Keynote March 25, 2026
WordPress's AI Roadmap: What the Industry Needs to Know
CloudFest 2026 · Europa-Park, Germany
Architectural rigor for the age of intelligent machines.
25 years of systems thinking, applied to systems that think.
The models don't need to be better. The infrastructure doesn't need to be faster. What's missing is the architectural layer that makes intelligence orchestratable, auditable, and actually useful inside a real organization.
That's the work. It has always required clear thinking, deep systems knowledge, and the discipline to build for what comes after the hype.
The question is what you'll have built by the time everyone else catches up.
Alain Schlesser
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We need to more openly talk about the adverse effects of doing open source contributions in an unsustainable way and destigmatize the money topic.
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Speaking
Talk October 23, 2025
The Agentic SEO Stack: Context over Prompts
brightonSEO · Brighton, UK
Work together
If you're architecting for the agentic era, let's talk.
Two-to-three business day reply.