Packages are essential to the Umbraco ecosystem and, whilst this might be news to you, everyone can get involved. In this talk, I'll share my recent experiences from package idea to implementation and release: the gotchas that tripped me up and the community stalwarts who helped immensely. Let’s lower the barriers to entry and explore some new ideas and tools that encourage collaboration, prevent duplication and benefit us all.

With Umbraco 12 around the corner, it is time to provide an update on the development of the new headless functionality built directly into Umbraco. The presentation will highlight the early capabilities of our new Delivery API, give an overview of its initial design and share a sneak peek into what to look forward to. This feature will allow developers to use any technology stack for presenting their content while still preserving the friendly editing experience of Umbraco, making it more convenient for users to manage their content.

This talk will be about how to get the best out of using the command line when working with modern Umbraco projects (v10+). You will learn tips and tricks about the command line to make you more productive when building Umbraco websites and packages.

In this talk, I will briefly explain the different types of APIs and then chat through what we can do to make APIs we build as friendly as possible to not only us developers but to the wider business stakeholders. Suitable for all audience types: developers, testers, designers, project managers... all welcome and hopefully will leave with an ambition to make APIs friendly!

Umbraco has always been flexible – but now with true cross-platform support in Umbraco 10 it’s potential has been unchained! Let’s explore everything from the practical to the absolutely mind-blowing ways you can run Umbraco anywhere!

Developers are lazy. If you do the same thing more than a handful of times, it makes sense to automate it so you don't have to do it again, right? Right! In this talk, I will cover how Github actions offer a super-simple, open, extensible, repeatable way of managing your libraries, packages and sites a breeze. So much so that you'll wonder how you ever managed without it!".

Coming up with an image for an article can be tiresome. You've used every free image available and don't have the time to create one from scratch. But what if AI could help you do this from within the Umbraco back-office? Would you want it to? This talk will take a journey from my initial spark of an idea - using AI to generate a media image from Umbraco content. You'll witness me try to make this come to fruition, and meander through my internal conflicts as I consider whether the images I have made are art, or really ""mine"", and the ethics around doing this sort of thing.

We will look at the decision-making process and how to avoid common pratfalls that can dog your project by making the wrong decision. We will focus on how developers and project owners can contribute to making the best decision.

In this talk, we will explore making the Umbraco back office accessible by further dissecting the lessons taken from the cluster and reiterating the importance of creating these features that will allow us to elevate our platforms’ accessibility. We will also examine the current Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) and see how we can come together as a community to make a meaningful and impactful difference to the web and our users.

With the Umbraco v7 fast approaching its End of Life (September 2023), it is time to move your Umbraco v7 projects to the latest version of Umbraco v11. How could you do your upgrades so that you could start benefiting from all of the performance and security improvements of .NET 7 and Umbraco v11, as well as the new features? In my talk, I'll briefly explain why the Umbraco upgrades are necessary and then give the details for the exact steps to do the Umbraco upgrades. Finally, I'll also share some details to help plan future upgrades.

I will cover all things debugging-related. From basic debugging concepts to debugging complex applications before moving into some of the tricky debugging scenarios such as remote debugging production servers. A talk for those new to programming all the way up to experienced developers.