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A bit about me…
Charlie Bell
● Senior Director of Solution Engineering.
● Contentful EMEA Executive Leadership.
● 25 years in web technology, mostly CMS.
● 15 years working with a (now) legacy vendor.
● 1 year with Contentful.
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1997-2001
1997 1997 2000 2000 2001
EpiServer CMS
launches
NCompass Labs
launch
ActiveEnterprise
(later Microsoft
MCMS)
Day Software
launches
“Communique”
(CQ) CMS
Sitecore
launches it’s own
CMS
Drupal
goes open
source
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Agency/in-house “roll
your own” to allow
faster throughput of
websites.
The spin-out
commercial off the
shelf product.
The Three Phases of the Monolith
The piling on of
features to
differentiate in the
market.
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A Linear View of Content
Legacy CMS
Images
Text
Documents
Layouts
Everything In Web Pages Out
…add an API and call it “Hybrid Headless”
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What is content?
Web Page Hero Banner
Product Images Product Description
FAQ
Time Sensitive Offer
Loyalty Programme Push Notifications
Shopping Basket Summary
Pickup Barcode
Videos
Live Stock
Returns Information
Privacy Policy
Mobile App Content
Order Confirmation
PDF
Store Details
Sizing Chart
Promo Banner
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- “We always look for ways to weave content and commerce together in a
way that tells the story of our products, ensure pages load quickly, and
that they're easy to navigate. We want our customers to shop smoothly
and seamlessly.”
— Ben Bodien
Technology Director
Rapha
SOLUTION: AGILE ECOMMERCE
CONTENTFUL CASE STUDY SHOWCASE
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Ikea experienced a 300% increase in
basket size after recreating their
physical showroom online
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1
The AI world is currently full of solutions looking for problems to solve.
2
No amount of AI will solve the creation to publication bottleneck.
3
Products with AI as their core offering could see legal challenges
and limitations.*
Three AI Hard Reality Checks
*https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/legal-issues-presented-generative-ai
*https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/the-guardian-blocks-chatgpt-owner-openai-from-trawling-its-content
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AI will make the mundane easy - like SEO keywords, image tagging, and others.
2
A streamlined AI content production and optimization process will be the new
benchmark.
3
Being more human will amplify AI’s contribution to the user experience.
Three AI Opportunities