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MVP 2026

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Technology

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Timeline

2025

5/Nov

XM Cloud launch three years on - a journey of partner, vendor, and client

Presented at the Sitecore Symposium 2025 about our journey on XM Cloud, challenges we have faced, lessons we learned and how we evolved from being part of the early access to having it implemented at multiple customers with a focus on BDR Thermea where the paltform grew from having 1 site and 1 brand to having 20 sites and 7 brands including IOT , ecommerce and portal behind login

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2025

4/Nov

Symposium Exec trackGEO Breakfast panel

Participated in a panel with both Erwin from Achmea and Gilbert from Berkeley homes to talk about the impact of AI for customers, important areas of concer and how to handle it within your organization. This was a panel during the GEO breakfast for EMEA executive track participants

Sitecore XM Cloud Sitecore Stream

2025

3/Apr

Lessons learned : 3 years after building our first XM Cloud platform

Presented about our lessons learned, challenges faced and how we approached building a multibrand XMCloud platform were we launch new brands without coding.

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2024

12/Nov

Speeding up headless Sitecore development through V0.dev

Blogpost around how you can leveraging v0 to enhance development going from a figma design/picture to a functioning component. In this post i will dive into the Vercel AI tool called v0.dev. I will walk you through how to create a component from a screenshot/picture and what important limitations/attention points are. Finally i will also highlight which part of development you still need to do manually :)

Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

8/Jan

Example application of GenAI : converting HTML to an actual XM Cloud NextJS component

Blogpost around how you can leverage standard GenAI tooling like ChatGPT to convert an existing website into XM Cloud: GenAI is becoming more prevelant in our lives and one of the applications i personally have a large interest in, is exploring how GenAI can help us in our day to day work with Sitecore and developing with Sitecore. In this post i will dive into how a relatively standard tool like ChatGPT can expedite moving sites to XM Cloud

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2023

22/Nov

XM Cloud: upgrading Next.js in a JSS project

With Next.js being one of the most popular front-end frameworks out there new versions are being released all the time. Most often faster then JSS is able to follow. This blog post is about how you can go about upgrading Next.js separate from upgrading JSS.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

28/Aug

XM Cloud series: Next.js 13.4 lightning speed with the server components

With Next.js 13.4 coming out the new App router and server components are now considered production ready. Why should you care when developing with Next.js ? and can we use it with Sitecore XM Cloud/Sitecore JSS? read more to find out

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