We are delighted to announce WordCamp London’s 2018 schedule, and share with you the effort and celebration of a community over the course of a year.
This year you can expect another round of presentations, workshops, and panels, in a range of categories. As well as the more traditional Business, Design, Development, and Content, we also have a new Hot Topic category to highlight sessions which cover big current topics (the topics selected for this category are Gutenberg, GDPR, and Blockchain).
The 2018 schedule will include a range of presentations, workshops, and panels too, so you can always find a session to suit your mood.
Creating the Schedule
As well as the effort of all the applicants, there is a huge effort backstage in the organising team to vet, rate, select and assemble sessions for the schedule. We’ve had an enormous 118 submissions this year, and many, many excellent applications, and it’s been incredibly hard to fit everything that we wanted to see.
Suffice to say, we’ve had to reject a number of applications we’d have loved to see on stage with us. This is always disappointing for us, and probably the most difficult aspect of organising the event. We thank everyone for their applications and encourage you to apply next year too.
A huge shout out to the Speakers team, Diane Wallace, Gary Jones, & Dan Maby for all of their hard work!
What’s next?
If you haven’t already, you should purchase a Conference ticket as we’ll soon sell out.
Once you’ve done that, you should consider joining us at Contributor Day, Friday 13th April, where we will spend the day together contributing back to WordPress.org across a range of teams.
If you’re feeling flush, there are also limited sponsorship options still available for those who can spare some cash and contribute financially towards the event.
Accessibility
If you have any specific requirement(s) you feel are not covered in our accessibility page, please reach out to us directly to explain what you will need. We are happy to work with you to ensure you have a comfortable, safe, and enjoyable experience at WordCamp London 2018.
Gutenbar & PHP Upgrade Bar
As well as the variety of sessions available to you, you can also benefit from two new initiatives we’re trying this year; Gutenbar, an open and collaborative discussion and exploration of Gutenberg, and PHP Upgrade Bar, support and advice to ensure you’re running the most recent version of PHP your site can support.
More details about both of these initiatives will be announced shortly.
If you have any questions, get in touch at any time to let us know, and reach out to us on Twitter at @WordCampLondon.