May 1, 2025 — The Automattic Special Projects team helps interesting people, projects, and organizations have a great experience with WordPress. By connecting their partners with the best that the WordPress community has to offer, the team spreads enthusiasm for WordPress and open source in general. This session will showcase both the front and back-end of a range of website builds, highlighting how the team uses the latest WordPress features to push the boundaries of block theme design, and how these projects contribute back to Automattic and the WordPress community at-large.

October 12, 2024 — The Automattic Special Projects team helps interesting people, projects, and organizations have a great experience with WordPress. By connecting their partners with the best that the WordPress community has to offer, the team spreads enthusiasm for WordPress and open source in general.

This session will showcase favorite websites and tools created by the team, highlighting how it uses the latest WordPress features, supports other teams at Automattic, and contributes to the WordPress community at-large. Following this talk will be a presentation by Mike Straw, which will touch on further technical details of the team’s projects.