Tessa Kriesel

It’s easy to spend your entire day, heads down, coding projects without thinking twice about other developers around you. We often get too absorbed with completing our immediate deadlines to spend any time considering the future of our projects, the future of our teams. By not mentoring new developers we are failing our future. We are failing at providing new developers with the industry experience they need to be a one-day successful candidate for our teams. In this session, we will talk about: - Why your organization should hire junior developers - How to write better job descriptions for junior developers - How to create a mentorship program within your organization - Where to find mentors or junior developers seeking mentorship - How to be an effective mentor & mentee - Shocking statistics about our job outlook and developer market

Often times developers want to find peers like themselves. We see this in our day-to-day by searching stack overflow or google for solutions to our unsolved problems. Instead of stack overflow providing the answers for your users, why not build your own community and provide the resources your users need to be successful. In this session, I will talk about why it’s important to provide your users with a place to ask & answer questions and to develop a sense of community & ownership around your product.

For those of us that rely greatly on Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for customizing our themes, the release of Gutenberg was and still is scary at times. Have no fear! acf_register_block() allows you to create your own Gutenberg blocks using just Advanced Custom Fields. You will learn: - ACF & it’s awesome capabilities - How to create Gutenberg blocks with ACF - A few other handy ACF tips & tricks