DrupalCon Portland 2024 Schedule

If you have experience with Drupal issues and maybe already picked a team/topic, General Contribution is for you. You can join one of the many groups, including: Drupal 9, documentation, migrate, media, front-end, Promote Drupal and more.

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.

Most higher-ed organizations embrace multi-channel engagement, involving diverse touch points across various media and advertising streams. However, these channels often operate independently, lacking connection in design, content voice and measurement priorities.

With an estimated 400,000 sites facing the mandatory transition to Drupal 10 by 2025, there is an urgent need for efficient, time-saving solutions. Retrofit answers this call. Retrofit provides a backward compatibility layer to run your Drupal 7 code within a Drupal 10 code base.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance at an unprecedented rate, there is an urgent need to consider its ethical implications. AI has the potential to revolutionize many industries, but it also presents new challenges and risks.

Join us to dive deep into the value of psychological safety and how it supercharges collaboration. We'll break down why it's a game-changer for intra-team relationships, mitigating risk, and facilitating innovation.

There’s a hard truth that everyone must face when building a website: just because you build it, doesn’t mean the people will come. This also doesn’t mean your next creation won’t be a digital Field of Dreams.

Are you ready to embark on a journey towards digital accessibility excellence? Join us for an informative and practical session that will empower you to run your own accessibility audits, prioritize issues effectively, and take actionable steps towards accessibility compliance.

Take a step away from the busy sessions and convention halls for some quick trivia while finding your balance and relaxation through provided yoga poses. Engage your mind and body while we guide you through a set of trivia questions coupled with optional entry-level yoga poses!

During his keynote - a.k.a. Driesnote - Dries will give one of his engaging keynotes about the state of the Drupal project.

This year's address includes a special announcement, counting down to a new chapter in the Drupal project.

CKEditor 5 Plugin Pack Module is full of free things to help Drupal developers build great applications.
• Newly released! Templates are back as a free feature exclusively for Drupal.
• Newly released free plugins in the Drupal CK5 Plugin Pack:
o Text transformations

The security team will present topics from their work promoting a more secure Drupal project. The team will also talk about how they recruit new members, refinements to their procedures, and what you can do to support Drupal security.

Join Forum One and Oregon Metro as we unveil the Drupal-driven transformation of Oregon Metro's digital presence.

The session will delve into the challenges inherent in the migration process: dealing with large amounts of content, various hosting environments, and multiple data formats.

How much will my migration cost? How long will it take? Planning & estimating a migration from Drupal 7 to D10, or transitioning from other CMSs, present challenges and opportunities that stem from the technical intricacies of each organization's unique needs.

Embark on a transformative journey from content chaos to strategic clarity in just 30 minutes. This session is designed to empower attendees with the tools and insights necessary to assess, articulate, and apply a robust content strategy.

When you log in into a Drupal Site, by default you land on a mostly empty page which shows you how old your account is in the site. That’s not the best UX out there.

Drupal Association partners are invited to a roundtable discussion to learn more about the Drupal Associations strategic plan for the next several years, and how the DA and partners can work together to support the nonprofit mission of the association and build a better open web.

While redesigning a website from scratch offers a lot of advantages and flexibility, it isn’t always an option. We often have to work within the constraints of an existing website and an existing brand.

In 2023, leadership from the top four FOSS CMS projects (Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, and WordPress) collaborated for the first time on an open letter, webinar, and other efforts regarding the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act.

Join the Drupal.org engineering team for updates on our work to support the community.

The team that developed content moderation in Drupal 7 is back with collaborative editing for Drupal 10. Using open-source tools, the Edit Together module provides secure, real-time collaboration inside the Drupal editorial interface.

What if you could have your own personal AI assistant to quickly answer theme questions, or break down theme structure into easy to understand concepts, or ingest wireframes/designs to kickstart your theme scaffolding?

Delivering personalized and relevant customer experiences is key to building strong relationships and driving business growth.

One of the big strategic changes we’ll see on Drupal’s Admin UI in the next months is the new toolbar, that will bring several usability improvements beyond the main administration menu and involving several layout changes.

90% of VC-backed companies are planning to bring generative AI into their apps, with 67% aiming to do so this year. Yet according to Jakob Nielsen, only 20% of the population can effectively use it. How can we bridge this divide?

Rebrands, acquisitions, and other business decisions have significant impacts on how brands need to adjust their platforms to meet the evolving demands of their organization and their customers.

Hidden in plain sight but unknown to most: Drupal 8.4 added the foundations for validating configuration! Then it took until Drupal 9.4 for actual adoption: the CKEditor 5 module. Since Drupal 10.1, those foundations have been steadily growing! 🚀

Content Models are an important content strategy tool to help clarify requirements and build mutual understanding of all content and relationships within a given system or product.

Empower yourself by learning the less obvious, but directly applicable, aspects of Theming with modern Drupal. We'll cover topics including render arrays, caching, debugging your theme, and advanced Twig usage.

The landscape of websites is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by an insatiable demand for new content and the impending influence of artificial intelligence.

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.

Introducing Composable, a new module in the Drupal ecosystem that brings the power of creating modular components that can be reused multiple times, in multiple ways, even in different channels.

A sense of belonging makes the difference between who stays and who leaves. Inside Drupal we have a variety of viewpoints and personalities: we have ample opportunities to build strength, empathy, & resilience together.

In the world of tech, we often find ourselves tangled in a web of bugs, blockers, and 404 errors—but what if the biggest blocker is sitting right in your chair? Yep, we're talking about you.

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.

If you have experience with Drupal issues and maybe already picked a team/topic, General Contribution is for you. You can join one of the many groups, including: Drupal 9, documentation, migrate, media, front-end, Promote Drupal and more.

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.

A battle is underway right now for the future of technology. Artificial intelligence is clearly poised to disrupt every industry. It will change the way we work and live and it will accelerate progress while introducing new perils. Massive change is coming.

Dropsolid

Join us for a public board meeting of the Drupal Association. Board members will talk about future programs, conduct regular business to support the Drupal Association's non-profit operations, and answer community questions. By Tim Doyle, Owen Lansbury, Tiffany Farris, and Dries Buytaert.

We know workflows in Drupal. We've built workflows for many use cases. These include helping non-profits simplify travel approvals, complex academic publishing processes, vetting fundraising proposals, and a system to match newcomers to Canada with appropriate agencies.

Provide an overview of Lenovo's digital presence and the need for a scalable and multilingual solution.


Discuss the complexities involved in creating and maintaining numerous language variations of a website.


Come to this session to learn more about what's new in Drupal 11, what's changed and how to prepare. As of this submission, Drupal 11 is targeted for August 2024 with a fallback of December 2024, so by DrupalCon Portland 2024, we should have a really good idea about it.

Sure you know mindlessly scrolling social media is bad for your brain, but it is also terrible for the planet. Those of us who make the internet have a new focus to consider — sustainable web design.

Understanding the real world implications of using Personalization on your website can be tricky - after all there are nearly limitless ways to use it. The reality is that the more you "personalize" your website, the more maintenance it requires to keep your content updated.

The Drupal Community Working Group are volunteers whose goal is to foster a friendly and welcoming environment for all who participate in the Drupal Project.

If you’re a woman in tech, you might know what it feels like to be “the lonely only”. Most of us have been — or are currently — the only woman in our department, or even at our company.

⭐ Lightning Talk: Is the Redesign Dead?

Domain-specific LLMs are the next best step towards Personalization in Beauty Industry

Get ready for a no-holds-barred Mario Kart showdown. Join TAG's reigning Mario Kart champion, Associate Director of Engineering Brandon Stumbo, for an epic battle on the virtual racetrack. Race against Brandon and test your skills for a chance to win some sweet prizes!

In this session, we will embark on a journey into the future of code review, where the integration of ChatGPT and GitLab CI revolutionizes the Drupal module development process.

Drupal has not just survived but thrived for more than two decades. One of the key components of this success is with no doubt our community, and all the amazing work that individuals and companies put together to achieve a common goal, a common success.

In today's hyper-connected digital landscape, understanding customer behavior and preferences across various touchpoints is paramount for businesses aiming to stay competitive.

Accessibility isn’t strictly the responsibility of developers and designers. Arguably the most important, and often forgotten about, area that affects a website’s accessibility is the content itself.

"[The Recipes Initiative] is a great example of making it easy for people to be part of Drupal and the open web." - Dries Buytaert, Driesnote, DrupalCon Prague

A team of UX designers and developers, faced with years of design and technical debt reforged their Drupal theme and design documentation around Figma, Storybook and design tokens.

43% of the entire Drupal community is on Drupal 7. Drupal 7 end of life is coming in 2025. Acquia recently open sourced our migration automation tool, Acquia Migrate: Accelerate (AM:A) to help the community get to D10 and prepare for D11.

The Events, Conditions, and Actions (ECA) module revolutionizes what is possible to do in Drupal without editing code.

Do you want to contribute but are not sure how? Check out the First Time Contributor Pathway for a list of recommended sessions at DrupalCon Portland to help you figure out how to use your particular skills to contribute to the Drupal project!

At amazee.io, we love WebOps, but we're also into PetOps - keeping our precious pets safe! Our furry little coworkers mean the world to us, especially as remote workers.

Drupal is the swiss-army-knife of content management systems. It provides the flexibility to build pretty much any site you want. This is why so many of us choose Drupal for our backend technology.

**Jamstack vs Static**

Our condensed five-week journey is an epic tale of innovation and collaboration, where Drupal becomes the canvas for a groundbreaking AI experience.

Preparing an RFP can be a complex, sometimes painful process that can take months and in some cases, years, of meticulous planning. And after all that careful preparation, it is all too common that the resulting bids include a bewildering range of sometimes-conflicting solutions and prices.

Wandering into the AI age without a strategy to centralize control over the data, assets and structured content in your content and marketing ecosystem is akin to setting sail into an ocean at night without a rudder, a map, or a lantern.

Is your site one of the many Drupal sites running outdated and possibly insecure versions of Drupal core? Come to this session to learn how the Automatic Updates module can help keep your site up-to-date with the latest security updates and make using Composer with a Drupal site easier.

Content migrations are immense efforts that require careful strategic planning, implementation, and testing to ensure your data gets from A to B successfully and intact. Still, they’re also moments of great opportunity.

In this case study, we'll showcase Edit Together, the new collaborative editor for Drupal 10.

Layout Builder has been included in Drupal core as a stable module since 2019, yet many site builders and developers still struggle to set it up effectively.

With the rise of GraphQL and the many different frontend technologies available, it seems like now is the time to decouple that Drupal site! Promises of blazing-fast speeds, personalization, and easier development would make any site owner ready to jump in and sign up.

McGill University Web Services manages more than 1,000 Drupal websites hosted on 20 Linux servers that attract 9 million page views per month. This includes the university's main homepage as well as several other highly visible websites.

Still, they deploy fearlessly everyday!

Description:

Developers may know the ins and outs of migrations, but what do project managers, designers, or business owners do when faced with working on a large migration project? What makes a migration project different and what should you know when collaborating with developers on such a project?

What is the best way to prepare for a world mediated by Artificial Intelligence? What are the threats and opportunities for the Open Web? How can we position Drupal as a leader in AI readiness and the Open Interface Web?

Drupal's already best-in-class performance is about to get even better thanks to a groundbreaking collaboration between Google and Tag1 Consulting.

When working with large organizations—whether in private enterprise, governmental organizations, or nonprofits—editorial responsibility is often spread across multiple sub-organizations. Depending on the type of organization, those subdivisions can look very different:

If you have experience with Drupal issues and maybe already picked a team/topic, General Contribution is for you. You can join one of the many groups, including: Drupal 9, documentation, migrate, media, front-end, Promote Drupal and more.

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.

We had a [relatively] complex set of business rules & requirements to implement and no single core or contributed module could do it all, with just configuration so we used ECA and it worked out.

Over the last 12 months, the Drupal Association Board’s Marketing Working Group and Promote Drupal have been working together to update Drupal’s branding.

Do you want to contribute but are not sure how? Check out the First Time Contributor Pathway for a list of recommended sessions at DrupalCon Portland to help you figure out how to use your particular skills to contribute to the Drupal project!

If you are already familiar with the tools we use such as the issue queue or a local development environment, if needed, but could still use help choosing issues and navigating the process, “Mentored Contribution” is for you.

How can marketers contribute?

If you have experience with Drupal issues and maybe already picked a team/topic, General Contribution is for you. You can join one of the many groups, including: Drupal 9, documentation, migrate, media, front-end, Promote Drupal and more.

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.

Debug Academy
Introduction to Building Sites with Drupal

Evolving Web
Drupal Theming with SDC and TailwindCSS

DrupalEasy
Drupal Module Development

Thank you for joining us for the Government Summit at DrupalCon Portland 2024! Here you will find the detailed schedule for the day. Please note schedule details are subject to change, and additional content will be added as it becomes available.

AGENDA

9 - 9:15 am | Welcome and overview. By Julia Kranzthor

9:15 - 10:30 am | Fireside Chat: Why Should Nonprofits Use Drupal? The Case for Owning Your Own Data and Using Drupal to Manage It. By Tim Lehnen, Johanna Bates, and Jess Snyder

10:30 - 10:45 am | Break

8:30 AM | Check-In

9:00 AM | Welcome & Introduction

9:15 AM | Session 1: Building scalable healthcare content products with Drupal. By Andy Waldrop

9:00 - 9:15 am | Introduction, Welcome, and overview. By KathC

9:15 -10:00 am | Panel discussion about Drupal events, led by the Event Organizer Working Group. By Avi Schwab (@froboy), John Picozzi (@johnpicozzi), Nneka Hector (@nneka), & Mike Richardson (@richo)

Higher Education Summit Schedule

9:00 - 9:10 | Opening Remarks

9:15 - 9:40 | Sponsor Talk, presented by Axelerant. By Sujatha Varadharajan and Donald Mcleod.

In this session we will discuss how we continue to enable the Vision 2028 for University of East London in building an impactful, diverse, future-focused, careers-led university through our long standing partnership.

Transitioning to a new platform can be very exciting and overwhelming for editors, especially those who may not have a technical background or expertise.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, higher education institutions face the dual challenge of managing complex website infrastructure while ensuring security and governance.

Drupal has proven to be a powerful CMS for building ambitious website experiences. But what about using it for building SaaS applications specific to healthcare?

Learn how one of the largest utility companies in the world completely changed how people use a utility website powered by Drupal.

I'm thrilled to share my experience with you about how Drupal played a crucial role in transforming Georgia Tech's traditional, in-person advising platform for international students into a virtual platform during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Any design project will have its constraints - and for good reason! But what happens when you’re designing with and for higher education institutions, each with its own unique blend of people, opinions and let’s face it - bureaucracy?

Harvard College updated their print materials for student recruitment and wanted a way to bring that new look to the website efficiently and economically.

Trivia Night is happening, steps from the convention center at the Spirit of 77
500 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232