Shopware Hacktoberfest 2026

Shopware Hacktoberfest 2026

Get ready for Shopware Hacktoberfest 2026 at the Shopware Campus!

Join us for two days dedicated to learning, sharing, building, and connecting with the Shopware community. Expect inspiring talks, interactive workshops, community activities, and plenty of opportunities to meet fellow developers, contributors, and members of the Shopware team.

We'll open the doors to the Shopware Campus and give you a chance to experience the community up close, exchange ideas, and spend time with the people shaping the future of Shopware.

And of course, it wouldn't be Hacktoberfest without some fun. Look forward to games, networking, and relaxed evening activities with the community.

Registration

The tickets are now available. The Price includes food and beverages for both days and the evening event.

Timeline

Wednesday, 7 October 2026 4:00 pm - 10 pm CEST

Open Campus, drop by for coding, chatting and food.

Thursday, 8 October 2026

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

Opening Session with Niklas Dzösch Welcome and opening of the event.

9:15 AM – 9:45 AM

Product Updates with Moritz Naczenski Explore what’s new in the Shopware developer ecosystem. From platform updates and tooling improvements to upcoming technical initiatives, this session provides a look at where the platform is heading and what developers can expect next.

9:45 AM – 10:30 AM

Shopware 6.8 Is Coming with Jonas Elfering Jonas will share our plans for Shopware 6.8, what breaking changes you can expect, and how we want to make the update process easier.

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

SKILL Issue with Marco Podien · PayPal AI agents don’t always need a bigger model or more context. Often, they need better structure. This session explores smarter model selection, context management, task decomposition, subagents, and especially Agent Skills: how to keep them small, composable, and useful through progressive disclosure and evals. The goal: make the system smarter, not just the model.

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Reinventing the Wheel with Benjamin · AKF There are more search providers out there than anyone can count. So why would you build your own? For some specific use cases, taking the leap and developing a custom search solution can actually make a lot of sense — especially when you’re already making the move from Shopware 5 to Shopware 6. Benjamin will share why they decided to build their own search, what they learned along the way, and most importantly, how they did it.

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Break

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

More details coming soon.

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Coffee, Networking & Hike

Grab a coffee, meet other developers, or join the hike.

5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

Agent-Driven Development: From Task to Tested Code with Christian Dangl Christian will show how to build a reliable AI-driven development workflow that goes beyond good prompts. Using a small software project, he’ll demonstrate how clear agent instructions, quality gates, automated testing, reviews, and feedback loops can help AI agents move fast while keeping code quality and maintainability under control.

5:45 PM – 6:30 PM

When Things Go Sideways & Other Adventures with Sebastian Grigarczik · AGIQON Sebastian shares stories about things that didn’t quite go according to plan. And because Hacktober is about sharing, bring your own stories and tell us about your most educational or funniest adventures.

6:30 PM – Open End

BBQ, Gaming & Networking

Finish the day together with BBQ, gaming, networking, and good conversations.

Friday, 9 October 2026

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Nexus Workshop with Albert Scherman Time to get hands-on! We’ll show you how to work with Nexus, and then it’s your turn to put it into practice and try it out for yourself.

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM – 11:30 AM

Steering Coding Agents on Complex Projects with Martin Bens Coding agents did not invent slop, they only made it faster to produce. Starting from that observation, Martin walks through the concepts behind agentic coding and clears up a few half-truths along the way. Among them: prompts are often more portable between projects than assumed, because the actual context should live in the code, the documentation, and the tests. The second part is practical and shows how to apply these ideas to your own project: how to steer the development process, for example, to keep overengineering at bay, and how to build up agent tooling and instructions alongside the code. The examples come from Martin's work on complex, long-lived codebases.

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

How to Fall in Love with Coding (Again) with Nicole · 8mylez Nicole started her coding journey with Shopware and has since expanded her skills all the way into game development. She talks with Niklas about her travels from JavaScript and PHP to Go and GDScript — and back again.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Back to Basics with Soner You asked for classic, hands-on workshops at the Campus like back in the days. We heard you!Join Soner for an old-school, step-by-step session on how to build a Shopware plugin from scratch. A proper workshop covering the fundamentals from the ground up.

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM

Wrap-up Closing thoughts and wrap-up of the event.