Registration and Breakfast

When you arrive at the venue, you'll check in at the registration desks, located in the Strathblane Hall, at the main entrance to the venue. Get your badge and go downstairs to the Cromdale Hall for a coffee and light breakfast, then head to the Pentland Auditorium for the welcome and opening session.

John Newton

Welcome & Keynote

Welcome & Announcements w. Brian Remmington Keynote w. John Newton

John Newton

George Parapadakis

Alfresco Roadmap

Gain insight into the Alfresco roadmap.

George Parapadakis

Director, Product Strategy & Management

Morning Break

Enjoy coffee and snacks on the Cromdale Hall

LIGHTNING TALKS

Hosted by Francesco Corti

• Andrei Ciubotaru - Less Testing, Better Quality
• Axel Faust - The Alfresco Fat JAR Experiment
• Boriss Mejias - Drums, Guitars, Bass: How the Alfresco Community Relates to Music
• Charles Le Seac'h - Alfresco REST API: Explore, Conquer, and Extend
• Francesco Corti - What is the Alfresco Heartbeat?
• Codrin Chirica- The Future of Authentication
• Lucian Tuca - The Transform Graph

Luis Colorado

Performance Tools of the Trade

This presentation is for Alfresco administrators that are seeing their servers slowing down, leading to an unbearable experience, and sometimes server crashes. In most cases, there is no need to spend thousands on tools that may not help. There are many ways to tackle those pesky performance problems. Some tools are great, and others fall short. Some can make things worse. What to do? We’ll arm the administrator with the tools to solve those performance problems and monitor your system to keep it running at top speed.

Luis Colorado

Toni de la Fuente

Encryption at-rest and in-transit: Survival Guide with ADBP

To guarantee data integrity and confidentiality in Alfresco, we need to implement authentication and encryption at-rest and in-transit. With micro services proliferation, orchestrating platforms, complex topologies of services and multiple programming languages, there is a demand of new ways to manage service-to-service communication, and in some cases, without the application needing to be aware. In addition to that, compliance requirements around encryption and authentication come to the picture requiring new ways to handle them. This talk will review encryption at-rest solutions for ADBP, and will be also discuss about solutions for encryption and authentication between services. This will be an introduction to service mesh and TLS/mTLS. We will see a demo of ACS running with Istio over EKS along with tools like WaveScope, Kiali, Jaeger, Grafana, Service Graph and Prometheus.

Toni de la Fuente

Igor Ignatov & Dhar Balwani

ACS in the Global Information Services Company

Alfresco platform is actively contributing to the success of Wolters Kluwer, a $5.1 billion global information services company operating in 40 countries. Learn how ACS is transforming a siloed business with multiple divisions with significant variations in compliance, security and performance.

Igor Ignatov & Dhar Balwani

Ray Gauss

The DBP Builder Experience

Hear the direction Alfresco is taking in providing developers with frameworks and tools that enable performant, upgrade-safe extensions to the Digital Business Platform, including design, event consumption, REST APIs, and deployment.

Ray Gauss

Marius Grunenberg

Take Control! Custom Stencils in ADF

One helpful feature of Alfresco Process Services (APS) is the implementation of Custom Form Stencils which allows you to enhance user task forms with custom form fields. Basically, you write your own form field templates using AngularJS and HTML, which get rendered inside your form. When creating an ADF frontend for APS, it is not possible to directly integrate your Custom Stencils, which are written in AngularJS. However, you can write your own Angular 2+ components with TypeScript and reference them in your forms. Based on experience creating ADF frontends for APS and migrating Custom Stencils, I will show you live examples how to create and integrate your own components and which possibilities you have. We will also cover pitfalls and how to overcome them.

Marius Grunenberg

Sara Aspery & Ross Gale

Governance of the Future

With information becoming increasingly dispersed and varied within organizations and the liability from compliance requirements mounting, it has never been more important than now to understand how we architect our platform to support this governance need. We will take a deep dive look at the governance architecture of the future as it spans the breadth of the digital business platform and beyond and how we could orchestrate the governance of artifacts based on legal and security policies across a variety of systems. There are emerging technologies that will influence this direction and we will investigate their application in this governance space and the applications of this new governance future.

Sara Aspery & Ross Gale

Angel Borroy

Upgrading to Alfresco 6: The Short History of a Long Road

If you are running Alfresco 4 or 5 (even if you are running Alfresco 3), it's time to move ahead. Alfresco 6 delivers latest Cloud technology to Content Platform Services market to improve your content experience. This is an extensive guide on every step required to upgrade from previous versions.

Angel Borroy

Lunch

Join us on the 5th floor for lunch and cocktails.

Eugenio Romano

Let’s Play with ADF 3.0

In this talk, I'll show you how you can build ADF applications using the new version 3.0.0. The new ADF versions include a number of new features and some breaking changes with the past that will make your life easier, I'll show you how to take advantage of it and embrace the change.

Eugenio Romano

Shea Nangle

Best Practices for DIY Alfresco Security

How do you best secure a new instance of Alfresco during deployment? What can you do to secure your existing Alfresco deployments? The session will start by exploring a number of platform-independent steps for increasing security. Some common mistakes made in deployment will be outlined, and strategies will be identified for avoiding these mistakes. From there, the session will drill down into security recommendations that are specific to Alfresco deployments. Additionally, the session examine some "easy wins" to help comply with the requirements of specific security and compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS and HIPAA. Attendees will leave this session with concrete tactical recommendations for implementation on their Alfresco instances. While this session contains technical material and recommendations, it is accessible to audience members with a range of technical expertise.

Shea Nangle

Hans De Bal

Our First ADF Project in Production: The Story

Always exciting to do "something new": if it's jumping out of an airplane, swimming between sharks, implementing a custom synchronization and authentication system or developing with ADF and APS for the first time. You're scared you will die, but it's so thrilling when you succeed. I would very much like to talk to you about my "first time".

Hans De Bal

Judith Stoef

Process Services: Our First Experience

Learn about our experience with our very first project using Alfresco Process Services (APS), in combination with Alfresco Content Services (ACS) and the Application Development Framework (ADF), running the platform on docker. What challenges did we encounter and how did we resolve them.

Judith Stoef

LIGHTNING TALKS

Hosted by Jose Portillo

• Angel Borroy - 10 Tips Every New Developer in Alfresco Should Know
• Boriss Mejias - The Alfresco Community and the Transit of Venus
• Kaz Kono - How to Track Users' Activity without using Audit Function
• Piergiorgio Lucidi - Smart Alfresco ECM Program Strategy for Your New Success Story
• Sean Graham - How We Brought Advanced HTML5 Viewing to ADF

Srikant Varadarajan

Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud: Tales from the Frontline

How a 95+ year old business transformed to become a global technology leader in the connected and borderless world of commerce? Did this journey involve: a) a technology exercise b) changing of culture c) lots of employee training d) All of the above Attend this session to find out!

Srikant Varadarajan

Kasper Reijnders

What if we put the end user in the middle?

In a changing digital world the need for ease and comfort rises. Whilst people get more and more comfortable using digital tools, their acceptance of difficult tools drops. How can we make the user feel exited about using alfresco and get them give reactions like “I really want to use this product.”

Kasper Reijnders

Qing Gou

How We Use Alfresco for Online Publishing

Tax Analysts partnered with Ixxus to develop a new online/print publishing platform integrating Alfresco, MarkLogic, Drupal and FrameMaker. In the new platform, editorial and production staff use Alfresco for work-in-progress content development and semantic enrichment, following custom workflows.

Qing Gou

Joerg Lorenz

Alfresco, the Treasure chest of All ERP Financial Docs

Never forget to file an invoice, a purchase order or a contract again: We show you how to make the connect between open source ERP (odoo) and Alfresco. We will talk about findings on our product that can serve as best practice for your own development. See a live demonstration about how this works.

Joerg Lorenz

Gavin Cornwell & Morris Singer

Alfresco Digital Business Platform on EKS

Morris Singer (AWS SA) will provide an overview of the containerized deployment options in AWS followed by a demonstration of the Alfresco Digital Business Platform being deployed into EKS.

Gavin Cornwell & Morris Singer

David Webster

A Path from Share to ADF

Many of us have built UIs on top of Alfresco Share, but in order to maximize the benefits of using Alfresco's DBP, we now need to be using ADF instead. Let me show you how to minimize the disruption to your customers, users and engineering teams as you make that switch.

David Webster

Miguel Sanchez

Develop Fast, Deploy Faster – Discover APS Low-Code Advantages and Reduce your Development Lifecycle

Find out the advantage of APS scripting using its graphical interface and how that reduces your development lifecycle. We’ll show how to achieve that on different real scenarios and talk about the pros and cons of this approach versus the more traditional JAR file deployment.

Miguel Sanchez

Afternoon Break

Take a break with coffee and appetizers.

Mauricio Salatino

The Future of Activiti Cloud OSS

After a year of hard (Open Source) work we manage to move from being a monolith app to a set of Cloud Native building blocks. This experience allowed us to not only improve our technology but also our business features.

Mauricio Salatino

Jan Vonka

Transforming Transformers for ACS 6.1 & Beyond

Alfresco provides various content transformation options across the Digital Business Platform (DBP). In this talk, we will explore the new independently-scalable Alfresco Transform Service. This enables a new option for transforms to be asynchronously off-loaded by Alfresco Content Services (ACS).

Jan Vonka

Mitchell Brodsky & Patrick Crownover

Creating a Custom Search Application using ADF on OpenShift

ADF opens up exciting opportunities for us to build functional, modern Alfresco-backed web apps for our customers. At Red Hat, we used ADF to create an internal knowledgebase to help information-sharing and collaboration, and then deployed it on OpenShift. This talk will describe how we did it.

Mitchell Brodsky & Patrick Crownover

Jeff Potts

Moving from Actions and Behaviors to Microservices

For years we've been running custom logic in the same process as Alfresco by writing custom actions and behaviors. Those still work great, but it often makes sense to move custom logic to microservices that respond to events generated by Alfresco. This talk gives you a simple recipe for doing that.

Jeff Potts

Collaborate with Alfresco

Each year, Alfresco Product Development gives an update on how we have worked with our open source community contributors. In this update, we share our progress from the previous year including stats and ongoing projects.  

Welcome Party

Join us at The Caves for the opening party! 8-10 Niddry St S, Edinburgh EH1 1NS, UK

Registration and Breakfast

Join us for coffee and a light breakfast before the conference.

Brian Remmington

Welcome and Daily Business

We will start each morning with a welcome, and updates to the schedule. Any important announcements will be made then.

Brian Remmington

Chief Architect, Alfresco

Bernadette Nixon

Keynote w. Bernadette Nixon

Bernadette Nixon

Morning Break

Enjoy coffee and snacks.

LIGHTNING TALKS

Hosted by Angel Borroy

• Angel Borroy - How to Write Alfresco Addons that Last Forever
• Marius Grunenberg - An ADF Rendezvous with ReactJS (Sorry Angular!)
• Mikel Asla - Portal & Content Services Revisited: Alfresco - Liferay Integration
• Ciju Joseph - Alfresco ADF Anti-Patterns
• Suresh Joshee - Leveraging Ephesoft and Alfresco to Match Document with the Student

Mario Romano & Francesco Corti

The Rise of ADF

In the last 2 years we worked hard to create the ADF framework. ADF 3.0 is around the corner and a lot has changed, such as support for Activiti Cloud, APS 2.X and new applications are provided by Alfresco which are built using ADF.

Mario Romano & Francesco Corti

Alex Mukha, Stefan Kopf, Alan Davis

Architectural Changes in the Repo in 6.1 and Beyond

As we move forward to a better scalable platform, we have seen substantial architectural changes in the Repository. This talk will explore this new architecture and present a roadmap how we move forward, so that architects and developers can make the right decisions for future proof extensions.

Alex Mukha, Stefan Kopf, Alan Davis

Marcello Teodori & Vito Albano

Anatomy of an APS2 Application

APS2 comes with new modern and powerful tools built using ADF to model and deploy cloud native process applications, let's run through what's in an app with a simple and fun example, ordering beers for your office.

Marcello Teodori & Vito Albano

Hack-a-thon Showcase

This session will showcase the projects that conference attendees have worked on during this event's hack-a-thon on Tuesday, before the main conference. This may be the session where you can see the next "must-have" Alfresco addon or a intriguing prototype you can build upon for your next project.

Ron Swan

ASCPedia: A Hybrid Approach to Virtual Pathology

ASCPedia is an online encyclopedia for pathologists to find, share and contribute pathology assets. ASCPedia presents high-resolution virtual slide scans – showing an unprecedented level of detail to the viewer. Leveraging a hybrid cloud approach on AWS, ASCP utilizes the power of cloud computing.

Ron Swan

Igor Dianov & Doug Johnson

Real-World GitOps w. Alfresco Process Services

This talk: (1) demonstrates DevOps pipelines on Kubernetes with multiple generations of Alfresco Process Services; (2) introduces Kubernetes-based GitOps for your custom code/configs; (3) updates on the latest Alfresco product trends in DevOps; and (4) gives practical advice on maturing your organization’s DevOps practices with Alfresco.

Igor Dianov & Doug Johnson

Lunch

Join us for lunch.

LIGHTNING TALKS

Hosted by Axel Faust

• Axel Faust - Not-so-smart Folders made Smart(er)
• Alan Davis - Porting a Custom Transformer to the New Transform Service
• Richard McKnight - Bulk Export Utility
• Tom Page - Innovation and Governance Services: Automated Filing
• Stefan Kopf - Unsupervised Text Categorization

Jamal Kaabi-Morfrad & Ray Gauss

The Alfresco Event Gateway

Introducing the new Alfresco Event Gateway, which enables developers to build an app that can subscribe to all public process and content Events from the Digital Business Platform. The architecture, technology and tips on how it would help the developers to build a meaningful app will be covered.

Jamal Kaabi-Morfrad & Ray Gauss

Bindu Wavell & Vijay Prince

Where do I sign? Right on the line! AKA Extending Alfresco Workspace with Docusign

Have you ever needed to sign a document you are managing in Alfresco? Tired of printing, signing, scanning, versioning? Why not use the industry leading eSignature tools from DocuSign integrated right into Alfresco Workspace! We'll share how we created an extension to do just that.

Bindu Wavell & Vijay Prince

Boriss Mejias

PostgreSQL Holds the Rhythm of Alfresco Platform

The database is a crucial part of your Alfresco platform. If the database is not in good shape, your Alfresco will not behave well. It's like the drummer in a band. When the tempo is good, you hardly notice the drums and you can focus on the other instruments and the voice. When the drummer is out of tempo, the whole band collapses. Last year, an Alfresco support engineer told us what are the things one should have a look at in the database. His excellent presentation was DB-engine agnostic. This talk is a continuation and PostgreSQL specific. We will review the same concepts but in a concrete manner with code examples, tips & tricks, and we will extend it with cool things that can be done with PostgreSQL, including backups, monitoring, and how to migrate from other database engines.

Boriss Mejias

Mario Romano

From APS 1.0 to APS 2.0 – Designed for the Cloud

APS 2.0 is a lot different from its predecessor; let's see together what are the differences and what you should take into account when you upgrade it.

Mario Romano

David Miller

Bidirectional Sync to Other Platforms

Alfresco is often part of a larger system of systems. See how Alfresco's audit module and REST APIs enable seamless integration in the larger ecosystem - from audit events to records management to process integration. Give your customers the best of all worlds - a consistent view across all tools.

David Miller

Denys Vuika

Extensibility for ADF Applications

Highlights Include:

• Extending and customising your ADF applications based on ADF Extensibility Format specification.
• Composing UI in a declarative manner.
• Creating, deploying and managing extensions that create new routes, bring new content, alter application behaviour, and many more.
• Authoring and distributing plugin libraries.

Denys Vuika

Francesco Corti

Alfresco Identity Services in Action: Welcome Common Authentication across the Alfresco Stack

One core concept of the Alfresco Digital Business Platform is the Identity Service implementing a common layer of identity management for Content, Process and enabled on ADF applications. In this talk I would like to introduce Keycloak and show how to use the Identity Service in practical use cases.

Francesco Corti

Ciju Joseph

Azure Devops and Alfresco DBP

Deployment automation is key to the success of all digital transformation projects. During this session I'll share my experience from a customer who is using the shiny new Azure Devops to manage the build & release pipelines of the entire Alfresco DBP stack on Microsoft Azure Platform.

Ciju Joseph

Shoeb Sarguroh

Using Alfresco, Disrupting the Way Education is Delivered in Schools

A new methodology "ecolearn" developed for effective delivery of primary and secondary education is implemented using Alfresco's Content Services. It effectively shares planners and resources in a structured environment avoiding re-writing planners as many times as the number of teachers!

Shoeb Sarguroh

Ryan Dawson

A Whirlwind Tour of Activiti Cloud

A quick overview of the key new elements in Activiti Cloud that are likely to be unfamiliar to developers who have worked with previous versions. Focus will be on: - Architectural changes and the new building-blocks (inc CQRS pattern) - Keycloak as first SSO/IDM integration - New Java APIs - New REST APIs - How to navigate the examples

Ryan Dawson

Sergiu Vidrascu

Developing on Kubernetes

Kubernetes is hard. Especially for beginners; it’s quite overwhelming. I want to demystify it and show two ways of developing with it and mention a few others. I want to describe two tool sets and then have two short demos on writing code and see it in action within k8s.

Sergiu Vidrascu

Afternoon Break

Time to socialize over coffee and snacks.

LIGHTNING TALKS

Hosted by Jose Portillo

• Shoeb Sarguroh - Using Alfresco: Disrupting the way education is delivered in schools
• Daniel Gradecak - Peltas - get insights on your Alfresco data
• Bartosz Skotarek - Incremental version history, or how to version only those node elements that have changed
• Roxana Lucanu - Delivering Faster with T-Shaped People

Andras Popovics

Alfresco Modeling Application

Get to know the new AMA application, the most important basic features of it, the differences between the Community and Enterprise version, and how you could extend it using our new plugin system. What the differences are between AMA and the APS, and what challenges we had during its development.

Andras Popovics

Asgeir Frimmansson

Interaxo: A Journey to Cloud Native

Asgeir Frimmansson

Luis Cabaciera & Vitor Moreira

GDPR Watchdog

Privacy is a growing concern in an always connected, digital world. We constantly see increasing regulation regarding the protection of personal data. In this talk we present a solution that identifies personal and sensitive data in digital content using AI and Computer Vision. Privacy and personal data protection is becoming a critical requirement for every information system. The increasing trend in regulation with the associated high penalty fees, not to mention the damages in a company’s reputation and business, have put the concern for data protection on everyone’s agenda.

Luis Cabaciera & Vitor Moreira

Awards

Q&A Panel

At each of our technical conferences, we reserve time for audience Q&A. Any topic is fair game. We'll bring the Alfresco engineering team onto the stage, and the audience will be full of technical experts that can help address questions. What do you want to ask? Hosted by Francesco Corti