Neos Con 2025 Recap

This year’s Neos Con was all about Neos 9, AI and the power of community.

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Neos rocks, and so does the Neos community: Guitar riffs and violin sounds marked the start of the Neos Con, a perfect parable on what was to come: power-driven speeches on Neos 9 and successful projects as well as subtle yet sustained contributions to the project.
The conference opening was once again written and performed by the Neos Chamber Orchestra, with Jan Kurfürst on the guitar, Bernhard Schmitt and his violin, Robert Baruck on the drums, Florian “Klausi Klaus” Seidel on the turntables and Lorenz Ulrich on the piano. 
 

 

Puff Pastry Pockets and Celery Cutlets

For the second time, the Neos community, Neos team and friends came together at the GenoHotel Karlsruhe, with perfect sunny weather outside, two indoor stages and plenty of room for conversation and networking. Plus the already infamous buffet with vegan and vegetarian delights from puff pastry pockets to celery cutlets.

 

Watch Neos Con 2025 on YouTube!

While these treats were exclusive to all who attended the event, you can still tune in and watch the conference on screen, with our hosts Maya Bornschein and Stefan Regniet, Anke Häslich and Tobias Gruber.

Neos Con Day 1
Neos Con Day 2

 

It’s all about Content, AI and Neos 9

The keynote for Neos Conference was held by Robert Lemke, who addressed the elephants in the room: There is AI and it’s influence on web design and content management, as well as on society as a whole. And there's also PHP's 30th anniversary: the blue elephant received quite some cuddles and thoughts during the conference. In fact, we have seen more cuddles for the ElePHPant then for Norman the paper Neos logo...even though he was also present in every room and as a give-away to all speakers.
 

The Neos logo with an ElePHPant shadow
The Neos logo with an ElePHPant shadow


The topics mentioned during the keynote were to be found again throughout many of the conference presentations, from how to build n8n AI Agents by Roland Schütz and Felix Gradinaru from Code Q, to Markus Günther’s (Flownative) thought-provoking and inspiring talk “Neos can help save the planet”.

Neos 9 was of course as much a topic, as the major release was published shortly before the event. Bernhard Schmitt from sitegeist was able to present a first and successful project on Neos 9, the relaunch of the ANAG Partnernet (winner of the Neos Silver Award 2025), and Marc Henry Schultz took a deep dive right into the Neos 9 Event-Stream – to just name a few. 

The takeaways from all this:

  • AI will have a substantial impact
  • Content management will be even more important in the future
  • Neos 9 is ready– and leading the way with its new event sourced content repository and options for AI integration. In fact, with more content being edited and published automated or with the help of AI, control over content becomes more important. And this is what Neos 9 enables content editors to do.

Neos is great for Editors and Developers was also the conclusion from the Panel Discussion "What's the next big thing in Neos?" with Robert Lemke, Tobias Gruber, Bastian Waidelich and Sebastian Helzle from the Neos core team, joined by Nadja Meyenhofer from ZHB Luzern, winner of this year's Neos Dedication Award (along with visol digitale Dienstleistungen AG). This was followed by a clear statement: Now it's time to let the world know about it!
 

The Neos CMS Award 2025 goes to....

When it comes to share great projects, this is where the Neos CMS Awards come to play. Congratulations to the winners of the Neos CMS Awards 2025 - and a great thank you to everyone who submitted their project! 

During Neos Conference, the audience voted for the best speaker. The Neos Conference Best Speaker Award 2025 was presented to Kristina Schneider - 5 Cool New Things in CSS | cobot

 

Workshops & Contribution Day

Exploring Neos 9! - that was the spirit of our workshop on June 18th and the contribution day on June 21st. Both events gave members the chance for hands-on coding with the Neos team. Thank you for everyone who joined! Special thanks go to Bernhard Schmitt and Marc Henry Schulz for leading the Neos 9 workshop, which was not only fully booked but even overbooked – a clear sign that Neos 9 is a highly relevant and exciting topic for the community. 

 

What are Your Thoughts on Neos Conference 2025?

How did you experience Neos Conference 2025 and what are your key takeaways? We'd love to add your blogs, LinkedIN Posts and whatever links to our list! 

 

 

Thank you - and let's continue the party!

Neos Conference is powered by the great Neos community. A big shout out to all participants, guests and speakers, to our team members, contributors and friends - and especially to our Sponsors who make all this possible. It means the world to us. 💚

Kristina Schneider, cobot

„Neos Conference 2025 was by far the most welcoming and lovingly organized tech event I've attended in years.“

Kristina Schneider, cobot

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