Keynote speakers

Stephanie Devine is an accomplished Product Manager at Orbia Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), where she leads the Customer Experience and Attraction team. With a remarkable track record in digital innovation, Stephanie spearheaded the development of Wavin’s digital platform, including a comprehensive eCommerce solution. Under her leadership, the order portal has successfully been rolled out across 40 countries, revolutionizing the way customers interact with the brand on a global scale.

Forging your digital path: Wavin’s innovative approach to B2B eCommerce

Discover how Wavin transformed its business from a traditional, offline B2B model to a unique digital commerce setup, true to its customer needs and brand strengths. This session highlights key strategic pivots, including the rapid launch of a webshop during COVID-19, and the development of a comprehensive digital commerce infrastructure. Learn about overcoming challenges in B2B e-commerce, change management in transitioning off legacy technology, and embracing innovation for future growth.

Jon is the Head of Digital Product at Golfbreaks, the world’s number-one-rated golf tour operator. With a wealth of experience in digital strategy and marketing, he oversees the company’s digital presence, ensuring a seamless and engaging online experience for customers. His expertise in leveraging technology and data analytics has significantly enhanced Golfbreaks' digital platforms, driving growth and customer satisfaction.

Golfbreaks: Practical AI applications

Learn from Golfbreaks about practical gen-AI applications for high-volume content publishing.

Phil is the Technical Lead at Golfbreaks, focusing on the development and enhancement of key digital products, including the main website, customer portal, and newly released app. Phil is a driver for innovation and collaborates across departments to deliver exceptional user experiences and maintain top performance.

Golfbreaks: Practical AI applications

Learn from Golfbreaks about practical gen-AI applications for high-volume content publishing.

As Technical Product Owner for CMS as well as DevOps, Kathi is responsible for managing multiple teams and products at Miele, delivering a highly reliable platform to operate eCommerce websites in over 50 countries.

Empowering content editors: User-centric content modeling at Miele

Learn from Miele's digital team as they share their journey to a headless architecture, focusing on real-world content modeling lessons learned during their pilot program. Discover how they tested new approaches, adapted their strategies, and refined their models to strike a balance between flexibility and user-friendliness. You’ll walk away with insights into composable content modeling best practices and how to navigate the transition from legacy systems in an iterative, adaptable way.

Jesse is a passionate E-commerce leader with a background in the arts. As E-commerce & Marketplace Director at Paula's Choice, he is responsible for the web shops and marketplaces in EMEA. He works daily with a dynamic team to optimize the customer experience to support Paula's Choice's ambitious growth plans. Agile, test & learn and speed to market are not buzzwords for him, but basic conditions

Unlocking agile migration: transforming eCommerce at Paula’s Choice

Discover how Paula’s Choice transformed their digital landscape by shifting to composable commerce in a uniquely agile manner. Migrating from a monolithic eCommerce platform to a composable architecture is a daunting task, but it can be unlocked. Learn how Jesse Hanse,  Director of E-commerce & Marketplaces at Paula’s Choice, followed a "start where it hurts" approach to fast-forward migration decisions, change management, and board approvals, to drive a successful digital transformation and build towards a vision of content-driven commerce. 

Neha Sampat is a three-time tech founder and CEO, and currently founder and CEO at Contentstack. Neha is a relentless advocate for building great places to work and achieving equity in tech. She was recognized as one of Austin Business Journal’s 2023 Women in Business Awards and a Best CEO in 2022.

Welcome address

Contentstack CEO Neha Sampat sets the tone for an insightful event, offering a glimpse into the company's vision and highlighting key themes that will be explored during the conference.

Gurdeep Dhillon is a seasoned marketing executive with nearly 19 years of Enterprise Software experience. He has held key positions at SAP, Marketo, Adobe, and Zuora, and is currently the CMO at Contentstack. Recognized for his expertise in demand generation, Gurdeep has significantly contributed to driving growth and market presence for these leading brands. He is also passionate about nurturing and fostering collaborative environments.

Welcome to the Experience Edge

Contentstack CMO Gurdeep Dhillon on the company's vision and key problems that we're working to solve for you.

Harrison has 14 years' experience in software engineering, and has been with LADbible Group for 6 years. LADbible Group is one of the biggest social publishers in the world, with a global audience of nearly 1 billion.

LADbible Group’s rapid prototyping engine for digital innovation

Content is the lifeblood of LADbible Group’s business, and speed of innovation is their digital edge. In this session, discover how the brand’s blend of in-house expertise and a rapid prototyping model create a path for business-critical innovation. Learn how the team works with Contentstack to support a test-and-learn, trust-driven culture of collaboration and idea exchange - and the industry-leading features, custom integrations, and capabilities they’ve developed as a result.

Jon is a digital media director with over a decade of experience leading editorial strategy across a number of national and global brands. He joined LADbible Group in April 2022 and is responsible for the company's network of Web brands. Jon previously led Reach PLC's digital strategy across Sport, overseeing audience and content for publications such as the Mirror, the Express and the Manchester Evening News. He has also worked for Manchester United and Goal.

LADbible Group’s rapid prototyping engine for digital innovation

Content is the lifeblood of LADbible Group’s business, and speed of innovation is their digital edge. In this session, discover how the brand’s blend of in-house expertise and a rapid prototyping model create a path for business-critical innovation. Learn how the team works with Contentstack to support a test-and-learn, trust-driven culture of collaboration and idea exchange - and the industry-leading features, custom integrations, and capabilities they’ve developed as a result.

A frontend engineer striving to reach the point where perfection meets promise.

Empowering content editors: User-centric content modeling at Miele

Learn from Miele's digital team as they share their journey to a headless architecture, focusing on real-world content modeling lessons learned during their pilot program. Discover how they tested new approaches, adapted their strategies, and refined their models to strike a balance between flexibility and user-friendliness. You’ll walk away with insights into composable content modeling best practices and how to navigate the transition from legacy systems in an iterative, adaptable way.

Dasha leads Product Marketing at commercetools. Software engineer by profession but a creative at heart, she found her happy place in SaaS B2B product marketing.

Mastering brand relevancy: Sustaining brand growth through adaptive digital strategies

In a rapidly changing global market, maintaining brand relevancy is crucial. This panel will delve into how companies can adapt their digital strategies to stay relevant amidst evolving market dynamics. Experts from Contentstack, commercetools, Global Next, and EPAM will discuss:

• Actionable strategies to ensure brand relevancy across diverse and ever-changing market dynamics

• Best practices to respond to consumer trends, expectations, and regional preferences

• Leveraging digital technologies for out-performing competitors through efficiency, speed-to-market, and innovation

Arash has been with PostNL for nearly 12 years, taking on various roles along the way. Currently, he’s the Product Owner for the CMS, website and webshop. With a passion for all things product-related—from user experience and design to technical details—Arash recently led the transition from a traditional CMS to Contentstack.

Giles is a world class, global digital technology leader with a proven track record in building outstanding product, delivery and engineering teams. Passionate about fostering diverse, bottom-up, and empowered cultures that prioritise teamwork. Giles has deep industry knowledge in digital strategy, technology, and customer experience, coupled with effective communication and on-time, on-budget delivery. Bringing a proven track record in delivering world-class technology for Digital, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, and HR functions, his ultimate purpose and motivation comes from relentless continuous improvement of teams and digital products. He has been on the Advisory Board of MACH Alliance since its foundation and most recent role was the Head of Technology @ Selfridges. Prior to that he was the Director of Digital Technology @ Burberry and also led technology transformations at JLP, Waitrose, Asda, Walmart, Mondelez, Arcadia, Matalan, Diageo, Kimberley-Clark and Unilever.

Panel: What’s next after transformation? Mastering content operations in a composable world

For many brands, the engine of transformation is technology. Moving from a legacy architecture to a composable ecosystem is the first step to unlocking the agility and innovation capabilities that are essential to survival in today’s digital battleground. But once you’ve removed technology problems, what happens next? When your platform is no longer the barrier to innovation, the people and processes must adapt to the new ways of working afforded by the new environment. Content operations must evolve too. And there’s no roadmap for that. In this session, learn from Giles Smith, who led digital transformation with Contentstack at two enterprise ecommerce brands (Burberry and Selfridges), as he leads a conversation with our experts: how can brands adapt to new ways of working, optimize their people and processes, and ultimately achieve the business outcomes they set out to achieve with digital transformation?

Conor Egan manages Contentstack’s industry-leading product and engineering teams. He has 15+ years of experience building products that have earned multiple software patents, won industry awards, and led digital transformation at the world’s largest brands. Conor and his team are devoted to improving the user experience by creating best-in-class products that bring technical and non-technical users together to create digital transformations.

Contentstack Product Update

The latest groundbreaking innovations within the Contentstack ecosystem. We’ll unveil cutting-edge features and provide a glimpse into the future, covering our strategic direction and advancements that will shape the composable DXP landscape.

David is a Sr. Director of ISV Partnerships at Algolia, the leading end-to-end AI search platform. In his role David is managing Algolia’s Technology Partner Ecosystem in EMEA and leads Algolia’s relations with the MACH Alliance. Prior to Algolia David held Alliance and Sales positions on 3 continents at MicroStrategy, Oracle, BEA Systems and other technology companies in a 20+ year customer and partner-facing career.

Jasmin Guthmann is VP of the MACH Alliance, Head of Corporate Communications at Contentstack, and host of the People Changing Enterprises podcast. She spearheaded the Women in MACH Manifesto movement and joins ContentCon Europe as Master of Ceremonies (MC).

In 2004 Tarek founded TH_NK, an award-winning digital agency, whilst studying at Newcastle University. During this period, he earned accolades including Young Entrepreneur of the Year, was named one of the 50 most influential people in UK digital by The Drum Digerati and Digital Leader of the Year by Information Age Tech Leader Awards. With offices located in Newcastle, Liverpool and London, TH_NK became one of the largest and most awarded independent digital agencies in the UK, receiving numerous awards including The Drum’s Digital Agency of the Year in 2018 and BIMA Consulting & Transformation Award, for leading the digital transformation of LV=.

In 2018, TH_NK was acquired by EPAM, one of the world’s largest technology companies and today,Tarek leads EPAM’s Digital Practice in EMEA, overseeing teams of consultants, designers and engineers and close to $1billion of revenue. Tarek has spent the past 20 years leading innovation and transformation programmes for some of the world’s biggest and most exciting companies including Shop Direct, LV=, Atom Bank, ASOS and BUPA as well as co-founding Pottermore with JK Rowling.

Tarek is the chair of the MACH Alliance Education Council and was most recently a MACH Alliance Board member. Tarek also was previously president at BIMA, the UK’s trade body for digital and a regular commentator on innovation and technology within the national media.

Mastering brand relevancy: Sustaining brand growth through adaptive digital strategies

In a rapidly changing global market, maintaining brand relevancy is crucial. This panel will delve into how companies can adapt their digital strategies to stay relevant amidst evolving market dynamics. Experts from Contentstack, commercetools, Global Next, and EPAM will discuss:

• Actionable strategies to ensure brand relevancy across diverse and ever-changing market dynamics

• Best-practices to respond to consumer trends, expectations, and regional preferences

• Leveraging digital technologies for out-performing competitors through efficiency, speed-to-market, and innovation

Preseetha Pettigrew is VP Global Partnerships at Contentstack, with two decades of partnership and consulting experience. She leads the global partner team to develop and deliver strategic programs to accelerate mutual business growth.

Mastering brand relevancy: Sustaining brand growth through adaptive digital strategies

In a rapidly changing global market, maintaining brand relevancy is crucial. This panel will delve into how companies can adapt their digital strategies to stay relevant amidst evolving market dynamics. Experts from Contentstack, commercetools, Global Next, and EPAM will discuss:

• Actionable strategies to ensure brand relevancy across diverse and ever-changing market dynamics

• Best practices to respond to consumer trends, expectations, and regional preferences

• Leveraging digital technologies for out-performing competitors through efficiency, speed-to-market, and innovation

Chi Patel is a Vice President at TransPerfect, a leading provider of language and technology solutions. With over 18 years of experience at TransPerfect, he is particularly focused on advancing TransPerfect's GlobalLink technology platform, the world’s most widely deployed AI-driven globalization management system. Currently based in London, he is dedicated to developing innovative solutions in the global communications landscape.

Mastering brand relevancy: Sustaining brand growth through adaptive digital strategies

In a rapidly changing global market, maintaining brand relevancy is crucial. This panel will delve into how companies can adapt their digital strategies to stay relevant amidst evolving market dynamics. Experts from Contentstack, commercetools, Global Next, and EPAM will discuss:

• Actionable strategies to ensure brand relevancy across diverse and ever-changing market dynamics

• Best practices to respond to consumer trends, expectations, and regional preferences

• Leveraging digital technologies for out-performing competitors through efficiency, speed-to-market, and innovation

Tim is a Developer Relations professional, active in the developer community through speaking engagements at conferences and creation of YouTube videos on modern technologies. He's all about quality, community, and development of great websites.

Alive & Kicking

Get ready to rock out at ContentCon! Don't miss this fully interactive and unforgettable musical experience, using the innovative power of composable technology like Supabase, Cloudinary, Nuxt, and the webmidi API. Let's make this a conference to remember!