Schedule

***Sessions and speakers are subject to change.

Tuesday, 8 Dec

08:15 to 08:35 UTC

Location: Prague room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:35
A magazine approach for storytelling This Session is valuable for marketeers, project managers, users and technologists (Drupal devs, SEO experts) Based on our client schweizerfleisch.ch we want to show - why Drupal can fuel a story telling approach on a magazine base - why a taxonomy concept gives vast flexibility
Presenter(s): Ina Widmer
Tags: ambitious digital experiences, digital marketing, editor experience, general open web & drupal digital experiences Track: clients & industry experiences

08:15 to 08:55 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
In this era of Digital transformation, clients have been demanding shorter and quicker releases. Shorter and quicker releases mean your team should not only be able to develop them at the required pace but also test and release them at a sustainable pace.
Presenter(s):
Tags: automation, quality assurance, quality assurance & testing, testing Track: agency & business
Location: Dublin room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
One of our goals is also to create more inclusive solutions. In the session, we will share some case studies of job boards we built for people with disablities (e.g. myability.jobs), LGBTI (e.g. lgbti-jobs.ch), people above 50 (50plus-jobs.ch) and other diversity based job boards.
Presenter(s):
Tags: accessibility, case study, diversity & inclusion Track: open web & community
Location: Barcelona room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
With the help of the Custom Elements module you can decouple your frontend, while keeping Drupal's features like full page caching, layout builder or editorial controlled path aliases! The module enables you to render your site's content into custom elements and to turn Drupal into an API backend for a component-based, decoupled frontend.
Presenter(s): Wolfgang Ziegler
Tags: apis, architecture, back-end development, decoupled Track: makers & builders
Location: Amsterdam room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
GitLab is not just a code repository tool, it is a complete DevOps platform. A lot of users barely scratch a surface of what GitLab is offering. This is a discovery session focuses on improving development and operations processes for your application.
Presenter(s):
Tags: architecture, automation, devops, devops & infrastructure Track: makers & builders
Location: Vienna room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
Your goal is to craft ambitious digital experiences and your design agency should be a thought partner in that mission. Together, you create delightful user experiences for your end-users. You aim to onboard and integrate a UX design agency that is equally involved and works with you towards a shared objective, spectacular digital experiences.
Presenter(s):
Tags: agency, business, user experience & design, ux Track: users & editors

08:15 to 09:00 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 09:00
Presenter(s): Josh Koenig
Tags: sponsored talk

08:35 to 08:55 UTC

Location: Prague room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 08:35 to 08:55
From a 15 years old CMS to Drupal: how to and personal experience
Presenter(s):
Tags: case study, content management, general open web & drupal digital experiences, project management Track: clients & industry experiences

09:30 to 10:10 UTC

Location: Prague room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
Thunder is one of Drupal’s most downloaded distributions — and after four years, we would like to sum up the ups and downs in this journey.
Presenter(s): Daniel Bosen
Tags: big ideas, contribution, digital transformation, publishing & media Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Amsterdam room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
At Dropsolid we are building a hosting platform that is capable of managing a lot of environments and the infrastructure around it.
Presenter(s): Mattias Michaux
Tags: architecture, automation, devops, devops & infrastructure Track: makers & builders
Location: Barcelona room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
Session content The challenge with large static sites involves efficient generation of a large number of pages as well as providing an agile experience for content editors. This session will be an inside look at our solution for decoupling XXL sites overcoming JSON:API limitations for efficient Drupal data extraction and creating an instant editing experience.
Presenter(s): Oier Bravo
Tags: architecture, decoupled, front-end development, scalability Track: makers & builders
Location: Dublin room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
Management is an essential tool in the workplace, but we typically only focus on team-management. Being able to manage oneself is critical, and often an indicator of your ability to manage others.
Presenter(s): Jorge Tutor
Tags: being human, management, mental health, people management Track: open web & community
Location: Vienna room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
As demand for accessible websites is growing, the question arises how to make sure your site caters to all visitors. In this session Tom and Wouter will talk about the how and why of accessibility as well as providing you with a toolset to make sure your next project will be a joy to use for everybody.
Presenter(s): Wouter Immerzeel, Tom Van Vliet
Tags: accessibility, automation, testing, ux Track: users & editors

09:30 to 09:50 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 09:50
Successfully Managing Distributed Teams Being a leader is never easy, let alone during times of crisis. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organisations were forced to become distributed almost overnight.
Presenter(s): Stella Power
Tags: agency, leadership, leadership & management, management Track: agency & business

09:30 to 10:15 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:15
Daniel Smidt (CTO Synetic) & Nick Veenhof (CTO Dropsolid) share their vision on the evolution of the Martech landscape and how it’s being influenced by Privacy regulations. They see a move towards an open ecosystem that combines different Open Martech solutions into connected Digital Experience Platforms.
Presenter(s): Daniël Smidt
Tags: sponsored talk

09:50 to 10:10 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 09:50 to 10:10
My first Drupal Project as Junior PM
Presenter(s):
Tags: agency, being human, project management Track: agency & business

10:30 to 10:50 UTC

Location: Dublin room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 10:50
Being Open about Being Human Mental health disorders affect millions of people around the world, and have a big impact both on employees and the companies they work for. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of stigma around the topic, and many people are not comfortable opening up about it.
Presenter(s):
Tags: being human, mental health Track: open web & community

10:30 to 11:10 UTC

Location: Vienna room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
Have you ever needed to display contents or parts of a content differently depending on the user categorization? Have you ever needed to prepare contents or parts of a content for publication/depublication? Have you ever needed to preview what your website will look depending on those visibility conditions? There are some solutions:
Presenter(s): Florent Torregrosa
Tags: content management, editor experience, user experience & design, ux Track: users & editors
Location: Darmstadt room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
If someone were to join your team today, how quickly would they be able to ramp up? Would they be able to hit the ground running or would they keep tripping over the unspoken quirks of your system? Having documentation can solve many problems before they arise.
Presenter(s):
Tags: development, process, processes management Track: agency & business
Location: Amsterdam room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
If you are hosting any Drupal sites on Kubernetes or are in the process of moving to a Kubernetes cluster infrastructure, this session is for you. As most of us have experienced already, debugging production Kubernetes clusters running Drupal can be a tremendously complex task leading to unplanned downtime, overhead and toil. What is Distributed Tracing and why do we need it?
Presenter(s):
Tags: automation, devops, devops & infrastructure, performance Track: makers & builders
Location: Prague room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
Drupal's leading edge content management and moderation framework is widely used in public and private online platforms of all sizes, all around the globe. With either responsive output or, more recently, headless client-side navigation and rendering applications of all sorts, content gets already used in multiple channels fed by a single content source.
Presenter(s):
Tags: apis, beyond Drupal, general open web & drupal digital experiences, integrations Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Barcelona room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
A 40 minute talk that takes you through what's new, changed, and removed in PHP 8, and how you can test and upgrade your web sites to PHP 8 today!
Presenter(s):
Tags: back-end development, development, php Track: makers & builders

12:30 to 13:10 UTC

Location: Amsterdam room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
Session in a nutshell: In this session we'll have a look at how to setup Drupal in 2020 to deliver an improved experience with a focus on content editors. Which contrib modules will help you achieve that? Not only I'll guide you through the setup of the showcased modules but also providing code snippets and a fully working example for you to kickstart with your next project!
Presenter(s):
Tags: ambitious digital experiences, editor experience, editorial experience, site building Track: users & editors
Location: Dublin room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
Testing is important. Why? It allows developers to add new features and edit and refactor existing code without the worry of adding regressions, reduces the reliance on manual testing to discover bugs, and by taking a test driven approach, your implementation code is leaner as you only write what is needed for your tests to pass.
Presenter(s):
Tags: back-end development, php, testing Track: makers & builders
Location: Prague room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
Putting trust at the core of your communications will help build better connections, better businesses, and better communities. “Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.” - Sissela Bok, philosopher and ethicist
Presenter(s):
Tags: big ideas, content strategy, digital marketing, leadership & management Track: agency & business
Location: Vienna room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
Without contribution, there would be no Drupal. Our beloved (or hated) framework does not rely on core maintainers alone, but countless of contributors worldwide who help build the ecosystem around it. One of these key contributions is the vast amount of modules that can be found on drupal.org.
Presenter(s):
Tags: being human, contribution, core Track: open web & community

12:30 to 12:50 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 12:50
Decoupled translations with Drupal Gatsby is a popular static site generator that uses React, and it’s a perfect match for a decoupled Drupal architecture to create lightning-fast websites. This session will detail how to utilise Drupal’s exceptional multilingual features to produce a fully localised Gatsby site. This session will cover:
Presenter(s):
Tags: apis, decoupled, front-end development Track: makers & builders
Location: Barcelona room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 12:50
Smart Paragraphs - A Personalisation Engine for Nestlé In an age where content is king; ensuring site content cuts through to its intended audience, is sticky, drives deeper engagement and value is critical.
Presenter(s): Ashley Hazle, Lara Fernandes
Tags: big ideas, contribution, enterprise, general open web & drupal digital experiences Track: clients & industry experiences

12:50 to 13:10 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 12:50 to 13:10
Drupal: Striving for Parity
Presenter(s):
Tags: decoupled, front-end development, javascript, performance Track: makers & builders
Location: Barcelona room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 12:50 to 13:10
Your Drupal Site Personalized Like Netflix
Presenter(s):
Tags: ambitious digital experiences, beyond Drupal, development, general open web & drupal digital experiences Track: clients & industry experiences

13:30 to 14:10 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 13:30 to 14:10
As component-based design principles evolve, the actual implementation in Drupal can be performed in many ways. Most, if not all, component-based site building approaches rely on Entity Relationships. Adding multilingual support that is Correct and Predictable can be a challenge to configure.
Presenter(s):
Tags: content management, content strategy, site building Track: makers & builders
Location: Amsterdam room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 13:30 to 14:10
Olivero is a core initiative to create a new default theme for Drupal 9. Designing a core theme presents unique challenges as compared to designing traditional websites. This talk will tell the story of what it’s like to design a theme for an open-source content management system (CMS) and will answer questions like:
Presenter(s):
Tags: accessibility, design, user experience & design, ux Track: users & editors
Location: Barcelona room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 13:30 to 14:10
Everyone who uses Drupal believes in the concept of “Open.” But for marketers, Open doesn’t just mean open-source -- it means so much more.
Presenter(s):
Tags: digital marketing, general open web & drupal digital experiences, integrations Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Prague room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 13:30 to 14:10
This session is for a beginner and intermediate that want to know how good or bad is their search quality. The session will cover 1. Why do we need to measure the quality 2. How do we measure it.
Presenter(s): Arra'di Rizal
Tags: project management, quality assurance, quality assurance & testing, testing Track: agency & business
Location: Dublin room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 13:30 to 14:10
Drupal allows building highly complex content structures ranging from simple blogs to online stores to advanced enterprise publishing with complex content approval workflows. Migrating content into such complex structures is a complex problem for which Drupal provides a simple framework in the form of the migrate module.
Presenter(s):
Tags: back-end development Track: makers & builders
Location: Vienna room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 13:30 to 14:10
From contact tracing to new regulations, privacy in the post COVID-19 world is going to look much different than it has before. With this ever changing landscape, and the call for more and more technologies to support user privacy, what is the Drupal project doing?
Presenter(s): Chris Teitzel
Tags: community, community conversations, contribution, security Track: open web & community

13:30 to 14:15 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 13:30 to 14:15
The founders of two developer-favorite open-source web dev tools, Lando and Lagoon, have joined forces to bring the best of local Drupal development to Kubernetes. In this talk, Mike and Michael will share the story behind the new, seamless Lando-to-Lagoon build and deploy solution and demonstrate how you can use it to improve your development workflow.
Presenter(s): Michael Schmid
Tags: sponsored talk

14:30 to 15:15 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 14:30 to 15:15
Today, we engage more frequently online, and on more channels, than ever before. Organizations have been forced to adapt at a staggering pace, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Organizations who have embraced open source technologies, specifically Drupal, have laid a path forward to being digital first.
Presenter(s):
Tags: sponsored talk

14:30 to 15:10 UTC

Location: Vienna room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 14:30 to 15:10
With the release of Drupal 9 our open source CMS has reached a new stage in its life cycle! We’ve come a long way, and grown a lot, through some challenges and a lot of success. What has changed with Drupal, its components and dependencies recently and why? What do some of these changes mean for the future of Drupal, for open source, and all of us as contributors and users?
Presenter(s): Kevin Bridges
Tags: beyond Drupal, contribution, open web, what's next? Track: open web & community
Location: Dublin room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 14:30 to 15:10
There are a lot of resources available to help you find answers to your Drupal questions. We’ll help you figure out which ones to use, when, and how to make the most efficient use of them.
Presenter(s): Ashley Jones
Tags: back-end development, front-end development, site building Track: makers & builders
Location: Amsterdam room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 14:30 to 15:10
The TL;DR is that sketching is a fast way to communicate intentions clearly, iteratively, and collaboratively, and is crucial in my lean discovery and UX processes. Let me show you what works for me. ________________________________________________________________________________
Presenter(s): Marissa Epstein
Tags: content strategy, process, user experience & design, ux Track: users & editors
Location: Darmstadt room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 14:30 to 15:10
If you're looking to build a modern Drupal 8 or 9 site, then you're probably going to want to use the Drupal core Composer "recommended-project" template. Debuting with Drupal 8.8, this modern, (officially) community-supported Composer template gets your project off on the right foot.
Presenter(s):
Tags: back-end development, development, php Track: makers & builders
Location: Barcelona room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 14:30 to 15:10
When it comes to lead-gen in Sales and Marketing, the website plays a major role in the lead journey. It can be the first touchpoint of your potential customer. This session will take you through how you can enable your Drupal website to track and manage each stage of the lead journey.
Presenter(s):
Tags: automation, data, general open web & drupal digital experiences, integrations Track: clients & industry experiences

14:30 to 14:50 UTC

Location: Prague room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 14:30 to 14:50
What is between agencies and freelancing?
Presenter(s):
Tags: agency, business, doing business, management Track: agency & business

14:50 to 15:10 UTC

Location: Prague room When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 14:50 to 15:10
Say no more than yes! What is an XY problem and could it be harming your project? The old adage goes "Say yes more than no", but should we be simply accepting what our stakeholders are asking us to build? When determining requirements, stakeholders often write user stories prescribing a solution, rather than their problem. This can be described as an XY problem.
Presenter(s):
Tags: agile, people management, process, project management Track: agency & business

15:30 to 17:00 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Tuesday, 8 December, 2020 - 15:30 to 17:00
Drupal’s initiatives form powerful teams that make great things happen. Core initiatives self-organize to get new improvements to the base system while community initiatives coordinate event organization, spread diversity best practices, collaborate on promotional materials, and so on.
Presenter(s): Neil Drumm, Baddy Sonja Breidert, Gábor Hojtsy
Tags: keynote Track: keynote
Wednesday, 9 Dec

08:15 to 08:55 UTC

Location: Barcelona room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
Everyone is searching for ways to optimize their software delivery process, and reduce waste. For a Drupal agency managing multiple projects, this can be challenging. How do we identify waste? How should we classify it? What are the possible implications? What actions should we take?
Presenter(s): Peleg Rabinowitz
Tags: people management, process, processes management, project management Track: agency & business
Location: Darmstadt room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
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 ?
Presenter(s): jyoti singh
Tags: back-end development, business, editor experience, editorial experience Track: users & editors
Location: Amsterdam room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
There are two types of people – those who suffer from the Impostor syndrome and those who never heard of it. Of course, there are some exceptions, but they only prove that Impostor syndrome is a significant topic, and its effects are more intense than considered.
Presenter(s):
Tags: being human, culture, mental health Track: open web & community
Location: Vienna room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
During COVID crisis governments and businesses were relying on infrastructure to sustain unexpected loads and semi predictable spikes. But in some cases Drupal application might be a culprit. The last thing we want to hear is that web application is making it to the news along the lines: “website crashed under an unexpected load”. So what can we do to expect that load?
Presenter(s): Janna Malikova
Tags: devops & infrastructure, performance, scalability, testing Track: makers & builders
Location: Main Stage When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
Personalization: Go or No? In the era of consent, privacy and GDPR it may no longer seem acceptable to do behavioral personalization.
Presenter(s):
Tags: back-end development, beyond Drupal, big ideas Track: makers & builders
Location: Prague room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 08:55
This session will provide an introduction to Reactive Programming based on the ReactiveX library for JavaScript. Reactive Programming is a way to declare reactions to data change using data flows that transform data that crosses them.
Presenter(s):
Tags: decoupled, front-end development, javascript Track: makers & builders

08:15 to 09:00 UTC

Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 08:15 to 09:00
- SolR vs ES with regard to Drupal integration - Contrib modules used and planned - Integration of Elastic Site Search in Drupal - aob on Search in Drupal
Presenter(s):

09:30 to 09:50 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 09:50
Building Frictionless Customer Journeys with Drupal, Mautic and Unomi Every company can make a difference with it’s customer experience. How do you get to a frictionless customer journey? Customers don’t think in funnels and channels… so why should you?
Presenter(s):
Tags: ambitious digital experiences, content & digital marketing, content management, digital marketing Track: users & editors

09:30 to 10:10 UTC

Location: Barcelona room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
Documenting any work done is often neglected & disregarded, whereas it's an asset which conveys the Overall Vision & Care of a project. The presence of documentation helps keep track of all aspects of an application and improves the quality of project.
Presenter(s): Vishal Khode
Tags: process, processes management, project management Track: agency & business
Location: Main Stage When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
The LocalGov Drupal distribution will make it quicker and easier for UK councils to build a new publishing website in Drupal 9.
Presenter(s): Finn Lewis
Tags: contribution, government, open web Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Amsterdam room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
The session will cover the importance of local communities in promotion and development of Drupal. We will find out why leading or supporting domestic group has at least the same impact as direct code/documentation contribution. We will also have a look at vital hints for starting or reviving the community in your own city.
Presenter(s):
Tags: being human, community, community conversations, leadership Track: open web & community
Location: Dublin room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
Accenture has been helping a large scale Australian government agency in their digital transformation project. Drupal as the selected CMS and Salesforce as the selected CRM system are designed together to provide a single presence to provide a seamless user experience. In this session, Accenture will tell the story to cover the following areas: The project background
Presenter(s): Joshua Li, Yavisht Katgara
Tags: architecture, government, integrations Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Prague room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
Selling 60.000 festival tickets within a few hours isn't that big of a deal anymore. It does get more challenging when you also want to sell products from different vendors within the same transaction. Next to that, our client also demanded to go serverless, challenge accepted! Are you interested in finding out what you can do with AWS Step Functions? This is for you!
Presenter(s):
Tags: ambitious digital experiences, architecture, big ideas, devops & infrastructure Track: makers & builders
Location: Vienna room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:10
CSS will always be a fundamental part of the web stack, but it's deceptively hard to get right on large, long-running projects worked on by multiple developers.
Presenter(s):
Tags: css, front-end development, performance Track: makers & builders

09:30 to 10:15 UTC

Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 09:30 to 10:15
Let's discuss about future settings, companion modules, your ideas etc.
Presenter(s):
Tags: bof

09:50 to 10:10 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 09:50 to 10:10
Autosave and Concurrent editing (conflict resolution) in Drupal 8/9 This session will introduce two modules enhancing the editorial experience in Drupal 8/9 - Autosave Form and Conflict.
Presenter(s):
Tags: apis, back-end development, editorial experience Track: users & editors

10:30 to 11:10 UTC

Location: Amsterdam room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
The configuration management initiative 2 has scored a big win in Drupal 8.8 with the addition of a new API. So while the efforts in core were focused on releasing Drupal 9, we have been working on updating contrib to use the new core API.
Presenter(s): Fabian Bircher
Tags: architecture, contribution, core, what's next? Track: open web & community
Location: Darmstadt room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
Creating a solid content architecture in Drupal is difficult, because there are so many possibilities to model your content.
Presenter(s):
Tags: back-end development, editor experience, editorial experience, front-end development Track: users & editors
Location: Dublin room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
A session to introduce Open Data challenge for governments, and focus on how Drupal is used in multiples French governmental entities to deploy Open Data portals, with advanced data visualisations interfaces.
Presenter(s): Patrick Beaucamp
Tags: apis, data, government Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Barcelona room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
For several years, one of our biggest struggles at Cocomore has been how we managed our projects. We experienced different problems: Each PM having their own way of orchestrating teams and tasks, changing teams in the course of the project (e.g. focus on creative department in the beginning and on IT later on), different kind of work (huge projects vs. small tasks) and so on.
Presenter(s):
Tags: process, project management Track: agency & business
Location: Prague room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
Drupal 8 comes with a whole new caching system which is designed to allow caching of as much of a page as possible. In this session we'll look at making the most of this for your pages which contain a mix of cacheable and not-so-cacheable content.
Presenter(s):
Tags: back-end development, performance Track: makers & builders
Location: Vienna room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
In this session, we'll analyse a handful of real Security Advisories issued by the Drupal Security Team. These cover the main categories of Security Vulnerabilities; Access bypass, Cross Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection (SQLi), and Remote Code Execution (RCE).
Presenter(s):
Tags: back-end development, development, process, security Track: makers & builders
Location: Main Stage When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
Clarify and enhance your organization’s understanding of what your product is, what it does, and build consensus around what value it delivers. We will show you how to collaborate and build what we call a Value Map for your product or service.
Presenter(s): Jeffrey McGuire
Tags: content strategy, digital marketing, doing business, sales Track: agency & business

10:30 to 11:15 UTC

Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:15
At DrupalCon Global 2020, Dries proposed a new initiative for creating a decoupled menu component written in JavaScript. For Drupal to remain framework agnostic, he proposed to start with building components for Vue.js and React.js. In this BoF, we want to invited everyone that is interested in helping out.
Presenter(s):
Tags: bof
Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:15
Follow up on the DevOps session about Drupal Distributed Tracing and Kubernetes on Tuesday. This BoF is an open forum meant to raise questions and answers for the future of Drupal as a microservice component in the world of Kubernetes.
Presenter(s):
Tags: bof
Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:15
“Come for the code, stay for the community” is the famous motto among Drupalers for a good reason. We invite Drupal Community Managers, Ambassadors, and enthusiasts to join us, share learnings after a year of pandemic and thoughts to continue growing a sustainable community in 2021.
Presenter(s):
Tags: bof

12:00 to 12:30 UTC

Location: Room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:00 to 12:30
This talk aims to throw more spotlight on how She Code Africa, a non-profit organization in Africa, is contributing to build the African tech ecosystem by bridging the gender gap and getting more women and girls across Africa into tech or scale up their technical careers with more technical skills for Free.
Presenter(s): Ada Nduka Oyom
Track: agency & business

12:30 to 13:10 UTC

Location: Amsterdam room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
Since the release of Drupal 8, great strides have been made to develop a component-based theming workflow that takes advantage of the best that Twig has to offer and also plays nice with component libraries and design systems.
Presenter(s): Brian Perry
Tags: front-end development, site building Track: makers & builders
Location: Barcelona room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
You just finished building a feature that has taken months to get right. Your work in the development environment is approved and you're ready to take it to production.
Presenter(s):
Tags: content management, process, site building Track: makers & builders
Location: Prague room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
The way we build CMS systems has changed: Today we build frontends independently from backends. Because the frontend can easily be changed, the editorial experience in the backend has become an important differentiation criterion for choosing the right CMS system.
Presenter(s):
Tags: ambitious digital experiences, editor experience, editorial experience, ux Track: users & editors
Location: Darmstadt room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
Across roles, specialities, and companies job stress is increasing. The daily deluge of emails, Slack messages, and urgent tasks can be overwhelming and it may seem like there’s no solution. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and just want to give up. Believe me, I’ve been there too.
Presenter(s): Michael Schmid
Tags: being human, management, mental health Track: open web & community
Location: Main Stage When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
Join us on this panel to discuss with project maintainers, users, business owners and other actors in the open source community what's the future of open source, the challenges we are facing in our different roles, and what can we all do to make the whole ecosystem fair and future proofed. As discussed, three simple questions:
Presenter(s): Baddy Sonja Breidert, Cristina Chumillas, Eriol Fox
Tags: business, community, open web Track: open web & community
Location: Vienna room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:10
We have the challenge to reduce the hours of quality assurance in many Drupal projects, to be able to add more value to the business by investing time in more productive tasks. Therefore, we developed a solution on how to automate steps during the QA process.
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Tags: automation, digital transformation, quality assurance Track: clients & industry experiences

12:30 to 12:50 UTC

Location: Dublin room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 12:50
Creating more value with Drupal by offering it as a DXP According to Gartner 93% of customer experience projects yield return on investment. Visionary enterprises are moving away from building individual Drupal websites and are moving towards digital experience platforms (DXP). This session explains how Drupal can be deployed as a digital experience platform.
Presenter(s): Dominique De Cooman
Tags: agency, ambitious digital experiences, digital experiences, doing business Track: agency & business

12:30 to 13:15 UTC

Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:15
CKEditor is an important part of Drupal core, and upgrading to the latest CKEditor5 was identified as a key Drupal 10 readiness initiative. CKEditor5 includes exciting new features that could dramatically improve the D10 authoring experience. Join this BoF if you'd like to help out, or learn more!
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Tags: bof

12:50 to 13:10 UTC

Location: Dublin room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 12:50 to 13:10
How Open Source & Return on Experience can be a driving force behind success for mid-market companies
Presenter(s): Anneleen Demasure
Tags: business, digital experiences, doing business, management Track: agency & business

13:30 to 15:00 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 13:30 to 15:00
During his keynote - a.k.a. Driesnote - at DrupalCon Europe 2020, Dries will give one of his engaging keynotes about the state of the Drupal project. Belgium-born Drupal founder Dries Buytaert is a pioneer in the open source web publishing and digital experience platform space. *Session Materials*
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Tags: keynote Track: keynote

15:15 to 17:15 UTC

Location: Barcelona room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 17:15
Drupal has the most advanced caching system of any CMS out there right now. This leads to many opportunities to create the fastest Drupal sites ever and easily cache content directly at the edge, but there are also many challenges, problems and learning curves to overcome.
Presenter(s): Fabian Franz
Tags: back-end development, big ideas, performance Track: makers & builders
Location: Vienna room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 17:15
This retrospective workshop is for everyone working at the intersection between open source delivery and the customer side. Would you like to reflect how COVID-19 has affected yourself and the work you do or would you like to experience an agile retrospective format? Then this interactive workshop is for you.
Presenter(s): Josef Kruckenberg, Joanita Bonnier, Steve Holyer
Tags: agile, being human, general open web & drupal digital experiences, what's next? Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Prague room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 17:15
Every web project needs a content strategy with clear goals, a great UX/design, and a thoughtfully modeled information architecture that is implemented in a CMS system. Above tasks are done by different people: Content strategists, analytics experts, UX- and graphic designers, accessibility experts, solution architects, and software developers.
Presenter(s): Baddy Sonja Breidert
Tags: content & digital marketing, content strategy, digital experiences, editor experience Track: users & editors

15:15 to 15:55 UTC

Location: Amsterdam room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:55
At Drupalcon Global Dries announced Automatic Updates as 1 of 5 strategic initiatives for Drupal 9. Automatic Updates is an existing initiative that has already produced a contributed module that can provide updates for non-Composer based Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 sites. The next phase of the initiative is to add support for updates of Composer based sites to Drupal 9.
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Tags: automation, core, devops & infrastructure, what's next? Track: makers & builders
Location: Darmstadt room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:55
Over a million websites rely on Drupal 7 & D8, and both reach the end of life (EOL) in 2022 (extended from 2021). Their popularity, combined with potentially difficult upgrade paths for D7 in particular, has site owners asking why this is happening, what it means for them, what they can do about it, and when they need to deal with all this.
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Tags: community conversations, core, performance, what's next? Track: open web & community
Location: Barcelona room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:55
The Drupal agency landscape is always changing. And for many Drupal agencies in a post COVID-19 world, the terrain has become rough—and in some cases, inhospitable. Let's look at what data we have on the state of Drupal business at agencies today, listen in to the perspectives of Agency Leaders, and explore new ways of being better, together.
Presenter(s): Piyush Poddar
Tags: agency, doing business Track: agency & business
Location: Main Stage When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:55
The Drupal.org Update panel continues our bi-annual tradition of updates on the work of the Drupal Association Engineering team, and the future of the tools and systems that the Drupal Community use to build Drupal.
Presenter(s): Neil Drumm, Ryan Aslett
Tags: case study, community, contribution Track: open web & community

15:15 to 16:00 UTC

Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 16:00
Randy Fay (Maintainer of DDEV-Local) and maintainers of other tools will join you in this BoF to talk about anything you want to talk about. Any question is fine! We can pursue any local development topic. If it works out we can even work together on shared screens.
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Tags: bof

15:16 to 16:00 UTC

Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:16 to 16:00
Drupal Commerce lack of visibility comparing to other eCommerce solutions. Drupalcommerce.org is outdated, showcase is not relevant, there is no kits like brochure, press release etc. It's hard to promote Drupal Commerce because we do not have tools. How can we build tools and help to improve Drupal Commerce visibility?
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Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 15:16 to 16:00
The MongoDB modules exist since D6 and have changed a lot since then. They have better support on D9 than they ever had, but are also much smaller... With evolving technology choices in D9/D10, how could the project be more useful ? And what would you do for it ?
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Tags: bof

16:15 to 16:55 UTC

Location: Amsterdam room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:55
Different browsers, various devices, multiple screens, fast-evolving technologies and ever changing CSS properties - this is a day-to-day reality of a front-end ninja.
Presenter(s): Anna Mykhailova
Tags: css, front-end development, javascript Track: makers & builders
Location: Main Stage When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:55
Have questions about what you heard at the Driesnote and the direction of the Project? Continue the conversation with Drupal Project Founder, Dries Buytaert, and Drupal Association Executive Director, Heather Rocker. Session participants are able to submit their questions via the OnAir platform during the session. *Session Materials*
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Tags: community, community conversations Track: open web & community
Location: Dublin room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:55
Some say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. We face uncertainty in the world every day: how clients will react to budget constraints and deadlines, how employees will deliver the end product, and where the next contract is coming from are uncertainties I regularly face. It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose, because there is always uncertainty.
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Tags: agency, being human, leadership, leadership & management Track: agency & business
Location: Darmstadt room When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:55
Open source communities bring together people from various backgrounds and disciplines. As we work to make these communities more inclusive, a large part should be empowering underrepresented and marginalized individuals to become community leaders.
Presenter(s): Tara King, Yan Zhang, Tearnye Almendariz
Tags: being human, community, diversity & inclusion, leadership Track: open web & community

16:15 to 17:00 UTC

Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 17:00
To run DrupalCI locally you need to install a lot of things and its not straight forward for most users. I will present a working prototype that allow you to develop and test contrib modules for Drupal 7/8/9 locally with just one command. And how to add as Jenkins job.
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Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 17:00
We all have to move or deploy sites from time to time. Sometimes it's moving a site from one server to another or one hosting provider to another. Sometimes it's moving a production site to local for development, sometimes dev to production. Let's discuss best practices and site build procedures.
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Tags: bof
Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 17:00
Discussion about Drupal, accessibility, open source and how we can continue on the accessibility journey.
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Tags: bof
Location: TBD When: Wednesday, 9 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 17:00
Are you interested in helping out or finding out more about the Automatic Updates Initiative? Come by and discuss the initiative! All welcome! Possible Topics * Feedback on UX mockups * PHP-TUF library and Update Framework * Composer Plugins needed * Drupal core issues * Real world considerations for updates
Presenter(s):
Tags: bof
Thursday, 10 Dec

07:30 to 09:00 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 07:30 to 09:00
Eriol has been working as a Designer for 10 years working in for-profits and then moving into NGO's and open source software organisations, working on complex problems like sustainable food systems, peace building and crisis response technology.
Presenter(s): Eriol Fox
Tags: keynote Track: keynote

09:15 to 10:00 UTC

Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:15 to 10:00
We are planning to add a starterkit theme to Drupal core which would eventually replace Classy. Let's plan on next steps for https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3050384.
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Tags: bof
Location: BoF room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:15 to 10:00
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Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:15 to 10:00
A COVID vaccine is underway, but 2021 will be an uncertain year for in-person events. This is a huge challenge for the event industry, including Drupal events. Burning questions: - Should we organize any (local) camps? - Does online work well enough? - How to be financially sustainable? - Ideas?
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09:15 to 09:55 UTC

Location: Barcelona room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:15 to 09:55
Over recent years, new features and roll-outs have evolved Drupal to become more than a CMS platform. Today, it is a Digital Experience Platform! As marketers, we are in a constant rush to bring forth contextual and targeted content for users, that creates value for them. Drupal makes this content delivery seamless, effective, and faster.
Presenter(s): Ruchika Mohite
Tags: content & digital marketing, content management, digital marketing, editor experience Track: users & editors
Location: Vienna room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:15 to 09:55
We all know the pains of hiring talent. And great Drupal talent is even harder to come by! Accenture is considerably new in the Drupal world in Australia and is not the normal Drupal agency that attracts local Drupal talent. So what needs to be done?
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Tags: being human, culture, doing business, people management Track: agency & business
Location: Amsterdam room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:15 to 09:55
There is a huge demand on developers and software engineers while companies everywhere are struggling to cover the demand for them. That may sound like good news for us as developers and people working on the IT industry, but there are some dangerous details hidden on apparently those good news.
Presenter(s): Alejandro Moreno Lopez
Tags: development, digital marketing, digital transformation Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Prague room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:15 to 09:55
The Internet, our digital lives and web presences are constantly evolving. More and more digital web solutions face the challenge of becoming out of date and technical debt often holds innovation back.
Presenter(s): Josef Kruckenberg, Philipp Melab, Laura Gaetano
Tags: agile, beyond Drupal, open web Track: open web & community
Location: Main Stage When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:15 to 09:55
Web strategists get consumed by developing personas for end customers. Makes sense. However, there’s a “hidden” persona critical to design for: content authors, themselves. Success is reliant on an author’s ability to use Drupal to transform content strategy into a marketing engine. Like designing for any persona, planning for the role of content author is critical.
Presenter(s): Jacob Bell, Meaghan Shanley, Tim Senft
Tags: content management, content strategy, editor experience, processes management Track: agency & business

09:15 to 09:35 UTC

Location: Dublin room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:15 to 09:35
Solr versus Elasticsearch, can we settle down please?
Presenter(s): Valerie Valkenburg-Gibson
Tags: back-end development, data, site building Track: makers & builders

09:35 to 09:55 UTC

Location: Dublin room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 09:35 to 09:55
Add end to end tests to your Drupal site in one hour with CypressIO We'll go through the process of taking an already existing Drupal site and quickly add CypressIO and start writing end to end tests. It will be a live demo format. * Drupal 7 integration * Drupal 8 integration * First tests * Way forward
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Tags: development, front-end development, integrations, testing Track: makers & builders

10:30 to 11:10 UTC

Location: Prague room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
This is the story of how CelebrateDrupal.org came to be.
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Tags: contribution, culture, open web Track: open web & community
Location: Barcelona room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
Mautic is a free, open source marketing automation tool based on Symfony, just like Drupal.
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Tags: automation, beyond Drupal, content & digital marketing, digital marketing Track: users & editors
Location: Amsterdam room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
How will advances in technology change the way that we deliver and build digital experiences in the future? How can we, as technology providers, influence the digital experience of consumers across multiple touch points, without juggling several tools and creating a tech stack that limits our ability to scale?
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Tags: digital experiences, digital marketing, general open web & drupal digital experiences, what's next? Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Main Stage When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
Feeling your hands getting sweaty every time you need to hit the deploy button? What if you ship compromised code to production and end up breaking a few months'work?
Presenter(s): Sujeet Kumar Verma
Tags: automation, quality assurance, quality assurance & testing, testing Track: agency & business
Location: Vienna room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
QA is not simply a profession. It's a state of mind. Are you a fan of the "Money Heist" series? Well, there we have a great technical QA engineer who identifies the bugs by looking at the documentation/architecture and at the end provides steps to reproduce for the biggest exploit ever.
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Tags: agile, process, processes management, quality assurance Track: agency & business
Location: Dublin room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:10
With the release of Drupal 9, we have come closer to our goal of being API-first. Decoupled architecture is becoming increasingly popular as it allows greater flexibility and better designs. But even today, the biggest challenge for any project is having to maintain multiple code bases for web and native apps. This is the problem that flutter aims to solve.
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Tags: apis, back-end development, decoupled, front-end development Track: makers & builders

10:30 to 10:50 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 10:50
Containerisation and Orchestration of Mautic Application Problem Statement:
Presenter(s): Sreekar Achanta
Tags: devops, devops & infrastructure, digital marketing, php Track: makers & builders

10:30 to 11:15 UTC

Location: Room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:15
Over the past four years most jurisdictions across Australian government at federal and state levels have rapidly adopted Drupal as their chosen platform to host their public websites. Learn how the open source platform has been helping solve the technical and non-technical challenges common at all levels of government.
Presenter(s): Alfred Deeb, Steven Worley
Tags: case study, digital transformation, government Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:15
Drupal core is planning to drop support for Internet Explorer 11 in Drupal 10. Feedback is needed from assistive technology users and accessibility stakeholders. Do you or your users still use Internet Explorer 11 with screen readers? Do their screen readers support other browsers? Is upgrading to another browser feasible?
Presenter(s):
Tags: bof
Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:15
As Dries mentioned during the Driesnote, he'd love to see an almost tenfold increase of full-time contributors (~20 to ~200). While this idea is very ambitious and could have a huge impact on Drupal's growth, no-one seems to be talking about how we can actually fund this. Let's fix that.
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Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:30 to 11:15
Bigger Drupal sites always have complete monitoring stack, like BELK or TIG. However, these are overkill for smaller sites. And yet, with the increase dependency on e-shops and anything online during COVID, even those need to ensure availability. This panel is to discuss solutions we all found for this.
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10:50 to 11:10 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 10:50 to 11:10
Industrialised deployments of Drupal 8 for Occitanie's CMS applications
Presenter(s): Thierry Delbart, Jean-François Bianco
Tags: architecture, devops & infrastructure, government Track: makers & builders

12:45 to 13:45 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 12:45 to 13:45
Creating diverse, inclusive and equitable communities and organizations that are welcoming of a broad range of talents is essential in today’s world. However, unconscious (implicit) biases at the individual and systemic level can get in the way, and research shows that de-biasing people’s minds is difficult and expensive.
Presenter(s): Siri Chilazi
Tags: keynote Track: keynote

14:00 to 14:40 UTC

Location: Prague room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:40
Landing pages come in all shapes and sizes. We get a lot of site designs that are not built with Drupal (or any content management system) in mind and they usually involve a large number of diverse landing pages. Sometimes, the design assumes that each landing page will be lovingly hand-crafted and individually styled.
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Tags: editor experience, site building, ux Track: makers & builders
Location: Dublin room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:40
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic - timing is everything. The information you consume today could quite literally save your life tomorrow. And with more than 65 percent of the population being visual learners - meaning they learn and remember best through visual communication - the job of creating and sharing accessible images has never been more critical.
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Tags: accessibility, design, ux Track: users & editors
Location: Barcelona room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:40
The ideal environment is one where you feel included, supported and heard. How can a company strive to provide that environment for every member, regardless of status or position? Besides the social responsibility, what are the advantages to a company or organisation in fostering an open culture?
Presenter(s): Tom Bamford
Tags: being human, culture, open web, process Track: open web & community
Location: Darmstadt room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:40
Panel: Chair - Paul Johnson, HE Specialist, CTI Digital Panelists Adrian Ellison, Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor & Chief Information Officer University of West London Billy Wardrop, CMS Service Support Officer at Edinburgh University Iain Harper Head Of Digital, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Abstract:
Presenter(s): Nick Holland, Iain Harper, Adrian Ellison
Tags: digital transformation, education, higher education, what's next? Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Main Stage When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:40
The Drupal Community Working Group is tasked with fostering a friendly community as well as maintaining and upholding the Code of Conduct. Over the past year, we've created a Community Health Team to work on proactive measures to improve our community's health. We will provide an overview of our structure as well as our past, present, and future projects.
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Tags: being human, community, culture, mental health Track: open web & community

14:00 to 14:45 UTC

Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:45
Are you a user of an existing DAM? Are you evaluating DAM solutions? What's your use-case? Integration with Drupal? During this BoF our goal is to share our experiences and gather yours about potential DAM solutions and use-cases.
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Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:45
A chance for anyone working on Drupal Distributions to get together and share notes. Finn has been working on the LocalGov Drupal distribution this year, and has learnt lots! Daniel Bosen is lead developer at Thunder and is hoping to attend. Any other people working ondistributions fancy a chat?
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Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:45
Drupal is in the process of removing its dependencies on jQuery UI, jQuery and Backbone. There are many decisions that need to be made, and even more tasks to complete. Come here to get info on these efforts, learn how to contribute to them, ask questions, and raise concerns.
Presenter(s):
Tags: bof
Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:45
Due to the fact that coworking and real life meetups came to a halt in 2020, talking and exchange about topics and meeting with friends and colleague became even harder. The Virtual Lean Coffee Call is a format to stay in touch about interesting stuff :-)
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14:00 to 16:00 UTC

Location: Vienna room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 16:00
We all know that your website’s performance is critical to the success of its mission. Conversion rates are proven to plummet if with every second of page load time. What can we do about this? Why is the web still slow in 2020?
Presenter(s): Ben Morss
Tags: front-end development, performance Track: makers & builders

14:00 to 14:20 UTC

Location: Amsterdam room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:00 to 14:20
Realistic Valuation and Exit Strategies for your Agency
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Tags: agency, business, doing business, what's next? Track: agency & business

14:20 to 14:40 UTC

Location: Amsterdam room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 14:20 to 14:40
Visual regression testing
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Tags: front-end development, quality assurance, quality assurance & testing, testing Track: agency & business

15:15 to 15:35 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:35
Continuously building Tailor made Drupal Commerce while still being open source friendly
Presenter(s): Eirik Morland
Tags: culture, devops, e-commerce Track: clients & industry experiences

15:15 to 16:00 UTC

Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 16:00
At DrupalCon Global 2020, Dries proposed a new initiative for creating a decoupled menu component written in JavaScript. For Drupal to remain framework agnostic, he proposed to start with building components for Vue.js and React.js. In this BoF, we want to invited everyone that is interested in helping out.
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Tags: bof
Location: BoF room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 16:00
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Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 16:00
Please come meet the Kuoni Congress team and speak about your experience with us, the OnAir platform, what you like and what you would have done differently. We really appreciate your feedback.
Presenter(s):
Tags: bof

15:15 to 15:55 UTC

Location: Dublin room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:55
Often, innovation is less about creating new, shiny things and more about thorough analysis and reframing of the problem. This is especially critical when designing for underserved or low-income communities.
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Tags: diversity & inclusion, government, user experience & design, ux Track: users & editors
Location: Main Stage When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:55
Drupal 9 is expected to have the shortest Drupal major release lifetime in recent history with Drupal 10 planned to be released in the middle of 2022 and Drupal 9 end of life by end of 2023.
Presenter(s): Gábor Hojtsy
Tags: back-end development, core, what's next? Track: makers & builders
Location: Prague room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:55
"There is a module for that" is an old saying when you're looking for a solution to a problem that probably occurred to someone else. So you go to drupal.org, search for relevant keywords, and (hopefully) find a solution - and not "reinvent the wheel"
Presenter(s): Valery Lourie
Tags: back-end development, core, process Track: makers & builders
Location: Amsterdam room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:55
Session details We want to follow industry standards with our websites and apps. If the project managers understand the automation testing process and workflow that will change the picture overall and can also reduce the dependency on the people.
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Tags: automation, content management, editor experience, project management Track: agency & business
Location: Barcelona room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:15 to 15:55
Documentation is only useful if people can read it, so it stands to reason that it needs to be accessible. But what about making it inclusive? What does that entail? How can we make sure that everyone is benefitting fully from our documentation AND feeling as though they are the intended audience?
Presenter(s): Alanna Burke
Tags: diversity & inclusion Track: open web & community

15:35 to 15:55 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 15:35 to 15:55
Implementation of a headless corporate website with integrated B2C-shop based on Drupal & Magento This case study presents the implementation of a decoupled corporate website with integrated B2C-shop based on Drupal and Magento.
Presenter(s): Kai Hartung, Roman Domke
Tags: decoupled, digital experiences, e-commerce, general open web & drupal digital experiences Track: clients & industry experiences

16:15 to 17:00 UTC

Location: TBD When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 17:00
Discuss features you'd like to see in the Components module. https://www.drupal.org/project/components Or dreams of how you'd like the Drupal theme system to work.
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Location: BoF room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 17:00
Presenter(s): Elli Ludwigson

16:15 to 16:35 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:35
Data Driven International Platforms for Positive Outcomes
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Tags: architecture, case study, communities platforms, digital transformation Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Prague room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:35
The Evolving Charts Ecosystem In our experience, users are increasingly seeking solutions for analyzing and visualizing data on the web. While the Charts module makes it easy for site builders to create fully-featured charts, users often want more features than those available out-of-the-box.
Presenter(s): Daniel Cothran
Tags: big ideas, data, integrations, site building Track: makers & builders

16:15 to 16:55 UTC

Location: Barcelona room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:55
Want to know more about the Drupal Association's strategic goals and how it supports the Drupal Project? Join us for a question and answer session with the staff and board. *Session Materials*
Presenter(s): Audra Martin, Baddy Sonja Breidert, Pedro Cambra
Tags: community, community conversations, contribution, culture Track: open web & community
Location: Amsterdam room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:55
I have delivered many large and multilingual digital projects, but in a recent project I was challenged with delivering 70 sites from a global brand master in one year.
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Tags: career development, management, project management Track: agency & business
Location: Vienna room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:55
Last year in Amsterdam we confirmed that everyone had their own favorite Drupal Development Tool. Is the same happening this year? Are we on the way to standardizing on top of something more uniform? https://drupal.kuoni-congress.info/2019/program/abstract/321
Presenter(s): Randy Fay, Mattias Michaux, Katherine Druckman
Tags: automation, development, devops, devops & infrastructure Track: makers & builders
Location: Main Stage When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:55
The We4Authors Cluster is a project that has brought together CMS developers from Drupal, Plone, SiteVision, and TinyMCE to explore the best practices in supporting authors to create more accessible content. This project is led by Funka, who are market leaders in digital accessibility in Europe.
Presenter(s): Mike Gifford, Susanna Laurin
Tags: accessibility, beyond Drupal, government Track: users & editors
Location: Dublin room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:15 to 16:55
Marketers are an increasingly important audience for Drupal. Come to this session to learn what our Marketing colleagues do, what they care about and how they measure success. You will leave this session better equipped to communicate your work and value to Marketing professionals.
Presenter(s): Drew Gorton
Tags: agency, business, content & digital marketing, leadership Track: users & editors

16:35 to 16:55 UTC

Location: Darmstadt room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:35 to 16:55
Drupal loves NoSQL databases or how to serve 1 million entities out of a Drupal website
Presenter(s): Engin Yilmaz
Tags: big ideas, data, digital transformation, integrations Track: clients & industry experiences
Location: Prague room When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 16:35 to 16:55
The Olivero theme: Genesis and Update on Drupal 9's Newest Theme Starting out as a discussion in a lobby at DrupalCon Seattle, the Olivero theme is now an official Drupal core strategic initiative, and aims to become the new default front-end theme for Drupal 9.1!
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Tags: community, front-end development Track: makers & builders

19:30 to 22:30 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - 19:30 to 22:30
Test out your Drupal knowledge! In the grand tradition of pub quizzes, there will be 6/7 rounds of 10 questions covering all things Drupal, and a few more questions about general web topics. Your team of 5 will compete to capture the title of Drupal trivia champions, and win small prizes to boot! *Session Materials*
Presenter(s): Stella Power, Merel Van Empel
Tags: social event Track: users & editors
Friday, 11 Dec

08:00 to 17:00 UTC

Location: Main Stage When: Friday, 11 December, 2020 - 08:00 to 17:00
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Tags: contribution
Location: Barcelona room When: Friday, 11 December, 2020 - 08:00 to 17:00
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