Magnolia DevDays is a two-day virtual conference where the Magnolia community from around the world comes together. Developers, engineers, architects, and product managers can share their work from implementing exciting projects to solving for custom use cases and introducing new features.
Learn from each other
Join sessions run by Magnolia customers, partners, and employees and learn how they’ve developed innovative experiences on Magnolia.
Get the latest news
Join our product manager's sessions to learn what's new in Magnolia and take a sneak peek at our product roadmap.
Network with your peers
Enter our speaker rooms to discuss the sessions of the day or chat with other developers in the conference chat or 1:1.
How we help people deliver engaging digital experiences at amazing speed
Magnolia's mission is helping people deliver engaging digital experiences at amazing speed. How? Join this session to learn how recent product updates and future innovations will help you build better experiences faster and easier.
Psst! Join this session to be the first to hear our product team reveal a new Magnolia. Make sure not to miss this session.
Matt RajkovicProduct Manager, Magnolia
9:30 (EDT) - Networking Break
Front-End Stage
Fullstack/Integration Stage
10:00 (EDT)
Hit the ground running - Hyper rapid frontend development with Magnolia and Next.js
Front-End
The emergence of the Jamstack brings a lot of enthusiasm and excitement to web development. Join this session to see how Dotfusion empowers frontend developers and designers using Magnolia's cloud solutions to create visually creative and engaging experiences and learn how to do the same.
Arjuna ShankarDirector of Technology and Platform Services, Dotfusion
Incremental content migration at Baloise
Fullstack/Integration
Surprising issues, unknown edge cases, limited performance: content migration is always exciting. In this session, IBM iX shares their automated and iterative approach to migrating large amounts of content in multiple workspaces for Baloise Group. Join to learn their best practices to overcome challenges, avoid pitfalls, and find solutions.
Delivering experiences faster with Magnolia's Headless Accelerator
Front-End
Many digital projects use a headless approach for its flexibility, but there’s one more hurdle to cross for headless to become mainstream: how fast you can build frontends. Join this session to learn how to accelerate frontend development using Magnolia's Headless Accelerator, offering a unified design system including a library of UI patterns, typesafe programming in your IDE of choice, and task automation via CLI.
Codename Norsu: A new storage solution for Magnolia content
Fullstack/Integration
The goal of Project Norsu is to develop a new storage solution for Magnolia content based on PostgreSQL to replace the JCR. This session will provide insights into the reasons behind the project, its progress, and the lessons the Magnolia team learned.
Aleksandr PchelintcevEngineering Manager, Magnolia
10:45 (EDT)
From color picker to complex REST wizards: Building custom dialog fields with JavaScript
Front-End
Providing your content authors and marketers with the right tools to co-create amazing experiences can be as simple as writing a few lines of JavaScript. This session shows how to easily extend the Magnolia dialogs to include almost any form of user-generated input using your frontend skills only.
How Hastings Direct adopted a headless, cloud-based approach with Magnolia
Front-End
Hastings Direct needed a digital experience platform that would allow content editors to create digital experiences for multiple sites easily, and provide headless APIs and the right tools to developers. Join this session to see how they developed their solution architecture using React templates, NextJS for static site generation (SSG), Jenkins, and Magnolia.
Darren WhatfordExperience Development Lead, Hastings Direct
Abhay KumarHead of Delivery, Priocept
Cold, hard cache: Getting the most out of Magnolia caching
Fullstack/Integration
The whys, whens, and hows of caching with Magnolia (and CDNs and browsers) explained. In this session, we’ll look at how to speed up the delivery of your content through caching and make your web app more robust and resilient.
Andrew WarinnerSenior Solution Architect, Magnolia
11:35 (EDT)
Delivering data-driven content into the Salesforce composable storefront
Front-End
Delivering a unified e-commerce experience can sometimes be challenging. Fortunately, creating a Magnolia and Salesforce integration project has never been easier. Join this session to walk through the integration and seamlessly combine data from Salesforce and content from Magnolia.
Skinning & content variations at Union Investment - One page to rule them all
Fullstack/Integration
Migrating 400 landing pages is a challenging task, especially if all have slightly different content and a different appearance. Join this session to learn how the team at Union Investment solved this problem by creating a white-label site that uses personalization in an unusual way and a custom implementation to merge Magnolia content with content from an external system. They also created a mechanism to style the frontend based on the individual landing page using Web Components with custom CSS properties.
Fabian IllsingerSoftware Engineer, Illsinger IT Consulting
Robin SpielmannSenior Frontend Developer, Virtual Identity
Front-End Stage
Fullstack/Integration Stage
8:00 (EDT)
Multi-site setup with Magnolia and Next.js
Front-End
Accenture took on a project for Business Finland to develop and host several different frontend apps. Join this session to learn how Accenture enabled the team at Business Finland to manage all sites from the same Magnolia instance using Magnolia's multi-site capabilities, Next.js, and Static Site Generation (SSG).
Niclas Alexander HorstadApplication Development Specialist , Accenture
How we developed feature toggles to switch Magnolia features on/off
Fullstack/Integration
A feature toggle enables or disables a feature during runtime. As the result of a Magnolia-internal hackathon, this is how Magnolia now delivers new features to cloud users using Kubernetes. Join this session to learn more about our implementation of feature toggles.
Multi-site setup with Magnolia and Next.js (cont'd)
Connecting headless Magnolia with Adobe InDesign
Fullstack/Integration
InDesign is the favourite design tool of many marketers but did you know that it can pull content and assets via Magnolia's REST APIs. Attend this session to learn how to easily transfer objects for processing in InDesign.
Marvin KerkhoffMagnolia CMS Expert, Arvato Systems Schweiz
8:30 (EDT)
The new App Launcher – How we designed it and how you can customise it
Front-End
Introducing Launcher, App Launcher. Join this session to learn how Magnolia created the new Magnolia App Launcher from a design perspective and how you can easily configure it to meet your needs.
Myth busting extended reality (XR) - Taking the metaverse into the B2B world
Front-End
Extended Reality (XR) encompassing virtual, mixed, and augmented reality has become more available and is used across different verticals. Many companies, however, are still building applications like it's the 1990s. Join this session to find out how to introduce the metaverse to B2B customers using Magnolia.
Sebastian KlingbergDevOps Solution Architect, Magnolia
11:30 (EDT)
Integration contest award ceremony
Contest
Building your own integration in Magnolia can be as quick as a few minutes using light integration techniques. To showcase our community’s talent and Magnolia’s extensibility we held an integration contest, awarding prizes in the categories “Most useful” and “Most bang for the buck”. Join this session to hear from the winners what they’ve built and how.
