Call for Speakers

In June 2019, nearly 3,000 members of the WordPress community came together in Berlin at the biggest WordCamp Europe to date. With lots of happy memories from WCEU 2019, we’re now ready to continue making WordPress history! Will you join us?

We hope that you’re as excited as we are to bring the spirit of the WordPress community to such a special city. With that in mind, we’re delighted to announce that speakers’ applications for WCEU 2022 are now open!

We see WCEU 2022 in Porto as a beautiful opportunity to celebrate the present and future of WordPress together.

We are looking for talks that teach attendees to do exciting things with WordPress — in better, new, more performant, more secure, more efficient, more beautiful ways — to drive forward our shared mission of democratizing publishing.

As in previous years, WCEU has 2 days of the conference: 3 and 4 June. 

Day 1:
All about WordPress NOW

Everything that can be achieved with WordPress currently.

Day 2:
All about the FUTURE of WordPress

All the exciting things that are just around the corner.

What topics are we looking for?

In our sneak peek we gave an idea of the structure of WCEU, now you might be wondering what we and the community are looking to hear from you. As always, any topic that is related to WordPress in any shape or form is welcome. WordPress is one of the most diverse ecosystems there is and we hope to see that reflected at the stage.

Historically, talks from professionals with a technical background have dominated WordCamps, but in recent years, we’ve seen amazing presentations from speakers from a wide range of fields, like Design, Marketing, Customer Support, Content Creation, Accessibility and many others. We want to double down on that trend, so no matter what your background is, we want to hear from you!

If you need a little inspiration, we’re also happy to help you!

Here are a few ideas to give you a spark:

  • How to build Gutenberg blocks
  • How to find the best Gutenberg blocks
  • Full site editing with Gutenberg
  • The future of themes
  • The impact of COVID-19 on the WordPress community
  • The future of work
  • Content creation and technical writing
  • Page Builders
  • Performance
  • Security
  • The rise and future of LMS plugins
  • The impact and opportunities for using AI with WordPress
  • Customer Support
  • eCommerce
  • Tools for System Administration
  • Dev Ops Tools and Best practices
  • Coding Best Practices
  • Advertising
  • Inclusion and Accessibility (in every sense)
  • Professional development in WordPress 
  • Contributing and Community
  • Maintenance
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Freelancing

What presentation formats will be available?

As in previous years, we’re planning to have multiple tracks. Each slot on the schedule will be one hour in total. Content will take up to 45 minutes of each hour, leaving 15 minutes after each session to switch between tracks, grab a cup of coffee, and chat with other attendees.

WCEU 2022 will feature talks in the following formats:

  • Presentations: 45 minutes in total, breaking down to around 30 minutes for the talk & 15 minutes for Q&A
  • Workshops: 50 minutes or 110 minutes workshops (including QA during the session)

Who can apply?

You can. Whether you have given thousands of talks in front of a large audience or you have moderate experience in public speaking, if you have the practical knowledge to share — please, do it, apply to speak!

The Call for Speakers will be open from 27 December 2021 until 31 January 2022, so make sure to send in your application before the deadline.

Apply to Speak

Use the form below to express your interest in becoming one of the speakers.

Tell us about yourself:

Your social accounts links (add those that you would like to share):

Tell us about your talk/workshop:

Is this a talk or a workshop?(required)

*If your talk is selected you will be able to make minor modifications later on

What is the topic of your talk/workshop?(required)

What is the intended audience for this topic?If you were to mark it in the schedule(required)

This year we are celebrating the present and future of WordPress by devoting Day 1 (June 3) to all the exciting things that can be achieved with WordPress NOW; and Day 2 (June 4) to all about the Future of WordPress — all the exciting things that are just around the corner.

Do you feel this talk suits better to Day1 or Day 2?

Would you like to attach a link to a short video/overview doc of your presentation? Upload it to somewhere we can access it (YouTube/Google Drive, etc.).

If you have past speaking experience, please provide a few more details or a list of prior speaking engagements. Feel free to add links to the talks wherever possible.