FMExchange 2026 · Milan · November 5–6

Two days. One track.
The conversations that decide what comes next.

The international conference at the heart of Milan FileMaker Week. AI, agentic development, aging systems and real business decisions, discussed by the people who build and run FileMaker solutions every day. No parallel tracks, no filler sessions.

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13Speakers
2Conference days
1Single track
5Hands-on AI Labs
Why FMExchange

Not another product demo.

Decisions, not demos

What AI in FileMaker really costs, when to rebuild an app and when not to, why three companies decided FileMaker had to go. Questions with real business consequences.

From Claris and the field

Agentic development explained by Douglas Wallis of Claris, next to developers and companies running FileMaker in manufacturing and healthcare.

You're part of it

Five AI Labs between the talks turn what you hear on stage into questions, experiments and conversations with the people in the room.

On stage

Meet the speakers

Caroline Crémieux-CharpentierCaroline Crémieux-CharpentierDouglas WallisDouglas WallisJohn RenfrewJohn RenfrewRomain DunandRomain DunandAlbert Harum AlvarezAlbert Harum AlvarezJeroen AartsJeroen AartsNicola MattinaNicola MattinaSergio SantoroSergio SantoroAndrea FrancicaAndrea FrancicaNicolas FrancoNicolas FrancoMTMariangela TricaricoGiulio VillaniGiulio VillaniEvelyn StrappavecciaEvelyn Strappaveccia
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One pass, the whole week

The Week Pass includes everything.

Come for the conference, stay for the week. Your pass covers every moment of Milan FileMaker Week, from November 3 to 7.

  • SMAU Innovation TourNov 3
  • Jurassic community meetupNov 4
  • FMExchange conferenceNov 5–6
  • Gala dinnerNov 5
  • FMItalia.devNov 7
  • Streaming & recordings
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THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Thursday 5 November
08:30
Welcome & Registration
09:15
FILEMAKER IS IN YOUR BUSINESS. SO NOW WHAT? Opening Keynote
Surviving the Future.
Evelyn Strappaveccia & Giulio Villani
FileMaker is already inside thousands of businesses, often carrying years of data, processes and decisions. As software development changes around it, what should developers and companies be paying attention to now?
10:00
YOUR CODE IS NOW FREE. WHAT ARE YOU SELLING ON MONDAY?
When writing software stops being the expensive part, where does your value move?
Nicola Mattina
Code is becoming cheap. Understanding a business isn't. Nicola looks at what FileMaker professionals actually sell when AI can produce software in days.
10:45
Coffee BreakNetworking
11:15
POV: GEN Z AND FILEMAKER
Why Gen Z Should (Re)Discover FileMaker.
Mariangela Tricarico
Give a Gen Z software engineer FileMaker, a small real project and a little live coding. What feels surprisingly contemporary — and what doesn't?
12:00
INSIDE AGENTIC DEVELOPMENT FOR FILEMAKER
How AI agents are changing the way FileMaker applications are understood and built.
Douglas Wallis · Claris
A look inside Claris' approach to agentic development and what happens when AI can understand the structure and dependencies of a real FileMaker solution.
12:45
AI LAB #1
A short participatory session connecting the ideas on stage with the experience and questions in the room.
13:00
Lunch BreakNetworking
14:30
AI LAB #2
A short participatory session connecting the ideas on stage with the experience and questions in the room.
14:45
BUILDING AI IN FILEMAKER. WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY COST?
Architecture, models, privacy and customer value from a real-world implementation.
Romain Dunand
AI demos are cheap. Production systems aren't. A real-world look at the architecture, models, privacy choices, costs and customer value behind building AI into FileMaker.
15:30
YOUR FILEMAKER APP WILL DIE. PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
Applications have a lifespan. Your data doesn't necessarily have to share it.
John Renfrew
APIs, webhooks, OData and architectural choices for building systems whose data and capabilities can survive the application around them.
16:15
Coffee BreakNetworking
16:45
AI LAB #3
A short participatory session connecting the ideas on stage with the experience and questions in the room.
17:00
WELCOME TO THE FILEMAKER FUTURE. HERE'S A PDF.
Because however advanced your architecture becomes, somebody still needs the document.
Giulio Villani
No plugins. No external service. A FileMaker-native PDF engine for one of the least futuristic — and most persistent — requirements in business software.
17:45
Day 1 Closing & Gala Dinner Info Closing
19:30 · Gala Dinner — Taverna Calabiana Networking & Community
Friday 6 November
09:15
THE FACTORY STILL RUNS ON FILEMAKER.
From estimation to production planning, shop-floor data and analysis.
Andrea Francica
Manufacturing doesn't stop at the database. Andrea Francica follows a complete production process in FileMaker, from product specifications and estimation to production orders, scheduling, shop-floor data collection and analysis.
10:00
FILEMAKER MUST DIE.
They killed it. Three real stories of companies that decided FileMaker had to go.
Evelyn Strappaveccia
Three companies. Three existing FileMaker systems. Three decisions that FileMaker had to go. What pushed each company to that point — and what happened when replacing the software became a real business project?
10:45
Coffee BreakNetworking
11:15
WHAT IS FILEMAKER FOR NOW? Roundtable
Moderated by Nicola Mattina · with Douglas Wallis, John Renfrew & Giulio Villani
12:00
YOUR MCP, YOUR RULES: SELF-HOSTING MCP WITH N8N AND FILEMAKER
Build and control your own MCP infrastructure around FileMaker.
Jeroen Aarts
What does it take to connect FileMaker to the emerging MCP ecosystem without handing the entire architecture to somebody else? Jeroen Aarts shows how to set up a self-hosted MCP server using n8n and FileMaker.
12:45
AI LAB #4
A short participatory session connecting the ideas on stage with the experience and questions in the room.
13:00
Lunch BreakNetworking
14:30
AI LAB #5
A short participatory session connecting the ideas on stage with the experience and questions in the room.
14:45
THE ONLY GOOD REASON NOT TO REBUILD YOUR APP FROM SCRATCH
Albert Harum-Alvarez
If rebuilding software is becoming dramatically easier, why keep maintaining the old one? A look at technical debt, accumulated business knowledge and what actually deserves to survive.
15:30
BUILDING MEDICAL AI WITH FILEMAKER
Inside Halia: integrating FileMaker into a real-world medical booking workflow.
Sergio Santoro
What happens when AI becomes part of a real operational workflow? Sergio Santoro presents Halia, a medical exam booking system where FileMaker is integrated into an AI-driven process, turning conversations and requests into structured information that can be used by the people and systems behind the service.
16:15
Coffee BreakNetworking
16:45
WHEN YOUR FILEMAKER DATABASE STARTS ANSWERING BACK
Using Claude and Claris MCP to explore data and build dashboards autonomously.
Caroline Crémieux-Charpentier
What changes when users can ask questions of their FileMaker data instead of navigating the application to find the answer? Caroline Crémieux-Charpentier explores a real use case combining Claude, Claris MCP and FileMaker data to investigate information and create dashboards.
17:30
SEMANTIC SEARCH AUTOPSY: THE EVOLUTION BEYOND PERFORM FIND
What happens when finding data stops being about matching what you typed?
Nicolas Franco
FileMaker developers have spent decades telling databases exactly what to find. Semantic search changes the premise. Nicolas Franco examines how embeddings and meaning-based retrieval can take FileMaker beyond traditional Perform Find.
18:15
THE FUTURE ISN'T NEXT. Closing Keynote
Evelyn Strappaveccia & Giulio Villani
From 18:30 · Closing Aperitivo Drinks offered to everyone staying after the conference

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Because the future of FileMaker will not survive by nostalgia. It survives when new minds enter the ecosystem.

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SMAU
Innovation Tour

Nov 3

Community
Meetup

Nov 4

FMExchange
Conference

Nov 5–6

Gala Dinner
& Networking

Nov 5

FMItalia.dev
Conference

Nov 7

Recordings
& Streaming

 

Networking
Events

 

FMExchange
Week Pass

November 3–7, 2026

The whole week: FMExchange, gala dinner, SMAU tour, community meetup and FMItalia.dev.

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