For Builders

DrupalCon offers the latest in Drupal development for site builders and developers. Content is curated for those who build Drupal sites, from discovery to deployment—developer, designer, project manager, site builder, team lead, or small shop hybrid of all this.

Topics such as UX, DevOps, Drupal Core, front/back end development, Drupal 9 and more are covered; these are just a sampling of the timely offerings:

SUMMITS - on Monday & Tuesday, with separate registration

Performance & Scaling Summit: Prevent slow page loads and disastrous outages; learn the latest tools and techniques across the full stack to create fast, scalable Drupal applications.
Security Summit: Led by members of the Drupal Security Team, this aims to connect you with other Drupal users who actively work on making their sites safer; to learn from each other about best practices; to look at new trends; and to generate ideas.
Decoupled Summit: For those interested in building API-driven Drupal backed sites and applications to learn preferred practices, planning and implementation advice, and see case studies from existing sites.

TRAININGS - on Monday & Tuesday, with separate registration

Elevate your Drupal 8 application with ReactJS: See how to give a section of a Drupal 8 website a boost by building a ReactJS app.
Advanced module development with OOP: Particularly for PHP developers, learn about Object Oriented Programming and how to apply advanced programming principles in Drupal 8.
Component-based theming with Twig: Learn how to define patterns that make up common web elements, break them down into smaller chunks of content, and explain how they better fit into what is known as the Atomic Design Principle.

SESSIONS

Deciphering Drupal Ajax Framework: We've come a long way from Drupal 6’s AHAH (Asynchronous HTML over HTTP) to Drupal 8 Ajax API—learn how this works internally.
Deep dive: State of Drupal 9: Learn pressing topics such as the support timeline for major Drupal versions, which third-party libraries were updated, D9 compared to the latest minor release, & what's planned for Drupal 10.
Extending commerce: Drupal's architecture in action: Learn how design patterns such as controllers, plugins and services become building blocks to create a custom donation process which may just become a contributed module.
Hacking Live! A realtime look at website security: We'll go through common vulnerabilities with realtime hack and learn how they happen and how to leverage Core APIs to prevent them.
I choose YOU! Module selection without tears or fears: Learn how to select the right tool for your site without going overboard, including recommended releases, issue queue, testing modules on a plug-and-play system and pursuing custom module solutions.
Local development environments panel discussion: We'll review a few of the tools available (there are 37+ for Drupal at last count), their features, and meet some people who build and use them.
Moving to Composer: Converting an existing site: Learn how to install new modules and upgrade to new versions, customize .htaccess, apply Core patches, and more.
React & Redux in Drupal 8 the easy way: See a practical approach to progressively decoupling Drupal by using a scaffolding module, which cuts down on the complexity of setting up and integrating Drupal with React.
Webforms for everyone: Learn more about handling submission data, customize forms, and building maintainable forms.

Presenting Sponsors

For Builders

SUMMITS - on Monday & Tuesday, with separate registration

TRAININGS - on Monday & Tuesday, with separate registration

SESSIONS

Champion Sponsors