DrupalCon Atlanta 2025 Schedule

Meeting space for organized local camps, associations, or communities with designated ambassadors. Creating a welcoming and functional space for fostering a sense of community and collaboration.

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Attendance requires a training session ticket purchase ($500).

Attendance requires a training session ticket purchase ($500).

Attendance requires a summit session ticket purchase ($250).

Attendance requires a summit session ticket purchase ($250).

Attendance requires a summit session ticket purchase ($250).

Attendance requires a training session ticket purchase ($500).

Attendance requires a summit session ticket purchase ($250).

Attendance requires a training session ticket purchase ($500).

Attendance requires a training session ticket purchase ($500).

Attendance requires a summit session ticket purchase ($250).

Attendance requires a summit session ticket purchase ($250).

Attendance requires a summit session ticket purchase ($250).

Attendance requires a training session ticket purchase ($500).

Attendance requires a summit session ticket purchase ($250).

Let's get together to break the ice and meet new people before the Welcome Party.

A meeting space for organized local camps, associations, or communities with designated Ambassadors. Creating a welcoming and functional space that fosters interaction, knowledge-sharing, and a sense of community and collaboration.

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So many websites suffer from content bloat, especially the all-important homepage, as they try to meet the needs of a wide-ranging audience (especially internal staff and leadership).

The IXP-Fellowship, a Drupal community initiative for onboarding inexperienced developers has its initial goal of using Drupal's contribution credit system as an incentive for Drupal organizations to hire new and inexperienced Drupal developers.

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, effective product roadmaps are essential for aligning stakeholders, setting priorities, and guiding the successful execution of Drupal projects.

In today’s digital landscape, effective tag management is essential for improving website performance and maintaining privacy compliance.

Experience Builder (XB) will not only enable site builders to theme and build their entire website in the browser, it will also unlock content creation with unprecedented UX in Drupal.

One of the key elements of the Starshot Initiative is the rapidly evolving system for Recipes.

Drupal’s theming layer has grown by leaps and bounds over the past several years. We’ve seen new Twig filters, theme generation tools, and the introduction of Single Directory Components.

Meet the AI Automators that power all the AI features you’ve seen in Drupal CMS. They support the content editor experience through CKEditor and other Content widgets, underpin the alt text generation and even help you create your own Agents with no code.

What drives investment in your website? For some organizations, a small group of stakeholders sets the priorities. Others conduct user research, or a new marketing director may shake things up with fresh ideas.

Part panel discussion, part game show, this session will feature Drupal experts debating which parts of Drupal CMS' are the one to be most excited about.

Let's get together to break the ice and meet new people before the General Session.

Welcome and Aaron Winborn Award

The Black in Drupal Roundtable at DrupalCon will serve as a forum to exchange ideas and information relevant to the experiences of being black in Drupal.

An environment that fosters interaction, knowledge-sharing, and community building. Drupal events often attract developers, designers, content managers, and enthusiasts, so it’s important to have a space where people with varying levels of expertise and interest can connect.

In the fast-paced world of Drupal development, efficient and reliable workflows are crucial for successful contributions and project management.

Design systems are a great way to streamline the web development process and ensure consistency across different applications by documenting shareable UI artefacts. However, implementing a design system in a Drupal theme is challenging.

In this hands-on workshop, you will be introduced to Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio), a powerful data visualization tool for building customizable, dynamic reports from Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and a wide range of other data sources.

High-quality documentation is crucial for Drupal CMS's wider adoption, community growth, and overall success. As part of the Drupal Starshot initiative, we're focusing on improving our documentation and creating a highly curated, best-in class Drupal CMS User Guide among other things.

AI Agents have come to Drupal CMS!

The Drupal Community Working Group are volunteers whose goal is to foster a friendly and welcoming environment for all who participate in the Drupal Project.

Package Manager, a new experimental module in Drupal Core, provides an API for interacting with Composer, which has been powering the Automatic Updates and Project Browser contrib modules for years.

The security team will present topics from their work promoting a more secure Drupal project. The team will also talk about how they recruit new members, refinements to their procedures, and what you can do to support Drupal security.

In the fast-paced world of tech entrepreneurship, we often celebrate the visible markers of success while overlooking the complex algorithms that drive innovation: our diverse minds and experiences.

During this session we'll dive into common UX Research activities and best practices when it comes to developing and executing research plans including Identifying & Recruiting Participants, 1:1 Interviews, A/B Testing, Behavioral Analytics, Card Sorting, Competitive Analysis, Heuristic Analy

The Recipes APIs were added to Drupal core in version 10.3 as experimental and laid the foundation for the Drupal CMS project. Since then, we have been adding and improving the code base, and learning new things along the way.

You’ve seen what AI Agents can do in Drupal CMS. You kept imagining all the other things agents could do. What if you could create your own Agents? What if this were so easy every module across the Drupal ecosystem could have their own agents and they all worked together in harmony?

Join us to hear the latest news on the Experience Builder initiative from the initiative leaders.

Discover how the Drupal Workspace module can transform the way you manage content staging and workflows.

Join in learning how the MIT Sloan Web Development team planned and executed a "Homepage Takeover"—a new content type, collection of components and editorial workflow, for our Drupal 10 website—in just 12 weeks.

Join us for an engaging discussion that delves into the challenges and opportunities of stepping into leadership roles within a male-dominated industry. We will focus on gender expectations and how we have navigated our own various paths to leadership.

The Schema.org Blueprints module provides a new way to build a standardized and structured content architecture in Drupal. A Drupal Recipe is a new way to predefine and package configurations that add features to a new or existing Drupal implementation.

Join us for a public board meeting of the Drupal Association. Board members will talk about future programs, conduct regular business to support the Drupal Association's non-profit operations, and and answer community questions.

The panel titled "Black in Drupal: Finding Community within Community" aims to shed light on the unique experiences and challenges faced by individuals from underrepresented backgrounds within the Drupal community.

Drupal CMS, born out of the Starshot Initiative, has been a major undertaking with many sub-initiatives and focused tracks. One huge piece of the puzzle is Experience Builder (XB) which, among other things, lets you build flexible landing pages using easy and intuitive drag-and-drop tools.

Evolving Web continues to collaborate with Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC) to support and enhance their digital presence.

Ripple Makers (Drupal Association Members) are invited to join us for a round table to chat with their fellow members and DA staff about the future of the program, the mission of the Drupal Association, and how they would like to see the Drupal Association evolve.

As organizations increasingly adopt site consolidation strategies to unify their brands and enhance their digital presence, content migration becomes a pivotal challenge.

DDev, Lando, and DrupalPod are all great ways to get a local development instance up and running, but they carry some overhead: they are all built on containers.

Layout Paragraphs is a widely used, contributed Drupal module that combines drag-and-drop editing, Drupal core's layout API, and the Paragraphs module to provide an accessible, easy-to-use authoring experience for building pages in Drupal.

Arguably, the first rule of slideshows is not to have slideshows, but what do you do when the primary product owner insists?

The authors who enter content into our websites are a crucial part of our ecosystem who have often taken a back seat to other needs like splashy designs or improvements for developers.

Membership organizations include clubs (running, French, or photography), professional associations (accounting or medical), civic groups (neighborhood, homeowners, or parent teacher associations), service clubs (Lions or Rotary), and many other nonprofits.

The new Drupal Experience Builder is being shaped by a design thinking approach that emphasizes collaboration, iteration, and user-centered solutions.

Are you tired of slow and clunky search experiences on your Drupal site? Join this hands-on workshop to learn how to supercharge your search capabilities with Solr.

Get a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the new default design system for DrupalCMS.

A breakfast event for Ripple Makers (formerly known as Drupal Association members). We want to welcome and thank you for your support of the Drupal Association, and also hear what is important to you.

A meeting space for organized local camps, associations, or communities with designated Ambassadors. Creating a welcoming and functional space for fostering a sense of community and collaboration.

An environment that fosters interaction, knowledge-sharing, and community building. Drupal events often attract developers, designers, content managers, and enthusiasts, so it’s important to have a space where people with varying levels of expertise and interest can connect.

Sign up here for BoFs: https://calendly.com/drupalcon-association

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Our websites are full of PDFs meant to engage with audiences and customers, or to help provide services for government and public agencies, yet most organizations do not have a formal strategy for how their PDFs are created or distributed, or know what happens after they are published.

In today's rapidly evolving work environment, successful teams embrace diversity in all its forms, especially neurodiversity.

With Drupal CMS 1.0 released in January, we're now well into development of the next version.

So it's a great opportunity to discuss what we have planned next on the roadmap, provide updates on how we are tracking and briefly look back at the process so far.

Are you tired of content strategies that feel more like guessing games than science? Behavioral economics may hold the key to why some messages inspire action, while others fade away.

As the Drupal CMS strategy v1.0 describes, supporting the Open Web is our responsibility. Drupal's Open Web Manifesto clarifies, that the Open Web is strengthened by every individual’s right to choice, privacy, and security.

The introduction of Drupal CMS has created a buzz in the Drupal community, redefining how we think about building with Drupal. Its flexible, modern approach to development has opened up new possibilities for innovation.

Poorly trained users often grow frustrated with their tools. This can ultimately lead to a breakdown of trust in web systems and the teams that maintain them.

There are so many factors at play when implementing Drupal, so many possible combinations of strategies, user preferences, and technical decisions that simply making a choice and sticking to it is a big win. We think we've found one such approach and want to share it with you!

This practical, hands-on workshop takes participants on a “storied” journey from UI design to development, starting from zero. You’ll hear perspectives from both a UI designer and a front-end developer and how to effectively collaborate across both disciplines.

Using AI tools like ChatGPT from OpenAI is easy, and many already have experience with it. Common uses like creating or re-writing text are well integrated with Drupal.

Let's get together to break the ice and meet new people before the General Session.

Lullabot celebrates, honors, and supports women who are working in Drupal and throughout the tech industry. Since Lullabot’s inception in 2006, we have fostered our company culture around the open-source value that everyone can make meaningful contributions and collaborate openly.

This session will explore the development of the "product mindset" and product management practice within government digital services teams, specifically focusing on utilizing Drupal as a vehicle to drive innovation and continuously offer value to constituents.

This presentation aims to provide strategies for configuring and managing regionalization and translation in Drupal, with a focus on using tools like Platform.SH and Fastly CDN for geoIP detection.

Drupal developers come from all walks of life, each bringing unique experiences and perspectives to their careers.

In this session, we will embark on a journey into the future of code review, where the integration of ChatGPT and GitLab CI revolutionizes the Drupal module development process.

In an era where digital landscapes are ever-changing, SEO has transformed from a mere keyword-centric practice into a sophisticated, holistic strategy. This talk will explore how the digital marketing realm demands adaptable and forward-thinking approaches to remain relevant and effective.

Everyone has heard of supply chains at this point, but what exactly does that mean for a PHP project, let alone a Drupal project? This talk will provide concrete advice, as well as a deep dive into how Drupal AutoUpdates are being built with security first in mind.

Drupal’s administration UI is undergoing a significant transformation with the new Navigation and Top Bar. This change is set to deliver a more intuitive experience, offering enhanced usability that goes beyond simple navigation. Reshaping the entire layout of the admin interface.

This session will showcase how Drupal can be integrated with Google Firebase to provide real-time management of content and configurations for iOS and Android applications in production environments.

Follow creation of a Drupal-focused Alternate Reality Game in the style of Pokemon Go you can play during DrupalCon. Game design, web APIs, and native mobile apps have been used to create a game for you to play and beta test during the conference.

In today's fast-paced digital world, efficient website management is crucial for success. WebOps plays a vital role in streamlining processes to drive maximum efficiency.

The American Booksellers Association (ABA), a national not-for-profit trade organization, works to ensure and protect the diversity, success, and profitability of independently owned book retailers.

Drupal moves faster than perceived.
Keeping up to date is important and it may be challenging if you are not doing drupal core development full time.

Let us explore Drupal core pace of changes, resources to follow it, and some experiences trying to do that.

The High Performing Health Care (HPHC) Tool is a Drupal site that collects data from participants who have knowledge of the health care system in their respective countries.

A couple of years ago we started defining a community initiative for getting a Dashboard system in core. We aimed to transform the user experience by providing a centralized interface for quick access to essential tools and key information.

The vision for Drupal CMS (née Starshot) is bold and inspiring, inviting everyone in the Drupal community to consider how they might help end users accomplish even more with Drupal.

Engage with the Drupal Association's Development and Fundraising team.

ChatGPT is no longer just a buzzword—it’s now a powerful, practical tool that can dramatically enhance content creation when optimized effectively. In this session, we’ll break down how to build a custom GPT to meet your organization’s unique content needs.

Using open-source tools, the EditTogether module provides secure, real-time collaboration inside the Drupal editorial interface. Editors may update content simultaneously and leave threaded comments requesting clarifications or changes. And it all works with content moderation workflows!

The Drupal community has long championed the values of diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity, but how can we ensure those values are reflected in the way we build and grow our teams?

Meet key Drupal CMS leaders to get insights on how the platform is being built and learn about future plans. Topics include Experience Builder, AI, user experience, documentation and more.

Drupal offers a comprehensive suite of site-building tools that enable you to create dynamic, content-rich websites with little to no custom coding.

Join the Drupal.org engineering team for updates on our work to support the community.

Drupal CMS aims to simplify website creation for marketers and content teams. But what exactly do these users want, and how can Drupal stand out when many other CMSs promise ease of use?

Budgets for many marketing and web teams have been shrinking over the past few years. At the same time, the need to show results continues to grow.

Drupal CMS is one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by the Drupal community. It tries to solve some of the same problems long faced by distributions…but it’s not a distribution. It’s built entirely on Drupal’s game-changing new recipe system.

The recent dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting company WP Engine has sparked widespread discussion about the social and philosophical responsibilities of open source software.

EQUIP (Ensuring Quality in Psychological Support) is a World Health Organization & UNICEF project using Drupal to deliver mental health support training and assessments in low and middle-income settings with low connectivity.

Are you looking for an easy way to remediate your site's accessibility issues? Are you looking for an 'out of the box' solution for Drupal accessibility, like a fully WCAG compliant contrib theme or an 'all-in-one' magic accessibility module?

Forum One initially created a set of modules and an install profile that we could use internally to get things like an accordion Paragraph and a simple WYSIWYG paragraph, reasonable security defaults, and more to have the go-to-market time for sensible default in Drupal be mostly completed.

It’s interesting to see the existence of an unrealistic realm in a realistic digital sphere with Artificial Intelligence and how probable it can be in Drupal’s world ?

A meeting space for organized local camps, associations, or communities with designated Ambassadors. Creating a welcoming and functional space for fostering a sense of community and collaboration.

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