Gutenberg Times: Schedule of WordCamp Asia Birgit’s selected sessions

This year’s WordCamp Asia just published the first version of its schedule with sessions and workshops. Contributor Day also has a few workshop slots. If you registered for Contributor Day you are looking at three days of learning and discussions.

Here is my personal list of talks and workshops, mostly about the block editor, themes or AI in WordPress. I will update the post with the video links after WordCamp Asia once the recordings are uploaded to WordPress TV.

Livestreams are available on April 10 and 11 on the three session tracks, Foundation, Growth and Enterprise. Times are all local Indian Standard time (UTC +5.30).

Updated March 2, 2026,

The schedule has a few placeholder spots for

• Journalism and the Open Web
• AI and WordPress
• And quite few TBD for talks and workshop

The schedule for the Contributor Day hasn’t been finalized either. It’s unclear when my workshop Building a block theme from scratch will take place. There are three workshop slots reserved. We will have a WordPress 7.0 Release ssession and Open-source Library spaces as well.

The conference days also have six workshop slots that are still “TBA”.

The program team is working on the final version of the schedule. Make sure to check back on weekly basis.

Birgit’s selected sessions

April 10, 2026

After opening remarks and introduction of speakers the day begins with

10 am Fireside Chat with Mary Hubbard

1:00 pm From Static to Dynamic: Mastering the Interactivity API with Ryan Welcher

2:50 pm Lost & Found in AI Wonderland: An Honest Journey Through Hype, Headaches, and Real Wins with Nirav Mehta

3:55 pm Ten Times the Value: Why Automation Is Worth the Investment in Open Source with Jonathan Desrosiers

April 11, 2026

9:15 am WordPress Playground + AI: Building Autonomous Testing Pipelines with Fellyph Cintra

11:15 Entity-First Optimization: How to Make WordPress Content Machine-Readable with Adeline Dahal

11:35 am: From Chaos to Clarity: Scaling Teams with Block Theme Standards with JC Palmes

12:25 pm Build for What Comes Next: How Enterprise WordPress Is Powering the Agentic Future with James Giroux

3:00 pm Don’t miss: Closing Keynote: WordPress Co-Founder Ma.tt Mullenweg

First time in Mumbai?

The communication team published some really cool posts about Mumbai and India, which is super helpful for anyone heading there for their first time.