In this article, I’ll introduce the MVP team, explain the selection process of MVPs, and outline the most popular activities done by MVPs throughout the last year.

What is the MVP program?

The MVP stands for Most Valued Professional. The MVP program has been around for a long time, and for us at Kontent.ai, it’s always been a great way to recognize and award the most active members of our community. The MVPs are a team of passionate experts who are happy to share experiences from building and maintaining projects using Kontent.ai and other related tools. They ensure the community is welcoming and nurturing.

The selection process

At the end of every year, the MVP committee sits down and discusses each nominated MVP candidate. And to be honest, it’s no rocket science. We want every team member to be passionate about innovations, improvements, and user experience, as well as be eager to share the lessons learned from their projects with the Kontent.ai community. Everything else really comes naturally. Each member of the committee gets one vote, and even though we honor democratic principles, so far, the vote has always been unanimous.

Who are Kontent.ai MVPs for 2023?

The Kontent.ai MVPs for 2023 are:

Akshay Sura, Partner at Konabos

Andy Thompson, CTO at Luminary

Brian McKeiver, Partner/Senior Developer at BizStream

Ilesh Mistry, Senior Front End Engineer at MMT Digital

Matt Nield, Consultant

Tom Marshall, Head of Technology at Kyan

The 2022 MVP activities that stood out

There are many activities and projects MVPs are working on, so I picked a few of them that stand out to better showcase the spirit of the program:

• “Where is my data anyway?” a blog post by Andy Thompson where he explains the data sovereignty challenges in a world of SaaS and Cloud.
• “Delivering on the promise of AI for content editors” a presentation by Brian McKeiver at Kontent.ai Horizons, where he shows how AI can help our customers in their daily jobs.
• “Inside Kontent.ai’s Vision for Artificial Intelligence, Headless CMS” a blog post by Akshay Sura published on CMSWire, which was published just a few days after Kontent.ai Horizons and where he summarizes all the presentations.
• “IM Tech Meetup - Next.js” a meetup hosted by Ilesh Mistry featuring Next.js experts talking about their experience with building and running sites on this framework.
• “Getting the Latest Content From Kontent.ai” a blog post by Matt Nield published on Hackernoon, where he explains the Kontent.ai delivery infrastructure and provides code examples for getting the latest content.
• “Next.js & Kontent On-Demand ISR Demo” a project by Tom Marshall showing how to use on-demand ISR with Kontent.ai webhooks to revalidate pages based on the type of content (including a blog post published on Kontent.ai).

Engage with the MVP team

To find out more, make sure to check out the MVP Program page, where you’ll find contact details of each MVP as well as a short video showing how nice guys our MVPs actually are 🙂

And finally, congratulations to all the MVPs! 🏆