Friday 7 March 2025 9am

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IGNITE YOUR DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY:

UMBRACO SPARK V CONFERENCE 2025 - UNVEILING THE FUTURE OF UMBRACO

The Umbraco Spark Innovation Conference will be back on Friday 7th March 2025. Umbraco Spark focuses on technical, innovation and developer-focused topics and is dedicated to bringing together developers for a day of learning and inspiration. Our conference is where innovation meets expertise, and where the future of this dynamic platform is revealed and needs to be on every Umbraco developer’s radar. 

Fri 7 Mar 25 9am

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WHAT.

The ultimate rendezvous for every dedicated Umbraco developer! Following the resounding success of the last 4 years, Umbraco Spark will be back on 7th March 2025. The conference will feature one main track containing in-depth technical talks to lightning talks from a line up of expert speakers sharing their knowledge and experience on the latest trends and innovations using Umbraco. Attendees will hear from Umbraco HQ as well as key developers and MVPs from the wider Umbraco community. Alongside the main track, an extended hackathon will take place where attendees involved in the Umbraco Package jam on Thursday 6th March can finish up their package ready to bring it to the all-new Sparkies Awards at the end of the conference.

Thinking about submitting a talk? Find out more here

Our 2025 line up is currently being curated, keep checking back here as we'll share speakers as soon as they've been announced: 

Why. What's in it for you?

  • Innovative and inspiring top-tier talks ranging from in-depth technical talks to lightning talks
  • The epic Umbraco Spark notebook and Spark t-shirt
  • Lunch to fuel you for the afternoon sessions
  • Unlimited tea, coffee and water
  • NEW: Extended Hackathon & Package Awards
  • Beers at the end of the day with incredible views over Millennium Square, the Harbourside and the Bristol Cathedral
  • After party to get to know all your fellow attendees!

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Where.

We the Curious is centrally located on Bristol’s harbourside and a few minutes walk from the city centre or a 20-minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads train station.

To find out more about getting to We The Curious, visit their directions page.

For any questions about the conference, please email umbracospark@gibedigital.com.

Date
Fri / 7 Mar 25 / 9AM
Name
Umbraco Spark Innovation Conference
Address
We The Curious Bristol, BS1 5DB
Time
9am - 5pm

CALL FOR SPEAKERS

Our call for speakers is now open. The deadline is midnight on 31st January.

This year we will be hosting one main track which will focus on technical, innovation and developer-focused topics. We're looking for in-depth 45-minute talks and will have a slot for some 10-minute lightning talks for quick-fire topics.

To find out more and submit, visit our call for speakers site below.

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SPARK 2024.

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Connect.

Sponsors. Making sparks fly...

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of Umbraco Spark 2025 drop us an email at umbracospark@gibedigital.com to get more information.

Kevlin Henney Kevlin Henney

Sponsor:

Kevlin Henney Thought Provoker

Kevlin is an independent consultant, trainer, speaker and writer. His development interests and work with companies covers programming, practice and people. He has contributed to open- and closed-source codebases, been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). He is co-author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.

Sponsor:

Technical Neglect

Many developers evoke the mischievous spirit and day-to-day burden of technical debt to explain the misfortunes and troubles of their codebase and delivery. While unmanaged technical debt weighs down many codebases and exerts drag on their schedules, it is more often an effect than a cause.

In this talk, we will look at what is and is not meant by technical debt — and other metaphors — with a view to properly attributing the root and recurring cause as technical neglect rather than technical debt. Without seeing technical neglect for what it is, we will continue to misattribute our problems to an effect rather than a cause.
Jacob Overgaard Jacob Overgaard

Sponsor:

Jacob Overgaard CMS Team Lead & Frontend Architect, Umbraco

Shaping the future of development and developer experience for Umbraco products. Balancing best practices while living on the bleeding edge of technology.

Sponsor:

A Dive into Umbraco’s Latest Features and Future Innovations

Join us for a talk about what you can do with the new technologies in Umbraco today, and get a look into the future of what is coming to Umbraco in 2025.

In this talk, we will be diving into the current technologies available today in Umbraco such as Hybrid Cache, API users, and Tiptap. We aim to shine a light on using some of the new features with examples and demos. We will also be talking about the exciting new things coming to Umbraco in 2025 and what that means for you as an Umbraco developer and user.
Nikolaj Geisle Nikolaj Geisle

Sponsor:

Nikolaj Geisle Core team developer, Umbraco

Nikolaj embarked on his journey into the tech world four years ago, swapping a career of flowers for a career of software, his love for nurturing has remained, and he is now a passionate advocate of testing, he brought that passion with him when he joined the Umbraco world a year ago. It can't all be tech though, and when Nikolaj isn't working he's an avid gamer and anime enjoyer, as well as a professional home cook in training.

Sponsor:

A Dive into Umbraco’s Latest Features and Future Innovations

Join us for a talk about what you can do with the new technologies in Umbraco today, and get a look into the future of what is coming to Umbraco in 2025.

In this talk, we will be diving into the current technologies available today in Umbraco such as Hybrid Cache, API users, and Tiptap. We aim to shine a light on using some of the new features with examples and demos. We will also be talking about the exciting new things coming to Umbraco in 2025 and what that means for you as an Umbraco developer and user.