DrupalCon Vienna 2025 Schedule

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

Wednesday, 15 Oct - Wednesday, 15 Oct

08:00 to 08:30 CEST

When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 08:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 08:30
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08:45 to 10:00 CEST
Location
Auditorium (Hall D)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 08:45 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:00

In tech, some of the most innovative minds think differently – and that difference is often misunderstood. People with ADHD, Autism, or High Sensitivity bring unique strengths like deep focus, pattern recognition, creativity, empathy, and sharp intuition.

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09:00 to 18:00 CEST
Location
Contribution Room (Hall K)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 09:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 18:00
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10:00 to 10:30 CEST
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30
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10:30 to 11:15 CEST
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Room 4 (-2.42)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:15

Want a secure and scalable AI tool on your terms? Join our session to learn how local LLMs offer unmatched privacy and flexibility and how to integrate them into your projects seamlessly.

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open web
Speakers

Volodymyr Andrushchak

10:30 to 11:15 CEST
Location
Room 7 (Hall G2)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:15

What if launching a Drupal site didn’t mean starting from scratch—or stitching together a dozen modules, recipes, and a theme manually?

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drupal cms
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Jason Thompson (Galactus86), Pamela Barone

10:30 to 11:15 CEST
Location
Room 1 (-2.32)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:15

With its built-in code editor, Experience Builder lets you create JavaScript components right in your browser.

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drupal cms
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Bálint Kléri (balintbrews), Wolfgang Ziegler (fago)

10:30 to 11:15 CEST
Location
Room BoF 4 (-2.82)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:15
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community health
10:30 to 11:15 CEST
Location
Room BoF 3 (-2.77)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:15
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10:30 to 11:15 CEST
Location
Room 3 (-2.41)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:15

Drupal is powering the wild, the weird, and the wonderful.
From monitoring turbines to managing farms in Australia, running greenhouses in Iceland, and handling ticketing systems

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clients & industry experiences
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Frederik Wouters (Wouters_f), James Abrahams (Yautja_cetanu)

10:30 to 11:15 CEST
Location
Room 6 (Hall G1)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:15

PHPUnit has been around for over two decades and is used by nearly every
PHP developer in the world. While most of us know the basics, there are
depths and hidden valleys of PHPUnit that even the most experienced of us
may have never even heard of.

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coding & site building
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Sebastian Bergmann

10:30 to 11:15 CEST
Location
Room 2 (-2.33)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:15

In a world where AI—and therefore every agency—can draft a solid Drupal proposal in minutes, standing out has never been more urgent. Yet the agencies that win bring hard-earned success stories, tailored demos, and clear trust signals in every pitch. Come learn how.

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agency & business
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Monisha Navlani (monishanavlani), Swarad Mokal (Swarad07)

10:30 to 12:15 CEST
Location
Room 5 (-2.43)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 10:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:15

After doing this workshop you are well prepared to build your own Drupal AI powered applications.

We'll walk you through everything from installing the Drupal AI module to building your first working AI-powered application, step by step.

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coding & site building
Speakers

Christophe Breidert (Breidert), Frederik Wouters (Wouters_f)

11:30 to 12:15 CEST
Location
Room 2 (-2.33)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:15

Have you ever wondered how Drupal efficiently manages the complex dependencies that power its modules? The service container is the backbone of modern Drupal applications, streamlining service management and boosting performance.

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coding & site building
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Luca Lusso (lussoluca)

11:30 to 11:50 CEST
Location
Room 1 (-2.32)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:50

When the world shut down, so did our meetups, camps, and energy. But coming back wasn’t just about restarting, it was about rebuilding something better. This is the real story of the Drupal India community revival.

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community health
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Nikita Aswani (Nikitaaswani)

11:30 to 12:15 CEST
Location
Room 3 (-2.41)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:15

What if your next patch, Drush command, or deployment script were drafted by an AI partner? Discover how to train and integrate an AI co-pilot into your Drupal DevOps pipeline.

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infosec & devops
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Ovanes Budakyan (ovanes)

11:30 to 12:15 CEST
Location
Room 7 (Hall G2)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:15

Experience Builder, Gutenberg, Blökkli - how do the different editors available for Drupal CMS compare? Join this showcase + Q&A session to find out.

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drupal cms
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Josef Kruckenberg (Dasjo)

11:30 to 12:15 CEST
Location
Room 4 (-2.42)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:15

It’s no secret that finding, growing and retaining Drupal talent can be challenging.

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agency & business
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Jess Vetsuypers (Jessvetsuypers), Eline Van Coillie (dropsolid_hr)

11:30 to 12:15 CEST
Location
Room 6 (Hall G1)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:15

How do you start Drupal sites the right way? Site templates! Learn everything you need to know to build awesome templates and share them with the world.

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Adam Globus-Hoenich (phenaproxima)

11:55 to 12:15 CEST
Location
Room 1 (-2.32)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 11:55 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:15

Push your last commit, then push away from the desk. Clear your cache, recharge your brain. Great code starts with a well-rested mind.

Prerequisite
None

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community health
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Norman Kämper-Leymann (normanlol), Svitlana Fedchenko (svitlana)

12:15 to 13:30 CEST
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 13:30
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13:30 to 14:45 CEST
Location
Auditorium (Hall D)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 13:30 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 14:45

- What will the web look like in 10 years?

Will it be open, fair, and sustainable - or fragmented, automated, and opaque?

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Sebastian Bergmann, Ondřej Mirtes, Derick Rethans

15:00 to 15:45 CEST
Location
Room 5 (-2.43)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45

This workshop can be a follow-up to other session(s) about mental health, which reflects on the emotional toll of todays society in the sense of burnouts and depressions. In this session, we’ll bring those ideas into action—through conversation, connection, and co-creation.

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community health
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Panagiotis Moutsopoulos (Vensires), Esmeralda Tijhoff (Esmoves)

15:00 to 15:45 CEST
Location
Room 1 (-2.32)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45

Since 2018 the Local Digital Fund has provided over £16 million of funding and support to 61 council-led projects in the UK, including LocalGov Drupal, Open Referral, Local Gov IMS and Open Digital Planning. What can we learn from this and how can we replicate the successes?

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open web
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Will Callaghan (Willguv), Finn Lewis (finn lewis)

15:00 to 15:45 CEST
Location
Room 7 (Hall G2)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45

AI is transforming the way we build and manage digital experiences, but where does human creativity fit in? In this session, we’ll explore how to leverage AI as a tool to enhance—not replace—human creativity in Drupal.

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clients & industry experiences
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Anubhav Tiwari (tiwarianubhav22)

15:00 to 15:45 CEST
Location
Room 2 (-2.33)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45

Which front end technology should we be using in our Drupal projects? Please note that no BEMs or Tailwinds will be harmed in the making of this session.

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coding & site building
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Tony Barker (tonypaulbarker)

15:00 to 15:45 CEST
Location
Auditorium (Hall D)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45

Experience Builder will revolutionize how you will empower your editors and marketers to build sites with Drupal.

But that might not be enough for your audience, and you will want to put guiderails, extend or improve the Experience of your Builders.

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Christian López Espínola (penyaskito)

15:00 to 15:45 CEST
Location
Room BoF 4 (-2.82)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45
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15:00 to 15:45 CEST
Location
Room 3 (-2.41)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45

Don't just build a website — build a platform. Learn how to design Drupal solutions that scale with your business, evolve with technology, and stay ahead of changing needs.

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Lukas Fischer (lukasfischer)

15:00 to 15:45 CEST
Location
Room 6 (Hall G1)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45

AI bots are bringing websites down with never ending search queries.
What can you as a site builder do about that? Which modules can help?
And how do you get a better search experience at the same time.

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infosec & devops
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Antje Lorch (Ifrik)

15:00 to 15:45 CEST
Location
Room 4 (-2.42)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:00 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45

You applied a recipe to your site? Or did you let an AI change some configuration on your site? It didn't do what you wanted? You want to go back! In this session you get to see how.

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Fabian Bircher (Bircher)

15:45 to 16:15 CEST
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 15:45 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 16:15
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16:15 to 17:00 CEST
Location
Room 1 (-2.32)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 16:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:00

Imagine a community where every voice is heard, every contribution is valued, and the power of collaboration drives innovation. Now, picture that community stretching across organizations, regions, and even entire continents. Sounds like a dream?

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community health
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Esmeralda Tijhoff (Esmoves)

16:15 to 17:00 CEST
Location
Room 3 (-2.41)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 16:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:00

Unleash the power of Project Browser: discover how its pluggable architecture enhances project discovery, then learn how to develop your own Source Plugins to tap into any data source—from Google Sheets to self-hosted Git servers.

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drupal cms
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Chris Wells (Chrisfromredfin)

16:15 to 17:00 CEST
Location
Room 4 (-2.42)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 16:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:00
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open web
16:15 to 17:00 CEST
Location
Room 2 (-2.33)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 16:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:00

Behind every great Drupal feature is a stubborn person (not necessarily a developer) who refused to let it stay broken. Want to be that person? We’ll show you how.

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coding & site building
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Matt Glaman (mglaman), Mike Herchel (mherchel)

16:15 to 17:00 CEST
Location
Room 7 (Hall G2)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 16:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:00

Journey inside Yale's digital transformation as we reveal how our Drupal-based YaleSites platform has become the foundation for Beacon—an AI system that transforms bureaucratic complexity into intuitive conversations.

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open web
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Franz Joseph Hartl (Franzhartl)

16:15 to 17:00 CEST
Location
Room 5 (-2.43)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 16:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:00

This session presents a real-world case study of a large-scale enterprise application built on Drupal as a headless API, designed to handle a high volume of data—both fresh and migrated from Drupal 7.

We’ll dive into key challenges and solutions, including:

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Vijay Mani (vijaycs85)

16:15 to 17:00 CEST
Location
Room 6 (Hall G1)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 16:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:00

The Agent Swarm has come to Experience Builder and nothing in Drupal will ever be the same again! Since Barcelona, we have seen glimpses of how AI could help migrate designs and certain content into Drupal, but now with the release of Experience Builder, it’s finally here!

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James Abrahams (Yautja_cetanu)

17:15 to 17:35 CEST
Location
Room 1 (-2.32)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:35

Supercharge your QA automation with Cuppet - the all-in-one Node.js framework designed to streamline functional, performance, SEO, and accessibility testing - for free!

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Miroslav Rusev (Mup0), Daniel Angelov (danielangelov)

17:15 to 17:35 CEST
Location
Room 6 (Hall G1)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:35

In a world that values sustainability, the "Carbon Impact Evaluator" is essential for web developers and technology companies to reduce the environmental footprint of their websites.

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agency & business
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Cláudia Desidério (claudiadesiderio)

17:15 to 17:35 CEST
Location
Room 3 (-2.41)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:35

Drush 14 is a rewrite of all of its commands. We have trimmed a lot of special sauce in favor of doing things the native Symfony Console way. Our end game is for Drush to go away in favor of our commands in Drupal Core or CMS.

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infosec & devops
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Moshe Weitzman (moshe weitzman)

17:15 to 17:35 CEST
Location
Room 7 (Hall G2)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:35

Explore Maggi.de's transformation from a recipe platform to a thriving consumer hub. Discover how Drupal's power enabled Maggi to deliver personalized, innovative services, driving user engagement and setting new standards in the food industry.

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Grischa Marky (Gmarky)

17:15 to 17:35 CEST
Location
Room 2 (-2.33)
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:35

In bygone versions you could extend Drupal by creating a special module file and write php functions with magic names like mymodule_block_info or mymodule_form_alter. In Drupal 11 almost all of that code lives in particular places and has php attributes but it doesn't have to be frightening.

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coding & site building
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Fabian Bircher (Bircher), Sally Young (Justafish)

17:15 to 18:00 CEST
Location
Room 5 (-2.43)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 18:00

This session is intended for leaders and organizers from local European Drupal associations, DrupalCamps, other community initiatives, as well as representatives from the Drupal Association (DA).

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Joris Vercammen (Borisson_), Esmeralda Tijhoff (Esmoves), Imre Gmelig Meijling (Imre-gmelig-meijling), Marine Gandy

17:15 to 17:35 CEST
Location
Room 4 (-2.42)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:15 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:35

Still running Drupal 7, rebuilding in Drupal 10/11, and stuck with some on-prem along the way? What if your traffic could pick the right path automatically, all while using one domain? Join us for a routing adventure through legacy, modern, and everything between!

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infosec & devops
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Constantin Dumitrescu (oldspot)

17:40 to 18:00 CEST
Location
Room 7 (Hall G2)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:40 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 18:00

Speed up website migrations and cut costs: discover how AI can automate content analysis, simplify workflows, and help you migrate your old Drupal website into a new one faster and smarter.

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coding & site building
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Raffaele Chiocca (Rafuel92)

17:40 to 18:00 CEST
Location
Room 2 (-2.33)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:40 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 18:00

Great sites start with great plans: how the process of creating a content architecture can transform your next Drupal build — better, faster, stronger, and ready to grow.

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Duncan Worrell (Dunx)

17:40 to 18:00 CEST
Location
Room 1 (-2.32)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:40 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 18:00

Ever wondered how to build a strong Drupal community in your city? Learn the actionable steps to start, grow, and sustain a local Drupal community from scratch — lessons learned while building Drupal Kerala community.

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Anish Anilkumar (anish.a)

17:40 to 18:00 CEST
Location
Room 6 (Hall G1)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:40 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 18:00

Stop struggling with privacy – Drupal CMS is built for it! Discover how Drupal’s golden standard for privacy, with innovative consent management, gets extended by a powerful Legal Content API and the robust protection of sensitive user data.

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Jürgen Haas (Jurgenhaas)

17:40 to 18:00 CEST
Location
Room 3 (-2.41)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:40 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 18:00

Is your Drupal app still facing performance issues despite all the efforts? Discover how to profile your app locally with New Relic and DDEV to uncover deeper code issues affecting the performance.

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infosec & devops
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Roman Paska (Taran2l)

17:40 to 18:00 CEST
Location
Room 4 (-2.42)
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 17:40 to Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 18:00

Leadership is often seen through the lens of strength, vision, and tireless energy. We picture the unshakable leader; the one who always shows up, ready to carry the weight of the world. But what happens when life delivers a blow so powerful, it shakes even the strongest among us?

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Rae Pizer (Raeloupi)