Open Source CMS 27 conference

 

The inaugural open source CMS 26 conference joined by Karim from Crowd Favorite, an enterprise WordPress agency, alongside Daniel Fau from TYPO3

Open Source CMS returns on October 5-6, 2027, once again in Utrecht, Netherlands.

The first edition in 2026 brought together eight open source CMS projects, agencies and practitioners for two days of keynotes, live demos and roundtables, and resulted in the Utrecht Statement.

In 2027, we continue the conversation. Expect honest case studies, open discussions across projects and plenty of time to talk with peers who face the same challenges you do. No sales pitches, just people helping one another make progress.

Looking back on the first edition, Florian Keitgen from b13: “For us at b13, the connections between these people are the most important outcome of this first conference.”

While Terry Duivesteijn from S2 hub put it simply: “Interesting to see how other communities are working on the same issues.”

Speakers

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What is the Open Source CMS conference?

From the roundtable on content engineering towards better GEO led by Rafaela Ellensburg

It's what's been missing for the open source CMS community — an international gathering bringing together digital leaders to tackle the challenges shaping open source CMS today and in the years ahead.

Expect friendly mix of vendors, agencies, analysts and customers from Europe and North America 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 joined us last year?

At Open Source CMS 26, practitioners from Albert Heijn, Europol and ICANN met with open source projects and platform companies including Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, Umbraco, Wagtail and WordPress, as well as hosting providers, agencies and analysts from across the wider ecosystem.

Conference partners

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Venue

The 2027 venue in Utrecht will be disclosed later.

 
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FAQ

  • Open Source CMS is a two-day, in-person, vendor-neutral conference for the open source CMS community. It brings together the people behind projects like Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, Wagtail and WordPress, along with agencies, hosting providers and the organisations that run on open source, to talk openly about shared challenges such as security, funding, documentation and AI.

  • Open Source CMS is for people who lead, build or depend on open source CMS: project leads and core contributors, agency owners and technical leads, hosting and infrastructure providers, and digital leaders at organisations running their websites on open source.

  • No. Most CMS events focus on a single project. Open Source CMS is deliberately vendor-neutral and cross-project, so you can compare how different communities approach the same problems and learn from each other instead of reinventing the wheel.

  • There are no product pitches. Alongside keynotes and live demos, much of the time is spent in roundtables and small-group discussions, where people from different projects and companies compare notes on real problems and leave with practical ideas and new contacts.

  • Yes. Agencies, hosting providers and technology vendors are part of the open source CMS ecosystem and are welcome to join. The focus stays on learning and collaboration, not selling.

If you still have some questions left, please contact us here.