The hotel rate for Plone Conference 2026 ends this Friday, today is still the cheapest time to get a ticket, and the Business Track programme is now online. Three things worth sorting before the weekend.
The €179 hotel rate ends this Friday
The conference is at Hotel Van der Valk Maastricht, with rooms on site. Until Friday 21 August you can book one at a reduced rate of €179 per room per night — excluding breakfast and tourist tax — with the code:
SYSLAB2026
The room block started at 75 and only 30 are left, first come first served. Staying on site removes the travel and timing questions and takes one thing off your September list. After Friday the code stops working and the room may cost more — the hotel uses dynamic pricing, and other options such as booking.com can still be cheaper on a good day.
Book your room: Syslab GmbH - Hotel Maastricht
Today is the cheapest week to get your ticket
Plone people are famously good at deciding late — it is almost a tradition. Two honest reasons to book now, both in your favour:
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Today's price is the lowest it will be. A full-week ticket is €368 (+ 21% Dutch VAT) right now. Fourteen days before we open we begin the final preparations, and changing the numbers at the last minute is costly — so the price goes up for the final stretch.
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The main room has a hard ceiling — 220 seats. That is the limit the venue gives us, with no overflow. When it is full, it is full.
Booking this week costs you less, secures your seat, and lets us plan the catering, the rooms, and the party around real numbers rather than guesses.
Get your ticket: Plone Conference 2026
Business Track — now online
One day, one question, seven voices. The Friday programme is published. The Business Track — Digital Autonomy & AI is one day inside the conference, built for IT decision makers and digital leaders, in English, without requiring prior Plone knowledge. An independent keynote opens the day, and six senior practitioners carry one argument in a deliberate arc.
Keynote — Jürgen Geuter, writing as tante: Beyond Output: What LLMs Do to Open Source Communities. An independent voice on what AI is doing to the communities that build and maintain open source — the frame the rest of the day argues inside.
A few of the talks that follow:
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A new storage foundation for Plone, built in a week with an AI assistant — Jens Klein on what AI changes in the hands of a senior maintainer, with 2.5× write performance and code you can verify.
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A sovereign, on-premise AI chatbot for student advisory — Jörg Zell on a working open-weight system built with the University of Bonn, with traceable, citation-backed answers.
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Why a vision-aligned product is in no hurry to ship AI — Guido Stevens on what an institution should keep out of its platform on principle.
Friday 25 September, €149 (+ 21% Dutch VAT). A Friday one-day ticket at the same price also includes the Business Track. If someone else owns your platform decisions, send them the page.
Read the Business Track programme: Business track
Three things worth doing before Friday
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Book your room at €179 with SYSLAB2026 — the rate ends Friday 21 August.
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Get your ticket at today's price, before it goes up in the final two weeks.
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Read the Business Track programme and pass it to whoever owns your platform decisions.
Maastricht is where common ground is made. We will see you there.