// The program
Speakers
One track, one day, 100 seats. Invited speakers on WordPress engineering in the AI era.
Keynote
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Chris Reynolds
Senior Manager of Developer Relations, Pantheon
Parenting Claude: Guardrails for AI-assisted development
AI assistants write code fast and with total confidence, which is exactly the problem. This session covers the guardrails that keep AI-assisted WordPress work honest: rules files, linting, review gates, and the habits that stop small mistakes compounding.
JC Palmes
Principal Technical Manager, WebDevStudios
Onboarding the Agency: What Agentic Development Changes About How Teams Work
Getting an AI agent to follow one project’s rules is the easy part. Getting a whole agency to work that way, across dozens of client projects, rotating staff and growing review queues, is the real job. This session looks at the team side: who owns a project’s rules file, how developer, QA and PM roles shift, and why review becomes the new bottleneck.
Jerico Aragon
Cloud Engineer, Human Made
Shipping Secure WordPress Sites
Security is a pipeline, not a plugin. Hardening, deployment and monitoring for WordPress at scale, and what changes when agents write part of the code.
Weston Ruter
WordPress core committer, WP Engine
Finding and Preventing Bugs Without Writing Tests via PHPStan
Most WordPress codebases don’t have the test coverage anyone would like. Static analysis closes a surprising amount of that gap. This session shows PHPStan finding real bugs without a single unit test. It covers levels, baselines, and adopting it on a legacy codebase without stopping work.
Dee Teal
Delivery lead, Evolution 7 · Co-founder, WP Includes
You’re All Project Managers Now: Why your agent is only as good as your brief
Agents do exactly what you tell them, which makes everyone a project manager. What a good brief looks like when your collaborator is a model, and why delivery skills are now engineering skills.
Bryce Adams
Founder, Metorik
Building a product business on WordPress in the age of AI
Bryce built Metorik, an analytics product for WooCommerce stores. What AI changes for products built on WordPress, and what it doesn’t.
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