Umbraco London July at SampsonMay

We are delighted to announce that SampsonMay are going to be hosting the Umbraco London meetup for the first time! They have been Gold Partners since 2023 and have invited us to their offices near Southwark for our July talks meetup.

We are welcome from 18:00, we shall look to get started around 18:45. We'll finish by 21:00 when we take the conversations to a local pub.

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#1 Introduction and Welcome!
by Lotte Pitcher

#2 Codegarden 2025 Recap
by Emiliano Bottaioli and Rob Shaw, SampsonMay

Emiliano and Rob will be sharing their experience and highlights from Codegarden, the annual Umbraco Developer conference that just took place in Odense, Denmark. So if you weren't at Codegarden you can learn what you missed; and if you were there you can enjoy the memories (or still perhaps discover things you missed!)

#3 Revamping the Media Section (Making the Dream a Reality)
by Steve Temple, Technical Director at Gibe

Steve has a dream... A dream where the Umbraco media section works much more effectively and is far more friendly for editors. He's sat in a previous Codegarden talk where Jeffrey Shoemaker shared some of his dreams for Umbraco and his dream on media was very similar to Steve's. So you may say Steve's a dreamer, but he's not the only one!

In fact this will be the third talk on this, but all the solutions he's demonstrated before have been hacks, or trying to get AI to solve the problem. Since the advent of Umbraco 14 and the new backoffice he thinks the dream can now become reality.

He'll show how you can build a module that will replace the media section and media pickers with custom versions which support new ways of interacting with media. Then he'll show how you can then build on that to bolt in 3rd party media management products, or use AI to categorise media or identify duplicates. Modules like this could entirely change the backoffice experience for your editors.

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SampsonMay will kindly provide some refreshments. If you realise you can't make it please be sure to change your RSVP to No in case there are people on the waiting list.

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If you would like to contribute to our meetups please in touch by email (hello@umblondon.co.uk) - we are always looking for people to give talks, or London-based Umbraco agencies to host us for the evening.

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