SPEAKING & EDUCATION
Make the complicated useful.
Kathy Zant speaks about AI governance, security, WordPress, attacker thinking, and the human decisions behind technology—without turning complexity into theater.
CURRENT TERRITORY
Talks for the moment we’re actually in.
AI moved faster than your policy. Now what?
Practical governance for organizations already using AI—because banning it, ignoring it, and pretending policy equals control are all losing strategies.
Think like the person trying to break it.
Lessons from thousands of real compromises about assumptions, attacker behavior, defensive blind spots, and why security is ultimately a thinking problem.
The technology is rarely the whole problem.
How incentives, communication, organizational behavior, leadership, and misplaced certainty shape the outcomes of technical systems.
SELECTED STAGES
From keynotes to deeply technical rooms.
WordCamp US · multiple years · including 2026, “Is Your WordPress Site Legally Ready for AI?”
WordCamp US 2019 · “The Hacker Mindset”
WordCamp Rochester · keynote
WooSesh · WordFest · regional WordCamps · webinars · workshops
FOR ORGANIZERS
Give the audience something they’ll use Monday.
Kathy’s talks are built for smart audiences who don’t need to be dazzled—they need a useful way to think. Sessions can be adapted for executives, technical teams, WordPress professionals, marketers, security audiences, and mixed rooms.
Planning an event? Bring Kathy into the room.