A Eulogy for WordPress, Webflow, and Every CMS: What's Next for Websites?

For twenty years, the content management system was one of the most successful ideas in technology. It democratized the web, powered over 40% of the internet, and built entire industries. This session gathers to pay our respects — because the era it was built for is ending, and something new is taking its place.

The audience visiting your website is changing. Alongside human visitors, AI assistants and autonomous agents now read, evaluate, and act on web content — and their share of traffic is growing fast, according to data from Cloudflare, Adobe, and McKinsey. The CMS was designed for humans editing pages for other humans. The next generation of websites is being designed for a mixed audience of people and machines, operated not by content teams clicking through dashboards, but by AI agents working alongside them.

In this session, you'll learn:

Who's actually visiting your website in 2026 — humans, AI assistants, and AI agents — and what each one needs from you
Why the human-operated CMS is becoming a bottleneck, and what "agentic architecture" means in plain terms
A live demonstration of an AI agent operating a website in real time
Practical steps any organization can take now to prepare its web presence for AI visitors — regardless of what platform you're on today

This is an educational session for business owners, marketers, developers, and anyone responsible for a web presence. No technical background required. You'll leave with a clear picture of where websites are headed and a framework for evaluating your own — plus time for questions, pushback, and a proper toast to the CMS.