At Digital Excellence 2026, Jeppe Birkebæk Truelsen demonstrated how Umbraco enables membership organizations to scale content while maintaining brand voice and data security. By implementing a governance layer for AI, organizations can define boundaries and retain control, ensuring AI acts as an assistant rather than a decision-maker, fostering accountability and trust.
2026-05-21 from 18:00 to 20:00 (Europe/London) - CTI Digital, South Central, 11 Peter Street, Manchester, M2 5QR, Manchester, GB
Nicholas Carlini discussed using Anthropic's Claude models for automated vulnerability discovery in software. Liam Laverty replicated this approach in the Umbraco-CMS repository using a heuristics-based method, achieving significant cost reduction—under $20 compared to Carlini's $40k—while identifying potential vulnerabilities and improving documentation, although no CVEs were found.
Paul Seal discusses the development of AI skills for Umbraco, focusing on creating a skill to add page types. The team established naming conventions, document organization, and page categorization to streamline feature scaffolding. The goal is to automate feature addition while maintaining consistency, with plans for further enhancements and community collaboration.
SDKits announces AI Semantic Ranking support in ExamineX for Azure Search, enhancing search relevance by understanding query meanings. It employs deep learning models to re-rank results after an initial keyword search, providing useful outputs and extracted captions. Semantic ranking is included in ExamineX versions 6.2 and up, with Azure's Free tier offering 1,000 queries/month.
2026-05-14 from 18:00 to 19:30 (Europe/Copenhagen) - Online
2026-05-14 from 18:00 to 21:00 (Europe/London) - Novicell UK, 21-33 Great Eastern Street, London, GB
2026-05-18 from 14:00 to 20:00 (Europe/Oslo) - Nova Consulting Group, Karl Johans gt. 16, Oslo, NO
2026-05-21 from 18:00 to 20:00 (Europe/London) - CTI Digital, South Central, 11 Peter Street, Manchester, M2 5QR, Manchester, GB
Diplo Translator adds a Translate action to the Umbraco Dictionary tree using Umbraco AI.
Drops a public-facing, AI-powered chat widget on a website's frontend.
Make your Umbraco site visible to AI search engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot) and give editors visibility into who's reading the site.
Jason Prothero introduces the ProWorks Umbraco.AI Page Evaluator, an open-source tool that enhances website content quality by providing structured feedback on clarity, SEO, and brand alignment. Integrated within Umbraco, it allows for efficient evaluation of pages before publication, reducing the risk of inaccuracies and ensuring brand consistency.