Keynotes

Join us Tuesday through Thursday mornings for inspiring keynote speakers. All keynotes are in Hall A on the Level 3 of Music City Center.

Watch the keynotes live

 

Dries Buytaert, DRUPAL PROJECT FOUNDER

Tuesday, April 10 at 8:45 a.m. 

Belgium born Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert is a pioneer in the open source web publishing and collaboration platform space. 

During the opening keynote - or Driesnote - he'll talk us through the future of Drupal. Starting with existing opportunities in the market and positive trends; reflecting on areas of improvement that could provide growth of adoption - and what we're doing to boost that growth. Culminating to a look at our core principals at Drupal, and the values that drive us all - and the project - to do business that can make a lasting impact on our world.  

Steve Francia, PRODUCT LEAD, GOOGLE

Wednesday, April 11 at 9 a.m.

Steve Francia (spf13) has the unique distinction of having held leadership roles in five of the largest open source projects in history. He currently works at Google where he leads strategy, operations and developer relations for the Go Language.

In this keynote, he’ll talk about the role Drupal has played in his career. He'll share thoughts on open source patterns within Drupal, and insights from other open source projects.  

Emily Rose, DEVELOPER ADVOCATE, TWITCH

Thursday, April 12 at 9 a.m.

Emily Rose is developer advocate at Twitch.

On Thursday at DrupalCon Emily will discuss The Future is Now: Realizing Your Potential as a Cyborg. A talk which provides a unique perspective on our present potential and possible future as humanoids in an age of unprecedented access to information and communication. What that means for the future of technology, morals, ethics, and how Drupalers can affect that future. 

 

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