Category: Public Speaking
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Let’s attend a WordCamp, eh?
I will be attending WordCamp Canada 2025 representing Bluehost and delivering two talks. One focuses on how to contribute to WordPress, highlighting the challenges new contributors face. The other addresses AI’s role in collaborative communities, emphasizing the importance of human interaction amidst technological advancements. I’m also excited to explore Ottawa.
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Speaking at WordCamp Europe 2025
The official schedule for WordCamp Europe 2025 is live, so I can finally share that I’ll be speaking at WCEU in Basel, Switzerland this June. 🇨🇭🎉 My talk, How a WordPress Core Committer Thinks: Making Decisions for Millions will shed light on how the primary maintainers of the WordPress software decide what ships and what…
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WordCamp Asia Live Stream
Today (February 22nd) I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Asia 2025 in Manila, Philippines. I take the stage at 11:00AM Philippine Standard Time (22:00 EST/19:00 PST for those in the US) to give my talk The Unavoidable Truth: WordPress is Insecure. If you’re unable to join in person, you’re in luck! The event has a free…
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Speaking Experience at WordCamp US 2024
Last month I ventured west to Portland, Oregon to attend WordCamp US 2024. It’s both easy and hard to believe that a month has passed since the event. In addition to helping out at Contributor Day and the Bluehost booth, I gave my first ever joint talk with fellow contributor, Core Committer, and good friend…
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WordCamp Asia 2024 Slide Deck
Last week I gave my talk at WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan. I was really happy with how it went! It was so cool to see my talk live translated into Chinese, and AI captioning for 57 languages(!) was available through a third-party service during the event. Completely by chance, Matt Cool from the…
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Next stop: Taiwan
I’m excited to share that my submission to speak at the second edition of WordCamp Asia in Taipei, Taiwan was accepted! Traveling to Bangkok, Thailand to speak at WordCamp Asia in 2023 was one of my highlights of the year. I’ve covered my talk “Migrating WordPress Core to GitHub Actions: A Retrospective” in previous posts,…
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Speaking applications: a pet peeve
There’s one super common question on event speaker applications (especially for WordCamps) that often trips me up. I think there’s a better way to gather the same information while providing more flexibility to organizers.
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Talk Recording – WordCamp Asia 2023
In February, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak at the first ever WordCamp Asia. My topic was Migrating WordPress Core to GitHub Actions: A Retrospective: In late 2020, WordPress Core started a multi-phase migration to move its automated testing to GitHub Actions. This talk will revisit this process to share what was…
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WordPress Roulette: WordPress Cape Cod July 2019 Meetup
Last week, I presented at the monthly WordPress Cape Cod meetup. It’s a great little meetup that I always enjoy attending and/or presenting to. Instead of presenting on a specific topic, I chose to let the attendees decide!
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Caching Checks: WordCamp Atlanta
Today I gave a talk at WordCamp Atlanta about caching called “Caching Checks.” In case you missed it, or if you were there and would like to revisit what I talked about, here are my slides!
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