Some events go on the calendar.
Codegarden gets circled.
This June, Phases is heading to Codegarden 2026 in Copenhagen with a bigger team, a renewed Umbraco partnership, an awards nomination, MVP hopes, a speaker session, and more than a little excitement.
Our team is travelling from Denmark and India to be there in person. Because Codegarden is not just another tech conference for us. It is where the Umbraco community comes alive, in sessions, side conversations, coffee queues, award moments, late dinners, and yes, possibly even on a bike ride through Dyrehaven.
We are coming to learn.
We are coming to meet people.
We are coming to give back.
And this year, we are coming with a few good reasons to smile.
Our Umbraco partnership has been renewed
Let’s start with something we are genuinely proud of.
Phases’ Umbraco Contributing Partner status has been renewed this year.
We know Umbraco in the places that matter: inside complex builds, during migrations that refuse to be simple, in editor rooms where the CMS has to make sense, and in support cycles where stability is not optional.
So the renewed partnership is a proud moment for us. Not because it looks good on paper, but because it reflects the kind of Umbraco work we have kept doing, practical, careful, and built for teams who need their platforms to last.
So yes, the renewal means a lot.
It also says something about how we see Umbraco. Not as a tool we occasionally use, but as a platform we actively invest in, contribute to, and build around.
A community project from inside Phases is up for an Umbraco Award
And here is where it gets really good.
A community project built inside Phases, the Umbraco India User Group website, has been nominated for the Umbraco Awards 2026 in the Best Designed Site category.
That sentence still feels very nice to write.
The UIUG website did not begin as a client brief or a campaign idea. It began inside Phases, with our team wanting to give the Umbraco community in India a stronger place to gather, share, and be seen.
Afreed, and the team took that idea into their hands and shaped it with real care. They brought the design sense, structure, and care needed to turn a community idea into a website that could stand confidently on its own.
That is why this nomination feels big for us. It recognises the work of our people, but it also points to something bigger: the way Phases team members keep showing up for the Umbraco community beyond project delivery.
So yes, the nomination has our name on it. But the story behind it is even better. It is about a team that used its time, skill, and energy to build something useful for the community and did it exceptionally well.
Our team has submitted for Umbraco MVP recognition
Codegarden is also when the Umbraco community celebrates the people who show up beyond their day jobs.
This year, Phases team members have submitted for Umbraco MVP recognition, including both renewals and new submissions.
We are proud of that.
MVP recognition is earned through visible contribution to the community: answering questions, sharing technical knowledge, building packages, speaking at events, supporting peers, and strengthening the ecosystem through consistent effort. It reflects the kind of contribution that helps developers, partners, and platform teams do better work with Umbraco.
If that contribution is not worth recognising, what is?
So we will be at Codegarden cheering for the MVPs, supporting our team, and celebrating the people who keep the Umbraco community generous, practical, and genuinely human.
Our CTO is speaking at Codegarden 2026
One more reason Codegarden 2026 is firmly on our list this year: Ansar is taking the stage.
His session, “Migrating Three Large Websites Built on Kentico, WordPress, and Webflow into One Umbraco Platform,” is about the work behind a large CMS consolidation for a global student organisation.
Three major websites. Three different CMS platforms. One move into Umbraco.
Before the migration, the setup had become heavy to manage. Content updates were repeated across platforms, editorial habits varied from team to team, structures were uneven, and editors had to move between tools that did not behave the same way.
Umbraco was chosen after reviewing the existing platforms, with .NET, Microsoft alignment, Azure hosting, EU hosting needs, security requirements, and editorial control all part of the decision.
The project involved more than 5,000 pages, content models, field mapping, migration rules, SharePoint data references, custom packages, and many calls on what should move, change, or stay behind.
The editor experience is where the session gets especially interesting. Many editors came from WordPress, Webflow, and visual tools. The challenge was to make Umbraco feel familiar without making it loose, and structured without making it stiff.
It is a good one to attend if your CMS setup has grown faster than your governance.
Umbraco AI, and the conversations ahead
We are also proud of Daniel Horn, our CEO's, involvement in the Umbraco AI Advisory Board.
AI is entering CMS work quickly, but the useful questions are not the loud ones.
For us, the questions are:
- How can AI support editors without weakening the review?
- How can it help with migration, content QA, search, and operations?
- How do we protect customer data?
- How do we keep ownership, governance, and quality clear?
That is why Daniel’s role in the Umbraco AI conversation matters to us. It connects directly to the kind of work we do with enterprise teams: practical innovation, secure implementation, and no shortcuts around trust.
At Codegarden 2026, we expect AI to be part of many conversations. We are looking forward to those discussions, especially the ones that go beyond demos and into real delivery.
A bigger Phases team is coming this year
This year, more of us are attending Codegarden than last year.
That alone says a lot.
Our team is travelling from India and Denmark because we want to be there properly. Not half-present. Not just watching from the side. We want to meet people, join sessions, have proper conversations, support the community, and bring back ideas we can use in our work.
We are especially looking forward to seeing the Umbraco community face-to-face again. There is something different about meeting people in person. You understand the work better. You hear the stories behind the projects. You remember why this community has stayed so strong.
And of course, we have our eyes on the Bike Ride with CTO Filip Bech-Larsen.
A scenic ride through Dyrehaven, good company, fresh air, and cake before the conference begins? That sounds very Codegarden. Practical, friendly, slightly unexpected, and probably a very good way to start the week.
What we are hoping to take back
We are coming to Codegarden 2026 with high expectations.
We want to learn what other teams are building.
We want to hear how organisations are using Umbraco at scale.
We want to understand where the platform is heading.
We want to talk about migrations, editor experience, AI, cloud, security, and the practical work behind good digital platforms.
But we also want to give back.
That has always mattered to us. Through community projects, sessions, MVP contributions, knowledge sharing, and partnerships, we want to stay close to the people who make Umbraco better.
And yes, we may have a few surprises too.
Meet Phases at Codegarden 2026
So, if you are attending Codegarden 2026, come and say hello.
Talk to us about Umbraco migrations, editor experience, enterprise CMS platforms, AI in content operations, community projects, or what it takes to bring three different websites into one clean platform.
Or just come say hi. That works too.
We will be the team from Phases, travelling in from Denmark and India, proudly backing our speaker, cheering for the awards, supporting our MVP submissions, looking forward to the sessions, and probably talking a little too enthusiastically about Umbraco.
See you in Copenhagen.