I'm Bluffing

In a little under a month, we will be heading back out towards the yearly Sitecore Symposium. When you explore the online agenda for the Symposium, it can be somewhat overwhelming to look into the 120 (!) different sessions and decide on which one offer the most value or novelty information. Since everyone who attends the Symposium has a slightly different focus, it would be an absurd claim to provide you with an ideal guide into the different tracks as a whole. All speakers and sessions have been meticulously chosen and offer great quality and expertise in their own domain. Sitecore has been hard at work in a number of products and technology choices: Handling larger volumes and scaling your different environments for bigger load Sitecore Commerce with enhanced performance, tooling and stability (and B2B?) Sitecore 9.3 release with the all-new Horizon interface that will be revealed Assist and accelerate your website development through tools such as SXA and JSS Stru...

The Sitecore Symposium Party in the Maritime museum of Barcelona, combined with some recaps and brainstorms on the sessions of the first day after a few drinks, made us enter the second session-filled Symposium day with too little sleep. The same seemed true for the bulk of the audience that trickled into the various interesting sessions this second day had to offer. This second day had to become a mix for me where I could follow up on the sessions as well as getting through 8 more Partner booths to make sure I captured all information and contacts that were available there too. Since I want to cover the Partner information in seperate posts, I'll skip this and might have some holes in my timeline and continuity. Let's do this: Product track -  Developers aren't marketers, but can we coexist   A good track to open with since it helps spot one of the tricky parts of developing a full-fledged CXP implemented website presented by Mike Edwards and Mike Shaw. ...

Now that the Sitecore Symposium in Barcelona is behind us, I finally find the time to reflect on everything that was transferred and imprinted into our mind there.  The two main days of the Symposium were on Tuesday and Wednesday, the two days were a good mix between Business, Product and Developer tracks were given. All of these fueled by inspiring keynotes from Michael Seifert, Dietmar Dahmen and XX This first post is mainly meant to give an insight on what tracks I followed the first day and to provide a short summary of the other important sessions that came along. Followup posts will elaborate in more detail on specific topics that were presented on the Symposium. Putting day 1 and day 2 into one blog post would not do the Symposium honor. Each of the presentations given there were lengthy, relevant and important. Enjoy the first day below as I experienced it. Let's kick it off with the first day: Opening keynote from Michael Seifert (Sitecore CEO) The ...