July 1, 2017 — Sam will speak on Best Practices in Plugin Development!

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August 14, 2016 — Panel discussion about Business.

June 7, 2016 — We’ll go over the basics of keeping your WordPress site safe.

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August 6, 2015 — As we move toward the “Semantic Web” or “Web 3.0″, the power of well defined, accessible information is getting greater and greater by the day.
In this talk, we look at the way that data and the web are changing, and the possibilities that are created by allowing your data and your design to exist independently.

August 1, 2015 — Sam was the creator of BruteProtect, a WordPress security plugin acquired by Automattic in August 2014. He now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic, with the goal of bringing killer features and functionality to WordPress blogs everywhere.

May 30, 2015 — 2015 will be remembered in the WordPress community as the year of the JSON REST API. It will be the biggest turning point in the WordPress project since 2010 (when we first saw custom post types). As a result of this, I believe that we’ll see /wp-admin start to disappear in favor of more functional backend interfaces. In this talk we’ll explore the possibilities of a future without /wp-admin

March 26, 2015 — Most people have heard of Jetpack, but do you know how to really make it work for you? This talk looks at some of the coolest features (like Elastic Search, Remote Management and much more), and talk about how you can best use them to make your site faster, more powerful and more useful.

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February 26, 2015 — Sam Hotchkiss interview with Chris Lema about free plugins.

November 16, 2014 — As we move toward the “Semantic Web” or “Web 3.0″, the power of well defined, accessible information is getting greater and greater by the day. This talk looks at the way that data and the web are changing, and the possibilities that are created by allowing your data and your design to exist independently.

November 3, 2014 — This talk is an exploration of the importance of APIs both within WordPress and the web as a whole. It looks at the history of the technology and the opportunities that are afforded to us by the upcoming JSON REST API, and the importance of standardized meta data as we create “Web 3.0″.