DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 Session Schedule

If you’re a Drupal developer interested in AI, this day is all about getting you up to speed. Discover AI tools for coding, AI in frameworks (PHP, Symfony, Drupal), and Drupal-specific innovations such as Canvas, Drupal CMS, and much more.

The Enterprise Drupal AI Summit is an executive-focused event bringing together CXOs, Heads of Digital, and enterprise leaders with curated Drupal AI partners in a world-class conference setting.

Government and public sector organisations face shared digital challenges, from public facing websites to intranets, case management, complaints, and reporting systems. Initiatives like LocalGov Drupal demonstrate the value of collaboration, but Drupal can do more across the sector.

Higher Education institutions face unique content management challenges. From complex organisational structures to diverse audiences and system integrations. The Higher Education Summit at DrupalCon brings this community together in a focused, one-day format ahead of the main conference, creating space for meaningful connections, knowledge sharing, and sector-specific discussions.

The Open Social Summit, held annually in Amsterdam since 2023, brings together leading organisations using Open Social and Drupal to power their digital communities, including institutions such as the European Commission, United Nations, World Bank, and IATA.

Reading Room's research with 150 senior UK digital transformation and marketing leaders found that 65% now consider AI core to how their organisation operates, yet 1 in 5 say most of their AI initiatives never make it past pilot stage, and 22% report AI's real-world impact has fallen short of exp

Open Intranet is an open source intranet system based on Drupal. It helps organizations build an internal digital workplace with company news, knowledge base, document management, employee directory, forms, access control, SSO, and AI-assisted content creation.

As a gold sponsor of the Drupal AI initiative, Pantheon is focused on realizing the full potential of Drupal’s MCP server interface, and the best that Google Cloud’s AI tools have to offer for the system.

Learn how to make your web content more accessible by studying the worst practices from WebAIM's Million survey!

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Attendees should have a good grasp of

- why accessibility matters
- the purpose of the WCAG
- HTML and some CSS

Target Audience

AI moves fast. People don't. You're supposed to be the guide, but you're also navigating the change. Now what?

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The session is most useful for people in leadership roles and for business owners with teams.

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The future of Drupal UX isn’t more JS; It’s smarter HTML with HTMX.

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If you work with Drupal issue queues, you may have noticed a recent change.

We've been using GitLab for merge requests since 2021, but now issue queues are migrating to GitLab.

Drupal has three types of extensions: modules, themes and profiles. Each serves their own purpose. Drupal extensions implement hooks, event subscribers and add services to the Drupal service container to extend Drupal.

Bring a Drupal contribution idea - or use one of ours - and work through a practical AI-assisted workflow that turns it into a review-ready contribution designed to earn maintainer trust and accelerate the review process.

We can never get enough of SDC, the front-dev friendly API to implement and share UI components for Drupal.

LLMs are now table stakes in Drupal. Modules like AI, ECA, and a growing set of agentic tools make it trivial to wire a model into a site. What's not trivial is making that integration trustworthy enough to put in front of a real editor or site builder.

Event-driven architecture isn't just for big tech. We built it into Drupal and it changed how we think about integrations.

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Your AI features are only as good as the knowledge behind them. Context Control Center is how Drupal CMS keeps that knowledge structured, scoped, and ready for every agent and request.

DrupalJam, DrupalCon Vienna,DrupalCamp Costa Rica, DrupalCamp England, DrupalCon Chicago, Dev Days Athens, ...

Since DrupalCon Vienna 2025 we have witnessed the community embrace the concept and replicate it with passion all around the world.

UX research practices matter more than ever in the age of AI slop. AI content tools produce generic output because nobody has told them what "good" means for your organization, and getting at that is exactly what UX researchers are trained to do.

AI is becoming part of daily business, often through tools and integrations that teams don't fully manage or monitor. As adoption grows, so do the challenges around data security, compliance, provider choice, and controlling costs.

Over 6,000 Sharp dealer users across 1,200+ dealerships in 16 European markets now access pricing, product knowledge, and marketing assets from a single Drupal portal. Here's how we got there — and what we learned.

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Come for the architecture, stay for the honest story. This session takes you inside the Government Drupal Platform, the recipe-driven foundation behind Dutch central government websites. What choices did we make, and would we make them again?

Bad deployments kill agency reputations. This session walks through how modern hosting infrastructure can power smarter dev workflows—staging environments, Git integration, automated deployments—so your team ships faster with fewer disasters and happier clients.

"Your AI can read every line of your code — but it has never watched it run. Until now."

Turn your Drupal issue queue into a smarter, faster workflow with open source coding agents that reduce maintainer workload and improve contribution quality.

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Workspaces is no longer only about staging content. It is becoming part of how Drupal can handle governed change across content, config, and AI-assisted workflows.

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Move your Drupal projects from AI experimentation to enterprise-ready implementation. This workshop provides hands-on experience deploying secure, agentic AI features and automated content workflows using curated, official tools.

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Lightning talks from Drupal CMS leads

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Rough idea of Drupal CMS

Target Audience

Varied depending on the lightning talk

Outline

Lightning talks from Drupal CMS leads

Learning Objectives

Digital sovereignty is no longer a policy goal—it’s a technical challenge. Many government and EU platforms remain deeply dependent on external vendors and closed systems. This session reveals how to transition from dependency to control through a practical, actionable Drupal roadmap.

For Wageningen University & Research, a future-proof digital platform was built that truly serves its diverse audiences. The combination of a headless architecture and smart AI capabilities delivers a flexible, scalable and user-friendly solution.

A real-world case study of Drupal used not as a traditional CMS, but as a headless governance and integration layer inside an open digital health platform.

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OpenKB (openkb.app) is a knowledge base built on Drupal: a collaborative block editor on a decoupled Nuxt front end, per-block authorship and review, an AI chat grounded in the site's own content through Drupal AI, and the same content and tools exposed over MCP so agents can work alongside peopl

What if Drupal marketed itself as powerfully as it’s built? Join us to help shape the future of Drupal’s global story.

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Let's play Pinball!

Get to know the open source pinball community. And because this is Drupal Con, see what part is Drupal playing in that game.

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You should have heard of Drupal. If you don't know what pinball machine is, you will know it after the session ;-)

Looking to create a site template to be shared (or sold) in the Drupal Site Template Marketplace? We'll cover all the steps to create a site template, tools to expedite the process, and the requirements to get your template listed.

Prerequisite

Basic Drupal site building skills

Your delivery metrics have never looked better. Your AI tools are closing tickets, boosting velocity, and painting every dashboard green. So why did the client just escalate? Goodhart's Law has an uncomfortable answer and this session will make you rethink every metric you report.

AI can write your code. But can it make you a better developer? Junior developers today ship faster than ever, but many struggle with the skills that matter most: debugging, collaborating, thinking through hard problems, and growing into the kind of people who carry open-source projects forward.

We are increasingly asking AI to fix our WCAG errors, but algorithms operate on probability, not empathy. If you are using AI coding assistants to write your front-end components, you might be shipping hallucinated ARIA labels and broken accessibility without knowing it.

Every feature in Drupal CMS has earned its place. Future versions are evolving through research, evidence, and a relentless focus on what people actually need. This session tells the story of how that works in practice, and how the community is part of it.

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This session focuses on how AI can support site builders and product teams in making faster, more confident decisions, improving collaboration, and enabling iterative migrations with safer rollbacks.

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Attendees will get the most out of this session if they have:

Performance regressions are silent killers — they sneak in one commit at a time, and by the time someone notices, the debt is enormous.

In an AI-driven development world, speed is easy to gain but control is easy to lose. This session shows how to stay in charge of your code and your craft.

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Join us as we honor the remarkable women who have made a significant impact in Drupal through leadership, innovation, and community engagement. This prestigious recognition highlights their dedication and achievements.

Charles Revkin is Senior Digital Strategy Manager at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), working at the intersection of communications, marketing and technology to strengthen the organisation's global digital platforms and campaigns.

You don't run one website. You run dozens, across different platforms, teams, and standards, and keeping every one secure, accessible, and compliant feels like a race you can never quite win.

Imposter syndrome. Stereotypes. Culture. For many reasons, lots of us feel uncomfortable sharing our achievements. Now it's time to shine!

Learn how Drupal Canvas gives even more power to Drupal Site Builders!

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AI coding agents are changing how we build software, but can they migrate a real production site to Drupal Canvas? We put it to the test on a live project and share what worked, what didn't, and what the numbers actually say.

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Stop reacting to accessibility errors and start automating inclusive governance. Learn how to use AI to find accessibility errors earlier and fix them faster. We’ll bridge the gaps between AI, code, and humans with clear guidance for everyone.

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Drupal Rector has been fixing the contrib ecosystem for years. Every deprecation patch the Project Update Bot drops in an issue queue comes out of it. What fewer people know is that the same tool runs on your own code. Custom modules, themes, client sites.

Start debugging your culture alongside your code. Learn the hidden communication frameworks supporting high-performance teamwork.

Nobody asked for a CMS. Organisations needed to share knowledge; users needed answers they could trust. AI is making that original purpose impossible to ignore and it may be exactly where Drupal becomes more valuable, not less.

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Rebuilding a live LMS is risky. Rebuilding it while it powers mission-critical training for organizations like the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO is even harder.

Confidence in shipping a Drupal-based product shouldn't take 6 days of GitHub runner time, only to be greeted by flaky tests in some of our 500+ jobs.

Consent is only the first step. This session explores how Drupal, Cookiebot and Server-Side Tracking can work together to give organizations greater control over how data is collected, processed and shared.

When AI writes the code, clean code becomes the developer’s most important job.

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Basic Drupal development knowledge
Experience reading and reviewing code
Some exposure to AI coding tools is helpful but not required

Target Audience

Why pay rent for a "black-box" solution when you can own the foundation? Discover how to transform Drupal from a CMS into a sovereign Low-Code powerhouse that rivals proprietary enterprise systems while maintaining 100% data ownership.

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Drupal CMS 2 included some major leaps forward, with Drupal Canvas and a site template library, but there's still plenty we need to do to deliver on the strategy.

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Having an existing basic understanding of Drupal CMS is helpful but not mandatory.

Your Drupal test suite is slow and it doesn't have to be. The test pyramid has been a cornerstone of software quality for decades, yet Drupal core has no formal guidelines instructing contributors how to write automated tests.

This session details the future roadmap for ECA, aiming to broaden its accessibility and impact within the Drupal community by making it usable for all users, regardless of technical expertise, and expanding its capabilities beyond just developers and site builders.

How do you unify 35 distinct national voices into one cohesive European travel brand? Discover how Brainsum combined content strategy, Drupal's robust architecture, and generative AI to transform VisitEurope.com from a legacy site into a lightning-fast, unified editorial platform.

Drupal's structured architecture and community ecosystem makes it the perfect CMS for AI Agents to use both inside Drupal and outside Drupal.

Something changed this year in how organizations arrive at Drupal. The first "user" of a platform is increasingly not a person reading a comparison spreadsheet - it's an AI agent that's been handed a goal, picks the path of least friction, builds, verifies, and hands the result back to humans.

It finally happened! A CLI in Drupal core.

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None

Target Audience

Most interesting to developers and sysadmins

Outline

Your best engineers aren't always your best client partners—and your producers aren't always equipped to bridge that gap.

Join the Product Managers of the Drupal AI Initiative for the official update on Drupal's transformation into a production-ready Agentic CMS.

Discover how to generate a fully governed, high-quality first draft of a campaign page directly from a PDF brief in minutes, without ever opening a development ticket.

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No coding required

Familiarity with campaign landing pages and editorial review processes

We celebrate thriving communities, but rarely talk about what it takes to keep them alive.

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No prior experience required. Relevant for anyone involved in community building or open-source contribution.

Target Audience

More and more people are using AI systems, esp. LLMs, to learn about technologies, compare options, and decide what to use. So how Drupal shows up in those answers matters.

Canvas or Display Builder? Which one is the right tool for your job? And what may explode i if you install both?

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As AI adoption accelerates and SaaS platforms dominate the digital landscape, organisations—especially in the public sector—are increasingly faced with a critical question: who really owns and controls their digital future?

What if every decision in your Drupal project—from design to deployment—could measurably reduce its environmental impact?

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How do you help someone choose a career when you offer 350 options? This talk shows how we turned overwhelming NHS career data into a guided, personalised journey ,using Drupal to model complexity and design for uncertainty.

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Lighthouse gives you 100. The European Accessibility Act expects more.

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Nothing, I'll explain everything from scratch.

Target Audience

QAs engineers, team leads, architects, business owners, compliance officers.

Outline

What happens when your migration source has 163 paragraph types — some containing entire pages of mixed HTML in a single field — and your destination architecture has 42 typed paragraph bundles? It's a fascinating transformation problem that invites you to rethink how migrations can work.

It's important to tell that (sometimes) AI fails for us too - and what we do about it.

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No prerequisities

Target Audience

Developers who want to learn AI tools but are scared by the quick paces of changes

Outline

Modern JavaScript with agentic engineering meets Drupal via Drupal Canvas Code Components. Learn what’s possible today, and what comes next.

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What if you could replace Solr with something that runs in the browser, costs almost nothing, and delivers better results out of the box? Scolta is an open-source search toolkit that does exactly that: client-side search powered by Pagefind, with an AI layer for query expansion and summaries.

You already know how to build an SDC. Now what if your agent knew how to build one too — then dropped it into a page, verified it rendered correctly in the browser, and asked you to review the diff?

Drupal CMS launched to much fanfare... to existing Drupal developers and customers. Now, Drupal comes with AI agents, visual page builders, one-click Recipes. It's genuinely impressive tech. So why don't students or developers outside the Drupal community care?

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Content editors at the European Commission manage hundreds of websites in 24 languages. Every publication needs to be accurate, readable, and compliant with policy, and it needs to stay that way as policies change. Doing that manually across thousands of pages does not scale.

Building a complete Drupal site demands expertise across content types, taxonomy, menus, block configuration, and styling. What if a non-technical user could describe what they need in plain language and get back fully structured, styled pages, then refine everything through conversation?

Drupal Canvas introduces a major shift in how Drupal sites are assembled, giving editors unprecedented flexibility and control. But building components that truly work well in this new paradigm requires a different way of thinking.

What if the best AI chatbot is not a chatbot at all, but a constrained search engine?

Prerequisite

Basic understanding of:
Drupal content architecture
Search concepts (Solr, Elasticsearch, or similar)
General awareness of LLMs

Target Audience

AI-powered search is taking over... or is it? Is SEO really dead? Do we need a whole new playbook?

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Drupal CMS's accessibility recipe "just works"...most of the time. When you want it to work better, you find that there are more than 130 fields spread across three settings tabs! Learn how we got here from the project lead, and get practical tips on configuration and customization.

What does it take to make Drupal work for everyone? Mars, one of the world's most iconic consumer brands, found their answer by reinventing the editorial experience from the ground up. With over 350 websites already running on Drupal, they didn't need a new platform — they needed a smarter one.

“If your traffic is down but your work is solid—this isn’t a failure.

Drupal 11.4 reduced database queries and cache i/o around 50% compared to Drupal 11.0 as well as various front end performance improvements. This session will explain how we got there and give you tips for applying these techniques to your own site.

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What image styles did for images, Drupal still has not really done for video.

This session shows how a modern Drupal 11 video architecture can close that gap with AV1, responsive sources, provider plugins, and production-ready engineering patterns.

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Some Hooks became plugins or event subscribers in Drupal 8.

But now it is again to time to refactor! The vast majority of procedural hooks need to be transformed to object oriented hooks.

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A basic understanding of what a hook in Drupal is.

This session will explore the ongoing work of the Drupal Association to fortify Drupal sites against evolving threats.

Are you a student eager to explore the world of web development and open-source technology? Want to look beyond the usual suspects like WordPress and cloud-based CMS platforms?