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Calling all developers and technologists - Let's get together! Enjoy a night full of networking, great content/speakers, food, and beverages. Take a look to see when we'll be visiting a city near you and register today! We look forward to meeting up with you soon!

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London UK - July 10, 2025 @ 6pm

Venue: Worship Street, 25 Worship Street, London EC2A 2DX

Agenda:
- Andrew Markham (UNRVLD): Introduction to the new Opti Connect Platform
- Minesh Shah (NETCEL): Frontend Hosting With Optimizely
- Tom Bramley (Optimizely): Content Manager, AI translations, Opal and CMS 13
- Scott Reed (NITECO): Application Insights, Refining Data and View Logs
- Jacob Pretorius (NITECO): Edge Logs
- Daniel Halse CMS12 (NETCEL): Graph Integration with Configured Commerce

*Food and Drinks will be provided. Timing to be updated soon.

More meetups in your area coming soon!

Past Events (2025)

Manchester UK - Jan 23, 2025

Venue: Everyman Cinema, ABC Building, Quay Street, Manchester
Organized by 26 and Valtech

Agenda:
17:15 Doors open
18:00 Mark Everard - Making the Most of Visual Builder
18:30 Anil Patel - Azure Business Communication Services integration with Optimizely Forms
19:00 Food
19:30 Andy Blyth – Overcoming Fragment Limits in GraphQL
20:00 Simon Chapman - Optimizely Roadmap Update
20:30 Drinks & Networking

Full agenda TBC

London UK - May 21, 2025

Venue: The Silver Vaults, Chancery House, 53-64 Chancery Ln, WC2A 1QS. Hosted by Candyspace & Optimizely

Agenda:
18:00 Doors open
18:30 Craig Wheatley (Candyspace) - Working with SaaS CMS
18:50 Andy Markham (UNRVLD) - An Introduction to Optimizely DAM
19:10 Food, provided by Chop & Chip Co.
19:50 Mark Everard (First Three Things) & Janaka Fernando (Altudo)
20:10 Simon Chapman - Optimizely Roadmap
20:30 Drinks & Networking

Past Events (2024)

Manchester UK - Jan 11

Organized by 26 and Kin + Carta

Speakers/Topics:

  • Anil Patel, Knight Frank - Azure AI Language: Text Analytics Integration with Optimizely CMS
  • Jacob Pretorius, dotcentric - Introduction to Headless/Graph/SaaS and why we're excited
  • Simon Chapman, Optimizely - Update on Optimizely roadmap and the latest updates on SaaS
  • Andrew Markham, Unrvld - Web and Feature Experimentation: Getting started

Copenhagen - Jan 30

Partnered with DEPT®

Speakers/Topics:

  • Simon Chapman, Optimizely - The future of Optimizely
  • Allan Thraen, CodeArt - Initial impressions of SaaS Core CMS and Optimizely Graph
  • Chris Eccles, DEPT® - Lets Talk About Optimizely Decoupled Architecture
  • Alex Boesen & Denis Jensen, Sampension - How to go live with Optimizely CMS 12 in 4 months

Stockholm - Mar 11

Speakers/Topics:

  • Simon Chapman, Optimizely - Future of Optimizely
  • Jonas Bergqvist, Optimizely - SaaS CMS
  • Luc Gosso, OMVP and Senior Web Developer at Epicweb - The AI Assistant addon
  • Johan Kronberg, OMVP Tietoevry Create - Improving performance in DXP apps

Helsinki - Mar 13

Partnered with Knowit

Speakers/Topics:

  • Simon Chapman, Optimizely - Future of Optimizely
  • Martin Ottosen, Optimizely - SaaS CMS
  • Kenneth Krohn, Knowit - Learnings from migrating to CMS 12

Virtual - Apr 18

Organized by Dxred Technologies

Speakers/Topics:

  • Yagnik Jadav, OMVP - Optimizely CMS Integration with Hot Chocolate - ChilliCream GraphQL

London - Jul 11

Organized by Niteco and Netcel

Speakers/Topics:

  • Scott Reed, Niteco and Jacob Pretorius - Tips and Tricks for CMS12/Commerce 14 Upgrades
  • Cindy Gilbertson, Optimizely - Get started with Visual Builder
  • Minesh Shah, Netcel - Guide to SaaS CMS and Hybrid Headless
  • Mark Stott, Netcel - Creating AddOns for PaaS CMS
  • Anil Patel, Knight Frank - Azure AI Speech Integration with Optimizely CMS
  • Tom Bramley, Optimizely - Opal in Commerce Connect (previously known as Customized Commerce) and other latest updates
  • Dom Sipowicz, Vercel - Implementing Optimizely flags through Vercel

Denmark - Nov 21

Agenda:

  • 16:30 Doors open & registration
  • 17:00 Welcome and intro by Valtech
  • 17:15 Opticon 24' summary - latest and greatest news (Hristo Bakalov, Optimizely)
  • 18:00 From Query to Content: GraphQL for Optimizely CMS in .NET Core (Allan Thraen, CodeArt)
  • 18:40 Pizza break
  • 19:00 TBD - Upgrades in the world of CMS 12 (Jacob Jones, Valtech)
  • 20:00 Mingling and drinks
  • 21:00 Doors close.

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