Results from #WCEU survey

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What our attendees thought about #WCEU

Thank you to everyone who filled out our feedback survey after WordCamp Europe 2019.

Fun fact, we had the same number of responses as last year: 566 responses! Almost 87% of attendees who responded rated their experience as great or amazing. We are so pleased that you enjoyed your time at WCEU!

WCEU 2019 in numbers

  • We sold 3,260 tickets to attendees from 97 different countries
  • 2,734 attendees were present in Berlin, of which we had 1,722 first-timers
  • This was the biggest WordCamp ever organised! 
  • For the first time ever, we sold 150 micro-sponsor tickets. Thank you, Micro-sponsors!
  • 60 speakers across three talk tracks and three tracks of workshops shared their knowledge with our attendees 
  • With the help of a whopping 60 sponsors, we gathered over €700,000
  • Total revenue from tickets sold was a little over €130,000
  • We were 72 organisers strong across 10 teams and supported by an additional 170 volunteers during the event

Survey results

  • 46.1% were attending WCEU for the first time
  • 33.7% were first-time WordCamp attendees
  • 94% would recommend WCEU to a friend
  • 84% are very likely to attend WCEU in Porto in 2020

Top 10 rated activities and services:

  1. The talks
  2. Registration
  3. Workshops
  4. Meeting sponsors
  5. Wellness at WCEU
  6. The official app 
  7. Live captioning
  8. Reduced waste effort
  9. Volunteers
  10. Event swag

Top 10 talks:

  1. Matt Mullenweg – Matt on WordPress
  2. Vladimír Smitka – WordPress through bad guys’ glasses
  3. Rob Hope – Understanding what makes a website landing page convert
  4. John Jacoby – Advanced database management for plugins
  5. Francesca Marano – The art of networking
  6. Jenny Beaumont – Doing it wrong
  7. Sami Keijonen – Maintainable CSS architecture in the Gutenberg era
  8. Maura Teal – Develop with Docker: Containers for everyone!
  9. Sebastiaan van der Lans – From WordPress to Blockchain: the future is 100% open source
  10. Jack Lenox – How better-performing websites can help save the planet

Top 3 workshops:

  1. Vassilena Valchanova – The big bad content planning workshop
  2. Micah Wood – REST API workshop
  3. Radost Dacheva – If you fail to plan, you plan to fail: Workshop on business planning

77% of attendees said they would like to see workshops at WCEU next year!

Top 5 things we did right this year and you want us to continue:

  1. Workshops
  2. WP Cafe
  3. Wellness sessions
  4. Everything at the same location
  5. Registration

Areas where we can still improve:

  • WP Cafe location
  • WiFi
  • Swag quantities 
  • Workshops ticket system
  • After Party space capacity

Thank you!

Finally, we’re sending our gratitude to everyone who filled out the survey and shared their feedback. We use your responses to learn and improve year on year. Thank you for helping to shape WCEU.