In its eighth year after a successful debut in 2017, Decoupled Days is a conference for architects, developers, and businesspeople involved in implementing headless content and commerce architectures. The 2025 edition is scheduled for August 13-14, 2025 at the City College of New York.
Headless or decoupled architecture is the use of a content management system or commerce system as a content service for other consumer applications, whether they are in native desktop or mobile, universal JavaScript, set-top boxes, IoT devices, conversational interfaces, or other technologies.
Mission
The mission of Decoupled Days, beyond helping attendees engage and connect with people sharing their interests, is twofold:
- Share best practices in sessions. We encourage everyone to share their experiences in both back-end development of headless CMSs as a content service and front-end development of consumer applications consuming CMS content, especially those in JavaScript.
- Discuss difficult shared problems in discussions. We invite everyone to help identify and discuss shared issues in headless CMS and CMS-backed front ends to gather in discussions to unblock progress in our respective communities and ecosystems, both open-source and closed-source.
Conference
The conference consists of two days in a single room at the City College of New York’s NAC Multipurpose Room on the dates of August 13 and 14, 2025.
Tracks
Decoupled Days will consist of five separate tracks for sessions to occur in parallel:
- The Traditional Content and Commerce track will cover the use of traditional or monolithic content and commerce systems (e.g. Drupal, WordPress, WooCommerce, Hybris, Magento) as a content service and the range of architectures in decoupling traditional or monolithic CMSs. Topics include Drupal web services (e.g. JSON:API and GraphQL in Drupal, WP-API and WPGraphQL in WordPress), recommended architectures and frameworks, techniques, and the surrounding decoupled Drupal and headless WordPress ecosystems (e.g. Contenta, WPGraphQL, Decoupled Menus Initiative).
- The Headless Content and Commerce track will cover decoupled and headless content and commerce technologies. Topics include web services (e.g. GraphQL, REST APIs), headless CMS (Contentful, Prismic, Sanity, GraphCMS, Strapi, etc.), headless commerce systems (commercetools, etc.) and other decoupled or headless architectures and tools (e.g. Apollo). For Drupal and WordPress topics, see the Traditional CMS track.
- The JavaScript and Jamstack track will cover modern JavaScript and its use in decoupled CMS architectures. Topics include universal JavaScript, server-side rendering, Node.js and ES2022 techniques, frameworks and libraries (e.g. React, Next.js, 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 People and Community track will cover the personal and community dimensions of headless 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.
- The Business/CXO 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.