DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 Session Schedule

***Sessions and speakers are subject to change. Additional sessions will be added as they become available.

Tuesday, 29 Sep - Tuesday, 29 Sep

14:25 to 15:10 CEST

Location
Mees Room II
When
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 14:25 to 15:10

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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Godspower Omenihu (Godsomex)

14:25 to 15:10 CEST
Location
Penn Room I&II
When
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 14:25 to 15:10

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.

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Rikkert Steenbergen, Esmeralda Tijhoff (Esmoves)

16:40 to 17:25 CEST
Location
Penn Room I&II
When
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 16:40 to 17:25

Let's play Pinball!

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Markus Kalkbrenner (Mkalkbrenner)

Wednesday, 30 Sep - Wednesday, 30 Sep

10:45 to 11:30 CEST

Location
Penn Room I&II
When
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - 10:45 to 11:30

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)

11:40 to 12:25 CEST
Location
Mees Room I
When
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - 11:40 to 12:25

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.

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Krisztián Kása, Zsófia Alföldi

14:05 to 14:25 CEST
Location
Van Oldenbarnevelt Room
When
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - 14:05 to 14:25

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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Aastha Shrivastava (Shriaas)

16:00 to 16:45 CEST
Location
Van Oldenbarnevelt Room
When
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - 16:00 to 16:45

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.

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Boyan Borisov (Boyan.borisov), Anthony Bojocan

17:00 to 17:45 CEST
Location
Mees Room II
When
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - 17:00 to 17:45

Each year, World Cancer Day becomes a global surge of participation, with communities activating worldwide, hundreds of personal stories shared in over 60 languages, and traffic peaking at more than 500,000 requests per hour. Learn how UICC uses Drupal as the long‑term backbone of the campaign, keeping the platform resilient and inclusive at its busiest moment — with AI helping remove friction in moderation and publishing, not replace the people behind the stories.

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Charles Andrew Revkin