{"id":4660,"date":"2026-07-10T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=4660"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:56:09","slug":"paul-yuen","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/speaker\/paul-yuen\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Yuen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Yuen is a Strategist at Modern Tribe, where he leads discovery, scoping, and technical strategy for higher-education, manufacturing, and enterprise WordPress engagements. His recent work includes AI-assisted search integrations on large content catalogs, replatform projects moving custom ACF block libraries onto Gutenberg-native systems, and agency tooling that uses LLMs for codebase audits, ticketing, and PRD drafting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/files\/2026\/07\/red-map-flowers-colorful.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5020\" style=\"width:auto;height:50px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/files\/2026\/07\/red-map-flowers-colorful.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/files\/2026\/07\/red-map-flowers-colorful-766x157.jpg 766w, https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/files\/2026\/07\/red-map-flowers-colorful-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/files\/2026\/07\/red-map-flowers-colorful-500x103.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-4697 wcb_session type-wcb_session status-publish hentry wcb_track-technical-wordpress\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/session\/your-client-wants-ai-their-lawyer-just-said-no\/\" target=\"_self\" >Your Client Wants AI. 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