In the middle of September 2025, the CKEditor team attended The AI Conference in San Francisco. The team engaged with the vibrant AI community, connected with other leaders for potential integrations, and revealed news about the new CKEditor AI suite of capabilities 👻.
I wanted to summarize the conference from the eyes of a developer advocate who has worked in the field for decades and has put particular focus on AI in recent months. Here you go...
Conference rundown
It was a busy two days filled with basically non-stop talking to people about CKEditor and CKEditor AI (😅 ohh I spoiled it already). The overall vibe was more on the business side: lots of CEOs, founders of AI startups, and business professionals. Developers? Probably less than 10% of attendees. Not the standard crowd for the developer advocate part of me, but very exciting for the AI enthusiast part.
The venue itself was unique. It was an old shed at Pier 39 (Google says Pier 48 - Lot #39). My guess is it was originally a boat storage or maintenance shed. We arrived to set up our booth the evening before the event: swag arrived on time, the booth looked good, and the stage and the venue were still getting ready. Still partly looking like a shed.
On the first day of the conference, we encountered a lot of excitement, but also a pinch of hesitance with AI advancing so quickly. Inside, the Pier was nice and shiny: almost unrecognizable from the evening before. The main corridor in the center included two stages on the sides, with the back lined with booths, and finishing with the main stage.
The morning flew by so quickly that we barely had time to grab breakfast or coffee. Lunch wasn’t much different. We had to take turns just to grab a bite. And right after, I went to deliver my talk (more about that in the next section).
Day two was quieter, but no less engaging. The slower pace meant more one-on-one conversations and deeper dives into what CKEditor AI can really do.
The talk — why we went there
I gave a lightning talk during lunch and expected maybe 30 people casually eating. Instead, I ended up speaking to ~300 (my best guess from the photos). That was a surprise, but also a great opportunity.
The talk focused on the problem of “Bring Your Own AI” chaos (78% of knowledge workers bring their own AI tools) and how CKEditor AI solves it by offering a frictionless, unified AI writing stack inside any application.
Outline of the talk
- The Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI) problem: copy/paste friction, compliance risks, and content inconsistency
- What is CKEditor?
- Editor (customizable and framework-agnostic)
- Cloud services (including telemetry, logs, compliance, and on-prem or SaaS deployment)
- 🎉 CKEditor AI Early access announcement
- The three AI surfaces:
- AI Chat: An AI writing assistant directly next to your editor
- Quick AI Actions: Sentiment analysis, proofreading, translation, repetitive tasks - anything you use repeatably
- AI Content Review: Handles complex use cases, offering help for suggestion-heavy workflows and advanced AI tasks
- Real-world use case examples: Audits in regulated industries, marketing translations with disclaimers, and support ticket reply generation
Below is the exclusive preview of the talk (after a bit of post-processing):
If you want to learn more, check out the CKEditor AI Landing page.
Top comments (1)
Great summary, Ondrej! I'm so excited to see how's CKEditor AI received out there 😍