10 Sessions You Shouldn't Miss at Sitecore Symposium 2021
October is right around the corner and you know what that means- Symposium!!
If you haven't already, head over here to register- its 100% free this year. The lineup is amazing and all sessions look really interesting. However as you know, we can't have it all- here are my top 10 picks for this year (with a special focus on commerce and in no particular order).
Sitecore Commerce Roadmap: Making Connections for Customers
On-demand session available from Wednesday 6th October, 4 pm AEDT
"Get up to speed on the current state of Sitecore Commerce (OrderCloud) and the ecosystem of commerce capabilities that we're building. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of the roles that Boxever, Moosend, and others have in enabling commerce and a better buyer experience."
Session details here.
Enterprise headless commerce with Four51 OrderCloud and Next.JS
Live session on Wednesday 6th October
6:35 AM - 7:05 AM AEDT
4:35 PM - 5:05 PM AEDT
11:05 PM - 11:35 PM AEDT
"With the addition of Four51 to the Sitecore product family, more organisations will embrace the composable DXP model. This creates a paradigm shift for Sitecore platform developers toward methodologies such as MACH and JAMStack. In this session, we focus on the development experience with Four51 OrderCloud alongside Next.JS and how these frameworks and their respective SDKs allow us to build commerce solutions that scale to complex business problems and deliver fast user experiences."
Session details here.
Taking OrderCloud worldwide: How to handle globalized e-commerce at scale
On-demand session available from Wednesday 6th October, 4 pm AEDT
"The number of companies selling globally is growing rapidly, but there is a lot to consider when starting to sell cross-region. How will you handle currencies? How will you handle the different tax rules? How do you ensure your shoppers get the same great performance in each region? In this session, we'll take you through how you can handle globalization with Sitecore’s OrderCloud, ensuring that you can deliver the same world-leading experience in every region."
Session details here.
Recipes for customizing cloud-native commerce
On-demand session available from Wednesday 6th October, 4 pm AEDT
"OrderCloud is an API-first commerce engine designed to interoperate with other APIs and provide extreme customizability. Developers building customizations have questions: How do I authenticate, host in the cloud, hook into commerce events, and transfer data in a performant way? The OrderCloud team has codified our answers in an open source library and example project called Catalyst. This talk will walk through common integration scenarios and demonstrate how to customize cloud-native commerce."
Session details here.
Sitecore OrderCloud integration with ERP
On-demand session available from Wednesday 6th October, 4 pm AEDT
"Sitecore has recently acquired the cloud-native API-first e-commerce platform Four51 OrderCloud. In this session, we will explore OrderCloud's integration architecture and how we can integrate it with any ERP. We will discuss how we have created an OrderCloud connector for Infor Cloudsuite leveraging OrderCloud's integration architecture."
Session details here.
Migrating to Sitecore OrderCloud from Sitecore Experience Commerce
On-demand session available from Wednesday 6th October, 4 pm AEDT
"With the recent acquisition of Four51, we wanted to explore the challenges and benefits of migrating Sitecore Experience Commerce to Sitecore OrderCloud within a solution. For years, EPAM has maintained our own open-source, headless Sitecore Commerce accelerator, and we thought this migration would be an excellent sandbox for our experiment. And the results were fascinating! We are excited to share our migration process to upgrade Sitecore XC to Sitecore OrderCloud."
Session details here.
Paradigm shift: How the future of Sitecore will shape your digital marketing organization
On-demand session available from Wednesday 6th October, 4 pm AEDT
"Join architect Richard Seal and strategist Rick Bauer as they push toward 100% Google Lighthouse scores for a site built on the emerging combination of Sitecore Experience Edge, Content Hub, Boxever, and Four51, on a Jamstack headless front end using NEXT.js."
Session details here.
How Europe’s largest farm supply company uses B2B commerce data to optimize sales decisions
On-demand session available from Wednesday 6th October, 4 pm AEDT
"In B2B commerce, the ultimate question is where to focus sales efforts. For DLG, Europe’s largest farm supply company, the answer is based on data-driven intelligence from its Sitecore XP B2B commerce implementation. In this presentation, you will learn how DLG uses real-time data transformation and business intelligence to analyze B2B transactions and optimize selling and pricing. We will cover technical aspects of DLG’s data integration architecture, as well as example dashboards."
Session details here.
A developer's look into Sitecore Experience Edge
On-demand session available from Wednesday 6th October, 4 pm AEDT
"Sitecore Experience Edge has been in the market for many months now. But what does it take to get started on this new SaaS offering? How can I leverage this new platform as a developer? Where does it fit into my existing toolbox?These are the questions we aim to answer in this presentation, where we take a developer's look into the new platform. We will explore the various APIs and learn how and when to use each one."
Session details here.
Our vision for experience and personalization
On-demand session available from Wednesday 6th October, 4 pm AEDT
"The leader of the Sitecore product pillar for experience and connectors presents an overview of the strategy that Sitecore is putting in place for personalization. Learn about use cases that we plan to cover and how we’ll iterate toward these capabilities."
Session details here.