Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is taking place on October 3-4, the same weekend as WordCamp Toronto. And this year our afterparty, held at the Duke of Devon (near Union Station in downtown Toronto), is right in the heart of it.

So, if you want to be a hardcore WordCamper and pull an all-nighter, have fun. We won’t blame you. There’s a lot of cool stuff to see.

Location & Time Details

WordCamp Toronto Afterparty
Saturday, October 3rd @ 8:00pm

Duke of Devon
Toronto-Dominion Centre
66 Wellington St W
Toronto, ON M5K 1H1

(View it on Google Maps)

What’s the best way to get to the afterparty/downtown?

Driving/carpooling, calling a cab, or using Uber is the fastest route.

If you’re comfortable with transit, the 501 Queen Eastbound streetcar will get you close (Queen Street & Bay Street, then walk south), albeit the ride is long with many stops.

You can also head to Kipling Station, take the subway eastbound to Bloor-Yonge, and then head south on Line 1 (Yonge/University/Spadina) to Union Station.

Lastly, you can take GO Transit‘s Lakeshore West train from Longbranch Station or Mimico Station to Union Station.

Find more details on our Location page.

We’re very happy to finally unveil our first wave of confirmed sessions for WordCamp Toronto 2015! In no particular order, we have:

• Using Actions and Filters to Make Plugins Your Own
• Creating Customizer options for themes and plugins
• Introduction to WordPress unit testing
• please design responsively
• WordPress Development for Non-Developers: An Introductory Tour Under the Hood
• Help Me Help You: Practical Tips for Designers from A WordPress Developer
• How to A/B Test with WordPress: Conversions Aren’t Just for Landing Pages
• Gaining (and not betraying) User Trust in e-Commerce
• Delightful Design with the Kano Model
• Put a Map On It! Enhanced Geolocation and Mapping with Geo Mashup
• Piecing Together the WordPress Puzzle
• How to build a Child Theme
• WordPress Accessibility: Spreading the word!
• A Noob’s Journey To The Core
• Let Me Tell You A Story: WordPress As A Storytelling Tool
• Using the Editor the Proper Way
• Gathering Sales Intelligence Through Web Design
• How I Made a Living Using WordPress Without Knowing a Line of Code
• Digital Marketing with WordPress
• You Have 2 Hands (Community Building)
• WordPress Upgrades: Ready, Set, Go!
• Developing WordPress Themes Using Modular Sass
• Systematic Holistic Speed
• Image Grid Plugins
• Content Doesn’t Grow on Trees – An Introduction to Content Strategy
• Pages vs. Posts: The mystery is solved!
• Don’t Drop the Ball (WP Updates)
• Speed Up Your Site!
• Multilingual Content and WordPress
• Managed WordPress Demystified
• Speeding up your WordPress Site
• Ecomm 101
• Best Friend or Worst Enemy: Multisite Network Do’s & Don’ts

** Keep in mind that these sessions may change over the next couple of weeks, depending on speakers’ availability suddenly changing at the last minute. (It’s happened before!) **

There’s a lot of content this year, so the actual schedule (times, tracks, and whatnot) is still being finagled. More updates to come this week!

Here’s our second wave of confirmed speakers! We’ve got a packed list with more to come. In alphabetic order:

• Aaron D. Campbell
• Alan Lok
• Alex Sirota
• Alexandre Simard
• Allan Pollett
• Andrea Zoellner
• Ben Martin
• David Mackey
• Élise Desaulniers
• Jai Sangha
• Jem Rosario
• Jen Fisher
• Jeremy Pound
• Jessica Gardner
• Jordan Quintal
• Kevin A. Barnes
• Laurie M. Rauch
• Mary Anne Shew
• Rami Sayar
• Seth Alling
• Suzette Franck
• tracy apps
• Zack Tollman

Our Featured Speaker series will continue as we count down the days to WordCamp Toronto 2015. More session details will come over the next week or so, as well. Be sure to subscribe for updates in the sidebar so you don’t miss anything!

We’re happy to announce our first wave of confirmed speakers! It’s the beginning of an excellent roster that includes a mix of local talent, visitors from abroad, familiar faces, and first-timer guests. In alphabetical order:

• Al Davis
• Alycia Mitchell
• Andrew Wikel
• Brendan Sera-Shriar
• Brian Hogg
• Carl Alexander
• Chrissie Pollock
• Dara Skolnick
• Dustin Meza
• Meagan Hanes
• Mike DeWitt
• Ryan Welcher
• Shanta R. Nathwani
• Taylor McCaslin

Over the next few weeks you’ll learn more about all of our speakers, and the sessions that they’re presenting, in our Featured Speaker series. Be sure to subscribe for updates in the sidebar so you don’t miss any posts!

Attention all WordCamp Toronto keeners: Registration is open early this year!

It’s $40 for the whole weekend, including two days of catered breakfast & lunch, plus the Saturday night after-party.

Head over to our Register page and grab your ticket.

P.S. Want to step up your involvement with the event? Awesome! We’re looking for speakers, volunteers, and sponsors. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your WordPress expertise, share knowledge, support the local WordPress community, and get a bit of recognition in the process.

WordCamp Toronto 2015’s call for speakers is now open!

Do you have something to share about WordPress that will benefit the community? Are you a confident presenter who can gel with an audience and deliver something awesome? If so, we’d like to hear your idea for a 50 minute presentation.

Submit Your Speaker Application

Our general categories are making a return for 2015:

• Accessibility (a11y)
• Coding / Development (Beginner & Advanced)
• Content
• Design
• Business
• Meta (Getting involved with the WordPress community)

There’s no specific agenda this year, so feel free to submit whatever topics you’re interested in presenting. Here are some tips for standing out from the rest of the crowd:

• Put a new spin on old talks.
  WordPress 101, Choosing Plugins & Themes, Posts vs. Pages – they’re all great, but they’ve been done to death. Do you have a fresh approach for covering these beginner topics? We’d love to hear it.
• Introduce us to the cutting-edge.
  What’s on the horizon for WordPress users and developers?
• Tell us a story.
  Case studies & success stories with actionable takeaways make for a compelling presentation. We love hearing about the different ways WordPress is being used.
• Teach us something new.
  Get hands-on with practical sessions that give your audience something they can use immediately.

We’ll be accepting submissions until late August. Get yours in soon!