{"id":1848,"date":"2017-09-13T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2017-10-06T18:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:13:29","slug":"announcing-the-wordcamp-colombo-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/announcing-the-wordcamp-colombo-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the WordCamp Colombo schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are glad to announce the finalized schedule for WordCamp Colombo 2017!<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the day long event will begin at <strong>8.30 am<\/strong>. Make sure you arrive early at BMICH and grab your front row seats. Or, the back row seats if you wish to ask tough questions to the speakers and make heads turn. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The day will be packed with a mix of talks aimed at WordPress developers, business owners and users. You have a chance to make lots of new friends, so please keep your visiting cards ready!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1851\" src=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/files\/2017\/09\/time-schedule.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/time-schedule.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/time-schedule-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/time-schedule-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/time-schedule-1024x504.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/time-schedule-500x246.jpg 500w, https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/time-schedule-1000x492.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starting <strong>9.30 am<\/strong>, the morning half will have long talks by <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/himash-tehan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Himash<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/rahul-bansal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rahul <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/samantha-pathirathna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Samantha<\/a>. Each long talk will last 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and 10 minutes buffer time. The 10 minute buffer is a great time to grab some tea and snacks, and also make friends with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/attendees\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">attendees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch time is between <strong>12.30 pm<\/strong> and <strong>1.30 pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Between <strong>1.30 pm<\/strong> and<strong> 2.15 pm<\/strong>, we will have lightning talks (10 minutes each, no Q&amp;A) by <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/dwain-maralack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dwain<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/harshadewa-ariyasinghe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Harshadewa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/asith-wijenayake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Asith <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/prasath-nadaraja\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Prasath<\/a>. Finally, we will have long talks by <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/m-asif-rahman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Asif<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/chathu-vishwajith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chathu <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/takayuki-miyoshi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Takayuki<\/a>, followed by the keynote speech by <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/stephane-boisvert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St\u00e9phane Boisvert.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WordCamp Colombo 2017 will end with closing remarks at <strong>5.30 pm<\/strong>\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/09\/04\/all-aboard-the-wordcamp-colombo-after-party-bus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">after party double decker bus<\/a> will leave at <strong>6.00 pm<\/strong>. The after party begins at <strong>8.00 pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out and bookmark the final schedule here:<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/schedule\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are glad to announce the finalized schedule for WordCamp Colombo 2017! Registration for the day long event will begin at 8.30 am. Make sure you arrive early at BMICH and grab your front row seats. Or, the back row &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/announcing-the-wordcamp-colombo-schedule\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Announcing the WordCamp Colombo schedule<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13796322,"featured_media":1851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/09\/time-schedule.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8keEA-tO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13796322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}