Magento Association

Magento Association

The Magento Association is the home of the global Magento Open Source ecosystem - a diverse, driven, and collaborative community shaping the future of open commerce. We exist to connect people, champion ideas, and create opportunities for meaningful contribution. Our members include developers, merchants, agencies, technology partners, and advocates who believe in the power of open source to drive innovation, enable inclusion, and build lasting impact. Together, we steward the Magento Open Source project and its ecosystem with transparency, purpose, and shared ownership.

  1. 1 day ago

    S01E18: Willem Wigman (Hyvä) on Open Source & AI: Why Owning Your Code Matters (Part 2)

    In Part 2 of Episode 18 of the Magento Association Podcast, Willem Wigman (Hyvä) returns to share a candid perspective on open source strategy, AI's impact on Magento, and his vision for where the Magento Association goes next. If you missed Part 1, Willem walked through Hyvä's origin story. This time he and host Matt Harris pick up in the present: why Hyvä went fully free, how the funnel between Magento and Adobe Commerce has flipped, and what AI means for a community built on owning its own code. This episode is worth your time if you want a builder's-eye view of the Magento ecosystem right now, not a marketing one. Willem gets specific about the business risk behind making Hyvä free, pushes back on the idea that AI threatens open source, and gives a rare insider's account of his time on the Magento Association board. He closes with a genuinely warm, personal case for why the Magento community should keep investing in the MA, and it's one of the most quotable moments across the whole series so far. 🔍 Episode Breakdown 00:00 – Welcome Back: Setting Up Part TwoMatt reintroduces Willem for the second half of the conversation, picking up from the origin story. 00:46 – The Origin of Hyvä's Open Source StrategyWillem traces the decision back to 2021, when the open letter and the Mage-OS effort first took shape. 03:13 – Building Hyvä as a Trust-First BrandHow Hyvä funneled commercial revenue into community investment, events, and the Magento Association. 05:29 – Cutting Revenue in Half to Go FreeThe long-term bet behind making the Hyvä Theme free, and why last November's move finally felt right. 06:49 – Magento vs. Adobe Commerce: The Funnel FlippedWillem unpacks why upgrading from Magento Open Source to Adobe Commerce today means a full replatform, not an upsell. 08:49 – Giving Adobe Credit Where It's DueA more optimistic take on Adobe's recent investment in the ecosystem, four years on. 10:46 – AI as Open Source's New WeaponWhy owning your code, not renting a SaaS subscription, matters more as AI accelerates development. 13:15 – Code Is a Commodity Now: Strategy Is What CountsWillem describes what building with AI actually feels like day to day at Hyvä. 18:10 – Stepping Back from the MA BoardWillem reflects on why he stepped down and what he learned about the Association's evolution. 20:27 – From Smith Bucklin to Ben Marks: The MA's GrowthA look at leadership transitions and the professionalization of the Magento Association. 25:16 – Final Note: "Put Your Money on the MA"Willem's closing message on why community investment in the Magento Association pays off. 💬 Key Quotes "Owning your own code, that's owning your own data." "Code has become a commodity. Strategy, product vision, and execution count more than ever." "The gap between Magento and Adobe Commerce is so big, it's basically a replatform." "This will all normalize. It's so new, and we'll find a way." "If you put your money on the MA, it's worth it." "Small contributions make a big difference, and the MA is putting in the work." ❤️ Learn More & Get Involved👉 Support the Magento Association: https://www.magentoassociation.org/members #MagentoAssociation #Magento #MagentoCommunity #AdobeCommerce #Ecommerce #WillemWigman #Hyvä #MageOS #OpenSourceEcommerce #AIinEcommerce #DigitalCommerce #MagentoOpenSource

  2. 4 Aug

    S01E17: Willem Wigman (Hyvä) on Building Hyvä & Beating Burnout: A Founder Story - Part 1

    In Episode 17 of the Magento Association Podcast, Willem Wigman (Hyvä) shares a candid perspective on how Hyvä was born, what burnout really costs a founder, and why staying a pure product company protects everyone around it. Willem has been in the Magento community since 1.4. He ran his own agency until the Magento 2 transition burned him out — twice in a single year — and forced him to close shop. After recovering at German agency integer_net, he went deep into front-end and back-end performance work, growing steadily more frustrated with both Luma and headless React. Then one evening he installed Shopware, clicked through the admin, and decided instead to build the frontend he actually wanted to work with. That prototype became Hyvä. This first part of the conversation covers the whole arc: the first commit in July 2020, 100 licences sold in the month after the February 2021 release, and a team that has doubled every year to 30 people. Willem is also unusually open about the mental health side — what burnout leaves behind, the safeguards he built into his company because of it, and why his default answer to anything challenging is now "no". This is Part 1 of our conversation with Willem. Part 2 is coming soon. 🔍 Episode Breakdown 00:00 – Welcome: Willem Wigman and the story behind HyväMeeting the founder of Hyvä — starting, of course, with how to pronounce it. 01:00 – It started with a store for his wifeThe origin rumour is true. Her shop still isn't live. 01:30 – From Magento 1.4 to closing his own agencyWillem's early years in the community, and why the Magento 2 transition ended his agency. 02:30 – The performance years: Luma, JavaScript and Google's algorithm shiftBundling, blog posts and great scores — until Google stopped rewarding six megabytes of JavaScript. 04:00 – Luma or PWA? Why 90% of Magento doesn't need headlessThe dilemma his agency faced, and why single-page apps aren't the answer for most of the market. 05:00 – The night he installed Shopware — and built Hyvä insteadEight rings, a homepage, and a decision made in a single evening. 08:30 – From first commit to a team of 30Three months of frontend work delivered in five weeks, a February 2021 release, and doubling every year since. 09:30 – Why Hyvä never takes implementation workLaser focus on the product, the five-request rule, and not cannibalising partner agencies. 10:30 – From selling hours to building a product companyFreelancing at 18, running an agency, and finally building something he owned. 14:00 – Two burnouts in one yearPainkillers, migraines, 34 Magento stores, and one developer holding it all together. 18:00 – Living with the scar: mental health after recoveryWhy the battery never fully repairs, and what that means day to day. 20:30 – "My default answer to anything challenging is no"Counting your yeses, co-founder relationships, and the guardrails that came out of it. 23:00 – The ecosystem as a fish tankAgencies, merchants, extension vendors, hosting and payments — and why none of them can be cannibalised. 💬 Key Quotes "It's not a topic we discuss at home, because she still doesn't have a store." "In my experience, 90% of the Magento market doesn't need headless." "We scoped three months of frontend development time. We built the project in five weeks." "The biggest thing I've changed in my life is that my default answer to anything challenging is no." "The battery that you have is kind of broken — it discharges quicker." "It's like a fish tank. You need the fish, but you also need the plants. If you take one away, the other dies." ❤️ Support the Magento Association The Magento Association is a member-driven non-profit. Membership fees and sponsorships fund the events, education and community work that keep this ecosystem moving — including this podcast. 👉 Become a member: https://www.magentoassociation.org/join-participate #MagentoAssociation #Magento #MagentoCommunity #AdobeCommerce #Hyva #OpenSourceEcommerce

  3. 23 Jul

    S01E16: Katy Wilson (Magento Association) on Leadership & Brand: Giving Magento a Voice

    In Episode 16 of the Magento Association Podcast, Katy Wilson (Magento Association) shares her grounded perspective on stepping into the Executive Director role, why Magento's brand needs a clearer voice, and how the ecosystem can move past the open source vs. SaaS debate. Katy has spent over two decades in ecommerce partnerships: from working with Magento as an external partner back in the SagePay days, to becoming Magento's own partner manager across the UK, Germany, Poland, and the Middle East, to a role at Shopware focused on partner enablement and the platform's US expansion. She's just stepped into the exec director seat at the Magento Association, alongside her ongoing work with Magento integration and hosting partners. Host Matt Harris and Katy dig into why merchants who leave Magento for SaaS often just don't understand it, how the community has already fixed many of the platform's old pain points, and why she believes Magento's real challenge today is perception, not technology. It's a candid look at what it will take to give Magento a clearer, more united voice in the wider commerce conversation. She also shares her plan to personally reconnect with MA members and partners as she settles into the role: less about glitzy events, more about practical, everyday support. 🔍 Episode Breakdown 00:00 – Welcome & IntroductionMatt Harris kicks off the episode and introduces Katy Wilson. 01:00 – Two Decades in PartnershipsKaty traces her career back to working alongside Magento as an external partner. 03:00 – Joining Magento in 2014How a partner integration project led to Katy joining Magento's own team. 05:30 – Lessons From the Shopware YearsKaty reflects on partner enablement at Shopware and its push into the US market. 10:30 – Stepping Into the Exec Director RoleWhy Katy joined the Magento Association and how she sees her role as "a connector." 12:00 – What the Magento Association Is ForWhy the MA exists and who it's meant to serve across the ecosystem. 14:00 – A New Vision: Trusted, Vibrant, Commercially SuccessfulKaty unpacks the board's new North Star for where Magento needs to stand. 18:00 – Answering the Brand BashingAddressing the criticism Magento faced after M2 launched, and what's actually improved since. 19:15 – Open Source vs. SaaS: The Wrong QuestionWhy Katy avoids framing it as a binary and focuses on outcomes instead. 23:00 – The Untold Scale of MagentoHow much of global ecommerce quietly runs on Magento, and why that story isn't being told. 29:45 – Features vs. Outcomes: Fixing the MessagingWhy merchants buy business outcomes, not architecture buzzwords. 36:00 – Katy's Personal Goal for Members and PartnersHer plan to have direct conversations with every MA member and partner. 💬 Key Quotes "I don't think ecosystems happen by accident. They require people who are willing to invest and create opportunities for others." "Merchants aren't buying features. They're buying outcomes." "I always look to bring it back to choice, flexibility, and ownership." "Our role is being able to translate Magento's technical strengths into business value." "It's not just about fancy glory events and being on stage. It's about the practical, everyday things that move the needle." "Adobe's focus has largely been Adobe Commerce and their enterprise customers, rather than growing the broader Magento ecosystem." ❤️ Learn More & Get Involved👉 Become a member: https://www.magentoassociation.org/join-us #MagentoAssociation #Magento #MagentoCommunity #AdobeCommerce #Ecommerce #KatyWilson #MagentoOpenSource #OpenSourceEcommerce #EcommerceLeadership #DigitalCommerce #CommerceBrand #PartnerEcosystem

  4. 13 Jul

    S01E15: Ben Marks (Magento Association) on Rebuilding the Association & Magento's AI Renaissance

    In Episode 15 of the Magento Association Podcast, Ben Marks (Magento Association) shares a candid, insider's look at the organization he now helps lead — its founding, its funding struggles, and its evolving relationship with Adobe. Ben spent years steering Magento's community strategy at Adobe before leaving in 2021 — and he's since returned to the ecosystem in a new role, now on staff at the Magento Association alongside Katie Wilson. In this episode, he walks through the Association's origin story: the wind-down of the German Meet Magento Association, the funding assumptions that never quite materialized, and the years spent bogged down working with an outside association-management firm before the board took the reins. From there, the conversation moves into harder, more technical territory: the trademark sublicensing deal that keeps Magento events running worldwide, why Adobe still invests in a platform with no new core features in three years, and the security work happening through Mythos and the PHP Foundation to harden the ecosystem against supply chain attacks. Ben also shares his own experience picking Claude back up after a decade away from hands-on development — and why he thinks it's fueling a genuine Magento renaissance. Above all, Ben makes the case that community — not just code — is what will carry Magento into its next chapter, and why proving the Association's value to that community is job number one right now. 🔍 Episode Breakdown 00:00 – Welcome Back: Diving Into the Magento Association 01:00 – How the Magento Association Was Born 03:30 – The Funding Gap & Early Growing Pains 09:00 – Magento vs. Adobe Commerce: The Branding Struggle 12:30 – Negotiating the Trademark Deal With Adobe 17:00 – New Leadership, New Standards at the Association 19:00 – Magento 2's Rough Launch & What It Taught the Ecosystem 23:30 – Mythos, PHP Security & the Supply Chain Threat 29:30 – Meet the New Officers & the Executive Transition 32:00 – Signs of a Magento Renaissance 34:30 – How AI Is Reviving Open Source Ambition 43:00 – Why Community Is the Association's Real Power 💬 Key Quotes "Magento was its own biggest competitor — bar none, no other platform came close." "This is one of the benefits of open source: the code is out there, and it can be tested." "I thought it would take a week to ramp back up. It took me an evening." "I think we're about to see a little bit of a Magento renaissance." "We can't just tell everyone we're the collection point — that's something we have to earn." "The power of community is probably as important as it's ever been." ❤️ Learn More & Get Involved 👉 Magento Association: https://magentoassociation.org 👉 PHP Foundation: https://thephp.foundation/ #MagentoAssociation #Magento #MagentoCommunity #AdobeCommerce #Ecommerce #BenMarks #OpenSourceEcommerce #AIinEcommerce #PHPSecurity #DigitalCommerce #EcommercePlatform #MagentoRenaissance

  5. 29 Jun

    S01E14: Sergej Derzap (Amasty) on Owning Your Tech & Magento's Future: Why Merchants Are Choosing Open Source (Part 2)

    In Episode 14 (Part 2) of the Magento Association Podcast, Sergej Derzap (Amasty) shares a candid perspective on owning your tech, the open source versus SaaS debate, and where the Magento Association is headed. Sergej wears a lot of hats. What started as marketing volunteering for the Association grew into content production, managing community initiatives, a board seat, and the role of treasurer. He does all of this while leading Amasty, one of the most established extension providers in the Magento ecosystem. This half of the conversation digs into what maturity really means for a software business. Sergej explains why Amasty moved to subscriptions, why modest and sustainable beats growth at any cost, and how the "rent or own" decision should shape every merchant's platform choice. He and host Matt Harris also get into data ownership, total cost of ownership, and what AI changes for merchants who want to control their own technology. The throughline is a simple idea: Magento, Hyvä, and Amasty are building blocks of one ecosystem, and the merchant should never have to care whose responsibility each block is. That is where the Association comes in, connecting the people building the tools with the merchants who need them. 🔍 Episode Breakdown 00:08 – Sergej's Many Hats at the Magento Association From marketing volunteer to content lead, board member, and treasurer. 04:00 – The Tim Cook Lesson: Building a Mature Company What Apple's evolution teaches about securing what you've built while still innovating. 06:00 – One-Time Sales vs SubscriptionsWhy selling "lifetime" products eventually buries you in maintenance. 08:30 – Modest Growth, Long-Term Trust: Amasty's Maturity PlaySame headcount for years, still supporting every client. Why that is the point. 10:30 – How COVID Reshaped the Platform LandscapeSaaS surged, homegrown and legacy systems declined the hardest. 11:30 – Why Magento Held Firm While SaaS SurgedMagento settled into a clear tier and merchants started reevaluating SaaS. 13:30 – The MBEE Segment: Where Magento Still LeadsSergej's framing for medium, big, and enterprise merchants above roughly $5M revenue. 14:30 – Rent or Own? The Decision Every Merchant FacesIf e-commerce is your core business, why rent your core competence? 16:30 – Owning Your Data and Tech in the AI EraMerchants are asking how to keep control of their data and their stack. 18:00 – Total Cost of Ownership and the Maintenance QuestionBuild or buy, in-house or agency, and who keeps open source code alive. 21:45 – Sergej's Dream: Open Source Power, SaaS FlexibilityA future where AI lets you spin up and run a Magento store in a few clicks. 25:00 – Where the Magento Association Comes InFinding the tools, the people, and the ideas that move the whole ecosystem forward. 💬 Key Quotes "A prosperous Magento means a prosperous Amasty." "Some days I work for the Magento Association more than for Amasty." "If e-commerce is your core business, why rent your core competence?" "We are here as long as our clients need our products." "If I own my data, I decide how to use AI and how to gain an advantage from it." "AI should give you the power of open source with the flexibility of SaaS." ❤️ Learn More & Get Involved 👉 Amasty: amasty.com 👉 Connect with Sergej on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derzap/ 🙌 Support the Magento Association👉 https://www.magentoassociation.org/members #MagentoAssociation #Magento #MagentoCommunity #AdobeCommerce #Ecommerce #SergejDerzap #Amasty #MagentoOpenSource #OpenSourceEcommerce #DataOwnership #AIinEcommerce #DigitalCommerce #Hyva

  6. 15 Jun

    S01E13: Ben Marks on Open Source & Community: How Magento Became a Movement | Part 1

    In Episode 13 of the Magento Association Podcast, Ben Marks shares a candid, experience-driven perspective on open source, community, and how Magento grew into a global movement. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Ben traces his unlikely path into tech: a psychology degree, years playing music full time, and a chance leap into PHP that landed him at Blue Acorn in the earliest days of Magento. From there he became one of the people who helped teach, document, and curate the ecosystem, from the Magento Fundamentals course to founding Magento Stack Exchange. Along the way, Ben and host Matt Harris dig into why the early web drew artists, musicians, and tinkerers rather than classically trained computer scientists, and what that DIY spirit shares with open source. They explore community as the real engine behind Magento's rise, and why that particular moment in ecommerce history felt so special. Now back in the ecosystem as the Magento Association's global community director, Ben sets the stage for Part 2, where the conversation turns to the future of the Association. 🔍 Episode Breakdown 00:00 – WelcomeMatt Harris introduces Ben Marks and the long arc of his Magento journey. 00:50 – From psychology and music to PHPBen's accidental path into programming, from a race-car wiring favor to his first web agency. 03:20 – Teaching Magento FundamentalsThe early training years, splitting time between Blue Acorn and teaching, and learning alongside Vinai Kopp. 04:00 – Building Magento Stack ExchangeHow a dedicated Q&A site became a core body of Magento knowledge, one that still feeds today's AI tools. 05:55 – Matt's own origin storySculpture, animation, and self-taught HTML in late-90s New York City. 07:30 – Tinkerers, pro audio, and the engineer's mindsetWhy taking things apart maps so neatly onto debugging and architecture. 09:55 – Why PHP lowered the barrierA forgiving language, a flood of newcomers, and what that meant for quality and creativity. 12:25 – Why the early web drew artists and musiciansThe naturally curious, problem-solving crowd behind open source's DIY ethos. 13:15 – Music as open sourceBuilding on what came before, synthesizing something new, and the participatory nature of a scene. 16:15 – The hackathon parallelShowing up, self-curating, and discovering you always have something to offer and something to learn. 19:20 – Why community mattersFinding where you fit when you're not a natural self-starter, and keeping an ecosystem aligned. 21:45 – The special era that won't come backBen on the rare moment Magento captured, and why it set the stage for what comes next. 💬 Key Quotes "If you ask your favorite LLM about Magento, a lot of its understanding comes from that body of knowledge." — Ben Marks "PHP is like: hey, I think you forgot a semicolon on line 37." — Ben Marks "You're building on what's come before. It's all additive, but it's also participatory." — Ben Marks "You can show up and you'll probably have something to offer. And you'll certainly have something to learn." — Ben Marks "Community matters because not everyone can be self-starting." — Ben Marks "We'll never have that market, that opportunity ever again." — Ben Marks 🙌 Support the PodcastIf you enjoyed this episode, please like and subscribe. It helps the podcast reach more of the Magento community. You can also support the Magento Association directly: https://www.magentoassociation.org/members #MagentoAssociation #Magento #MagentoCommunity #AdobeCommerce #Ecommerce #BenMarks #OpenSource #OpenSourceEcommerce #DeveloperCommunity #PHP #MagentoDevelopment #DigitalCommerce

  7. 30 May

    S01E12: Sergej Derzap (Amasty) on Open Source Trust & the Magento Brand (Part 1)

    In Episode 12 of the Magento Association Podcast, Sergej Derzap (Amasty) shares a candid, practitioner's perspective on open source trust, the Magento brand, and what the community needs to build next. Sergej is CEO & CPO at Amasty, one of the largest Magento extension builders globally. He arrived from enterprise outsourcing and a stint co-founding a ride-sharing startup in New York — and his first years at Amasty coincided with breakneck growth, political upheaval in Belarus, and the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Navigating all of that shaped how he thinks about resilience, culture, and long-term business-building. This episode goes deep on the tensions defining the Magento ecosystem today: why the brand still confuses newcomers, why open source adoption behaves nothing like SaaS, and how Hyvä could be the reframe Magento has been waiting for. Sergej also pulls no punches on what Amasty got wrong early on — and what it took to shift from chasing market share to earning developer trust. 🔍 Episode Breakdown 00:00 – Welcome & IntroductionMeet Sergej Derzap, CEO & CPO of Amasty, one of the Magento ecosystem's most prominent extension builders. 00:30 – From Outsourcing to Startups to MagentoSergej traces his path from IBA through co-building a New York ride-sharing startup to joining Amasty as CEO. 02:00 – Leading Through Crisis: Growth, COVID, and WarHow Amasty navigated rapid growth, Belarusian political upheaval, relocation to Ukraine, and the outbreak of war. 05:30 – The Hardest Bite: Understanding Open SourceWhy switching from SaaS to open source product thinking was Sergej's steepest learning curve — and what changed. 09:00 – Community Feedback in Action: Jet Theme, Kalen Jordan, and the Hyvä MomentHow a public feedback board and a conversation with Kalen Jordan forced Amasty to truly listen to the community. 10:30 – Why Magento Is Developers-FirstThe case for putting developer experience at the center of every product decision — and why Hyvä proved it right. 13:00 – Amasty's Tiered Strategy: Magento Open Source vs. Adobe CommerceWhy roughly 70% of Amasty's clients run Magento Open Source, and how Amasty structures products across all three Adobe Commerce distributions. 18:00 – The Adobe Marketplace and the Assurance ProgramWhat Adobe Assurance means in practice — and why some enterprise clients won't touch an extension without it. 21:30 – The Magento Brand: Different on Each Side of the AtlanticWhy the US and European ecosystems perceive the Magento brand differently, and what that gap means for relevance. 22:30 – The Opel Problem: Why Brand Resurrection Is HardDrawing on brand strategist David A. Aaker, Sergej explains why re-educating people on a dormant brand is often harder than launching a new one. 25:30 – Hyvä as the ReframeWhy Hyvä's ability to attract developers on its own terms could solve the awareness problem Magento can't crack alone. 27:30 – Building Magento's Narrative from ScratchThe gap in Magento's media presence — and why reaching people who've never heard of it matters as much as reconverting those who have. 💬 Key Quotes "I'm not sure I would accept this offer knowing about it." "It was the hardest bite to chew for me." "It's not about feature-rich, it's about established quality." "Magento is about developers first of all." "Sometimes it's easier to launch a new brand than to resurrect an existing one." "Hyvä is something that changes the game because you can re-educate people not on Magento, but on Hyvä." ❤️ Learn More & Get Involved 👉 David A. Aaker — Brand Strategist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Aaker #MagentoAssociation #MagentoAssociationPodcast #Magento #MagentoCommunity #AdobeCommerce #Ecommerce #SergejDerzap #Amasty #MagentoOpenSource #OpenSourceEcommerce #Hyva #MagentoBrand

  8. 17 May

    S01E11: Fridberg (JetRails) & Gioffré (Improntus): Why Self-Hosted AI Beats Frontier Models

    In Episode 11 of the Magento Association Podcast, Artur Fridberg (co-founder of JetRails) and Nicanor Gioffré (Improntus) share a practitioner's perspective on self-hosted AI, open source ecommerce, and why predictability beats frontier models when you're running mission-critical Magento stores. Artur started what became JetRails back in 2000 as a shared hosting company, eventually narrowing in on enterprise managed hosting for Magento and other open source ecommerce platforms. Nicanor has run Improntus on Magento and Adobe Commerce exclusively since version 1.3 — and today, the two teams are working together on something newer: hosting open source LLMs on private infrastructure for ecommerce clients with real compliance and privacy requirements. This episode goes deep on the economics and mechanics of bringing AI in-house. Why token-based billing creates uncertainty agencies can't plan around. How freezing a model in place lets you update everything around it without breaking your stack. Why Artur thinks the future of software is a utility layer on top of resources — and how that reframes what Magento really is in an AI-first world. Along the way: open source as a market signal, the "exploding" requirements pipeline agencies are seeing, and a closing reflection on why the Magento Association still matters. 🔍 Episode Breakdown 0:00 – Welcome & JetRails OriginsArtur's journey from shared hosting in 2000 to a Magento-focused managed hosting brand. 2:30 – From Shared Hosting to Mission-Critical EcommerceHow JetRails evolved into "the anesthesiologist" for stress-free ecommerce ops. 5:00 – Partner, Not Vendor: How JetRails Works With AgenciesWhy JetRails acts like a department inside the agency, not an outside provider. 7:00 – Improntus Meets JetRails: AI Hosting Meets ComplianceNicanor on bringing JetRails an AI hosting problem most providers wouldn't touch. 9:30 – Why Predictability Beats Token-Based PricingThe case for cost and roadmap certainty when AI is part of your production stack. 14:00 – Open Source as a Market SignalArtur on why open source contribution patterns reveal where the market is actually going. 16:30 – The Uber Module & Magento's Open Source SpiritNicanor on shipping a real-time delivery module free to the community — and why. 23:30 – The Exploding Requirements PipelineWhat agencies are seeing as client expectations accelerate beyond anything from a few months ago. 26:00 – Plumbers, Coders, and Why Magento Is the PlumbingThe "learn to code" reframe and why Magento is the stable base layer for AI-era ecommerce. 30:30 – Freezing the Model in Place: How Self-Hosted LLMs WorkThe technical pitch for hosting your own open source models — and why stability beats frontier. 33:00 – Queueing AI Work Overnight: A Different Cost ModelRunning batch AI workloads on private infrastructure and what it changes about agency economics. 37:30 – Why the Magento Association MattersClosing thoughts from Artur and Nicanor on community, contribution, and ecosystem strength. 💬 Key Quotes "We act like a department in your organization." — Artur "We help your people not be woken up at 3 a.m. when a customer goes down." — Artur "It's not so much the cost as the lack of control over your future." — Artur "We've been with Magento since version 1.3. That's basically the only thing we do." — Nicanor "Client expectations are much higher than even two or three months ago." — Nicanor "I feel like I'm losing a tremendous amount of value if I'm not actually connected to the association." — Nicanor #MagentoAssociation #Magento #MagentoCommunity #AdobeCommerce #Ecommerce #ArturFridberg #NicanorGioffre #JetRails #Improntus #SelfHostedAI #OpenSourceAI #LLMHosting #OpenSourceEcommerce

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The Magento Association is the home of the global Magento Open Source ecosystem - a diverse, driven, and collaborative community shaping the future of open commerce. We exist to connect people, champion ideas, and create opportunities for meaningful contribution. Our members include developers, merchants, agencies, technology partners, and advocates who believe in the power of open source to drive innovation, enable inclusion, and build lasting impact. Together, we steward the Magento Open Source project and its ecosystem with transparency, purpose, and shared ownership.

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    2025 - 2026
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