Orchard Harvest 2026 - The Orchard Core Conference
10th and 11th of September 2026Vancouver, Canada
The next Orchard Core conference will take place in Vancouver, Canada, on the 10th and 11th of September.
Do you have an interesting Orchard Core-related topic that you'd like to present to the community? Development techniques, memorable case studies, useful experiences that you'd like to share?
This year's leading themes:
From CMS to content platform: where Orchard Core fits in 2026
Automation superpowers: AI tools, recipes, and workflows in everyday projects
Performance and reliability in Orchard Core
Looking beyond Orchard Core 3.0: what’s next for the platform and community
Get your tickets
You can register to the conference using this link.
This ticket grants you two days of all-access to Orchard Harvest.
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Speakers
Our awesome speakers are renowned members of the community and here to bring you the Orchard Core topics your care!
Benedek Farkas
GitHubHost of Orchard Harvest.
Community member since 2011 and core contributor for more than a decade.
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Lombiq Technologies, mostly focusing on operational, marketing and business development tasks, but still putting his full-stack development and software architecture knowledge to good use as much his other responsibilities allow.
Brian Haydin
GitHubBrian Haydin is a Solution Architect at Concurrency, where he helps organizations design and operationalize practical AI, data, and Microsoft cloud solutions. His work focuses on enterprise AI architecture, agentic application patterns, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Fabric, and the operating models needed to move AI from demo to production. Brian regularly speaks on AgentOps, AI governance, hybrid low-code/pro-code agents, and practical enterprise architecture. He focuses on real-world implementation patterns including observability, evaluations, human-in-the-loop controls, data readiness, and the governance needed to keep AI systems useful, safe, and accountable.
Matt Kenney
GitHubMatt Kenney is the Director of Software, GovBuilt at MCCI, with more than 15 years of experience leading engineering teams and building software businesses in the GovTech and IoT industries. He has helped drive significant company growth, scale development organizations, and contribute to multiple successful acquisitions and business exits. His background includes software architecture, cloud platforms, AI adoption, product development, and turning technology investments into scalable commercial solutions.
Mike Alhayek
GitHubAs a software engineer, I have a passion for collaborating with the Microsoft Stack, specializing in ASP.NET Core.
Mostefai Mohammed Amine
GitHubFor more than 10 years, I have been working on projects built with Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET, Azure, and SharePoint. I’ve had the opportunity to contribute at leading organizations such as EPAM and 8 West, taking part in challenging projects across diverse industries like banking, oil and gas, automotive, and insurance.
Niraj Soni
GitHubNiraj is a technical lead and architect specializing in scalable, audit‑ready systems. He architects modular, multi‑tenant platforms used across nationwide operations, with a focus on clarity, compliance, and long‑term maintainability. His work leverages Orchard Core as a foundation for building robust enterprise applications that go far beyond traditional CMS use cases. At Harvest, he shares practical patterns and real-world lessons on using Orchard Core to power complex, mission‑critical business workflows.
Patrik Navratil
GitHubFullstack developer in BiQ pux a.s. focusing on delivering custom-made portal solutions.
Paul Bull
Founder of Clever Graft (Pty) Ltd, internationally recognized digitization and process automation expert, panelist and contributing author, entrepreneur and coach. He is a combination of a tech evangelist, creator and techpreneur. Experience ranges for large scale systems implementation, venture building and experiments.
Zoltán Lehóczky
GitHubCo-founder and managing director of Lombiq, a company focused on Orchard Core. His main expertise is in Orchard Core development and software architecture design. Active in open-source, core contributor of Orchard Core, guest lecturer at Óbuda University, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics.
Program
To give you a bit of a Harvest feeling from Prague, check out the videos from 2025.
Day 1
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Registration
Registration
8:00 AM-9:00 AM
Leisurely arrive at the venue, grab your badge, and mingle with other community members with a cup of coffee and some snacks.
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Opening
9:00 AM-9:10 AM
We officially open Orchard Harvest 2026.
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Announcement of the Winner of the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award
9:10 AM-9:20 AM
Every year, the community votes on who has done the most for Orchard Core and thus who we can bestow the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award on.
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State of the Orchard
9:20 AM-9:45 AM
Orchard Core as it is today, a review of what happened since last year, milestones and big events, what's in focus now, and what do we have planned for the foreseeable future.
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Unpacking AI Orchestrator
9:55 AM-10:50 AM
Coming soon.
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Scaling Orchard Core: Lessons from Building and Selling a GovTech Platform
11:05 AM-12:00 PM
Learn how GovBuilt leveraged Orchard Core to build a modern government content and application platform that ultimately became part of a successful acquisition. We'll explore the architectural decisions, scaling challenges, and lessons learned while developing more than 170 custom Orchard Core modules across a growing SaaS platform serving local governments throughout North America.
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Lunch
Lunch break
12:00 PM-01:30 PM
Please note that lunch is not included in the conference ticket.
A few recommendations are coming soon. -
Orchard Core for Enterprise Systems
01:30 PM-02:30 PM
Orchard Core gives developers a clean, modular foundation for building real business applications—not just CMS sites. This talk shows practical patterns for structuring custom modules, handling complex business needs, and integrating external services in scalable, maintainable ways.
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Containerizing Orchard-Based Applications
02:45 PM-03:25 PM
In this talk I will discuss deploying Orchard-based application as docker containers. I will present also how I will leverage Azure Container Apps to deploy these applications.
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Coffee
Coffee break
03:25 PM-03:45 PM
Mingle with other community members and grab a cup of coffee and some snacks.
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When Workflows Meet Agents: AgentOps Patterns for AI-Enabled .NET Content Platforms
03:45 PM-04:45 PM
AI agents are starting to show up in content platforms, workflow-driven applications, and automation-heavy business systems, including the kinds of solutions Orchard Core teams build. This session introduces practical AgentOps patterns for safely running those agents in production: tracing behavior, evaluating output quality, managing prompt and tool changes, designing human approval gates, and preventing issues like stale content, context leakage, and untraceable decisions. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for wrapping agents in workflows so AI automation can move beyond demos without turning the platform into a mystery box.
Day 2
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Coffee
Coffee and Breakfast Snacks
8:30 AM-9:00 AM
No need to register this time, just arrive at the venue and mingle with other community members with a cup of coffee and some snacks.
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Privacy-friendly web analytics in Orchard Core
9:00 AM-9:40 AM
Since GDPR, other privacy laws, and both people and browsers becoming more privacy-aware, Google Analytics is broken. But there’s a better way: privacy-friendly, cookie-less analytics that still delivers insights. We’ll see how you can do this with the open-source analytics platform Pirsch and the Orchard Core Marketing module.
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Coming soon
9:55 AM-10:50 AM
Coming soon
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Green Lights All the Way: A Real-Time SEO Analysis Module for Orchard Core
11:05 AM-11:45 AM
We built an SEO Analysis Module for Orchard Core that brings actionable insights directly into your CMS dashboard. In this session we'll show how it analyzes published content items for common SEO signals — meta titles, descriptions and more — and surfaces the results through a live dashboard with aggregated health scores across your content library and per-item drill-downs that tell editors exactly what needs fixing and why.
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Talk
Lunch break
11:45 AM-01:15 PM
Please note that lunch is not included in the conference ticket.
A few recommendations are coming soon. -
Powered by EF core, managed by OC
01:15 PM-02:15 PM
Experience with integrating EF Core into multi-tenanted OC solution. Model management, consumption challenges and an answer.
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Panel
Panel discussion
02:30 PM-03:30 PM
Submit your questions in advance or bring surprise questions and engage with our expert panel.
We'll announce the participants soon.
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Coffee
Coffe break
03:30 PM-03:50 PM
Mingle with other community members and grab a cup of coffee and some snacks.
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Surprise Talk
03:50 PM-04:50 PM
We can't reveal any more about it just yet, but you're surely love it!
The Organizer Team
The team organizing Orchard Harvest 2026 consists of long-time Orchard community members working on providing you with a great event.