Register your interest. This is a private, invitation only experience and places are strictly limited. The WordPress VIP team will follow up to confirm your attendance.
Beyond the experiment
What separates newsrooms scaling AI from those still stuck in pilots.
News organizations have an opportunity to help shape how AI serves journalism — enabling more ambitious reporting, developing new audience experiences, and strengthening their business. As AI capabilities grow, how can news organizations use the capacity it creates to pursue more ambitious journalism and better serve their audiences and communities?
Almost every newsroom is experimenting with AI, yet only 44% say their initiatives are showing promise. The next challenge is turning those experiments into lasting value at scale.
Roundtables: Bring the challenge your newsroom hasn’t cracked
Maybe it’s the content workflow with too many approvals, the growing estate of sites that’s getting harder to run, or the AI pilot that won’t make it to production. Bring it with you. In small roundtables, you’ll work through real challenges with peers facing the same ones, and leave with practical ideas to take back to your team.
Keynote
Christina Lim of OpenAI and Brian Alvey of WordPress VIP share the stage for a joint keynote on what separates the newsrooms scaling AI from those still stuck in pilots. They’ll cover where newsroom AI stands in 2026, what changes for content teams when AI is built into how they work, and the decisions media leaders need to make in the next 12 months.
Speakers
Christina Lim
News Partnerships, OpenAI
Brian Alvey
Chief Technology Officer, WordPress VIP
How the evening will unfold
- 4:00 – 4:30pm: Registration & welcome
- 4:30 – 5:30pm: Joint keynote, OpenAI and WordPress VIP
- 5:30 – 7:00pm: Peer to peer roundtable discussions
- 7:00pm onwards: Networking reception
Why we’ve invited you
WordPress VIP’s Media Innovation Exchange is intentionally limited to just 30 leaders from across editorial, product, technology and audience. If you’ve received this invitation, it’s because we want your perspective in the room.
Come with the AI experiment that’s working brilliantly. The one that isn’t. Or the newsroom process you’d love to completely reinvent. Because the next phase of AI in news won’t just be shaped by the technology. It will be shaped by the journalists and leaders deciding what to do with it.
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