The Power of Collaboration: Kentico Community Program Summits 2026

Kentico's belief in the power of collaboration consistently rewards us as a company. This is most recently evident through our Kentico Community Leaders' and MVPs' participation in presentations and workshops at two global events.

Over the past several weeks we held the first ever Kentico Community Leader Virtual Summit, and our recurring Kentico MVP Summit.

Kentico Community Leader Virtual Summit

The Kentico Community Leader Program, launched in 2025, rewards and amplifies expert community voices promoting effective Xperience by Kentico implementations. These individuals help communicate the "how" of Xperience by Kentico - best practices for Xperience in both technical and business contexts.

This year, we were thrilled to see the program's membership grow significantly. Community Leaders have become a pivotal part of our overall community growth and strategy for delivering project implementation guidance.

We knew it was important to bring them all together, across time zones, to share with them our reflections on Xperience by Kentico's product direction and vision for future opportunities. The Kentico Community Leader Virtual Summit was a 3-day event where each day opened with presentations from our product management team.

Of course, presentations alone aren't collaborative and we wanted true dialogue.

To foster collaboration, we paired presentations with workshops and open discussions - from AIRA's role in marketer operations to how KentiCopilot accelerators Xperience by Kentico project delivery.

We received fantastic feedback, connected to the Community Leader's real-world experiences using Xperience by Kentico that will help shape our product strategy.

At the end, Community Leaders unanimously requested a longer, more in-depth event with extended product exploration and discussions.

Challenge accepted!

Kentico MVP Summit

Kentico's MVP Summit is a long-standing tradition that brings all MVPs globally to our headquarters in Brno, CZ for a week of intense workshops, knowledge sharing, team building, and discovery.

Like the Kentico Community Leader Virtual Summit, the MVP Summit focused on AI's impact on digital experience - from empowering marketers to helping agencies drive client ROI.

Keeping with the trend of experimentation that inspired the Kentico Community Leader Virtual Summit, the MVP Summit featured multiple, highly-collaborative sessions under the moniker Galaxy Brain Experiences.

We gave MVPs seeds of product ideas to explore. Over two hours, using any available AI tool, they envisioned possible futures for marketers using Xperience by Kentico.

Four teams delivered presentations, prototypes, sci-fi stories, and fun product branding, trying to convince our panel of employee judges that their idea was the best potential investment.

The event demonstrated how collaboration and AI tools enable professionals to achieve remarkable results far more quickly than ever before.

You can read about Galaxy Brain Experiences and other reflections on the MVP Summit from all the attendees on LinkedIn:

• Derek Barka – Chief Innovation Officer, SilverTech

• Jeroen Fürst (and article for Boye & Co) – Software Architect, TrueLime

• Liam Goldfinch – Principal Systems Engineer, IDHL

• Michael Eustace – Division Director, ACTUM Digital

• Roel Kuik – Managing Partner, Blastic

• Brian McKeiver – Co-Owner & Solution Architect, BizStream

• Wes McChristian – VP of Kentico Practice & Technology Enablement, Americaneagle.com

• Joe Peschardt – Co-owner, Devotion Digital

• Ben Quinlan – Director / Solution Architect, Zeroseven Pty Ltd

• Andy Thompson – CTO, Luminary

• Mike Wills – VP of Technology, BlueModus

Additionally, Martina Škantárová - one of our product managers - shared her reflections participating in the Summit this year.

Join us!

Are you an expert practitioner or leader with insights on Xperience by Kentico and Kentico's product strategy?

If you're interested in Kentico's community programs - Community Leaders and MVPs - let us know! We are continuing to grow these programs to include people with a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds.

If you'd like to learn more, read this year's Kentico community program awards announcement blog post.

I want to thank the Kentico Community Leaders and MVPs for their participation in these events and programs, balancing work and family commitments with their support for Kentico.

I also want to thank Monika Koubková and Jitka De Martini for their work and collaboration with me to plan and execute the MVP Summit.