Emily Kaija is the Director of People and Culture at XWP, a globally distributed, remote-first Gold-level WordPress VIP agency. Over four years in the WordPress ecosystem, she has worked closely with engineers, leaders, and distributed teams to build the conditions for honest, effective, human work. She is not a developer — and that’s exactly why she’s the right person for this talk. Emily thrives in the conversations most people are trying to avoid.
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The Elephant in the (Server) Room: Honest Conversations About AI, Identity, and the Future of Our Work
Track: AIAI is changing how we work faster than we can process it. For many engineers, that comes with questions we haven’t quite found the words for yet: What does this mean for my skills? My career? My identity as someone who builds things This session isn’t a technical deep-dive and it doesn’t come with answers.…