Organizers note: Multi-event sponsors have been automatically created in the Sponsors menu, but you’ll need to remove the ones that don’t apply to your specific event. To find out which ones apply, please visit http://central.wordcamp.org/multi-event-sponsorship-packages/. After that, you should add the sponsors that are specific to your event. For non-English sites, make sure the URL below matches Call for Sponsors page.
Our Sponsors
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Outstanding Sponsor
Jetpack
Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that simplifies managing your sites by connecting to WordPress.com. This connection enables Photon (global CDN for images), uptime monitoring, brute force protection, traffic-boosting tools, single sign on, multiple site management, and automatic or bulk plugin updates. Additionally Jetpack includes several features that help you customize the look-and-feel of your site without needing extra plugins. More information can be found at jetpack.me
PlanetHoster
PlanetHoster offers premium hosting solutions to WordPress users worldwide. Whether it’s shared hosting, managed VPS, dedicated servers and much more, PlanetHoster’s customers report that these affordable, feature-packed hosting solutions exceed their expectations. Their certified engineers are very experienced with WordPress. They work hard to assure that your WordPress site will run very fast and will be hosted in a secure, 24/7 monitored environment. If you want to offer the best latency to your visitors by being hosted whether in Europe or in North America, PlanetHoster might be right for you.
WiredTree
WiredTree provides Managed VPS and Managed Dedicated Servers to WordPress users worldwide from our Chicago-based data center and offices. Every WT server is backed by 24×7 telephone support, ticket support with 15 minute average response times, and is fully managed and monitored by WiredTree to maximize uptime and minimize frustration. All servers come ready-to-run with cPanel/WHM and are optimized and security hardened with firewall and anti-spam out of the box. With experience in SSD technology, MariaDB, Memcached, WordPress plugins, server optimization, and LiteSpeed Web server, WiredTree can take your site’s performance to the next level.
Bluehost
Bluehost has been a WordPress partner since 2005 and powers over one million WordPress sites. Their goal is to provide outstanding hosting services and customer support for the best possible price. Bluehost is also constantly innovating and upgrading their services and infrastructure at no additional cost to their customers. Join the millions of other website owners that have already chosen Bluehost and see how they can help you with your site.
Pacific Ocean
Odin Hosting
Odin, an industry leader in hosting automation and web management tools, will showcase the new Plesk 12, featuring integrated support for WordPress. Plesk 12 offers server, site and customer management tools built specifically to help web professionals, designers and developers work more effectively. The new Plesk WordPress toolkit automates updates, theme, and plugin management. It also delivers WordPress auto-detection, security scanning, and one-click hardening. Paired with built-in server-to-site protection, Plesk 12 frees WordPress professionals to focus on their business, customers and core expertise.
Green Geeks
GreenGeeks is the industry’s leading green energy web hosting provider putting back 3 times into the grid through wind energy that we consume. We are based out of Los Angeles, California to provide only the best optimized WordPress hosting to customers from over 150 countries. We offer Shared, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated Server packages for those just starting out all the way up to elite developers. You can rely on us for fine-tuned WordPress optimized servers, 24/7/365 support, 99.9% uptime guarantee and a 30-day money back guarantee.
Washington State University
Washington State University was founded as the people’s university in 1890. WSU’s mission is to improve the lives and livelihoods of people around the world with world-class education, research, and community outreach. More than 26,000 students attend WSU at campuses in Pullman, Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Vancouver, as well as through the Global Campus, a nationally recognized online learning community serving people worldwide.
Based on its philosophy of serving the public good, WSU is committed to an active partnership with the WordPress and open-source communities to help make the web a better resource for all.
Microsoft
The Vancouver Development Center (VDC) is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The centre is home to some of the best and brightest software developers from around the world. Since opening its doors in September 2007, the VDC has quickly become an intricate part of Microsoft’s global strategy for distributed software development. VDC employees play a key role in architecting systems, developing code, and testing software and systems that are developed by Microsoft and released to global markets. Collectively, VDC employees work on more than 50% of all the products and services offered by Microsoft. Working on a multitude of Microsoft products, across all Microsoft business groups, the VDC is already recognized as a premier Microsoft Development Centre with a direct impact on the millions of Microsoft customers worldwide.
Georgia Straight
Sucuri
Sucuri gives website owners peace of mind with solutions that prevent hackers from abusing websites, and professional response services to those compromised. Sucuri is dedicated to researching the latest and emerging threats affecting websites like yours.
Website security should be attainable for all website owners; we focus on making that a reality. Get back to running awesome WordPress websites. Our services are built around three principles – People. Process. Technology.
Superb Sponsor
GoDaddy
GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.
Burrard Inlet
Modern Tribe
Modern Tribe has been making lean, expertly-built WordPress plugins and websites since 2001. Our 100% dispersed team works across timezones to build one of the most popular calendar plugins in the world: The Events Calendar.
While not catering to our hundreds of thousands of awesome Events Calendar users, you’ll find us building more customized solutions for the likes of Harvard Law School, eBay, and Microsoft.
More important than these facts and figures is the happiness of our team. The lifestyle we advocate and live gives us the flexibility to achieve that ever-elusive “work-life balance”, and the ability to stay active in – and give back to – the WordPress community. What matters more than the people in your life and the communities you belong to?
We’re proud to have spoken at more than 23 WordCamps over the years, and attended even more than that. They’re always a blast – this year at WordCamp Vancouver is sure to be no exception!
Splendid Sponsor
WPML
OnTheGoSystems is the author of WPML and Toolset plugins.
WPML turns WordPress websites multilingual. It works with caching, SEO and E-Commerce plugins, and allows the building of complete multilingual sites. WPML powers simple blogs as well as corporate and enterprise sites.
Toolset plugins allow you to develop WordPress sites without PHP. They work with any theme and with other plugins.
OnTheGoSystems is always looking for exceptional people to join the team. To learn more about our products and open positions, visit:
DreamHost
DreamHost is a global Web hosting and cloud services provider with over 350,000 customers and 1.2 million blogs, websites and apps hosted. The company offers a wide spectrum of Web hosting and cloud services including Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Server Hosting, Domain Name Registration, the cloud storage service, DreamObjects, and the cloud computing service DreamCompute. More information can be found at http://dreamhost.com.
False Creek
KIMBO Design
KIMBO Design Inc. is a digital agency that has been in business for more than 14 years. We specialize in graphic design, integrated communications and marketing for web and print. As an award winning creative agency, KIMBO Design is dedicated to encouraging engagement and enhancing comprehension through visual storytelling. With our clean, modern and minimalist signature style, we produce innovative, effective and sustainable creative.
Sparkjoy Studios
Sparkjoy Studios is a Vancouver web agency focused on client relationships that function like partnerships. We create web assets and craft people and search-friendly content for our clients. Sparkjoy specializes in using WordPress for blogs, event ticketing, content management, and as a framework for custom plugins and web applications.
Camp Tech
Camp Tech provides half- and full-day in-person workshops for adults who want to learn web and digital skills. Classes include WordPress for Beginners, Google Analytics and MailChimp. We create a welcoming environment for those who are hesitant around technology, and we emphasize skills that can be put into practice right away. At Camp Tech, we have a good time at our workshops…this isn’t stuffy corporate-style training! Camp Tech was founded in Ontario and is growing rapidly. Coming to Vancouver in Fall 2015. camptech.ca
Creative Mornings
Creative Mornings (Vancouver) is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. The concept was simple: breakfast and a short talk one Friday morning a month. Every event would be free of charge and open to anyone. Today, attendees gather in cities around the world to enjoy fresh coffee, friendly people, and an international array of breakfast foods. Volunteer hosts and their team members organize local chapters that not only celebrate a city’s creative talent, but also promote an open space to connect with like-minded individuals. With 87 chapters around the world and more to come chances are wherever you go there will be a Creative Mornings event!
Ivy Cat
IvyCat is an agile team of WordPress developers and contributors based in lovely Gig Harbor, Washington. We create smooth custom WordPress sites designed to sell products, services, and events.
IvyCat also provides on-going WordPress maintenance, support, analytics, and consulting services, all focused on helping our clients grow and operate successful sites without the stress and headaches of doing it alone.
Wp Engine
WP Engine is a leading SaaS content management platform for websites and applications built on WordPress. The company powers thousands of websites and apps built on the WordPress platform delivering a fast, reliable and secure web experience. All levels of users including bloggers, marketers, SMBs and large corporations rely on WP Engine’s platform to keep their websites up and running. The company’s exceptional customer service team specializes in quickly solving technical problems, and creating a world-class customer experience ensuring that each user’s WordPress site continues to perform at its full potential. Founded in 2010, WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has offices in San Francisco, California, San Antonio, Texas and London, England.
Prospress
Prospress build WooCommerce extensions to help people prosper with WordPress.
Our flagship extension, WooCommerce Subscriptions, helps people sell subscriptions to everything from small batch, award winning coffee to eco-friendly craft boxes for kids. It’s used to sell energy food to elite athletes; salsa dancing lessons; carbon offsets; nail polish; pet food; socks; soap and environmentally responsible dental supplies that help improve the oral health of people who can’t access or afford the dentist.
We are proud to offer open-source software that helps inventive entrepreneurs do all sorts of crazy and cool things.
Sticker Giant
StickerGiant prints high-quality stickers and labels. They have the best customer service, quick turnaround times and free custom shapes using state of the art laser cutting. Every sticker has a story. Want to share your story today? They’re waiting to hear from you.
Interested in sponsoring WordCamp this year?
Check out our Call for Sponsors post for details on how you can help make this year’s WordCamp the best it can be!