Fireside chat

WordCamp Europe 2026 in Kraków closed with a fireside chat between Mary Hubbard, Executive Director of WordPress, Matías Ventura, lead of the Gutenberg project, and Rich Tabor, a WordPress designer and developer. After a celebration of WordPress in education, including a new WordPress course launching this October at Kraków University of Technology, the three discuss WordPress 7.0 and the future of WordPress in the age of AI: how to build with AI while keeping the human experience at the center, what it means for the editor and the role of the CMS, and why open-source values should help shape AI itself. Matías also shares live, in-progress experiments that reimagine the WordPress admin, and the session closes with audience questions on AI, multilingual support, open source, and bringing new generations into the project.