WordCamp Brittany opens its doors at 8 a.m. on September 18, 2026, at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes, for a second edition after the community first gathered there in 2024. Let’s walk through what’s actually on the program together!
WordCamp Brittany is back for a second edition in Rennes
The format will feel familiar to regular readers: we covered WordCamp Switzerland’s community gathering back in 2023, and Rennes now gets its own second round after debuting the event in 2024. The venue is the Couvent des Jacobins, at the Centre des Congrès de Rennes Métropole, 20 Place Sainte-Anne, in central Rennes, and according to the official WordCamp Brittany site, doors open at 8 a.m. and the day runs until roughly 6:20 p.m., with an after-party at Le Grand Huit from 8 p.m. to midnight for anyone with energy left.
What’s actually on the program
Twenty-three speakers split across two tracks make up the day, a structure confirmed directly on the event’s own published schedule: a 400-seat Grand Public track in the main nave, and a 200-seat Technique track in the auditorium, all on the ground floor of the Couvent des Jacobins this year, for 600 seats combined.
Security gets real attention this year: Julio Potier runs a security quiz, and Aurélien Bourdois walks through auditing, and actually compromising, a WordPress server, a hands-on angle rarely seen at a community event. Artificial intelligence shows up across both tracks too, from Antoine Bouchet asking whether an AI could test your site after every update, to Nicolas Cynober on managing sites through the Model Context Protocol, and Jeremy Desvaux de Marigny on what he calls harness engineering for coding with AI. Accessibility, multilingual sites, and Gutenberg each get a dedicated talk as well, from David Galantin on the communication challenges (and accessibility pitfalls) of emoji, to Bintou Diarra on the most common accessibility mistakes, to Sébastien Serre on going multilingual, to Valentin Grenier on building Gutenberg for the people who will actually use it. If your own site carries ten years of technical debt, Florian Truchot’s talk on repairing exactly that is the one to catch.
THE contribution day: WordPress isn’t just conferences
The day before the main event, on September 17, the WPFR association runs a contribution day at Le Poool, 2 Rue de la Mabilais in Rennes, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For anyone who has never been to one, a contribution day means sitting down together for the day: writing documentation, testing patches, translating strings, or triaging support forum threads for the WordPress project itself, with organizers on hand to guide first-timers through their first contribution. The contribution day is easy to miss in the coverage of a WordCamp, and it is where a newcomer can do more for the project than by watching all 23 talks combined.
Should you go (or follow along remotely)?
WordCamp Brittany sits in a busy stretch of the European calendar: WordPress.org’s own central schedule lists WordCamp Belgrade on the very same September 18 weekend, with WordCamp Wrocław, WordCamp Galicia, and WordCamp Sofia following through October. For a French or francophone agency, freelancer, or in-house WordPress developer, Rennes is the closer option, and the program leans practical: session topics like tracking compliance, hosting, and testing automation are the kind of thing that shows up in client work the following week.
If travel isn’t on the table, most WordCamps eventually publish their session recordings through WordPress.org’s own video library, so catching up after the fact is a reasonable substitute for anyone who can’t make it to Rennes in person.
Our take
None of this requires dropping everything to book a train to Rennes. It’s a genuinely useful day for a WordPress professional within reach of Brittany in September, built around real technical content rather than a slide-deck sales pitch. If you’re weighing whether to register, the honest answer is: check the ticket page before the next batch runs out too.
A first batch of tickets sold out within days of going on sale, and as of this writing a new batch is live on the official ticketing page: 20 Simple tickets at €40 and 8 Micro-Breizh tickets (which cover the event’s real costs and list buyers as sponsors) at €150 remained available, and a WordPress.org account is required to complete a purchase. If community events like this one are new territory for you, our earlier look at the building blocks that made WordPress agentic is a fair primer before sitting through a full track of AI-focused talks.
Screenshot: official WordCamp Brittany website.
