Registration and Breakfast

When you arrive at the venue, you'll check in at the front desk. Get your badge and head to the auditorium on the 5th floor for welcome and opening session.

Thomas DeMeo

Welcome & Keynote: Alfresco Product Direction

Thomas DeMeo

Brian Remmington

The Evolution of Alfresco’s Digital Business Platform

Would you like to learn how Alfresco is planning on evolving the architecture of its Digital Business Platform to take full advantage of its unique blend of Process, Content, and Governance in the world of Cloud, Containers, and Microservices? This is the talk for you.

Brian Remmington

LIGHTNING TALKS

Boriss Mejias - The Alfresco Community, Life, Universe and Everything Roy Weatherall - What is Governance Services? Ross Gale - Governance Services, Git Workflows, and How to Contribute Angel Borroy - How to Extend (Properly) and "Old" Alfresco Share Feature David Webster - Why Search and Rescue is like Software Development

Mario Romano

ADF Basics and Beyond

If you want to know everything about ADF its architecture, technologies and best practices you can't skip this talk. Join us also to know more about what we released in November as part of ADF 2.0 and what is our vision for the future.

Mario Romano

Roxana Angheluta

Production-Ready Docker Stack

Docker has opened up a complete new world to technology, with fast deployments, rolling upgrades and better resource allocation. Alfresco has embraced it, but to our knowledge there is no production-ready stack using it yet. We want to present such a stack and show its capabilities and value.

Roxana Angheluta

Mauricio Salatino

Activiti Cloud = Secret Sauce

Targeting Docker and Kubernetes as our main deployment mechanism push us to understand a set of architectural patterns required by these technologies. During this talk we will present the patterns adopted by the Activiti Cloud project and the lessons learned around K8s, Docker and Spring Cloud.

Mauricio Salatino

Morning Break

Enjoy coffee and snacks on the 5th floor.

Gavin Cornwell & David Wright

5 Ways to Use AWS with Alfresco

Learn how to leverage AWS with Alfresco. We will look at current and future methods for deploying onto AWS, how you can use serverless and AI technologies to power your next generation extensions and how we’re using AWS internally to manage online trials and improve user experience.

Gavin Cornwell & David Wright

Richard McKnight

Well Built Content Services Extensions

This talk will lay out the elements of an extension including the content model, JS API, Web Scripts, Content Policies, Action Executors, Web Scripts and more. This will draw on years of experience delivering extensions to various projects. We will provide real code examples for attendees.

Richard McKnight

Eugenio Romano

Play with ADF 2.0

The new ADF version contains some breaking changes with the past and with this session I want help the community to leverage and embrace the change.

Eugenio Romano

Ryan Dawson

Activiti Cloud: Deep Dive

Activiti Cloud (introduced in v7) was built to leverage Cloud environments – we will be working through a detailed example to illustrate how Activiti Cloud makes it natural to build BPM-enabled applications using a micro services architecture.

Ryan Dawson

Daisuke Yoshimoto

Using and Extending Activiti Engine at Manga Publisher

We have developed the BPM suite product by using Activiti engine. I will share how we have embedded and extended Activiti engine in developing our product. Also, I will share our customer case studies that use our bpm product. 1. Japanese Manga(Comic book) publisher: The process of planning the publication 2. Japanese electronic commerce compnay: The process of planning sales campaign

Daisuke Yoshimoto

Sergiu Vidrascu

The Future of Alfresco Deployments

Come and see the future direction of Alfresco containerised deployments using Kubernetes.

Sergiu Vidrascu

Denys Vuika

Using and Extending the Alfresco Content App

Getting started with a new ADF-based Alfresco Content App and extending the application with custom content.

Denys Vuika

Michael Suzuki

Alfresco Reporting & Analytics

Data analytics is about discovering knowledge from large volumes of data and applying it to the business. Together we will explore how this is done in Alfresco.

Michael Suzuki

Lunch

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

Vagesh Dave

Digital Business at McDermott

More details TBA.

Vagesh Dave

Jeff Potts

Moving Gigantic Files In and Out of the Repository

Using Alfresco to work with files that are each several gigabytes or more in size can be challenging. In this talk, I'll show how a Life Sciences client used Alfresco and another commercial open source project together to solve this challenge.

Jeff Potts

Lukas Ladenberger

APS Stencil Development

Developing custom form stencils with APS editor can be a pain. This session shows how to meet the challenges in working with APS and presents an approach for efficient stencils development including an example and live coding/demonstration.

Lukas Ladenberger

Eva Vasques, Francisco Barbedo

Portuguese Public Admin Records

An open-source project, developed with DGLAB to meet Portuguese Records Management Requirements, creating a bond between active content and records that isn’t ‘archive science’ to end-users. Plus we did some really cool extensions to Alfresco.

Eva Vasques, Francisco Barbedo

LIGHTNING TALKS

Harry Peek - Search and Analytics Roadmap
Axel Faust - Important Workarounds for Making ASS Multi-Lingual
Dennis Koch - APS Extension Project
Kaz Kono - Choosing Points of Implementing a Custom Search Method
David Caruana - Hack Your Creativity

Vijay Prince

Alfresco Bulk Export Tool

I will explain how I have extended the Bulk Export Tool and demonstrate how to use the tool for large scale Alfresco to Alfresco migrations. Things I will be demonstrating include: * The new UI for triggering and monitoring exports * Perform incremental migrations by using the modified date * Add/update aspects and properties to the export so that migrated documents can be identified/tracked * Pause/resume capability that can be useful for large exports More details on the tool can be found at https://github.com/vprince1/alfresco-bulk-export.  

Vijay Prince

Boriss Mejias

Resilient Alfresco – Prepare for Failure

The failure of a single but critical component in your system can render your Alfresco unusable. You can restore backups, but that means downtime and data-lost. In this presentation we bring you ideas to build a resilient Alfresco by adding redundancy to database, content store and other components.

Boriss Mejias

Ana Manolache

Securing Content with AGS

Alfresco Governance Services (RM) 2.7 provides very powerful mechanisms for managing content and folder classification. Find out about the classification tools that RM offers and how to integrate with them in your project.

Ana Manolache

Jose Portillo

Solr Sharding Best Practices

With the increased number of customers migrating from legacy ecm systems like Documentum large repository sizes are becoming the norm. In order for search services to keep up with large repositories it is imperative for customers to know about the benefits of sharding to help scale their systems.

Jose Portillo

Nathan McMinn

Process Services & the Internet of Things

There are already more things connected to the Internet than there are people in the world. All of these devices trigger countless processes every day. Come see how Alfresco Process Services and AWS can unlock the power of IoT in your own applications.

Nathan McMinn

Gonçalo Abreu

Alfresco Digital Mailroom

Business Process Automation has become paramount for almost every business, and Machine Learning is opening up a whole new level of capabilities in this area. In this talk we will be presenting the challenges in building a Digital MailRoom with Alfresco Process Services integrated with Alfresco Content Services, and show some of the strategies and best practices when using both platforms together. We will also show how the power of Machine Learning can be used to increase the level of automation in both data extraction and decision making in business processes towards a dynamic system that constantly learns and evolves.

Gonçalo Abreu

Ben Chevallereau

Alfresco and Blockchain

Blockchain is a very hot topic right now, and this talk is about exploring what could be done by integrating Alfresco with a blockchain technology. During this talk, we'll briefly introduce what is a blockchain and how it could be used to simplify the integration with other components.

Ben Chevallereau

Afternoon Break

Take a break with coffee and appetizers on the 5th floor.

LIGHTNING TALKS

David Ciamberlano - David and Goliath (The Misadventures of an Alfrescan vs. a Big Company)
Cesar Capillas - Alfresco Monitoring Setups with Nagios and ELK Stack using JMX and OOTB Support Tools
Willem Van den Eynde - 3 Tips for Migrating Alfresco to AWS or Azure
Younes Regaieg - Don't Reinvent the Wheel, Reuse!
Rodica Sutu - Reduce Release Stress by Trusting Your Test
Philippe Quéré - How Alfresco Can Manage Your Products and Your Projects with beCPG Addons
Roy Weatherall - Gamificaiton of Content Navigation Using a Minecraft Plugin

BoF: Admin and Deployment

BoF: User Interfaces

BoF: APS / Activiti

Richard Esplin, Boriss Mejias, Mauricio Salatino

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.  

Richard Esplin, Boriss Mejias, Mauricio Salatino

Welcome Social

Let's have cocktails and appetizers together! Meet on the 5th Floor and Terrace.

Breakfast

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

Chris Wiborg

Welcome and Daily Business

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

Chris Wiborg

Vice President of Product Marketing at Alfresco Software

John Newton

Impact of Emerging Technologies on Content

Content management has been called a mature discipline, but emerging technologies like machine learning, cloud services, consumer friendly interfaces, and the block chain promise new capabilities that we need to be prepared to embrace.

John Newton

Morning Break

Enjoy coffee and snacks on the 5th floor.

LIGHTNING TALKS

Jason Jolley - Are you thinking ahead? Let your AI do it for you. Daniel Gradecak - Alfresco MVC - A Seamless Integration with Spring MVC Mohammed Gazal - PDF Template Jasper Hilven - React on Alfresco: How to Get Things Done Charles Le Seac'h - An Alternative Way to Explore Your Documents

Bindu Wavell

Yo SDK 3

I’ll demonstrate how to quickly and efficiently work on SDK 3 projects using the updated yeoman generator. For folks using the SDK 2 generator, I’ll provide an overview of the work that has happened to support SDK 3 and I’ll explain what’s new and ongoing collaborations.

Bindu Wavell

Ray Gauss

Digital Business Platform Extensions

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

Sérgio Ferreira

Moreq 2010 in Alfresco

Moreq 2010, it is a formal requirements specification for a generic electronic records management system. Published in 2008 by the European Commission.

Sérgio Ferreira

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.

Martin Bergljung

SDK 3 Multi Module Project using Nexus 3 for Releases and Versioning

In this talk you will learn how to set up an Alfresco SDK 3.0 multi module project that could be used in a larger consulting project context. Extension modules will be standalone and versioned and released independently in the Nexus 3 Repository Manager. The talk also includes a look at defining a Parent POM and an Aggregator POM for your SDK 3 project solution.

Martin Bergljung

Mark Tumner

Support Your Local Database

The database is everything. Look after the database and Alfresco will look after you. See real world examples, as seen by Support, showing how the database can impact Alfresco and what can be done to keep things running smoothly.

Mark Tumner

Jan Vonka

Integrating Alfresco at Scale

Alfresco provides a rich set of options for integrating third-party systems with services across the Digital Business Platform. We will deep-dive into the architecture of the new Alfresco Integration Services framework - a set of event-driven micro-services that can be easily deployed & scaled.

Jan Vonka

Lunch

Join us upstairs (5th Floor) for lunch and cocktails.

Mario Romano

Unified Javascript API

In Alfresco we are conscious that one size doesn't fit all and some developer will not adopt our Angular components, for this reason we created the Alfresco JavaScript Api. Let's see together how to use it to leverage NodeJs applications and frontend app based on non Angular frameworks.

Mario Romano

Thijs Lemmens

Postgresql for Alfresco: The Practical Guide

This talk will highlight useful PG features, and explain how you can apply them on your Alfresco installation. We will cover a broad range of topics, going from PITR, replication to a db upgrade without downtime. Fasten your seatbelts, because everything will be demoed live.

Thijs Lemmens

Ciju Joseph & w. Matthew Barmash

Integrations with APS and MuleSoft

Who doesn't like low code drag and drop style integration with systems like Salesforce, SharePoint, Workday, Databases etc from their business processes. Attend this session to see a live process building demo using Alfresco Process Services and MuleSoft including real third party integrations!

Ciju Joseph & w. Matthew Barmash

David Webster

Process Backed Governance

Alfresco's Digital Business Platform sits at the centre of a Venn diagram of Content, Process and Governance. I'll focuses the overlap between Process and Governance, exploring what that means and how our platform can be extended to bring the power of our process engine into our Governance tools.

David Webster

LIGHTNING TALKS

Ciju Joseph - Voice Driven ADF Application Nathan McMinn - Natural Language Processing and Enterprise Search Mario Fliegner - Talking SAP David Ciamberlano - You Probably Didn't Know That ... (Small Hidden Features in Alfresco) Sergey Palyukh - Alfresco Template Filler

Tarik Makota

Alfresco on AWS Cloud

The flexible compute, storage, and database services that AWS offers make it an ideal platform for Alfresco Content Services. We will walk thru an enterprise-grade Alfresco Content Services configuration on AWS Cloud that you can adapt to virtually any scenario, and scale up, down, or out, depending on your use case. Topics that will be covered: walk thru virtual private cloud (VPC) configured across Availability Zones,  Elastic Load Balancing integrated with Auto Scaling, for load balancing across the Alfresco Content Services servers,  IAM role with fine-grained permissions to manage access to AWS services, and security groups to restrict access to only necessary protocols and ports, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for shared file storage for the cluster and Amazon Aurora which is part of Amazon Relational Database System (Amazon RDS) deployed in multiple Availability Zones

Tarik Makota

Ben Kelley

APS + Serverless + Webhooks

FaaS and Serverless technologies are exploding across the web. FaaS offers a number of benefits to developers and companies and is quickly gaining traction as Amazon and Azure role out services. FaaS allows developers to develop backed logic with virtually any kind of language (Java, C#, Node, Python etc..) and virtually zero administration. This lets developers be more productive and help save companies money by not having to maintain backed infrastructure that is sitting idle frequently. In this talk I will describe FaaS and show how to build a serverless function which gets invoked via a webhook. With the combination of webhooks and serverless we can connect and orchestrate processes across desperate platforms with Alfresco Process Services. (E.g. Jira, Github and APS)

Ben Kelley

Mauro Rafael Pereira Teixeira

Content OCRing and Scoring

A document is scanned and uploaded into Alfresco, now what? Is it OCRed (Optical Character Recognised) and are your users able to find the document by searching on its content? How can you discover documents with incorrect metadata without going through thousands of documents? OCR it and score it.

Mauro Rafael Pereira Teixeira

Mano Swerts & Ivan Escobar

Real ADF Experience

At BeeCon 2017 we related our experience with ADF and how we transitioned some solutions from Share to ADF. That was just the first chapter! Join us on our journey and learn how ADF has evolved from there and how we have leveraged new features not to mention the upgrade process.

Mano Swerts & Ivan Escobar

Toni de la Fuente

From Zero to Hero: Backing Up Alfresco

Learn all what you need to know to perform a proper backup and disaster recovery strategy. From a single server installation with hundreds of documents to a large deployment with multiple nodes, layers, databases and multi-million documents. What is the best way for each case?

Toni de la Fuente

Igor Dianov

The Power of GraphQL in Activiti Query API

Introducing new Activiti GraphQL Query API with expressive schema and type-safe query criteria expressions to provide flexible, fast and declarative data queries for process driven client applications.

Igor Dianov

Ermanno Russo

Role Based Access Control

Alfresco Content Services doesn't offer RBAC functionalities out-of-the-box, unless you install Records Management. Using Apache Shiro is possible to implement easily and quickly role management and granular role permission mapping for custom APIs based on Alfresco. In this talk, I will show how.

Ermanno Russo

Afternoon Break

Time to socialize over coffee and snacks, 5th Floor.

Luis Cabaceira & Piergiorgio Lucidi

Apache ManifoldCF Output Connectors

In our days, enterprise digital content is scattered on several independent systems and subsystems, which perform services such as user authentication, document storage, and provide search capabilities. Centralising enterprise data into a single repository is a growing necessity for organisations. Our talk proposes an approach that could be the "silver bullet" that will open a clear path for Enterprise digital content centralisation . In its genesis , Apache ManifoldCF is a crawler that allows you to manage content indexes in your search engines, this was the main goal of the product. We've realised that we could leverage ManifoldCF to also migrate content, and not only indexes, making it a very good migration tool. This talk will focus on 2 new output connectors for Apache ManifoldCF that are being developed by us.

Luis Cabaceira & Piergiorgio Lucidi

Jason Jolley

Head in clouds-AWS or Azure

Time to get out of the server room and into the cloud? Moving out is hard to do, especially if you're forecasting turbulence. Luckily, we've been there. Migrating to AWS or Azure has a special set of challenges. In this presentation, we'll review the tips and tricks of real world cloud solutions.

Jason Jolley

Mark Rogers

Distributed Critical Workflows

You have a critical process controlled by a business process. So you create a workflow in the cloud but what if the cloud system becomes unavailable? Real life continues despite the IT failure.

Mark Rogers

Oksana Kurysheva

Overcoming Common Knowledge: 100k Nodes in a Single Folder

Alfresco Best Practices tell us "Don't store more than 2000 nodes in a single folder". But in many use cases having thousands of nodes on one logical level is natural. Let's see why best practices tell us so, how to overcome it, limitations and benefits of the implementation. Demo inside.

Oksana Kurysheva

LIGHTNING TALKS

Dennis Koch - APS REST API Eugenio Romano - How to Extend the Viewer Doug Johnson - Tricks for Successfully Deploying the DBP Jeff Potts - Flexible and Repeatable Permissions Management with ACL Templates Richard Esplin - Lessons on Open Source from the French Revolution  

David Caruana

Transform Your Content Processing with Akka

Akka is an open source toolkit for distributed & resilient message-based services. You'll learn about Alfresco's research on building autonomous content transformers with Akka, Docker & Kubernetes and how this can lead to a new world of cloud scalable and decentralised content processing pipelines.

David Caruana

Axel Faust

Patch Handling Patterns for ACS and APS

Just as any software, Alfresco Content Services and Alfresco Process Services are fertile grounds for bugs, incomplete / narrow-minded implementations and other sorts of issues. Unfortunately, the approaches to handling patches can be quite diverse among the community, potentially leading to issues around compability or excessive maintenance effort carrying patches over to new Alfresco versions. The increasing heterogeneity between Alfresco products, growing complexity of source code management and, in some cases, limitations in access to reproducible build sources does not provide a basis for community members and customers to standardise on a single, common pattern. In this talk I will discuss patch handling patterns that are currently being used within the community, or that I have been using in customer projects and my own open source modules. Advantages and challenges will be highlighted to enable other community members to chose the best approach for their needs and maybe to optimise their current patch handling patterns.

Axel Faust

Francesco Corti & Pedro Vale

Embedding Pentaho Dashboards into an ADF Application

The integration between Alfresco and Pentaho is a successful story with dozens of installations and projects. In this talk we will show in practice how to include Pentaho Dashboards into an ADF application, using some ADF Components released as Open Source for the developers benefit. With Francesco Corti will present the Pentaho Dashboards capabilities the VP of Engineering for PDI and BA at Hitachi Vantara (Pentaho).

Francesco Corti & Pedro Vale

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?