Meet Magento Ukraine 2026: Magento Operations Checklist
Meet Magento Kyiv includes sessions on AI productivity, Magento security and store performance. For your Q4 planning, start with one problem from your own store: slow product updates, checkout errors or orders that need the same manual fix every morning. Use the checklist below to choose what to try and how you'll tell whether it helped.
Meet Magento Kyiv: when, where and what's on
Meet Magento Kyiv takes place on Thursday 3 September 2026 at Mercure Congress Centre, Vadyma Hetmana Street 6, Kyiv. Registration opens at 09:00, the programme starts at 09:30 and the closing session runs from 17:10 to 17:30 Europe/Kyiv time. The free Contribution Day on 2 September focuses on Magento Open Source and Hyvä contributions.
On the agenda are Business, Tech and AI sessions. The full programme includes talks on AI productivity, Magento security and store performance.
Five questions for your Magento store
Start with something that's causing trouble now. A slow checkout or a pile of unfinished product descriptions gives you a much better question than "What should we automate?"
| Question | What to check now | How to tell if it's better |
|---|---|---|
| Is checking AI-written content taking too long? | Choose a small batch, such as 20 products, and time the research, writing and review. | How many drafts are usable, how much editing they need and how long review takes. |
| Which slow pages or errors get in the way of a sale? | Test the homepage, categories, products, cart and checkout during normal trading hours. | Page speed, server response times, checkout errors and completed orders. |
| Would anyone notice a security problem? | Check admin accounts, overdue patches, extensions and who receives each alert. | Unnecessary access removed, patches applied and alerts that reach someone who can act. |
| Where do orders need the same manual fix? | Follow one paid order through picking, packing, shipping paperwork and the customer update. | Fewer reopened orders, picking corrections and document reprints, plus time to dispatch. |
| What haven't you checked before the next upgrade? | List your Magento, database and integration versions, then check hosting requirements for the new release. | Compatibility tests, a rollback plan and someone responsible for the go-ahead. |
AI: does it save time once you've checked the work?
Try AI on a small batch of work, such as the product descriptions in one category. Time the whole job, including checking and corrections. If your reviewer spends longer fixing a draft than writing it from scratch, you haven't saved them any time. Keep the originals so you can compare, and agree what a usable draft needs to get right.
Denys Verhun, chief editor of SPEKA, has a session on the AI productivity paradox at Meet Magento Kyiv: why faster work doesn't always feel easier. For your own content trial, count the review and correction time too. The first draft is only half the job.
The ProductContent guide explains how to review product and category content before publishing it. For the finished pages, the AI discovery guide covers how to make your answers easier for AI search tools to find.
Performance: fix the pages your customers struggle with
Start with a page that's slow or an error customers keep hitting. A better speed-test score is useful, but check what happens in the store too. Look at Core Web Vitals, server response times and checkout errors alongside completed orders. A green score won't make up for a broken checkout.
The Kyiv programme also includes Anton Zhuk, CEO of Whidegroup, on using AI agents to investigate hacks and serious Magento speed problems. A useful question for your own team: which slow page or recurring error can you reproduce, and how will you check that it's fixed?
Measure before you change anything, then test the same pages under similar traffic afterwards. The Magento performance optimisation guide and store audit toolkit can help you choose what to check.
Security: who notices when something goes wrong?
Check who gets your security alerts and what they're expected to do with them. Two-factor authentication, patches and limits on repeated requests help protect the store. You also need someone to notice when something slips through. If customers or support usually spot a problem first, start there.
The Magento 2 security guide has more checks to work through. After changing a bot filter or access rule, test normal shopping and admin tasks too. You don't want to lock out the people who are supposed to be there.
Fulfilment: where do orders get held up?
Follow one order from payment to dispatch and the shipping update. Note every time someone copies information, reopens the order, hunts for a product or reprints a document. Those repeated jobs are good candidates for automation, especially before the warehouse gets busier.
The Magento order-process guide helps you work through those steps. Depending on where the delay is, the guides for PickPack, ShipEasy and TrackEasy cover paperwork, order handling and customer updates.
After Meet Magento Kyiv: pick one change to try
Within a couple of working days, choose one idea worth trying. Write down who's doing it, what you'll test and when you'll check back. Measure how the job works now so you have something to compare. If the change only moves the extra work onto someone else, it's not finished.
For a longer plan, use the 90-day Magento operations guide. It starts with two weeks of checking where things stand, then gives you time to try changes before deciding what to keep. You don't have to fix the whole store at once.
FAQ
Can I use this checklist for Q4 planning?
Yes. Use it to choose a job that's slowing your team down before the busy season. It also works for an upgrade review or a regular store check.
What is the first change a small Magento team should make?
Start with a problem you can see in support tickets, error logs or everyday work. That might be failed checkouts, unfinished product updates or orders that keep needing corrections. Check how often it happens and how much work it creates before choosing a fix.
