Back in September I organised the first In-Person Sitecore user group in Manchester in over a year with help from Dom Hurst and Jeremy Davis.
It was kindly hosted by Dept with the Talks on the Big Screen and was great to get everyone together again.
We had 2 great talks and a debate session in the middle which I lead. It was a challenge to organise and promote given concerns around In-Person events. However we got around 25 attendees on the day, so all in all I think it was a success.
I recorded the event but it’s taken me a while to pull the videos off my SLR as needed to find my adapter for my Mac and edit the videos together.
I have finally done this though and you can now view the video of the SUG on YouTube.
Apologies for the sound and video as they are not great quality, we also lost a bit of the end of Jim and My Talks unfortunately. So I will go back to using my iPhone to record future events I think. It’s still worth sharing though I feel.
The Talks
Below is a summary of the Talks as the SUG:
Talk 1 – Shared components with JSS
– James Simm, Head Of Engineering @ Dept
James presented on how Dept used JSS to create a number of shared components to use for the London Marathon website.
Debate Session – Sitecore Acquisitions
– Adam Seabridge, Freelance Sitecore Developer & Consultant @Flux Digital
Adam talked briefly about the recent Sitecore acquisitions (Moosend, Boxever, Four51 etc) and what they are. We then debated how Sitecore might utilise them within their product offering in the near future.
Talk 2 – Exposing assets to any channel with Sitecore Content Hub Experience Edge
– Daniel Ionita, Sales Engineer @ Sitecore UK
Daniel gave an overview of Sitecore Content Hub Experience Edge and a detailed demonstration of combining Content Hub DAM with Microsoft Teams which allowed users to insert DAM pre-approved images into Teams messages.
I’m looking forward to organising the next one of these and for the upcoming SUG in London in December.
Feel free to get in touch on Twitter of Slack if you would like to speak at a future SUG.