I’ve given eighteen talks at sixteen WordCamps between 2011 and 2024, alongside corporate workshops and professional-association events, on WordPress, Artificial intelligence (AI) operations, and learning technology. Recordings are linked wherever one exists. If you’re weighing me for a keynote or a workshop, watching one is the fastest way to see how I present before you book a call.
The through-line has changed twice. From 2011 to 2016 the talks were about making a living: how giving the work away for free could still pay the mortgage, how to build a working membership site on stage in thirty minutes for thirty dollars, and how a newsroom could run on WordPress at a time when most papers were being sold something far more expensive. Around 2017 the subject turned to craft, to the parts of WordPress that reward close attention, and to what designers and developers each tend to get wrong about the other’s job. Since 2023 it has been artificial intelligence inside real workflows, which turns out to be the first question wearing different clothes: what does this actually let one person do that they could not do the year before?
The formats have varied on purpose. Some of these were straight conference talks. Some were hands-on sessions where the room built along with me. One was a panel, and one was a live game show with three contestants and real scoring, because a Saturday afternoon slot at the end of a long day needs something other than another set of slides. Recordings survive for a handful of the older ones, the slides for a few more, and the conference programme for every single one, which is linked below so you can confirm the booking without taking my word for it.
If you’re programming an event
What you are buying is someone who has been in front of these rooms since 2011 and has done it badly enough, early enough, to know what makes a session land. I write the talk for your audience rather than carrying a fixed deck between cities, I will tell you honestly if the topic you want is not one I should be speaking on, and I would rather be given a difficult slot with a clear job than a keynote with a vague one. Watching a recording is the fastest way to decide whether that is the voice you want on your stage.
Every talk, newest first
See speaking & training for what a booking looks like, or book a call to talk through your event. Every other credential is on the public record.