#WPLDN - January, 2025: Balancing Act Panel & Lean Coffee Session

🎉 Kick Off 2025 with #WPLDN: Balancing Act Panel & Lean Coffee Session 🎉

Join us for the first #WPLDN event of the new year as we dive into thought-provoking discussions and collaborative conversations to set the tone for 2025. This is a night for community, insights, and exploring the future of WordPress together.

📅 Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM GMT
🏢 Location: The Bridge, 73–81 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 0NQ
🎟 Cost: Free (Registration Required)

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### The Main Event: Panel Discussion – Balancing Act: WordPress Contributions and Corporate Dynamics

This panel, moderated by Dan Maby, brings together leading voices from the WordPress ecosystem to explore the critical balance between corporate interests and community contributions. Discussions will touch on Automattic's recent shifts in contribution hours, the legal tensions involving WP Engine, and the broader implications for WordPress as an open-source project.
🗣 Come prepared for a thoughtful and respectful dialogue on the challenges and opportunities ahead.

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### Session Two: Lean Coffee – Your WordPress Topics, Your Way

After the panel, we’ll have an interactive Lean Coffee session—a structured yet flexible format in which you set the agenda. Bring your burning WordPress questions, challenges, or ideas and vote on the topics you want to discuss. This is the perfect opportunity to gain insights, brainstorm, and share experiences with fellow WordPress enthusiasts.

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### Schedule

6:30 PM: Doors Open & Networking
7:00 PM: Panel Discussion – Balancing Act
8:00 PM: Lean Coffee Session
8:45 PM: Social & Wrap-Up

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### 🎟 RSVP Now to Secure Your Spot!

Kick off the new year with this engaging and community-focused event. Whether you're a WordPress developer, designer, marketer, or user, this event offers a chance to learn, share, and connect with like-minded peers.

We can’t wait to see you there!

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If you're interested in featuring as a speaker at an upcoming event, we'd love to hear from you at https://wpldn.uk/speak. Sessions can be delivered both physically in-person and virtually.

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### 🎥 - Media Release Terms

By attending, you understand and accept that portions of the event may have audio/photo/video-recorded and/or live-streamed and may be used by the organisers. You agree that the organisers have the right and permission to use and publish such media for any purpose in any format, including online and offline, now and ever after, without further compensation, permission, or notification. You understand that all official recordings from the event are the exclusive property of the organisers, available under the Creative Commons Attribution­ShareAlike license for general use, and you do not ask for nor expect compensation or notification of the use of official recordings or photographs in which you appear or speak. Please inform an organisational team member at the event's start if you do not wish to appear in photos or videos.