Keynote Speakers

Dries Buytaert, DRUPAL PROJECT FOUNDER

#DRIESNOTE

Tuesday, October 29 at 8:45 a.m.

Talk: Driesnote

During his keynote - a.k.a. Driesnote - at DrupalCon Amsterdam, Dries will give one of his engaging keynotes about the state of the Drupal project as well as updates on Drupal 8.8 and next year’s Drupal 9 release.

Belgium-born Drupal founder Dries Buytaert is a pioneer in the open source web publishing and digital experience platform space.
 

Sue Black, PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST, UK GOVERNMENT STRATEGIC ADVISOR, WOMEN’S EQUALITY PARTY CANDIDATE FOR LONDON MAYOR 2020, PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER, AUTHOR

#DCSUE

Wednesday, October 30 at 1:30 p.m.

Talk: If I can do it, so can you

25 years ago Professor Sue Black was a single parent with three small children living on a council estate in Brixton, UK. She is now one of the top 50 women in tech in Europe, received an OBE and just been appointed to the Government Advisory Body shaping digital services. She is winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Lovie Awards 2018 and is one of the leading tech personalities in the UK today. Sue talks about how she brought her family out of poverty and built a successful career through education, passion and a determination to succeed.

An award-winning computer scientist, radical thinker and social entrepreneur! Sue is also a passionate advocate for women in tech and has spent the last 20 years campaigning for more recognition and support for women in computing. With 20+ years of experience Sue is an academic with over 40 publications and a PhD in software engineering.

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, CEO AND CO-FOUNDER OF THENEXTWEB.COM

#DCBORIS

Tuesday, October 29 at 1:30 p.m.

Talk: Humanity in tech 

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten will talk about how the future of technology is not about the bits and bytes or hardware and software but about the humans behind it. The emotions that are triggered, the lives that are impacted and the effects on society. Through anecdotes and stories Boris will provide a view on how we can be innovative and digital, yet stay human.

Boris is a successful serial entrepreneur, who co-founded TNW (The Next Web) and has been its CEO for the past 14 years. Boris dropped out of school aged 14, applied and graduated from circus school and for a while was the only individual in the Netherlands who could successfully juggle seven balls at the same time. He also attended art academy and graduated cum laude before starting his first internet company. He founded his first Internet company in 1997 which got acquired in 1999. In 2005 he founded the first WiFi hotspot service in The Netherlands which was acquired by Royal Dutch KPN within its first year of existence. Boris co-founded, and was a shareholder in, several other companies and speaks regularly about startups life and innovation.

DRUPAL LEADERS

#DrupalInitiatives

Monday, October 28 at 1:30 p.m.

Talk: Drupal core initiative leads keynote

Drupal 8's continuous innovation cycle resulted in amazing improvements that made today's Drupal stand out far above Drupal 8.0.0 as originally released. Drupal core initiatives played a huge role in making that transformation happen. In this keynote, various initiative leads will take turns to highlight new capabilities, challenges they faced on the way and other stories from core development.