CMS Summit 25
Thanks for joining us!
What a great first European edition of our prestigious international conference dedicated to the global content management community.
To quote Baddy:
“This was a fantastic event. The quality of the sessions were really high and the networking was something at another level. Bringing together leaders of the largest CMS systems in the world together with the new kids on the block is priceless. Also having the end users in the room to give us feedback and insights was so good. 10 out of 10 for this event. See you next year.”
It all happened on May 13 - 14 in Frankfurt, Germany and conference program has links to slides. You can also browse the photo album from the conference. Use the photos as you see fit.
Here’s a few blog posts and useful summaries from the conference:
Andy-Eva Dale from Tangent on the contrasting views on how AI will shape product roadmaps
Bolette Kern from Umbraco on her observations trying to navigate a crowded CMS marketplace
Debbie Tucek from Kentico on a few powerful themes that stood out
Greg Bloor from Distinction with his big takeaways
Gonzalo Villar Cirujano from Secuoyas on relevant topics that were discussed
Jeroen Fürst from TrueLime with highlights and inspiraton from day #1
Julian Mills on how leaders can fill the gap between their strategic function and the operational part of the business
Marco Schiffmann from Punkt.de: Was bewegt die internationale CMS Community (in German)
Michelle Albanese from CMS Law on Key Takeaways from CMS Summit 2025
Olivier Dobberkau from dkd shared nine key insights
Pieter Versloot from Plate on the game changer he showed in his live demo (hint: content structuring)
Simon Jones from Studio 24 with a few highlights from the huge and brilliant range of talks
Thomas Schedler from Sulu CMS is still smiling at how fuzzy terms like “DXP” and “composable” can be when you dig into them
Conference Day #2 started with an energetic and memorable morning run where we passed Alte Oper
Debbie Tucek from Kentico with the microphone at the CMS selection panel debate on conference day #1
Save the dates for CMS Summit 26:
May 12 - 13, 2026 in Frankfurt
The conversation continues in the CMS Experts community. The next CMS conference is CMS Connect 25 happening in Montréal in early August.
Join us and be a part of the conversation.
World-class speakers at CMS Summit 25
Baddy Sonja Breidert (DE)
CEO and Co-founder at 1xINTERNET
Matt Garrepy (US)
Chief Critic at CMS Critic
Maximilian Steudel (DE)
MarTech & Digital Engagement Lead at Dr. Oetker
Who joined us
It was an international conference with confirmed participants from Europe and North America. A friendly mix of vendors, agencies, analysts and customers who get together to learn, network and talk about what really matters in CMS right now and for the foreseeable future
Thanks to all who made the commitment to learning and networking.
At the conference there were practitioners from CMS, Deutsche Bahn, Dr. Oetker, Georg Fischer, Government of Iceland, RTL, Uponor and several others.
Among the vendors and open source projects who attended were Adobe, CoreMedia, Enterspeed, Griddo, HCLSoftware, Hygraph, Ibexa, Jahia, Kentico, Magnolia, Plate, Platform.sh, React Bricks, Squiz, StreamX, Sulu, TwentyThree, TYPO3, Umbraco and Webiny. As you can see, it’s not just the usual CMS vendors, but also from the larger ecosystem.
On the agency and consulting side you could meet 1XInternet, ACTUM Digital, B13, byte5, ctrl QS, Distinction, dkd, eXa, Human Made, Monday Consulting, Netgen, Tangent, Truelime and many others. Tom “The AEM Guy” Cranstoun was also there.
Among the analysts joining us were Bastian Sirvend from SUTSCHE, Mark Demeny from MACH Alliance, Matt Garrepy from CMS Critic, Matthew McQueeny from Konabos and our host Janus Boye from Boye & Co in Denmark.
Conference partners
Venue
We met in TechQuartier, a cool coworking and event space in the heart of Frankfurt's financial center.
There are numerous nearby hotels in all price ranges nearby and a few participants have already booked their rooms at Maritim Hotel, which is 5 minutes walk away
Frankfurt Central Station is within 10 minutes walk and Frankfurt airport is also easily accessible with about 20 minutes in taxi or public transport.