The second ten WOPRs ran from 2008-2013.
Ross Collard continued to serve as lead organizer, with Roland Stens. He recruited Paul Holland, Dan Downing, Jude McQuaid, and Eric Proegler to round out the organizing body.
Eric took over as project manager shortly after. Greg McNelly became an organizer, and then the project manager. The responsibility passed back to Eric shortly after.
Andy Hohenner, Mais Tawfik, and John Meza were asked to join as organizers.
Paul Holland continued to serve as the facilitator and constant for WOPR. Nick Wolfe, Eric Proegler, Dan Downing, Simon Schrivjer, and Raymond Rivest served as FU’s (Facilitator Understudies) during this period.
| WOPR Number | Theme | Content Owner | Dates | Location | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WOPR11 | Reliability… what can we do? | Jude McQuaid and Mike Pearl | October 23-25, 2008 | San Diego |  |
| WOPR12 | Resource Monitoring During Performance Testing | Dan Downing | April 16-18, 2009 | Indianapolis |  |
| WOPR13 | Performance Rules of Thumb | Eric Proegler | October 15-17, 2009 | Portland |  |
| WOPR14 | Reliability Heuristics | James Bach | April 22-24, 2010 | Montreal |  |
| WOPR15 | Building Performance Test Scenarios with a Context-Driven Approach | Mike Bonar | October 28-30, 2010 | San Jose |  |
| WOPR16 | The Intersection of Performance and Functional Testing | Greg McNelly | April 28-30, 2011 | Cleveland |  |
| WOPR17 | Finding Bottlenecks | Richard Leeke | October 20-22, 2011 | Cupertino |  |
| WOPR18 | Combining Data, Analysis, and Context to Create Information | Jude McQuaid | May 10-12, 2012 | Denver |  |
| WOPR19 | Performance Failures | Rob Sabourin | September 27-29, 2012 | Palo Alto |  |
| WOPR20 | The Leading Edge of Performance and Reliability | Ross Collard | May 14-16, 2013 | New York City |  |