The Wasatch sponsorship level represents local businesses that are providing an in-kind service just for WordCamp SLC attendees. While their contribution isn’t monetary, they are helping to enrich the experience for everyone at WCSLC 2015. We have a diverse bunch and we love every one of them!

Who doesn’t recognize this logo, right? Starbucks on 600 South and 200 West have been kind enough to donate coffee, tea and pastries to our WordCamp attendees! Be sure to head down there and say thanks in person!

Uber is a transportation network company. Uber connects passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing services via a mobile app.

All hiring and payment is handled through the Uber app. The fare is billed automatically to the customer’s credit card. Users can reserve cars by sending a text message or using the mobile app, which also can be used to track their reserved car’s location.

Uber is giving all WordCamp SLC attendees who are new Uber users a special coupon code for $20 in rides. Just use the promo code “wcslc2015”.  Thanks, Uber!

The Pixelista is a creative agency specializing in business branding and WordPress web development. Jessica, the founder of The Pixelista, has a passion is working with small, women-owned businesses to create brands and websites that not only look great, but drive results.

In addition to speaking, Jessica will be sharing some of her awesome, custom sticker sheets that were a huge hit at WordCamp SLC 2013!

Founded in 2004, Pluralsight is the global leader in online learning for professional software developers, IT specialists and creative technologists. As the world’s largest curated professional development platform for professionals, the company offers instant access to over 4,000 courses authored by top experts. With customers in more than 150 countries, Pluralsight serves as a career catalyst, delivering hands-on, practical training for the most in-demand and understaffed jobs of today. For more information, visit Pluralsight.com.

Pluralsight will be providing trial cards and swag and a 1 year subscription that we will give away at the event!

Our Little Cottonwood sponsors represent some of the most exciting and innovative frameworks in the WordPress community. Both our Little Cottonwood sponsors are plugins and they are both fantastic products that you’ll want to check out! The Little Cottonwood sponsorship tier is the second highest local sponsorship level and we’re so very thankful for their dedication to the community.

Build WordPress forms the fast and simple way with a simple drag-and-drop interface (and a visual form styler in version 2.0). Create custom Formidable forms or generate them from a template with this stunning WordPress form plugin.

MemberPress is an easy to use WordPress Membership Plugin. This powerful Membership Software installs simply on your site and helps you instantly start charging for access.

MemberPress will give you the ability to confidently create, manage and track membership subscriptions and sell digital download products. In addition to these powerful abilities, MemberPress will allow you to grant and revoke access to posts, pages, categories, tags, feeds, communities and digital files based on what products your users have purchased or subscribed to.

With MemberPress you’ll be able to create powerful and compelling WordPress membership sites that leverage all of the tremendous features of WordPress and WordPress plugins including content management, forums and social communities.

Now we get to our local sponsors. We’re lucky to have so many great companies right here in the Salt Lake area that are as passionate about WordPress as you are! The Big Cottonwood sponsorship tier is the highest level of local sponsors, and the first one we’ve already talked about.

In addition to being one of the Global Community Sponsors for all WordCamps, Bluehost is based right here in Utah and has always been a generous benefactor of WordCamp Salt Lake City. When you are eating the delicious food catered by Sugarhouse Barbecue and Cali’s Natural Food, think of Bluehost, who’s been kind enough to cover our lunch!

MOJO Marketplace is the web’s one-click marketplace for themes, plugins, installations and more. MOJO is fully integrated with the leading web hosting companies so that customers can browse, shop and installs easily with one-click. Our goal is to change the way people buy, sell and install the latest themes, plugins, and applications on the internet.

MOJO will be covering the after-party events, so be sure to say thanks while you’re relaxing with your new friends after WCSLC!

WP Site Care is a Premium WordPress Support and Site Management company. From bloggers who are just starting out, to Fortune 500 companies, we can manage your WordPress site and not only ensure it stays running great, but also help take it to the next level. We specialize in eliminating the technical headaches from owning a website, and we do it with a smile. We pride ourselves in providing awesome customer service, and helping our clients meet their online business goals.

The Global Community Sponsorship Program allows companies who want to support every WordCamp in the world — or in a particular region — to do so. Every WordCamp — not just Salt Lake City’s — owes these companies a huge debt of gratitude for their generous contributions in helping support WordCamps.

The Splendid Sponsor level is the third highest level in the Community Sponsorship program. We’re honored to welcome a representative from one of them as a speaker (Mika from DreamHost)!

The Global Community Sponsorship Program allows companies who want to support every WordCamp in the world — or in a particular region — to do so. Every WordCamp — not just Salt Lake City’s — owes these companies a huge debt of gratitude for their generous contributions in helping support WordCamps.

The Superb Sponsor level is the second highest level in the Community Sponsorship program. We have one sponsor at the Superb level and it’s a name I think you should be familiar with.

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.

The Global Community Sponsorship Program allows companies who want to support every WordCamp in the world — or in a particular region — to do so. Every WordCamp — not just Salt Lake City’s — owes these companies a huge debt of gratitude for their generous contributions in helping support WordCamps.

The Outstanding Sponsor level is the highest level in the Community Sponsorship program. We’re lucky to have one of them local in our state (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.

From its inception in 1998, (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to help people and businesses succeed online.

Over 125,000 customers in 100 countries now rely on Media Temple’s tools for domain registration, web hosting, business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites. With 200 dedicated, U.S.-based employees, Media Temple takes pride in our 24/7 customer support. Our customers range from everyday people to top bloggers, creative professionals, and small businesses, as well as large enterprises like Starbucks, Adidas, Samsung, and Toyota.

More information can be found anytime on the web at http://mediatemple.com or on Twitter @MediaTemple.

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.

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.

A huge thank you to all of our Outstanding Sponsors!