2025 Recap - Events
OCTOBER 6 - 8, 2025 | Austin, TX
Customer Summit
North America
Event Recap
Liferay: Powering Your Digital Future
Bryan Cheung
Chief Marketing Officer
Liferay
Chief Marketing Officer
Liferay
At Liferay, we’ve always worked really hard to make it incredibly easy for you, our customers, to take advantage of new technologies. Today we want to share with you some of the exciting new things we’ve been working on to keep providing this value to you.
Enrich Liferay DXP with External AI
Ricky Pan
Solution Architect
Liferay
Leveraging enterprise AI in business solutions can be difficult. In this session, we explore challenges of enterprise AI projects and the benefits of an AI-enabled platform.
IHG’s Liferay Journey: From Foundation to Future
Gulam Vora
Lead Engineer
IHG
Lead Engineer
IHG
This session will explore IHG’s transformative journey with Liferay, from its initial deployment in 2011 on version 6.0 to today’s enterprise-scale implementation on Liferay DXP 7.3. We’ll highlight how IHG has leveraged Liferay to power its intranet portal, public websites, and custom applications, while driving audience targeting and personalization. The discussion will include key usage metrics, lessons learned from challenges overcome, and a look ahead at IHG’s roadmap for future integrations, personalization, and scaling of digital experiences.
The Low Code/No Code Evolution: Citizen Developers Unite
Erica Gnajek
Sr Solution Architect
Liferay
Sr Solution Architect
Liferay
This session traces the journey of digital platforms from providing personalized experiences with Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs) to empowering non-developers to build applications with Low-Code Application Platforms (LCAPs). We'll show you how Liferay's low-code capabilities make it easier to deliver highly personalized digital experiences, empowering more users to drive innovation.
Liferay DXP Product Roadmap
Jeff Handa
Sr. Manager, Product Enablement
Liferay
Sr. Manager, Product Enablement
Liferay
In this session we will explore how Liferay will evolve to power tailored solutions for the next wave of digital.
Accelerate Your Success with Liferay: New Partnerships & Services
Jeff Handa
Sr. Manager, Product Enablement
Liferay
Sr. Manager, Product Enablement
Liferay
Erica Gnajek
Sr. Solution Architect
Liferay
Sr. Solution Architect
Liferay
Chris Mount
Customer Experience Solution Architect
Liferay
Customer Experience Solution Architect
Liferay
Liferay is rapidly evolving, in this session we will explore several new services and partnerships that are helping you to maximize the value of your Liferay based solution.
From Legacy to Next-Gen: Re-Architecting a Data-Intensive Portal with Liferay DXP
Mike Brunsting
Supply Chain Systems Manager
MillerKnoll, Inc.
Supply Chain Systems Manager
MillerKnoll, Inc.
Shikhar Gupta
President & CEO
Nirvana Lab, Inc.
President & CEO
Nirvana Lab, Inc.
Legacy portals often struggle to keep up with modern user expectations, scalability demands, and integration requirements. In this session, we’ll explore how a data-intensive legacy portal was re-imagined using Liferay DXP in 2025. We’ll cover the challenges of modernizing complex, high-traffic systems, key architectural decisions, and the practical strategies that enabled a seamless transformation. Attendees will gain insights into modernization best practices, lessons learned, and how to leverage Liferay DXP for building resilient, future-ready portals.
How Zions Bancorporation is leveraging Liferay, Current and Future State
Otmane Oudrhiri
SVP, Sr Engineering Manager
Zions Bank
SVP, Sr Engineering Manager
Zions Bank
In this presentation, we will go over how Zions Bancorporation is leveraging the current Liferay platform. We will also have a forward look into how we are planning on leveraging the platform in the near future.
Shifting Forward: Migrating Grain & Protein Technologies to Liferay SaaS
Brad Lott
E-Business Leader
Grain & Protein Technologies
E-Business Leader
Grain & Protein Technologies
At Grain and Protein Technologies, we completed a successful migration to Liferay SaaS in just about six months along with our implementation partner Nirvana Lab. The project included a seamless transfer of data, documents, users, and dealers, ensuring business continuity and scalability. Beyond migration, Nirvana Lab helped us enhance the platform with improved search capabilities, a modernized user interface, and streamlined user provisioning. This presentation highlights the journey, the timeline, key challenges, and outcomes of building a more efficient, user-friendly digital experience using Liferay SaaS.
Liferay DXP Product Roadmap
Jeff Handa
Sr. Manager, Product Enablement
Liferay
Sr. Manager, Product Enablement
Liferay
In this session we will explore how Liferay will evolve to power tailored solutions for the next wave of digital.