New Prestige Sponsors + Awesome Pricing News

Good News, Everyone!

When Kiko and I started this endeavor, we had one goal in mind, and that was to make the very best WordPress conference possible. Because of that, we had a specific budget we had figured that included the best location, live streaming, recording, great swag, amazing after-party, and of course, travel expenses for the speakers. That number was higher than what it was for a WordCamp, and so we set the ticket prices accordingly.

Because we had to cover these expenses, the ticket prices were higher than we’d have liked. Our goal was to augment the ticket prices with sponsorships, but we were being careful.

Guess What?

Good News, Everyone!

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, including WPEngine joining Gravity Forms and Press75 as primary sponsors, we are able to swing permanent early-bird pricing for everyone! The deadline for early-bird tickets will come and go, and the price won’t change.

That means you’ll be able to get a ticket at payday next week, or after you finish up that big project next month, without adding weight to the family budget. Yay!

But I Was an Early-bird Buyer! What About Me?

If this is you, we got your back. We appreciate your investing in us and believing in us right away, so we’ve got something special that you, our early investors, will get the day of the conference. We appreciate every one of you, because you proved to us the value of what we’re doing. If you were planning to purchase today and hadn’t gotten to it yet, we’ll include anyone that purchases today in as our early adopters.

We’ll also be reaching out the early-bird streaming ticket purchasers in the next couple of weeks because we have something to send you too.

If you purchase any ticket before 12am pst, you’ll be included in the VIP program.

Thank you to every one of you for being awesome. We’re looking forward to October 3rd and 4th.

Hotel for Prestige Conference Attendees

DoubleTree Hotel

If you’re one of the many attendees coming to Prestige Conference from out of town, we’ve worked with the DoubleTree to secure an awesome rate of $119/night.

The DoubleTree is across the street from our venue, and near many good food and drink options in downtown Minneapolis.

This page has the reservation information you’ll need to reserve your rooms.

The room quantity is somewhat limited. If you run into problems, tweet at us @PrestigeConf and we’ll work on securing more rooms.

We’re Investing in the Future of Technology - Our Daughters

Alexis

This is Alexis. She’s my daughter, and along with my beautiful wife Sonya, she’s my world. She’s precocious, rambunctious, incredibly intelligent, and interested in every technology she can get her hands on (surprise!). She loves to put on her own headphones, grab her play laptop and “work with daddy.” I know being a developer would give her a great life, so I want to do everything I can to prepare her for that life if she decides she wants it.

Yesterday, we announced that we’ve agreed to give a portion of our proceeds to an amazing organization doing great things for veterans and WordPress, Happy Joe. It fits perfectly because Kiko has a passion for helping veterans, and James Dalman is doing great things for Veterans with WordPress.

My daughter was weighing heavy on my mind when deciding what organization my portion of the charitable gift would go to. I asked my Minneapolis developer friends what the *best* organization was that is teaching young women to code. It was a loud and unanimous recommendation: Katie CoderDojo. This organization is run by Rebecca Schatz, and they are helping an entire generation of teen girls learn to love code. Rebecca is an incredible, passionate woman who has a love for programming and kids. It’s a perfect fit for our vision and we can make a real difference in the lives of young women in Minneapolis.

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