2025 Schedule

Decoupling your frontend architecture from WordPress has typically relied on the REST API paired with WPGraphQL as the primary data source for hydrating your components. In this session we'll explore an ongoing project which needed a different paradigm to facilitate its transition to headless, and how ElasticSearch helped ease some of the early pain points by liberating the frontend from WordPress's backend altogether, allowing us to run applications in any context.

This session explores the evolving landscape of Content Management Systems through the lens of User Experience (UX), Developer Experience (DX), and the emerging concept of Agent Experience (AX). We'll examine how these three perspectives complement each other in modern content management solutions, from headless CMS to visual site builders and universal CMS platforms.

Poor governance is a common culprit to content challenges, but actual operational change often feels too risky or uncomfortable to tackle--or may be out of scope entirely for your headless implementation. In this presentation, I'll share the case study of a healthcare client in a very similar situation and how we worked together to create alignment and forward momentum, even in the face of organizational challenges.

Decision makers are confused and/or paralyzed, pressured from above and below. Analysts sling acronyms and salespeople fling FUD. This session ains to break through the noise and get to what matters in the work we do: headless, decoupled, hybrid, monolithic, static... technical hair-splitting often leads us astray. Let's "start with the why" and see where it takes us

Integration of OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Next.js and Drupal to generate dynamic, AI-driven pages in real time.

Customer experience (CX) is the driving force behind successful decoupled content and commerce strategies. In this session, we explore how businesses can leverage design systems, content reuse, and personalization to create seamless customer experiences across diverse channels while aligning with business goals. Through real-world case studies from leading brands like TELUS, Atlassian, UTI, Pampers, TaxFix, Vystar Credit Union, and REI, attendees will gain actionable insights into decomposing business objectives into customer-centric experiences.