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Conferences

Highlights and notes from events I've attended—open source, web, and community conferences across the years.

All Things Open 2025

All Things Open 2025

Raleigh, NC • Raleigh Convention Center

All Things Open 2025 brings thousands of engineers, maintainers, and tech leaders to downtown Raleigh for three days of open source talks, hands-on sessions, and community meetups at the Raleigh Convention Center.

Epic Web Conf 2025

Epic Web Conf 2025

Salt Lake City, UT • Hilton Salt Lake City Center (main venue), plus offsite events

Epic Web Conf is a curated full-stack conference founded by Kent C. Dodds' EpicWeb.dev, bringing together framework authors, library maintainers, and working engineers to discuss building great UX and great DX. The 2025 edition took place in downtown Salt Lake City with a free livestream and hands-on workshops before/around the main program. Sessions focused on pragmatic patterns for React and modern web apps (routing, data loading, server components, testing), plus real-world tooling—Vite/Vitest, Playwright, auth, caching, and performance. The hallway track was a highlight, with creators and practitioners trading hard-won lessons you can apply immediately to production apps.

All Things Open.AI 2025

All Things Open.AI 2025

Durham, NC • Carolina Theatre

All Things Open.AI is a practitioner-focused spinoff from the All Things Open team, created to explore the real-world impact of AI across tooling, platforms, and organizations. The inaugural 2025 event ran two days at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, bringing together engineers, data scientists, and product leaders for dense, vendor-neutral content on the AI stack. Talks emphasized applied machine learning, model governance, safety and security, and the intersection of open source with rapidly evolving AI tooling. The format mirrored ATO's community ethos—multi-track sessions, hands-on workshops, and hallway track networking—aimed at helping teams ship responsible AI in production.

All Things Open 2024

All Things Open 2024

Raleigh, NC • Raleigh Convention Center

All Things Open 2024 brought thousands of engineers, maintainers, and tech leaders to downtown Raleigh for three days of open source talks, hands-on sessions, and community meetups at the Raleigh Convention Center.

Tech Coast Conference 2024

Tech Coast Conference 2024

Jacksonville, FL • UNF Adam W. Herbert University Center

Jacksonville's flagship tech event featuring regional IT leaders, security practitioners, cloud experts, and vendors across a one-day multi-track program hosted at UNF.

THAT Conference (WI) 2024

THAT Conference (WI) 2024

Wisconsin Dells, WI • Kalahari Resorts & Conventions

Camp-style, family-friendly developer conference in the Wisconsin Dells, known for deep-dive technical talks alongside community and family activities.

RenderATL 2024

RenderATL 2024

Atlanta, GA

A multi-day tech conference and expo in Atlanta covering frontend frameworks, AI, and leadership, with workshops, career programming, and a large sponsor hall.

WordCamp US 2023

WordCamp US 2023

National Harbor, MD • Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center

The flagship U.S. WordPress conference with Contributor Day, multi-track sessions, and an active sponsor hall at the Gaylord National in National Harbor.

Tech Coast Conference 2020

Tech Coast Conference 2020

Jacksonville, FL (Virtual)

The 2020 edition pivoted online, delivering talks and panels focused on security, cloud, and regional tech growth in a virtual format.

Tech Coast Conference 2018

Tech Coast Conference 2018

Jacksonville, FL • UNF Adam W. Herbert University Center

An early TCC edition hosted at UNF, gathering local technologists and businesses to discuss trends in security, data, and enterprise IT.

WordCamp Jacksonville 2018

WordCamp Jacksonville 2018

Jacksonville, FL • Keiser University

Two-day WordCamp with multi-track sessions and a KidsCamp, hosted at Keiser University and focused on practical WordPress skills.

WordCamp Jacksonville 2017

WordCamp Jacksonville 2017

Jacksonville, FL • Keiser University

Jacksonville's second annual WordCamp, featuring business, user, and developer tracks, plus KidsCamp and community networking.

WordCamp Asheville 2017

WordCamp Asheville 2017

Asheville, NC • Mission Health / A-B Tech Conference Center

Regional WordCamp covering WordPress development, content, and design, held at the A-B Tech campus conference center.

Echo Conference 2013

Echo Conference 2013

Dallas, TX • Watermark Community Church

A church media/creative conference for artists, geeks, and storytellers, hosted at Watermark Community Church in Dallas.