JetBackup is heading back to WordCamp US, and this year, things are heating up in more ways than one.

WordCamp US 2026 will bring the WordPress community to Phoenix, Arizona, from August 16 through August 19 at the Phoenix Convention Center. With WordPress professionals gathering in the desert during the middle of summer, it is shaping up to be one of the hottest events on the WordPress calendar.

Four Days of WordPress and Open Source

This year’s event will offer four days of collaboration, education, networking, and community activities.

WordCamp US begins on Sunday, August 16, with Contributor Day. Attendees can work alongside other members of the community to contribute to WordPress through development, documentation, design, translation, support, testing, community programs, and other project teams.

Monday, August 17, will feature Showcase Day, highlighting innovative and creative projects built with WordPress. The main conference sessions will then take place on Tuesday, August 18, and Wednesday, August 19, with presentations and workshops covering development, design, accessibility, security, content strategy, website performance, business, and the growing role of artificial intelligence within WordPress.

The event concludes with the official WordCamp US Social on Wednesday evening, giving attendees another opportunity to connect with friends, partners, contributors, and other members of the WordPress community.

Connecting With the WordPress Community

WordCamp US brings together developers, designers, agencies, freelancers, hosting providers, plugin and theme companies, marketers, bloggers, entrepreneurs, contributors, and WordPress users from across the ecosystem.

For JetBackup, WordCamp US provides an important opportunity to meet directly with the people building, hosting, managing, and protecting WordPress websites.

These conversations help us better understand how backup requirements are changing across the ecosystem. A freelancer managing a handful of client websites may have very different recovery needs from an agency responsible for hundreds of installations or a hosting provider supporting thousands of customer accounts.

However, they all share the same basic requirement: when something goes wrong, they need a dependable way to recover their data.

Our team is looking forward to reconnecting with hosting partners, WordPress professionals, developers, agencies, contributors, and members of the wider open-source community in Phoenix.

Backups Are Becoming Even More Important

The WordPress ecosystem continues to grow, but so do the risks facing website owners and hosting providers.

Plugin vulnerabilities, compromised credentials, failed updates, malware, accidental file deletion, and infrastructure failures can quickly take a website offline. At the same time, automated scanning and AI-assisted development are accelerating both software creation and the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities.

That makes reliable backup and recovery more important than ever.

JetBackup for WordPress gives website owners the ability to manage backups, restores, and migrations directly from the WordPress dashboard. The plugin now protects more than 200,000 active WordPress installations, an important milestone made possible by the support of the WordPress community and our hosting partners.

Whether you are protecting a single website or managing backups across a large customer base, JetBackup helps ensure that clean, recoverable copies of your data are available when they are needed most.

WordPress, Hosting, and AI

Artificial intelligence will also be a major theme at WordCamp US 2026. The event will explore how AI is changing content creation, website building, personalization, performance, automation, and developer workflows throughout the WordPress ecosystem.

For hosting providers and website owners, these changes create both opportunities and new operational challenges.

AI-powered tools can help automate website management, improve support, accelerate development, and identify potential problems. However, greater automation also increases the importance of access controls, data protection, monitoring, and recovery planning.

We are looking forward to discussing how backup platforms must evolve alongside these new workflows and how hosting providers can continue protecting customer data as websites and infrastructure become increasingly automated.

Meet JetBackup in Phoenix

WordCamp US is about more than presentations and product demonstrations. It is about the conversations that happen in hallways, around sponsor booths, during Contributor Day, and throughout the community social.

Our team will be available to talk about WordPress backups, migrations, disaster recovery, hosting integrations, backup security, and the future of data protection across the WordPress ecosystem.

WordCamp US 2026 will take place at the Phoenix Convention Center, located at 100 North 3rd Street in downtown Phoenix. General admission tickets include access to the four-day event, sessions, Showcase Day, Contributor Day, daily food, the community social, and the sponsor area.

Planning to attend WordCamp US? Schedule a time to meet with Jason Nickerson and talk about JetBackup, WordPress backups, hosting partnerships, and data protection.

Book a meeting: https://conf64.com/s/MP3Gj9

Phoenix may be hot in August, but we are ready for an even hotter week of WordPress conversations, community connections, and new ideas.

We look forward to seeing you at WordCamp US 2026.