Call for Speakers

Starting as “only” a blogging software, WordPress has grown in ways that continue to amaze. Whether used as a blog, a content management system, or a full software platform WordPress helps those with stories to tell get their content to the masses.

For WordCamp Norway, we’re particularly interested in hearing from those who have used WordPress in interesting, innovative, and significant ways. Whether the open source software was used to deliver something technically amazing or whether WordPress was the foundation for creating something meaningful in the community, we want to know about it.

We’re also looking for dynamic and versatile speakers to talk about how they use WordPress to grow their business, develop advanced plugins, tell their stories, and much much more.

A few things to keep in mind about presenting at WordCamp Norway:

• We look for speakers that are experienced, yet we also look for young or new speakers as well.
• Being a professional speaker is not required. In your speaker submission, let us know how your talk can relate to WordPress or the WordCamp Norway audience.
• Your session is not to promote your own theme, plugin or business. If your session is to detail how you used WordPress code to build some really great aspect of your theme, plugin or business, and you’d like to present that as a sort of case study, go ahead and submit your session, but know that we’re not going to allow for a sales pitch at any point.
• You have to know how to spell WordPress. And respect the WordPress logo/trademarks.
• You can submit multiple speaker submissions for different talks.
• Please be prepared to submit speaker slides or review your presentation with a WCNO organizer prior to the event if asked.

Selection Process:

All selections and submissions are collectively reviewed by our organizers. We cannot accept all submissions, and in fact the majority are not selected. Factors we look for in presentations are the degree of uniqueness and popularity of the topic, the speaker qualifications and experience (past speaking experience is not required though, since we do have first-time speakers at WordCamp Norway), hometown of speaker (we try to keep a certain percentage of speakers local), and other factors. If your submission is not accepted we will notify you although we might not be able to personally respond to each submission or applicant.

Finally, there’s been a lot of talk about variety of speakers at technology conferences. Our general policy is that we don’t consider the race, sex, religion, or any other factor of the speaker to play a part in our selection process. That being said we encourage women and people of color to submit session proposals. EVERYONE has a story and you can reach out to us privately at norway@wordcamp.org if you have any questions – please consider submitting a proposal!

Share Your Knowledge!

Use the application form below to share your ideas with us. Feel free to apply more than once, submitting a single talk idea per form submissions. If you run into problems submitting your application, please contact us.

Lastly, all attendees are expected to adhere to the WordCamp Code of Conduct.