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the Second_ Conference
fully Dedicated to Sylius
03.11.2023 POZNAN_POLAND, MTP - Poznań Congress Center
SyliusCon
Sylius enthusiasts from all over the world came to Poznań, Poland to learn from the best experts, network with open-minded people, and celebrate the community surrounding Sylius.

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The second edition of SyliusCon successfully took place on November 3, 2023! Stay tuned for the upcoming recap of this exciting conference. We’ll share daily presentations from our expert speakers on our YouTube channel. Make sure to subscribe our channel and keep an eye on our social media for all the latest updates.
22
speakers
12
sponsors and partners
1
community be(er)foreparty
1
crazy afterparty

Venues 📍

Be(er)fore Party
2.11. 20:00
Wodopój
The Conference
3.11. 8:00 - 17:15
MTP Poznań
(Gate 10, Sala Ziemia)
Afterparty
3.11. 21:00
MK Bowling

Speakers 🎤

Jakub Tobiasz
Sylius
Ben Marks
Commerce Famous Podcast / Shopware
Przemysław Połeć
Sylius
Johannes Wachter
Sulu GmbH
Filip Rakowski
Vue Storefront
Łukasz Chruściel
Commerce Weavers
Mateusz Zalewski
Commerce Weavers
Przemysław Ptasiński
BitBag
Gabi Udrescu
Freelance Product Owner
Kuba Zwoliński
SnowDog
Loïc Frémont
Akawaka
Marcin Piwowarczyk
Ergonode
Olivier Allain
Synolia
Ivo Lukač
netgen
Jacques Bodin-Hullin
Monsieur Biz
Sebastian Michaud
Mollie
Andrejus Voitovas
NFQ
Stephan Hochdörfer
bitExpert AG
Radosław Żurawski
BitBag
Oliver Kossin
QOSSMIC GmbH
Anna Karoń
SnowDog
Guillaume Loulier
Symfony / SensioLabs

Agenda

Biz
Tech#1
Tech#2
8:00 - 8:45
Registration
9:00 - 9:15
Opening keynote
Mikołaj Król
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Opening session by the Sylius’ CEO with a few extra words about the current project state.
9:30 - 10:00
Product Catalog 2.0 - How to get out of Excel and live/work simpler
Marcin Piwowarczyk
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Short story of the evolution of ecommerce, analyzing how product information is typically presented and proposing modern solutions for improvement. using 21st century technology.
10:15 - 11:00
Modular Sylius Plus - a flexible way forward
Przemysław Połeć
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During this presentation I'll explain what was our aim and reasoning behind making Sylius Plus modular and why it's a great move for your business whether you are a merchant or an agency.
11:15 - 11:45
Community & Chaos: Why Open Source Wins Commerce
Ben Marks
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The challenges of commerce are never completely solved - they only evolve alongside ever-changing arbitrary requirements. Platforms seek out better and better approaches, but in the end, the best solutions exist at the intersection of product and ecosystem - and nothing is better at ecosystems than open source. This talk is a tour through my/our 20-year history of eCommerce & open source transformation up through today, with a view to the very bright future ahead of us all.
12:00 - 12:30
Let me shop with ease! Accessibility myths in e-commerce.
Anna Karoń
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Accessibility in ecommerce is not the highest on the priority list. It is often associated with an expensive investment for a small group of customers and outdated design. If we're getting to the "accessibility" point in our roadmap, we don't know where to start - it's hard to find a sticking point in the voluminous WCAG, and the screen reader is not as intuitive to use as the touchpad. And we still have time - the new law in the EU (European Union) will come into effect in two years.... During this talk, I will debunk some accessibility myth, explore what digital accessibility is in practice, how it impacts customers, how to work with it and what benefits it brings for a ecommerce.
12:45 - 13:30
When Sylius meets big fashion industry - implementation for Mytheresa
Przemysław Ptasiński
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Small highlight about Sylius implementation in large fashion company
13:30 - 15:30
Lunch break
15:30 - 16:15
Building marketplaces with Sylius using OpenMarketplace
Radosław Żurawski
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In this presentation, I will offer an in-depth exploration of the OpenMarketplace project and its synergies with the Sylius platform. Attendees will gain valuable insights into the potential applications and capabilities that these technologies offer. To provide a tangible understanding, I will supplement the discussion with real-world case studies that showcase the implementation and impact of OpenMarketplace and Sylius in various business settings.
16:30 - 17:15
Open Source and SaaS - competition or addition
Kuba Zwoliński
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E-commerce technologies have, for years now, seen an ongoing competition between open-source and SaaS solutions. They intermingle in overall usage statistics, are listed in comparisons and reports by major players. Does the future have to be one of these technological approaches, or can they not exist without each other? I will attempt to present a few arguments and address this question.
17:15
Mollie's ElePHPants Raffle
8:00 - 8:45
Registration
9:00 - 9:15
Opening keynote
Mikołaj Król
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Opening session by the Sylius’ CEO with a few extra words about the current project state.
9:15 - 10:00
Event-Driven Layouts with Twig Events
Jakub Tobiasz
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You might have heard about Sylius Template Events. What if I say they're more powerful than you think? Explore the power of event-driven design in enhancing the flexibility and maintainability of Twig templates. This talk illuminates the path towards a decoupled UI architecture, allowing developers to add, remove or alter Twig templates without meddling with the core files, thus promoting a modular and non-intrusive approach to frontend customization.
10:15 - 11:00
Typical pitfalls of Sylius development
Łukasz Chruściel & Mateusz Zalewski
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Together with Mateusz we've seen plenty of projects and help countless teams. Some of the problems, that we encountered could happen more often then others. And these are the problems we would like to talk with you during our session. [...]
11:15 - 11:45
Advanced web page layout management based on Symfony
Ivo Lukač
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How to simplify the maintenance of complex websites and operate with less cost? How to make site building quicker without losing flexibility and extensibility needed for more complex projects? How to combine information from different systems in one place (e.g. products, content, media)? To tackle these issues we built a tool based on Symfony envisioned to be used in front of a backend system like a CMS or an eCommerce and provide a faster and more agile way to implement and maintain complex web solutions.
12:00 - 12:30
What you need to know about building headless Storefront?
Filip Rakowski
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Building a head for your headless stack seems like an easy task, but you will quickly realise that it's often even more complex than the backend piece. At Vue Storefront we are building tools for developers implementing headless storefronts since 2017 and we saw too many times how projects fail because of the assumption that it's ""just the frontend"". Headless opens a lot of new possibilities when it comes to delivering outstanding UX but it also introduces a lot of new ways to completely ruin it. In this talk I will walk you through all the nuances and challenges of headless architecture from the perspective of the frontend and how we are addressing them with our tools. You will learn: 1. Why building a great Storefront goes far beyond the frontend. 2. Why headless is not a solution to problems with frontend performance and how to keep it under control. 3. How to structure your frontend application to keep it maintainable and flexible in the long-run. 4. How to scale your frontend further for multiple brands and languages.
12:45 - 13:30
Sylius and web performance
Olivier Allain
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In this talk we'll be looking at the performance issues facing high-traffic websites. What solutions can be found, in particular with the use of Varnish.
13:30 - 15:30
Lunch break
15:30 - 16:15
Unraveling the challenges and triumphs of our upgrade journey
Andrejus Voitovas
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I want to present how we managed to upgrade Sylius & PIM from 1.7 to 1.12. What was the challenges during the upgrade process, including compatibility issues and potential disruptions to the existing system. Valuable insights will be presented for your own upgrade process and how to elevate your e-commerce game to new heights.
16:30 - 17:15
Sulu as a Full headless solution
Oliver Kossin
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In recent years, the way we use the Internet has changed fundamentally. Why? Not even 15 years ago we had only one device. The desktop computer! Today it looks a bit different. Today, everyone carries at least one device that is capable of communicating with the Internet in many different ways. But that's not all, watches, TVs, tablets or even Iot! They all want and need to communicate with the Internet and also want to get answers. This poses a whole new challenge to software developers, because suddenly it is no longer enough to program a simple page. Our applications have to become more multilayered. This is where the idea of "headless" architecture comes into play. How this looks exactly and how Sulu plays a role in this we will explain in this talk.
17:15
Mollie's ElePHPants Raffle
8:00 - 8:45
Registration
9:00 - 9:15
Opening keynote
Mikołaj Król
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Opening session by the Sylius’ CEO with a few extra words about the current project state.
9:30 - 10:00
Automation: Powering Quality Assurance & Release Excellence
Sebastian Michaud
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Understand how Mollie has approached QA and the overall improvement it has brought to integration releases.
10:15 - 11:00
The adventure of BlackFriday(s) with Sylius-powered eCommerce platforms
Gabi Udrescu
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I experienced my first BlackFriday as a product owner in 2013, soon after the concept took off in Romania as one of the biggest shopping events. Since 2015 I've been using Sylius as an eCommerce platform and gathered a few iterations under the belt for this event. I'm going to share with you my insights and past experiences, hoping that you'll understand how we managed to survive marketing campaigns that brought 2 months worth of revenues and traffic in less than 24h.
11:15 - 11:45
Enhancing your customers' search experience with Gally
Stephan Hochdörfer
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In this presentation, I will be introducing Gally - a highly advanced searchandising engine built on top of Symfony, API Platform, and Elasticsearch that allows you to build an API-first e-commerce search engine with ease. During the talk, I will walk you through the process of setting up and configuring Gally as well as the Gally bundle for Sylius. You will discover how easy it is to use Gally and how it can maximize your customers' search experience.
12:00 - 12:30
Resource revolution
Loïc Frémont
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Sylius Resource & Grid To meet its CRUD requirements for its administration panel, Sylius has developed these two very powerful packages for Rapid application development. API Platform We'll see how API Platform has given rise to more flexible developments, breaking away from Doctrine's ORM and allowing you to adapt more closely to your business needs. New operation & routing system I’ll show you the new operation & routing system based on API Platform internals. PHP 8 attributes, CRUD operations, Providers, Processors and Responders will allow you to use Sylius resource & grid packages for RAD && DDD architectures. Now you’ll be able to use Resources detached from Doctrine and connect your data directly with your ERP, an external API, an ElasticSearch database or whatever.
12:45 - 13:30
Sulu & Sylius | Content and Commerce
Johannes Wachter
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Bringing together customer-specific eCommerce processes and a sophisticated content architecture is a significant challenge. Often, a base system needs to be extended or combined. We have chosen the latter path and, so to speak, married the eCommerce framework Sylius with the content management platform Sulu. A field report.
13:30 - 15:30
Lunch break
15:30 - 16:15
The journey of Sylius from zero to production in less than 30 minutes
Jacques Bodin-Hullin
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Sylius is a robust e-commerce framework, and at Monsieur Biz, we've been utilizing it since 2018. Our journey with Sylius has been paved with challenges, setbacks, and triumphs. In fact, during our initial project, we had to switch back from Sylius to Magento! Fast forward a few years, and we've launched numerous projects and plugins. What's more, we've also had the opportunity to enhance our toolset along the way. I'll explain where we started, the challenges we faced, our current position, and our future plans. Trust me, the part about today is particularly exciting!
16:30 - 17:15
Switching off legacy code using one Symfony command at a time
Guillaume Loulier
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Most of your modern applications are extracted from so-called “legacy monoliths” or “legacy applications” or “legacy code that we don’t maintain anymore”, in fact, even the code you wrote yesterday can be considered as legacy, that’s harsh but the truth is, the definition of legacy code is tied to the vision that you have about maintaining quality, performances and best practices in an application. Thanks to Symfony, our code now uses best practices, PSRs, autoloading, DIC and many more but our legacy applications still bound to code that we probably don’t use anymore or that we migrated without removing it. What if we can track, notice, “switch off” and remove code from old applications without breaking a sweat while maintaining backward compatibilities breaks away? It’s time for Symfony to be more than just a “framework” and help us get rid of our legacy applications, one command at a time.
17:15
Mollie's ElePHPants Raffle

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