CMS Connect 26
Join us in Montreal!
Our 3rd annual summer edition of the international conference dedicated to the global content management community will take place on August 4-5 2026!
What can you expect? To quote Florian Keitgen from B13 who joined us all the way from Stuttgart, Germany in 20255:
“CMS Connect 25 offered a refreshing change of perspective. Rather than buzzword fireworks, there were many honest conversations about the benefits, risks and real-world use cases of AI. AI is not 'the future' — it's already a tool in the toolbox, alongside great UX, clean code and well-structured content.”
Read more in his recap: AI Is Here – As a Tool, Not a Promise of Salvation.
From 2025’s conference opening with Cathy McKnight and Matt Garrepy
World-class speakers
We will announce the initial line-up of speakers shortly.
Interested in becoming a conference speaker? We still have a few openings. Fill out this brief form to start the conversation.
What is CMS Connect?
Don’t take our word for it
“great to hear from iconic leaders in the content management system industry” - Joyce Peralta, Manager Digital Communications at McGill after attending CMS Connect 24
Based on popular request from our community, we launched CMS Connect 24 last year as a North American summer edition of our conference series, and followed with a CMS Connect 25 edition.
As a recap, Mark Garrepy from CMS Critic wrote about the heart of content, open source, pragmatic AI, IA and more.
Good times on the boat trip at CMS Connect 24 with Gavin Colborne, Janus Boye, Joyce Peralta and Anders Hansen.
The sessions are without the usual sales and marketing pitches. There’s also plenty of time for conversations, so that you can bring actionable insights back to your desk and your projects.
It is an international conference with confirmed participants from Europe and North America. A friendly mix of vendors, agencies, analysts and customers who get together to learn, network and talk about what really matters when it comes to creating better digital experiences right now and for the foreseeable future.
Who’s joining us?
At the conference we’ve previously had the pleasure of learning from practitioners from ICANN, McGill, Minto, Novartis, TELUS and several others.
Among the vendors and open source projects who has previously attended are ai12z, Agility, ButterCMS, Claris AI, Conscia, Contentstack, HCL, Jahia, Kentico, Kajoo.ai, Kontent.ai, Magnolia, Pantheon, SearchStax, Shopify, SimpliCity, Squiz, Staffbase, TinyMCE, Umbraco and Uniform. As you can see, it’s not just the usual CMS vendors, but also from the larger ecosystem.
On the agency and consulting side 9thCO, B13, Bixal, BizStream, Blend Interactive, Crowd Favorite, dotfusion, Evolving Web, Inorbital, Kingsway Digital, Konabos, Leadpulse, MNP, Toumoro, Valtech and Verndale has been part of our first two editions.
Conference partners
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