Recruitment of the speaker has ended. Thank you very much for many entries!

We are now ready to announce for the coming WordCamp Osaka 2018. WordCamp Osaka 2018 will welcome English speakers to be translated simultaneously on the stage.
WordCamp Osaka is a community event that brings together bloggers, developers, designers, artists, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and everybody. We hope to enjoy the event everyone.

What We Expect from Speakers

Talks for all skill levels are welcome.
We do not require you to be famous or an expert. If you haven’t spoken at a conference before, let’s make this WordCamp the first opportunity!
Let’s share and get the knowledge and experience regarding WordPress together!
We do have some general guidelines. Please see as below.

Qualification Requirements

• “Agreement among WordCamp Organizer, Speakers, Sponsors, and Volunteers.” and “100% GPL Vetting Checklist
• You will be on public medias such as twitter, real time streaming, recorded videos and photos.
• We ask speakers to share your slides to upload somewhere and share it on the internet.
• We’ll ask speakers to have a pre on/offline meeting.

Application Details

Speaking Date

2nd June, 2018 (Saturday)
(Sunday is the Contributor Day, and there will be no formal sessions.)

Venue

Kansai University Umeda Campus (KANDAI Me RISE)
(in Osaka)

Application Deadline

23:59 (JST) on 7th March, 2018 (Wednesday).

We will notify the result of your application by the end of March.

Announcement Time

30 minutes + Q&A (5-10 minutes)

Share your knowledge and experience

How have you gotten involved with WordPress?

• Writing and Blogging
• Constructing a website or a system
• Participating a WordPress community
• Contributing to Develop and Translate a core, a plugin, and a theme
• Managing WordPress

Or the other cases? We would like to ask you for various stories regarding WordPress!

Suggested Topics

• Business through WordPress
  • Benefit through WordPress
  • How to get a job for a website
• Knowledge for managing and developing
  • Benefit for adopting WordPress
  • Development environments and Workflow for a release and a test
• Improvement of a blog and a website
  • Web assignee and WordPress
  • Communication with Writer
  • Knowledge for increasing in access
  • Constructing a website without any cordings
• X-Web (New approach and a potential for WordPress)
  • Collaborating WordPress with other services and IoT
  • Front-end technique (JavaScript and so on)
  • Case example utilizing REST API
• Community and Contribution
  • Contributing as a non-corder
  • IT community organizer
  • Open Source and License

The suggested topics are several examples among topics. If you want to talk about anything regarding WordPress, please submit it. We are looking forward to your application!

Notes

• We are still considering the number of sessions to be conducted in English. At the time of writing, we are not planning to hold a separate English speaking track.
• We are planning to provide English to Japanese translations for sessions conducted in English. Depending on the translation format, your session time may be halved, in which case we may adjust session times accordingly.
• We may ask your time for online meetings in preparation to the event.
• You must pay your own travel and accomodation expenditure.