In its ninth year after a successful debut in 2017, Decoupled Days is the premier non-profit and volunteer-run conference dedicated to covering the future of modern web development, open-source and emerging technologies, and content and commerce architectures. The 2026 edition is scheduled for August 6-7, 2026 at Montréal CoWork in Montréal.
Attend: Buy a ticket (early-bird pricing now available)
Speak: Submit a session (call for presentations ends 1 April)
Sponsor: Support our event (six sponsorship tiers available)
Mission
The mission of Decoupled Days, beyond helping attendees engage and connect with people sharing their interests, is to share best practices in sessions, offer networking opportunities, and connect web developers working with open-source and emerging technologies and practitioners working with content and commerce architectures.
Conference
The conference consists of two days at Montréal CoWork on the dates of August 6 and 7, 2026. Registration is open from 8am–9am on both Thursday, August 6th and Friday, August 7th. Keynotes and sessions will run from 9am–5pm on both days.
Tracks
Decoupled Days 2026 will consist of five session tracks (our call for presentations is open until 1 April):
- The Emerging Technologies track will cover new and innovative approaches in modern web development and in content management and commerce. Topics include Internet of Things (IoT), immersive experiences (AR/VR), and generative artificial intelligence (e.g. LLMs, MCP servers, AI integrations and tools, generated content and code, etc.).
- The Content Management and Commerce track will cover the use of content and commerce systems as a service and headless, composable, and traditional architectures. Topics include web services and APIs (e.g. REST APIs, GraphQL, JSON:API and GraphQL in Drupal, WP-API and WPGraphQL in WordPress), recommended architectures and frameworks, techniques, and the surrounding CMS and commerce ecosystems. Other topics include headless CMS (Contentful, Sanity, Hygraph, Strapi, Prismic, etc.), headless commerce systems (commercetools, etc.) and other headless and composable tools (e.g. Netlify, Vercel, Apollo, etc.).
- The JavaScript track will cover modern JavaScript and its use in content and commerce architectures. Topics include universal JavaScript, server-side rendering, Node.js techniques, frameworks and libraries (e.g. React, Next.js, Astro, Vue, Svelte), static site generators (e.g. Gatsby, Gridsome, Hugo), Jamstack architectures and hosting (e.g. Netlify, Vercel), and other JavaScript technologies (e.g. TypeScript).
- The Agency and Business track will cover headless content and commerce in the business, consultancy, and client landscape. Topics include case studies of successful implementations, buyer personas, sales and marketing in decoupled CMS, building and scaling your decoupled CMS business, agency and consultancy operations, client and stakeholder decision-making, and business strategy and innovation.
- The People and Community track will cover the personal and community dimensions of content and commerce, including issues of equity, justice, inclusion, accessibility, and mental health. Topics include diversity, equity, inclusion, decolonization, accessibility, culture and ethics, governance, codes of conduct, and event organizing. Other topics include health and well-being, personal and professional growth, and empathy and communication.