# Event Details - **Event Name**: Dutch Umbraco Alliance Festival - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm (+02:00) - **Event Description**: A community-driven event created by and for Umbracians in the NetherlandsAbout this EventJoin developers, designers, marketers, content editors, digital leaders, and Umbraco enthusiasts for a day of learning, inspiration, and meaningful connections. Expect insightful talks, practical sessions, fresh ideas, and plenty of opportunities to meet old friends and make new ones.Whether you're deep in the code, shaping digital experiences, or simply passionate about the friendliest CMS community in the world, the Dutch Umbraco Alliance Festival is the place to connect, learn, and celebrate the future of Umbraco together.We're bringing the Dutch Umbraco community back together. We can't wait to see you there.Agenda🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:15 PMThe Community Keynote: Where Umbraco goes from hereHost: Lotte PitcherInfo: Lotte Pitcher, Head of Developer Relations at Umbraco, and Emma Potter, VP of Developer Relations at Umbraco, are both passionate advocates for open source, developer communities, and creating inclusive spaces where people can learn, contribute and grow. Together, they’ll give us a look at where Umbraco is today and where it’s headed next. In this keynote, they’ll demo what Umbraco’s engineers are working on right now and share what’s coming later this year across the CMS, Umbraco Cloud, and products like Umbraco AI and Automate — including the long-awaited Reusable Blocks feature arriving in Umbraco 19. But this session goes beyond product updates. Lotte and Emma will also explore how the Umbraco community helps shape the platform, turning ideas and feedback into real contributions, and where people can get involved in what comes next. Expect practical insights, roadmap updates, and a clearer picture of how the Umbraco ecosystem continues to evolve — and how the community plays a 🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:15 PMMake Your Local .NET Development Experience A Breeze With AspireHost: Thimo KoolenInfo: As a .NET Software Engineering Consultant, Thimo is passionate about all things .NET, cloud technologies, and building high-quality software. With experience spanning .NET, Azure, Blazor, Aspire, microservices and more, he loves sharing knowledge with the developer community through meetups, conferences and technical talks. Session: Make Your Local .NET Development Experience A Breeze With Aspire Cloud-native applications, microservices, containers... modern development can quickly become complex. Fortunately, Microsoft Aspire is here to help. In this demo-packed session, Thimo will show how Aspire makes it easier to orchestrate frontends, APIs, containers and databases, helping you streamline your local development workflow and spend more time building great software. Whether you're already working with distributed applications or just curious about Aspire, this session will give you practical insights you can take straight back to your projects.🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:15 PMHeadless not CluelessHost: Richard SoetemanInfo: Richard is the Chief of Everything at Soeteman Software and a well-known name in the Umbraco community. As the creator of popular packages like SEOChecker and CMSImport, and with more than 15 years of experience working with Umbraco and other CMS platforms, he brings a huge amount of practical knowledge to the table. In this session, Richard will take us through a practical look at Umbraco’s Content Delivery API and what it really means to build a solid headless setup. Expect insights on: + why content modeling is the backbone of headless projects + how to structure content for flexibility and scalability + where the real extension points are + common pitfalls and how to avoid overengineering + and how to keep the experience intuitive for the people who matter most: the CMS users This promises to be a hands-on, no-nonsense session packed with practical tips and real-world experience. If you’re working with Umbraco, exploring headless, or just curious to learn from one of 🕑: 03:15 PM - 03:45 PMBreakInfo: Drinks and Socialize🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:30 PMTook Some Convincing: How AI Changed the Way I Work as a DeveloperHost: Luuk PetersInfo: Luuk is an Umbraco MVP and a Senior .NET developer at Proud Nerds. He has been building websites and applications with Umbraco since version 4. Alongside client work, he releases his own Umbraco packages, including Advanced Permissions for Umbraco. He'll admit up front that he was skeptical about AI at first, and that he has since fully embraced it. In this session, Luuk shares how AI became part of everyday Umbraco development, not just while writing code but across the whole process, from first plan to finished feature. This is not a tour of tools. It's about how you work with them, both as an individual developer and as an agency. Expect insights on: what it took to convince a skeptic, and what changed once it did how AI changed what one developer can actually build, including a package that started as a feature request how AI fits into the parts of the job that aren't writing code: planning, reviewing, documenting how an agency puts guardrails around this: shared conventions, co🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:30 PMBeyond the Alpha: What I Learned Battle-Testing the New Umbraco SearchHost: Dave WoestenborghsInfo: Dave is an active and highly valued member of the Umbraco community and has been awarded Umbraco MVP an incredible 11 times. He brings a wealth of hands-on experience and deep technical knowledge to the event. In this session, Dave will dive into Umbraco Search, the new search abstraction layer in Umbraco, and share what happens when you take an alpha version into production on a complex site. Expect practical insights on: + how the new search abstraction changes backoffice indexing + how to approach things like facets + where the real extension points are when you need more than the defaults + and what Dave learned from battle-testing it in a real-world setup This isn’t a basic installation walkthrough — it’s a practical session focused on architecture, real challenges, and lessons learned from using new Umbraco features in demanding environments. If you’re curious about the future of search in Umbraco, or want to learn from real production experience, this is a session you won’t - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/apeldoorn/dutch-umbraco-alliance-festival/100001991350547092 - **Event Categories**: festivals, art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 5 hours - Location: Vlijtseweg 114 - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Apeldoorn - **state**: GE - **country**: Netherlands - **location**: Vlijtseweg 114 - **lat**: 52.2253195 - **long**: 5.9718822 - **full address**: Vlijtseweg 114, 114 Vlijtseweg, Apeldoorn, Netherlands ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Dutch Umbraco Alliance Festival - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/6bc98205a2053dd66f94a03052e4d9222e6283fd00cbaa9f3919db8b1f84cc64-rimg-w1200-h600-dc020d20-gmir.jpg?v=1781599750 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Dutch Umbraco Alliance Festival being held? - **A:** Dutch Umbraco Alliance Festival takes place on Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Tue, 22 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm at Vlijtseweg 114, 114 Vlijtseweg, Apeldoorn, Netherlands. - **Q**: Who is organizing Dutch Umbraco Alliance Festival? - **A:** Dutch Umbraco Alliance Festival is organized by Dutch Umbraco Alliance. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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