Helsinki, Finland
WordCamp Helsinki 2017 is only two weeks away and it’s time to publish the schedule! Check it our here.
Registration opens at 8:00 am and will be open whole day. We encourage you to come well in advance before opening words at 9:oo am in order to enjoy delicious breakfast which we offer.
Say hello to our second set of lightning talks at WordCamp Helsinki 2017!
Daniel started his own freelance business in 2008, building and maintaining mostly WordPress-based sites. Along with his colleagues from H1, Daniel joined Zeeland Family in 2016 where he’s now in charge of supporting an ever growing number of WordPress installs. Daniel’s lighting talk will be about the Customizer: how to create a better experience for your clients or users of your theme.
Jaakko is working as the CTO at Evermade. He leads their dev team, provides technical consultation and gets his hands dirty with code every day. In the beginning Evermade did everything from photography to USB-drivers. In 2012 they agreed that WordPress is basically useless and decided to focus on ExpressionEngine. After a year – and some pain – they changed their minds and decided to focus on WordPress.
Viljami is a Forbes featured Hacker, Security Expert and a WordPress digitalist star celebrity (from Savo) with years of experience in the tech business as an entrepreneur, thought-leader and coder-consultant. Viljami will give real arguments against WordPress and talk about what it would take to consider switching to an alternative (dream) CMS.
Tickets are sold out, but small batch will maybe be available later! Subscribe to updates from the sidebar or follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with more details about the event.
Joonas believes that the only way to be successful is to understand your customer, and the best way to understand your customer is to collect information on their actual behavior. Why are we still starting website projects asking how much does this cost, instead of how much value could I bring to the customer? Joonas will demonstrate how the decision you make while building your WordPress/WooCommerce site affect the way it can be marketed post-launch, people on your site can find what they are looking for and that you actually have a chance to get leads or sales from your site.
Regular tickets were sold out in two hours, but you can still buy a micro-sponsor ticket to get your place at the event! Subscribe to updates from the sidebar or follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with more details about the event.
Edmund Turbin is Solutions Engineer at WP Engine, London. Over the past ten years he has built websites with content management systems and has held technical roles in media, publishing and ad tech in New York City. Edmund is passionate about front end coding, development workflow and scaling WordPress for enterprise. Edmund enjoys speaking about technology and is greatful for the opportunity to talk at more than ten events throughout Europe over the past two years. He knows that moving data between environments in a tiered development workflow can be tricky and time consuming. Edmund will tell his toughts and tips about configuration management in WordPress.
Say hello to our first set of lightning talks at WordCamp Helsinki 2017!
Sauli Rajala was born in a small town called Peräseinäjoki. Now he lives in Jyväskylä, where he works as a front-end developer at Valu Digital. Sauli will give talk about visual regression testing. What it is and why should you use it? Sauli will demonstrate visual regression testing in action with a tool called Wraith.
Danny is a developer who has specialised himself in WordPress and e-commerce. As a backend developer he knows how to speed up your site as well as how to speed up the development process. Danny will show you how to use WP-CLI to all those tasks with just one command in the terminal.
Onni spends most of his time optimizing slow backends or building webscale solutions with WordPress. He knows how it feels to wake up in middle the night to fix broken websites. Onni will talk about automatic updates of WordPress and tell a story of how he disabled all automatic updates last year. Why he did it and the struggle he had.
Regular tickets were sold out in two hours, but you can still buy a micro-sponsor ticket to get your place at the event! Subscribe to updates from the sidebar or follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with more speaker announcements.
Miikka has been working with WordPress for a few years, overseeing tens of projects ranging from simple campaign sites to large-scale multisites and high levels of API integration. Miikka focuses on “getting it done” – his motto is to enable everyone else to perform to their maximum potential. With the arrival of the so-called European Union “Accessibility Directive”, there has been a lot talk lately about the accessibility of the modern web. Most common guidelines to comply with the requirements of the directive are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. While doing large scale project, Miikka noticed that the WCAG is not perfect – and has, in fact, some contradictions. The topic will focus on telling what to take into account while designing accessible web services and some tips for the coders as well.
Regular tickets were sold out in two hours, but you can still buy a micro-sponsor ticket to get your place at the event! Subscribe to updates from the sidebar or follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with more speaker announcements.
A transplant from New Zealand, via a few countries along the way, Thomas came to Helsinki for love – of design. He has translated his background in product, system and service design into developing integrated digital experiences with the team at Pixels. As a creative and CEO, Thomas works with a team that creates considered user experiences, beautiful design and powerful technical implementations. Because a ‘Briefly in English’ page is about as big a turn off as an orange in the White House, Thomas will venture into strategies for planning and building successful multilingual and/or multi-regional websites that maximise content and the end user experience.
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Aki Björklund has been building websites since 2000. After 10 years of developing custom CMSs with Microsoft technologies for big Finnish media companies, among other things, he had enough and switched to 100% WordPress. He knows that working with abstract things like the web can sometimes be demotivating and that it’s sometimes a struggle to find motivation to continuously do your best. Aki will share what he has learned on how to cope with the pressure, focus on stuff that matters, and finding meaning and motivation in work.
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Please give a big hand and welcome our first speaker, who comes from Romania to join us!
I’m glad to inform that we have chosen speakers to WordCamp Helsinki 2017! All applicants have been contacted and we’re going to start speaker announcements soon. However, before any announcements, I wanted to share some details how the selections were made.
