---
title: "AI Enablement at Automattic: How a Remote Company Builds AI Fluency"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "3:45pm-4:05pm"
track: "Expo Stage 4 SE"
room: "Expo Stage 4 SE"
speakers: ["Em Shreve"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: ""
scheduleRoom: "Expo Stage 4 SE"
scheduleLabels: ["Expo Stage 4 SE", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# AI Enablement at Automattic: How a Remote Company Builds AI Fluency

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 3:45pm-4:05pm
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 4 SE
- Speaker(s): Em Shreve
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: track TBD
- Room: Expo Stage 4 SE
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
Automattic is a remote company. About 600 of us will step away from regular work this year for an immersive AI program. That's a little over a third of the company. This talk walks through a field report of what we built and why: the curriculum, the cohort design, and what we've learned about making AI fluency work across a distributed organization.

## Media Evidence
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## Evidence Graph
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### Media Signals
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## Transcript Status
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## People
- [[em-shreve]]

## Notes
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## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# AI Enablement at Automattic: How a Remote Company Builds AI Fluency ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 3:45pm-4:05pm - Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 4 SE - Speaker(s): Em Shreve - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: track TBD - Room: Expo Stage 4 SE - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Automattic is a remote company. About 600 of us will step away from regular work this year for an immersive AI program. That's a little over a third of the company. This talk walks through a field report of what we built and why: the curriculum, the cohort design, and what we've learned about making AI fluency work across a distributed organization.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[em-shreve|Em Shreve]] — role not listed at company not listed.

### Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.

### Derived Links And Source Material

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
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