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Opening Keynote by Claris

Ryan McCann, CEO of Claris and Giuliano Iacobelli, Vice President of Product Management open this conference with news from Claris.

Fika

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Lunch

Time to fill our stomachs instead of our brains!

Observable Apps: What are your users really doing?

Use analytics in your FileMaker solution to fix performance and scripting bottlenecks, spot security problems, and really see how your users work in your solution.

Claris AI fundamentals

Everything you need to know about the current state of AI and the Claris platform.

We'll discuss:

• Natural language search & query
• Semantic search
• Image search
• MCP (Model Control Protocol)
• Agentic development

We'll briefly discuss the concept behind each topic, then quickly dive into practical uses with examples. We'll end each topic with an evaluation of do's and don'ts, plus an honest look at the pros and cons.

The demo files are free to download, and you'll receive one month of free access to experiment with our API key.

This is a "there are no dumb questions" session. Think of it as a primer for some of the more advanced presentations on these topics.

Just one more thing… How to avoid the dreaded scope creep

"Just one more thing" is the phrase that quietly kills project timelines and budgets. Last year in Antwerp we showed how AI speeds up getting a proposal signed off, this year we tackle what happens next: stopping scope creep before it ever starts. Using a fictional case study, we'll show how to turn a scattered list of client requests into one clear, agreed blueprint.

When Your Customers Are on Instagram: An AI-Powered Customer Service Story

The way customers reach businesses has changed. Email is no longer the first channel. It’s Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Buyers ask questions at 11pm on a Saturday and expect an answer before Monday morning. If you don't reply fast, they go to your competitor.

This session tells the story of a real car-audio shop that was losing customers because of slow response times, and how we solved it with an AI-powered assistant built on FileMaker.

fmJAML + fmIDEAS: Text-based dynamic Scripting (for Agentic AI Development)

What if FileMaker scripts could be written, reviewed, tested and even generated by AI as plain text?

This session introduces fmJAML and fmIDEAS (FileMaker JSON As a Markdown Language + fmIDE Action Scripts), a new text-first approach to FileMaker development that opens up possibilities previously difficult or impossible with the native Script Workspace.

You’ll see how a concise, human-readable scripting language can drive dynamic FileMaker automation, power an automated test framework, and provide an AI Action Bridge that allows AI agents to help explore and modify FileMaker solutions directly via the FileMaker Client GUI, making the AI-supported development process much more natural, fine grained, guided and safe.

The session includes:

• A brief introduction to the concepts behind fmJAML and fmIDEAS
• A live demonstration of the system in action
• Real-world examples, including automated testing and AI-assisted development
• A discussion of where text-first FileMaker development could take us next

Along the way we’ll explore the design philosophy behind the project—“Beauty is mathematical. Confidence is architectural. Seeing is believing. Proof is divine.”—and how those principles have guided a system that has already proven itself in day-to-day development.

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When your business is the product. How to buy or sell a FileMaker‑dependent business

Companies with FileMaker dependent business will change ownership. Founders that created the business are about to retire. We will talk about the process where the buyer and seller find common ground.

Fika

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Practical AI Workflows: Real-World Use Cases for Your Customers

I will first present several real-world AI use cases that can be integrated into FileMaker solutions. I will then dive deeper into one of them to explain how it works, the issues I faced while building it, and the key decisions behind the implementation.
The session will cover architecture, model choice, FileMaker integration, privacy, cost, and customer value, with the goal of helping attendees identify concrete AI-powered solutions they can build or propose to their own customers.

FileMaker Performance Under the Microscope

FileMaker 26 brings new performance expectations — but the most interesting performance questions are not always answered by version comparisons alone. After Initiative ’24 helped make the “faster calculation engine” the #1 voted feature request in the Claris Community, HOnza continued benchmarking and stress-testing FileMaker from new angles. The results revealed surprising cases where FileMaker invokes the calculation engine far more often than expected, creating hidden overhead that can significantly affect real-world solutions. In this session, HOnza will compare FileMaker 2026 with FileMaker 2025 using real benchmark data, share findings from a custom layout benchmarking framework, and explain what these discoveries mean for developers building or maintaining demanding FileMaker apps. You will also learn from a real-world optimization project where a customer’s solution had already been optimized several times — yet still had measurable performance gains left to uncover. Expect practical techniques, surprising benchmark results, and a deeper look at the invisible work FileMaker may be doing behind the scenes.

Business panel discussion: tech meets strategy

Sara Severson, Director of Client and Partner Relations, and Business Solutions Architect at Soliant Consulting will lead a panel discussion with Claris customers, Claris partners and Claris staff.

Talk to Your Data: Next-Gen Analytics in Claris

What if you could simply ask your database complex business questions in plain language and get instant, executive-level insights?
In this session, I will guide you through how defining relational schemas and roles transforms raw FileMaker data into a powerful, conversational analytics engine. I’ll take you through real-world business scenarios showing how simple queries expose critical cash flow risks, identify customer concentration bottlenecks, and automatically generate interactive visual dashboards.

What you’ll learn and see:

• Schema & Role Setup: How to teach the system your relational data structure step-by-step.
• Automated Insights: Uncovering hidden financial risks and navigating smart follow-up prompts.
• Instant Dashboards: Transforming plain text answers into dynamic, exportable visual charts.

Learn to fly

Learn how to pilot your deployment instead of risking becoming a passenger on the journey.

Pre-dinner mingle

Grab a glass with something bubbly and a snack, and mingle about with the other attendees in the Living Room area before dinner is served. Take the opportunity to get a photo or two together with other attendees - or why not a horse?

Dinner time!

Enjoy a three course dinner with drinks in the Cube - a black box that can be modified for a variation of events. The Cube is located on the floor above the conference hall and Living Room.

Living Room bar 'til 01!

After dinner, the lobby bar and Living Room area will be open and available for those who haven't had enough for the evening.

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AI on Your Own Terms: When to Run LLMs Locally, When to Reach for the API

Your customers are asking for AI features. The easy answer is to wire up an OpenAI or Anthropic API call from a script step and ship it. Sometimes that's the right call. Often it isn't, knowing the difference is becoming a core consulting skill.

This session is a practical decision framework for FileMaker developers on where to run LLMs for client work. We'll cover what you can genuinely run locally in 2026, how serverless options fit it, when hosted open-model providers make sense, and when you should reach for Claude or GPT despite the cost and data implications.
We'll cover the GDPR conversation your clients aren't having yet but will, the unit economics at realistic FileMaker-scale workloads, and the integration patterns that work cleanly from FileMaker scripts. Through demos, you'll see a FileMaker solution with local extraction, classification, and summarisation. All entirely offline.
You'll leave with a framework for advising clients, concrete starting points for your own stack, and a clearer view of where this is heading.

Consider and go deep further in your meat-and-potatoes

If you've been developing Custom Apps on the FileMaker platform, you might have many techniques you commonly use. But didn't you ever think, "How do other people do in this case?"?

In this session, we will talk about techniques that appear frequently in our development and discuss how many approaches we have to get the same results and how we can make it efficient, faster, and sometimes better results. Also, this session will compare some techniques (container field alternatives, save/restore found sets, etc.) I used it in the past and now, and what advantages can be made.

PDF? Yes, Please! — Building a No-Plugin PDF Engine Inside FileMaker

From AcroForms to flat layouts, AI field detection, and FileMaker 2026's new print settings — all inside a single portable module

Fika

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Back(up) for the future

Once your FileMaker tables begin to grow you may find that performance becomes an issue, particularly if you have a long-lived system which contains millions of records in a ‘wide’ table.

Faced with this issue we developed a series of systems which allows records to be archived - we started with shadow tables, then archive tables, then moved to a more sophisticated approach using an external service, but one which still allows seamless functionality within FileMaker.

In this session I’ll take you on that journey, and then demonstrate the final working process.

Beyond Native AI: Calling External LLM APIs Directly from FileMaker

FileMaker's native AI features are powerful — but they come with constraints: limited providers, text-only inputs, and no direct access to the full capabilities of commercial models. There's a simpler path than most developers realize: Insert from URL.

Using this familiar script step, you can call OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or Google Gemini APIs directly from any FileMaker solution — no plugins, no middleware. This session goes hands-on with the essentials: setting up API keys, building authentication, constructing JSON payloads, handling files and container data, and parsing responses back into FileMaker. Everything is grounded in real-world use cases — OCR, contract analysis, document generation — so attendees leave with working patterns they can apply the next day.

Claris MCP: customer use case

We implemented at a customer the ability to create dashboards and extract data autonomously using Claris MCP and Claude.
I will show you how Claris MCP enables Claude to interact with a FileMaker database (set-up, benefits and limitations).

What will Coders Sell when Coding is Free?

The first wave of agentic code has caused us to talk & write more about code. That’ll change when the shine of AI wears off. When code is automatically written, dependably tested & reliably debugged by AI agents, we will lose interest in it as a topic of conversation.

Code will be ever more present, as the cost to make it plummets. And the value of Coding—this thing that we do that for the time being is still called a profession—will tend asymptotically to zero.

How are smart team leaders responding to all this? Our team is building specs like we’ve always built code. We factor our specs into four layers, so that Ongoing Development doesn’t become Scope Creep or even The Run-On Project. This means we can deepen our bandwidth for new projects & quicken the pace of deployment, all while staying focused on serving our patron’s business.

Why web-hooks can transform your systems

For the first time ever, we can alter the behaviour of a FileMaker file without ever opening it! Webhooks that are triggered by changes to your data, one table at a time are a powerful new feature, but with scant documentation. We will review how they work, what they can be used for, and some tips from helping others use them in their solutions.

Seven Practical AI patterns you can implement in an afternoon

AI can do big things, but it can also do small, immediately useful things, which become building blocks.

Lunch

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Your Client Doesn't Want a Chatbot Demo. They Want a Business Tool. Introducing coso*

Your clients already have one or more systems running their business, including a FileMaker solution. What they don't have is an easy way to ask them questions, and they're increasingly turning to public AI tools to fill that gap, often exposing sensitive company data in the process.

coso* is a ready-to-integrate AI layer that lets your client's team ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in their own data bridging the data silos: FileMaker tables, PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, databases and the SaaS tools they already use. Every answer comes with a traceable source, so nothing is a black box. Roles and permissions already configured in the client's systems are respected, no data is copied outside their perimeter, and it deploys on cloud, on-premises or hybrid — keeping software houses in control of security and compliance.

This is not another tool built for developers. coso* is designed to be sold: a first use case can go live in weeks, requires no technical skills to use, and is model-agnostic (Claude, Gemini, GPT, open-source, or local models) — so you're never locked in and can price and support it as your own offering.

More and more companies are switching to mainstream softwares because they often offer a good but proprietary AI integration: coso* introduces AI in your client business integrating with the softwares he already has.

In this session, Nicola Gervasi shows how FileMaker-centric software houses can add coso* as a natural extension of the solutions they already build and maintain — turning "we should really add AI to this" into a concrete, billable line item on the next project proposal.

AI in project management: practical use cases and daily impact

I propose a 30-minute session as part of the Business sessions, focusing on practical experience in using artificial intelligence in project management. The aim is to demonstrate how these tools can be integrated into a project manager’s day-to-day work to improve efficiency and the quality of delivery. Particular attention will be given to confidentiality, GDPR, and the European AI Act considerations.

Open Quickly: from hidden gem to fully yours

Most FileMaker users navigate their solution the same way every day: menus, scrolling, repetition. Open Quickly offers a faster path, but few people know it exists, and fewer still know how deep it goes.
This session explores the native feature in full, honestly examines where it falls short, and then shows what becomes possible when you build your own version, tailored to your solution and your users. A practical, eye-opening look at one of FileMaker's most underused interaction patterns.

Almost Everything I Know About Building Agents

The whole landscape of building AI agents, laid out in order, from your first one to the ones that run without you watching. Everything I have learned, shared as completely as an hour allows.

Some Of My Favorite Things

This session explores three areas I’ve been spending a lot of time over many years, recently and places where I will be spending a lot of time in: measuring performance, managing technical debt, and AI-assisted development.
While they may seem unrelated at first, they all connect back to something FileMaker has enabled for decades — rapid iteration and the ability to continually evolve what we build.

Today, AI-assisted workflows and “vibe coding” are accelerating that capability even further, creating both exciting opportunities and important new challenges.

I’ll share experiments, observations, and lessons learned from projects, while exploring the broader implications for our community, and how to maintain a focus through this incredible transformation.

Ask Your FileMaker Server

From logs in real time and code to AI-powered support

What if you could ask your FileMaker Server, in natural language, in real time “Why is the system slow right now?” — and get an evidence-based answer?

This session explores how AI can combine FileMaker Server activity, logs, XML, application code, infrastructure metrics and project documentation into an intelligent diagnostic platform. Mainly as a powerful internal tool for developers and support teams capable of diagnosing issues with the right technical context.

Fika

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From Code Analysis to Code Creation: Agentic Development for FileMaker

A new workflow for FileMaker development combines agentic code analysis with agent-based code creation.
Especially in large legacy solutions, this approach offers major advantages for understanding, maintaining, and evolving complex codebases.
Using tools such as DuckDB for structured analysis and Claude Code for agentic implementation, the session shows how traditional development workflows can be fundamentally rethought.
Customizable interfaces and supporting tools make the approach practical and adaptable to real project needs.

Join the queue

I’ve previously spoken about off-loading work to the server, but what If you wanted to perform batch operations on large data sets, or you wanted an external system to be able to do that for you - that’s where queues come in.

In this sessions we’ll look at different techniques for queueing tasks in a FileMaker based system - roll your own, using a FileMaker-based queuing system like SimpleQ, or an external queuing application like RabbitMQ or Amazon SQS. We’ll take a look at how each system works and the pros and cons of each.

Social Event

Please Note: Participation in this event requires a separate ticket, which is not included in the standard conference registration.

Join us for a night of inspiring conversations, great food and something to clench your thirst!

At Malmö Brewing Co & Taproom you can enjoy a nice glass of in house brewed beer as well as international craft beer. Or try some mead for that sweet, old school (or is it ancient?) vibe! There’s also wines, craft ciders and sodas for those who are not too keen on beer.
Food will be served as a BBQ buffet: You can build your own burgers and choose your preferred toppings and ingredients to create them just the way you like.
A vegetarian burger option will also be available.

FileMaker 2026 - new features and tips

FileMaker 2026 was released in June, but have you had the chance to explore everything it brings? Join us for a deep dive into the new features and discover how they can help you build even better solutions.

Scaling the FileMaker MCP Server

Once FileMaker data sits behind an MCP server, you don't get to decide how many agents and users hit it at once. A single instance runs out of headroom fast. OData has connection limits, it's weakest at exactly the aggregate questions people ask an AI, and agents ask a lot of questions.

Claris ships a hosted MCP connector, and for a lot of projects that's the right answer. This session is about the projects where it isn't, and what we learned building something we run ourselves. We'll go through the options we weighed, from scaling compute with demand to keeping a warm tier to moving analytical work off FileMaker altogether, why we ruled out the ones we ruled out, and where we landed. The constraints did most of the deciding: how long compute really takes to be ready to serve, how much of that a user will sit through before a chat feels broken, and which queries genuinely need live data versus which only feel like they do.

We'll close on cost, which shapes these decisions more than people admit. How we modeled spend before committing to a design, which variables actually move the number, and how to run the same estimate against your own deployment before you build anything.

Building Modern Web Components with React

Learn how modern web technologies can extend the capabilities of FileMaker while maintaining a smooth and efficient development process.

Fika

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Beyond “One Day” in FileMaker

Many FileMaker solutions have grown over years of real business use. They work, they are valuable, and they often run critical processes — but underneath the surface, they also carry issues that everyone knows should be addressed “one day”: historical architecture decisions, hard-to-change logic, fragile integrations, unclear dependencies, slow workflows, and parts of the system that only one person fully understands.

Today, there is also a new question: with modern AI tools and other rapidly evolving technologies, should a company keep investing in FileMaker, extend it, integrate it with new tools, or gradually move some processes elsewhere?

In this session, I will share practical lessons from real-world FileMaker projects where long-postponed issues were finally analyzed, prioritized, and improved. We will look at these challenges from several angles: technical, architectural, organizational, psychological, and strategic — because the hardest part is often not knowing that something should change, but deciding what to change first and how to do it safely.

You will walk away with concrete ways to look at your own solution differently: how to identify hidden complexity, separate symptoms from root causes, choose low-risk first steps, and make meaningful progress without rewriting everything or waiting for a major project to be approved.

Side Projects: Build things you've been thinking about for years but never had the time

This isn't your typical FileMaker session: it's about building projects you've thought about for years. Now you can build in weekend instead of a someday, using the rare skill set you already have for building apps.

Devin 2.0: Next-Gen Version Control

Deployment automation has been well served by tools like Otto and Devin, and major players in the FileMaker community have offered solution analysis tools for years. But actual version control remains a difficult challenge — and now we’re taking it to the next level.

Devin 1.x was an important step toward bringing version control to FileMaker, but we’ve learned a lot about what it takes to make it easy to get started with and use. With significant new investment, we’re now building Devin 2.0 from the ground up — and we’ve completely rebuilt how we understand, track and manage changes to FileMaker solutions in hosted environments. The result is version control that is more stable, far more granular and dramatically easier to use.

Join David for an early preview of Devin 2.0’s new version control capabilities. This is still being built, and the preview is your chance to see where we’re heading, discuss what matters to you, and help shape the product through your feedback and feature requests.

We’ll also discuss why managing changes becomes increasingly important as agentic development enters the FileMaker ecosystem, where AI-driven development can introduce many more changes, much faster.

This isn’t the finished product. It’s an early look at what comes next and an invitation to provide feedback.

Lessons Learnt from Delivering Our First Vibe-Coded FileMaker App

Last year, we presented the concept: a FileMaker application with its entire UI built inside a single vibe-coded Web Viewer. This year, we made it real.
We designed, built, tested, and delivered our first solely vibe-coded FileMaker application, and this session is the full debrief.

We'll take you through the complete journey: development, QA, UAT, and beyond, examining how each phase looks different in this new era of AI-assisted development. Where do the demands shift? What do you need to rethink? And what does "done" even mean when AI is doing the heavy lifting?
Everything we learnt from delivering this application, the wins, the surprises, and the hard lessons, will be laid out, analysed, and shared with you.

Standby Server - Here, Now and the future

With FileMaker 2026 a new option has been added to the FileMaker server to allow you to ensure a simple business continuity option.

What happens if your primary server crash ? How long will it take you to get back from a backup ? How much downtime can you allow ? What if you can’t get to your primary server, nor your backups ?

The standby server option is here in a version 1. And this is a feature you can use to have a standby server ready in the event that something bad happens to your primary server. It allows you to be up and running in minutes.

While many cloud services offers snapshots and features that allow you to get a new machine fast - what if you can’t get to that ? What if the service is down for a longer period of time ?

While this feature is now here in a version 1, Claris is not done with this feature. Next version is already in the works.

Get to know all about this feature, how to set it up. How you can utilise 3. party services to extend the usage.

It’s really like an insurance policy. But this feature is also very useful when you need to apply security updates and patches on your primary server. Now you don’t need to have a service window, often during the night.

After this session you will know all the mechanics under the hood, how to setup and use this feature and know about where the feature will evolve towards.

Securing AI Coding Agents in FileMaker Development

FileMaker itself and a rapidly growing ecosystem of third-party FileMaker tools are shifting toward agentic development, increasingly relying on industry-standard AI coding harnesses.
This session looks under the hood at the specific attack surfaces they introduce to your deployment pipeline. We break down the 'lethal trifecta' of AI agent coding risk and discuss concrete controls across credentials, MCP, prompt injection, exfiltration and supply chain across 4 widely used AI coding harnesses—Claude Desktop/Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

Lunch

Time to fill our stomachs instead of our brains!

Pure FileMaker - Modular RestAPI Integration

We have discovered, that increasingly more projects need external data (source & target)  than in the past. We have alyo found , that implementing a restAPI over and over again is a) boring and b) hard to maintain, as many of our implementations were done individually and the code was not always up to standards. 
Readability issues, performance … 
Sometimes you need to convert, merge or split information, this can be done in variables, in fields, in calculations or auto entries … 
We wanted a standard that is easy to implement, easy to maintain and the same in every solution, so that a new programmer can learn it easily. 

We have succeeded to separate the settings from the structure and process and can now utilise the same framework for all RestAPI-connections, parameterise the connection and field mappings. 

This is all done in classical FileMaker code, some nice JSON calculations and our set or standardised C.R.U.D.-Filemaker scripts

Workloads distribution - worker server and queueing

Your solution’s functionalities have different goals:
- light functions whose result should be immediately available to the user (es. browsing)
- heavy functions whose results should be immediately available to the user
- heavy functions whose results doesn’t need to be immediately displayed

The first 2 cases need local execution and PSOS with wait.
The third case no: it can be delegated to a worker server to lighten the load on FMSE of the main server. We’ll see how to set up a worker server, tips to manage failures, thing to keep in mind.

AI Panel discussion

Matt Navarre will lead a technical panel discussion about AI with Claris partners and Claris staff.

Closing session

Thank you all, good bye and see you next year?