Contao Summit 26: AI is eating your CMS

AI is rapidly reshaping how we create, manage, and deliver content — and it’s starting to challenge the very foundations of traditional CMS platforms.

In this talk, I’ll explore how different CMS ecosystems are currently approaching AI, including a look beyond our own bubble into what’s happening in Drupal, WordPress, and TYPO3. What features are emerging? Where are platforms investing? And what can we learn from each other?

Beyond the product landscape, we’ll examine what you can already build yourself using open-source tools and APIs — from AI-assisted content workflows to custom integrations tailored to your editorial needs.

Most importantly, we’ll discuss which AI features actually make sense in a CMS context — and which are just hype. If AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) can generate, structure, and publish content, do editors even need a traditional backend anymore?
This session offers a practical, forward-looking perspective on where AI and CMS are heading — and what it means for developers, editors, and digital teams.

Transcript

1. Your tech. Sovereign hosting. G N I T A E S I I A S M C R U YO d l a w t t i m @ H C I M L E H N I T MAR
2. N I T R A M H C I M L HE mittwald Chief Technology Evangelist Head of Developer Relations TYPO3 Association Board Member PHWT Lecturer, Software Engineering & Cloud Computing
5. , N I T R A M E K A S S ’ K C U F FOR O T D E S O P P U S E R E W U YO ! I A T U O B A TALK Peggy_Marco https://pixabay.com/photos/black-grumpy-cat-view-cat-eyes-4921131/
6. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Bildhauer_Nebamun_und_Ipuki_004.jpg
9. WEB DEVELOPERS „IT ALL GOING TO END“ CRAFTSMEN „FIRST TIME?“
10. Welcome to Yet another AI talk
11. PRESENTING mittwald’s first L40S NVIDIA cards in production
12. HOSTING MY OWN AI MODELS SINCE 2025 https://www.mittwald.de/mstudio/ai-hosting
13. P N E E S E V ’ I S G N I TH I A H T I W O D E L EO P
14. WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD?
16. A COMMON PROBLEM
17. CMS CORE (JoompaltaoPress3) A COMMON PROBLEM
18. OPENAI ANTHROPIC AWESOME PLUGIN NICE PLUGIN BEDROCK MITTWALD CMS CORE (JoompaltaoPress3) COOL PLUGIN A COMMON PROBLEM OLLAMA
19. OPENAI PROVIDER SPECIFIC INTEGRATION ANTHROPIC AWESOME PLUGIN PROVIDER INTERFACE NICE PLUGIN BEDROCK MITTWALD CMS CORE (JoompaltaoPress3) COOL PLUGIN A COMMON SOLUTION OLLAMA
23. READ FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://github.com/b13/aim READ FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://symfony.com/doc/current/ai/index.html
26. READ FOR MORE INFORMATION: https://symfony.com/doc/current/ai/index.html PLATFORM Standardized interfaces to multiple AI providers AGENT Framework for building your own AI agents CHAT Manage chats and conversation histories STORE Abstraction layer for vector databases and RAG systems SIDE NOTE (for Symfony users) $ composer require mittwald/symfony-ai-platform
27. HOT TAKE:
28. HOT TAKE: Does your CMS still need a basic text editing AI, when your OS offers that, anyway?
29. C I T N AGE AI G N I L L E D O M T N E T N O C N E G T N E T T N N O E C G S A U O O T M T N E G A T AUTONO N E M E C R O F N E N E V I R POLICY D E V I OBJECT E V I T A R E N N E G T GE FTING X E T ALT A I R D A T N E N T O I N T O A C T P A D A N E E L G Y E T G S A & IM E N O N T E G A T METADA N O I T A L S N A TR
30. PRESENTING: THE AI AGENT complex WORKFLOWS are implemented by DIVISION OF LABOUR across multiple agents agents take specialized jobs within a complex workflow agents can use TOOLS AUTONOMOUSLY
32. BRINGING THE AI INTO YOUR CMS… OR BRINGING YOUR CMS INTO THE AI?
35. Model Context Protocol See more: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
36. Agentic usage of mittwald mStudio Interactions via MCP, June to October 2026
37. LLM contains “tool calls” as structured (JSON or XML) output segments in predefined formats provides available tools in LLM context HOST MCP CLIENT JSON-RPC over: _ stdio (local) _ HTTP (remote) MCP SERVER
40. r e S P C M o o T I P lA S P C +M d e n n pla r e v r e r e v r e s ) P 6 C a l M ( m o o J for MC + r ve e l d n u B P s e i t i l i Ab S P C M m y S I A y n fo S P C +M + ( r e v r e r e erv m y S y n fo ) ? … I A
41. MCP L O O T L A S L R O E C V O T UNI O R P G N I L L CA ) P / C o i T . U p ( c t u . w w w / / : s p h tt UTCP
42. HOW D … E G N A H C S I H T S OE ? s m e t s y s h c u s h t i w t c a r e t n i e w ? r w e g n o …ho l y n a d n e k c a b a d e e n n e ? v s l e e e d w o r m e s h t s e e h n i w s u … b d n a s t c u d o r p r …ou
43. MOM, CAN WE HAVE AN AI WEBSITE BUILDER? NO KID, WE HAVE AN AI WEBSITE BUILDER AT HOME THE AI WEBSITE BUILDER AT HOME:
44. THE AI WEBSITE BUILDER AT HOME:
45. AI WEBSITE BUILDERS CMS INDUSTRY
46. CNC MACHINES 3D PRINTERS POWER TOOLS WOODWORKERS
47. R U O Y N OW I A
48. https://ollama.com/ API ENDPOINT https://api.openai.com/v1
49. https://ollama.com/ API ENDPOINT https://llm.aihosting.mittwald.de/v1
50. https://ollama.com/ API ENDPOINT http://localhost:11434/v1
51. WHAT DOES DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY MEAN, ANYWAY?
52. CAVEAT OR: “WHAT PEOPLE TEND TO GET WRONG ABOUT DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY” Own work
53. DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY IS NOT… swapping dependency to an US vendor for dependency to an EU vendor DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY IS… …not being dependent on any one single vendor …being able to control where your data does(n’t) go
54. G N I T A E S I I A S M C R YOU
55. NOT G N I T A E S I I A S M C R U O Y ALL OF
56. NOT G N I T A E S I I A S M C R U O Y ALL OF ALREADY (OR SOON TO BE) A COMMODITY CONTENT AUTHORING/GENERATION/ TRANSLATION BUILT-IN AI ASSISTANTS NEXT BIG THING™ (?) AGENTIC EXPERIENCE & INTEROPERABILITY (MX/MCP/A2A) ESTABLISHING CONTENT TRUST (PROVENANCE & GOVERNANCE) BASIC CODING TASKS (TEMPLATES, INTEGRATIONS, GLUE CODE, …) ) N O I N I P O L A N O S R E P : N O I T (CAU
57. NOT G N I T A E S I I A S M C R U O Y ALL OF WHAT’S STILL YOURS (MAYBE JUST AI ASSISTED) CONTENT MODELING ESTABLISHING CONTENT TRUST (PROVENANCE & GOVERNANCE) ORCHESTRATION & CONTEXT ENGINEERING SOFTWARE & CONTENT ARCHITECTURE LOTS MORE ) N O I N I P O L A N O S R E P : N O I T (CAU
58. JUNE 18th, 2027 ESPELKAMP, GER W O N T E K C I T R GET YOU
59. MARTIN HELMICH m.helmich@mittwald.de martin.helmich@typo3.org linkedin.com/in/martinhelmich Your tech. Sovereign hosting. mittwald.de