London Sitecore Usergroup - November 2026

Join us at Macmillan's office in near Southwark Bridge this November, for an evening of networking and talks. We have sessions lined up from a group of community luminaries covering modern search from two different standpoints and SitecoreAI's Design Studio.
 
So stick the date in your diary, as we'd love to see you there!

Macmillan Cancer Support
Bronze Building, The Forge, 105 Sumner Street, London, SE1 9HZ
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Agenda

17:30
Arrival and networking
18:00

Content Discovery at Macmillan. Using Sitecore, Yext and Azure Cognitive Services to support our users.

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Harald GreveEngineering Manager at Macmillan Cancer Support
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Ronnie LawsonSoftware Engineer at Macmillan Cancer Support

Discoverability is crucially important to Macmillan, as we support people affected by cancer with access to our information and services. In this talk, Ronnie will demonstrate how Yext has been integrated with Sitecore to enhance content discovery across platforms beyond our website. Harald will walk through the architecture and implementation of a contextual semantic search platform using Sitecore and Azure Cognitive Services, covering the practical challenges of introducing AI-driven search capabilities into an enterprise environment, as well as some of our early learnings.

18:30
Break
18:40

A comparison of the stand-alone Sitecore Search and SitecoreAI Search

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Michael HaahrDirector of Delivery at XCentium
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Benj BayfieldSitecore Architect at XCentium

Two search products. Very similar names. How are they different, and what might that mean for you and your project choices?

19:10
Break
19:20

Build with Design Studio and Agentic Studio

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Peter ClisbySenior Techology Lead at Horizontal Digital

Learn how Design Studio fits into the SitecoreAI world, how you can use it to prototype components. Find out how agentic flows fit into this world, and how you can control setup and permissions.

20:00
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