***Sessions and speakers are subject to change. Additional sessions will be added as they become available.
14:25 to 15:10 CEST
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.
Prerequisite
Godspower Omenihu (Godsomex), Diego Fernando Costa
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?
Rikkert Steenbergen, Esmeralda Tijhoff (Esmoves)
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.
Prerequisite
You should have heard of Drupal. If you don't know what pinball machine is, you will know it after the session ;-)
Markus Kalkbrenner (Mkalkbrenner)
10:45 to 11:30 CEST
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.
Prerequisite
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)
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)
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.
Prerequisite
Vijay Mani (vijaycs85)
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
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.
Charles Andrew Revkin (Revkin), Diego Fernando Costa
