***Sessions and speakers are subject to change. Additional sessions will be added as they become available.
08:00 to 18:00 CEST
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.
Charles Andrew Revkin (Revkin), Anthony Bojocan
Shibin Devadas Kakanat (D34dman)
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.
Mohammed Razem (Mohammed J. Razem)
Imposter syndrome. Stereotypes. Culture. For many reasons, lots of us feel uncomfortable sharing our achievements. Now it's time to shine!
Timi Csontos
Learn how Drupal Canvas gives even more power to Drupal Site Builders!
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Ted Bowman (Tedbow)
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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Wolfgang Ziegler (fago), Jeremy Chinquist (jjchinquist)
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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Mike Gifford (Mgifford)
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.
Björn Brala (bbrala)
Start debugging your culture alongside your code. Learn the hidden communication frameworks supporting high-performance teamwork.
James Shields (Lostcarpark)
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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Tomi Mikola (TomiMikola), Ulla Koho (Ullakoho)
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.
Marcin Grabias (Graber)
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.
Alexander Varwijk (Kingdutch)
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.
Riccardo Paradisi (rickydox)
When AI writes the code, clean code becomes the developer’s most important job.
Prerequisite
Basic Drupal development knowledge
Experience reading and reviewing code
Some exposure to AI coding tools is helpful but not required
Target Audience
Len Swaneveld (Lendude)
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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Anne (ckaotik), Giles Mccormick Smith (Seumel Matthias)
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.
Francesco Placella (Plach)
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.
Jürgen Haas (Jurgenhaas)
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.
Krisztián Kása (Kkasa), Zsófia Alföldi (zsofia.alfoldi)
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?
Matt Glaman (mglaman)
Drupal's structured architecture and community ecosystem makes it the perfect CMS for AI Agents to use both inside Drupal and outside Drupal.
James Abrahams (yautja_cetanu)
Join the Lunch Symposium by the Drupal Community of Practice (CoP) at the European Commission and discover more about Drupal in the public sector.
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.
Scott Falconer (Scott-falconer)
It finally happened! A CLI in Drupal core.
Prerequisite
None
Target Audience
Most interesting to developers and sysadmins
Outline
Moshe Weitzman (Moshe Weitzman)
Your best engineers aren't always your best client partners—and your producers aren't always equipped to bridge that gap.
Katie Conaway (Katie.conaway), Elliott Mower (Elliott.mower)
Join the Product Managers of the Drupal AI Initiative for the official update on Drupal's transformation into a production-ready Agentic CMS.
Niels Aers, Dr. Christoph Breidert (Breidert)
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.
Prerequisite
No coding required
Familiarity with campaign landing pages and editorial review processes
Kieran Cott
We celebrate thriving communities, but rarely talk about what it takes to keep them alive.
Prerequisite
No prior experience required. Relevant for anyone involved in community building or open-source contribution.
Target Audience
Nikita Aswani (nikitaaswani)
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.
Larissa Tropp (Luzie)
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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Merlin A. Rutz (geek-merlin), Andreas Rüther (Anruether)
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?
John Lockhart (jwlockhart)
What if every decision in your Drupal project—from design to deployment—could measurably reduce its environmental impact?
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Cláudia Desidério (Claudiadesiderio)
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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Vijay Mani (vijaycs85)
Lighthouse gives you 100. The European Accessibility Act expects more.
Prerequisite
Nothing, I'll explain everything from scratch.
Target Audience
QAs engineers, team leads, architects, business owners, compliance officers.
Outline
Daniel Angelov (danielangelov)
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.
Roberto Peruzzo (robertoperuzzo)
What tools and techniques have you have tried to protect your beautiful theme from its editors (or, more charitably, to teach them better ways)? What is working well and what is not? What tools do not seem to exist yet, or need an open source equivalent?
John Jameson (Itmaybejj)
It's important to tell that (sometimes) AI fails for us too - and what we do about it.
Prerequisite
No prerequisities
Target Audience
Developers who want to learn AI tools but are scared by the quick paces of changes
Outline
Dieter Blomme, Valery Lourie (Valthebald)
Modern JavaScript with agentic engineering meets Drupal via Drupal Canvas Code Components. Learn what’s possible today, and what comes next.
Prerequisite
Bálint Kléri (balintbrews)
Rachel Lawson (Rachel_norfolk)
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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Nathaniel Catchpole (catch)
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.
Kelly Booz, Jeremy Andrews (Jeremy)
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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J.D. Flynn (Dorficus)
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?
Francesco Pesenti (www.drupal.org/u/peximo), Francesco Quagliati (www.drupal.org/u/francescoq)
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.
Mike Herchel (Mherchel)
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
Antonella Picarella (Squinternata)
AI-powered search is taking over... or is it? Is SEO really dead? Do we need a whole new playbook?
Prerequisite
Wouter De Bruycker (Wouterdebr)
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.
John Jameson (Itmaybejj)
Jess (xjm) (xjm)
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.
Boyan Borisov (boyan.borisov), Anthony Bojocan
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.
Prerequisite
Having an existing basic understanding of Drupal CMS is helpful but not mandatory.
“If your traffic is down but your work is solid—this isn’t a failure.
reena tripathi (Reena Tripathi), Anubhav Gupta (anubhavgupta)
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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David Pacassi Torrico (dpacassi)
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.
Prerequisite
A basic understanding of what a hook in Drupal is.
Fabian Bircher (Bircher)
This session will explore the ongoing work of the Drupal Association to fortify Drupal sites against evolving threats.
