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.

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

Drupal CMS 2.0 is a milestone — batteries included, editor-friendly, and built around Canvas. For the first time, Drupal ships with a visual editing experience that competes with proprietary platforms. But even with Canvas, editors face the same daily friction.

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

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

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. So, let’s rejoice together by discovering the biggest improvement since the introduction of the API: we will soon be able to implement form elements directly with SDC, only with UI logic and front technologies, without messing with backend APIs.

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. Whether you are powering help desks, personalized experiences, automated emails, or site search, the same governed library feeds them all.

AI agents are becoming the new users of the web, and most CMSes are invisible to them. What if Drupal could speak the language of AI agents natively? This session shows you how to expose Drupal as an MCP server, turning your content infrastructure into something AI agents can reason about, query, and act on, in production.

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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.

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.

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? Where does technical architecture meet the people who have to live with it? This is where developers and product owners sit in the same room and actually learn from each other.

"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.

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.

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.

Lightning talks from Drupal CMS leads

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.

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.

Let's play Pinball!

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.

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. This session shares real lessons from mentoring dozens of junior developers, and asks a question every team and every community needs to face.

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. Join me to explore the promises and perils of automated accessibility, and learn how to use AI as a testing partner rather than a replacement for inclusive design.

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.

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.

Performance regressions are silent killers — they sneak in one commit at a time, and by the time someone notices, the debt is enormous. Gander, shipped with Drupal core since 10.2, gives us the tools to catch them at the earliest possible stage: the merge request.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Start debugging your culture alongside your code. Learn the hidden communication frameworks supporting high-performance teamwork. This session looks into the hidden skills that help prevent burnout, support psychological safety, and provide you the building blocks towards a culture where every developer can learn, contribute and thrive.

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.

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. This is the story of how we migrated from Behat and PHPUnit to custom tooling on top of Playwright to reclaim velocity and confidence in our testing suite.

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

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.

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.

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 will cover both the current state – discussing techniques to write faster tests – and how to change Drupal to make these improvements structural.

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. The session outlines the progress made and the plans for the next generation of this popular Drupal workflow automation tool.

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.

It finally happened! A CLI in Drupal core.

You didn't hire the wrong people. You hired exactly the right ones — for a version of this industry that is rapidly disappearing.

Your best engineers aren't always your best client partners—and your producers aren't always equipped to bridge that gap. Learn how we turned "ticket closed" into "outcome owned" with a structured program that transformed both our technical and production teams into indispensable client partners.

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 the latest suite of AI Recipes, robust guardrails, and automated content reviews allow you to safely deploy advanced AI workflows in minutes.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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. No search server, no vector database, no complex infrastructure. Already deployed on production Drupal sites. Live demo included.

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? This session walks through a page-building workflow driven by an AI agent that speaks your component system.

The age of React.js is over. Web Components have arrived. Learn practical tips to building or reusing design systems with Web Component APIs and SDC.

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. During the EC's Drupal AI Hackathon, our team built an AI content validation engine that helps editors run structured checks, review AI suggestions in an isolated environment, and approve changes on their terms. No auto-changes, no data leaving the stack. This session walks through the problem, a demo, and the architectural decisions behind a solution where AI assists and humans stay in control.

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? This session presents a Drupal 11 architecture that turns page building into a conversational AI experience, empowering non-technical users to create and iterate on complete sites without writing code or navigating complex admin interfaces.

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?

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

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. Discover how Drupal Canvas became the key to unlocking Drupal's power for marketers, creative agencies and brand teams.

“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.

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

What if your Drupal site could talk to your project management, ticketing, CRM, email, calendar, voice assistant, and smart home — through one AI-orchestrated workflow? We built exactly that. This session shows how a small agency wired Drupal into a full-scale agentic operations platform using MCP, CLI tools, and a Rust core engine — and runs it in production every day.

This session will explore the ongoing work of the Drupal Association to fortify Drupal sites against evolving threats. Beginning with an overview of software supply chain vulnerabilities, we delve into the transformative Auto-Updates Initiative, empowering smaller site operators with tools for seamless updates. We'll survey The Update Framework (TUF) and its protocols to ensure package integrity. We'll then showcase the robust Rugged TUF Server and Composer TUF plugin, that together help to safeguard the Drupal community. Come see how we're shaping the future of Drupal security.

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.