First Time Attendees
Being a newcomer can be overwhelming. DrupalCon strives to make those new to Drupal and/or DrupalCon feel welcome, and to acquaint them with the experience! From networking events to beginner trainings and sessions to community activities, there are many ways to feel at home at DrupalCon.
Meet People at DrupalCon
Whether you want to meet your professional peers to talk about your work project, or you want to connect with the Drupal community and get involved with the project, we offer many ways to meet people at DrupalCon:
- Summits - one-day events with your professional peers or community members
- Birds of a Feather - connect with others who want to discuss topics that interest you
- Drupal community - meet the friendly and passionate Drupal community attending alongside you in Seattle
Have a Great Time
Social events are designed to help you connect and have fun. Details.
- First Time Attendee Networking Breakfast
- Women in Drupal - a social lunch event, this year with a movie screening
- Trivia Night - newcomer teams get extra points!
New to Drupal
Whether you're just starting to code or build content with Drupal, DrupalCon offers beginner trainings and sessions to propel you on the path to mastery.
Trainings
- Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Drupal (Offered Monday and Tuesday)
- See all trainings
Beginner Sessions Include:
- Devsigners and Unicorns
- No longer lost in translation: how to convert business requirements into Drupal-speak
- What Should I Use? 2019 Developer Tool Survey Results
- Make Your Website Faster By Saving Images Correctly
- Building and Launching a website in the Asian Market
- Chanakaya’s Arthashatra applied to Principle 6: Choose to lead
- What Dungeons & Dragons Can Teach Us About Storytelling & Collaboration
- The Imaginary Band of Drupal Rock Stars
- Javascript and Civil Rights
- The measurable impact of visual design
- How to Champion Diversity and Inclusion in Tech
- Where is my next project coming from? Sales pipeline management for freelancers and small agencies
- Communities & the First Law of Drupaldynamics
- Marketing to Developers
- Lead, follow, or get out of the way: managing global teams harmoniously
- The Great Lift & Shift of Cvent.com: From an in-house CMS to a scalable Drupal 8 enterprise platform
- Behavior-Driven Development with Behat Workshop
- OOP: The Quest for Pokemon
- Drupal Europe 2018 - our learnings from organising a large camp
- How to Hire and Fire Your Employer
- DrUML - Visualising Entity Structures and Processes
- Decoupled Drupal Commerce with React Native
- GraphQL 101: What, Why, How
- From Developer to Manager -- How To Survive
- Stop Blaming Your Boss
- The Remote Work Toolkit: Tricks for Keeping Healthy and Happy
- Radically Candid and Transactional Analysis that leads you to effective leadership
- 30 Minutes to Actionable Strategies that will Improve Customer Experience
- Voice Assistants - change how users with disabilities Get Things Done
- Teaching Big Blue to Dance: A Content Transformation Story
- The Admin UX Study - What do Content Editors Want?
- And more! View the additional sessions in the program on Wednesday, April 10 or Thursday, April 11.