CloudFest 2026: The real changes are bigger than they appear

The conversations shaping the future of the web are shifting.

At CloudFest last month in Germany, with its sheer scale, that shift became easier to see. Two topics stood out across almost every conversation: AI and digital sovereignty.

AI is no longer discussed as experimentation. It is shaping expectations, roadmaps, and investment decisions. At the same time, digital sovereignty is moving from policy discussions into practical concerns about dependency, control, and local alternatives.

This is where attention is, and where budget is flowing.

Yet something more fundamental is emerging. The real change is structural. It is about who controls the systems we depend on, how ecosystems are governed, and where value is created. In open source, initiatives like FAIR point to new ways of organising shared responsibility, and new ways to create and capture value within the ecosystem.

CloudFest was new to me this year, and hard to ignore. The conference takes over an entire theme park

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With Kentico Kontent it’s goodbye to legacy CMS

It’s not so long ago that content management systems were something you installed on your own servers and then replatformed every couple of years. At the same time most content teams either struggled to catch up or complained about how the system was holding them back. Either way, content was usually created somewhere other than in the actual CMS. 

Today the vendor marketplace is crowded with new options that almost makes the old way of doing CMS look medieval. Innovative tools are driving new ways to communicate, new ways to collaborate and a strengthened focus on content as a strategic asset. 

Building on 20 years experience as a CMS vendor, Kentico Kontent aims to address the shortcomings of the old approach by moving to content as a service and enabling increased flexibility in terms of creating your own content stack. 

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