Most conferences about web development treat the CMS as a footnote. A session here, a workshop there — slotted between framework talks and deployment demos. CMS Conf is built around the opposite premise: content systems are the main event.
What CMS Conf Is
CMS Conf 2026 is Europe’s first conference dedicated entirely to content management systems, content architecture, and the decisions that surround them. It takes place November 12–14, 2026 in Gdynia, Poland, and expects 300+ developers, architects, and content strategists.
The topics map closely to what StackCompass covers: when headless is the wrong abstraction, how content models age, what it actually costs to operate a CMS at scale. The difference is that at a conference you can have those conversations with the people who built the systems — or who are living with the consequences of choosing them.
Why This Format Makes Sense
The CMS decision is rarely purely technical. It involves editorial workflows, organizational constraints, long-term maintenance, and a set of trade-offs that play out over years — not sprint cycles. Those conversations benefit from in-person depth in a way that documentation and blog posts can’t fully replicate.
The SSG vs SSR question, for example, looks different when you hear it from an editor who has been waiting on build times for three years versus a developer who just shipped a new stack. CMS Conf is structured to surface both sides.
Tickets and Details
Tickets are available at cmsconf.com. The conference runs across three days in Gdynia — part of the Tricity region on the Baltic coast, easy to reach by air via Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport.
If you work with content systems professionally — whether you pick them, build on top of them, or explain them to clients — it’s worth the trip.