WordPress enthusiasts, developers, business owners, and content creators from across Canada and around the world will converge at Carleton University this fall for WordCamp Canada 2025 (WCEH25), taking place October 16–17, 2025.
This national flagship event brings together the open web community for two days of learning, networking, and inspiration focused on WordPress, the open-source platform powering nearly half the web.
Keynotes Will Take on the Future of the Open Web
WCEH25 will feature two keynote talks that will frame some of the most important conversations happening around WordPress and the open web.
Dave Winer, the pioneering developer and writer whose work helped shape blogging, RSS, and podcasting, will present WordPress and the Open Social Web. He’ll share lessons from decades of building for the open internet and make the case for WordPress as a cornerstone of a more distributed, user-owned web.
Evan Prodromou, founder of identi.ca and long-time advocate for open standards and federation, will deliver Beyond Microblogging: WordPress Leads the Way in Long-Form Text on the Social Web. His talk explores how WordPress is uniquely positioned to support rich, thoughtful publishing in a social web increasingly dominated by brevity and walled gardens.
Together, these keynotes will set the tone for discussion, reflection, and hands-on learning, rooted in the idea that WordPress doesn’t just power websites, it helps shape the future of the web itself.
Speakers With Diverse Perspectives to Lead Deep Dives on Key Subjects
At this time, more than a dozen names and topics have been confirmed for the first group of speakers who will give presentations and lead workshops at WCEH25. These speakers will take on a wide range of topics from accessibility, performance, and publishing workflows to block development, design systems, and community sustainability. They span a breadth of perspectives that, together, give the WordPress community its outsized impact on the evolution of the publishing and business.
“WordCamp Canada is about more than just websites,” says James Giroux, lead organizer for WCEH25. “It’s about building a web that’s more open, ethical, and inclusive — and that starts with bringing people together from every part of the ecosystem.”
Tickets and Travel Planning
Tickets for WordCamp Canada are on sale now at the WCEH25 website. For a limited time, several area hotels are offering discounted rates for WCEH attendees.
Organizers have shared a travel planning guide for those travelling to Ottawa internationally and from all over Canada.
Plan your trip today, and join the WordPress community in Ontario in October!
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