Day 2 in London had everything I love: a good walk, great rooms, sharp conversations… and a little bit of storybook serendipity.
There’s something powerful about moving between rooms in the same city on the same day. Different formats. Different tribes. Different vantage points on where digital is heading. And yet, the threads connect.
From intimate roundtables to partner ecosystems to peer conversations over pizza and pub crawls, the contrast sharpened something for me.
Yes, the future is agentic.
The magic is still human.
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In my conversation with Ottawa-based Mark Demeny from Optimizely, the conversation quickly turned to how we can best empower content creators and site builders. There’s still too much thinking required according to Mark and that’s from someone who’s spent his working life since the late ’90s on web systems and digital platforms.
On February 1st, less than 2 months ago, Mark left Contentful and joined Episerver on Feb 1. Just one week later, Episerver renamed to Optimizely and Mark’s responsibility as Director, Product Management turned from Episerver CMS to what is now called the Optimizely Content Cloud.
At Optimizely he is collaborating with many of his former colleagues from his 8 years at Sitecore and on his to-do-list for the coming months is updating the product architecture and integration to the rest of the Optimizely suite. Mark is our expert of the month.
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