VIP Media Innovation Exchange

Join WordPress VIP and OpenAI in London for an evening built for news and media leaders scaling AI beyond the pilot stage.

By invitation only | 30 places

WordPress VIP Media Innovation Exchange, November 11, London, abstract green and blue shapes on black background.

Wednesday, November 11, 4:00pm – 9:30pm GMT

Register interest

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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 speaker

Headshot of Christina Lim from OpenAI

Christina Lim, News Partnerships, OpenAI

Christina will share lessons from OpenAI’s work with news organizations on using AI to support journalism and strengthen the business of news. The session will explore how teams are expanding what their teams can achieve, building on promising experiments, and sharing tools and approaches that benefit the wider industry.

Leaders will leave with a clearer understanding of what’s working in practice and how news organizations are advancing their missions — all while keeping human editorial control and trust at the center.

How the evening will unfold

  • 4:00 – 4:30pm: Registration & welcome
  • 4:30 – 5:30pm: OpenAI keynote, Christina Lim, News Partnerships
  • 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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