Grab your badge, some breakfast, and get ready for day one.

Tobi and Harley get real about what's driving Shopify forward. Plus, meet our 2026 Build Award winners.

Shopify leadership takes the mic. Bring front row energy.

Explore how agencies can evolve into agent-first businesses by building AI-powered services that automate campaigns, surface insights, and create new value for merchants.

See how metaobjects can act as Shopify's configuration layer, helping teams move beyond theme settings to support more consistent experiences across checkout, mobile, and Flow.

Hear why top agencies are adopting a merchant mindset to break through growth ceilings, build more scalable businesses, and create stronger long-term value.

An inside look at their approach, from scoping, sequencing, and the delivery behind each migration.

Learn the security practices every developer needs today, from authentication to AI workflows.

Explore how Shopify extensibility supports complex commerce across channels, from large-scale POS and ERP/OMS integrations to custom B2B workflows for merchants with advanced operational needs.

Top sellers frame Shopify as the default choice for modern commerce. We'll get into positioning, smart depositioning of legacy platforms, objection handling, and how to plug in migration incentives.

Discuss how POS extensibility can improve merchant workflows, shape better product experiences, and help you build beyond the basics.

Shopify's shipping model is changing. In this workshop, you'll explore the new architecture, pick the right APIs for your use case, and prototype the improved app-owned delivery profiles.

Workshop prerequisites:

1. Dev store with Market-driven shipping developer preview enabled
2. The Shopify GraphiQL app installed on that store. Select access for all scopes to keep things simple. For reference, the exercise only needs: read_shipping and write_shipping (read and create/update the delivery profile), write_fulfillments (create the warehouses), read_locations (the setup query's locations field), and read_products (look up product and variant IDs).
3. API version set to 2026-07 in GraphiQL
4. Clone this repo

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Classic webhooks often force apps to filter broad product change events after delivery. Join this hands-on workshop and learn how to design precise Events subscriptions, shape payloads, and debug delivery.

Workshop prerequisites:

1. This starter template cloned and set up on your machine

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Get ahead of where Shopify Customer Accounts are going. Learn the upgrade path, how to lead merchants through it, and how to build standout experiences with the Customer Account API.

Many partners aren't building for retail yet, but the ones who are are growing fast. This talk covers the POS opportunity, the new revenue lines it opens, and how to position your business to capture it.

Discuss how POS extensibility can improve merchant workflows, shape better product experiences, and help you build beyond the basics.

Sidekick extensions give apps a new way to meet merchants inside their existing workflows. Learn what we built, how to think about extension design, and the patterns that make Sidekick more useful in-app.

UCP is live across millions of Shopify stores. Find out why commerce needed a protocol, the principles that shaped it, and where it goes from here.

Find out how partners are solving complex automotive needs, from parts catalogs and fitment data to dealer networks, B2B, and DTC experiences.

B2B is one of the biggest growth opportunities for Shopify agencies. Learn how to start and transform your business to capture the B2B opportunity.

For the B2B curious: learn how Shopify B2B plugs merchants into a vast partner network to sell through and scale. See what's live today and what's next.

Build app-owned collection sources, the new building blocks merchants can wire into their collections, extend into variant-level campaigns, or power backoffice workflows.

Workshop prerequisites:

• Dev store on the 2026-07 API 
• This sample app running in your local dev environment

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Hear how one agency reworked its operating model across its business, team, and ways of working, all before AI forced the change.

Great retail is more than a transaction. See how top brands are building exceptional in-store experiences with Shopify POS UI extensions to pull shoppers in, stand out, and keep loyal customers coming back. Plus, see where POS is heading next.

Real world inventory is messy. We're bringing it natively into Admin with new GraphQL primitives for purchase orders, stateful counts, and bins. Come see the schemas and build high-scale warehouse integrations.

Bring the dev version of a production app and leave with a working Sidekick extension running against your own data. Scaffold your app, implement a search endpoint, and test it in a dev store.

Workshop prerequisites:

• Sidekick installed on dev store
• An app that doesn't have sidekick app extensions yet, or use this sample app

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Build a gift-with-purchase app's config layer on Shopify-hosted primitives, with app.toml, metaobjects, and hosted app home: no servers, no auth, no external DB. Learn static app architecture and when to graduate to external hosting.

Workshop prerequisites:

• This sample app running in your local dev environment

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Shopify is simplifying the way themes are built. This talk will show how Liquid is taking center stage once again, with updates to our theme architecture to better support developers and coding agents alike.

Your app's data belongs in Shopify Analytics. Learn to model, query, and surface your app's metrics in the merchant experience. We'll cover ShopifyQL API and metafields, plus new APIs and capabilities we're announcing.

Get ahead of where Shopify Customer Accounts are going. Learn the upgrade path, how to lead merchants through it, and how to build standout experiences with the Customer Account API.

Explore how Sidekick, companion skills, and agent-aware storefronts can make complex, multi-layered capabilities easier to understand, operate, and extend, creating more merchant value with less implementation overhead.

Generative search is here, but the rules are not. Join us for a mythbusting guide to AI discovery for partners: what to ignore, what Shopify already handles, and where your real value to merchants actually lives.

Learn how Shopify's native tools can solve complex build challenges, using Metaobjects, Flow, Functions, and the Section Rendering API before reaching for an app.

Bring the dev version of a production app and leave with a working Sidekick extension running against your own data. Scaffold your app, implement a search endpoint, and test it in a dev store.

Workshop prerequisites:

• Sidekick installed on dev store
• An app that doesn't have sidekick app extensions yet, or use this sample app

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Build a live merchant-facing analytics card without a separate reporting stack. We'll walk through writing app data into metafields, querying it with ShopifyQL, and rendering it back into the merchant experience with new capabilities we're announcing at Dot Dev.

Workshop prerequisites:

• This starter template cloned and running shopify app dev on your machine

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Hear why top agencies are adopting a merchant mindset to break through growth ceilings, build more scalable businesses, and create stronger long-term value.

Partners are building purpose-built POS solutions on Shopify for specific industries. Hear where that approach is working, and where the next opportunities are emerging.

Overlooked B2B merchants bring valuable buyer networks. Dig into opportunity size, the ideal merchant profile, sales motions, and where partners add the most value in integrations.

Generative search is here, but the rules are not. Join us for a mythbusting guide to AI discovery for partners: what to ignore, what Shopify already handles, and where your real value to merchants actually lives.

Payments powers commerce on every surface, from AI assistants to off-Shopify storefronts. See what's next for Shopify Payments and Shop Pay, and help merchants increase conversion with Shop Pay, everywhere they sell.

Discover how Shopify powers more than online stores, enabling new real-world commerce experiences across luxury hotels, pop stars, global restaurants, and live events.

Learn the security practices every developer needs today, from authentication to AI workflows.

Build a search-to-buy loop into any surface with Shopify's Catalog API and the Universal Commerce Protocol. Commerce for agents, batteries included.

Workshop prerequisites:

1. UCP CLI installed

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Go deep with Shopify engineers using AI tools to ship faster without lowering the bar. See what the tools unlock, how the team builds with them, and meet River, the AI agent that Shopify built.

Hydrogen has been rebuilt from the ground up: framework-agnostic, runtime-agnostic, and built for agents. Learn what changed and why as we sit down with a special guest from Vercel to unpack the rapidly changing world of headless.

Find out how partners are building for home furnishings brands on Shopify, what new opportunities are emerging, and technical patterns that make the difference.

Luxury is moving to Shopify. Join us to explore why premium brands are making the shift, where partners can create the most value, and what it takes to deliver at the highest level.

Sidekick extensions give apps a new way to meet merchants inside their existing workflows. Learn what we built, how to think about extension design, and the patterns that make Sidekick more useful in-app.

Explore the shift from React to web components and Preact extensions, with practical lessons on trade-offs, migration challenges, and when it's worth making the move.

Learn how agentic commerce can power more personalized storefronts on Shopify, with experiences tailored to shopper intent rather than a single journey for every visitor.

B2B is one of the biggest growth opportunities for Shopify agencies. Learn how to start and transform your business to capture the B2B opportunity.

Generative search is here, but the rules are not. Join us for a mythbusting guide to AI discovery for partners: what to ignore, what Shopify already handles, and where your real value to merchants actually lives.

Build a promotion that reacts to live events. Learn to wire external signals via metafields and Functions, deliver multi-class discounts, and reach buyers in specific markets.

Workshop prerequisites:

• This sample app running in your local dev environment

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Classic webhooks often force apps to filter broad product change events after delivery. Join this hands-on workshop and learn how to design precise Events subscriptions, shape payloads, and debug delivery.

Workshop prerequisites:

1. This starter template cloned and set up on your machine

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Shopify Payments, Shop Pay, and Retail Payments: bring your questions on turning the latest updates into revenue.

As execution gets easier with AI, what new opportunities open for agencies? We'll cover the work they can now bring in-house instead of outsourcing, how roles and teams change from a solo operator to a 30-person shop, and why judgment, trust, and human relationships matter more than ever.

Checkout UI extensions are restricted in agentic checkouts. Learn how you can still support the most important merchant customizations through Functions, additional fields, fees, and other platform capabilities.

Go deep with Shopify engineers using AI tools to ship faster without lowering the bar. See what the tools unlock, how the team builds with them, and meet River, the AI agent that Shopify built.

Learn how agencies can help online-first brands expand into retail, using repeatable services and retail analytics to create a more scalable growth model.

An inside look at their approach, from architecture and scoping to the pre-sales motions that help win the work.

Build a search-to-buy loop into any surface with Shopify's Catalog API and the Universal Commerce Protocol. Commerce for agents, batteries included.

Workshop prerequisites:

1. UCP CLI installed

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Partners are building purpose-built POS solutions on Shopify for specific industries. Hear where that approach is working, and where the next opportunities are emerging.

Building a POS UI extension is easy. Building one that thrives in-store means designing for the realities of retail: staying useful when wifi drops, keeping checkout fast, and connecting smoothly with hardware like scanners, printers, and cash drawers.

The new Catalog API is becoming the foundation for developer-built shopping experiences. See how product discovery, personalization, UCP checkout paths, and monetization create new ways to build and earn.

Stick around. Drinks, bites, and the people you didn't get to talk to yet.

We’re taking over Princes’ Blvd. for the first-ever Block Party with all of Shopify and DotDev. More builders, more community, and more reasons to stay late.

Learn which app categories are growing fastest, how to build apps that survive AI commoditization (and what to stop building), and how Shopify is investing to help quality apps stand out.

Shopify is simplifying the way themes are built. This talk will show how Liquid is taking center stage once again, with updates to our theme architecture to better support developers and coding agents alike.

Pre-orders are table stakes in B2B, especially in apparel. Shopify now supports the most common workflows. This workshop maps real pre-order patterns to the feature combinations that solve them.

Workshop prerequisites:

• This repo cloned and prework described here completed

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed.

Shopify fulfillment now supports split shipping, ship-and-pickup, and ship-and-carryout—flows most apps aren't built for yet. Test your app live, find what breaks, and leave with a roadmap to update it.

Workshop prerequisites:

• Dev store with "Ship and pickup in one order" developer preview enabled
• An app that touches delivery, or fulfillment logic (e.g. a shopify function touching a shipping discount)
• Ship and pickup AI Skills set up on your AI tools

Note: All workshops require a Shopify Partner account, a fresh development store for each workshop, Shopify CLI 4.3.0+, Node 24+, an AI-enabled code editor, and AI Toolkit installed. 

Add shopping into any app or agent. Learn how to build search-to-buy flows with the Catalog API and UCP, and watch an agent turn a plain-language request into a checkout you can ship today.

Give merchants the full picture of their business. Surface your app's metrics in Shopify Analytics, queryable alongside store data. Use ShopifyQL to pull Shop Campaigns advertising results into your dashboards.

Build storefronts that do more. Get hands-on with the newest storefront tooling, custom buyer experiences, SimGym, Rollouts, and Markets and see how far you can push a Shopify store.

In-person retail is one of the biggest opportunities on Shopify. Use POS UI Extensions to build almost any custom in-store workflow: loyalty, clienteling, inventory, and more. See a live demo with POS hardware at the booth.

Build for millions of high-intent Shop buyers. See how Shop Minis let developers create lightweight shopping experiences that help brands get discovered, drive action, and bring buyers back.

Everything you need to build, ship, and grow an app in one place. Dig into the APIs, improved Dev Dashboard experience, find out what it takes to stand out with Built for Shopify, and more.

Put AI to work inside your apps and workflows. Build a Sidekick extension, get hands-on with the AI Toolkit and Connectors, and see how Shopify is going all-in on AI in commerce.

B2B is one of the biggest opportunities on the platform. See where the roadmap is going across pre-orders, product sourcing, and Collective, and understand which workflows are worth building now.

The engine room of every store. Get into inventory, fulfillment, and tax, and see the new primitives for building high-scale operational workflows that just work.