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Multidots

FEBRUARY 26-29, 2024

ONLINE EVENT

Learn how to maximize the benefits of WordPress as a publisher, diagnose problems, and uncover opportunities.

WP Publisher Success Week

4 days of learning

Learn from WordPress and publishing experts and apply best practices to your digital property.

3 learning formats

The learning week features a variety of presentation formats: presentations, panels, and workshops.

200 attendees

Join your peers – fellow digital publishing and media professionals – and exchange experiences and best practices.

About the event

The New York Times, TechCrunch, BBC America – these are some of the most recognized names in digital publishing. And all of them are built on WordPress – a CMS platform that has a 43.1% market share.

WordPress dominates Google’s search engine results pages because it significantly simplifies the optimization process for its users. However, with competition for the audience’s attention and engagement at an all-point high, publishers have to go the extra mile and apply best practices in managing and optimizing the performance of their WordPress sites.

Join WP Publisher Success Week to learn exactly that – best practices from leading experts in the field of WordPress for publishers.

This event is ideally suited for:

  • Founders/CEOs

  • Head of Digital/Publisher/COO

  • Editorial & Content Strategists

  • SEO Specialists

  • Audience Development Leaders

  • Ad Tech & Integration Professionals

The program

The program features five days of sessions: presentations, panels, and workshops. You can register for a single session or for the entire event.

DAY 1

FEBRUARY 26

PRESENTATION

10:00-11:00 PT

13:00-14:00 ET

What’s in store for 2024

What significant developments in the WordPress ecosystem are going to shape publishers’ experience in 2024? Hear from Anil Gupta as he dives into trends and opportunities that WordPress-based publishers should be prepared for this year.

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Anil Gupta

CEO & Co-founder | Multidots

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Anil Gupta
Anil is a Technopreneur with more than 17 years of experience leading the business with mind and people with heart. With a degree in computer science, he always had the vision to build a company that takes care of customers as well as employees and the community; thus, he started Multidots in 2009, and since then, as a CEO & Co-Founder of Multidots — he and his team are on the mission on "Serving People & Solving Problems." Anil loves to read, travel, yoga, and meditation! He’s a 15 year veteran SEO and content strategist for publishers and an explorer of digital media and technology trends.

DAY 2

FEBRUARY 27

PRESENTATION

10:00-11:00 PT

13:00-14:00 ET

Automation and AI

The subject of AI dominated conversations in 2023 – and not only among digital publishers. After a full year of experimentations, the possibilities for publishers have become more clear. In this session, the panelists will discuss what AI applications have the highest chance of succeeding, what to look out for, and what’s on the horizon for automation and AI.

Pete Pachal

Pete Pachal

Founder | The Media Copilot

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Pete Pachal
Pete covers how AI is changing media, and provides training and consulting on applying generative AI to content creation. A lifelong journalist, Pete has held leadership positions at several companies, directing editorial teams to maximize audience, social reach, and business opportunities. As a thought leader on AI, Big Tech, and cryptocurrency, he is featured on national television regularly, including appearances on the Today Show, CNN, Fox Business, NPR, and The Daily Show.
Liam Andrew

Liam Andrew

Chief Product Officer | Texas Tribune

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Liam Andrew
Digital media and technology expert with over ten years of experience in organizational leadership, product strategy, and software development for researchers and publishers. Specializes in designing systems for content management and recommendation; improving user experience for readers and creators; and teaching and translating technical topics.

DAY 3

FEBRUARY 28

PRESENTATION

10:00-11:00 PT

13:00-14:00 ET

Workflow and website performance

In this workshop, you will learn how to audit your current workflows and website performance, identify weaknesses and gaps, and what best practices to implement to maximize the efficiency of both.

Register for this session and receive a case study exploring how Ask Media Group migrated its 50K+ posts across 11 properties to WordPress.

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Anil Gupta

CEO & Co-founder | Multidots

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Anil Gupta
Anil is a Technopreneur with more than 17 years of experience leading the business with mind and people with heart. With a degree in computer science, he always had the vision to build a company that takes care of customers as well as employees and the community; thus, he started Multidots in 2009, and since then, as a CEO & Co-Founder of Multidots — he and his team are on the mission on "Serving People & Solving Problems." Anil loves to read, travel, yoga, and meditation! He’s a 15 year veteran SEO and content strategist for publishers and an explorer of digital media and technology trends.
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Barry Pollard

Web Performance Developer Advocate on Google Chrome | Google

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Barry Pollard
Barry Pollard is a web developer who is obsessed with web performance. He is the author of the Manning book “HTTP/2 In Action” and is a one of the maintainers of the HTTP Archive, including it’s annual Web Almanac state of the web report. He thinks the web is amazing but wants to make it even better. He’s a 15 year veteran SEO and content strategist for publishers and an explorer of digital media and technology trends.
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Aslam Multani

CTO & Co-founder | Multidots

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Aslam Multani
Aslam is the Co-Founder and CTO of Multidots Inc and loves solving complex problems through out-of-the-box approaches. Multidots is an Enterprise WordPress digital agency and a WordPress VIP partner agency, with a globally distributed team of WordPress experts helping content publishers around the world. Aslam has more than a decade of experience working with enterprise customers and providing WordPress based solutions. With a team of more than 100 developers, Aslam has experience working with large development teams.

DAY 4

FEBRUARY 29

PRESENTATION

10:00-11:00 PT

13:00-14:00 ET

Monetization and improving revenue

Advertising? Sponsored placements? Subscriptions? Publishers often struggle to find a balance between various revenue channels. In this workshop, you will learn how to optimize the revenue strategy for your WordPress-based digital property.

Register for this session and receive a case study exploring how Sneaker News grew its business 4x and improved efficiency by 30% by scaling up its capabilities to cater to 5.6M monthly visitors.

Stephanie Solomon

Chief Revenue Officer | Foreign Affairs Magazine

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Stephanie Solomon
Stephanie brings an entrepreneurial mindset to marketing innovation, operational optimization and organizational change for direct to consumer brands with reoccuring revenue streams. With hands on operating experience, disciplined P&L management and clear communication, she leads teams through periods of strategic change by focusing on data-driven decision making and solving challenges within corporate constraints.

Media Partners

Founded in 1925 in France, FIPP is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious membership associations. FIPP exists to empower its members to build market-leading international media businesses through intelligence, solutions and partnerships.

Delivered three times a week, The Media Copilot newsletter zooms in on the ways media companies are considering and using AI, cutting through the hype — and the backlash — to honestly examine the promise and the peril of this transformative tech.

The WP Weekly is an email newsletter for WordPress professionals sharing the best bits from the WordPress ecosystem in a concise way that should take at most 10 minutes of reading time.

The Repository is a free weekly round-up of news across the WordPress ecosystem, told via the latest headlines and tweets/posts every Friday. The Repository offers news from a range of media and community sources and opinions from a diversity of voices—not just the loudest.

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