What is Codegarden?
If you've never been, let me try to explain what Codegarden actually is, because it's hard to do it justice.
On paper, it's the official Umbraco conference, run by Umbraco HQ once a year. There are keynotes, talks across multiple stages, a roadmap session where you find out what's coming next in the CMS, the MVP awards, and the package awards.
There are lots of talks by fellow community members and experts from other communities, all coming together to share knowledge.
You learn loads and meet lots of new people. You come away with new techniques and new ways of thinking, and a head full of ideas you can't wait to try when you get home.
There is a gala dinner on the Thursday evening where they play Bingo, for prizes that you probably don't want to win. But you have to be there to understand just how fun and crazy it is.
Here are some of the talks from Codegarden 2026:
Umbraco Codegarden Keynote, 2026: Mats Persson, Emma Bustow & Filip Bech-Larsen
Bjarke Berg, Running Umbraco in a Changing World
Bolette Kern, Umbraco CMS in the Age of AI
Arnold Visser, Build. Scale. Grow. From Running Projects to Growing Portfolios with Umbraco Cloud.
Kenn Jacobsen, It's Elemental; reuse your content!
Phil Whittaker, Umbraco in AI
Matt Brailsford, AI in Umbraco
Andy Butland, Our Roadmap, Your CMS Umbraco 17 Released and What We're Building Next