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2019 Trolley Tour & After Party

We are very excited to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of WordCamp Boston with you this year. There are several anniversary themed surprises in store for you.

Trolley Tour

Boston is a beautiful city with lots to offer. This year, we decided to give attendees a way to explore the city. So, we scheduled a trolley tour of Boston! The trolleys will load in front of the conference venue (George Sherman Union) and finish in front of the after party venue (see below for location announcement).

For all of the information on the trolley tour, please check out the trolley tour page.

Note: There are limited spaces available on the trolleys (80 attendees maximum).

After Party

We’re also happy to announce that the after party will be returning to White Horse Tavern again this year! White Horse Tavern is 1.2 miles from the venue, making it a nice easy walk or ride share. Both indoor and outdoor areas at the venue are reserved specifically for WordCamp Boston attendees.

For all of the details you need to know (including the food items being ordered with dietary information), visit the after party page.

If you have not yet, purchase your ticket. We hope to see you there!

Welcome HubSpot as a Global Silver Sponsor

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading growth platform. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, over 56,500 customers in more than 100 countries use HubSpot’s award-winning software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to Grow Better. Learn more about HubSpot for WordPress.

Welcome GreenGeeks as a Gold Sponsor

GreenGeeks, a global silver sponsor, has generously upgraded their sponsorship level to Gold for the Boston WordCamp 2019.

GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated hosting provider.Our specially engineered platform offers WordPress users web hosting that is designed for the fastest, most secure and scalable hosting available in multiple data centers. Our WordPress hosting makes deploying and managing WordPress websites easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, real-time security protection, SSD RAID-10 storage arrays, PowerCacher and expert 24/7 support to make for the best web hosting experience.

Since our launch in 2008, GreenGeeks has been the industry’s leading eco-friendly web hosting provider putting back 3 times the power we consume into the grid in the form of renewable energy. We are based out of Los Angeles, California with a global workforce that provides a better web hosting experience to customers from over 150 countries.

Since our launch in 2008, GreenGeeks has been the industry’s leading eco-friendly web hosting provider putting back 3 times the power we consume into the grid in the form of renewable energy. We are based out of Los Angeles, California with a global workforce that provides a better web hosting experience to customers from over 150 countries.

GreenGeeks is actively engaged within the WordPress community and is a proud sponsor to various WordCamps around the world.

Welcome Pantheon as a Gold Sponsor

Pantheon is the website operations platform top developers, marketers, and IT use to build, launch and run all their Drupal and WordPress websites.

Pantheon includes all of the tools professional developers need to build best-practice sites—like staging environments, version control, backups, and workflows. Powering over 200,000 sites and billions of pageviews a month, Pantheon’s container-based infrastructure allows you to launch websites faster, without worrying about traffic spikes, security, or performance. It’s free to develop your site on Pantheon, you only pay once your site goes live. You can scale your site on the same infrastructure from day one, and never touch a server again. Create your free account now!

Welcome A2 Hosting as a Gold Sponsor

A2 Hosting is your high powered WordPress hosting provider and proud sponsor of WordCamp Boston! We cater to our clients by offering scalable hosting accounts, which run on robust servers, at an affordable cost. As part of our commitment to the WordPress community, we sponsor a great number of WordCamps and WordPress MeetUps around the globe.

As our business has grown, so have our product lines, and we are compelled to give back to this great community that has given so much to us. Additionally, in 2018, we launched a Managed WordPress hosting solution. This service was built with the needs and wants of the WordPress community in mind; providing you with an enhanced WordPress environment that cultivates both creativity and prosperity. We offer all the tools needed to successfully run a scalable, fast, and secure WordPress site out of the box.

A2 Hosting is proud to support WordCamp Boston and the WordPress community so that this fantastic community continues to flourish.

Welcome Our Global Silver Sponsor

Welcome and Thank You to our Global Silver Level Sponsor.

This sponsor goes above and beyond in their sponsorship of WordCamps. They have stepped up to being “Global Sponsors”. Without them we could not put on a quality event!

GreenGeeks

GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated hosting provider.

Our specially engineered platform offers WordPress users web hosting that is designed for the fastest, most secure and scalable hosting available in multiple data centers. Our WordPress hosting makes deploying and managing WordPress websites easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, real-time security protection, SSD RAID-10 storage arrays, PowerCacher and expert 24/7 support to make for the best web hosting experience.

Since our launch in 2008, GreenGeeks has been the industry’s leading eco-friendly web hosting provider putting back 3 times the power we consume into the grid in the form of renewable energy. We are based out of Los Angeles, California with a global workforce that provides a better web hosting experience to customers from over 150 countries.

GreenGeeks is actively engaged within the WordPress community and is a proud sponsor to various WordCamps around the world.

Welcome WP Engine as a Gold Sponsor

WP Engine is the world’s leading WordPress digital experience platform that gives companies of all sizes  the agility, performance, intelligence, and integrations they need to drive their business forward faster. WP Engine’s combination of tech innovation and an award-winning team of WordPress experts are trusted by over 90,000 companies across 130 countries to provide counsel and support, helping brands create world-class digital experiences. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in San Francisco, California; San Antonio, Texas; London, England; Limerick, Ireland and Brisbane, Australia.

Be sure to stop by their table to say “hello” and “thank you”. Without them we could not put on a quality event!

KidsCamp at WordCamp Boston

The world of WordPress is fun and exciting for everyone. But, WordCamps and WordPress meetups are typically aimed at adults and working professionals. Why can’t kids join in on the fun?

We are excited to offer a KidsCamp in conjunction with our normal WordCamp Boston programming in 2019!

Today’s kids are tomorrow’s great engineers, designers, developers, and business owners. Introducing them to WordPress and technology early to instill a passion for computer science is important in the technological world that we live in.

KidsCamp tickets are now available on the tickets page for just $20.

A few important details:

  • The KidsCamp event is only on Saturday, July 20th. But, kids are welcome to return for Sunday and attend all WordCamp related events. If returning for Sunday, though, we ask that the parent or guardian also purchase a General Attendee ticket to help with costs.
  • A parent or guardian must stay with their child at all times.
  • A KidsCamp ticket includes a t-shirt for the child, lunch for both the child and parent/guardian, and access to all WordCamp related events.

For all of the information, please check read the KidsCamp and KidsCamp FAQs pages.

Welcome Our Global Gold Sponsors

Welcome and Thank You to five of our Global Gold Level Sponsors.

These five sponsors go above and beyond in their sponsorship of WordCamps. They have stepped up to being “Global Sponsors”. Be sure to stop by their table to say “hello” and “thank you”. Without them we could not put on a quality event!

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Share your Knowledge!

If you’ve ever been to a WordCamp, you know that the talks are a huge part of the event. We love that so many people want to share their WordPress knowledge with our community, and have had amazing talks come out of WordCamp. You can even watch last year’s videos online!

Do you have a lesson, idea, or story you want to share with our audience? You should apply to speak. You don’t need to have tons of public speaking experience, all we ask is that you be able to present your chosen topic passionately and respectfully (there are a few other guidelines outlined onthe speaker application).

This year, we want to encourage people to submit talks about Design, Accessibility, and JavaScript in WordPress. Of course, we’ll always have our informal tracks of content for developers, writers, business owners, people just getting started with WordPress…

If you’re unsure about a topic you want to submit, we’re happy to chat it through.

Speaker applications close on May 15th, so that we have time to review the submissions, and you have time to get your presentations done 🙂

If you or your company is looking for another way to give back, we’re also still looking for sponsors! Check out our sponsorship page for more information.