Recap of the #EngageU conference, which took place in Malmö/Sweden from Nov, 17th to 19th.
Thanks to the engagement of the independent developer companies Square Moon and ClickWorks, who have joined forces to prepare and present another high-profile event for the Claris FileMaker Community, that was a real highlight to round off 2024 in terms of events.
200 attendees from 25 countries came to Malmö to network and exchange ideas – and, of course – to attend some of the 37 sessions, trainings and panels offered in 4 tracks during the two main conference days.
Not only the community showed up but also Claris, as a main sponsor, joined to start the conference with an official keynote and some interesting strategical and technical news.
The conference team, represented by Johan Hedman and Joris Aarts, held the opening session, talking about their motivation and presenting some impressive numbers about the event.
Followed up with the Claris Keynote by Ryan McCann, the new Claris CEO, with a promising outlook about the ongoing transition of the platform. (You can find out more in the latest episode of The Context Podcast: “Updates from Claris with Ryan McCann“.)
More technical talk afterwards by Andrew LeCates, who recently had his 40 years career anniversary inside Apple, showing some great usecases illustrating the ‘Workplace OS’ approach of the FileMaker platform.
Wesley Powell got even deeper into technical backgrounds of server architecture, regarding scalability, multi tenency, security, microservices, kubernetes containers, Kafka, MongoDB, etc.
Key messages from Claris:
- Claris is partnering with Apple to expand market share for the Claris products
- The platform is evolving in regards to revenue and new features
- Claris Studio and Connect got mature and are serving as Extensions to existing FileMaker solutions
- AI and Semantic search bringing new capabilities to work with existing data
- New documentation and learning resources are provided to lower the entry level for new and existing developers
The full conference agenda offered a wide range of topics, from highly specialized technical content to interesting real-word use cases, business topics and presentations of state-of-the-art developer tools.
A central topic was once again AI in various contexts. This complemented nicely the demand for practical use cases and technical capabilities that are supplied by the new FileMaker versions.
If you are interested in more details, have a look at the conference website:
https://engageu.eu/agenda-2024/
The EngageU Team promised to share presentation materials and session videos later. So you can use the rich spectrum of expertise for your own needs.
Thanks to the conference team, to all sponsors and anyone who was involved for making this great event possible!
PS: A summary of my own presentation “Integrating FileMaker and DuckDB” is available here on my blog.
