FileMaker is in your business.
Maybe you built it. Maybe someone built it twenty years ago and your company has been developing it ever since. Maybe it runs one department, maybe half the company quietly depends on it. Maybe you’re the developer who knows every relationship in the graph, or the person sitting on the other side of the table asking why something that sounds simple will take three weeks.
Maybe you love FileMaker. Maybe you’re increasingly frustrated with it.
It doesn’t really matter, because it’s there and the world around it is changing rather quickly.
AI is changing how software is built. Agentic development is changing what a single developer can do. Rebuilding software is becoming faster and cheaper. The way we search, use and interact with data is changing. Applications are opening themselves to services, platforms and agents outside their own walls.
And suddenly, the questions we’ve been asking for years are starting to sound a little different.
Should we upgrade? Should we rebuild? Should we integrate AI? Is FileMaker still the right choice?
But perhaps we’re asking the wrong questions.
Because the future of your FileMaker application isn’t really about FileMaker. It’s about what your business needs to do next, and that’s a conversation developers shouldn’t be having alone.
For years, FileMaker conferences have mostly been places where developers talk to other developers. About tools, techniques, architectures and everything else that makes our little corner of the software world so interesting.
What about the people running the businesses behind those applications? The ones investing in them, depending on them, sometimes fighting with them every single day?
They have just as much at stake. And probably some very different questions.
That’s why we’re doing something different at FMExchange 2026, the international conference inside the FileMaker Week.
Yes, we’ll talk about AI, agentic development, integrations and the future of building software. We’ll explore real applications, challenge established practices and examine what happens when companies decide FileMaker has to go. We’re not interested in technology for its own sake. We’re interested in what it changes for the people who build software and for the businesses that use it.
There’s a difference between a system that still works and a system that’s still doing the right job.
Knowing how to build something is becoming less difficult than knowing what deserves to be built.
Two days. One track. One conversation.
Developers, business owners, IT managers, consultants. Different perspectives on systems that have become essential to the way companies work. You don’t need to write FileMaker scripts to have something important to contribute to that conversation.
In fact, you might be exactly the person we’re missing. Live or online, no matter the way you will choose.
FMExchange | November 5–6, 2026 | Milan FileMaker Week
FileMaker is in your business.
Maybe it’s time your business joined the conversation.
