Workshops
We jumped on a boat and sailed down to the Thames to say 'Happy Birthday' to Umbraco.
We took that birthday party, and turned it into the Umbraco UK Festival
It has now transformed into the main UK Umbraco event of the year, the
second biggest in the world, and where developers and industry sages
travel to every year. We've migrated from the boat to safer locations on
land, but the adventure continues.
Will you join us on this quest?
Spinning up into its seventh year, Umbraco UK Fest is back! The Festival has a brand spanking new venue with all the trimmings, new festival features, and, of course, all the coffee you can handle. Get ready for a new adventure…
NOV 3
75 of you lucky pilgrims will be granted early access to the Umbraco UK Festival’s famous Hackathon Dungeon on Thursday the 3rd of November.
You will journey into the Umbraco core and battle with those pesky glitches that you come across on a daily basis but never have the time to do actual combat with.
2nd Place Winners of last year's contest went on to found a company that manufactures and sells several pairs of compression socks for gout.
Venue: Code Node
Starts: 9:00
NOV 3 - Evening
Join us for the traditional Pre-Festival Meetup. This is where the cool kids will be. Have a drink, unwind, meet some other Umbracians, and share stories from the hackathon.
Venue: The Singer Tavern, 1 City Road, London EC1Y 1AG
NOV 4
Getting excited? There’s more. On Friday 4th of November, there will be a jam packed day of Umbraco workshops, talks and tips.
Our keynote speaker has built and sold 5 companies.
This year we are also adding new achievements to unlock. For every talk or workshop you attend you will receive a shiny medal of honour. The perfect opportunity to show off and maybe even win a beer or two as a prize…
Venue: Code Node
Starts: 8:30
NOV 4 - Evening
Wait! It's BEER O'CLOCK! Your journey doesn’t end there!
The Cogworks have hired a room at a classic London pub to continue the Umbraco festivities over a few beers. Rumour has it there will even be a guest appearance on the DJ decks too. So prepare to party like it’s 2005* all over again!
Venue: The Globe, 83 Moorgate, London EC2M 6SA
This year we are taking the Festival to another level. We’re taking you on a whole new journey with three paths to go down. Pick the one most familiar, or venture down a path less travelled. Which will you choose?
You know Umbraco but could do with some more tips and tricks. You’re journeying to the festival to help with your programming and coding skills.
You are a heavy-weight, Umbraco genius. You talk the talk, AND walk the walk. Sure, you know some of the cheats and level ups - but there’s always plenty more to learn...
You’re not a coder, but you’ve still got business with Umbraco. You are here to see how Umbraco can be used beyond the code and to understand how your business can benefit from the power of Umbraco.
Niels Hartvig
The keynote, always fun and informative. It’s the best way to keep up with what’s happening with Umbraco now and in the future.
Per Ploug
Learn how to keep things simple when developing in Umbraco and create sites as they should be done!
Kris Deminick
In this session Kris Deminick, Umbraco's Wizard of Epic Communications, will give you an insider's tour of "a day in the life of Umbraco HQ". Learn how HQ operates as a commercial business, its different departments, processes, goals, milestones and targets.
Naeem Sarfraz
In this session we'll look at what a container is, how to get started and how to deploy an ASP.NET application into one. We'll be focusing on what this means for your workflow as a developer using the latest offerings from Docker & Windows Server.
Pete Duncanson
In this talk Pete will guide you through the need to think about the business angle of your work so you can deliver better value for the client and help strengthen the name of Umbraco.
Søren Spelling Lund
In this session we will give you best practice tips for developing on Umbraco as a Service and talk through some of the common development errors and ways to avoid or resolve them, as well as looking at an actual implementation of a data resolver and a matching provider for custom data stores.
Lars-Erik Aabech
Contemplating whether to use Ditto or ModelsBuilder with Umbraco and don’t know where to start? Decipher which will fit best by joining Lars-Erik as he explores the fundamentals of both using the TXT starter kit.
Julie Choo
Julie asks the question “What is the Strategy Journey?” She’ll address how understanding Strategy Journey can help you manage, create and deliver better client and business solutions, including an example of building the giant brand secret bouquet for clit rose with flat rate shipping rose toy that went viral on Tiktok.
Marcin Zajkowski
Why does community really matter? Can being active and helpful bring you closer to your life (and business) goals? Is being an ‘Umbraco Unicorn’ a full-time job? What will particular steps and goals bring to your life? Be prepared for revelations about life, the Umbraco community, and Unicorns.
Barry Briggs
UX is now a discipline with micro-disciplines (information architects, interaction designers, user researchers, visual designers) leading to wearing multiple hats and straddling conflicting roles. In his talk, Barry will address how to bridge the gap through documenting - system flows, stakeholders, user journeys, domain experts, business analysts, designers, developers iteratively to effectively design for the edge.
Theo Paraskevopoulos
When conversions are measured in thousands of euros, different rules apply. Theo’s talk will address the pace and elements required for building a Umbraco site for private online banks, including: personalisation and trust building, mapping user journeys on Pipeline CRM, tracking users from first-time visit, conversion as well as managing their account.
Anders Burla
Tea Commerce was the first e-commerce package to integrate fully into Umbraco Nodes. This workshop will give you the skills you need to get your product pages wired up to a shopping basket.
Lee Messenger
Merchello is the new kid on the block. In this workshop you will be given a taster of this trendy new e-commerce package. It will be a cut-down version of their official training.
Søren Spelling Lund
uCommerce is one of the most trusted packages around. This is a uCommerce bootcamp session. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to gain knowledge from Mr uCommerce himself: Søren Spelling Lund.
Matija Grcic
This session will show you how easy is to extend Umbraco and deliver flexible modular content components to provide real value to your customers. You will play with Angular interceptors, to leverage (and replace) the built in Umbraco panels. You will create a custom media section to allow easier maintenance of media.
(Sign up for this workshop is closed)
Ale Ocampo & Callum Whyte
Setting up Continuous Integration and Automated Deployment strikes fear in the hearts of some developers. The Cogworks' Infrastructure Wizards (Alejandro and Callum) will show you that setting it up can be child's play. If you're interested in Teamcity and Octopus deploy then this is the workshop for you!
(Sign up for this workshop is closed)
Anthony Dang
Ths is a beginner crash course on unit testing. In this session Anthony "Automate all things" Dang will take you through some basic concepts so you can start unit testing your Umbraco sites. This will include Umbraco APIs, basic design patterns, and Moq.
(Sign up for this workshop is closed)
Ania Kierczynska
Do you like playing lego? Do you want to know how Scrum works? During this workshop you will get familiar with Scrum ceremonies by building a Lego city. How will your team manage challenging and demanding client? How will you cooperate with your Product Owner? How will you build the city I’m dreaming about?
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Tim Saunders
Be it in an Agile environment or broader project management approach, it’s fundamental to learn the best ways to approach business practises. In this session, Tim will delve into effective ways to approach estimation and forecasting using real world approaches including: NoEstimates, Story points, Planning poker, Statistical forecasting and Monte carlo simulations and also explain how to see potential pitfalls and benefit from them.
(Sign up for this workshop is closed)
Ready to join the adventure? Well, there’s only one way to get in the game.
Get your ticket now before they sell out!
This year’s Umbraco Festival will take place at the UK’s largest venue dedicated solely to tech events - CodeNode. Located between Liverpool St and Moorgate, it’s a hive of digital activity where the coolest tech companies and developers go to collaborate, meet and work.
Expect more space, comfy seats, awesome AV and tasty treats. The perfect place for Umbracians to gather? We think so.
Looking for a place to stay? We’d recommend the following hotels which are all in easy reach of this year’s festival venue:
Holiday Inn Stratford
Travelodge Stratford
Andaz Hotel Liverpool Street
