DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 Session Schedule

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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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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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.

Planning and volunteer get together for DrupalCamp England 2027

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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As a board game enthusiastic, I'm often asked: Don't you want to create your own board game? And similarilly, shouldn't we have a Drupal board game?

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.

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

Join the Lunch Symposium by the Drupal Community of Practice (CoP) at the European Commission and discover more about Drupal in the public sector.

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Something changed this year in how people use and build Drupal. AI agents can help build a site, extend one you already have, or get content ready to publish. Developers can reach Drupal through coding agents.

It finally happened! A CLI in Drupal core.

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None

Target Audience

Most interesting to developers and sysadmins

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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.

Public board meeting of DUG BE vzw, to discuss various topics:

- Drupalcamp Belgium 2027
- Call for new board members
- Drupal federation update
- Gather cmmunity input
- ...

If you want to help or give feedback about local BE Drupal initiatives, drop by!

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.

Open Digital Cooperative is nurturing support for LocalGov Drupal in the UK. Find out how it is working and how you might replicate the model for other Drupal or open source projects.

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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?

The Web Sustainability Guidelines are designed to help people shape a more sustainable web (https://www.w3.org/TR/web-sustainability-guidelines/)

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.

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What happens when AI becomes part of your development team? We’ll give a quick demo of Pluto, our AI development platform, where both engineers and clients can work directly with AI agents to build and improve digital products.

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.

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?

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

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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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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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NEDA meeting to discuss current status and next steps:

- OpenCollective status
- la_eu project status
- federation initiative
- ...

Every Drupal site faces a hidden architectural problem that forces bad editorial decisions and undermines accessibility efforts.

This session exposes fundamental architectural gaps.
But the good news is: there is a solution.

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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.

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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A session exploring case studies about how Drupal is used across the healthcare, education, emergency services, local council and central government sectors to deliver safe, secure and reliable public services in the U.K.

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?

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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.

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

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.