DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 Session Schedule

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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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.

For drupalcon attendees: if you are looking for work, being at Drupalcon may not be as fun as it usually is. The job market is tough time right now. You are, however, in the exact right place these next two days! Good luck with your job search!

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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When Drupal CMS was announced more than two years ago, the focus on user experience for less technical users may have felt like a pivot for a project that has largely prioritised developers in recent years.

As AI reshapes how Drupal work gets done, how should certification evolve to keep proving real expertise?

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?

Ondřej Chrastina is a Developer Advocate (DevRel) with 12 years of both hands-on and leadership experience, helping complex platforms polish and improve their developer experience (DevEx). Ondřej specializes in dev tools, starters, SDKs, sample apps - everything developers need to be successful.

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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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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HTMX has been added to Drupal 11.2 as a light javascript dependency to modernize and unify many legacy Drupal APIs: AJAX, AJAX for Views, Form States, Big Pipe…

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.

Drupal's download infrastructure carries three unsolved problems: sovereignty, governance and cost. Today, drupal.org is a single point of distribution for the entire ecosystem, and a small group of people carries the weight of keeping it running.

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

Drupal 11.4 boots through symfony/runtime.

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.

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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:

This is for contributors working on the Drupal 11 upgrade of localize.drupal.org and those that want to help.

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.