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SUGPL 4:40 PM

SUGPL - Speaker feelings

Times goes fast and I came on the stage one more time in this year! I love this feeling to be in this place and can share with the knowledge with other guys. This is building pure community, get people, learn together and enjoy at the end during afterparty :)

So my topic of the presentation was "How to PaaS the cloud":

First @SUGPoland presentation from @robert_debowski about #azure and #sitecore pic.twitter.com/skmCvPRzl0
— Tomek Juranek (@tjWhuu) July 12, 2019

And video version below :)

I tried to help people understand how they should to go with Azure and PaaS approach and which paths they can use to achive needed goals. I hope it will help them :)

How to paas the cloud from Robert Debowski

Besides that we have also presentations prepared by Patrycjusz Jaskurzynski and Tomasz Juranek who did great job. At the end of course we have celebrated our meetup during afterparty :)

New Azure DevOps pipelines have been released 😂 @SUGPoland pic.twitter.com/yn0Tj1l8W6
— Łukasz Skowroński (@LukasSkowronski) July 12, 2019

Our third speaker, @tjWhuu shows AI + Sitecore! @SUGPoland pic.twitter.com/mKtDI0sXRZ
— Robert Dębowski (@robert_debowski) July 12, 2019

Vacation @SUGPoland in progress :) networking at well known place ;-) pic.twitter.com/l8yZR039b6
— Robert Dębowski (@robert_debowski) July 12, 2019

Cheers !

Robert Dębowski 0

SUGPL 12:05 PM

SUGCON 2019 - London

This year we had a pleasure to be a part of Sitecore SUGCON 2019 conference in London. It was 3rd time when I was participating in this event which was a big pleasure for me :)

Location

I think it's hard to find more business and representative place than London to organize such a conference. The main event was organized in London City, so there wasn't an issue with transport, etc. Inside SUGCON everything was prepared in a perfect way and there was enough amount of space to feel comfortable for, everyone.

Presentations

During the whole SUGCON there were a lot of great presentations. Each of the participants had to choose one from a few which were presenting simultaneously. From my point view I remember very good presentations regarding Publishing Services, Commerce and JSS, JSS and SXA, Azure and SIF. But probably other people had different paths in the agenda so they will have different memories ;)

Besides presentations, it was a brilliant time to meet guys from other countries, with whom we got to know a few years ago. Socializing, networking, discussing, keeping relations, that is a fantastic time.

At the end, we had to make little afterparty with friends, mainly SUGPL guys. In London is plenty of places to spend this time in perfect mood! :)

Thank you guys and see next time! :)

Robert Dębowski 0

User 6:56 PM

SUGPL#9 - International Event in Warsaw

This time we have a special meeting with guests from other countries which wanted to share their experience with SUGPL members. Our second event in 2019 was organized in Warsaw!

Organizers ;)

We have started of course with small introduction

Like at the begining I wrote our presenters came from abroad. So 1st presenter was Atanas Desev from Bulgaria who decribed for us Universal Tracker.

The second one was well known in our community Sebastian Winter from Germany who presented for us SXA.

The third presenter was Mark Cassidy who showed for us approach to speed up 10x Sitecore developemnt.

At the end we had afterparty with lots of burgers ;)

Cheers!

Robert Dębowski 0

User 4:45 PM

Be a part of #SUGTOUREU ! - SUGPL#7 & SUGCZSK#1

What an unforgettable days we have had recently! I'm still fighting with the flu since that ~~after-parties~~ days.

I had a pleasure to be a part of SUG Tour Europe which did Jason Wilkerson and Akshay Sura. Because of that we have organized SUGPL#7 meetup in Poznań and later with SUGPL delegation went to Czech Prague for 1st SUGCZSK meetup, which was on the road map of SUGTourEU for Akshay and Jason.

From the begining, the first one meetup was in Poland, in Poznań. Recently I have become official co-organizer SUGPL group, hence I went a day before to Poznań, to be sure everything gonna be alright.

Day #1

5h trip to Poznań, even as a driver ;)

Day #2

Just before the meetup I had a big pleasure to pick up Jason Wilkerson from the airport. I've even made an a special card to be sure he will find me ;)

It worked even with benefits like big smile on Jason's face :)

Just after we finally have arrived with Jason to meetup place, because of being organizer I've had an honor to welcome our special guests and of course whole Polish community people, introduce agenda and plan for after party :)

After that we had 3 presentation made by Akshay, Jason and Adam Najmanowicz who has been our 3rd speaker. Right now we can see how strong presenters team we had :)

Akshay presentation title was: „SiteCron”

Secondly Jason presentation: „Driving an immersive customer experience with Sitecore Experience Commerce + IoT”

Third presentation by Adam Najmanowicz: „Beyond the SXA toolbox”

After great presentations, where audience had a lot of questions we moved to the old town in Poznań to rest and make networking ! :)

There was a lot of us ! :)

Day #3

Since early morning full of energy we start our trip from Poznań to Czech Prague on 1st SUGCZSK meetup! Akshay with Jason was took by Marek Musielak to his car and we as a SUGPL delegation went by second car, driven by myself :) Next over 5h trip in last 2 days ;) !

As I wrote, everyone full of energy! Night was too short ;)

After mentioned over 5h drive we achieved Prague !

Later, just had some lunch we came to SUGCZSK meetup location and we had there 6 presentations !

We have started with:

1st: Petr Kocian & Matyas Havel, Topic: Worklfow for shared components

2nd: Una Verhoeven, Topic: Where machine learning meets social #ThinkYouKnowMe

3rd: Peter Procházka, Topic: Sitecore Commerce 9 Update 2 New Features

4th: Jiri Padera & Rene Naplava, Topic: Sitecore 9 Marketing automation pilot - xConnect/DEF implementation

5th: Jason Wilkerson, Topic: Driving an immersive customer experience with Sitecore Experience Commerce + IoT

6th: Akshay Sura, Topic: SiteCron

We had a lot opportunities to get some news from the guys presentations, but besides that we had opportunity to meet each other in reality! It's so nice to shake a hand with guy who you know from Sitecore Community Slack channel for instance ;)

When we finish presentation time we had an opportunity to integrate and later to go sightseeing at Prague old town :)

Day #4

Next early moring we packed ourselves and start our comeback trip to Białystok in Poland, which took us over 9 hours !

It was a pleasure to be in that places, with that people, thank you everyone for the cooperation and fabulous time spent together, see you soon !

Robert Dębowski 0

User 4:38 PM

SUGPL #6 Białystok - Organizator feelings

Our SUGPL operates very dynamically, hence we had a new meetup! This time, Białystok! For me it was special, because I was generally responsible for organization. It sounds proudly ;)

Organizers feelings, well, you have to do everything and think about everything. It remind my my wedding in some way :) But I like it! Because of that feelings and activities I want to do it!

It also worthy to notice that we had high attendance, but moreover we saw a lot of new faces, what is even better in that. I hope it will start a new journey for some people to became a dynamic part of our Sitecore User Group Poland.

Besides the community, we had 3 great presentations. Two of them was presented by our friends from Belarus - Alexei Vershalovich and Andrei Paliakou. The third one has presented my close friend - Tomasz Juranek.

During first presentation Alexi was describing Marketing Automation in Omni Channel. Great topic that he mentioned during last SUGCON in Berlin. It was an opportunity for other people that join this event to hear a lot of very interesting things, how we connect Sitecore in so many ways.

Nest speaker was Tomasz Juranek whom presentation topic was "Sitecore Forms and Marketing Automation in practice". Tomasz has shown us haw we can use this two tools and combination of them to achieve our business goals and be better marketing masters :)

At the end presenter was Andrei, Commerce MVP who presented topic "Sitecore Experience Commerce 9 - expectations and reality". He has described how many differences have been made in new xCommerce and how improvement it contains currently. Great to see that !

When we finished all presentations it was time for afterparty! It was good to talk with earlier mentioned new faces

As picture shows, a lot of smile on the faces so it had to be good time :) I hope we will see all together in next meetups as well!

Thank you all!

Robert Dębowski 0

User 9:45 PM

SUGPL #5 Wrocław - XConnect Speaker feelings

Spring has come (or even summer, looking at temperatures) so our meetups also have a new scene, meetup in Wrocław is just behind us. Well done meeting when I had an opportunity to present XConnect with my friend Tomasz Kłos.

This meetup was special because of our guest - Paul Urban, who came from Canada and he join our meetup with own presentation! Thank you Paul for willness to be a part of SUGPL meetup and this presentation. I hope that's only the beginning of our cooperation ;)

First presentation was... my presentation with Tomasz Kłos. Topic of our presentation was:

"eXtremeConnect - where and how to not lost in new reality"

eXtreme Connect from Robert Debowski

We would like to show the whole new approach of communication in Sitecore Platform which XConnect service provides with description of possibilities. Additionally second part of our presentation was application that generate mock data in xDB - xGenerator for Sitecore 9. If you need to generate dummy data for e.g. Experience Profile, that tool is for you!.

If you are interested in app, try this from Github link.

More information is on my friend blog - Tomasz Kłos

Second presentation was made by earlier mentioned our special guest - Paul Urban. He prepared for us topic: "GDPR compliance with Sitecore 8 implementation". We discussed many important topic that very often are over IT topic, to be more law area. But for that we are making that, IT should helps and solves problems in other live areas, right? ;)

The third presentation was prepared by Szymon Kuźniak, who presented topic: "Sitecore roles without Sitecore users". Very interesting topic, I hope it will solve some issues for us in the future.

At the end we met in nice place (12 krok) for the most important - networking !

Cheers guys! It was a pleasure for see you and all other new faces as well !

Robert Dębowski 0

User 2:28 PM

SUGPL#4 Warszawa

Step by step and the next step for our 4th SUGPL meetup was Warsaw. We had a good opportunity to meet with guys in capital of Poland. We had big amount of people, some new faces as well, great presentations and after party of course!

We have started with presentation about connecting frontend and backend using NitroNet Sitecore by Dawid Jachowicz. It was good moment for check what new tool we have to make our work more even more friendly than it's currently :) There weren't free seats to see it, so some guys had to keep the windows in place ;)

Second presentation was prepared by Artsem Prashkovich & Ihar Pauliuk who have spoken about Headless CMS. Sitecore JSS getting started, tips and tricks. I have to highlight that guys made a big effort to prepare and say for us so many things. Cheers !

As a 3rd was presenting Szymon Kuźniak. He has topic SXA in real life example. If somebody hadn't try it use, Szymon is a good man to ask about Sitecore Experience Accelerator.

Afterwards was time for integration! Well known party for each of SUGPL members. But that afterparty was not so usual as other because of so many attendees. We didn't even prepare enough seats. Fortunately bar service took care about each of guests and we could spent really good time and enjoy moment :)