Track: AI (North 120CD)

  • Teaching AI Tools Your Process – Notes From a WordPress Site Build

    Earlier this year I was the sole developer on a new WordPress site build. AI tools moved the work along, but only because I spent the project teaching them how to work in my way – correcting mistakes, capturing what I learned, and feeding it back so they wouldn’t repeat them over and over again.…

  • Lost in (Machine) Translation: AI, WordPress, and the Translations Nobody Saw Coming

    [Joint presentation by the Agency Project Manager and Tech Lead, and the Client.] What happens when you hand a global industrial manufacturer’s website over to an AI and ask it to speak fluent German, Japanese, and beyond, all within WordPress? This session is a candid, data-driven deep dive into a real-world project for Standex Electronics,…

  • Your Team Needs a Shared Brain: Shipping AI Skills Like You Ship Code

    Hook: Every dev on your team has their own pile of AI prompts and one-off scripts — which means every hard-won lesson stays trapped with the person who learned it, and the rest of the team keeps paying to learn it again. What if your team’s AI tooling lived in a versioned, reviewed, CI-enforced repo…

  • AI Search: Why Your Whole Company Should Care

    AI Search isn’t just SEO’s problem anymore – it’s everyone’s. From content teams to developers, PPC to partnerships, the shift to AI-native discovery affects your entire business. This session is your wake-up call: why you’re probably already behind, what’s changed, and the quick wins you can implement now to catch up.

  • Everything is Fine and Nothing is Good: Design Systems in the Age of AI

    We used to think the hard part of digital work was consistency: building reusable components, scalable systems, and reliable patterns that teams could ship quickly and safely. Today, modern tooling has made production almost too easy, generating interfaces, layouts, and variations almost as fast as we can think of them.The harder problem is what we…

  • Is Your WordPress Site Legally Ready for AI?

    AI is now embedded in plugins, themes, content pipelines, and client sites across the WordPress ecosystem. Most WordPress professionals have focused on what AI can do. Almost nobody has focused on what it requires of you legally This talk covers the compliance gap that agencies, freelancers, and product builders are about to run into: GDPR…