DevDays 2025

Back to the Roots

On 3–4 June, developers gathered in Basel, Switzerland for an exclusive in-person edition of Magnolia DevDays. This year, we celebrated what makes Magnolia truly unique: flexibility, ease of use, and an exceptional developer experience.

Thanks to everyone who joined us in Basel! 🚀

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Why attend DevDays 2025 in Basel?

DevDays is the largest gathering of Magnolia developers, engineers, architects, and product managers from around the world. Join us to get the latest updates from the Magnolia product team and to connect with the community.

Upskill

Get up to speed with the latest developments in Magnolia - and bring your own challenges. Experts from Magnolia will be ready to help you.

Network

Meet professionals like you and connect in a casual environment. It’s also a great chance to meet or reconnect with the wider Magnolia team at our HQ.

Have fun

If you’re a Magnolia developer, you know we’re all about personal touch and authenticity. We promise two days with good humor, fun activities and lots of smiles.

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Arrive at the Magnolia Lounge to register, pick up your welcome kit and event ID, and start mingling with Magnolians and DevDays participants. Your experience begins here!

Christopher Zimmermann Product Manager, Magnolia
Samuel Stahelin, Chief Services Officer, Magnolia

Sorina Mone Senior Product Marketing Manager, Magnolia
Philipp Bracher Chief Product & Technology Officer, Magnolia

Jan Schulte Head of Group Consulting, Magnolia

10.00 - 10.30 | Coffee Break

Christopher Zimmermann Product Manager, Magnolia

Martina Michlova Senior Front-End Solution Architect, Magnolia
Bartosz Staryga Lead Architect - Cloud Development, Magnolia

Michael Dürig Software Engineer, Magnolia

12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch Break

Aleksandr Pchelintcev Lead Architect, Magnolia

Sebastian Klingberg Lead DevOps Solution Architect, Magnolia
Lukas Reck Head of Cloud Services, Magnolia

Adrien Manzoni Cloud Tech Lead, Magnolia

15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee Break

Markus Hesper Frontend Lead, dev5310 GmbH & Co. KG

Rihana Ries Head of UX, Noice

16.30 - 16.45 | Coffee Break

Marc Wagner DevOps Engineer, dev5310 GmbH & Co. KG

Paul Elisii Co-Founder and CEO, Claris AI

Todd Kuney Co-Founder and CTO, Claris AI

Jörg von Frantzius Technical Director, IBM iX Germany GmbH

Christopher Zimmermann Product Manager, Magnolia

Join us back at the Magnolia Lounge for a relaxed evening of good food, great company, and games! We’ll kick things off with an apéro, followed by an informal dinner and a game night experience to remember.

Start your morning with us at the Magnolia Lounge!

Bring your own questions, curiosities or challenges you’re facing in your projects. Experts from Magnolia will be there in an informal setting over breakfast. After this relaxed roundtable, we’ll move into the day’s workshops, held across Oslo Studios and Magnolia.

Get hands-on with the latest innovations from Magnolia. Join our workshops for a deep dive and best practices in:

Workshop 1: AI Accelerator: From Zero to Hero
(Oslo Studios, Main Room - Ground Floor)

Workshop 2: Rendering Strategies in Action
(Magnolia, Lounge - Ground Floor)

Workshop 3: PaaS Best Practices
(Magnolia, Velvet Underground - 2F)

Workshop 4: Migrating to Magnolia 6.3
(Magnolia, Training Room - Ground Floor)

We’ve sent you a form to select your preferred workshop. Need to join or switch workshops last minute? No problem! Just reach out and we’ll take care of it!

Featured speakers

Tobias Kerschbaum

Solution Architect, Magnolia

Bartosz Staryga

Front-End Solution Architect, Magnolia

Christopher Zimmermann

Product Manager, Magnolia

Jan Schulte

Head of Group Consulting, Magnolia

Lukas Reck

Head of Cloud Services, Magnolia

Martina Michlova

Senior Front-End Solution Architect, Magnolia

Philipp Bracher

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Magnolia

Samuel Staehelin

Chief Services Officer, Magnolia

Sebastian Klingberg

Lead DevOps Solution Architect, Magnolia

Sorina Mone

Marketer, Magnolia

More to come...

venue

Magnolia HQ Basel 🇨🇭

Oslo-Strasse 2
4142 Münchenstein (Basel)
Switzerland

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DevDays is a free event, you don’t need to pay a registration fee to attend any of the conference talks or any of the workshops.

No, we don't limit the number of delegates from one company. However, if registrations will reach the maximum capacity we have set for the event, then we may need to set a limit for new companies joining.

UPDATE: Thank you for the overwhelming interest. This year's Magnolia DevDays has officially reached maximum capacity. But don’t worry, we’ll be back next year and we’re already looking forward to seeing you then! Stay tuned for updates and future announcements.

No, DevDays 2025 is an exclusively in-person event taking place at our headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. We look forward to meeting you there soon!

Yes, we’d love you to share the work you are doing with Magnolia and the great experiences you are building. If you'd like to submit a presentation, reach out to Cass and she will connect you with the right subject matter experts from the DevDays team.

UPDATE: Thank you for the overwhelming interest. All presentation and speaker slots for this year's Magnolia DevDays are now full and finalized. But don’t worry, we’ll be back next year and we’re already excited to hear from you then! Stay tuned for updates and future announcements.

3-4 June, Basel, Switzerland

Thanks for DevDays2025

Thank you to all who made DevDays2025 unforgettable! The future of tech is brighter—and more collaborative—than ever.

Stay tuned for the next DevDays! 🚀

See the Highlights

Magnolia DevDays 2025

Back to the Roots

Why attend DevDays 2025 in Basel?

Upskill

Network

Have fun

Agenda

Registration & Coffee

Welcome & Agenda

Keynote: Magnolia Vision (Why and What We're Building)

Beyond the Hype: Practical AI Strategies for Magnolia

Magnolia, U and I. Learn About the New Magnolia User Interface Technology in Development

To SSR or not to SSR - Choosing the Right Rendering Strategy for Your Web App

Magnolia Swift Publication

What Performance Problems the Profiler Reveals and What We Do About Them

Magnolia Cloud Architecture

Magnolia Cloud Cockpit

Efficient and Flexible Management and Distribution of Centralized JCR Content Within Magnolia DXP

Magnolia by Design: Building a Figma Workflow for Magnolia

Magnolia Meets OpenTelemetry: Vendor-Agnostic Observability

Building the Intelligent Enterprise: Claris AI Agents in Your Magnolia Stack

How to Sleep Better at Night with MagnoliaTomcatExtension for JUnit5 and Magnolia-Reproducer

Closing & Awards

Apéro, Dinner & Gaming

Roundtable Discussions

Workshops