Call for Sponsors

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WordCamp DFW wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. Sponsoring WordCamp DFW is a great way to show your support for  the WordPress community.

Community sponsor tickets are $100 and can be purchased here.

Gold Sponsor $3000

  • Company logo and link on WordCamp DFW website
  • Dedicated swag table at the entrance
  • Recognition during opening and closing sessions
  • Acknowledgement in emails to attendees
  • Blog post introducing your sponsorship
  • Social media posts prior to & during the sponsored event
  • 4 complimentary tickets for staff or customers
  • 2 invitations to our sponsor dinner

Silver Sponsor $1500

  • Company logo and link on WordCamp DFW website
  • Dedicated swag table
  • Recognition during opening and closing sessions
  • Acknowledgement in emails to attendees
  • Blog post introducing your sponsorship
  • Social media posts prior to sponsored event
  • 4 complimentary tickets for staff or customers
  • 2 invitations to our sponsor dinner

Bronze Sponsor $500

  • Company logo and link on WordCamp DFW website
  • Opportunity to place 1-2 items on common swag table
  • Recognition during opening and closing sessions
  • Acknowledgement in emails to attendees
  • Blog post introducing your sponsorship
  • Social media posts prior to sponsored event
  • 2 complimentary tickets for staff or customers

Community $100 – Ticket

  • Small logo and link on WordCamp DFW website
  • Acknowledgement in post-camp email to attendees
  • 1 ticket to attend WordCamp

If you are ready to sponsor our camp, please fill out this form. If you have questions, please contact us. We appreciate your interest in WCDFW!

Sponsorship Level(required)

Thank You to Our Bronze Sponsors

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Last, but certainly not least, THANK YOU to our Bronze sponsors. We couldn’t have done WordCamp DFW 2019 without you.

Beaver Builder

Beaver Builder is a flexible drag and drop page builder that works on the front end of your WordPress website. Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, you’re going to love taking control of your website. Stop writing HTML or wrestling with confusing shortcodes. With Beaver Builder, building beautiful, professional WordPress pages is as easy as dragging and dropping.

Beaver Themer, our Add-On for Beaver Builder, allows you to take full control over your site’s headers, footers, archive layouts and more with the same ease and friendliness of editing page content with Page Builder.

DreamHost

Since 1997 DreamHost has helped individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers worldwide bring their dreams to life on the Internet. A leader in Managed WordPress hosting, over 400,000 customers trust DreamHost to be their online home. Supporting the open source community with dedicated resources and a passionate team, DreamHost believes in the power of the Open Web and the people that make it happen. Learn more at DreamHost.com.

Mindsize

Mindsize is THE eCommerce agency for optimized eCommerce solutions. Because we are battle-tested performance and scaling experts, with experience managing eCommerce sites handling hundreds of orders per second we have accepted referrals from and partnered with leading agencies on projects of all sizes. In addition to supporting the WordPress community through WordCamp sponsorships, core contribution and enabling Mindsize employees to be actively engaged in contributing to the community, co-founders Zach Stepek and Patrick Garman are recognized industry experts, having having taught webinars and workshops to educate other business owners on everything from how to optimize and scale sites and businesses, to strategic partnerships and increasing key metrics.

WPX Houston

WPXHouston provides custom tailored web solutions using WordPress as Web’s OS. Making and customizing proprietary themes & plugins for several types of businesses including websites based on the idea of Memberships, Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Social networks, etc. WPXHouston is owned and led by a Full Stack Engineer.

Have a crazy idea you would like to talk about? Learn more at https://wpxhouston.com/

Thank You to Our Silver Sponsors

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We are grateful for our Silver sponsors! They have helped make WordCamp DFW 2019 a success:

GoDaddy

GoDaddy Pro offers a robust suite of free tools to web developers & designers to help them save time managing all their clients and sites. With GoDaddy Pro, you can easily shop for your client, monitor their sites, and manage all their WordPress websites from one place. Exclusive time-saving tools let you update WordPress core, plugins and themes with one click, as well as automate WordPress backups, cloning and migrations. Get real-time performance, security and uptime monitoring across all your websites. Additionally, your free membership includes advanced 24/7 technical support.

When you pair GoDaddy Pro with GoDaddy hosting products, the benefits are even greater.

Check out the Free Tools

GreenGeeks

GreenGeeks is an independently owned and operated hosting provider.

Our specially engineered platform offers WordPress users web hosting that is designed for the fastest, most secure and scalable hosting available in multiple data centers. Our WordPress hosting makes deploying and managing WordPress websites easy with automatic 1-click install, managed updates, real-time security protection, automatic install/renewal of Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certificates, SSD RAID-10, storage arrays, PowerCacher and expert 24/7 support to make for the best web hosting experience.

Since our launch in 2008, GreenGeeks has been the industry’s leading eco-friendly web hosting provider putting back 3 times the power we consume into the grid in the form of renewable energy. We are based out of Los Angeles, California with a global workforce that provides a better web hosting experience to customers from over 150 countries.

GreenGeeks is actively engaged within the WordPress community and is a proud sponsor to various WordCamps around the world.

Twitter Handle: @greengeeks
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/greengeeks

HubSpot

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading growth platform. Since 2006, HubSpot has been on a mission to make the world more inbound. Today, over 56,500 customers in more than 100 countries use HubSpot’s award-winning software, services, and support to transform the way they attract, engage, and delight customers. Comprised of Marketing Hub, Sales Hub, Service Hub, and a powerful free CRM, HubSpot gives companies the tools they need to Grow Better. Learn more about HubSpot for WordPress.

Kinsta

Kinsta takes managed WordPress hosting and performance to the next level. Powered by Google Cloud Platform and their lightning-fast “premium tier” network, WordPress users can choose from 20+ data centers around the globe. They host all types of sites, from small blogs up to Fortune 500 customers.

Their auto-scaling and container technology allow for complete isolation of resources, ensuring your business stays online during traffic surges and is secured like Fort Knox. You’ll have peace of mind with their hack fix guarantee. Need help? They offer 24/7 support 365 days a year from their team of expert WordPress engineers.

Kinsta is proud to be developer-friendly offering support for complex installations such as Bedrock, reverse-proxy configurations, with access to tools such as SSH and WP-CLI on all plans.

Get started today at kinsta.com. Their team will migrate you for free!”

Termageddon

We are a software company that generates Privacy Policies and automatically updates them whenever the laws change. We partner with web agencies and give them a free set of policies and an opportunity to make recurring revenue.

Thank You to Our Gold Sponsors

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We’d like to give a special word of thanks to our WordCamp DFW 2019 Gold Sponsors:

Bluehost

Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over 1 million WordPress sites worldwide. Their objective is to help customers, whether novice or pro, create a thriving online presence at an affordable price. With a team of in-house tech experts available 24/7, Bluehost dedicates time and resources to providing the best support and services in the industry. Join millions of other site owners and see what Bluehost can do for you and your online presence.

Jetpack

Transform how you work with your WordPress sites:Jetpack connects your site to the global services, community, and support provided by WordPress.com. Focus on the substance of your site, not the software.

Jetpack security tools automatically shield your site from spammers, hackers, and malware, while real-time syncing and backup means never worrying about data loss. Traffic-building tools like easy social sharing help you attract readers and search engines, and pages delivered from a high-speed, global content delivery network mean those readers never bounce because of a slow-loading site.

Jetpack’s Affiliate program gives you 20% every time you sell Jetpack to a customer or client — with unlimited referrals, the sky’s the limit!

Whether you’re one person with a website or an agency with a dozen clients, Jetpack helps you grow. Make your site work for you at Jetpack.com

Liquid Web

For over 20 years, Liquid Web has been delivering products, services and support designed specifically for mission-critical sites, stores and applications. Known for our high-performance services and exceptional customer support, we own and manage our own core data centers and provide a diverse range of fully managed hosting offerings, including Managed WordPress, and Managed WooCommerce Hosting. Our recent acquisition of iThemes continues to evolve our service offerings to meet the ever-changing needs of our web-reliant, professional customers.

Liquid Web has a dedicated team of WordPress professionals who have been actively involved in the community for years. Beyond contributing code to the WordPress project, they’ve also been speaking at WordCamps, participating in WordPress-related groups and meetups, and creating open-sourced plugins that are used by WordPress users around the globe.

As an industry leader in customer loyalty, we’re known for our secure, reliable, fast, hassle-free hosting, backed by the Most Helpful Humans in Hosting™ (24x7x365 by phone, chat or ticket). At Liquid Web, we power content, commerce and potential for SMB entrepreneurs and the designers, developers and digital agencies who create for them. Everything we do is about being that partner you can trust.

For more information, please visit www.liquidweb.com,, or subscribe to our Blog at www.liquidweb.com/blog.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce platform built on WordPress.
Sell anything online with the flexibility and freedom of the world’s most popular CMS.

Whether you’re selling a few handcrafted items to a niche market, taking an existing business online, or going global with an enterprise-level eCommerce business WooCommerce gets you set up and selling fast, scaling securely as you grow.

Your content is forever yours and customizable down to the button color. Plus you’re joining a supportive, global community of developers and store owners.

Developed and supported by a distributed team, WooCommerce is powered by Automattic, the creators of Jetpack and WordPress.com.

Termageddon – WordCamp DFW 2019 Sponsor

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WordCamp is already a day through, but the fun is only beginning! This year, we have Termageddon sponsoring us!
We have really enjoyed the WordPress community. Everyone has been nice, supportive and nothing but helpful. The only thing that we regret is not joining this amazing community sooner.
You could say Termageddon’s  journey with WordPress started as a happy little accident.
In the beginning of 2012, our Vice President was starting his own web agency. One of his clients asked him to build a website and he stumbled upon WordPress. He’s been using it ever since and fell in love with WordPress when building his first website.
We love their commitment to integrity and honesty. They are also an incredibly fun crowd!
We are transparent – we tell you what the pricing is, what you get and deliver on our promises. We also have fun. Privacy isn’t necessarily the most interesting topic but we try to make it as fun as it can be. Protect yo’ self before you wreck yo’ self.
Termageddon helps us be up to date with privacy. It may not sound exciting, but it’s definitely important, and we’re glad they are here to educate us!
We help WordPress websites become and stay compliant with privacy laws. We also work with WordPress developers to help them protect their clients. Our auto-updating Privacy Policies take the guesswork out of complying with the ever-changing privacy laws.
Termageddon Logo WordCamp DFW Sponsor 2019
A special thank you goes out to one of our very own speakers, Kyle Van Deusen, because without him, Termageddon would not be here!
We decided to sponsor WordCampDFW because Kyle Van Deusen from The Admin Bar told us about it. Our President, Donata Kalnenaite, spoke at WordCamp Jackson, MI about privacy and the requirements. We met some amazing people! We actually met a gentleman who took us to a book store during the event.
Here are a couple of fun, interesting Termageddon facts:
The President and Vice President of Termageddon are engaged
They keep chickens and bees
Make sure to stop by their booth sometime this weekend. They can’t wait to meet you!
We are sharing stickers, laptop camera stickers and a fun game. You can win $20 at our booth by playing a game but if you can’t beat us then you have to join us. We offer a free set of policies. 
And, tag them and give them a shout out on social media @termageddon!
We’d love to see you at this year’s WordCamp DFW!  Get your Tickets here!

Elyssa Fernandez – Keeping Youth Safe In the Changing World of Technology

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Welcome to Elyssa Fernandez, our official youngest speaker at WordCamp DFW this year!

I write blog posts for the blog I started with my sister Elisha, WhollyART. We write for teens and kids about expressing yourself, wholesome living, and positive values. WordPress has been essential to us for putting our message out in the world!

She is definitely excited to share her message with WordCamp DFW 2019 attendees. This is not her first rodeo (pun definitely intended there 😉 when it comes to WordCamps or speaking!

I’ve spoken at WordCamp many times in the past. I’ve attended WordCamp DFW for several years, and I’ve spoken there twice before. It’s always a wonderful experience, and I love every WordCamp I attend.

Elyssa will present “Keeping Youth Safe In the Changing World of Technology,” with her sister, Elisha. They will teach practical ways on how to keep kids and teens safe while giving them freedom to be tech savvy and do what they love online.

Safety for kids in the online world is a subject my sister and I are very passionate about, so we definitely wanted to seize this opportunity and pitch our session. The internet is an incredible tool, and it can be fun, but only when we use it correctly. I’m so excited to share my knowledge with the other WordCamp attendees!

Elyssa Fernandez Speaker WordCamp DFW 2019

She’s also a firm believer in helping kids achieve their dreams. She wrote her first book at 7 years old, and became an activist for kids becoming what they want to be.

It is my hope that everyone who attends will learn how to keep the youth around them safe and happy in the online world, in fun and effective ways. Everyone wants the kids in their lives to be protected, but sometimes it’s hard to know how to do it, and how to get them to listen.

Elyssa loves WordPress (obviously), and we are happy to have her as a part of our community.

I first got involved with WordPress when my mom, Elayna Fernandez, switched the blog I shared with my sister from a static website to WordPress in 2013. We’ve been using WordPress ever since, and we attended our first WordCamp here in DFW soon after.

She can’t wait to meet all of you! Stop her and say hello – Elyssa would love to get to know you.

I love being part of WordCamp. We’re all a family, and we learn and grow together.

Tweet during Elyssa Fernandez’ talk using #WCDFW and ask her about her art!

I’m an artist in every sense of the word! I love writing, painting, drawing, and just about anything that involved creating. I really enjoy acting and singing, and so I participate in a lot of musicals.

To learn from our expert speakers and be part of our community, make sure sure you get your WordCamp DFW tickets here!

Elisha Fernandez – Keeping Youth Safe In the Changing World of Technology

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One of our youngest speakers at WordCamp DFW this year, we’re thrilled to welcome Elisha Fernandez back for another year of WCDFW!
I’ve spoken at several WordCamps across the country with my sister, Elyssa, but my favorite one is always WordCamp DFW. The amount of love and unity we feel by coming together with like minded WordPress individuals has been amazing. The energy is always exciting and we always find new people to collaborate with.
Elisha will be presenting, “Keeping Youth Safe In the Changing World of Technology,” with her sister, Elyssa, and they’ve been in business together for almost 9 years!
After having a static website for several years, I finally switched over to WordPress in 2012 with my sister, and I’ve been in love with it ever since. I love how simple it is to use, and I’m immensely grateful I use it in my business. I couldn’t think of a better platform for WhollyART!
In her presentation, she hopes to make a big statement about changing the way we perceive youth in media, and turning around negative myths society promotes.
The amount of content creators under the age of 18 seems to be growing at an exponential rate. Sometimes this can start accidentally, with a personal account that eventually grows into a community, and many teens and kids have no idea what to do with that level of responsibility. I am grateful to have had a mom to guide me through that process and teach me the do’s and don’ts, so my mission is to teach parents and educators how to equip youth with the capacity to create and consume content in meaningful, safe, and fun ways!
Elisha has been creating videos, blog posts, and more starting at 6 years old. She has grown up with business and has learned that it’s not as scary or difficult as it seems.
Being a content creator is a daunting task, and there are many taboos surrounding the topic, which may instill fear in adults or even kids, but the more we bring that to light, we can make sure that awareness replaces that fear. I believe kids and teens have unique voices and stories to share, but we need to help them learn how, when, where, why, and who to share it with.
Elisha Fernandez Speaker WordCamp DFW 2019
The top 3 takeaways she hopes you will gain are:
Learn how to encourage teens to keep safe online yet still have a good time
How to protect yourself (as adults) and youth against cyber bullying
The rules to being a good online citizen in content creation and in general!
She is passionate about content creation, and also design. She works as a virtual assistant and graphic designer for many bloggers and people looking to start their business.
My website, WhollyART.com, was made with WordPress. I use it for content creation and also practice coding, and I am learning all the web design secrets I can from my mom, Elayna Fernandez, who designed WhollyART. I also help my clients manage their own sites on WordPress, taking on editing, freelance writing, and SEO optimization work.
Elisha and her sister are also homeschooled. She graduated high school before her 17th birthday and is planning for college right now to major in English and Editing. She considers herself a Word NERD and an absolute geek when it comes to books. (She’s also a grammar police, according to her family and practically everyone who knows her.)
I believe this is my third year speaking at WordCamp DFW! It has been quite a journey, and in my opinion it’s always the speaking engagement that is perfect for the end of my year. I always love the after parties because of the connection and conversation, but also because we WordCamp attendees really know how to party and dance!
Give her a shoutout on social media @WhollyART on all major platforms, and be sure to email her elisha@whollyart.com if you have any questions!
We’d love to see you at this year’s WordCamp DFW!  Get your Tickets here!