June 10, 2025 — As WordPress continues to power over 40% of the web, the ecosystem is evolving at an unprecedented pace. From enterprise adoption to the rise of AI, no-code solutions, and headless architectures, the landscape of WordPress in 2025 presents both opportunities and challenges for developers, businesses, and content creators alike. This panel brings together industry leaders to discuss the current state of WordPress and where it’s headed. We’ll explore: Technology Shifts: How WordPress is adapting to modern web technologies, including AI, automation, and performance enhancements. The Business of WordPress: The economic realities of agencies, plugin and theme developers, and hosting providers in a changing marketplace. Enterprise and Ecosystem Growth: How WordPress competes with closed-source CMSs and the increasing role of enterprise adoption. Open Source Sustainability: How the open-source community is addressing funding, maintainer burnout, and the long-term viability of volunteer-driven Challenges and Risks: From security concerns to competition from proprietary platforms, what threats does WordPress face in 2030? Whether you’re a developer, business owner, content creator, or part of the WordPress community, this discussion will provide key insights into the future of the platform and how you can thrive within it.

June 7, 2025 — How does a global financial institution with strict security and compliance requirements successfully transition to WordPress at scale? In this session, we’ll explore how Standard Chartered Bank, a multinational bank operating in over 50 markets, partnered with Human Made to replatform from a proprietary CMS to WordPress, evolving their digital strategy along the way.

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October 12, 2024 — The team at Human Made inherited an authentic, content-focused website, but it wasn’t built to enterprise standards. They stepped in to make sure that the old worked seamlessly with the new.

Although WordPress is great for content creation if users like the block editor,
enterprise sites need far more than its out-of-the-box features. But this doesn’t have to mean building a new site from scratch. The audience will gain an understanding of the key building blocks necessary for a highly performant, high-traffic website.

Hear the Human Made team discuss what it is like to have the client, agency and hosting work as equal partners, as well as Tailwind, Custom Blocks, Continuous Integration Tools, Visual Regression Testing, Efficient JS and CSS Load, and migrating to a capable enterprise Cloud solution.
This talk will help the audience understand how to keep a legacy site running while incorporating new technologies, and how this influences a very efficient use of budget.

July 2, 2019

September 28, 2017 — Mike, Jon, and Noel will be having an AMA session together. The audience and facilitator will be asking questions on their expertise, which may include their involvement in the WordPress communities, running a SaaS product using WordPress, WordPress hosting trend, and more.

マイク、ジョン、ノエルの3人が「AMA（Ask Me Anything）」スタイルであらゆる疑問に答えるセッション。客席やセッションモデレーターが彼らの専門分野についての質問を投げかけます。WordPress コミュニティへの参加、WordPress を使った SaaS プロダクトの運用、WordPress ホスティングの最新トレンドなどについて、聞きたいことがある方はぜひ用意してきてください。

September 24, 2017 — ランチを食べながら、もうちょっとWordPress のことを深く知ってみませんか？
WordPress って、そもそも誰が作ったの？どういう風に更新されてるの？テーマやプラグインは誰が作ってるの？WordCampってどういう人が何のために開催しているの？
WordCampの2日目にはコントリビューターデイがありますが、コントリビューターって何？
そんなことを各方面で活躍する皆さまとお話するパネルディスカッションです。
また、はじめてさんでもできる「WordPress を使い始めたら 感謝を伝えよう」のミニセッションもあります。

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June 29, 2017 — The WordPress market in America is saturated. The growth in Europe is growing very, very quickly. The next growth for WordPress will be in Asia. Are the Asian Communities and companies ready for this growth? In this talk, I will talk how companies can begin to help build a new power base for WordPress in Asia. I will also talk about how this links into community building and how these 2 ‘powers’ will effectively shape. I would also like to talk about how the Japanese development community and industry is different from the rest of Asia and the World and how it could be both a blessing (within Japan) and a problem for Japanese companies to break out of Japan.

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January 26, 2017 — “What is your wish for WP in 2017?” That was one of the questions the VINUBIS crew and I asked to our interviewees at WordCamp US.

From “more REST API” and “better user experience”, to “improved theme or plugin repositories,” we got a little bit of all! Just watch all our WCUS interviews on the VINUBIS Video Editor Youtube channel.

A few interesting conversations arose around the growth of the Asian WordPress community. Some of the main representatives of this community were present at WCUS and they shared with us their hopes for a “WordCamp Asia.” Probably not in 2017, but hopefully in 2018, as they all explain in this video.

September 25, 2016 — The WordPress Organisation is made up of various teams that make the entire ecosystem work. There’s a lot more than contributing code to making WordPress.org and helping WordPress grow.

I will be speaking about the various teams of WordPress, what they do, how they work with each other and more importantly how one can join. Plus a little story of how I joined and how it affected me professionally.

エコシステム全体がうまくいっているのは、WordPress がたくさんのチームによって組織されているからです。WordPress.org や WordPress 自体の成長に貢献する方法は、コードを書くことだけではなく、もっといろいろな形があるのです。WordPress の各種チームについて、彼らが何をしているのか、チーム同士がどのように連携しているのか、そしてもっとも重要な参加方法について、このセッションで話します。それから、私自身がどのように参加するようになり、それが私の職業人生にどのような影響を与えてくれたのかという小さな物語も少し語ります。

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