I’m really looking forward to SUGCON 2023 in Malaga in a couple of days time and have decided I’d take an more in-depth look at the conference sessions.
At previous SUGCON’s I’ve generally planned the talks I want to go to on the plane flight over, so this time I thought I’d try and do so up-front and share my thoughts on why.
Bear in mind that I’m a Sitecore Developer and Consultant so I naturally lean towards more technical tracks. You can find the full agenda here and you can read more about the sessions here.
Thursday
After the Opening Keynote by Steve Tzikakis and Dave O’Flanagan and the other initial sessions we need to decide on which of the parallel talks to attend. As usual there are a few clashes here, but these are my selections for the rest of the day:
| Selected Talk Title | Rationale | Notable Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| 3:10 pm – 3:55 pm Martin Miles Accelerate website builds with Headless SXA and XM Cloud |
Martin has been Blogging a lot on XM Cloud over the past year and has a lot of Knowledge to share so I’m really keen to learn more about how to build headless websites with Headless SXA and XM Cloud and what Martin has learned from doing so. | Andy Cohen Innovations in Deploy |
| 4:40 pm – 5:25 pm Jason Wilkerson SXA MVC & Headless SXA – a MOVING tale… |
Jason is always a really engaging speaker and I’m intrigued to know more about transitioning MVC-based SXA sites to a headless implementation of SXA. | Thomas Stern Hacking Sitecore |
| 5:30 pm – 6:15 pm Rick Bauer Richard Seal XM Cloud and Content Hub ONE Battle Royale |
This sounds like and interesting session and having learnt a fair bit about XMCloud recently I’d like to know more about Content Hub ONE and how it compares. | Vasiliy Fomichev Crafting rock-solid secure composable Sitecore SaaS-based applications |
Friday
There is an Content Hub ONE – Insights session to start the day but these are my choices for the rest of it. The first talk selection was a tough one!:
| Selected Talk Title | Rationale | Notable Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| 9:50 am – 10:35 am Rob Habraken Migrating advanced Sitecore implementations to XM Cloud |
I feel this is a must-attend session for any Sitecore developer who might be working on projects that plan to move to XMCloud from XP/XM. | Kiran Patil Sheetal Jain Upgrade path for a Monolithic Developer to a Composable Developer |
| 11:15 am – 12:00 pm Mike Edwards Rendering your data in headless – 101 different ways |
Mike will no doubt have a lot of knowledge to share on Headless so I’m interested to learn more about the different rendering patterns and pros and cons of each approach. | Bart Plasmeijer Keep the door open when transforming from Sitecore XM to composable DXP using XM Cloud! |
| 12:10 pm – 12:25 pm Chris Sulham Grappling with the Many Heads of Headless |
I’m interested to hear more about the considerations for headless and benefits and drawbacks to each. | Mark Lowe A Road Trip to Composable Canyon |
| 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Sarah O’Reilly Leverage Sitecore Connect for Sitecore CDP |
I don’t know very much about Sitecore Connect yet (other than that it’s based on Workato) so I’m keen to learn more about it and how it works. | Himadri Chakrabarti What is Flexibility Over Features Philosophy in Sitecore OrderCloud Architecture |
| 12:50 pm – 1:05 pm Kingsley Hibbert Mathew Evans DevOps Composability in a Composable World |
This session sounds very informative and not something I’ve really considered too much. | Nicky Vadera Using External Components in Content Hub 4.2 |
| 2:20 pm – 3:05 pm Ramkumar Dhinakaran Elakkuvan Rajamani Leveraging XM Cloud APIs and Webhooks to powerup integrations |
Webhooks are a new feature in XMCloud and Sitecore 10.3 so it will be cool to see some examples of these in action. | Daniela Militaru Katharina Luger Women in Sitecore Roundtable |
| 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm Sebastian Winslow Jesper Balle Sitecore Search: Real case PoC |
Search is tricky in a Headless world so I’m looking forward to learning about potential solutions and approaches to different search. | Sebastian Winter Sitecore Components in Action |
Hope everyone who’s going enjoys SUGCON and hopefully I’ll see some of you there.