KrishaWeb is Attending WordCamp Asia 2026

I want to tell you something about the first time I attended WordCamp Asia.

I walked into that room not entirely sure what to expect. I knew WordPress. I had been building on it for years. But I had never been in a space where thousands of people who care about the same ecosystem, the same open-source project, and the same community were all in one place at once. It was the kind of thing that made you realize how large and alive this ecosystem really is.

That was four years ago. This April, I am going back for the fourth time in a row, and I am bringing our WordPress and sales teams with me.

WordCamp Asia 2026 runs from April 9 to 11 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai. And I need to say this plainly: having the flagship WordPress conference in Asia this year in India genuinely means something to me. After years of travelling to attend this conference, it is time to come home.

Four Years of WordCamp Asia — What That Means to Me

I get asked sometimes why I keep coming back to WordCamp Asia when we could just follow along from Ahmedabad. The honest answer is that there is no substitute for being in the room.

The conversations that happen in the hallways, at the lunch tables, and during the coffee breaks between sessions. The person you have been exchanging comments with on a GitHub thread for 2 years finally meets face-to-face. The new perspective on a technical problem that comes from sitting next to someone who solves it in a different way. None of that happens over a livestream.

Each year I have attended, I have come back with something that changed how I think about what we are building at KrishaWeb. Not always from the sessions on the main stage. Often, from a twenty-minute conversation I did not plan to have.

Year 4 feels different for one specific reason: WordPress 7.0 is releasing on Contributor Day. I will be in Mumbai when it ships. Our team will be contributing to it. That is not something I would miss for anything.

Who Is Coming From KrishaWeb This Year

This is not just a developer trip, and it has not been for the past couple of years.

Our WordPress Development Team

The developers are going because they belong there. Block editor development, WordPress core, performance, accessibility, plugin architecture. This is their community as much as it is mine. They have contributed to WordPress releases before and plan to contribute again on Contributor Day this year. I am proud of that.

Having our WordPress team in sessions with the people who build WordPress core, who maintain the block editor, and who shape the direction of the platform keeps them connected to where things are actually going. That matters for the work we do for clients.

Our Sales Team

A few years ago, I started bringing the sales team to WordCamp Asia alongside the developers. Some people found that surprising. I found it obvious.

The people on our sales team talk to potential clients every day. They explain what we build, why our WordPress development approach works, and what sets us apart. When they have sat through the same technical sessions as our developers, when they have heard Matt Mullenweg talk about where WordPress is heading, when they have had real conversations with agency owners and business builders at WordCamp, they understand the context in a way that no internal briefing document can replicate.

The relationships that come out of WordCamp Asia matter to our business, too. Agencies we partner with in white-label work. Clients we meet in person for the first time. Conversations about projects that go somewhere real. Our sales team will be in those conversations, and they should be.

WordPress 7.0 Ships on Contributor Day. I Am Going to Be There.

WordPress 7.0 is scheduled to be released on April 9 during Contributor Day. Our team is contributing. This is the moment I am most excited about.

I have followed every major WordPress release since we started building on it. But being in the room when a version ships, with the people who wrote the code and tested it and documented it and argued about the right way to do it, that is something else entirely.

Our team has been involved in contributing to work ahead of this release. Testing, feedback, documentation. It is not a large contribution in the grand scheme of what the WordPress project requires, but it is ours. And being present on the day it all comes together feels like the right way to honor the work that the entire community has put in.

What WordCamp Asia 2026 Looks Like

For anyone who has not been before, here is the shape of the event.

What I Am Looking Forward to in the Sessions

The full schedule is at asia.wordcamp.org/2026/schedule, and it is worth going through properly. A few areas I am personally keeping an eye on:

• Everything around the block editor and Full Site Editing. This is where WordPress development is headed, and our team builds here every day. I want to hear from the people shaping it.
• Performance and Core Web Vitals talks. We do a lot of performance work for clients, and the right approach keeps changing. WordCamp sessions are where I usually pick up the most practically useful updates.
• Agency and business sessions. The technical side of WordPress gets a lot of attention. The operational side of running an agency that builds on WordPress gets less attention. I always appreciate the sessions that talk about that honestly.
• Matt Mullenweg and Mary Hubbard. Whatever they say about the direction of WordPress and the foundation is worth hearing directly, not through a summary afterwards.

If You Are Going to Be in Mumbai, Come Find Us

I will be at the conference for all three days. So will our WordPress developers and our sales team. We are easy to approach and genuinely interested in conversation.

Whether you have worked with KrishaWeb before and want to reconnect, whether you are thinking about a WordPress project and want to talk about how we approach it, or whether you are part of the WordPress community and simply want to meet, please come say hello. Some of the best things that have come out of my WordCamp Asia visits have been conversations I did not plan for.

If you want to arrange a specific time to meet, reach out before the event, and we will set something up.

See You in Mumbai

April 9 to 11, Jio World Convention Centre. Our fourth year at WordCamp Asia, WordPress 7.0 is releasing live on Contributor Day, and I am genuinely excited to be in this city for it.

If you are attending, I hope to see you there. And if you are still deciding, I would say, “Go.” You will not regret being in that room.

Get your pass at asia.wordcamp.org/2026/event-pass/ before spots fill up.

Parth Pandya

Founder & CEO

Founder & CEO of KrishaWeb, leads an Enterprise Web Agency. With contributions to WordPress and organization of WordCamps, he pioneers innovation and community engagement in the digital realm.

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