June 6, 2026 — Discover how the new Abilities API makes plugin permissions cleaner, safer, and easier to maintain. In just a few minutes, you’ll see how it differs from legacy capability checks, learn from a small code example, and get actionable tips you can take back to your own plugins.

April 21, 2026 — AI agents are quietly taking over our WordPress stacks — writing content, moderating comments, syncing data, and running ops. But unlike human users, they don’t log out, they can act at scale, and when something goes wrong, nobody knows who’s responsible. In this lightning talk, we’ll explore what AI identity governance means, why the WordPress ecosystem urgently needs to start thinking about it, and what’s at stake if we don’t.