The Umbraco Playground — Experiment, build, and share

Join the Umbraco India User Group for our March edition, a community-driven online meetup packed with real-world demos, open-source stories, and AI experiments, all within the Umbraco ecosystem. It’s a relaxed, show‑and‑tell style series where developers from different regions can demonstrate the cool things they’ve been building with Umbraco.

The idea is simple:
· Bring developers together to showcase their work
· No long presentations
· No pressure
· Just quick, inspiring, developer‑to‑developer sharing

Whether you're building packages, migrating to Umbraco 17, or exploring AI-powered workflows, this session has something for developer of any level.

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Sessions:
My experience with creating an Umbraco package BetterIcons
Nitesh Babu — Senior Software Engineer, ClerksWell

Nitesh shares his journey building BetterIcons, an open-source Umbraco property editor with access to 200,000+ icons. He'll walk through his motivation, development challenges, and lessons learned while bringing the package to the Umbraco Marketplace.

Exploring Umbraco MCP
Nathaniel Nunes — Software Developer, ClerksWell

A practical demo on how Umbraco MCP helps identify and resolve content gaps like missing SEO metadata, enabling developers and editors to maintain content quality and consistency at scale.

Migrating a Custom Property Editor from Umbraco 13 to 17: Manual vs AI-Assisted
Silvano Lenti — Senior .NET Developer & Umbraco Ambassador, byte5

A lightning talk comparing a fully manual approach vs AI-assisted migration of a custom property editor, covering breaking changes, unexpected challenges, and time-saving wins discovered along the way.

AI Experiments in Umbraco: UForum MCP & Package Suggestor AI MCP
Bishal Tim — Software Engineer, Usome / ZAAKS!

Two experimental AI-powered tools — UForum MCP makes Umbraco forum knowledge easier to access and reuse, while Package Suggestor MCP helps developers discover the right packages from Marketplace and NuGet based on their needs.

Building an Open-Source, n8n-Style Workflow Engine in Umbraco 17
Afreed — Software Engineer @ Phases & Umbraco MVP 2025

What if you could drop a drag-and-drop automation canvas right into your CMS? Afreed demos how to mount a custom React visual node editor inside Umbraco 17's Bellissima UI, bridged to a headless .NET workflow runner.

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Who Should Attend?

• Umbraco developers of any level
• .NET and frontend engineers curious about Umbraco
• Anyone interested in AI, MCP, and modern CMS workflows
• Open-source enthusiasts and community contributors