We’re bringing free, high-definition livestreams of the keynote talks at WCUS to a screen near you. No special tickets are required. Just check the keynotes below and make note of the times you don’t want to miss, and click the link to join the stream when it’s live.
Talks from our other stages won’t be livestreamed, but recordings will be posted to our YouTube channel after each day wraps up — check back there to catch what you missed.
Keynotes
The Taste Gap: How AI Is Rewiring Developer Experience
Presented by Bo English-Wiczling
Time: August 17 at 9:15 am MST
AI now writes and ships code with little human typing, yet developer trust in its output is falling as adoption rises. The issue isn’t the tools—it’s taste. AI shifts developer work from writing code to specifying intent, verifying output, and judging what to delegate or reject. Drawing on WordPress examples, this explores a practical model—specify, delegate, verify—for developers who write less code but make more consequential decisions.
Dreaming with AI: Innovation Lessons from the Front Lines of Disney & Meta
Presented by Loyal Pyczynski
Time: August 18 at 9:15 am MST
Drawing on his work developing breakthrough experiences at Disney Imagineering and Meta, Loyal Pyczynski examines how AI can help teams build digital products that are more useful, engaging, and distinctly human. He’ll explore what it takes to move beyond the hype: bringing creators, developers, researchers, and communities into the process early, using experimentation to guide decisions, and ensuring human judgment and trust remain at the center of the work.
Building the World’s Most Trusted Driver
Presented by Amanda Ventura & David Levine
Time: August 19 at 9:30 am MST
This fireside chat brings together Amanda Ventura of Waymo, who works on building public trust in autonomous driving technology, and David Levine of the WordPress Core AI Team to discuss earning trust for AI that operates in the physical world. Drawing a parallel to open source’s own foundation of trust between contributors and maintainers, the conversation explores how to earn public trust for technology with real-world stakes, and how to keep it.
Fireside Chat
With Ma.tt Mullenweg & Robert Jacobi
Time: August 19 at 4:00 pm MST
This closing session pairs Matt Mullenweg and Robert Jacobi for an unscripted, two-chair conversation on WordPress, open source, AI, and the evolving web—followed by 30 minutes of live audience Q&A. Drawing on decades of experience from different vantage points in the ecosystem, they’ll discuss where WordPress goes from here, closing out WordCamp US 2026.
Stay Connected
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While you may not be sharing drinks and clumsily exchanging business cards, connections are just a click away.
Something as simple as, “Hey, I loved your talk. Let’s connect,” works wonders. Speakers love to hear that you attended their session and appreciated their content.
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