We’re thrilled to announce that the Call for Speakers for WordCamp Mombasa 2019 is now OPEN!.

The last date to apply for to speak is on 28th November 2019

Why speak?

Presenting at WordCamp takes some work but is very rewarding. You get to share your passion, convince people you’re worth hiring and help everyone learn about WordPress, all at the same time. Speakers also receive free admission to WordCamp.

What we’re looking for?

WordCamp Mombasa would like to showcase the best of WordPress and the WordPress Community. We’re particularly interested in hearing from those who have used WordPress in interesting, innovative, and significant ways. Whether the open-source software was used to deliver something technically amazing, or whether WordPress was the foundation for creating something meaningful in the community, we want to know about it. We’re also looking for dynamic and versatile speakers to talk about how they use WordPress to grow their business, develop advanced plugins, tell their stories, and much much more. Everybody has a unique WordPress story to tell, and we want to hear yours.

Presentations

The ideal speaker has a WordPress-related topic they are passionate about and that they can present in 10 or 45 minutes with attractive slides and detailed, coherent explanations. Designers, bloggers, businesses, and developers are all welcome to apply!

Show us what you’ve made with WordPress, how you did it, or what you learned in the process. Give us examples: important lessons you learned, specific advice on how to avoid problems, etc. Nothing is too hardcore, advanced, simple or beginner-level. We’re looking for diversity.

Talks

WordCamp Mombasa 2019 will have two tracks on the two conference days. The organizing team is targeting for full-length and lightning talks. Full-Length talks are of 40 minutes with 30 min talk and 10 min Q&A. Whereas, lightning talks are of 15 minutes with 10 min talk and 5 min Q&A.

Topic Ideas

Here’s a list of topics we’d love to see at WordCamp. These are just examples!

• Finding the perfect themes/plugins
• WordPress for bloggers
• Using child themes
• Monetizing your website
• Case studies of large projects
• Creating Multilingual sites
• CSS tips for WordPress
• SEO for Bloggers and E-commerce
• Security for WordPress
• Messenger bot, Future of Ecommerce
• Email Marketing Guides
• Creating plugins (intro or in-depth)
• Releasing and/or selling themes/plugins
• Automating WordPress Development
• Complete Email Marketing setup & funnel
• Facebook Marketing & Google Adwords
• WordPress as Career
• WordPress in Govt and Edu
• GPL/Free Software and what it means for WordPress Plugins and themes
• Advanced development
• Accessible design
• Agile frameworks
• Art & Culture
• Project management
• Scaling up the business
• Storytelling
• Success stories
• Working remotely ‘best practices’
• Business-related
• Others (Any other topic or suggestion could be considered as well)

The deadline for speaker submission is on 28th November 2019. Applicants will be notified by Friday, Nov 29th of their status.

If you’d like to propose multiple topics, please submit the form multiple times, once for each topic.