CMS Kickoff 27
As Nicole Rogers wrote: Just a few faces at the CMSKickoff 26 event in St. Pete 🌴 Great sessions and an amazing community!
Join ud for the 5th annual CMS Kickoff on January 19 - 20, 2027
We will return to St. Pete, Florida
Save the dates!
Why sign up?
To quote Michael Spenceley at J&J who attended the 2026 conference:
Had a great time at CMS Kickoff 26 in St. Pete this week. The content management landscape is evolving so quickly. Always great to hear perspectives from across the industry
Here’s a few blog posts and useful summaries from the 2026 conference:
Cruce Sanders from Aramai on reimagining from first principals how content is generated and managed
Daria Kolchina from First Line Software on the AI boom and what it takes for AI to deliver results
Kendall Litton from TYPO3 highlighting their new feature for editors which was shown live for the very first time in North America
Lukas Martinak from Kontent.ai on customer success and community over competition and another post on Stop Designing UIs for Tasks That Shouldn’t Exist: The Future of Content Management Is Agentic
Speakers at CMS Kickoff 27
Speakers will be announced soon.
What is the CMS Kickoff?
In brief: CMS Kickoff 27 is Boye & Co’s annual gathering of the global CMS and digital experience community — held January 19–20, 2027.
It’s where digital leaders, partners, and practitioners connect, share real-world insights, and explore what’s next in content and experience platforms.
An optimistic event built around people and conversations — where you’ll meet the people you don’t know you need to meet.
For some more background: The event is curated and designed in close collaboration with our CMS Experts community. We started with CMS Kickoff 23, which was quite well received as a vendor-neutral place for the industry to meet across customers, vendors, agencies and analysts.
We made it bigger and importantly better at CMS Kickoff 24. For CMS Kickoff 25 we moved from the beach venue to the museum in St. Pete and that’s also where CMS Kickoff 26 was held.
Conference partners
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Venue
Once again we will be at the The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art in downtown St. Pete. It is an ideal setting for a conference like ours with its spectacular modern and historic works of art that evoke the spirit of a wide-open frontier and the beauty of life in the American West.
For accommodation, St. Pete has many hotels in all budget ranges within walking distance.
And how to get there: Tampa International Airport is about 30 minutes drive away.