Sitecore MVP Summit 2023 :: Recap

 We had an amazing Sitecore MVP Summit last week at Minnesota, we did meet with other mvps from all around the world, also we had a great conversations with Sitecore people, discussing latest and coming updated to the different products,  we also had a wonderful night on Monday with a lot of fun games! In this post I will share with you my recap of this couple days event, some of the news that we can share!

First day of the Sitecore MVP Summit started with announcement of the new XM Cloud bundle which is XM Cloud Plus, which is a bundle of the SAAS products, which represents the XP cloud version, where we can have XM Cloud in addition to CDP/Personalize and Search in the same bundle. This of course means intuitive content creation and management, AI-Powered personalization, advanced search optimization, Omnichannel content center, comprehensive analytics and insights and seamless integrations and connectivity. 

One more thing is the CM Cloud Forms module, which will drive effective visitor engagement, with this new module, authors will be able to create forms for any web frontend, drag and drop form creation through visual form builder, add forms as components through the pages visual page builder in addition to capture form submissions to your CRM or CDP and trigger the next best event for you audience.

following are couple of screenshots from the new module, which will be bundled with XMC, so every customer/client will have the module as part of their XMC subscription:

After that there was a nice round table discussions with the different Sitecore product managers, were Sitecore mvps were able to share some feedback and ask some more deep questions on the roadmaps and the coming features.

Also, Sitecore handed the Sitecore MVP Awards to the Sitecore MVPs, following are some screenshots from the the ceremony: 

The second day of the Sitecore MVP Summit was full of sessions, includes talks on migration paths to XMC, migration tools to handle content, more about Sitecore forms features and what's included in the new module, also, some more insights into roadmaps of the CDP and Personalize products.