Manchester - Jan 23, 2025
Venue: Everyman Cinema, ABC Building, Quay Street, Manchester
Agenda:
17:15 Doors open
18:00 Talk 1
18:30 Talk 2
19:00 Food
19:30 Talk 3
20:00 Talk 4 (Simon Chapman)
20:30 Drinks & networking
Full agenda TBC
Local Dev Meetups
Calling all developers and technologists - Let's get together! Enjoy a night full of networking, great content/speakers, food, and beverages. Take a look to see when we'll be visiting a city near you and register today! We look forward to meeting up with you soon!
Events
Past Events (2024)
Manchester - Jan 11
Organized by 26 and Kin + Carta
Speakers/Topics:
- Anil Patel, Knight Frank - Azure AI Language: Text Analytics Integration with Optimizely CMS
- Jacob Pretorius, dotcentric - Introduction to Headless/Graph/SaaS and why we're excited
- Simon Chapman, Optimizely - Update on Optimizely roadmap and the latest updates on SaaS
- Andrew Markham, Unrvld - Web and Feature Experimentation: Getting started
Copenhagen - Jan 30
Partnered with DEPT®
Speakers/Topics:
- Simon Chapman, Optimizely - The future of Optimizely
- Allan Thraen, CodeArt - Initial impressions of SaaS Core CMS and Optimizely Graph
- Chris Eccles, DEPT® - Lets Talk About Optimizely Decoupled Architecture
- Alex Boesen & Denis Jensen, Sampension - How to go live with Optimizely CMS 12 in 4 months
Stockholm - Mar 11
Speakers/Topics:
- Simon Chapman, Optimizely - Future of Optimizely
- Jonas Bergqvist, Optimizely - SaaS CMS
- Luc Gosso, OMVP and Senior Web Developer at Epicweb - The AI Assistant addon
- Johan Kronberg, OMVP Tietoevry Create - Improving performance in DXP apps
Helsinki - Mar 13
Partnered with Knowit
Speakers/Topics:
- Simon Chapman, Optimizely - Future of Optimizely
- Martin Ottosen, Optimizely - SaaS CMS
- Kenneth Krohn, Knowit - Learnings from migrating to CMS 12
Virtual - Apr 18
Organized by Dxred Technologies
Speakers/Topics:
- Yagnik Jadav, OMVP - Optimizely CMS Integration with Hot Chocolate - ChilliCream GraphQL
London - Jul 11
Organized by Niteco and Netcel
Speakers/Topics:
- Scott Reed, Niteco and Jacob Pretorius - Tips and Tricks for CMS12/Commerce 14 Upgrades
- Cindy Gilbertson, Optimizely - Get started with Visual Builder
- Minesh Shah, Netcel - Guide to SaaS CMS and Hybrid Headless
- Mark Stott, Netcel - Creating AddOns for PaaS CMS
- Anil Patel, Knight Frank - Azure AI Speech Integration with Optimizely CMS
- Tom Bramley, Optimizely - Opal in Commerce Connect (previously known as Customized Commerce) and other latest updates
- Dom Sipowicz, Vercel - Implementing Optimizely flags through Vercel
Denmark - Nov 21
Agenda:
- 16:30 Doors open & registration
- 17:00 Welcome and intro by Valtech
- 17:15 Opticon 24' summary - latest and greatest news (Hristo Bakalov, Optimizely)
- 18:00 From Query to Content: GraphQL for Optimizely CMS in .NET Core (Allan Thraen, CodeArt)
- 18:40 Pizza break
- 19:00 TBD - Upgrades in the world of CMS 12 (Jacob Jones, Valtech)
- 20:00 Mingling and drinks
- 21:00 Doors close.