| Track | Name | Speakers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM - 9:55 AM (CDT) | |||
| Keynote | Welcome and keynote | Scott Tolinski — Syntax.fm |  |
| 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM (CDT) | |||
| Front-end development | Elevating user experiences with vanilla JavaScript | Andrés Díaz Soto — Four Kitchens Mari Núñez — Four Kitchens |  |
| Site building | Website everything people: Surviving and thriving as a team of one | Joey Gill — University of South Carolina Aiken |  |
| 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM (CDT) | |||
| Break | Visit sponsor booths | ||
| 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (CDT) | |||
| Back-end development | The best of both worlds: Syncing data between systems | Jonathan Arp — University of Notre Dame |  |
| Site building | Frontend strategies for Drupal: From multisite to migrations | Rich Lawson — Evolving Web Dharizza Espinach — Evolving Web |  |
| 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM (CDT) | |||
| Poster | Semantic Versioning Without the Guesswork | Mike Miles — MIT Sloan |  |
| Poster | Modern CSS magic | Rachell Underhill — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |  |
| Poster | Remix: Building a Cohesive Web Presence with Web Components | Nikki Massaro — Adobe |  |
| Poster | Getting custom with theme.json | Keiran Pillman — University of Rochester |  |
| Poster | Making emails in 2026 | Luis Rosario — University of Rochester | |
| 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM (CDT) | |||
| Back-end development | Custom Laravel application for academic honesty | Kristin Donovan — University of Rochester |  |
| Front-end development | Seeing through sound: Screen reader testing for sighted teams | Nick Croft — ReaktivStudios |  |
| 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM (CDT) | |||
| Break | Break | ||
| 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM (CDT) | |||
| Back-end development | Beyond chatbots: Agentic AI for personalized higher ed web experiences | John Tran — ImageX Chris Gray — ImageX |  |
| Front-end development | AI + Tableau MCP for Contextual Data Insights | Jimmy Anthony — The Ohio State University Maureen Henry — The Ohio State University |  |
| Site building | Building custom blocks for a branded WordPress theme | Nate Finch — University of Wisconsin-Madison Andrea Roenning — University of Wisconsin-Madison |   |
| 3:45 PM - 4:30 PM (CDT) | |||
| Back-end development | Don’t load it twice: How caching made our higher ed site one of the fastest | Steve Graboski — Monmouth University |  |
| Front-end development | Un-doom your scroll: CSS scrolling animations | John Rhea — University of Virginia |  |
| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM (CDT) | |||
| Closing remarks | |||
