US Partner Summit 2026: Award Winners Recap
A night to remember
When we started planning the Umbraco US Partner Summit, we knew we wanted to create something special. It took months of work, plenty of ideas, and a big leap of faith to bring a new kind of gathering to life for our North American community.
And it all came together beautifully.
This night meant so much to the Umbraco North America ecosystem. We shared dinner, drinks, and a trivia night full of laughter with our partners, and we had the best time doing it. Looking around the room, it was clear this was more than an event. It was a community swapping stories, building connections, and celebrating each other’s work.
Umbraco has real momentum in North America, and you could feel that energy all evening. We hope we brought a little bit of Codegarden to the US, and we’re just getting started.
Of course, the night was also about recognizing great work. On September 30, we celebrated three projects that show what’s possible when ambition meets great execution. Congratulations to all our winners and nominees.
US Partner Summit 2026: Award Winners Recap
Stars, Stripes & AI Award
Winner: Proworks for Mold Inspection Sciences
This award recognizes AI with a clear purpose, and Proworks delivered exactly that. For a 20-year-old inspection company with a small team, they built a full publishing engine: bulk content creation through MCP, paired with an evaluator that checks every page for quality, brand alignment, and AI discoverability before it goes live. A new page now takes under 10 minutes of human time. Traffic is up 80% year over year, accessibility scores climbed from 86 to 98, and 2026 is on track as a record year for leads and revenue.
Nominees: Marcel Digital (Ascensus), Proworks (MIS)
The American Standout Award
Winner: Scandia for OAS Federal Credit Union
Scandia rebuilt OAS Federal Credit Union’s WordPress site on Umbraco and tackled the challenge at the data layer. A single centralized rate entry now updates everywhere, disclosures are tied to products rather than pages, and parallel English and Spanish content trees keep both languages in sync. The results speak for themselves: rate publishing improved by more than 90%, disclosure corrections dropped by over 80%, and online account-opening conversion rose to 37%.
Nominees: Blend (SDDOH), Scandia (OAS), Wakefly (HPI)
The CEO Award
Winner: Adage Technologies for the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Handpicked by Umbraco leadership for vision, class, and prestige, this award went to a standout migration from Optimizely to Umbraco Cloud. Adage made accessibility easier for editors with a theme picker that checks WCAG 2.0 AA compliance in real time, along with motion and audio controls and full keyboard navigation. Under the hood, optimized code, payloads, caching, and content delivery drove a 73.5% average gain in page performance, ticketing journeys up to 46x faster, and a 38% reduction in peak infrastructure, scaling down from eight servers to five. Adage and the Arsht Center will also receive a professionally produced video testimonial.
Nominees: Lightburn (Strada), Adage (AAC), Phases (BBYO)
Thank You, Partners and The Community
To everyone who helped make this year’s summit and festival a success: thank you. We’re proud of the work you do, we’re grateful to share this journey with you, and we can’t wait to see what you build next.