I have attended 2 Sitecore Symposiums so far – in 2014 in Barcelona, Spain and last year in Las Vegas, US. I was always preparing list of sessions that I would like to attend. I have decided to share it this year.
Here is my take for this year’s Sitecore Symposium (colorful Excel spreadsheet and exported image are located below table):
| Day | Time | Prio | Session Title | Presenter(s) | Location |
| D1 | 5:30 – 7:30 | Sitecore Symposium welcome reception | TBD | ||
| D2 | 8:00 – 10:45 | Keynotes | TBD | ||
| 11:45 – 12:30 | 1 | Seven common commerce customizations | Rob Earlam | Swan, Mockingbird 1-2 | |
| 2 | Sitecore 9.1 overview | Gabe Aguilo, Mark Groves | Swan 7-10 | ||
| 3 | The Cortex engine: Process at scale | Alistair Deneys | Swan 3-4 | ||
| 12:45 – 1:30 | 1 | Sitecore and GDPR: All your personal data belong to you | Martina Welander | Swan 3-4 | |
| 2 | Continuous delivery by design in Azure PaaS – Promoting code & content flexibly and safe with feature toggles and deployment slots | Bart Plasmeijer | Swan 1-2 | ||
| 2:45 – 3:30 | 1 | Need help deciding which sessions to attend at the Symposium? Ask our session recommendation engine | Varun Nehra, Dmytro Shevchenko | Swan 4 | |
| 2 | Where machine learning meets social #ThinkYouKnowMe | Una Verhoeven | Swan, Mockingbird | ||
| 3 | World’s fastest fully automated continuous delivery pipeline for Sitecore on Azure – how Achmea optimized its development and deployment workflow | Bas Lijten | Swan 2 | ||
| 4:15 – 5:00 | 1 | Inside Cortex | Colin te Kempel | Swan 10 | |
| 2 | Measure, if you want to go faster | Jeremy Davis | Swan 2 | ||
| 3 | Take your Sitecore project to the next level With Nodejs | Anastasiya Flynn | Swan 4 | ||
| D3 | 8:00 – 8:45 | 1 | .Net Core and 9.1 architecture | Kern Nerskind Nightingale, Stephen Pope | Swan 7-10 |
| 2 | Helix and JavaScript Services (JSS) | Jeff L’Heureux | Swan 3-4 | ||
| 3 | The Sitecore developer story | Pieter Brinkman, Nick Wesselman | Swan 1-2 | ||
| 10:00 – 10:45 | 1 | Beyond the SXA toolbox | Adam Najmanowicz, Mark van Aalst | Swan 10 | |
| 2 | How to create customer loyalty programs using Sitecore Experience Commerce and Email Experience Manager | Kamruz Jaman, Akshay Sura | Dolphin, Northern A2 | ||
| 3 | Extending Sitecore Experience Commerce with plugins | Kelly Brennan | Swan, Mockingbird | ||
| 11:45 – 12:30 | 1 | JSS in powerful ways | Kam Figy, Adam Weber | Swan 10 | |
| 2 | Omnichannel retail: personal and contextual experiences! | Ishraq Al Fataftah | Swan, Mockingbird | ||
| 3 | Rethinking personalization after GDPR | Eric Stoll, Margaret Wise | Swan 5 | ||
| 2:00 – 2:45 | 1 | Scaling Sitecore 9.0 for the Superbowl | Matthew Shooshtari, Srikanth Kondapally | Swan 1-2 | |
| 2 | Experience the development workflow of your dreams with modern JavaScript and Sitecore JSS | Alex Shyba | Swan 10 | ||
| 3:00 – 3:45 | 1 | How to approach application development with Sitecore | Sheetal Jain, Arturo Mendiola | Swan 3-4 | |
| 2 | Deploy Sitecore with zero downtime | Bill Cacy, Patrick Perrone | Swan 1-2 | ||
| 3 | Driving an immersive customer experience with Sitecore Experience Commerce + IoT | Richard Seal, Jason Wilkerson | Dolphin, Southern 1 | ||
| D4 | 9:30 – 10:15 | 1 | Accelerate everything | Sebastian Winter | Swan, Mockingbird 1-2 |
| 2 | 10x your Sitecore development | Mark Cassidy | Dolphin, Northern A1 | ||
| 3 | Who watches the watchers? | Jason St-Cyr | Swan 4 | ||
| 10:30 – 11:15 | 1 | Faster, faster, faster! A Helix approach to DevOps in the light of the Sitecore micro-service architecture | Thomas Eldblom | Swan 7-10 | |
| 2 | Creating a commerce feature: A technical walkthrough | Dan Solovay | Swan, Mockingbird 1-2 | ||
| 3 | How to go faster: When Sitecore squadrons feel the need for speed | Adam Simmonds | TBD | ||
| 4 | Containing and orchestrating Sitecore | Raul Jimenez | Swan 1-2 | ||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Closing Keynote | Ryan Donovan | TBD |
You can download this list as colorful Excel spreadsheet and you can reuse it and do your own modifications:
Sitecore Symposium 2018 – Sessions suitable for Sitecore Developers
Here is exported:
You can also use this json to create your own app as Coveo did with there great Symposium Search app:
https://sitecore-symposium.coveo.com/search/#sort=relevancy
Looking forward seeing and meeting you there 🙂
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