Call for Speakers

We’re looking for speakers to come and share their knowledge at this year’s WordCamp Cape Town! We’re going to be holding workshops as well as regular sessions again, so please submit your applications for either.

To help you out, we conducted a poll to find out what the WordPress community of Cape Town would like to hear about this year and we came up with some interesting results!

Here’s a summary of the topic ideas submitted by the community:


Keynote Topic Ideas

Agencies

  • Selling Time vs Project Value.
  • Agile vs Waterfall project design.
  • WordPress time savers.
  • Developing Online Marketing KPI’s – How to measure success.

Freelancers

  • How to make the leap from corporate to freelance.
  • Teamwork? How digital nomads collaborate.
  • How to get paid every time, on time.
  • You are too cheap, and what you can do about it.

Business Owners

  • How WordPress / WooCommerce makes a difference in our company.
  • How to measure success: Is my website working for me?
  • Implementing a basic SEO strategy with WordPress.
  • Taking advantage of WordPress social media integrations.
  • Building a profitable business on an open-source platform.
  • Managing a remote team – tools and methods.

WordPress & WooCommerce

  • What’s coming soon?
  • Contributing to WordPress.org.
  • Retail to eCommerce – How to navigate eTail successfully.
  • WordPress.com vs Shopify – a practical comparison.
  • The future of online payments in South Africa.
  • How to launch an e-commerce store in South Africa with WooCommerce.
  • Tips & Tricks for e-commerce Conversion Rate Optimisation.

Workshop Topic Ideas

  • Scaling your WooCommerce store.
  • How to develop Gutenberg blocks.
  • E-Commerce Automation? How to get started.
  • Integrations: Zapier, CRMs (Hubspot etc), Zendesk etc.
  • Content writing: Getting the most out of the block editor.
  • Automating your development flow using WP CLI.
  • Keeping things in shape – how often should I update my website?
  • Building a mobile app using WordPress.
  • Setting up local development & hosting environments.

Apply to Speak

Before submitting your speaker proposal, please log in to WordCamp.org using your WordPress.org account*.

If you don’t have an account, please create one.

* This is your account for the official WordPress.org website, rather than your personal WordPress site.