September 30, 2025 — The sale isn’t the end of the journey — it’s the start of your loyalty loop. In this talk, Christian Taylor shows agencies and product owners how to use social video content to keep customers engaged, excited, and eager to spread the word. We’ll cover the types of videos that drive repeat visits, deepen relationships, and make your products the center of your community.

September 30, 2025 — Ever wished your WordPress site could pull data from Google Sheets, send smart notifications, or connect to platforms without plugins? Meet integration platforms like Make (formerly Integromat), Zapier, and IFTTT—visual automation tools that connect WordPress to everything. In this 20-minute demo-packed talk, you’ll see real automations in action. Watch a single form submission create a support ticket, use AI to assess urgency, notify the right person in Slack, and update your CRM—all in 10 seconds.

September 30, 2025 — Stop wasting time on complex testing setups. Using real-world PayPal Payments integration as our case study, discover how WordPress Playground and WooCommerce Blueprints create instant, pre-configured testing environments. Learn to eliminate setup friction, accelerate feedback loops, and make your entire team more productive.

September 30, 2025 — Attackers exploit vulnerabilities in days, but organizations take months to patch them, creating a 97-day average exposure window. This talk demonstrates a practical solution: a multi-agent AI system that automates the security operations lifecycle. This system autonomously detects vulnerabilities with fine-tuned LLMs, generates patches, and validates fixes. We will walk through the architecture of this Code Guardian and learn its capabilities.

September 30, 2025 — Automatic updates in WordPress are a safety net, ensuring that sites are always running the latest code. But for development teams working with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), the reality is more complicated. In this talk Tim will explore practical ways to make automatic updates safer without slowing down your workflow. From staging, checking the integrity of what’s being installed, and building automated checks into your CI/CD process to spot issues before they reach production.

September 30, 2025 — While much of the focus in WordPress security is on website hardening measures, the reality is that users often represent the weakest link in the chain. In this session, I demonstrate how a small selection of free WordPress plugins and complementary tools can be used to implement practical, user-focused security measures. Attendees will learn how to support their users in adopting secure practices, ultimately helping to protect both user accounts and the wider website environment.

September 30, 2025 — Managing the performance of your WordPress site can be complex. From frontend user interactions to backend processes and MySQL database efficiencies, maintaining optimal operations requires a reliable monitoring tool. In this session, explore how New Relic transforms monitoring into an intuitive and powerful experience. We’ll cover: Frontend Monitoring, Backend Analysis, Database Performance, and Business Metrics Telemetry.

September 30, 2025 — This talk breaks down each layer of the WordPress stack, browser, CDN, server, app, and database, and shows you the exact tools to uncover and fix real bottlenecks.

September 30, 2025 — “Switch from Elementor to the Block Editor,” they said. “How hard can it be?” Well… This session is the true story of how my years of experience and old habits turned into 1001 wrong assumptions and a very bumpy ride. I’ll walk you through the traps I fell into and how I eventually found my workarounds. If you work with clients, deadlines, or designs that “must look exactly like this,” these lessons might just save your next project.

September 30, 2025 — What can realistically be achieved in 30 minutes using the WordPress Site Editor — and what should you intentionally leave out? Drawing from my experience in live Speed Build Challenges, I’ll walk you through the mindset, thought process, and toolbox that help me make fast, focused decisions under pressure. This session offers practical techniques you can apply to your own client work.