Call for Speakers

Posted on by JC Palmes

NOTE: Call for Speaker form CLOSED. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted their talks. We will be contacting approved speakers soon.

WordPress Iloilo is actively seeking a wide variety of topics and a diverse speaker pool. You don’t have to be a professional speaker, if you are passionate about your topic and want to genuinely help out the community – we would love to have you.

WordCamps are volunteer driven events and speaking is also considered a way of volunteering at the event, hence it isn’t a paid gig or linked with sponsorship in any way. In fact, speakers are expected to pay for their own travel and accommodation.

What’s in it for you?

  • You’ll be sharing your expertise live, with a warm and enthusiastic audience.
  • Being a professional speaker is NOT required. HOWEVER, you must know what you are talking about.
  • Your desire to give back to the community.
  • In your speaker submission, let us know how your talk can relate to a WordPress audience.
  • We’re always on the lookout for new speakers of ALL ages and backgrounds. We also would love to see veteran speaker submissions.
  • You have to know how to spell WordPress properly (cap the P!) and Respect the WordPress logo/trademarks.
  • Feel free to be creative and apply ideas for group discussions, Q&As, Demos, Workshops and anything that you could manage in an auditorium / classroom environment.

Rules

  • Speakers are vetted by volunteers, they may not be able to reply to everyone or accommodate everyone, so be thoughtful and nice :).
  • If you are distributing any WordPress derivatives which include WordPress Plugins and Themes, they need to be 100% GPL.
  • Please be prepared to submit speaker slides OR review your presentation with the WCILOILO speaker team PRIOR to the event.
  • If you are not using slides for your presentation, at least an outline OR points you will be covering needs to submitted.
  • As mentioned above, speaking is not a paid gig. Speakers are not paid to speak at WordCamps OR paid by Organizers to travel. They have to either fund themselves OR ask their company to do so.

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