Schedule

***Sessions and speakers are subject to change.

Track
Tuesday, 17 Oct

15:00 to 15:45 CEST

Location: Room D12 Dropsolid When: Tuesday, 17 October, 2023 - 15:00 to 15:45
​​Join this roundtable to discuss how multisite at (BIG) scale is being managed by different agencies and enterprise companies.
Presenter(s): Baddý Sonja Breidert, Nick Downton, Beatriz Martinez, Julian Valero
Track: agency & business

16:15 to 17:00 CEST

Location: Auditorium B1-B2-B3 When: Tuesday, 17 October, 2023 - 16:15 to 17:00
SystemSeed successfully operates Mondays - Thursdays only, and has been doing so for over a year. At the start of 2021 SystemSeed (a small, specialist, fully-distributed agency) saw that some of our most talented engineers were in danger of burning out - a common industry problem.
Presenter(s): Evgeniy Maslovskiy
Track: agency & business

17:15 to 17:35 CEST

Location: Room D4 Pantheon When: Tuesday, 17 October, 2023 - 17:15 to 17:35
Building strong relationships with clients is an essential objective for all digital agencies and anyone who has ever worked in a client facing role will know that this can be easier said, than done.
Presenter(s): Will Huggins
Track: agency & business

17:40 to 18:00 CEST

Location: Room D4 Pantheon When: Tuesday, 17 October, 2023 - 17:40 to 18:00
With more sites being built in Drupal 9 than ever this session covers some of the steps taken by an agency to get a new site live, ensuring the process is smooth for all parties as well as making things seamless to end users.
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Track: agency & business
Wednesday, 18 Oct

10:30 to 11:15 CEST

Location: Room C1 Acquia When: Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:15
In the Drupal Community every business tries to be a good open source citizen. Some contribute and support the community more than others, but all business together have the greater good of the community in mind as without it we would all not exist.
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Track: agency & business

11:30 to 12:15 CEST

Location: Room D7 FFW When: Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 - 11:30 to 12:15
This presentation will cover tips and best practices to use during the RFP process to ensure you find the best possible Drupal development partners for your business needs. It will cover the key areas to help optimize your RFP and vet potential vendors.
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Track: agency & business

15:00 to 15:20 CEST

Location: Room D4 Pantheon When: Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 - 15:00 to 15:20
While many dream of working from home, shifting to a fully-remote team has been harder on some groups of the global population than it has been for others. Some jobs are returning to the office, but others are staying out of the office altogether. This can have a profound impact on the lives of underrepresented people in the workplace.
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Track: agency & business

15:25 to 15:45 CEST

Location: Room D4 Pantheon When: Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 - 15:25 to 15:45
The corona pandemic made us contact our customers and/or prospects more digitally (e.g. Sending an email, schedule a videocall, send a LinkedIn message instead of actually going to the customers offices...).
Presenter(s): Sara Fiems
Track: agency & business

16:15 to 17:00 CEST

Location: Room D4 Pantheon When: Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 - 16:15 to 17:00
In this session, we will talk about how to encourage people to start working with Drupal and how CI&T structures a Drupal training. It's difficult to find Drupal developers in the market and there is a high demand for Drupal developers. To solve this problem, we created our own Drupal 9 pathway to training developers in Drupal.
Presenter(s): Luis Ribeiro
Track: agency & business

17:15 to 17:35 CEST

Location: Room D7 FFW When: Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 - 17:15 to 17:35
There is an ever-growing concern around, and focus on, accessibility. The concept of web accessibility has become more prominent following the EU Web Directive and its subsequent first round of reporting, which brought into sharp focus the failings of the industry.
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Track: agency & business
Thursday, 19 Oct

09:15 to 10:00 CEST

Location: Room D4 Pantheon When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 09:15 to 10:00
Let’s face the truth: an MVP approach is always challenging. For everyone involved. And yet, sometimes it’s inevitable to start with just enough features to be usable by the customers. But what customers exactly are we talking about? And how do we prioritise their needs over the needs of the others?
Presenter(s): Paulina Ryters, Thomas Haustein
Track: agency & business

10:30 to 11:15 CEST

Location: Room D4 Pantheon When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:15
An actionable, straightforward model for selling better by building trust with your prospects before they ever meet you.
Presenter(s): Jeffrey McGuire
Track: agency & business
Location: Room D12 Dropsolid When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:15
From the IT Crowd to The Social Network, media representations of tech show mostly young, middle class, men. Yet poor diversity means poor digital outcomes. In the real world, successful digital transformation requires a diversity of people and skills. But what does this mean in practice?
Presenter(s): Danny Bluestone
Track: agency & business

11:30 to 12:15 CEST

Location: Room D9 Factorial When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 11:30 to 12:15
Engage with the Drupal Assocation team and learn more about our most recent piloted program; the Drupal Certified Partner Program. This is an elevated level of involvement and support of the Drupal Association and the Drupal Project spun from our current Supporting Partner program.
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Track: agency & business

11:30 to 11:50 CEST

Location: Room D12 Dropsolid When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 11:30 to 11:50
If there is an urban legend that has grown in our agency over the last 10 years building ever more ambitious Drupal sites, it is to warn new project managers to fear the last 20%... However this does not prevent them from falling again into the trap. While the project was well under control, they see it exceed the initial budget or timing. What makes it happen so often?
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Track: agency & business

11:55 to 12:15 CEST

Location: Room D12 Dropsolid When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 11:55 to 12:15
"Teamwork" is the buzzword in the corporate world, but it still has tangible effects on your bottom line. Building and managing a team — especially in a remote environment — can often feel easier said than done.
Presenter(s): Akshita Rawat, Abhijeet K. Sinha
Track: agency & business

15:00 to 15:45 CEST

Location: Room D7 FFW When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 15:00 to 15:45
We’re so focused on our customers that sometimes we forget about the importance of giving a great digital experience to our employees. Are we enabling them to do their best work with the tools and workflows we have at our command by effectively automating processes and workflows within the business?
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Track: agency & business

16:15 to 17:00 CEST

Location: Room D7 FFW When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 16:15 to 17:00
Growth challenges all agencies, and it can be a daunting task for smaller agencies to take the step to the next level. As agencies are trying to deliver to existing clients, new work is coming in. How is this new work scheduled, and how do you keep your team from burn out.
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Track: agency & business
Location: Room C1 Acquia When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 16:15 to 17:00
The annual Drupal Business Survey gathers valuable insights from Drupal business leaders all over the world to identify opportunities and challenges for the Drupal market.
Presenter(s): Janne Kalliola
Track: agency & business

17:40 to 18:00 CEST

Location: Room D6 amazee.io When: Thursday, 19 October, 2023 - 17:40 to 18:00
Half of all businesses fail within 5 years, but why is this? Many businesses fail because they compete rather than collaborate.
Presenter(s):
Track: agency & business