We have a stellar group of speakers for Wagtail Space 2026

We're excited to announce we've published the schedule for Wagtail Space 2026. This year’s schedule has a blend of Wagtail case studies, coding talks, and expert presentations on key trends that are shaping the future of web publishing.

The conference will be held online in Zoom Events and we'll be using our half-days scheduling again so that you can fit Wagtail Space into your busy schedule.

Come for the State of Wagtail talk, stay for all the valuable insights that can help you make the most of AI, sustainable tech, and more. There will be something for everyone whether you're an experienced Wagtail user or totally new.

Our lineup

We'll have keynote talks and panel sessions that will bring everyone together as well as talks in separate tracks. The keynote talks we have so far this year include:

• The State of Wagtail by Thibaud Colas
• Wagtail Personalisation with the Royal College of Art by Helen Roberts and Simon Evans
• The Power of Opt-in AI: Building Digital Resilience in the Hype Era by Meagen Voss
• What a Wagtail Migration Actually Takes by Michael Trythall
• Flipping the Script: The Builder Revolution and AI as Empowerment by Morten Rand-Hendricksen

The other talks you should absolutely not miss include:

• A Wagtail Editor's Guide to GEO (aka really good SEO) by Emma Bennett Gigg and Beth Parnell
• Agent readiness for Wagtail sites by Albina Starykova
• Battle-Tested Wagtail: Running at Scale with Kubernetes by Calvin Hendryx-Parker
• Beyond Doom: How Frugal AI tackles the real threats to our future by James Martin
• From Stories to Action: WWF-US and the Power of the Wagtail Platform by Diane Querey
• How can a 🥷 ninja help 🧑 humans and 🤖 agents talk to 🐦 birds? by Sage Abdullah
• Let’s get Atomic: Frontend components vs. Wagtail Block architecture by Luciano Ratamero
• Measuring Web Emissions For a Wagtail Site by Adam Newman and Oliver Winks
• Reinventing the "What's On" page in Wagtail by Jack Whitworth
• Reliable and efficient page publishing with Wagtail by Jake Howard
• Scaling translation operations in Wagtail-Localize by Rodrigo Yanez Pilgrim
• Wagtail as a signage system for a brand new children's hospital by Ben Heasman
• Wagtail Preen - a new codemod CLI tool for Wagtail by Maciej Baron
• Who manages the content managers? by Mariana Bedran Lesche
• Working with Blocks Beyond the Editor by Luan Fonseca

Congratulations to all our speakers! We're excited to have you and we're looking forward to hearing your talks!

What's next

There will be one session of lightning talks this year, which are five-minute talks that can be about well...anything! We'll be doing sign-ups ahead of time this year for those, so stay tuned for that! We are also working on pulling together a panel session called How to Sell Wagtail to Your Boss that will help you advocate for Wagtail at your organization.

We'll be adding some more sessions and community events to the calendar as we get closer to the conference. Keep an eye on our Schedule page for those updates and changes.

If you haven't picked up your free ticket yet, head over to our Zoom Events page to register.

We can't wait to get all of our passionate and innovative friends together at Wagtail Space 2026. We hope to see you there!