CMS Connect 24: Conference Program

Held in Montreal on August 6 - 7

The conference is tailored for everyone working with content management systems, from beginners to experts, and features 2 packed days with a carefully curated mixture of talks, workshops, activities and world class facilitators, thought-provokers, speakers and session leads.

Below you’ll find the program as it stands right now. We like to keep things flexible and are always working to curate the best experience, so changes might happen.

Program

Tuesday, August 6

8:30 - 9:30: Breakfast and registration

9:30 - 9:45: Welcome & Opening

by our moderator Janus Boye, Boye & Co

In this opening session, Matt Garrepy from CMS Critic will lead a conversation with Dries on the big topics facing the industry right now.

Dries is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Dries serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish.

He is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal.

Well-defined digital standards can impact more than just the way websites are built. At McGill University they are a cornerstone of our digital governance framework, a key reference guiding departmental web strategies and cross-departmental collaborations, and an established mindset by which members of our community - leaders, web managers and site visitors - share a common understanding of what makes an exemplary website.

This presentation will discuss our experiences building a digital standards community of practice at McGill and consider takeaways and lessons learned. We’ll cover:

• How we work with departments and stakeholders across our university to continually evolve our digital standards

• Details about supporting education and outreach initiatives that help us secure buy-in

• Tips for ongoing evaluation and our plans for taking our digital standards to the next level.

10.50 - 11:10 Coffee & networking

Join this session to hear about an un-obvious gap that exists in many headless environments. Seb will share work they’ve done at TELUS to add better observability to Contentful, specifically they needed help with understanding content performance - where content is used and how often - and also better tracking down of incidents and mistakes more easily.

In addition, they’ve also worked to give teams a better idea of what content their apps consume, and who else they are sharing content with.

As Seb says: This gap exists in headless environments but may be worse at enterprise scale, so join the conversation and bring home valuable insights to improve your content performance.

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12:30 - 1.30 Lunch

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2.30 - 3.00 Coffee & networking

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4.30 - 5.00 Coffee & networking

5.00 - 6.00 CMS Idol Summer 2024 Edition

Help crown the next “2024 CMS Idol”! In this fast-paced, entertaining competition, contestants will have 6 minutes to showcase their system and try to win your vote.

If you like short demos, pithy commentary, and expert analyses, then look no further. This is the session for you. You'll hear thoughts from an expert panel of judges, but it's up to you to decide the winner.

Contestants:

• Fastr

6.30 - 10:00 Social event

Everyone is invited to join us for an informal dinner.

We’ll also announce the CMS Idol winner and even do a CMS Experts Quiz!

Wednesday, August 7

7:00 Morning Run

We meet in front of the venue for a relaxed 25 minute run

8:30 - 9:30 Breakfast and networking

9:30 - 9.35: Welcome by Janus Boye

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10.50 - 11.10 Coffee & networking

Join this session to hear the behind the scenes journey of quebec.ca, a high-traffic website generating nearly 200 million page views annually, and its management by a dedicated small team.

Learn about the importance of acknowledging and correcting mistakes made during the project as we’ll cover the origins, growth, challenges and achievements of this project, including:

• An introduction to Quebec.ca, including its purpose and significance as a high-traffic website.

• The objectives behind Quebec.ca's establishment and the challenges it was designed to address, such as providing accessible information to citizens.

• The rationale behind the selection of TYPO3 as the CMS, in light of initial obstacles.

• An explanation of the strategy of initiating the project with a limited feature set.

• The significance of frequent updates and platform enrichment.

• Illustrative examples of features and improvements implemented over time.

• An overview of the team's growth process.

• Key lessons learned from the project and future prospects.

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12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

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2.30 - 3:00 Goodbyes and see you next year!

An interactive wrap-up of the two days. Key lessons learned, big questions and what happens next