Human Connections In A Digital World: Sitecore Symposium 2019, the most awaited global digital marketing event of the year, is to be held at the Walt Disney World Swan Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida from November 4th to 7th.
Being the global leader in digital marketing experience management software, Sitecore’s marquee event aims at delivering powerful customer experiences through four crucial talk tracks. Over 100 sessions are designed for the Symposium and are bound to present a personalized and out-of-the-world experience for digital marketers around the globe.
As the annual Sitecore Symposium is around the corner, it is normal to get overwhelmed with the options to choose from. So here’s the Symposium guide that will keep you informed about your list of talk tracks to attend.
Let us walk through a checklist that will guide you through the top tips to prepare for the Symposium.
First On The List: Knowing The Talk Tracks
Track 1: Digital First Strategies
Topics Covered: This talk track will cover the digital strategies required to enhance customer experience and trust. The salient topics include analytics, marketing automation, personalization, and data analysis to derive critical insights from customer data. Additionally, the talk track will provide a deep inner scoop on content management, design, as well as omnichannel experiences.
Track 2: Developing on Sitecore
Topics Covered: This track will focus on providing the attendees with crucial insights on how to leverage the benefits of connected development environments. These environments include headless, omnichannel, mobility, and so on. New cloud-based solutions and data integration strategies are other key technology areas awaiting the attendees.
Track 3: DevOps Scenarios
Topics Covered: Integrating a DevOps environment within an organization would be the key focus of this talk track. Attendees will learn the best practices involved in various processes related to Sitecore technology such as the architecture, deployment, delivery, scaling, security, privacy, and so on.
Track 4: Experience Commerce
Topics Covered: This session will exclusively feature customers and partners on the frontlines of better shopping experience. In this session, Sitecore customers can share their set of experiences and key practices.

Now that you know about the various talk tracks held, it is important to keep the following in mind:
Sitecore Symposium 2019: At A Glance
The Sitecore Symposium 2019 will witness Earvin “Magic” Johnson as the keynote speaker. The award-winning photographer, Platon will demonstrate “Powerful Portraits” in his session. The Symposium will also witness Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, the human-perception AI pioneer, who will discuss her work on how she helps marketers leverage emotion technology.
The Sitecore Symposium 2019 will bring together Sitecore experts, marketers, partners, and customers from around the globe and is focused on creating human connections in a digital world. The following is a glimpse of what you will achieve in the two and a half-day Symposium.
- Talks from expert speakers
- Preconference seminars
- Sessions by innovative technology leaders
- A peek into Sitecore’s product roadmap
- A chance to learn about the best practices from business leaders
- Connect with peers and partners
- Meet with representatives of global brands
- Create connections in a digital world of technology products and services
- Achieve actionable insights
Major Sitecore Strategy MVPs are looking forward to hear and learn about new UI paradigms. Let us walk through some of the key topics:
- Sitecore Authoring Experience
Sitecore’s product team members, Alec Orlov and Alexey Vaschenko will talk about Sitecore Authoring Experience and the Project Horizon slate of enhancements.
- JSS
The JSS talk track is based on ‘Developing On Sitecore’. Sitecore JSS talks range from operating at a JSS based site, using a framework to implement the same, and so on.
- Cortex, Federated Authentication, And Sitecore Latest Updates
A few among the key presentations include ‘10 Cool Things To Do With Federated Automation’, ‘The Containerized Mind’ by Stephen Pope, etc. The talks will help the audience learn how to leverage the benefits of these features and enhance the customer experience as a whole.
- Azure And Cloud
Azure DevOps talks focuses on helping the listeners enrich their knowledge on how to handle the challenges on the cloud platform as well as gain critical insights on DevOps scenarios.
- Helix
This track focuses on the best practices used to work on Helix sites and development on Sitecore.
Sitecore will also honor the winners of the 2019 Sitecore Experience Awards live at the Symposium. So stay tuned!
