Maybe there was a fly in the AI, but the first day of the Boye & Company CMS Connect 2026 conference was anything but buggy.

I had the honor of kicking off the third annual edition of our summer event in the ever-charming foothills of Montreal, where I shared some of the patterns surfacing in my coverage on CMS Critic.

Jeff Goldblum’s classic sci-fi film “The Fly” served as my thematic backdrop, reflecting the unforeseen consequences as agentic AI mutates everything. But that was just the beginning, and this assemblage of digital explorers was treated to some powerful presentations throughout the day.