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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Intro

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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).