Kick off DrupalCon Orlando 2027 on Monday, March 22 with an inspiring day of learning and collaboration! Choose from six focused industry summits to connect with peers, share strategies, and explore innovative solutions shaping the future of Drupal. Summits and trainings require an add-on ticket!
The AI Summit is designed to spark innovation in open source through ethical and sustainable AI solutions. Participants will have the opportunity to collaborate with the Drupal AI Initiative team and organizations already integrating AI into Drupal projects.
Through sessions, conversations, and real-world case studies, the Summit will highlight how AI can enhance Drupal while keeping human-centered approaches at its core. Attendees will leave with fresh ideas, practical insights, and a deeper understanding of how AI can responsibly shape the future of open source.
The Government Summit provides a collaborative space for the Drupal4Gov community to connect, share knowledge, and explore the role of Drupal in government. Attendees will discover new tools, techniques, and complementary technologies through sessions, discussions, and guided table topics designed to make government work more efficient and effective.
This integrative summit welcomes government employees at every level, along with the vendors and contractors who support them, offering valuable opportunities to learn, network, and advance digital government initiatives together.
The Higher Education Summit brings together university and college professionals to connect, share experiences, and explore how Drupal and complementary technologies are shaping higher ed. Attendees will engage with curated sessions led by higher education Drupal experts and participate in guided roundtable conversations.
Whether you’re a seasoned Drupal professional or new to the higher ed community, this summit offers the chance to deepen your expertise, exchange ideas, and grow your network.
The Non-profit Industry Summit is a day dedicated to exploring how Drupal can empower organizations for social good. Participants will take part in facilitated discussions, collaborative roundtables, and knowledge-sharing sessions designed to inspire and connect non-profit leaders, developers, and community members.
This summit offers a unique opportunity to learn from peers, exchange ideas, and spark collaborations that help non-profits maximize the impact of Drupal in advancing their missions.
The Healthcare Industry Summit brings together professionals and innovators to explore how Drupal can drive impact in healthcare. Through expert-led sessions, you’ll gain insights into topics such as the responsible use of AI, personalization, content marketing, and streamlining migrations.
In addition to presentations, roundtable discussions will provide opportunities to share experiences, exchange ideas, and build connections with peers tackling similar challenges. Join us to discover innovative approaches and collaborative strategies that are shaping the future of healthcare with Drupal.
The Community Summit is a welcoming space for Drupal newcomers and long-time contributors alike. This low-to-no-code summit introduces participants to Drupal, its community, and the many ways to get involved.
Attendees will hear updates on key initiatives, join discussions on community-driven efforts, and connect with others shaping Drupal’s future. Whether you’re finding your place in the community, sharing your experiences, or staying informed on what’s happening across the ecosystem, the Community Summit offers the chance to learn, collaborate, and be part of the conversations that move Drupal forward.
Professional Full Day Hands-on Training
AI Inside Drupal: From Smart Editorial Workflows to Canvas Agents That Build Pages
You already use AI. Your Drupal site doesn't. This workshop closes that gap.
Most of us have made Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot part of our daily work. But that's AI next to Drupal - living in a browser tab, disconnected from your content model, your editorial workflow, and your governance requirements. Over the past two years, the Drupal AI ecosystem has grown into something different: AI wired directly into the CMS itself, working with your fields, your vocabularies, components, workflows, and compliance rules.
If you haven't been tracking that ecosystem closely, or if you have but would like some guidance, this full-day, hands-on workshop is the fastest way to get comfortable with Drupal AI. Whether you're AI-curious or an everyday power user, you will learn how to transition from simple "chatting" to building agentic workflows that formulate and execute multi-step plans within your site.
What you'll walk out with
By the end of the day, you'll have built, on your own working Drupal site:
- Provider configuration done right: connecting OpenAI, Anthropic, or Amazee.io with API credentials managed securely via the Key module.
- Production-Ready Governance: Implement AI logging for full auditability, AI external moderation to protect against malicious prompts (or responses), and AI guardrails to restrict interactions by topic, length, or sensitive patterns.
- AI Authorship Tools inside CKEditor: tone adjustment, summarization, and semantic HTML cleanup available to editors right where they write.
- A Sidebar AI Assistant for Content Teams: readability evaluation, text moderation, and taxonomy suggestions that respect your existing fixed or free-tagging vocabularies.
- AI-Driven Page Building: Experience Drupal Canvas AI to generate components, pages, and templates from natural-language prompts.
Why this matters for your team
Whether you build sites for clients or maintain them in-house, "can our CMS do AI responsibly?" is now a stakeholder question, not a hypothetical. This workshop is built around the human-in-the-loop philosophy: AI that assists editors and developers rather than replacing them, ensuring every AI-generated suggestion is reviewed before being saved. You'll leave the workshop able to demo real capabilities to your organization and evaluate the rapidly growing Drupal AI module ecosystem with confidence. Portions of this material have been presented and refined at Drupal events since late 2025.
Who should attend
Drupal site builders, developers, and agency teams. You don't need to be an AI expert, but you should be proficient in modern Drupal site-building (fields, content types, and configuration.) Attendees are expected to have a local development environment (ideally DDEV) with a fresh Drupal 11 install and comfort using Composer and Drush. BYOP - bring your own AI provider API account (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc…) or take advantage of a free 30-day trial from Amazee.io.
Your trainer
Michael Anello is co-founder and vice president of DrupalEasy, a Drupal training and consulting firm based in Central Florida. He is one of the Drupal community's most experienced trainers, with over 15 years of code contribution and curriculum spanning Drupal Foundations, Professional Module Development, Professional Single Directory Components, and the Responsible Drupal AI Basics course this workshop draws from.