CMS Experts

A forum for digital leaders where analysts, thinkers, practitioners, experts and vendors can meet, set the agenda for future industry developments, provide feedback and share thoughts and ideas in an inspiring setting.

As a member, you can pick and choose which meetings to attend. We meet several times a year in North American and Europe. Most members make it to three - four meetings a year.

Meetings are held in English and Janus Boye provides meeting notes from each meeting as well as an online forum for members to continue the conversations in between the meetings.

There are expert guest speakers at most meetings to provide further input to the group. Guest speakers could be relevant customer cases, analysts or industry standard organisations.

Each meeting will result in a public document as a statement from the group intended to stir public discussion and further advance the field.

Some impromptu whiteboarding at the CMS Experts session in Boston 2019 with Deane Barker voicing his concerns

Some impromptu whiteboarding at the CMS Experts session in Boston 2019 with Deane Barker voicing his concerns

Back in June 2013 a few of us had a stadium tour of Westfalenstadion, the home of Borussia Dortmund

Past meetings

This group goes back over a decade when we settled on the CMS Experts header. Since then we’ve broadened the conversation and experienced quite a few highlights during the years.

Find more on the page with the CMS Expert group history.

Upcoming meetings

Don’t take our word for it

“As usual, great sessions and learnings. Thank you Janus Boye and the cmsexpert community. This is a great forum to stay up-to-date on the industry and building the peer network.“
- Makram Mansour, Group Product Manager at Intuit

Members

Among the group members are leading vendors, agencies and also practitioners.

Check the current CMS Expert member listing.

Topics covered

The agenda is really broad — digital experience and leadership topics such as content operations, standards, performance, implementations and technology. Topics that impact the adoption in the broader marketplace, such as AI, social media and other key trends are also covered, and we do our best to cover emerging topics, e.g. MACH Alliance before it became a big thing and more recently Universal CMS.


Don’t see the topic(s) you’re interested in? Try the group and raise your topic(s) with them.

Member profile

Kyle Mathews from Gatsby presenting in Boston (September 2019)

Kyle Mathews from Gatsby presenting in Boston (September 2019)

If you have several years of experience, a broad range of knowledge and your working day is dedicated to one or more content management systems, e.g. as Product Manager, CTO or Content Manager, then you have the ideal profile. Each group is limited to 20 members. Seats are reserved for a mixture of vendors; large, complex and global buyers as well as analysts to achieve the right composition.

Jörg Schäffer and Tobias Stadelmeier from CoreMedia posing with group leader Janus Boye and the iconic hats for our November 2019 session held at the Women’s Museum of Denmark

Jörg Schäffer and Tobias Stadelmeier from CoreMedia posing with group leader Janus Boye and the iconic hats for our November 2019 session held at the Women’s Museum of Denmark

Informal dinner in Washington DC in 2017 with James Stout and Travis Wissink on the front row. To build better relations and improve the learning and networking experience, we usually have a social event with local guests as a part of each meeting.

Informal dinner in Washington DC in 2017 with James Stout and Travis Wissink on the front row. To build better relations and improve the learning and networking experience, we usually have a social event with local guests as a part of each meeting.

Don’t take our word for it

Jeff Cram calls this group an advisory board of smart friends and Deane Barker mentioned the below in a LinkedIn post in August 2023:

“I've been a member and a huge fan of the Boye & Company CMS Experts group for about 10 years now.

This is a small community of CMS professionals -- vendors, consultants, and expert users -- that meet face-to-face three times a year (for each geographic region), with about a dozen virtual calls/meetings in-between. We get together for a day just to talk about the industry -- what are we seeing, what are people talking about, how do we need to change, etc.”

Benefits, price and request to join

  • 1 year membership at EUR 2350 / USD 2495

  • Access to all in person meetings for a year. Bring your thorny content management issues and get valuable insights

  • Join any meeting you would like and bring up to two colleagues

  • Access to members-only Slack channels

  • A 1-day conference ticket to one of our annual conferences (CMS Connect, CMS Kickoff or Aarhus)

  • Discounted member’s rate on our conferences