Kentico Connection 2026
Where ideas, people, and innovation meet
15 October 2026, Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, Australia
What You'll Take Away
- Actionable AI strategies
- Real customer success stories
- Product roadmap insights
- New industry connections
- Practical ideas you can implement immediately
Kentico Connection is an exclusive gathering of customers, partners, and digital leaders focused on the future of digital experience.
Connect with peers, learn from real-world customer stories, gain insight into emerging trends, and explore how organizations are improving customer experiences and driving business outcomes.
You'll also see the latest innovations from Kentico, including AIRA, the Agentic Marketing Suite, and KentiCopilot.
Attendance is complimentary and strictly limited to invited guests, so secure your spot early.
Snapshot Agenda
| Morning | Opening keynote; Customer Success story; AI Panel |
| Lunch | Networking lunch at Sofitel Sydney Wentworth Bar |
| Afternoon | Success stories, technical deep dives, Future of Xperience, Closing keynote |
| Evening | Drinks reception, canapés & awards at Bar Tilda |
What to Expect at a Glance
- Market and industry insights
Understand where digital experience and AI are heading across the APAC region - Real-world AI in action
See how AIRA and the Agentic Marketing Suite are being applied to drive outcomes - Customer and partner success stories
Hear how organizations deliver measurable results through collaboration - Product innovation and roadmap
Get a closer look at our latest product set, including AIRA and KentiCopilot
Venue & Experience
The event takes place at the elegant, heritage‑listed Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, a five‑star hotel in the heart of Sydney’s CBD with award‑winning dining venues including Bar Tilda and Wentworth Bar. The hotel offers a refined setting that blends classic French elegance with modern sophistication.
After a day of insight and collaboration, we’ll move into Bar Tilda for a relaxed reception and Awards celebration.
Travelling to Sydney? We've arranged an exclusive accommodation rate at Sofitel Sydney Wentworth for conference attendees. Your registration confirmation will include a booking link to access the special rate.
We're pleased to welcome Isabella Villani as guest keynote speaker at Kentico Connection APAC 2026
Isabella is an International Speaker and Author, and Executive Chair and founder of Exceed Global. She is a leading voice in customer experience and transformation, and author of Transform Customer Experience and Good to Great CX.
In her keynote, Isabella will look at the future of digital marketing, digital disruption, and where CX and digital experiences are heading in the era of AI. Expect practical, forward-looking insights for agencies, marketers and technology leaders navigating what comes next.
Learn more at www.isabellavillani.com
Agenda.
Connection APAC 2026
Keynotes, customer stories & breakout tracks
Join us for breakfast, coffee and an opportunity to connect with fellow customers, partners and the Kentico team before the day begins.
Kentico’s CEO opens Connection 2026 with a look at where the digital experience market is heading, what it means for the teams in the room, and how Kentico is investing to keep customers and partners ahead of it.
How GPT Group and Devotion brought 17 major retail destinations onto one Xperience by Kentico foundation. Hear how a more unified approach to content, governance and digital marketing is helping GPT operate at portfolio scale while improving traffic, engagement and offer discovery.
AI promises more productivity, but where should teams actually invest, what should remain human, and how do you introduce it responsibly?
This panel brings together technology, agency and customer-experience perspectives to explore how AI is changing digital teams today — from practical productivity gains and smarter workflows to governance, changing roles and what leaders should be preparing for over the next 12–24 months.
How Zeroseven and Kentico gave MoveBank more control over its website and products.
How Kennards Self Storage and 2DM transformed the digital platform supporting customers across Australia and New Zealand.
1,000+ documents. 113 editors. One of WA’s fastest-growing communities. Local government comes with plenty of problems. Hear how the City of Wanneroo and ALYKA are solving them with Xperience by Kentico.
AI can turn weeks of prototyping into hours, but moving from fast experimentation to production-ready development takes more than better prompts.
Jake shares his journey from hand-built Kentico development through vibe coding to agentic engineering, and how KentiCopilot brings Kentico-specific context, tools, skills and guardrails into the AI assistants developers already use. See how a more structured approach can help teams prototype faster while keeping human judgement at the centre of delivery.
For many development teams, AI is no longer an experiment. It can generate code, tests, documentation and technical recommendations in seconds — but questions around quality, security, governance and accountability remain.
Drawing on real Xperience projects, Ben explores how teams are building trusted AI-enabled delivery practices through human review, governance, validation workflows and agentic development patterns — including where AI creates genuine value, where it still falls short and what it takes to trust it in real-world delivery.
AI tools are changing faster than most organisations can standardise, train and roll them out. So what should teams actually invest in?
Andy shares lessons from a year of adopting, embedding and replacing AI tools across Xperience projects, and makes the case for investing in agentic ways of working, context engineering and the organisational ability to adapt quickly — with an honest look at what development and digital delivery could look like in 2027 and beyond.
Hear how Kentico’s product vision is evolving to help teams deliver sophisticated digital experiences faster, reduce complexity, and get greater value from their technology investments.
We’ll explore the role of AI and automation, continuous innovation, and how Kentico is evolving to meet what’s next.
A practical look at where AI can remove friction, where the human touch matters most, and how digital leaders can create more relevant, memorable customer experiences.
A final opportunity to reflect on the day, ask questions and bring together the key ideas and takeaways from Connection APAC 2026.
Continue the conversations over drinks and canapés as we recognise standout customer outcomes, innovation and contributions from across the APAC Kentico community.
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