DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023 Schedule

Birds of a Feather sessions (or BoFs) are informal gatherings of like-minded individuals who wish to discuss a certain topic without a pre-planned agenda.

Data accuracy and consistency is an important goal for any organization.

Drupal 8 shipped with many exciting new concepts, including "configuration", "configuration and content entities", "validation constraints" and "API-First".

By the time you arrive in Pittsburgh, the initial version of Automatic Updates should be in the Drupal core 10.1 beta. Maintaining Drupal sites is about to get a whole lot easier, and this session will contain everything you need to know to start taking advantage of this long-awaited feature.

Have you ever worked with someone who is neurodivergent? With an estimated 15% - 20% of people in the workforce falling somewhere under this umbrella, chances are you have.

In your team, have you ever felt that decisions or priorities were not consistently communicated well? Is the transfer of information occurring in DMs rather than team meetings? Have you watched team members (or yourself) burn out, feeling like issues are never quite addressed fully?

Taxonomies are a key feature of Drupal architecture, but traditional web design teams do not always have the background for design and governance needed to support them. A taxonomist can bring best practices and a wealth of experience to this often overlooked area.

Urban.org is one of the dozens of Drupal-based websites that we will be showing during this showcase. All three Drupal developers will be talking through the hosting, security, and funding that it takes to keep not-for-profit websites running.

Recently, I was working on a greenfield project using open source software within a large organization whose leadership was interested in learning what had led to the project's success and how they could apply those same principles to other teams across the organization.

Join the Community Working Group in honoring this year's recipient of the annual Aaron Winborn Award.

For folks at home, you can watch the award ceremony live via https://qrco.de/aaron-winborn23

During his keynote - a.k.a. Driesnote - 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.

An American personal care brand wanted to overhaul their customer experience, do-away with their cart management and transition their customer engagements from transactional to experience based journeys. Srijan partnered to change the brand’s vision into reality.

Everyone is talking about ChatGPT around the world in some shape or form.

Is ChatGPT something to be feared or embraced? Is ChatGPT the only thing AI can provide us? How can AI be used to improve the experience in Drupal?

Join the DrupalCon tradition! After every #Driesnote we hold a Q&A with Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and Project Lead.

Questions will be curated, sourced by our host and from audience submissions.

Drush is 12 years old and has now released version 12. Learn how it stays young implementing PHP8 attributes , container-free commands, and so much more.

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Do you ever feel like you’re reinventing the wheel when starting a new website project? How many times have you designed or built the same set of components or the same basic page layouts? There has to be a better way, right? We might have found one.

Intent marketing is quickly becoming a staple of B2B. Platforms like 6Sense give organizations the ability to research their prospect’s activities, serve proactive ads, and measure their sales and marketing effectiveness.

Many of us have heard at recent DrupalCon and Drupal events that Drupal needs to be (and is working towards being) more marketer-friendly, along with the need to "Promote Drupal" echoed in the last few Driesnotes.

While Harvard Medical School is a leader in medical education and basic science research, it is a vast decentralized organization, with dozens of departments and offices.

In this talk, Tag1 Consulting, the leading experts in Drupal performance, provide a brief overview of our performance audit process, review the most common problems we’ve found across dozens of audits, show you quick wins that can be implemented in hours, and discuss more fundamental architectura

The goals of the Project Browser Strategic Initiative are to allow users to search for projects (modules) compatible with their website's version of Drupal from within the website itself and to install selected modules with the click of a button, eliminating the need to know composer.

Openness and sharing, good governance and democracy. Can open source practice teach us how to live in a peaceful, free, and democratic society?

I wouldn't have thought about this topic before, but I submitted this session when being in Ukraine, in October 2022, during the eighth month of wartime. I am a Ukrainian IT Project Manager who would like to talk to the world about a superpower that we learned during 2022.

Whether you’re fresh on the remote work scene or have been working from home since “before it was cool” – this lightning talk will share five things you can do to keep your remote culture happy, healthy, productive, open, and fun.

As developers, we often find ourselves working on websites that are not always accessible to everyone. We know the process of making a site more accessible can be a challenging task.

What does it mean for Drupal professionals to feel like they are included at their workplace? How does an organization foster inclusive practices, and move towards a sense of equity for all levels of technical and non-technical staff?

Digital accessibility is not achieved by simply implementing standards, it is the outcome of a process rooted in usability and digital inclusion.

Intro

Redesigns can be exciting! They’re a chance to take care of a stack of lingering issues and make it a fast, engaging, mobile-first experience that users actually enjoy using.

For DrupalCon Pittsburgh, the Drupal Association returns to give our regular session on Engineering Initiatives.

We will discuss some of the sustainability challenges present for OS communities and their maintainers, the pain points, consequences, and potential solutions.

Having an effective plan for how images will be used on a Drupal site can help to create a consistent appearance, improve performance, and simplify development.

For agencies and other organizations that manage multiple or many sites, one challenge is keeping shared code in particular code based infrastructure up to date. Drupal's Scaffolding composer plug-in is one particularly effective solution.

In this session you will learn to use the Migrate API to upgrade your Drupal 6/7 site to Drupal 9/10. We will explore different migration strategies and how to accommodate changes in the site's architecture.

Composable is a topic these days. Even Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, is joining the conversation about composable, and took a stance on it in his, “Composable Digital Experience Manifesto.” But what’s all of the buzz all about?

Some consider design systems to be a rigid set of templates and strict rules that limit creativity and create impractical constraints.

Content governance is the idea that the content strategy you create for your digital platform must stay accountable and not forgotten since your last redesign project. In order for your content strategy to succeed long-term, you need a content governance plan.

If you haven’t switched from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 (GA4), then now is the time to do it! Universal Analytics properties will stop processing data on July 1, 2023.

I had just taken a break from college mid pandemic and was feeling a bit unsure about my career and life in general. I have always been interested in web development and had taken a few computer science classes throughout my college years.

Always wanted to start something new in Drupal or find a place for your coworkers to contribute with a big impact? Join this panel discussion where (former) initiative leads and funders of initiatives discuss success stories and areas to avoid for the benefit of all.

Lullabot, one of the earliest agencies in the Drupal community, underwent a major evolution in January 2021, becoming a 100% employee owned ESOP (Employee Owned Stock Program).

At this panel the Drupal Security team will address one of the community's key questions: What is the future of Drupal 7 support?

Birds of a Feather sessions (or BoFs) are informal gatherings of like-minded individuals who wish to discuss a certain topic without a pre-planned agenda.

Calling all Drupal jobs seekers and employers! Join us in the Expo Hall on Tuesday morning to tour some amazing Drupal organizations who have open roles. Bring your resume and flex your networking skills to see what's out there in the Drupal ecosystem to take your next career step.

Pantheon co-founders Josh Koenig and David Strauss invite interested parties to share perspectives on how we respond when the technologies we create and the open web we build are used in ways that don't align with our principles.

The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies.

DevOps exists since 2009 and has since then being used in many good but also bad ways: The idea of DevOps was to focus on engineering culture and bring different teams together, but unfortunately many companies understood it wrong and created DevOps teams with many unhappy team members.

The render cache is a system using cache tags, cache contexts and cache invalidations. Like most Drupal developers I've worked with this system for years and thought I had it mastered.

Nonprofit organizations rely on technology to stay connected to constituents and supporters of the mission.

At Confab 2020, Laura Robertson took the main stage and asked if she could take a poll. “Raise your hand if you love your content management system.” The entire room went silent.

Join members of the Drupal Association board and staff for a public board meeting.

The Drupal Association is a 501c3 non-profit based in the United States and serving a global community.

Have you ever thought to yourself– ‘Wow I love Drupal’?

Have you ever found yourself in a room of colleagues at your day job who are confused by your passion for Drupal?

Or have you ever been in a room of colleagues who ask you, ‘What’s Drupal’?

Let’s flip the script.

A provocative, entertaining, and ultimately informative tour of the wider web ecosystem and Drupal’s role in it — current and future, with an emphasis on Enterprise use-case and the most ambitious digital experiences. We’ll examine industry trends and ask some hard questions.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency provides protection and assistance to forcibly displaced people worldwide.

Download the slides here: https://www.swis.nl/project-update-bot-road-to-drupal-11

This presentation is for anyone who has created a website using Drupal and is interested in discovering a standardized, simpler, and faster way to model and build a website's content and information architecture.

Learn how to use the Robo PHP task runner to transform your project’s complicated, multi-step processes into simple commands so your team can preserve their sanity and become more efficient in the process.

Women—particularly women who have been further marginalized due to racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, and other forms of discrimination—are underrepresented and often unheard in tech.

Open Source origin stories seem to start in many places, often not in computer science classrooms. Whatever you bring to the table, you can make our technology and community more valuable.

As technology continues to evolve, so does the way we interact with digital content. In this talk, we will explore the world of multimodal content delivery beyond the traditional screen.

In this talk, "Blending Design and Code using Design Tokens," we will cover the benefits of using design tokens to streamline design and coding.

Pulling insights from over 4,200 hours of UX research and accessibility training, Sandstorm will walk through real-world scenarios that can improve or hinder the user experience.

We've all been taught that professionalism means not showing emotion, staying even toned and tempered, and putting on a smile even in the face of stressful situations and clients. But what if I told you that this advice is outdated and can do more harm to a client relationship than good?

Privacy legislation is rapidly evolving throughout the United States and keeping up with the new laws, regulations, and policies can be a challenge for web and marketing teams.

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

At DrupalCon Portland in April, Dries proposed a new initiative: Drupal Starter Templates. This proposal has led to the creation of the Distributions & Recipes initiative.

To decouple or not decouple? That is not always the right question to ask.

The initial Discovery phase of a project can be highly strategic and complex. It’s a collaborative process, harmonizing many disciplines - IA, UI, UX, art direction, content, architects, developers and project management.

The complexity of modern Drupal deployment workflows can be daunting.

Node.js frontend frameworks can vary a lot in their approach. How you build, and deploy them becomes another set of concerns to keep in mind alongside how JSON:API is going to be consumed.

Learn how your Drupal skills can make a huge impact on the lives of Veterans.

Slides: https://bit.ly/pittsburgh-code-review

The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.

Learn how to turn design system components into reusable blocks that content editors can place on a page via Layout Builder.

User Personas have been a mainstay of UX design since practically the beginning of UX design. But they’re actually not great tools for designing and building inclusive digital experiences. This session will introduce the idea of “Audience Mindsets” as a replacement for traditional User Personas.

Do you have aspirations of contributing to the Drupal community, but are unsure what to expect? Have you read the documentation and feel like you still don't know how or where to contribute?

When creating a multi-site platform, the goals are focused on providing a future-facing and cohesive platform experience that continues to evolve and grow as needs and users grow, but it isn’t always easy to keep a large group of stakeholders utilizing the platform to its full potential.

In this session, we'll present the amazing new features that can be used on Drupal 10 combined with CKEditor 5 in order to improve your productivity with content authoring

There are some great benefits to working with a global team - for instance, no one ever needs to work around the clock, because issues can be handed off as the next “shift” logs in for the day.

Drupal Commerce is one of the few eCommerce platforms in the world developed as native extension of a Content Management System.

Sometimes, for projects where we handle a lot of content, we’re tasked with building a synchronization mechanism to feed data from different sources into Drupal. During the synchronization, data needs to be sanitized, manipulated, and then imported into a single type of entity in Drupal.

AX: Where strategy becomes narrative.

Drupal has proven itself to be a viable backend option for many decoupled sites, using frameworks such as next.js or gatsby.js as a front end. These successful decoupled platforms have provided the community confidence that Drupal can support static site generators as a stable backend.

Diversity is the concept that any individual academically or physically qualified for a specific job could strive for (and possibly succeed) at obtaining the said job without being discriminated against based on identity.

Problem: “Unit testing takes time”, “Unit testing is difficult”, “Unit testing requires high skills”, “Let’s release the feature already and postpone unit tests”.

Palantir.net has provided support services for Drupal clients since the Drupal 5 era. With the release of Drupal 8 and the promise of easier upgrade paths, came an increased longevity to projects necessitating a change in how we deliver value on an ongoing basis.

Since COVID19 hit, most organizations are facing ever-tightening budgets, while demands on Marketing and Communications (MarComm) increase at an even greater rate.

Drupal’s strategic goals aim to increase adoption and enable the community. But, are there opportunities to better enable the community to execute?

The goal of this panel is to discuss how we can enable the full potential of our large community.

Twig was introduced into Drupal core over 10 years ago. Since then, improvements to Drupal’s front-end API have been minimal.

Are you an architect, consultant, or engineer looking for another way to amplify your expertise?

“Why isn’t my team/report doing a good job?” - is the question many managers often ask themselves.

Birds of a Feather sessions (or BoFs) are informal gatherings of like-minded individuals who wish to discuss a certain topic without a pre-planned agenda.

Drupal’s initiatives form powerful teams that make great things happen. Some self-organize to get new improvements to the base system while others coordinate event organization, spread diversity best practices, collaborate on promotional materials, and so on.

Grab your lunch in the Expo Hall and then join Joi in Room 326 for the first ever Black in Drupal initiative roundtable!

Learning Neurographica helps you acquire an algorithm-based art method to manage various life situations.

Birds of a Feather sessions (or BoFs) are informal gatherings of like-minded individuals who wish to discuss a certain topic without a pre-planned agenda.

Drupal’s theme system allows theme developers to have nearly complete control over the appearance of the site, including the markup, content, styles, and interactivity.

The Community Summit is open to anyone at DrupalCon, and is designed to connect our amazing community with one another.

Are you a federal, state, or local government employee? Or, a private sector employee supporting government? This summit is for you! Gov Summit attendees range from project managers and content editors to full-stack devs; and we want to make sure there’s something for everyone!

The Higher Education Summit is your chance to connect with other Drupal users from universities and colleges, including web developers, content creators, designers, strategists and managers.

Learn how to harness the power and flexibility of Drupal. Gain the knowledge and confidence you need to customize the look and feel of your website. Plus, discover exciting new D10 features including the StarterKit theme.

Overview

Get Familiar With Drupal

Module development for Drupal is more powerful than ever with Drupal 10. Object-orientation, the maturity of Drupal's various APIs, Drupal's underlying Symfony (and other) components, and the emergence of Drush's "generate" command means that developing for Drupal is more powerful than ever.