***Sessions and speakers are subject to change. Additional sessions will be added as they become available.
08:00 to 17:00 PDT
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.
Alex Salkever
Dropsolid
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Owenlansbury, Tim Doyle, farriss
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 today's hyper-connected digital landscape, understanding customer behavior and preferences across various touchpoints is paramount for businesses aiming to stay competitive.
The Events, Conditions, and Actions (ECA) module revolutionizes what is possible to do in Drupal without editing code.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
"[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
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.
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.
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.
In this case study, we'll showcase Edit Together, the new collaborative editor for Drupal 10.
gdemet, Alex Jones, tnascimento
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.
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.
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.
Bjorn Thomson, Ashley Stagg
Our condensed five-week journey is an epic tale of innovation and collaboration, where Drupal becomes the canvas for a groundbreaking AI experience.
April Tiddei, amazingrando, franzhartl
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**
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: