DotDev 2026

Between the entrance and the Main Stage, next to the Info Hub.

Luggage Check is the north-west corner of the same floor if you're carrying bags.

POS Cafe leans hard on filtered webhooks — _modifierVariants, _send_to_kds — and Events is billed as the webhook successor.

Ask: do server-side filters replace webhook filters 1:1? What are the delivery guarantees, given the exactly-once hardening already done on draft-order/KDS?

The POS roadmap talk — where POS UI extensions go next. Highest-altitude view of your own platform surface.

Retail runs a live demo with real POS hardware — directly relevant to the print server and Fresh KDS integration.

POS Cafe analytics is homegrown today — smartLogger, the extension-tracking route. This covers app data in metafields, queried with ShopifyQL, rendered back into the merchant experience.

Drop it if the morning leaves you with unfinished booth conversations. This is the most expendable block on Tuesday.

Lands right after your Mantle → Shopify managed pricing migration.

Ask: is on-read plus nightly reconciliation the blessed pattern for per-location license counts, now that app_subscriptions/update is gone?

Designing for retail reality: wifi drops, fast checkout, hardware — scanners, printers, cash drawers. This is your problem domain described back to you.

Ask: what's the supported offline story when a cafe's wifi drops mid-service? Are POS discount targets coming?

Runs to 16:25 — leave at 16:15 for Room 6 next door.

Started 16:15, so you'll arrive ~10 min in. Rooms 6 and 7 are adjacent.

Which app categories are growing, what survives AI commoditization, how Shopify is investing behind quality apps.

Best informal shot at the Retail and POS people you didn't corner during the day.

You already have your badge from Tuesday. Skip the queue and go straight to breakfast if there is one.

Sayed Saber runs Retail Partnerships. His solo POS talk collides with your 15:00 meeting, so this is the clean place to catch him.

Booths are quietest over lunch. Full booth list and asks are at the bottom of this page.

Also worth raising: the Gadget 1.7 migration dropped your metafield and metaobject definitions and they were restored by hand. Is there a definitions-as-config path?

Cafes are exactly the vertical this panel is about, and Jamie Corry heads Retail.

It runs to 15:10, but you leave at 14:55. Room 5 is the north edge of F2; the Partner Lounge is centre-south. Allow the full five minutes.

Skipped: "Why you should bet on POS" (14:40, Room 1) collides head-on with your meeting. You're already three years into that bet.

Chase whatever the meeting surfaces while the teams are still on the floor. Booths close at 17:00.

Alternative if nothing's outstanding: "Taking online brands into retail" (Amish Tolia, Leap), 16:10, Room 6.