WordPress community and speaks/volunteers/organizes at WordCamps and events around the country.
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Micah is an Atlanta-based, full-stack developer committed to continuously improving his craft and sharing his insights with the development community. He is currently the CTO at NewClarity Consulting, LLC which specializes in building websites and applications on the WordPress platform for enterprise clients.
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Just a humble guy that spends time making the web better, one website at a time.
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Taylor McCaslin is a Technical Product Manager living in Austin, Texas. He currently works at WP Engine, a managed hosting platform for websites and apps built with WordPress. WordPress has been Taylor’s platform of choice for over 5 years. He even paid his way through college by freelancing as a WordPress developer!
Josh, is the owner of, and a developer for CalderaWP, makers of fine WordPress plugins including Caldera Forms, a drag and drop, responsive form builder and URL Builder, the visual editor for WordPress permalinks. He also writes about WordPress for many sites and listens to a lot of heavy metal, and is trying very hard not to become a coffee snob.