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Umbraco Search & Containers

Dive deep into Umbraco's new Search abstractions & container support in this expert led workshop! Get hands-on experience building advanced searching and filtering capabilities, including with externally hosted providers (Elasticsearch), all hosted in a containerised Aspire setup for streamlining your development!

Duration: 1 day

When: September 17th, 2026

Where: 10X by Spacemade Birmingham

Price: £99 +VAT

Developers

Umbraco & AI

Explore the ways Umbraco & AI can combine to supercharge your work. Learn how to configure the Umbraco.AI extensions for customer use-cases, and the variety of developer tools available like Skills, MCP, and Agent Workflows.

Duration: 4 hours

We are currently determining potential interest in this workshop.

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Umbraco 17

Developer Day

Be among the very first to get hands on with the new long term supported version of the CMS!

You will gain a strong understanding of customising the new Bellissima backoffice, new backend and C# features, and how to upgrade from Umbraco 13 to 17.

Duration: 1 day

When: October 17th, 2025

Where: The ARC Centre London

Price: £99 +VAT

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Workshop

Search & Containers

September 17th, 10am-5pm

10X by Spacemade Birmingham

Join us in Birmingham on September 17th for a deep dive into the new Umbraco Search abstractions & containerisation support that launched with V17+!

This is a hands-on, practical workshop – you won’t just be watching demos! You’ll be working directly with code and will leave with real-world working examples running on your own machine, ready to take back to your team or project.

Coffee / tea and lunch will be provided to keep you fuelled throughout the day. There will also be plenty of opportunities to network with fellow attendees before and after the event.

Structure

The day is structured into focused chapters, each led by Umbraco community experts:

1. Introduction to Umbraco.Cms.Search

We take a look at the fundamentals of the new Search APIs, how they differ from the previous Examine based approach, and we build our own site search implementation based on Clean Starterkit.

2. Customising indexing, advanced search, and facets

We progress with learning how to customise search indexes, to support advanced search features with custom Filters and Sorting behaviour. Next we'll implement Facets to add powerful filtering functionality into our search.

3. Introduction to Umbraco in containers

After lunch we'll get a crash-course on containerisation: what it means in practice, what's needed to host an Umbraco site, and ways to deploy them into production.

4. Running Umbraco with Aspire

We'll introduce you to Microsoft's Aspire platform as a way to streamline your Umbraco development alongside improved telemetry. We will walk through converting our existing Umbraco site into an Aspire hosted project with all the bells & whistles!

5. Using external search providers (Elasticsearch)

To culminate all the skills we've learnt we will add Elasticsearch to our containerised setup, and swap our search implementation to use the Elasticsearch indexes!

Requirements

You will need:

A laptop (Windows or MacOS) & charger
An IDE like Visual Studio, VS Code, or Jetbrains Rider
The latest .NET 10 preview installed

Some resources to download will be shared ahead of the day.

What are you waiting for?!

Whether you’re maintaining a large-scale Umbraco project or building cutting-edge solutions, this workshop will give you the knowledge, tools, and working code to move confidently into the next era of Umbraco.

Any questions please contact us.

This is a community led workshop and not affiliated with Umbraco HQ in any way. It is not a replacement for the official Umbraco HQ provided training certifications.

FAQs

Will the workshop be hosted elsewhere?

We are exploring the options of hosting the workshop in other locations around the UK and internationally, depending on interest, but there are no plans at this time.

Can I join remotely?

There are no plans to offer the workshop remotely for now, but never say never!

What is the cancellation policy?

You can cancel your ticket up to 21 days before the workshop for a full refund.

We do expect the workshop to sell out, as spots are limited. You are welcome to transfer your ticket to another person.

Will you cater for dietary requirements?

Of course. We aim to cater for as many dietary requirements as possible.

Please list any requirements when signing up, and reach out if there's anything further you need.

Is the venue wheelchair accessible?

Absolutely! The building has wheelchair ramps / access, and an accessible bathroom is available.

Are you affiliated with Umbraco HQ?

No, this is a community led initiative and is not affiliated with Umbraco HQ.

Can I pay with my partner credits?

Unfortunately it is not possible to pay with your Umbraco Partner credits at this time.

Developers

Umbraco & AI

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Umbraco 17

Developer Day

October 17th, 10am-5pm

The ARC Centre London

Join us on October 17th for a special in-person workshop to celebrate the upcoming release of Umbraco 17 – the next Long-Term Supported (LTS) version of Umbraco CMS.

With the beta hopefully landing just a day before, you will be amongst the first to get hands-on with the new beta version, learning about what’s changing and what’s next for Umbraco.

(don't worry, we'll run on V16 if the beta isn't quite stable or ready!)

This is a hands-on, practical workshop – you won’t just be watching demos! You’ll be working directly with code and will leave with real-world working examples running on your own machine, ready to take back to your team or project.

Coffee / tea and lunch will be provided to keep you fuelled throughout the day. There will also be plenty of opportunities to network with fellow attendees before and after the event.

Structure

The day is structured into three focused chapters, each led by Umbraco community experts:

1. Backoffice: Customisation with Vite & TypeScript

Learn how to extend and tailor the new backoffice using modern frontend tools. We’ll dive into creating custom property editors and dashboards, integrating them seamlessly with Vite and TypeScript to improve performance, maintainability, and developer experience.

2. Backend: Performance & Efficiency

Explore the latest .NET language features, as well as new APIs in Umbraco itself, to help you write cleaner, more efficient, and future-proof code. You'll also get hands-on with Umbraco’s new Hybrid Cache, designed to improve performance in distributed environments.

3. Upgrading from v13 to v17

Get practical guidance on upgrading from Umbraco 13 (the current LTS) to 17. We’ll walk through the key changes introduced across versions v14 / v15 / v16 and share strategies and tooling to help you plan and execute a smooth transition.

Requirements

You will need:

A laptop (Windows or MacOS) & charger
An IDE like Visual Studio, VS Code, or Jetbrains Rider
The latest .NET 10 preview installed
The latest NodeJS LTS installed

Some resources to download will be shared ahead of the day.

What are you waiting for?!

Whether you’re maintaining a large-scale Umbraco project or building cutting-edge solutions, this workshop will give you the knowledge, tools, and working code to move confidently into the next era of Umbraco.

Any questions please contact us.

This is a community led workshop and not affiliated with Umbraco HQ in any way. It is not a replacement for the official Umbraco HQ provided training certifications.

FAQs

Will the workshop be hosted elsewhere?

We are exploring the options of hosting the workshop in other locations around the UK and internationally, depending on interest, but there are no plans at this time.

Can I join remotely?

There are no plans to offer the workshop remotely for now, but never say never!

What is the cancellation policy?

You can cancel your ticket up to 21 days before the workshop for a full refund.

We do expect the workshop to sell out, as spots are limited. You are welcome to transfer your ticket to another person.

Will you cater for dietary requirements?

Of course. We aim to cater for as many dietary requirements as possible.

Please list any requirements when signing up, and reach out if there's anything further you need.

Is the venue wheelchair accessible?

Absolutely! The building has wheelchair ramps / access, and an accessible bathroom is available.

Are you affiliated with Umbraco HQ?

No, this is a community led initiative and is not affiliated with Umbraco HQ.

Can I pay with my partner credits?

Unfortunately it is not possible to pay with your Umbraco Partner credits at this time.