Talks are the heart of WordCamps: some people come for the first time and they want to know more about WordPress, some have been using the platform for a while and they want to add new skills and dive into advanced topics.
WordCamps are for everyone: designers, bloggers, developers, marketers, copywriters, and people that are just curious. The agenda is varied too: we are sure you will find many interesting talks that will pique your curiosity.
Talk format
- Long form talk: maximum of 45 mins, inclusive of Q&A
- Lightning talk: maximum of 10 mins, with a group Q&A
- Workshop: maximum of 90 mins
- Panel: maximum of 45 mins, inclusive of Q&A. It’s a 4 or 5 people discussion session with a moderator. You should send a proposal with a topic but also a group of people that you have contacted to take part in this. If you don’t have a group of people to do it, contact us and we can connect you with like-minded folks.
Deadline to send your proposal is Thursday, January 31, 23:59 CET.
What could you talk about?
WordPress and its ecosystem, naturally!
Here are some ideas, but your suggestions are welcome:
- Write content with WordPress
- WordPress + Social media
- E-Commerce with WordPress
- Scaling WordPress for high traffic websites
- Themes development
- Plugins development
- JavaScript and WordPress
- WordPress and Internet of Things
- GitHub
- WP-CLI
- Typography
- Contribute to WordPress
- Developers tools
- Accessibility
- Speed optimisation for WordPress websites
- Security for WordPress websites
- Project Management
- Content marketing
- SEO
- Open source
- Women in tech
- Diversity and inclusion
- Business and WordPress (quotes, clients management, vendors management, etc…)
- Web Design / Theme Design / UI / UX
- PHP
- HTML and CSS
- Gutenberg
- REST API
- Outside of the bubble! We’d love to get proposals from friends from other open source projects (Drupal, Joomla, Ghost, Maria DB, etc…)
Other important information
- WWe would love to have more lightning talks (10 minutes + 15 minutes of group questions with other 2 speakers). If you have a long talk in mind, think if you can single out one specific aspect and turn it into a lightning talk.
- We are looking for speakers of every age and background: WordCamps are inclusive and accessibile events.
- You don’t need to be a professional public speaker, but we expect you to be competent enough about the topic you’ll be talking about.
- Your talk is not a way to promote your product or service. If your session is about how you used WordPress to solve a problem that others might have and you are presenting a case-study it’s ok, but we will not accept sales pitches.
- If your talk is accepted, we will use the text of your bio and abstract for the website, please fill them with care.
- Remember to capitalise the P in WordPress and respect the WordPress trademark.
- If you want to send more than one talk, please submit the form that you find at the end of the Call for Speakers in Italian for every single one.
- We will ask to see your slides before March 15 to check that there are no infringements of the rules about trademark, GPL, and code of conduct. You will find a series of link in the application form, please accept those only after you have read the documents linked.
- All the speakers will get a free ticket to WordCamp Torino, so do not get one at this time.
- If we can’t accept your submissions and you decide to join us anyway (thanks!), don’t worry to miss the ticket sales. We will send you a reserved link to buy one from a pool of reserved tickets.
- Please note no payment or reimbursement is due to speakers. WordCamps are all volunteer run.
Are you ready to apply?
Fill the form at the end of the announcement post in Italian. Deadline is Thursday January 31st at 23:59 CET.
Good luck!