DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 Session Schedule

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.