October 28, 2026

October 28, 2026 — Rui Barroca outlines the journey that took him from being a designer reliant on a technical team to becoming an independent creator of small digital tools. He shares an AI-driven workflow and real-world examples to help decide what to build, for whom, and when to stop.

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October 28, 2026 — Eighteen months of vibe coding WordPress, from a font game to a plugin WordPress.com forked, to a full release lifecycle with regression tests, support docs, videos and user testing. The demos, the failures, and the questions developer education now has to answer when nobody has the blueprint.

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October 28, 2026 — Video in. Site out. Two participants rebuild delice.ca in WordPress from a reference video — with prompts only.

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October 28, 2026 — Juan Manuel Rodríguez Jurado describes the opportunity for agencies that receive websites and processes built using AI without sufficient review. He explains how to recognize these situations, define the scope of an audit, and turn corrections and oversight into an ongoing service.

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October 28, 2026 — Samuel Silva uses code examples and a demonstration to show how vector embeddings can make search on a WordPress site more relevant. He also presents applications in recommendations and content discovery without relying on complex agents.

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October 28, 2026 — Ivelina Dimova explains how to use guardrails and automated evaluations to make AI features more reliable in WordPress projects. The session covers the risks of incorrect responses and prompt injection, as well as methods for testing quality before deployment in production.

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October 28, 2026 — Miguel Costa demonstrates WordPress development scenarios supported by an MCP integration with Novamira and Claude Code. This includes content updates and translations, layout creation, plugin dependency reduction, and local debugging with Docker.

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October 28, 2026 — In May I vibe-coded a WooCommerce store for my small-batch Algarve hot sauce in under an hour. The build was the easy part. The harder question is whether your next customer, increasingly likely to be an AI agent working for a person, can find your store, understand it and act on it. In this session I take ChilliMango, a real store, from an agent-readiness score of 27/100 as far as it will go, one step at a time, using WordPress and WooCommerce features you can use today: the Abilities API, MCP, structured data, Content Signals, Markdown for agents and WebMCP. What worked, what broke, and where your host matters more than your code. Then it’s your turn. Bring your phone and your favourite AI assistant, and we’ll see, live, whose agent can get you a place on the waitlist for my first ever batch of chilli salt.

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October 20, 2026 — AI is no longer a distant trend. It’s actively changing how tech businesses operate, compete, and grow, forcing companies of every size to rethink their strategies, teams, and long term vision.

This panel brings together leaders from software development, business solutions, and strategic advisory backgrounds to talk about what this shift really looks like on the ground. Our panelists will share real experiences navigating AI adoption within their organizations, the opportunities it has opened up, the challenges it has brought along, and the lessons learned along the way.

Moderated by someone deeply rooted in the local tech and startup ecosystem, this session promises grounded insights rather than hype, a conversation for founders, developers, and business leaders trying to figure out where AI fits into their next move.

Whether you’re already deep into AI adoption or just getting started, this panel will help you walk away with a clearer picture of what’s ahead.