Keynote March 25, 2026
WordPress's AI Roadmap: What the Industry Needs to Know
CloudFest 2026 · Europa-Park, Germany
Speaking
Conference talks from someone who's run the systems.
Keynotes, conference talks, workshops, and podcast appearances — on agentic architecture, context engineering, SEO-to-GEO, and the long arc of software engineering as a discipline.
Upcoming
Confirmed appearances
The AI-First WordPress Site: Crawler to Citation
WordCamp Europe 2026 · Krakow, Poland
Signature Talks
Most requested
Talk October 23, 2025
The Agentic SEO Stack: Context over Prompts
brightonSEO · Brighton, UK
Keynote February 22, 2025
After the Browser: AI Assistants as the New Gateway to Digital Services
WordCamp Asia 2025 · Manila, Philippines
Talk October 23, 2024
Paradigm-resilient software architecture
International PHP Conference · Munich, Germany
Full Archive
46 appearances
Format
Topic
2026
Panel
Panel: AI Content, SEO, and the Future of Publishing on WordPress
CloudFest 2026 (WP Summit) · Europa-Park, Germany
AI & Agentic Systems
2025
Talk
The Agentic Stack: What Comes After Containers and Serverless
CloudFest USA 2025 · Miami, Florida, USA
AI & Agentic Systems
2023
Talk
Advanced Performance & Scalability for PHP Developers
WordCamp Asia 2023
WordPress & PHP
2022
Talk
We need to do better (really!)
WordCamp Europe 2022
WordPress & PHP
2021
Talk
Hacking the DOM Object Hierarchy
International PHP Conference Munich 2021
WordPress & PHP
2021
Talk
Optimizing Page Experience in PHP
International PHP Conference Munich 2021
WordPress & PHP
2021
Talk
Package Design Principles
PHPBenelux Virtual Meetup July 2021
WordPress & PHP
2021
Talk
Optimizing Backend Performance using Compile-time Processing
Internation PHP Conference 2021 in Berlin
WordPress & PHP
2020
Talk
PHP Exceptions Best Practices
International PHP Conference Berlin 2020
WordPress & PHP
2020
Talk
The eternal struggle: backward compatibility vs. technical debt
International PHP Conference Berlin 2020
WordPress & PHP
2020
Talk
The eternal struggle: backward compatibility vs. technical debt
International PHP Conference Munich 2020
WordPress & PHP
2020
Talk
PHP Exceptions Best Practices
International PHP Conference - Online Edition 2020
WordPress & PHP
2020
Talk
Advanced Performance & Scalability for PHP Developers
WordCamp Asia 2020
WordPress & PHP
2019
Talk
Building a Realtime Status Page using the combined power of Gutenberg and Firebase
WordCamp Brighton 2019
WordPress & PHP
2018
Talk
The Eternal Struggle: Backward Compatibility VS Technical Debt
WordCamp Nijmegen 2018
WordPress & PHP
2018
Talk
Using the REST API for a WordPress-driven App [Workshop] (with Sean Blakeley)
WordCamp Brighton 2018
WordPress & PHP
2018
Talk
The Future of WordPress [Panel]
WordCamp Brighton 2018
WordPress & PHP
2018
Talk
Dependency Injection and Design Patterns in Real Life [Workshop] (with David Mosterd)
WordCamp Europe 2018
WordPress & PHP
2017
Talk
Computer Science Intro: How To Avoid Reinventing The Wheel
WordCamp US 2017
WordPress & PHP
2017
Talk
Demystifying the WordPress Bootstrap Process
WordCamp Europe 2017
WordPress & PHP
2017
Talk
Controlling WordPress Through The Command Line — Introduction To WP-CLI
WordCamp Berlin 2017
WordPress & PHP
2017
Talk
Wrapping A Modern PHP Architecture Around A Legacy WordPress Site
WordCamp London 2017
WordPress & PHP
2016
Talk
The Secret Sauce For Writing Reusable Code
WordCamp Nederland 2016
WordPress & PHP
2016
Talk
The Secret Sauce For Writing Reusable Code
WordCamp Frankfurt 2016
WordPress & PHP
Invite me to speak
I speak on a short list of topics I've actually shipped.
No topic I won't have lived with for a year before putting it on a conference stage. If one of the below fits your programme, let's talk.
Get in touch →Topics
- 01 Context engineering and agentic AI architectures
- 02 The evolution from SEO to Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)
- 03 AI-native system design — from first principles
- 04 Making intelligent systems reliable, maintainable, and auditable
- 05 The future of software engineering and developer evolution
- 06 Open source sustainability and maintainer practices
- 07 Software architecture and paradigm-resilient design