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        Introducing Brightwork · Vol.01
      

The post-DotDev gathering for people who build Shopify.

From ShopDev Alliance. A full day of talks, panels, food and drinks, and the conversations that chart what comes next. We are opening up to the wider Shopify developer community, and the first edition lands in Toronto.

When

Thu, July 23 · 10am to 6pm

Where

The East Room, Toronto

Who

~200 Shopify partners

Format

Talks, panels, reception

Register

Save your spot

Brightwork Vol.01 lands in Toronto on Thursday, July 23. Grab your spot while there is room.

Talks and panels from builders who ship
Food, drinks, and a proper reception
~200 of the people building Shopify

Registration is handled securely on Luma.

What to expect

A day worth clearing your calendar for.

Talks

Practical sessions from builders who ship, on what is actually working right now.

Panels

Honest conversations across agencies, freelancers, and app builders.

Food & drinks

A proper reception as the day eases into evening. Stay for the good part.

The room

~200 of the people building the Shopify ecosystem, in one place for a day.

The route from here

Register now. We will roll out the rest as we lock it in.

Open

Registration open

Grab your spot on Luma.

Now

Speakers announced

Meet the lineup below ↓

Later

Agenda released

The full shape of the day.

Jul 23

Doors open

The East Room, 9:30am.

The lineup

Who's taking the stage.

Six talks and a panel from people building the Shopify ecosystem every day, on shipping through the shift that is reshaping how we all work.

Alexandre Bouchard

CEO @ Hookdeck

Talk

Are Webhooks Dead Yet?

Sandesh Kulai

Founder & CEO at Stoq

Talk

2,999 Conversations

Katie Keith

CEO at Barn2 Plugins

Talk

Building Better Shopify Apps: An Outsider's Lessons From 10 Years in WooCommerce

Gavin Ballard

Founder & CTO at Submarine

Talk

Moats for GOATS: Building sustainable and defensible Shopify offerings in the age of AI

Sakshi Gupta

Engineering Manager at Swym

Talk

The Agent-Native Merchant Lifecycle: A Playbook for Shopify App Partners

Jordan Finneran

Founder at Pimsical

Talk

Building your app on Cloudflare, pick 3: Good, Fast, Cheap

The panel

Panel host

Liam Griffin

Senior Developer Advocate at Shopify

Reading the Currents: Themes, Apps, and Services in a Post-LLM World

Liam leads a conversation across three corners of the ecosystem on how builders are rethinking their workflows as AI reshapes the Shopify landscape.

Brenda Storer

Cofounder at Coquelicot, Studio & The City

Jamil Bhuya

Co-founder at Otherhalf Studio

Prakhar Shrivastava

Cofounder at FoxSell Bundles

The venue

The East Room, Toronto

A design-forward event space in the heart of the city. Warm, well-finished, and built to hold a room that cares about craft. Full address and travel details will go out with your invite.