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Alexis Bellido of Alley Interactive gives advice to non-WordPress developers in “Hit the Ground Running.”

Kevin Miller and Steve Bruner go through the awesome Piklist framework in “Customize the WordPress admin with the Piklist framework“.

Lara Schenck, freelance instructor, designer and front-end developer, leads a panel entitled “Freelancing: Real Talk“.

John Eckman, CEO of 10up, gets philosophical in “Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Responsive Web Design“.

Prodigious plugin author Pippin Williamson talks best practices for plugin developers in “Sane Plugin Updates“.

Courtney O’Callaghan of Freer and Sackler Galleries and Beth Soderberg of APCO Worldwide present “Leveling Up: From Bashful Beginner to WordPress Warrior“.

Ben Dunkle of the WordPress.org core design team presents “Designing Dashicons“, a discussion of iconography in WordPress.

Craig Ralston of Web Solutions leads “Introduction to Plugin Development” for beginner and intermediate devs.

Konstantin Obenland, a core contributor since 3.4, talks about Underscores, the  “1000 hour head start” for theme developers.

Richard Dinh of NorthPoint Digital presents “WordPress Examples Toolkit“, showcasing the power of learning by example.

Daniel Convissor, a contributor to the PEAR and PHP projects, offers “Unit Testing WordPress Plugins with PHPUnit“.

Kathryn Presner of the Automattic theme team expounds on “Supporting Your Themes While Staying Sane“.

Andrea Rennick of Copyblogger Media presents “From housewife to hero: giving back and moving up“, a discussion on giving back to the WP community.

You still don’t have tickets? Come on, now.

Yet more amazing speakers and sessions planned for WordCamp NYC! Have you got your tickets yet?

Renowned designer Sara Cannon, Creative Director at Range, will expound on modern techniques in her talk, “Smart Design“.

Drew Jaynes of 10up will take us on a tour through WordPress documentation efforts beyond the Codex.

Security expert and author of Professional WordPress Brad Williams will present “Writing Secure WordPress Code“.

Suzette Franck, a WordPress Evangelist at Media Temple, will lead a beginner session on “Understanding WordPress Core Functionality“.

Adam Silverstein, also of 10up, will show us how to incorporate Backbone.js into our projects with “Put a little Backbone in your WordPress!”

Philadelphia WordPress designer, developer, and instructor Tracy Levesque will offer techniques for leveling up with “6 Ways to Up Your Theme Game“.

WordCamp Europe organizer and Chief Product Officer at Human Noel Tock will present “Beyond the Code,” helping us to develop ourselves and get “in the habit of shipping”.

Senior WP dev at Reader’s Digest and fellow WCNYC organizer Mikel King will go through the finer points of caching, clustering and tuning in “High Performance WordPress“.

Syed Balkhi, an expert in building popular websites (WPBeginner, List25) will present “Tools to Better Manage and Grow Your Blog“.

Cal Evans, Developer Advocate for Pantheon and PHP-FIG member, will cover the concept of Numbers Used Once in “NONCE Upon a Time in WordPress“.

Core WordPress contributor and Automattician Mel Choyce will lead us through the current WP design landscape in “WordPress Design Trends“.

We are still not through! Look for more speaker announcements Monday. But before you jet off to the beach this weekend: get your tickets.

As we finalize the schedule, we’re working on getting information out to you as quickly as possible. To that effect, here is a (limited) group of confirmed speakers with brief descriptions of their presentation topics:

Tammie Lister and Kathryn Presner, both of Automattic, will host an in-depth workshop on how to become a WordCamp speaker. Meta!

For serious geeks, Daniel Bachhuber, who maintains the WordPress Command Line Interface (WP-CLI) plugin, will do a deep dive on its functionality. Helen Hou-Sandí, a Contributing Developer of WordPress and the Project Lead for WP 4.0, will present “So You Know WP_Query. Now What?”

For working devs, Jenn Schiffer, an open web engineer at Bocoup, will lead us through “A Career of Being Lazy Using WordPress“, and Boone Gorges will talk on “Free Software, Free Labor, and the Freelancer: The Economics of Contributing.”

For writers and content managers, Mary Beth Coudal, a blogger whose work has been published in The New York Times, will lead a creative session on “Dangerous Writing” – with improv exercises! Stephen C. Miller, a media technologist from Brooklyn, will help us make our writing stronger, and Jay Hoffman, WordPress dev for the Sesame Workshop, will teach us how to find the best plugins for the job.

And for all of us: Sveta Kouznetsova, a local UX and accessibility professional, will guide us on how to make websites that are more usable for everyone.

PLUS MANY MORE SPEAKERS!

We’ll be publishing more on speakers the rest of this week, with the full schedule soon to follow. Be sure to get your tickets today!