CMS Experts
A forum where CMS analysts, thinkers, practitioners, experts and vendors can meet, set the agenda for future industry developments, provide feedback and share thoughts and ideas in an inspiring setting.
As a member, you can pick and choose which meetings to attend. We meet 4 times a year in the US, and 4 times in Europe.
Meetings are held in English and Janus Boye provides meeting notes from each meeting as well as an online forum for members to continue the conversations in between the meetings.
There are expert guest speakers at most meetings to provide further input to the group. Guest speakers could be relevant customer cases, analysts or industry standard organisations.
Each meeting will result in a public document as a statement from the group intended to stir public discussion and further advance the field.
Past meetings
This group goes back over a decade and we’ve experienced quite a few highlights during the years. Find more on the page with the CMS Expert group history.
Upcoming meetings
European community:
May 22 - 23 in Berlin hosted by Magnolia
June 6 in Leeds hosted by idhl
July 4 in Opatija (co-located with Web Summer Camp)
August 27 in Utrecht
September 27 on Mallorca (co-located with CMScamp Mallorca)
November in Aarhus (co-located with Boye Aarhus 24 conference)
February 2025 in London
North American community:
May 7 - 8 at Yext in NYC
June 17 - 18 in Detroit hosted by Jennifer Snyder at the Detroit Institute of Arts
July 8 in San Francisco
August 6 - 7 in Montreal (co-located with the CMS Connect 24 conference)
September 10 - 11 in Boston hosted by Stellar Elements
October in Sacramento
November in Toronto
January 14 - 15, 2025 in the Tampa Bay Area, FL (co-located with the CMS Kickoff 25 conference)
Don’t take our word for it
“As usual, great sessions and learnings. Thank you Janus Boye and the cmsexpert community. This is a great forum to stay up-to-date on the industry and building the peer network.“
- Makram Mansour, Group Product Manager at Intuit
Members
Among the group members are leading vendors, agencies and also practitioners.
Check the current CMS Expert member listing.
Topics covered
CMS topics such as usability, headless, content operations, standards, performance, implementations and technology are the main themes for the group. Topics that impact the adoption of content management in the broader marketplace, such as mobile, social and other key trends are also covered.
Don’t see the topic(s) you’re interested in? Try the group and raise your topic(s) with them.
Member profile
If you have several years of experience, a broad range of knowledge and your working day is dedicated to one or more content management systems, e.g. as Product Manager, CTO or Content Manager, then you have the ideal profile. Each group is limited to 20 members. Seats are reserved for a mixture of vendors; large, complex and global buyers as well as analysts to achieve the right composition.
New members are carefully vetted to ensure the right composition.
Sharing is caring
Here’s some posts based on our meetings:
Casper from Valtech
Deane Barker from Optimizely:
Janus Boye:
Mark Demeny:
Mike Wills at BlueModus
Petr Palas at Kentico
Seth Gottlieb at Aberdeen
Tobi Stadelmeier from CoreMedia
Don’t take our word for it
Jeff Cram calls this group an advisory board of smart friends and Deane Barker mentioned the below in a LinkedIn post in August 2023:
“I've been a member and a huge fan of the Boye & Company CMS Experts group for about 10 years now.
This is a small community of CMS professionals -- vendors, consultants, and expert users -- that meet face-to-face three times a year (for each geographic region), with about a dozen virtual calls/meetings in-between. We get together for a day just to talk about the industry -- what are we seeing, what are people talking about, how do we need to change, etc.”
Benefits, price and request to join
1 year membership at EUR 2350 / USD 2495
Access to all in person meetings for a year. Bring your thorny content management issues and get valuable insights
Join any meeting you would like and bring up to two colleagues
Access to #cms-experts on Slack
A 1-day conference ticket to one of our annual conferences (CMS Connect, CMS Kickoff or Aarhus)
Discounted member’s rate on our conferences