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Jacob Rockowitz: Vibing Drupal: Tale 1 - Using AI to build and contribute a module

Introduction

I use AI every day to accomplish a variety of tasks. I'd like to share three tales about building, maintaining, and contributing to different Drupal modules. My goal is to discuss how I use AI and what I use it for.

At the same time, I am not trying to teach you how to use AI because I've noticed a nuance: AI can teach you how to use AI. For example, you can point an AI at this post and ask it to read the post, follow the links, and explain how things are being done. For me, open source and Drupal have always been more about sharing ideas, experiences, and stories, as well as code, allowing humans and their AIs to learn from or be inspired by each other's experiences.

My three tales are meant to be told in a specific order: building a greenfield project, maintaining a brownfield project, and contributing to someone else's project. Because of how AI works and the increased use of spec-driven development, people are discussing projects in terms of greenfield vs. brownfield. Ironically, I don't think of Drupal as greenfield or brownfield, but as infrastructure that fields and projects sit on top of. The most fundamental greenfield project in Drupal is building a new site for an organization, and for contributions to Drupal, building a new module.

Building a module using AI

Building a Drupal module with AI isn't new. I've written several posts that range from learning to build a Drupal module using AI to having AI build a module. The most recent module I've "built" with AI and contributed back to Drupal has a unique nuance: the initial code and solution came from an existing client project we are modernizing, and I had AI...Read More

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28.09.2026

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The Drop Times: Rotterdam Puts Drupal’s Biggest Bets to the Test

Perhaps the most revealing thing about DrupalCon Rotterdam is that its programme does not tell one tidy story. Drupal is preparing to discuss its transformation into a production-ready Agentic CMS while another session asks, quite directly, why developers still do not choose Drupal. Canvas has become central to Drupal CMS, yet Rotterdam will also put it against Display Builder in a real-world project. Those collisions matter because Drupal’s next phase depends less on any one initiative succeeding than on whether these different bets can reinforce one another without carrying old friction forward.

Connecting Drupal to models and agents is no longer the difficult part of the AI story. Rotterdam moves quickly into hallucination, reviewer trust, orchestration, governed workflows and human control because production use raises harder questions about what an agent may do once it can act rather than merely answer. Permissions, auditability, validation and human approval are becoming part of the product itself. If the Agentic CMS idea is going to mean more than a collection of AI capabilities, those boundaries have to become as deliberate as the capabilities they constrain.

Adoption tests another part of the same argument. Drupal CMS 2.0, Canvas, Recipes and AI-assisted tooling have changed the product presented to builders, but improved technology does not automatically change how Drupal is perceived beyond its existing community. “Why Developers Don’t Choose Drupal” puts that gap unusually plainly. The useful evidence from Rotterdam will not be another inventory of features, but signs that newcomers can enter the system more easily, that organisations are choosing Drupal CMS rather than only inheriting or upgrading Drupal, and that the new experience removes barriers people outside the community can actually feel.

Digital sovereignty makes the question more demanding because Drupal is also being asked to apply its values inward. A Rotterdam discussion on FAIR asks whether sovereignty, governance and cost problems in Drupal’s own software distribution could be addressed differently, starting from Drupal.org’s role as the ecosystem’s central distribution point. That turns openness from something Drupal offers its users into something its own infrastructure may need to demonstrate. Arguments about control become more credible when the project is willing to examine where dependence, responsibility and operational burden sit inside its own systems.

Discovery may be where all of these threads become visible from outside. A Rotterdam discussion on Drupal’s representation in ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude starts from the recognition that developers and decision-makers increasingly encounter technologies through AI-generated answers as well as conventional search. Drupal therefore has to become easier to understand, evaluate and trust not only for people already inside the ecosystem, but also for the systems mediating their choices. Rotterdam will not settle all of that in four days. What it can reveal is whether Drupal’s current direction is beginning to cohere: a product easier to adopt, agents with clearer limits, infrastructure consistent with its sovereignty claims, and a project that can explain its relevance wherever technology choices now begin.

Follow The DropTimes on LinkedIn, X, Bluesky, and Facebook, or join #thedroptimes on Drupal Slack.

Kazima Abbas wrote and curated this issue of Editor’s Pick.

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28.09.2026

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BloomIdea: Measuring ChatGPT ads on Drupal, from the browser and from the server

Since September, advertisers in Europe can buy ads inside ChatGPT, and the Ads Manager asks for two things before it can tell you whether they work: a measurement pixel in the browser and, ideally, conversions sent from your server. On a Drupal site that usually means pasting a snippet into the theme, writing the order_created call by hand in a template, and trying to hide the whole thing behind the cookie banner. Then the order paid by bank transfer or payment reference hours later, confirmed by a webhook, never shows up, because no browser was there to see it.

Even when a browser is there, the pixel loses part of the picture. Ad blockers stop it outright, Safari caps cookies written by scripts at seven days, and iOS removes tracking parameters from links shared in Messages and Mail and from links opened in private browsing. OpenAI's own documentation calls the Conversions API "a more reliable tracking source than the pixel alone".

We have released a module for this on drupal.org: ChatGPT Ads, free software under the GPL, for Drupal 10.3 and 11, covered by Drupal's security advisory policy. It plugs into Drupal Commerce, Webform and the Klaro consent manager through sub-modules, and sends events through both OpenAI's Measurement Pixel and the Conversions API. It is a community module, not affiliated with OpenAI.

What you can measure

  • With Drupal Commerce, every product added to the cart, including from an AJAX add-to-cart button, with its SKU, quantity and price.
  • The start of checkout, and the order itself when it is paid, not merely placed, so an unpaid bank transfer or an expired payment reference never counts as a sale.
  • The order paid later and off-site, reported from the server when the payment webhook arrives, with the same event id as the browser, so OpenAI counts it once.
  • With Webform, a contact form, a quote request or a newsletter sign-up as a lead: add the ChatGPT Ads handler to any webform and map the email and phone fields.
  • Account registrations, from the browser and the server.
  • Anything else, with a single call to Drupal.chatgptAds.measure() from your own script.

The pixel goes only on the pages you choose, using the same visibility conditions blocks use: paths, roles, content types, language.

What it refuses to do

Nothing is requested from OpenAI, and no cookie is set, until the visitor has decided. OpenAI's documentation suggests loading the pixel with consent withheld and granting it later, but the script sets cookies as soon as it loads, so the module does not load it at all until there is an answer.

A visitor who has not answered yet is neither a yes nor a no. Their events wait in memory and go out if they accept, so the landing page is not lost; if they refuse, they are dropped. The Klaro integration reads only decisions the visitor has confirmed, because Klaro reports a service's default from the moment the page loads, which would otherwise be read as a refusal while the banner is still on screen.

The same rule applies on the server. Hashed email, phone, IP address and user agent go to the Conversions API only for a visitor whose consent was recorded at the time of the event. For everyone else the conversion still goes, carrying the click identifier and nothing about the person.

The module never saves an order. Saving inside a Commerce transition can fire that transition twice, which on a live store means duplicate receipts and an error at checkout; the click identifiers are stored on the order when the checkout flow saves it anyway.

Pages stay cached

The pixel and the settings that are the same for everyone are cached with the page. What belongs to one visitor, the events collected for that page and, with advanced matching on, their hashed account data, arrives through a placeholder rendered on every request. A page carrying the pixel stays in Drupal's Dynamic Page Cache, instead of turning every page on the site uncacheable to deliver one visitor's identity.

Where it came from

It was built for one of the e-commerce stores we develop in Portugal, where many orders are paid by Multibanco or MB WAY, Portuguese payment methods whose confirmation often arrives hours after checkout. Bank transfers and payment references behave the same way in any country, and that pattern is why the Conversions API is in the first release rather than a later one: without it, those sales are invisible to the ad platform. The pixel, the Klaro gate and the cart events have been running on that store since mid September.

Your consent manager, your choice

Klaro gets a ready-made sub-module: install it and a ChatGPT Ads service appears in the banner, off by default. Any other consent manager reports the decision through a small JavaScript contract, and the README carries a working recipe for EU Cookie Compliance:

Drupal.chatgptAds.consent(true);   // granted, now or on a later page
Drupal.chatgptAds.consent(false);  // refused or withdrawn

To see what else on your site reaches third parties before the visitor decides, Consent Audit records it from real visits.

Get it

composer require drupal/chatgpt_ads

You need a ChatGPT Ads Manager account and the pixel id from its Conversions tab. The Conversions API sub-module stores its key through the Key module, so the secret can live in an environment variable instead of your exported configuration. The project page, the documentation and the issue queue are on drupal.org. Bug reports, questions and merge requests are welcome.

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28.09.2026

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Drupal's Got Talent at DrupalCon Orlando 2027!

The inaugural DrupalCon Talent Show is happening at DrupalCon Orlando on the evening of Tuesday, March 23, 2027 as part of the community party!

We’re planning about two hours of entertainment and looking for roughly 10 acts to take the stage (5–7 minutes for the act, plus up to 3 minutes for stage setup).

This is DrupalCon. The goal is to learn, network, and have fun. Expect jokes, friendly razzing, questionable decisions, and plenty of laughs. You don’t need to be a professional. You just need to be willing to get up there and attempt to entertain your fellow Drupalers (within our Code of Conduct https://events.drupal.org/code-conduct, of course!)

What are we looking for?

Pretty much anything entertaining:

  • Musicians
  • Bands
  • Stand-up comedy (keep it PG-13 please!)
  • Magic
  • Singing
  • Dancing
  • Juggling
  • Puppet shows
  • Ridiculous feats of skill
  • Weird talents you didn’t think anyone wanted to see (we do)

Got something that doesn’t fit on the list? Even better. Solo acts, groups, first-timers, seasoned performers, and wonderfully questionable ideas are all welcome.

Think you’ve got something? Sign up here and show us what you’ve got!

FAQs

When is the deadline?

The absolute last deadline to sign up is Friday, February 19th. However, submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis as they come in. Once all ~10 spots are filled, sign-ups will close early. We strongly encourage you to submit as soon as possible.

Is there a prize?

Likely, but this hasn’t yet been determined. Suffice it to say that the primary prize will be bragging rights!.

How will performances be chosen?

Performances will be chosen to ensure a wide variety of performance types, geographical regions, companies, diverse performers, etc. You can increase your chances of being selected by submitting earlier rather than later.

How long should the performances be?

5-7 minutes is ideal

Do I have to bring my instrument? Will there be microphones?

We will provide microphones for your band (up to four). If needed by multiple performers, we may be able to supply basic instruments. Details will be provided ahead of the performance if you are accepted to perform. 

Will there be a bar?

A cash (and credit card) bar will be available.

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Drupal Association blog: Drupal's Got Talent at DrupalCon Orlando 2027!

The inaugural DrupalCon Talent Show is happening at DrupalCon Orlando on the evening of Tuesday, March 23, 2027 as part of the community party!

We’re planning about two hours of entertainment and looking for roughly 10 acts to take the stage (5–7 minutes for the act, plus up to 3 minutes for stage setup).

This is DrupalCon. The goal is to learn, network, and have fun. Expect jokes, friendly razzing, questionable decisions, and plenty of laughs. You don’t need to be a professional. You just need to be willing to get up there and attempt to entertain your fellow Drupalers (within our Code of Conduct https://events.drupal.org/code-conduct, of course!)

What are we looking for?

Pretty much anything entertaining:

  • Musicians
  • Bands
  • Stand-up comedy (keep it PG-13 please!)
  • Magic
  • Singing
  • Dancing
  • Juggling
  • Puppet shows
  • Ridiculous feats of skill
  • Weird talents you didn’t think anyone wanted to see (we do)

Got something that doesn’t fit on the list? Even better. Solo acts, groups, first-timers, seasoned performers, and wonderfully questionable ideas are all welcome.

Think you’ve got something? Sign up here and show us what you’ve got!

FAQs

When is the deadline?

The absolute last deadline to sign up is Friday, February 19th. However, submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis as they come in. Once all ~10 spots are filled, sign-ups will close early. We strongly encourage you to submit as soon as possible.

Is there a prize?

Likely, but this hasn’t yet been determined. Suffice it to say that the primary prize will be bragging rights!.

How will performances be chosen?

Performances will be chosen to ensure a wide variety of performance types, geographical regions, companies, diverse performers, etc. You can increase your chances of being selected by submitting earlier rather than later.

How long should the performances be?

5-7 minutes is ideal

Do I have to bring my instrument? Will there be microphones?

We will provide microphones for your band (up to four). If needed by multiple performers, we may be able to supply basic instruments. Details will be provided ahead of the performance if you are accepted to perform. 

Will there be a bar?

A cash (and credit card) bar will be available.

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28.09.2026

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Gspikes: Drupal to WordPress Migration: When Downgrading Is Right

Moving from Drupal to WordPress is not a downgrade when your requirements shrank. When it is right, when it is a mistake, what the migration involves, and what you honestly lose. read more
28.09.2026

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#! code: Drupal 11: Migrating From Jadu Into LocalGov Drupal: Part 4

Drupal 11: Migrating From Jadu Into LocalGov Drupal: Part 4

This is the fourth article in a series looking at migrating from Jadu into LocalGov Drupal (LGD) for the Central Bedfordshire site. In the first article we looked at the Jadu API itself and setting things up so that we could make calls to the API and parse the XML data using the migration systems available.

In the second article we looked at reproducing Jadu URLs to create redirects for migrated content, even though the Jadu API doesn't contain any URL information.

In the third article we looked at a more complex example of migration, taking documents and pages from Jadu and creating a guide pages from that data.

Now it is time to move onto what became the most complex part of the Central Bedfordshire migration, which was moving directories data from Jadu to LGD. Directories were used on the Jadu site to store all sorts of information, which included schools, the location of car parks, contact information of homecare providers, and even an a-to-z glossary of recycling. This data served different purposes on the site, but it was all hand created and important to bring across during the migration work.

In this article we will look at the Jadu data we needed to fetch to find directory information, and how that data was injected into the LGD structure available.

First, let's look at how we get directory information out of Jadu.

Jadu Directories API

Directories in Jadu can be fetched using the directories index at the following endpoint.

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27.09.2026

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HOOK_DEV_ALTER(): PHP Structured Concurrency and Beyond (4): call for backers

The prototype works. Taking it to production quality is more than evenings. Whether it should is a question, not a pitch.

One thing before the rest. I am not pushing this. The series is a question to the world: is this work worth more of my time? We are not in the Federation yet, so more time means money, and money means backers. Any answer is fine with me, including no.

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27.09.2026

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HOOK_DEV_ALTER(): PHP Structured Concurrency and Beyond (3): structured state, and why its absence breaks concurrency

Every framework service that holds state is a bug under fibers. The current fix is to switch concurrency off. There is a third option.

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26.09.2026

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Stuart Clark (Deciphered): Druxt Auth 0.5.0; two ways to sign in without leaving your site

Every Druxt site I have built signs people in by sending them somewhere else to do it: out to Drupal's login page, on to a consent screen, and eventually back. With Druxt Auth 0.5.0 the username and password can now be handled entirely in the frontend instead, either through the authorization code grant or through the password grant.

If you have not used it, Druxt Auth wires Nuxt's auth module to Simple OAuth on the Drupal side. It targets Nuxt 2 today, because @nuxtjs/auth-next does.

The first is the authorization code grant, which now takes credentials directly. Druxt Auth signs the visitor in through Drupal's JSON login route first, so the authorize step finds a session waiting and returns a code without rendering anything:

Continue reading →

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26.09.2026

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The Drop Times: amazee.io and amazee.ai Bring Shadow AI and Sovereign Infrastructure to DrupalCon Rotterdam

AI becomes a different infrastructure problem once organisations need to know where data goes, which models are approved, and how spending is controlled. amazee.ai and Tag1 will bring those questions to DrupalCon Rotterdam through a private gateway and Scolta implementation. read more
26.09.2026

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Governing AI-Assisted Delivery (Jim Birch) AND Using Claude Code with coder.ddev.com (Randy Fay)

​During this show-and-tell Drupal AI Learners Club session, Jim Birch, Drupal Engineering Manager and AI Practice Lead at Kanopi Studios, talks about Delivery Records. A Delivery Record documents how a project team used AI and who reviewed it. It's a receipt that a human reviewed the AI's work. Delivery records show who is accountable and responsible for the work when it is wrong. ​In the second half, Randy Fay shows and tells how to set up Claude Cloud with coder.ddev.com so that agents can run securely on a cloud VM and you can access the site locally with your own tools. read more
Drupal Association 26.09.2026

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HOOK_DEV_ALTER(): PHP Structured Concurrency and Beyond (2): ownership, and why its absence breaks persistent servers

A coroutine nobody owns is a leak. Under one process per request you never see it. Persistent servers take that away.

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25.09.2026

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The Drop Times: DrupalCon Rotterdam Speakers Test Proof, Trust, and Maintainability Beyond the Demo

A workflow can report success and still be wrong, while a thriving community can quietly depend on too few people. These Rotterdam speakers look past the demo to the evidence, architecture, feedback, and ownership that determine whether Drupal work holds up. read more
25.09.2026

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Drupal CMS 2.2: Multilingual, out of the box

Drupal CMS 2.2.0 is out, and this release is all about multilingual. Setting up a site to publish in multiple languages has always been possible in Drupal, but it was not easy. With 2.2, we've tackled the biggest pain points from the installer through to translating your Canvas pages.

Finding your language in the installer

The first thing you'll notice is the language selector in the installer. Instead of scrolling through a long select list, you can now start typing and search for your language.

It's a small change, but makes for a much better first impression.

Recipe config is now translated

Previously, if you installed Drupal CMS in another language, any configuration provided by recipes (such as content types, fields, views, even the dashboard) would still show up in English. 

Recipes can include translatable configuration and that is now translated along with the rest of the site.

The multilingual recipe

Adding a second language to a Drupal site involves a lot of steps: installing the right modules, configuring language detection, enabling translation for each content type and field, and making sure you haven't missed anything along the way. Most people figure this out through trial and error (and a fair amount of searching).

The new multilingual recipe takes care of most of this for you:

  • Installs the required modules and applies the basic language settings
  • Provides a multilingual setup checklist to guide you through the remaining steps
  • Modifies the content translation settings page to make it more intuitive, including a 'Recommended setup' option that enables translation for the entities most commonly translated (node types, Canvas pages, menu links and taxonomy terms).

Translating Canvas pages

Canvas now fully supports translation and we're using Canvas Translate to provide the translation management within the canvas editor. You can translate any component on a page, and use the Canvas preview to see how the translated version will look before you publish it.

Using the bundled Canvas Translate AI module, you can also get AI-generated translations with one click: either for all components, or individually.

New multilingual demo

Drupal core has long shipped with the Umami multilingual demo, which has community contributed, cooked and photographed recipes. Umami will not be included in Drupal 12 anymore and it was in need of a design rethink and retooling with our new easy to use page building capabilities. This resulted in the new Dashi demo, which brings the same multilingual content to a customizable setup with Canvas page and content templates.

Try it out

Try it out by installing Drupal CMS 2.2.0!

  1. Install DDEV
  2. Run the following commands:
mkdir my-drupal-site && cd my-drupal-site
ddev config --project-type=drupal11 --docroot=web
ddev composer create-project drupal/cms
ddev launch
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pameeela 25.09.2026

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Drupal CMS Initiative: Drupal CMS 2.2: Multilingual, out of the box

Drupal CMS 2.2.0 is out, and this release is all about multilingual. Setting up a site to publish in multiple languages has always been possible in Drupal, but it was not easy. With 2.2, we've tackled the biggest pain points from the installer through to translating your Canvas pages.

Finding your language in the installer

The first thing you'll notice is the language selector in the installer. Instead of scrolling through a long select list, you can now start typing and search for your language.

It's a small change, but makes for a much better first impression.

Recipe config is now translated

Previously, if you installed Drupal CMS in another language, any configuration provided by recipes (such as content types, fields, views, even the dashboard) would still show up in English. 

Recipes can include translatable configuration and that is now translated along with the rest of the site.

The multilingual recipe

Adding a second language to a Drupal site involves a lot of steps: installing the right modules, configuring language detection, enabling translation for each content type and field, and making sure you haven't missed anything along the way. Most people figure this out through trial and error (and a fair amount of searching).

The new multilingual recipe takes care of most of this for you:

  • Installs the required modules and applies the basic language settings
  • Provides a multilingual setup checklist to guide you through the remaining steps
  • Modifies the content translation settings page to make it more intuitive, including a 'Recommended setup' option that enables translation for the entities most commonly translated (node types, Canvas pages, menu links and taxonomy terms).

Translating Canvas pages

Canvas now fully supports translation and we're using Canvas Translate to provide the translation management within the canvas editor. You can translate any component on a page, and use the Canvas preview to see how the translated version will look before you publish it.

Using the bundled Canvas Translate AI module, you can also get AI-generated translations with one click: either for all components, or individually.

New multilingual demo

Drupal core has long shipped with the Umami multilingual demo, which has community contributed, cooked and photographed recipes. Umami will not be included in Drupal 12 anymore and it was in need of a design rethink and retooling with our new easy to use page building capabilities. This resulted in the new Dashi demo, which brings the same multilingual content to a customizable setup with Canvas page and content templates.

Try it out

Try it out by installing Drupal CMS 2.2.0!

  1. Install DDEV
  2. Run the following commands:
mkdir my-drupal-site && cd my-drupal-site
ddev config --project-type=drupal11 --docroot=web
ddev composer create-project drupal/cms
ddev launch
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25.09.2026

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Meet The Drupal Association Team At DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 is almost here. The Drupal Association staff and board are heading to the Netherlands next week, and we'd love to see you there!

Photo Credits: Ryan Witcombe

Here's where you'll find us during DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026:

Drupal.org Engineering Panel

Join the DA engineering team for an open and honest look at the current state and future of Drupal.org (the platform the entire community relies on every day). From nearly 10,000 projects migrated to GitLab, plans to support a brand new Drupal.org marketing site, and initiative support for Drupal CMS + Canvas and the AI Initiative, there's a lot to cover. The session closes with an open Q&A, so bring your questions

Day & Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Time: 11:40 to 12:25 CEST

Location: Goudriaan Room I&II

Marketing Panel

Building on the momentum of the Drupal AI initiative, the Drupal Association is growing coordinated advocacy and marketing efforts in new areas, opening the door for more people to get involved and make a visible contribution.

Join the panel to understand how the initiative is taking shape, why they’re gaining traction, and what makes them different. The panelists will discuss how marketing in Drupal is becoming one of the most accessible and high-impact ways to contribute, where individuals and organizations  alike can raise their profile, earn recognition, and help shape Drupal’s future.

Day & Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 16:40 to 17:25 CEST

Location: Goudriaan Room I&II

Drupal Association Public Board Meeting

The DA Public Board Meeting is open to all DrupalCon attendees and is your opportunity to hear directly from the Drupal Association board. Come with your questions, your feedback, and your ideas. This is your chance to engage with the people shaping the future of the Drupal Association.

Day & Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 14:25 – 15:10 CEST

Location: Rotterdam Room I&II

Drupal Association Partner Lunch

An exclusive afternoon gathering for agency leaders and partners to connect with Dries and DA leadership over a seated lunch. A unique opportunity to share strategies, discuss the Drupal business ecosystem, and build meaningful relationships with peers from around the world.

Tickets are required, register here.

Day & Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 12:00 – 13:30 CEST

Location: Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre WTC Rotterdam

Drupal Business Dinner

Cap off Wednesday evening with the Drupal Business Dinner, an intimate gathering of Drupal agency executives for a seated 3-course dinner, a presentation, and meaningful conversations in a beautiful Rotterdam venue.

Tickets are required, register here.

Day & Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Time: 19:00 – 22:30 CEST

Location: De Harmonie, Rotterdam

Photo credits: Matthew Saunders

Whether you're joining us for a session, an exclusive event, or just stopping by our booth to say hello, the Drupal Association team can't wait to connect with you.

The last few days are left to secure your ticket to DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026, if you already haven’t. See You in Rotterdam!

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Drupal Association blog: Meet The Drupal Association Team At DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026

DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 is almost here. The Drupal Association staff and board are heading to the Netherlands next week, and we'd love to see you there!

Photo Credits: Ryan Witcombe

Here's where you'll find us during DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026:

Drupal.org Engineering Panel

Join the DA engineering team for an open and honest look at the current state and future of Drupal.org (the platform the entire community relies on every day). From nearly 10,000 projects migrated to GitLab, plans to support a brand new Drupal.org marketing site, and initiative support for Drupal CMS + Canvas and the AI Initiative, there's a lot to cover. The session closes with an open Q&A, so bring your questions

Day & Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Time: 11:40 to 12:25 CEST

Location: Goudriaan Room I&II

Marketing Panel

Building on the momentum of the Drupal AI initiative, the Drupal Association is growing coordinated advocacy and marketing efforts in new areas, opening the door for more people to get involved and make a visible contribution.

Join the panel to understand how the initiative is taking shape, why they’re gaining traction, and what makes them different. The panelists will discuss how marketing in Drupal is becoming one of the most accessible and high-impact ways to contribute, where individuals and organizations  alike can raise their profile, earn recognition, and help shape Drupal’s future.

Day & Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 16:40 to 17:25 CEST

Location: Goudriaan Room I&II

Drupal Association Public Board Meeting

The DA Public Board Meeting is open to all DrupalCon attendees and is your opportunity to hear directly from the Drupal Association board. Come with your questions, your feedback, and your ideas. This is your chance to engage with the people shaping the future of the Drupal Association.

Day & Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 14:25 – 15:10 CEST

Location: Rotterdam Room I&II

Drupal Association Partner Lunch

An exclusive afternoon gathering for agency leaders and partners to connect with Dries and DA leadership over a seated lunch. A unique opportunity to share strategies, discuss the Drupal business ecosystem, and build meaningful relationships with peers from around the world.

Tickets are required, register here.

Day & Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 12:00 – 13:30 CEST

Location: Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre WTC Rotterdam

Drupal Business Dinner

Cap off Wednesday evening with the Drupal Business Dinner, an intimate gathering of Drupal agency executives for a seated 3-course dinner, a presentation, and meaningful conversations in a beautiful Rotterdam venue.

Tickets are required, register here.

Day & Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Time: 19:00 – 22:30 CEST

Location: De Harmonie, Rotterdam

Photo credits: Matthew Saunders

Whether you're joining us for a session, an exclusive event, or just stopping by our booth to say hello, the Drupal Association team can't wait to connect with you.

The last few days are left to secure your ticket to DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026, if you already haven’t. See You in Rotterdam!

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25.09.2026

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The Drop Times: Pantheon to Demo “Outside-In” Drupal AI With Gemini Enterprise in Rotterdam

What changes when Drupal becomes something an enterprise AI agent can act on, rather than the place where every user must work? Pantheon plans to show that model running end to end in Rotterdam. read more
25.09.2026

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The Drop Times: Gina Plat and Teun van der Vorm: Map Dependencies Before Pursuing Digital Sovereignty

Digital sovereignty does not begin with replacing software. It begins with knowing which services an organisation depends on, who controls them, and what it would cost to leave. read more
25.09.2026

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Introducing our official Drupal AI Initiative training program: AI Inside Drupal Essentials

As we see our goals for Drupal AI innovation under responsible human guidance flourishing at such a remarkable pace, we recognize a growing community need for practical, responsible ways to learn it. We’re excited to announce, as part of our efforts to fill that need, AI Inside Drupal Essentials (AIDE,) developed and presented by DrupalEasy, as the official training program of the Drupal AI Initiative. 

We’ve partnered with Drupal expert developer and highly respected trainer Mike Anello (ultimike) to ensure the program supports our mission to drive responsible AI innovation and build on Drupal’s position as the leading open-source content management system for AI integration. Mike and the team at DrupalEasy have the commitment and experience to create, maintain and present the curriculum with our standard for ethical, powerful, and accessible AI in the open-source world.

AIDE

AIDE is designed to help you move forward quickly and confidently with a solid foundation in how to conscientiously take advantage of Drupal AI benefits. The 2-week, 18-hour curriculum is presented on a timetable designed to integrate well into work schedules; meeting live, online for 3 hours every other day. The first session kicks off on November 9, 2026 and runs through November 20th. Additional sessions will be announced in the coming weeks.

In addition to DrupalEasy’s signature lively, online classes; each class session is recorded and becomes part of the video library that participants have lifetime access to. Other resources included as part of the course is a dedicated Slack channel and more than 100 pages of technical guides and implementation tools. The cost to register is $600.

Learn risk mitigation & human oversight

Mike Anello, who has meticulously developed hundreds of hours of Drupal curriculum and trained Drupal developers for more than 20 years, has created another stellar program that leads you, hands-on, through admin-facing responsible AI techniques that prioritize workflows that keep a human in the loop to review AI-generated suggestions before they are saved to the database. From class to class, you'll move from secure foundations to advanced agentic workflows and high-performance retrieval augmented generation (RAG) search, with intensive hands-on examples you can apply to your own Drupal projects right away.

Course content

The course covers four areas:

  • AI Foundations: Establish a baseline for secure LLM integration. Configure the AI Automators and Field Widget Actions modules to see how AI output can be reviewed before it's saved.
  • AI Agents: Implement agentic workflows and swarm orchestration agents, and deploy tool-calling capabilities that let AI interact directly with Drupal's Tool API.
  • RAG Search: Build retrieval augmented generation systems using vector databases, and learn semantic chunking and representation strategies that maximize search accuracy.
  • Local AI & Privacy: Deploy local models via Ollama for maximum privacy and cost-efficiency, and use the AI Metering module for automatic local fallback when commercial API quotas are reached.

Our goal, with AIDE and our other learning resources including webinars, workshops, events and the Drupal AI Demo is to make sure everyone who works with Drupal AI can do it safely and effectively.  

Learn more about AI Inside Drupal Essentials training , or ask about the course or AIDE team pricing.

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Drupal AI Initiative: Introducing our official Drupal AI Initiative training program: AI Inside Drupal Essentials

As we see our goals for Drupal AI innovation under responsible human guidance flourishing at such a remarkable pace, we recognize a growing community need for practical, responsible ways to learn it. We’re excited to announce, as part of our efforts to fill that need, AI Inside Drupal Essentials (AIDE,) developed and presented by DrupalEasy, as the official training program of the Drupal AI Initiative. 

We’ve partnered with Drupal expert developer and highly respected trainer Mike Anello (ultimike) to ensure the program supports our mission to drive responsible AI innovation and build on Drupal’s position as the leading open-source content management system for AI integration. Mike and the team at DrupalEasy have the commitment and experience to create, maintain and present the curriculum with our standard for ethical, powerful, and accessible AI in the open-source world.

AIDE

AIDE is designed to help you move forward quickly and confidently with a solid foundation in how to conscientiously take advantage of Drupal AI benefits. The 2-week, 18-hour curriculum is presented on a timetable designed to integrate well into work schedules; meeting live, online for 3 hours every other day. The first session kicks off on November 9, 2026 and runs through November 20th. Additional sessions will be announced in the coming weeks.

In addition to DrupalEasy’s signature lively, online classes; each class session is recorded and becomes part of the video library that participants have lifetime access to. Other resources included as part of the course is a dedicated Slack channel and more than 100 pages of technical guides and implementation tools. The cost to register is $600.

Learn risk mitigation & human oversight

Mike Anello, who has meticulously developed hundreds of hours of Drupal curriculum and trained Drupal developers for more than 20 years, has created another stellar program that leads you, hands-on, through admin-facing responsible AI techniques that prioritize workflows that keep a human in the loop to review AI-generated suggestions before they are saved to the database. From class to class, you'll move from secure foundations to advanced agentic workflows and high-performance retrieval augmented generation (RAG) search, with intensive hands-on examples you can apply to your own Drupal projects right away.

Course content

The course covers four areas:

  • AI Foundations: Establish a baseline for secure LLM integration. Configure the AI Automators and Field Widget Actions modules to see how AI output can be reviewed before it's saved.
  • AI Agents: Implement agentic workflows and swarm orchestration agents, and deploy tool-calling capabilities that let AI interact directly with Drupal's Tool API.
  • RAG Search: Build retrieval augmented generation systems using vector databases, and learn semantic chunking and representation strategies that maximize search accuracy.
  • Local AI & Privacy: Deploy local models via Ollama for maximum privacy and cost-efficiency, and use the AI Metering module for automatic local fallback when commercial API quotas are reached.

Our goal, with AIDE and our other learning resources including webinars, workshops, events and the Drupal AI Demo is to make sure everyone who works with Drupal AI can do it safely and effectively.  

Learn more about AI Inside Drupal Essentials training , or ask about the course or AIDE team pricing.

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The Drop Times: DrupalCon Rotterdam Speakers Trace the Structure Behind AI, Personalisation, and Scale

Some Drupal problems begin with too much rather than too little: too much legacy HTML, hundreds of career choices and brand sites, or code generated faster than teams can understand it. These Rotterdam sessions examine the structures that need to exist before speed becomes useful. read more
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The Drop Times: DrupalCon Rotterdam Speakers Put AI, Workflows, and Accessibility Into Practice

For several DrupalCon Rotterdam sessions, the useful question is not simply whether Drupal teams can automate more. It is where automation should stop, where review should begin, and what people still have to judge for themselves. read more
25.09.2026

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DDEV Blog: DDEV September 2026: v1.25.4 Ships, Hobobiker Rides Again, Pressable Goes Official

DDEV v1.25.4 Is Out

DDEV v1.25.4 landed on September 2 with 142 PRs from the community. The theme is doing less by hand:

  • Database seeding — a new project can start from a seed snapshot instead of an import step.
  • ddev start --reset-database — throw away a project's database and start clean without ddev delete -O.
  • Global Dockerfiles and env files — image and environment customizations applied to every project at once, instead of per-project.
  • MySQL 9.7 LTS, plus MODX Revolution and Maho project types.
  • Linux packages moved to Cloudsmith at packages.ddev.com (Gemfury keeps working).

Read the full release post for details.

Snapshots, Explained (with Screencast)

The snapshot work in v1.25.4 got its own post: DDEV Snapshots: Checkpoints, Restores, and Seeded Databases. It covers basic snapshot use, checkpointing during a migration, uncompressed snapshots, snapshots embedded in the project, and seeding a new project from a snapshot — with a screencast↗ walking through old and new behavior.

The older DDEV Database Management post has been updated to match.

Hobobiker Rides Again: A Three-Part Live Series on Drupal 6 → Drupal 11 with Claude

The Drupal AI Learners Club↗ — the initiative led by Amber Matz and Angie Byron that meets regularly for show-and-tell on AI tools and workflows — has scheduled a three-part live series with Randy Fay joining Amber and Angie as host, migrating hobobiker.com — a Drupal 6 site with years of content — two different ways.

After Jamie Abrahams migrated a site live and checked the result with evals in One Command, One Migration: AI Best Practices in Action↗, Randy tried the approach on his own very old site. The results made one thing clear: Claude does its best work with a guided plan, a clear view of the source and destination, and success criteria it has to prove it has met. So the series takes hobobiker.com on two journeys — one ending in static HTML, the other in Drupal 11 — and checks both against the same test suite.

These are working sessions, not polished demos. Bring your questions, suggestions, and opinions; the peanut gallery is part of the show.

All three are on the club's Luma calendar↗, and recaps of past sessions are collected in the session list on drupal.org↗.

  • October 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM US Pacific / 12:30 PM US Eastern / 18:30 CEST — Part 1: Road Test: Having Claude Write the Tests Before the Trip
    Before any migration starts, we need a way to know whether it worked. Randy works with Claude to explore the Drupal 6 site and design automated tests covering content and design: pages, paths, images, menus, and how things look. The goal is a test suite that doesn't depend on any particular destination, so the same tests can run against a static archive and a Drupal 11 rebuild. Along the way: how to push Claude past "looks good to me" toward a complete verification plan, and how a sandboxed environment like coder.ddev.com smooths out the process.
    RSVP↗

  • October 23, 2026 at 9:30 AM US Pacific / 12:30 PM US Eastern / 18:30 CEST — Part 2: The Last Ride: Sending a Drupal Site into Retirement
    Not every old Drupal site needs an upgrade; some just need a dignified retirement. Randy has archived plenty of legacy sites as static HTML, and this time Claude does the work — given a proven strategy (Lullabot's "Sending a Drupal Site into Retirement"), clear success criteria, and the tests from Part 1. Can it turn hobobiker.com into a static site that holds up, in an hour, in a way everyone watching can follow? A practical use case for anyone with an aging site that still has content worth keeping.
    RSVP↗

  • October 30, 2026 at 9:30 AM US Pacific / 12:30 PM US Eastern / 17:30 CET — Part 3: The Long Haul: Planning and Running a Drupal 6 to Drupal 11 Migration
    This is the hard one. Drupal 6 to Drupal 11 skips many major versions and hits most of the snags that come with them. Instead of turning Claude loose, we prepare it the way you'd onboard a new team member: first it explores the D6 source database and files, then it learns what the D11 destination offers, then it writes a migration plan before touching any code. Randy follows that plan live, with plenty of input from the peanut gallery, stopping at sensible checkpoints and picking up in later sessions if needed. The finish line is the same test suite from Road Test, now running against a working Drupal 11 site.
    RSVP↗

Pressable Ships an Official DDEV Add-On

Pressable↗ released an official, open-source DDEV add-on for syncing WordPress sites between their hosting and a local DDEV environment.

  • What it does — ddev pull pressable and ddev push pressable sync the database and uploads over SSH and WP-CLI, with no API tokens or plugins required. --skip-db and --skip-files let you move one or the other, and Pressable limits pushes to non-production staging sites, with confirmation prompts, as a safeguard.
  • Install — ddev add-on get pressable/ddev-pressable
  • Links: changelog entry↗ • source on GitHub↗

There's also a French write-up from KingLand looking at how Pressable combines the DDEV add-on with MCP-driven AI for agency WordPress maintenance, including the case for keeping humans on the sensitive operations: Pressable : l'hébergement WordPress dopé par DDEV et l'IA↗ (French).

Community Projects

ddev-branchery: a URL, PHP version, and database per branch — Benjamin Kott's add-on gives each Git branch its own worktree beside the main checkout, with its own web address, PHP runtime, and isolated database, while the main project keeps running. Documentation↗

ddev-tailnet-proxy: DDEV projects on your tailnet — Titouan Mathis built a proxy that discovers running DDEV projects on a remote development server, assigns them stable ports, and serves them under the server's Tailscale hostname — no per-project configuration. Read the note↗

TYPO3 Quickstarter 0.7.0 — The CLI that scaffolds local TYPO3 environments on DDEV added support for legacy TYPO3 9 and 10 on PHP 7.4, so older extensions can be worked on before modernizing, plus a built-in phpMyAdmin that auto-logs in. Release notes↗

Knecht Cloud, hands-on — Matthias Andrasch walks through installing Knecht Cloud on a Hetzner VPS: project setup, AI-driven workflows, a browser terminal, and online previews, in a tool built for DDEV projects on TYPO3, Drupal, and Craft CMS. Read part 1↗

Talks and Tutorials from Around the Web

  • DDEV & shopware-cli for Shopware 6 → Benny Poensgen's slides from Shopware Open-Stage on September 17, 2026, on pairing DDEV with shopware-cli. View the deck↗ — see also his Shopware on DDEV post, and his October 21 training session below.
  • Mailpit with DDEV for Drupal 11 email testing (Spanish) → Jesús Daza covers DDEV's built-in Mailpit integration and an SMTP-based setup, how to reach the UI, and how to confirm mail is being delivered during development. Read on solucionex.com↗
  • A DDEV-based local development workflow → Michael K. Laweh on what DDEV gives a consultant working across Laravel, Yii, and WordPress projects: consistency across projects and teams, fast project setup, and framework-agnostic tooling. Read on klytron.com↗

DDEV Live Training

Sessions are open to everybody.

Zoom Join Info:
Link: Join Zoom Meeting
Passcode: 12345

Governance

  • The next DDEV advisory group meeting, open to everybody, is November 4, 2026 at 8:00 AM US Mountain / 10:00 AM US Eastern / 16:00 CET. Add to Google Calendar • See the agenda. We love to hear from our community!

Sponsorship Update

We so appreciate all of you supporting the project!

August 2026: ~$10,038/month (83.7% of goal)

September 2026: ~$10,099/month (84.2% of goal)

If DDEV has helped your team, consider sponsoring. → Become a sponsor↗

Contact us to discuss sponsorship options that work for your organization.

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Compiled and edited with assistance from Claude Code.

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Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #571 - GovHub

Today we are talking about GovHub, Drupal in Government, and Why Governments Love Drupal with guest Jasmyne Epps. We'll also cover Convivial Gov Site Template as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/571

Topics
  • GovHub Origins and Goals
  • Feature Requests and Governance
  • Why Government Chooses Drupal
  • Team Structure and Release Cadence
  • Accessibility and Compliance Strategy
  • Hosting Model and Multisite
  • Structured Content and Microcontent
  • Syndication and Emergency Alerts
  • Orchard Design System Explained
  • Training and Onboarding Editors
  • Gov Talks Conference
  • Logo Specs and Releases
  • Ticket Prioritization PRICE
  • QA Workflow with Tugboat
  • Handling Traffic Spikes
  • Drupal 11 Performance Talk
  • Drupal 11 Upgrade Gotchas
  • Getting Users Excited
  • Translation Strategy Limits
  • Why Government Loves Drupal
Resources Guests

Jasmyne Epps - jasmyneepps.com jasmyneepps

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Amber Matz - tugboatqa.com [amber himes matz](https://www.drupal.org/u/amber himes matz)

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to stand up a polished, accessible government website in Drupal (with components, content types, SEO, and cookie consent all wired up) without writing any code? There's a site template for that.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • Created in March 2026 by Morpht, the shop behind the Convivial family — with Ivan Zugec leading the maintainer team.
    • Versions available: 1.3.3, which works with Drupal 11
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained: release just last week, on September 16th
    • Security coverage
    • Test coverage: functional tests for install and validation, plus a kernel requirements test.
    • Documentation there's a full handbook over at docs.morpht.com, and a live demo at gov.convivial.io
    • Open issues: none?
  • Site template features and usage
    • Like the Haven site template we talked about a couple of weeks ago, Convivial Gov gives you a curated stack plus demo content, and in this case hands you a robust, ready-to-customize government site.
    • Because it's built on Drupal CMS, you get all the latest Drupal tooling: Canvas for visual page building, Single Directory Components, and Recipes.
    • The front end is Morpht's Morphos theme, built on Tailwind and DaisyUI, so you get dark mode, multiple colour palettes, and a big library of editor-friendly components out of the box. It's worth mentioning that using the Morphos theme on a production site requires a paid license
    • The provided components are sorted into six buckets: container, content, child, element, background, and behavior. They include fun ones like scroll reveal and a colour palette switching behavior
    • The content model is broad. You get seven content types: Page, Section, Article, Publication, Resource, Topic, and Audience. And, they come with a stack of teaser and card view modes to display them.
    • The whole point is no-code: a site builder can compose sophisticated pages in Canvas without ever touching a template.
    • One thing to watch: the default timezone is Australia/Sydney out of the box
    • It's also worth comparing Convivial Gov to another site template called Local. Both dropped in March 2026, both are Canvas-based Drupal CMS site templates for the public sector, and both lean on ECA for automation — so there's real common ground. The difference is scope and mechanism. Local, from Annertech, is narrowly purpose-built for local councils and community-service directories: it ships a specific service information architecture — Service and Service Landing content types — with ECA wired so section pages stay in sync when service pages get published or updated, taking its cues from the gov.uk design system. Convivial Gov goes the other way — it's design-system-led and general-purpose, a broad component library and content model meant for any government, agency, or marketing site rather than one particular workflow.
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Centarro: Drupal Commerce vs. Shopify

Shopify is the fastest way to launch a simple online store. It handles hosting, security, and checkout beautifully. For straightforward DTC brands, it's hard to beat. But the more your business strays from a simple product catalog (B2B workflows, multi-brand storefronts, complex product configurations, deep ERP integration, content-driven commerce, full SEO control) the more you end up fighting the platform, stacking paid apps, and working around limitations that shouldn't exist.

And there’s a deeper issue. Shopify is a merchant services company first and an ecommerce platform second. When 68% of GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) flows through Shopify Payments and the Shop app mediates your post-purchase relationship, you have to ask yourself: do you really own your customer relationship at all?

Drupal Commerce is an open source ecommerce framework that gives you complete ownership of your code, data model, customer relationships, and roadmap. No per-transaction platform fees. No forced migrations. No artificial product limits. No locked-down URLs. No platform inserting itself between you and your buyers. It's built for businesses that need the platform to adapt to them—not the other way around.

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The Drop Times: Enterprise AI Summit Speakers Preview Governed Drupal AI Cases in Rotterdam

Putting AI into production raises harder questions than connecting a model to Drupal. Rotterdam speakers focus on context, evidence, controls and human review. read more
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HOOK_DEV_ALTER(): PHP Structured Concurrency and Beyond (1): history and vision

Structured control flow and managed memory each took away a freedom and handed
back a guarantee. Concurrency in PHP has not made that trade.

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The Drop Times: NASCIO State IT Tensions Highlight Governance Questions for Shared Drupal Platforms

A statewide publishing platform can reduce repeated technical work across public websites, but it also establishes an operating model that can outlast the migration that created it. read more
24.09.2026

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The Drop Times: Drupal 12 Tightens Filename Handling as New Recipe, Workflow and Hosting Tools Arrive

Release state changes the response: some Drupal changes are ready to use, some warrant a targeted update, and others belong in testing rather than production. read more
24.09.2026

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Jacob Rockowitz: Vibing Drupal: Using AI to hammer at the Webform module's security issues

I came up with the title for this blog post while working on 20+ Webform security issues, because there were moments when I used Codex to hammer out a particularly complex issue. I couldn't help but find it ironic to use something as advanced as AI to hammer at a problem or challenge.

Some security issues were so complex to reproduce that I had to push Codex to replicate the problem, and it occasionally generated sloppy code. Still, even with Codex generating AI-slop, it helped me understand the root causes and solutions for security issues that had lingered for years.

Before I go any further, let's step back and talk about the challenge of maintaining the Webform module and addressing security issues.

Maintaining the Webform module

The bulk of the Webform module was created a decade ago, when I had more time and motivation to make a sizable contribution to Drupal. Drupal contributors and their contributions come in all shapes and sizes. The current codebase is stable and extendable, with "extendable" as the keyword, because people and AIs can alter and create Webform features and behaviors as needed using contributed modules or custom code. It is ironic that all the example webforms included in the Webform module, intended to help humans, have proven incredibly useful for AIs in understanding and extending webforms.

Though I am willing to say the code is stable, the fact that a webform is generally public and accepts input leaves the Webform module open to security issues. In other words, malicious actors, including AI, will target webforms to exploit XSS vulnerabilities or expose data.

Securing the Webform module

It is worth recognizing and praising Drupal's security team for...Read More

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The Drop Times: Drupal 12 Moves Core Development to Node.js 24 as Nightwatch Fixes Reach Drupal 11

Core contributors and continuous integration maintainers need to account for the new JavaScript development baseline without treating it as a Drupal 11 or production hosting requirement. read more
24.09.2026

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The Drop Times: Dropsolid Ties DrupalCon Rotterdam Sponsorship to Governed AI and Shared Infrastructure

The more consequential part of Dropsolid's Rotterdam presence is not the sponsorship tier. It is the argument that Drupal's content, permissions and workflows can form part of the control layer around AI systems using organisational knowledge. read more
24.09.2026

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Tag1 Insights: All Hands on Deck: Tag1 Is Headed to DrupalCon Rotterdam

Hank VanZile, Senior Director of Customer Experience at Tag1, previews Tag1's seven-talk lineup for DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026: practical AI in Drupal, the deep core work behind performance and testing, and a labor-union learning platform rebuilt on Drupal. One is a shadow-AI session he co-presents with amazee.ai. The day before the conference, Tag1 attends and sponsors the Enterprise Drupal AI Summit as a Certified Gold Partner and Maker in the Drupal AI Initiative.

The DrupalCon program is always more than any one person can take in, so ahead of Rotterdam I want to lay out where Tag1 will be and how to connect with us. We have seven talks across Tuesday the 29th and Wednesday the 30th.

If you are coming, treat this as a map to where we will be and what we will be talking about. If you are not, the lineup is a fair read on where our heads are this year. A good deal of it is AI a team can put to work in a Drupal project today. More of it is the unglamorous work inside Drupal core, the parts nobody demos but everything else leans on. And one talk is the client story that keeps the rest honest. The full DrupalCon schedule covers everything beyond our own sessions; the times below are all local CEST.

First Stop, Afloat: The Enterprise Drupal AI Summit

The week opens on Monday the 28th, before any of the DrupalCon sessions, with a full day at the Enterprise Drupal AI Summit aboard the SS Rotterdam, the former ocean liner. It's a strategy day rather than a code day, built for senior decision-makers in government, higher education, and large enterprises, with a program on data sovereignty and running AI on enterprise platforms. Tag1 is there as both a summit sponsor and a Certified Gold Partner and Maker in the Drupal AI Initiative. The certification marks demonstrated Drupal AI expertise and a commitment to the Drupal code and community, and it fits a longer pattern. Data sovereignty is also where my own session picks up the next day, so if that is the thread you care about, the summit is the place to start.

Next Stop, Ashore: The DrupalCon Sessions

Tuesday, September 29

From Shadow AI to Sovereign AI Infrastructure

Thomas Schröpfer
Hank VanZile

Often, AI use inside a company was never approved by IT. It arrives through a browser extension, a personal account, a tool someone tried because it saved them an afternoon, and it stays out of the security review until something goes wrong. That is shadow AI. Thomas and I walk through an alternative: a private AI gateway that gives an organization visibility into how AI is being used without pushing teams off the tools they like or slowing them down. My part is how Scolta uses amazee.ai's private AI infrastructure to add secure AI capabilities across Drupal, Laravel, and WordPress, so the AI a site needs does not come with the governance gaps shadow AI opens. If this is a challenge your organization is facing, come find me after and we can compare notes.

Wednesday, September 30

Rebuilding the LMS Mid-Flight: A Drupal Success Story with AFT and AFL-CIO

  • Location: Mees Room I
  • When: 10:45-11:30 CEST
  • Speaker: Marcin Grabias

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. This session takes you through that journey—from growing pains and technical debt to a fully reimagined Drupal-native solution—sharing the lessons learned along the way.

Inside the Pyramid - A path to faster, clearer Drupal testing

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 will cover both the current state – discussing techniques to write faster tests – and how to change Drupal to make these improvements structural.

A joyful tour through the CLI now in Drupal Core

  • Location: Penn Room I&II
  • When: 13:40-14:00 CEST
  • Speaker: Moshe Weitzman

It finally happened! A CLI in Drupal core. With the help and blessing of the Drush maintainers, Drupal core has gained its own extensible CLI. Learn how to use it, and develop and test commands for it.

Client Spotlight

Scolta: Drop-in AI Search Without a Search Server

Kelly Booz
Jeremy Andrews

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.

How we made the biggest performance gains in a decade in Drupal core

Drupal 11.4 reduced database queries and cache I/O by 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.

AI-Powered Site Building in Drupal: From Blank Site to Styled Pages in a Conversation

Francesco Pesenti
Francesco Quagliati

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?

Come Find Us

A lot of the work in these talks usually sits out of sight, in performance, testing, and the plumbing of AI workflows, so a week like this is one of the few times it surfaces all at once. If any of it is close to what you're working on, catch me or any of the team between sessions and let's talk. We would love to hear about the hard problems you're working to solve.

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The countdown is on: sovereignty on the Enterprise AI Summit

The Enterprise AI Summit takes place in one week, on 28 September aboard the SS Rotterdam, and the countdown is a good moment to properly introduce a session that's been on the agenda for a while: sovereign AI with Julien Blanchez.

Digital sovereignty has moved from a policy discussion into a boardroom question. Regulators, procurement teams and public sector organisations are asking the same thing in different ways: can we use world-class AI technology while keeping control over where our data lives, who can access it, and under what conditions?

With over a decade at Google working on data protection, security and digital sovereignty for large, highly regulated organisations, Julien will walk us through what's driving rising sovereignty expectations and how to keep access to leading AI technology on your own terms.

He joins a day full of similar questions answered with real numbers. The European Personnel Selection Office deployed a RAG-powered instant answer engine inside Drupal in under eight weeks, running in all 24 EU official languages, with 90% fewer repeat support questions and zero hallucinations on manual review. The American Diabetes Association will share what happened when editorial teams got real AI tools in their hands, including the honest lessons that came with it. And Moritz Arendt takes on a question that sits right next to Julien's: can AI strengthen digital communities, or does it risk hollowing them out?

With just days left, there’s still time to check the full agenda and save your seat. Tickets and details are available on the Enterprise AI Summit page.

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The AWS Migration: Building the Next Chapter of Drupal’s Infrastructure

This is the first post in a three-part series about the impact of the AWS Open Source Credits program on the Drupal community. Part one covers our testing infrastructure. Part two will cover the community programs we host beyond code. Part three will cover what the AI era is doing to open source infrastructure, and what we're building next.

Drupal is one of the open web's longest-running content management projects, in continuous development since 2001, and a recognized Digital Public Good. It runs a large share of the public web: government portals, universities, hospitals, cultural institutions, and international organizations, including the European Commission and agencies across the UN system. The Drupal Association is the small non-profit that keeps the project's home online. We build the tools that enable our community to build Drupal.

Since 2025, the AWS Open Source Credits program has supported the infrastructure behind that work. This series is our thank you, and impact report about what that support has made possible.

The scale

Drupal's collaboration happens on git.drupalcode.org, our self-hosted GitLab instance and one of the largest in open source. It hosts 42,382 contributed projects: 39,003 modules, 2,400 themes, and 979 distributions, alongside Drupal core itself.

The Drupal community opens more than 5,300 merge requests every month, about 65,000 a year, from 8,000 unique contributors annually. Drupal core alone has 15,256 issue forks.

Every one of those merge requests runs through continuous integration (CI) before it can ship. Our GitLab CI runners autoscale on AWS, accounting for roughly a third of our entire cloud footprint. In the last year they executed ~4.1 million jobs, consuming ~159.8 thousand compute hours. That's 438 hours of compute per day. (Data from Aug 26, 2025 – Aug 26, 2026).

Velocity is a contributor experience challenge

Here's what autoscaling CI means for a community like ours. A contributor in Singapore, Mumbai, or Rotterdam pushes a change and gets test results back in minutes. There is no fixed pool of test machines, no queue where contributors wait on each other, no rationing of who gets to test what.

If elastic capacity, funded by credits, means those contributors have never had to deal with longer queues, capped concurrency, or asking volunteers to test less..

We care about this because contributor velocity is essential to the success of Drupal. The Drupal Association engineering team is small, just 4 people. We don't build Drupal; thousands of people do that. Our job is to make sure the tools are available and fast when they need them.

Velocity and safety are the same system

It would be easy to frame fast CI as a developer-happiness story and stop there. But for a project with Drupal's footprint, that same infrastructure is a safety system.

In the last twelve months, the Drupal Security Team has coordinated 163 security advisories across core and contributed projects. Every fix behind those advisories was developed, tested, and released through the same AWS-powered pipeline as any other change. The sites that depend on those fixes find out through us too: about 667,000 Drupal sites check in with our update infrastructure every week to learn whether they need to act. That's a conservative floor, since it only counts sites that phone home.

We also operate Drupal Steward, a protective service that shields sites during the most dangerous window in security response: the hours between a public advisory and a site's own patching. AWS powers that too.

Drupal powers governments, public utilities, and health systems worldwide, making our testing pipeline critical public infrastructure. Every automated test directly protects the security and stability of the websites people rely on daily.

A smooth transition

For two decades, much of Drupal's infrastructure ran on donated hosting at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, which has been a quiet hero to dozens of open source projects. As the lab restructures, we have been migrating essential services to AWS. Credit support meant that migration happened without cutting contributor capacity, and without asking a small non-profit engineering team to do more with less at the worst possible moment.

Our thanks to the OSU Open Source Lab for twenty years of partnership, and to AWS for making this next chapter possible.

What's next in this series

While compute numbers show our scale, the human impact matters just as much., In our next post: the community programs we host that have nothing to do with code, and why we think that infrastructure matters just as much.

The Drupal Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. If your organization depends on Drupal, or on the health of open source infrastructure generally, you can support our work.

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Intelligent Layouts: Drupal Canvas AI and the Context Layer

Reposted from Acquia with permission from Acquia. Authored by Martin Anderson-Clutz (mandclu)

Drupal Canvas AI shifts content platforms from reading to writing, using governed context layers to help enterprise AI agents automate safely.

What changes when an agent stops reading your content and starts writing it?

For the last two years, the conversation about AI and content has mostly been about reading. Retrieval, summarization, a chatbot that answers a question from your knowledge base. That problem is largely solved, and it is solved almost everywhere. Any serious platform can find a relevant paragraph and hand it back.

The shift that actually changes the job of a content platform is quieter. Agents have moved from "answer my question" to "do the work." They are no longer only reading your content. They are starting to write it, assembling pages and populating components and publishing the result. The category we have called content management for twenty years was built for the first job. It was never asked to do the second.

Where the Real Cost Lands

At this point a fair objection turns up: is this not exactly why we keep a human in the loop? It is. Any content platform worth running in an enterprise keeps a person between the agent and the published page. A system that lets an agent push unreviewed work straight to production is not showing you the risk of agentic content. It is showing you that it was never built for the enterprise to begin with.

So the risk worth talking about is not the rogue page. Review catches that. The risk is waste.

A read and a write still fail in opposite directions, and the cost is what separates them. When a retrieval system returns a weak answer, one person spends a moment sorting it out and moves on. When an agent produces a weak write, a layout that misses the brand or a component wired to the wrong relationship or a draft that ignored a business rule, someone has to notice it, correct it, and often send it back to be generated again. Every one of those steps costs the reviewer's time and burns the tokens that produced the work in the first place.

That cost lands on the exact person the agent was supposed to help. The promise of agentic content is leverage, so the specialist spends their time on judgment instead of assembly. A guessing agent quietly reverses the trade. Rather than assembling the page themselves, the reviewer now inspects a draft they did not write. They hunt for the places it went wrong and explain what to change. That is not leverage. It is rework wearing the costume of automation, and it scales the wrong way, because an agent that guesses does not guess once. It guesses across every draft, at machine volume.

This is why context is the whole game. A human in the loop is cheap when the work in front of them is already right, and expensive when it is not. Give the agent structured, governed context and the review step becomes a quick yes. Hand it flat fields and hope, and the review step becomes the job you were trying to automate, now done twice.

Every Generation Answered to a Different Consumer

It helps to look at what actually changed, because the content platform has served three different consumers over its life.

Content Management System Headless and Composable Agentic Content Platform
Primary consumer A person in a browser A front end serving a person Software that acts
Content flows Outward, to one presentation Outward, to many presentations In both directions
How editorial judgment is applied By hand, page by page By hand, page by page Encoded as context up front, confirmed at review
Measure of success Editorial autonomy Reuse across channels Safe, accountable machine action

For most of that history, judgment stayed with the editor. The system stored content and rendered it, while a person decided what was true, what was on-brand, and what was ready to publish. Headless moved content to more places, but it did not move that responsibility. A human still stood between the content and the world.

Agentic content management changes that. The agent now does the assembly the editor used to do, which means the judgment the editor brought to the work has to come from somewhere. A platform that carries it, with the business rules and the content relationships and the standards for what good looks like, hands the reviewer a draft that already reflects those things. A platform that cannot leaves every one of those calls for the person to supply by hand, one draft at a time. The judgment does not disappear. It moves back onto the reviewer the agent was supposed to free.

The Distinction the Category Is Missing

Here is the line most tooling blurs, and the reason so many agentic demos fall apart the moment they meet a real enterprise. Content is not context.

Content is what you publish: the page, the article, the product description, the campaign.

Context is everything an agent draws on to produce that content safely. Your brand voice. Your content model. Your business rules, your reference material, and the relationships that connect all of it. Context is what turns a vague prompt into a result the organization would actually stand behind.

Most systems collapse the two. They hand an agent a set of flat fields and hope it infers the rest: the tone, the relationships, the governance that always lived in the editor's head. Guessing works beautifully in a demo and breaks in production, because the fields never carried the context to begin with. The agent was handed the output and asked to reconstruct the reasoning behind it.

Treating context as a governed layer of its own, with clear owners, review, version history, and scope, is what separates an agent that produces a plausible draft from one an enterprise can trust to publish. The prompt gets simpler. The result gets more accountable. The organization decides in advance what the agent is allowed to know and do.

What Structure Actually Buys You

Here the shape of the underlying system stops being an implementation detail and becomes the whole question.

An agent that writes needs things the read era never demanded. It needs to see the page as a structure it can reason about, with components, order, and resolved values, rather than a wall of markup it has to pattern-match. It needs to work inside the governance that already exists, the roles and permissions and workflows the organization spent years getting right, instead of routing around them. And it needs its output to land in a reviewable state, with a record of who initiated the work and what produced it, so a person can still say yes or no before anyone sees it. Structured context is what makes that review a quick confirmation rather than a second round of work.

None of that can be added after the fact. A platform that stores content as flat, disconnected fields cannot suddenly expose relationships it never modeled. A platform with shallow governance cannot suddenly supervise an agent it was never designed to hold. These are properties of the foundation. Either the structured content and the mature governance are already there, or you are trying to pour a footing under a building that already stands.

For years, careful content modeling and granular governance were treated as overhead, the slow and unglamorous work that held teams back. The agentic era inverts that. The same rigor is now what lets a team move quickly and safely at once, because it is exactly what an agent needs in order to act without guessing.

Where This Gets Real: Drupal Canvas

Plenty of tools can turn a prompt into a layout now. That trick is becoming table stakes, and it is the wrong thing to be dazzled by. The real question is whether the layout that comes back is on-brand, relevant, usable on the devices your audience actually reaches for, and built on terms you control. The answer depends on the foundation under the prompt, and that is what Drupal Canvas is designed around.

Four differences show up the moment you move past the demo.

The first is how layouts get built. Canvas assembles them from Twig-based single-directory components, React-based code components, and Drupal blocks, so you work with the component technologies your team already knows rather than adopting one proprietary format wholesale.

The second is where the context comes from. Because Canvas can ground its work in the Context Control Center, the agent is not inventing your brand from a prompt. It is working from the voice, content model, business rules, and relationships your organization has already curated and approved. That is the difference between a layout that is merely plausible and one that is on-brand and relevant.

The third is the model underneath. Through a provider-agnostic AI layer, Canvas is not wired to a single vendor's model. You use the one that suits the task in front of you, and you change your mind later as the field moves, without re-platforming to chase whatever shipped this quarter.

The fourth is where the output can go. Coupled or decoupled, you manage the content once and render it across the front ends and devices your audience uses, so a traditional site and a headless build stay open to you from the same system.

Any one of these helps on its own. Together they are the distance between generating a layout and producing one you can put into production: on-brand because it is grounded in your context, usable anywhere because the output is ambidextrous, and built with whatever model best fits the work.

The Engine Behind It: The Drupal AI Initiative

None of this is a single product feature or a one-vendor bet. It comes out of the Drupal AI Initiative, the funded and coordinated effort in the Drupal community to make the platform both a great place to build with AI and a safe place for agents to act. That initiative is the engine behind the capabilities that put Drupal in front on the things that matter here: structured content an agent can reason about, governance it has to respect, a provider-agnostic model layer, and the freedom to publish coupled or decoupled.

The work runs on two fronts. One brings common AI features directly into Drupal so they operate together instead of as disconnected add-ons. The other makes Drupal legible and callable to agents and tools working from outside, measured against an Agent Readiness scorecard that keeps the progress honest. Because it is happening in the open, on standards-based foundations, the improvements compound for everyone building on Drupal rather than accruing to one company.

The Context Control Center is a good marker of the pace. It turns the context an agent can draw on into a governed content entity, with ownership, workflow, revisions, translations, and scope, and its first stable release is expected in the days ahead. That moves the grounding layer from promising to production, which is the exact piece most platforms are still treating as a roadmap.

If you want to see where this is heading, DrupalCon Rotterdam has two AI Summits dedicated to it. I will be presenting at the AI Dev Summit, and my colleague Scott Falconer will present at the Enterprise AI Summit, one track for the people building with these tools and one for the people who have to answer for them in production.

Design It In, Do Not Patch It On

Faced with a fast-moving category, the tempting move is to wait for a winner and buy in later. The trouble is that the properties that matter here do not arrive as an upgrade. Structured content, relationship-aware data, a governed context layer, model choice, and the freedom to render coupled or decoupled are either in the foundation or they are not.

So the question for a content team is not which AI feature to switch on. It is harder and more useful than that. When an agent stops reading your content and starts writing it, does your platform still carry the judgment that used to live with your editors? Content answers to a person. Context is what lets software act in their place. The teams that see the difference, and that build on a foundation treating context, structure, and governance as first-class concerns, are the ones who will let agents do real work while keeping a hand on what ships.

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Early Bird Registration for DrupalCon Orlando 2027 is Live!

Its that time of the year where you stand the best chance to secure your spot for DrupalCon Orlando at the lowest price of the year.

Starting September 14, 2026, tickets are available at just $650. But that's not all. Every paid Early Bird registrant will receive Drupy, a limited-edition PHP elePHPant x DrupalCon plush, complete with a latin name: Elephpas hypertextus drupalensis primus, roughly translated to "the first Drupal PHP elephant." Drupy will be available for pickup at registration in Orlando while supplies last, so the earlier you register, the better!

DrupalCon Orlando 2027 takes place March 22–25, 2027 at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort, a stunning 1,500-acre resort just minutes from Walt Disney World® and Universal Orlando Resort™. All conference activities happen right at the hotel, putting you at the center of everything from keynotes and sessions to hallway conversations and community gatherings.

The Early Bird rate is available until February 1, 2027 at 7:59 AM EST, after which prices go up. Registering early also means you'll have more time to plan your trip, book your stay at the official hotel block at the discounted rate starting at just $259/night with no resort fee, and make the most of everything DrupalCon Orlando has to offer.

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AI at DrupalCon Rotterdam

Written by Duncan Worrell (dunx)

DrupalCon Rotterdam is almost here. Alongside two dedicated AI summits and the main conference keynote, the program is stacked with high-value AI content for developers, strategists, and leaders alike. Whether you're looking to push agentic workflows, scale digital governance, streamline content operations, or keep your AI integrations trustworthy, here is a complete breakdown of the top AI sessions to help you optimize your schedule.

Full schedule at https://events.drupal.org/rotterdam2026/schedule
Tickets at https://events.drupal.org/rotterdam2026/registration-information

All session times are local CEST.

Summits

In addition to the main DrupalCon event, there are two AI-specific summits being held catering for two very different audiences.

Enterprise Drupal AI Summit

An executive-focused event for CXOs, Heads of Digital, and enterprise leaders connecting with curated Drupal AI partners. Hosted on the historic former ocean liner, SS Rotterdam. 

Date & Time: All day Monday, 28 September
Event details here: https://summit.enterprisedrupal.eu/schedule.html

AI Dev Summit

Getting Drupal developers up to speed on AI coding tools, AI in PHP/Symfony/Drupal frameworks, Canvas, and Drupal CMS innovations.

Date & Time: All day Monday, 28 September
Event details here: https://events.drupal.org/rotterdam2026/ai-dev-summit

Keynote

For many, the DriesNote by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert is the week’s highlight. Expect a keynote packed with the latest AI roadmap updates, architectural reveals, and live technical demos.

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 10:30 to 11:45

DriesNote will live stream on YouTube if you can’t make the event in person.

Sessions

Every session is likely to mention “AI” but we expect these sessions to be focused on AI. 

Unblocking AI: Why Programmes Stall at Pilot Stage, and How to Move Past It

Research and strategies for moving AI initiatives past the pilot phase to deliver real-world impact.

Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 13:00 – 13:10
Speakers: Amanda Falshaw (AI Enablement Lead at Reading Room) & Megan Harvey (Reading Room)

Open Intranet: A Drupal-Based Digital Workplace

Features AI-assisted content creation as part of an open-source Drupal intranet workspace.

Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 13:15 – 13:25  
Speaker: Maciej Łukiański (CEO and Co-founder of Droptica)

Culture Mapping the Human Side of AI — A Workshop to Meet Your People Where They Are

Leadership and organizational change management required to guide teams through fast-moving AI adoption.

Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 13:30 – 14:15  
Speaker: Timi Csontos (Culture Consultant/Freelygive)

Reviewer-Friendly AI: A Practical Drupal Contribution Workshop

Practical AI-assisted workflows designed to turn ideas into high-quality, review-ready open-source contributions.

Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 13:30 – 14:15  
Speaker: Scott Falconer (Senior Principal Software Engineer at Acquia)

Why Your AI Agent Hallucinates: Engineering Lessons From a Production Workflow Builder in Drupal

Engineering reliable, trustworthy AI agent integrations in Drupal using modules like AI, ECA, and agentic tools.

Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 13:30 – 14:15  
Speaker: Shibin Devadas Kakanat (Backend Pro Lead at Factorial)

Context Control Center: Bringing AI Context Natively to Drupal CMS

Structuring, scoping, and natively managing AI context within Drupal CMS for downstream agents and tools.

Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 14:25 – 15:10  
Speakers: Emma Horrell (User Experience Manager University of Edinburgh and UX Research Lead for Drupal CMS) & James Abrahams (Technical Director at Freelygive)

Encoding Expertise: How UX Research Powers Human-First AI

Applying UX research methods to train and ground AI content tools to output domain-specific quality.

Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 14:25 – 15:10  
Speaker: Aidan Foster (Senior UX Strategist at Kanopi Studios)

From Shadow AI to Sovereign AI Infrastructure

Addressing data security, compliance, provider selection, and cost control as AI adoption scales.

Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 14:25 – 15:10  
Speaker: Michael Schmid (Head of Technology and Co-Founder of amazee.io)

AI-assisted site migration to Drupal Canvas: a real-world case study

Testing AI coding agents on live projects to automate complex site migrations into Drupal Canvas, examining real metrics, wins, and limitations.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 10:45 – 11:30  
Speakers: Wolfgang Ziegler (Architect, Founder of drunomics) & Jeremy Chinquist (Project Manager at drunomics)

AI-Augmented Accessibility: From Automated Alt-Text to Governance Gates

Automating inclusive governance and identifying accessibility errors early by bridging code, humans, and AI workflows.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 10:45 – 11:30  
Speaker: Mike Gifford (Senior Accessibility Strategist at CivicActions)

Nobody Asked for a CMS: From Content Management to Answer Delivery in the Age of AI

Adapting content architecture for direct answer delivery to AI systems while increasing Drupal’s strategic value.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 10:45 – 11:30  
Speakers: Tomi Mikola & Ulla Koho (both digital strategists and content architects at Wunder)

Clean Code in the Age of AI: Writing for Humans When Machines Write the Code

Maintaining human readability, software architecture, and clean code standards when using AI generators.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 11:40 – 12:25  
Speaker: Len Swaneveld (Senior Drupal Developer at iO)

One Brand Voice from 35 Sources: How We Rebuilt VisitEurope.com and How Drupal AI Unifies Its Tone

Unifying 35 national voices into a cohesive travel brand using generative AI integrated into Drupal.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 11:40 – 12:25  
Speakers: Krisztián Kása & Zsófia Alföldi (both Project Managers at Brainsum)

AI Best Practises

Leveraging Drupal’s structured architecture to build optimized environments for AI Agents running inside and outside CMS boundaries.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 12:30 – 12:40  
Speaker: James Abrahams (Technical Director at Freelygive)

The New Front Door: How AI Agents Are Driving Drupal's Growth

How autonomous AI agents act as primary decision-makers selecting, building, and verifying Drupal systems.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 12:45 – 13:30  
Speaker: Scott Falconer (Senior Principal Software Engineer at Acquia)

Drupal AI Product Update: From Foundation to Agentic Workflows

Official product update from the Drupal AI Initiative leadership on building production-ready Agentic CMS capabilities.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 13:40 – 14:25  
Speakers: Niels Aers (CTO/AI Tech Lead at Dropsolid) & Dr. Christoph Breidert (CEO and Founder of 1xINTERNET)

From Brief to Review-Ready in 60 Minutes: A Governed AI Campaign Workflow in Drupal 11

Generating governed, high-quality draft campaign pages straight from PDF briefs in minutes without code tickets.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 13:40 – 14:00  
Speaker: Kieran Cott (Executive Creative Technology Director at Delete Agency)

How can we improve Drupal's visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude?

Open discussion on improving how LLMs describe, evaluate, and recommend Drupal to users.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 13:40 – 14:25  
Speaker: Larissa Tropp (Digital Marketing & Growth Specialist at 1xINTERNET)

Dismantling and Reassembling a Drupal Migration with AI

Leveraging AI tools to simplify, re-architect, and map legacy un-typed data into clean destination bundles during migrations.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 14:45 – 15:30  
Speaker: Roberto Peruzzo (Principal Architect and Founder of Sparklingboys)

AI Mid-Life Crisis: failure stories from the silent majority

Honest post-mortems on AI project failures and pragmatic ways to navigate rapid technological shifts.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 14:45 – 15:30  
Speakers: Dieter Blomme (Drupal Architect at Dropsolid) & Valery Lourie (Lead Software Engineer at EPAM Systems)

Scolta: Drop-in AI Search Without a Search Server

Running lightweight, client-side search powered by Pagefind with an AI layer for query expansion and summaries.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 14:45 – 15:30  
Speaker: Jeremy Andrews (CEO and Founder of Tag1 Consulting)

SDCs, Canvas, and the Agent That Builds With Them

Training AI agents to generate Single Directory Components, insert them into pages, and verify browser rendering.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 14:45 – 15:30  
Speaker: Matt Glaman (Principal Software Engineer at Acquia)

AI Assists, Humans Decide: Agentic Workflows in Drupal - A Drupal AI Hackathon Story

Agentic translation and governance workflows developed for the European Commission across 24 languages.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 16:00 – 16:45  
Speakers: David Galeano & Adam Nagy (both work in the DIGIT department at the European Commission)

AI-Powered Site Building in Drupal: From Blank Site to Styled Pages in a Conversation

Enabling non-technical users to build, style, and structure complete Drupal sites via conversational prompts.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 16:00 – 16:45  
Speakers: Francesco Pesenti & Francesco Quagliati (both are Developer Advocates and Solution Engineers at Platform.sh)

From Drupal Content to AI Answers: Learnings from EPSY

Designing constrained AI search engines over standard chatbots to deliver structured content answers.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 16:00 – 16:45  
Speaker: Antonella Picarella (Head of Digital Communications & Content Strategy at BFF Banking Group)

From SEO to GEO: What Changes, What Doesn’t

Strategic shifts from Search Engine Optimization to Generative Engine Optimization as AI engines handle discovery.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 16:00 – 16:45  
Speaker: Wouter De Bruycker (Digital Marketing Strategist at Dropsolid)

From local voices to global impact: Powering World Cancer Day with Drupal and AI

Translating and moderating hundreds of high-volume personal stories across 60+ languages using AI tools.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 17:00 – 17:45  
Speakers: Charles Andrew Revkin & Diego Fernando Costa (both part of the digital communications team at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), which runs World Cancer Day)

How Marketers Win in an AI‑First Search World (AEO & GEO Playbook)

Practical tactics for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and maintaining content discoverability in AI platforms.

Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 September 2026, 17:00 – 17:45  
Speakers: Reena Tripathi (Digital Marketing Manager at OpenSense Labs) & Anubhav Gupta (CEO/Technical Architect at OpenSense Labs)

Whether you’re coming to DrupalCon Rotterdam to build with AI, figure out how to govern it, or understand where it is taking Drupal next, there is a lot to choose from. From the two Monday summits through the DriesNote and a packed slate of sessions, AI is clearly woven throughout this year’s programme. Check the full schedule, plan around the sessions that matter most to you, and we’ll see you in Rotterdam.

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September 2026 Drupal for Nonprofits Chat

Join us THURSDAY, September 17 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, for our regularly scheduled call to chat about all things Drupal and nonprofits. (Convert to your local time zone.)

We don't have anything specific on the agenda this month, so we'll have plenty of time to discuss anything that's on our minds at the intersection of Drupal and nonprofits. Got something specific you want to talk about? Feel free to share ahead of time in our collaborative Google document at https://nten.org/drupal/notes!

All nonprofit Drupal devs and users, regardless of experience level, are always welcome on this call.

This free call is sponsored by NTEN.org and open to everyone.

Information on joining the meeting can be found in our collaborative Google document.

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Context Control Center: Teaching Drupal AI Your House Rules with Kristen Pol

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Drupal Association 12.09.2026

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One Command, One Migration: AI Best Practices in Action (Jamie Abrahams, George Kastanis)

Jamie Abrahams (FreelyGive, Drupal AI Initiative) is going to migrate a site with AI, live. He'll start with the one-line installer, get a project set up, and run a real migration so you can see how the workflow actually goes. Then he'll run the evals at the end, which is how you find out whether the migration did a good job or just looked like it did. George Kastanis (Point Blank) maintains AI Best Practices and the AI Eval tooling. He'll follow with discussion on the thinking behind those evals, plus a quick look at a results board. read more
Drupal Association 04.09.2026

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Beyond Headless - How Drupalists, Front-End Natives, and LLMs All Win with Next.js

Next.js is one of the fastest growing web technologies on the internet, by far the most popular framework for assembling websites using React components. A generation of web development talent learned this approach to building — JAMStack instead of LAMP — but the front-end is only half the solution. While having Drupal feed a front-end via API is nothing new, historical approaches to headless implementation have been costly, complex, and involved difficult trade-offs. But what if you could forget about traditional “theming” work, and let your designers and Javascript devs use their preferred tools, while seamlessly (and quickly) integrating Drupal as a back-end to feed content and even page layout to a fully-featured Next.js front-end? As Drupal has modernized with Single Directory Components and Canvas, and as stronger standards have emerged for component-based design systems, new approaches are emerging that offer ways for everyone to win. It’s also worth noting that this component-first perspective is a key way to safely and tastefully leverage LLMs to accelerate both development and site building. In this session, Josh Koenig, co-founder at Pantheon, and Tim Lehnen, CTO of the Drupal Association, will talk about the current state of the art with Drupal, and what’s coming from the world of JS and component-based design, and walk through how some teams are learning how to make everyone happy and move faster than ever before. read more
Drupal Association 02.09.2026

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MCP from Concept to Demo: An Open Data Example with DKAN - Dan Goodwin (Drupal AI Learners Club)

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Drupal Association 22.08.2026

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Breaking the Theme Barrier: Simplifying Drupal with SDC & SDC Display

Jennifer Dust (jldust) Drupal's Single Directory Components (SDC) represent a significant shift in how we approach component-based theming by grouping templates, CSS, and JavaScript into a single directory. This architecture simplifies both the organization and the management of theme components, making it easier for developers to maintain and scale Drupal projects. SDC ensures that all assets related to a component are located in one place, streamlining the development process and reducing complexity for front-end and back-end teams alike. The SDC Display module adds flexibility by allowing developers and site builders to link components directly through Drupal’s admin interface. It breaks down theming barriers by making components reusable and accessible, enabling site builders and themers to map and manage components without relying solely on custom code. As a result, it makes it easier to adapt and reuse components across different sections of a site without manual intervention. In this session, we’ll showcase a practical demo of SDC and SDC Display in action, illustrating how to efficiently build and connect SDC components for a faster and more maintainable development workflow. We’ll also discuss strategies to improve collaboration between designers, front-end developers (FEDs) and back-end developers (BEDs), enabling each to work more efficiently within their areas of expertise. Slides for this presentation: https://bit.ly/breaking-the-theme-barrier https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/breaking-theme-barrier-simplifying-drupal-sdc-sdc-display read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Selling Drupal: How to win projects, and not alienate delivery teams

Hannah O'Leary (hannaholeary) Hannah McDermott (hannah mcdermott) All too frequently the relationship between sales and delivery is a constant balancing act. Sales teams are driven by ambitious targets, while delivery teams are focused on accurate scoping, sustainable recovery rates, and the practical realities of open-source implementation. The result? Friction, misaligned expectations, and, in the worst cases, even a hit to client satisfaction. In this session, we’ll share how Zoocha’s Business Development and Delivery leadership joined forces to turn this tension into a genuine partnership. By introducing transparent handover processes, joint scoping, and shared KPIs, we built a framework where both teams can genuinely succeed together. We’ll discuss improved forecasting accuracy, how open communication channels reduced “us vs them” dynamics, and how collaboration had a direct impact on quality Drupal delivery and client happiness. Attendees will walk away with practical strategies to replicate in their own organizations: tools for building cross-team empathy, opportunities for aligning metrics, and methods for creating a culture of transparency. Whether you lead sales, manage projects, or oversee delivery teams, this session will give you a fresh perspective on how to bridge one of the most common frictions in agency life. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/selling-drupal-how-win-projects-and-not-alienate-delivery-teams read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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A Dashboard that Works: Giving Editors What They Want, But Focusing on What They Need

Albert Hughes (ahughes3) Dave Hansen-Lange (dalin) When 500 editors across 130 sites log into our Drupal platform, the first thing they see is a dashboard designed to support their work. But what should that dashboard actually do? Over the last year, we’ve been figuring out how to answer that question. The result is a dashboard that surfaces what matters most to our editors: announcements about new features, their recent edits, broken links, accessibility issues, duplicate profiles, permissions, design settings, and more. This session isn’t a technical deep-dive into code; it’s the story of the decisions behind the dashboard. We’ll share how we prioritized features, balanced editor needs with technical realities, and decided what belonged on the dashboard—and what didn’t. Attendees will walk away with lessons they can apply to their own platforms, whether they manage one site or one hundred. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/dashboard-works-giving-editors-what-they-want-focusing-what-they-need read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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A peek behind the curtain on how we run an open source, global, and privacy-first AI Infrastructure

Michael Schmid (schnitzel) In this session, we will let you all see behind the curtain of amazee.ai. This will not be a sales pitch in any way, but rather an in depth overview how AI infrastructure is ran today on a global scale. While AI developers might only see an API endpoint, behind the scenes a lot more is happening. A short overview of the things that we will cover: - API Gateways - How LLMs are actually executed - How VectorDBs work - Monitoring, Alerting and Metrics tools we use - How we can ensure privacy and data compliance - Actual demos, Dashboards and much more! https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/peek-behind-curtain-how-we-run-open-source-global-and-privacy-first-ai read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Beyond Chatbots: Creating Smarter, Personalized Experiences in Drupal with AG-UI

Aaron Christian (aaronchristian) We are witnessing a fundamental shift in how businesses utilize Artificial Intelligence. The era of simple, text-based chatbots is ending. In its place, a new generation of "AI Agents" is emerging, intelligent digital assistants capable of reasoning and collaborating with humans in real-time to customize content experiences. For Drupal site owners, marketers, and content teams, this opens up a powerful opportunity. Imagine your website becoming a collaborative workspace, where AI collaborates with your visitors to personalize experiences in real time as they interact with your content. This session will introduce a new approach to bringing these interactive AI assistants into Drupal using a component-based toolkit built on AG-UI. While the technology runs behind the scenes, the experience is designed to feel natural and intuitive, AI that is embedded into your end user content experience, rather than in a disconnected pop-up. The session will include practical examples of how AI can: - Create more responsive, trustworthy user experiences through real-time interactivity, where the interface updates instantly as the AI works, giving users clear feedback and confidence - Protect your long-term investment in AI by using a standardized approach that avoids vendor lock-in and makes it easy to evolve or switch AI providers over time without disrupting your site experience - how this custom toolkit bridges the gap between complex AI logic and the intuitive Drupal user experience https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/beyond-chatbots-creating-smarter-personalized-experiences-drupal-ag-ui read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Advanced Site Building with Drupal Canvas

Ted Bowman (tedbow) Enabling ambitious site builders has always been a superpower of Drupal and the introduction of Drupal Canvas has taken this to another level. This session will explore advanced site-building techniques utilizing the new Drupal Canvas module. Attendees will learn how to combine the power of Canvas with existing core modules like Views and popular contrib modules, all without writing any code! We will demonstrate how to build a demo site that leverages Drupal's robust information architecture capabilities alongside the streamlined user experience offered by Drupal Canvas. Attendees will learn how to: Create dynamic landing pages Use Canvas content templates to format structured content Link field data inside templates to SDC and Code Component properties Create template slots, enabling content editors to further customize content using Canvas templates. Manage permissions to tailor the user experience of Canvas for different user groups Build Views to showcase related content and author details inside Canvas templates. Use Views to display lists of content formatted by Canvas templates As Drupal Canvas is rapidly evolving, we will cover the latest site building related Canvas features at the time of DrupalCon. We will also demonstrate some of the most useful contrib modules to extend Drupal Canvas. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/advanced-site-building-drupal-canvas read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Open Y: A Drupal-Powered Platform for Good

Avi Schwab (froboy) Sarah Halby (smhalby) The YMCA’s mission is rooted in community impact—and in today’s world, that includes a strong, unified digital presence. Enter Open Y, an open-source, Drupal-based platform built specifically for YMCAs to streamline content management, marketing, and integrations. In this session, we’ll dive into how Open Y empowers local YMCAs to deliver scalable, accessible, and user-friendly websites while reducing development overhead through shared community resources. Whether you're a developer, site builder, digital marketer, or decision-maker, you'll come away with: - An overview of the Open Y distribution and how it builds on Drupal 11 - A look at how the YMCA network collaborates to enhance the platform - Real-world examples of YMCAs using Open Y to increase engagement and reduce tech debt - A roadmap for getting started with Open Y (whether you're upgrading or launching a new site) We’ll also cover key modules and architecture choices in Open Y, and show how you can contribute or customize it to fit your organization’s unique needs. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/open-y-drupal-powered-platform-good read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Designing for Difference: Practical Strategies for Building a Neuroinclusive Organization

Matthew Saunders (matthews) If recognizing the value of neurodiversity is the first step, the next is changing systems, environments, and behaviours to actually support neurodivergent people. Neuroinclusive spaces use the ethos of Universal Design. Universal design (UD) is a concept that involves designing products and environments to be usable by as many people as possible, regardless of age, size, ability, or disability. The goal is to maximize usability without the need for specialized design or adaptation. UD can be applied to many things, including buildings, services, tools, learning strategies, and physical spaces. It focuses on equity in design. This session will move beyond why neurodiversity matters and focus on how to operationalize inclusion at every level of an organization, from hiring, to team culture, to leadership practices. Neuroinclusion isn’t about fixing people, it’s about fixing systems. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/designing-difference-practical-strategies-building-neuroinclusive-organization read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Building Enterprise AI Tools: From Concept to Production

Mark Shropshire (shrop) Mike Wilbur (mwilbur) Organizations rush to implement AI but see minimal ROI by treating it as a feature rather than a fundamental shift in how teams work. This gap costs companies millions in wasted licenses and missed opportunities. This session cuts through the hype to show our proven approach for developing AI-powered solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing enterprise systems. We'll demonstrate real tools built for clients, including Tessera—our AI solution that transforms project management by intelligently generating comprehensive Jira epics, issues, and tasks from high-level requirements. You'll see how we leverage Elvex for integration orchestration, n8n for workflow automation, and modern AI technologies to create maintainable, scalable systems. This is battle-tested methodology from enterprise development trenches, covering architecture decisions, integration patterns, and practical considerations separating successful implementations from expensive experiments. Live demonstrations show these tools connecting with Drupal APIs and content management systems, but principles apply to any enterprise platform. You'll learn to evaluate AI use cases, design robust architectures, create intuitive interfaces, and maintain systems in real-world environments using approaches you can implement immediately. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/building-enterprise-ai-tools-concept-production read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Misusing...er...uh... Re-purposing Recipes to achieve development bliss

Philip Frilling (pfrilling) I want... - Drupal CMS - Configuration management - Automatic updates - Git workflows - Modern infrastructure - Continuous delivery - Project Browser for content editors In the words of Queen, "I want it all... and I want it now!" Drupal's configuration management has evolved from strictly living in the database to becoming entities that can be exported, imported and validated. The strict management of configuration in code has me longing for the days where we just let the database handle it all. With the rise of Drupal CMS, configuration management becomes even more challenging. How do we allow content editors and site administrators the ability to configure their site without having a deployment pipeline config:import and blow away those changes? Can we have our configuration management and our modern workflows? https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/misusingeruh-re-purposing-recipes-achieve-development-bliss read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Design Logic Unearthed: Code rock-solid sites via the lost art of design interrogation

Daniel O'Connor (daniel-oconnor) It’s a scenario we’ve all lived through: your deadline is fast approaching. UI bugs are cropping up left, right and center. Spacing is so inconsistent it looks jarring, and your client is stressed that every image they upload in Drupal comes out with people’s faces cropped in half. Can you resist the temptation to add another hack, another field, another confusing instruction? What if instead we took a peek at the design logic behind these elements and found something better? Join me as we resurrect the lost art of design interrogation: a front-end skill for finding lasting solutions that are more robust, more intuitive and simpler to maintain by developing through the eyes of a designer. In this presentation we’ll look at common technical issues in front-end development, and consider why band-aid solutions come up short. We'll then go on a treasure hunt for design logic that allows us to create confident systems that govern spacing, images, and all the rest. Finally, we'll hone our new skill of design interrogation to root out where design logic is missing, and use it as an opportunity to create our own. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/design-logic-unearthed-code-rock-solid-sites-lost-art-design-interrogation read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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AI Agents for Site Builders

Marcus Johansson (marcus_johansson) What if you could open up the world of Agents, so that people with communication and language skills could focus on the prompt writing and the actual way the Agents interact with Drupal or its content is just an abstraction that you get access to with a click of a button. The new Agents framework allows you to build your own business specific Agents without having to code a single line of code. This talk will showcase what an Agent is, the background on how we built the framework, what they can be used for and how they interact with the MCP framework. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/ai-agents-site-builders read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Launching the Drupal Site Template Marketplace

Tim Hestenes Lehnen (hestenet) The potential of Site Templates is clear: by combining recipes, demo content, and a Canvas-compatible theme, they make Drupal’s power, flexibility, and openness more accessible—giving users a head start with DrupalCMS. That innovation becomes transformative once these templates are easy to find and use via a Marketplace on Drupal.org. At DrupalCon Vienna, we announced a pilot program to launch the very first site templates, together with some early Template Makers drawn from the Drupal Certified Partners. We'll talk about what we've learned from the Marketplace pilot, how this will impact the roadmap for Drupal CMS, Drupal Canvas, and Drupal Site Templates in general, and what the roadmap looks like for scaling up to many more site templates. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/launching-drupal-site-template-marketplace read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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From Insights to Innovation: How UX Research is driving the future of Drupal CMS

Emma Horrell (emma horrell) What if Drupal's biggest innovation opportunity comes from studying users, not systems? As Drupal CMS UX Research Lead, my Drupal journey is unconventional. As a content writer and UX professional I am obsessed with watching people use interfaces to spark transformative ideas. I’m committed to aligning Drupal's strengths with user goals, from mindful word choices to strategic AI implementation, so I’m perfectly placed to lead Drupal's UX evolution! UX thinking bridges the gap between Drupal's power and non-technical users' needs. This session reveals how a comprehensive UX research programme is driving a product that's fundamentally changing the narrative about Drupal, turning feelings into features and accelerating innovation across our entire community. Join my session and you’ll get consolidated research findings and the full picture of what we’ve learned from AI testing, surveys, interviews, concept studies, and usability research. I'll reveal what telemetry data exposed about users’ first encounters with Drupal CMS, and share eye-opening results from our community quiz about Drupal terminology. You'll understand how we use all this data to make product decisions and maintain our continuous learning approach. I’ll include interactive discussion time for your feedback and feature requests, and I'll teach you practical UX techniques you can immediately apply to make your Drupal work more user-focused. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/insights-innovation-how-ux-research-driving-future-drupal-cms read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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How to Land an EPIC Contribution in Drupal (Without Losing Your Mind)

Mike Herchel (mherchel) Matt Glaman (mglaman) 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. In this wildly entertaining session from two seasoned Drupal core maintainers and bug fixers, you’ll be walked through the murky steps of getting your feature or bugfix into Drupal core, Drupal CMS, or prominent contrib project. We'll cover: - Identifying issues or features that can be fixed - Pitching the idea to relevant stakeholders - Assembling your team - Doing the actual work (including what makes a MR review-worthy) - Handling the complexities of communication (spoiler: this is often the hardest part) - Getting it across the finish line (aka committed!) We’ll also break down real-world case studies of contributions to Drupal core, following them from first idea to final commit, and covering the wins, the failures, and the desperate Slack messages in between. At the end of this session, you’ll walk away with the motivation, ability, and confidence to land your very own EPIC contribution. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/how-land-epic-contribution-drupal-without-losing-your-mind read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Stop building AI features

Every CMS and web tool is racing to add AI content generation, AI image editing, AI assistants. It makes sense — and demos look great! But this approach has a ceiling. We will never out-build the frontier model providers, and the features we ship today will feel outdated in six months. There's a different strategy that plays to open source strengths, and it has nothing to do with building AI features your users interact with directly. It's about what happens when AI agents — not humans — become the primary way people create, manage, and transact on the web. This talk makes the case that the most important AI investment for open source CMSs isn't the features you ship. It's the infrastructure you expose. We'll look at what an agent-ready platform looks like, why open source has a structural advantage over closed SaaS and one-shot apps in this shift, and what changes when you stop thinking about AI as a feature and start thinking about it as your audience. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/stop-building-ai-features read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Steal This Playbook: UX Lessons From Nonprofit Websites

Janna Fiester (jannafiester) Joanna Jackson (joannajackson) Great non-profit websites do more than deliver content, they create connection. They guide users, inspire engagement and donations, and make complex organizations feel human. In this session, we’ll break down real-world examples of top non-profit websites and show how their UX strategies translate into Drupal builds and performant experiences. From navigation patterns to content architecture to design choices, you’ll leave with an actionable playbook of practical ideas ready to apply to your next Drupal project. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/steal-playbook-ux-lessons-nonprofit-websites read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Winning the Higher Ed CMS Battle: How to Outsell Proprietary Platforms with Drupal

We know that Drupal is a predominant Content Management System amongst the top 100 universities globally. What about the other 5,000+ institutions? Who’s choosing proprietary CMS’s, when, and why? How can we ensure Drupal agencies are positioned competitively when competing against proprietary partners for website redesigns? In this session, we’ll walk through data-driven insights for agency leaders competing in the higher education market. We’ll focus on: - Proprietary CMS’s products, features, pricing, differentiators, and more - Guiding a CMS recommendation or a CMS evaluation process - Addressing common misconceptions around Drupal By the end of the presentation, you’ll be better-equipped to win Drupal work at the critical junction of the CMS + agency choice. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/winning-higher-ed-cms-battle-how-outsell-proprietary-platforms-drupal read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Drupal AI Initiative: A Year in Review with Panel Q&A

Paul Johnson (pdjohnson) Christoph Breidert (breidert) James Abrahams (yautja_cetanu) Scott Falconer (scott-falconer) Kristen Pol (kristen pol) With the launch of the Drupal AI Initiative approaching its one-year anniversary, now is the perfect time for a critical look back and an exciting preview of what's next. Building on the significant announcements around AI revealed in the DriesNote, this session offers a comprehensive exploration of the Drupal AI Initiative. Attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of the progress achieved so far, including recent developments in AI integration within Drupal, as well as the roadmap for upcoming features and improvements. The session will include: * A detailed overview of the current capabilities enabled by the Drupal AI Initiative. * A forward-looking discussion of upcoming developments, including opportunities for community contribution and experimentation. * An open “Ask Me Anything” segment, providing participants the chance to engage directly with the initiative’s technical leads, clarify technical questions, and explore integration possibilities. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/drupal-ai-initiative-year-review-panel-qa read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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No Code Queries: Dynamic Content with Views

Amani Mansour (amani.mansour92) Drupal’s Views module is a powerful tool for building custom content listings, filtered displays, and dynamic, auto-updating pages — all without writing any code. As DrupalCMS continues to simplify the site-building experience with a user-friendly interface and built-in tools like Experience Builder, many newer users are discovering Drupal for the first time. Views provides a natural next step for those users: a way to go beyond simple content creation and start building more dynamic, tailored experiences. In this session, we’ll walk through how Views works, including: Creating lists of content, users, media, or taxonomy terms Using filters, sorting, and contextual logic to tailor displays Displaying Views as blocks or pages Connecting Views with Layout Builder or Experience Builder This session will demonstrate how Views can help you build smarter, more flexible sites — without needing to write custom code. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/no-code-queries-dynamic-content-views read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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The state of JavaScript Code Components in Drupal Canvas

Bálint Kléri (balintbrews) Drupal Canvas introduced Code Components last year at DrupalCon Atlanta, opening a new avenue for Drupal frontend engineering by shipping a zero-setup, in-browser code editor, and out-of-the-box support for React and Tailwind CSS. A lot has happened since then. As the technical lead for Code Components, I've watched the possibilities steadily grow as Drupal Canvas has matured and become stable. New features have been introduced to support data fetching and Next.js-style image optimization. Experiments are underway to support server-side rendering and third-party imports. Editing Code Components is no longer bound to the browser: A CLI tool makes it possible to work with them in any development environment. This opens up interesting opportunities, such as building decoupled frontends. This session will discuss different approaches and techniques for working with Code Components in Drupal Canvas, as well as the current state of all features, experiments, and plans for the future. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/state-javascript-code-components-drupal-canvas read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Drupal developer's guide to Canvas

Feliksas Mazeikis (f.mazeikis) This technical session covers the high-level architecture and inner workings of Drupal Canvas. The session focuses on the back-end aspects that Drupal developers need to know when developing with future Canvas adoption in mind. Learn the basics of the Canvas data model, the rationale behind its architecture, and which APIs are intended for module developers. I'll cover: - how to make SDCs and Block Plugins compatible with Canvas - how metadata and schema validation enables the Canvas UI to create relevant form fields on the fly - creating new Component Source Plugins, using Paragraphs and Layout Builder as examples - how Canvas' Component and Code Component config entity types' plumbing powers much of what you see in the UI We'll finish with an overview of existing debugging tools, available documentation, and configuration management strategies. The goal: you'll walk away with a sense of accomplishment that you *get* how it works and can expand it! https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/drupal-developers-guide-canvas read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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The Bug Stops Here: The State of Georgia Shifts Left

James Sansbury (q0rban) Jasmyne Epps (jasmyneepps) How the State of Georgia streamlined their QA and UAT process to ship code faster and catch bugs earlier. Jasmyne Epps (Unit Director, Digital Services Georgia) and James Sansbury (Owner, Tugboat) reveal how Georgia transformed their software delivery lifecycle for GovHub, their Drupal CMS powering 80+ state agency websites. Traditional staging-server bottlenecks created end-of-sprint QA crunches, delayed releases, team burnout, and expensive rework. Migrating 80+ websites with the existing workflow was infeasible. Implementing "shift left" moved testing, QA, and stakeholder signoff to pull request time. This distributed QA throughout sprints and caught issues earlier, benefiting developers, QA testers, product managers, and stakeholders. Key Topics: • Identifying and eliminating SDLC bottlenecks • Implementing "shift left" testing in government environments • Leveraging Docker, CircleCI, and Tugboat for testing infrastructure • Managing complex migration workflows with parallel testing • Visual regression testing and automated QA integration • Secure data handling strategies for realistic test environments https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/bug-stops-here-state-georgia-shifts-left read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Display Builder, the HTMX-powered visual builder

Pierre Dureau (pdureau) HTMX has been added to Drupal 11.2 as a light javascript dependency to modernize and unify many legacy Drupal APIs: AJAX, AJAX for Views, Form States, Big Pipe… This addition is also opening new easy ways of building modern, performant, highly interactive, user interfaces for both the admin and front UI, without the need of javascript frameworks. One of those UI is the new Display Builder contrib module, which is leveraging HTMX, alongside many recent additions to Drupal Core, to provide a display building experience both unified (page layouts, entity displays, content and more) and powerful (design system native, live previews, iterative updates, realtime collaboration, adaptive profiles…). From this example, we will explore together how we can modernize the UI of other Drupal modules, providing a reactive, world-class, user experience while keeping the implementation lean and maintainable. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/display-builder-htmx-powered-visual-builder read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Increasing enrolment amidst changing student demographics

CJ Pagtakhan (cjpagtakhan) Higher education is facing a critical challenge: shifting demographics, increasing competition, and evolving student expectations are making enrolment growth harder than ever. In this session, we’ll explore how Drupal can be a powerful driver of enrolment success by enabling personalization, accessibility, streamlined user journeys, and data-driven decision-making. Drawing on insights from more than 500 digital projects with colleges and universities across North America, we’ll showcase proven strategies, real-world examples, and actionable takeaways that your institution can apply immediately. Whether you’re focused on attracting first-generation students, improving graduate program visibility, or re-engaging adult learners, this session will highlight how Drupal’s flexibility and scalability can help you meet the moment and deliver measurable enrolment results. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/increasing-enrolment-amidst-changing-student-demographics read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Drupal Test Traits - Learn by example

Moshe Weitzman (moshe weitzman) Learn about Drupal Test Traits (DTT), an open source project started by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Dive into real tests from our open source project, and learn how DTT works under the hood. mass.gov is large, content-centric site. Most of our tests click around and assert that content is laid out properly, the right icons are showing, etc. In order to test this stuff, we need the mass.gov database - testing on an empty site won't do. The traditional tool for testing a site using an existing database is Behat. So we used Behat for over a year and found it getting more and more awkward. We've replaced Behat with DTT! DTT reuses the awesome Drupal core testing system, so it works with your site's content, as opposed to an empty site. It supports testing client side interactions in addition to traditional browsing. At the end of this session, you will have another tool to test your content-centric sites. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/drupal-test-traits-learn-example read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Stop creating Drupal Forms! Just describe a schema - the form will appear automatically!

Alexey Korepov (murz) Oh, that Drupal Forms... Too much code just to create a simple form with a couple of fields! What if I tell you that those times are in the past? Now, just describing the form data in the YAML declarative format is enough! The rest will be done automatically, without any line of code: the form fields design, validation, submission, saving to the database, and all other boring stuff - everything works out of the box! Using this declarative approach, you can create any type of form automatically: - End-user forms, like a feedback form or a comment form. - Custom settings pages with automatic saving to the configuration. - Entity Forms with all base fields editable in the form. And if you want to customize some fields or the submission flow, you're still able to do this by code. But just with a couple of code lines, without tons of boilerplate. Come to learn how to make forms without pain, and forget those times of writing a lot of code lines. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/stop-creating-drupal-forms-just-describe-schema-form-will-appear-automatically read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Deploy with Confidence: Automated Testing for Drupal

Dharizza Espinach (dharizza) Simon Morvan (garphy) Shipping updates for Drupal sites doesn’t have to be stressful or error-prone. In this session, we’ll dive deep into automated testing as the backbone of a reliable CI/CD workflow, showing how developers can confidently move code from development to production while preventing regressions and maintaining site quality. Using real-world examples, we’ll explore how to integrate automated testing at multiple stages of your workflow, including: - Unit and functional testing to verify individual modules and site functionality. - Visual regression testing with tools like Diffy to catch unintended layout or design changes before deployment. - Multi-stage testing pipelines that run tests at local, staging, and pre-production environments to ensure safe, repeatable deployments. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of how to implement a full test-driven deployment strategy for Drupal, reduce errors, and improve confidence in their releases. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/deploy-confidence-automated-testing-drupal read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Drupal CMS, site templates and beyond

Pamela Barone (pameeela) Cristina Chumillas (ckrina) Drupal CMS 2.0 has launched, complete with Drupal Canvas and site templates! What does this mean for building Drupal sites? And what's next? Some topics we may cover: * How we're using Canvas and what it offers * Features and areas we're working on now * Plans for future versions ongoing * What we're looking for from contributors * How we defined the strategy and scope * Using the strategy to define the roadmap and what it looks like now * Highlights from the development of Drupal CMS 2.0 and what we learned https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/drupal-cms-site-templates-and-beyond read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Proposing a 'Code of Care' for the Drupal Community

Will Huggins (zoocha will) Following on from the DrupalCon Vienna session "It’s OK to NOT be OK! Establishing support frameworks in community teams", this session will advance the proposal to create a 'Code of Care' to enshrine in policy how we care for each other in the Drupal community. The session will explore in more depth the key themes of: The impact of external factors: Sometimes health, family, work or other personal reasons compromise our ability to follow through on the community obligations we have committed to. This can lead to guilt and shame, adding more pressure at precisely the time you need the most compassion and support. Dealing with over-commitment: There can be many reasons for ‘biting off more than we can chew’. A common one is because we are passionate about specific initiatives or subjects and really want to get involved… pushing ourselves beyond our own capacity. Spotting the warning signs: If a team member is struggling to cope, it is likely they put on a brave face and suffer in silence. A Code of Care would equip us all with tools and resources to help us spot warning signs and create ‘safe spaces’ for team members to seek help. The session will conclude with a detailed proposal for the 'Code of Care' and how it might be implemented. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/proposing-code-care-drupal-community read more
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Beyond the Drupal bubble: Building a cross-community ecosystem

Maya Schaeffer (mayalena) Alex Dergachev (dergachev) Drupal has always thrived because of its passionate developer community. But the future of Drupal depends on something bigger: the ecosystem around it. Designers, communicators, strategists, web managers, and decision-makers all influence whether Drupal gets adopted and sustained. Over the past three years, Maya Schaeffer and Alex Dergachev have experimented with ways to bring these broader audiences into the Drupal ecosystem through the EvolveDrupal (now EvolveDigital) summit series. When the first events launched, about 60% of attendees were technical, and many non-technical roles were hesitant to attend something branded as a “Drupal event.” Through intentional outreach, personal invitations, ecosystem partnerships, and programming focused on real digital challenges, the audience gradually shifted to roughly 30% technical and 70% broader digital roles across higher education, government, agencies, nonprofits, and tech vendors. In this session, we’ll share what we learned from organizing 11 summits designed to get “off the Drupal island.” We’ll explore how outreach, branding, programming, and collaboration can bring new voices into the ecosystem—and how agencies, community organizers, and contributors can act as force multipliers for Drupal’s future. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/beyond-drupal-bubble-building-cross-community-ecosystem read more
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Future-Proofing Accessibility: Strategies for Government & University Platforms

Kat Shaw (katannshaw) Monica "Nikki" Flores (monicadear) Javier Reartes (javi-er) Kat Shaw and M. Nikki Flores are CPACC-certified and work with Javier Reartes at Lullabot to integrate accessibility as a mindset and framework into government platforms, such as for the states of Iowa, Maryland, and Georgia, and higher education, such as UMass Amherst and NYU. This session explores how governments and higher education institutions can move beyond basic compliance to truly implement accessibility across their digital platforms. We delve into strategies for integrating accessibility throughout the project lifecycle, from initial planning and design to development, QA testing, and content entry. Drawing on real-world case studies, including Iowa.gov’s digital transformation project and the State of Maryland platform, we discuss how to leverage Drupal's features and contributed modules to create accessible experiences. The session covers key aspects including: a) design system reviews, b) automated and manual testing, c) content entry training for meaningful alt text and logical heading order, and d) benefits of cross-collaboration. Attendees gain insights into fostering a "shift-left" methodology, preventing issues, increasing cross-collaboration, and ultimately delivering higher quality, more inclusive digital services. We also touch upon the importance of understanding the "why" behind accessibility, considering the experiences of users with disabilities, and the long-term benefits of an accessibility-forward approach. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/future-proofing-accessibility-strategies-government-university-platforms read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Building AI-Powered Drupal Applications: From Setup to Production-Ready Features

Christoph Breidert (breidert) Transform your Drupal sites with practical AI integration in this hands-on workshop. Starting with the Drupal AI module installation, you'll progressively build AI-powered features including automated content generation, intelligent image alt text, CKEditor AI enhancements, and SEO optimization tools. Advanced topics cover AI automators for PDF processing, URL content import, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for intelligent search. Each concept includes hands-on building with step-by-step guidance. You'll leave with working code, configured AI workflows, and the foundation to build sophisticated AI applications. Bring your laptop for the complete hands-on experience - no AI background required, just curiosity and basic Drupal familiarity. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/building-ai-powered-drupal-applications-setup-production-ready-features read more
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Facilitating Like a Dungeon Master: Using RPG Skills for Stakeholder Magic

Eric Davila (erykmynn) For so many of our projects, the key to success lies in mastering the art of listening and interpreting feedback—skills that any seasoned game master knows well. Just as a game master guides players through an evolving story, product teams must navigate the complex dynamics of customer and stakeholder relationships. This session will explore how techniques from tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons can be applied to stakeholder management and all forms of facilitation. We’ll delve into the importance of letting stakeholders talk, understanding their underlying needs, and translating feedback into actionable strategies—much like interpreting the motivations and actions of players in a campaign. We’ll also look at models for setting expectations and boundaries in kickoff meetings, then structuring and preparing for the work ahead. You’ll learn how to balance different personalities, keep the “party” moving forward toward a shared goal while avoiding common pitfalls like railroading, scope creep, or disengaged participants. Whether you’re dealing with demanding clients, internal teams, or external partners, this session will equip you with the tools to become a “game master” in your professional projects. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/facilitating-dungeon-master-using-rpg-skills-stakeholder-magic read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Drupal.org Engineering Panel

Tim Hestenes Lehnen (hestenet) Join the Drupal.org engineering team for updates on our work to support the community. Learn how a small but mighty team not only supports Drupal.org as a community site, but also the project infrastructure including the updates servers, localization service, code repositories, testing, and much more. We'll also talk about our participation in core initiatives like AutoUpdates, Project Browser, and Recipes, as well as the next phase of the GitLab project. read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Config Pages: The Missing Admin UI for Your Custom Site Settings

Anna Femath (afem) Most custom features in Drupal need settings, but too often, those settings are hidden behind broad admin permissions, hardcoded into modules or themes, or require custom forms just to expose them. In this session, we will explore the Config Pages module, a clean and maintainable solution to manage structured settings through site building tools and the Field API. We will cover use cases like managing site-wide alerts, global contact information, and quick links, demonstrating examples built with U.S. Web Design System (USWDS). You’ll learn how Config Pages improves the editorial experience through tightly scoped permissions that show editors only what they need and giving developers full control over how and where settings appear in Twig templates or as configurable blocks. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/config-pages-missing-admin-ui-your-custom-site-settings read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Next Generation ECA - Vision and Progress update

Jürgen Haas (jurgenhaas) ECA (the Event, Condition, Action module) for modern Drupal has established itself as the go-to tool for automating Drupal workflows with a no-code/low-code approach. After several years in production and with the benefit of experience and feedback from hundreds of power users, the time has come to plan and execute the future of ECA and make an even bigger difference for Drupal and all its users. ECA's future vision is to accomplish the following goals: 1. Currently, ECA is used by only 1% of Drupal users; the next generation of ECA will be suitable for all Drupal users, including those with little or no experience of the platform. 2. Getting started with ECA currently requires users to have a basic understanding of Drupal and its workflow. The next-generation ECA will be intuitive for all users, enabling them to achieve success with ECA in minutes. 3. The next-generation ECA will guide users, helping them to elevate their skills and achieve more as they progress. 4. Personas: currently, ECA caters for developers, site builders and project managers. This will be extended to enable all users to build their own workflows and automations. This session will outline how the maintainers and the Drupal community are planning to achieve these goals and how much progress has been made so far. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/next-generation-eca-vision-and-progress-update read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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The Strategic Evolution of Drupal and the AI Initiative - Orchestration and Beyond

James Abrahams (yautja_cetanu) At Vienna, we showcased how Canvas AI can transform page-building in Drupal. Now, we’re excited to show you the next step. The Drupal AI Initiative is driving the strategic evolution of Drupal through our dual-track approach: bi-weekly Immediate Impact releases and twice-yearly Strategic Evolution leaps. Our latest leap is the development of truly orchestrated Flows. Our rigorous focus on UX for tools like ECA, Tools API and MCP, means even ambitious site builders can create complex orchestrations without code, from content moderation to full site migrations. Our visual workflows give you precise control over AI agents, allowing you to combine intelligent non-deterministic AI agents with reliable and predictable standard deterministic actions. These innovations are the heart of what we do, and have the potential to turbocharge and future-proof how we engage with new Drupal builds. Our core tools can accomplish more without needing to develop new modules for each new iteration. This allows us to focus on a speedy time-to-market for releases whilst ensuring everything is working securely, reliably and on point. Come for a deeper dive into the AI features you saw in the DriesNote. Whether you're a developer, site builder, or decision-maker, you'll leave with practical knowledge of current AI capabilities in Drupal and insight into shaping its future. It's never been a better time to Do It With Drupal! https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/strategic-evolution-drupal-and-ai-initiative-orchestration-and-beyond read more
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Teaching an old site new tricks: Refreshing the Flagship at Harvard Medical School

Antonio Savorelli (antiorario) Our talk will present the most salient aspects of what we call the HMS Flagship Refresh project, born out of multiple needs: integrating the MD Program’s content into the site, before OpenScholar’s decommissioning in November 2025; enhancing the role of the site as an editorial product, after the 2023 launch of the standalone Harvard Medicine magazine; and the structural and visual modernization of the site, which in 2024 was the oldest flagship among Harvard schools. Our main constraints were, predictably, time and budget, and the idea that finding a way to keep working on the existing site would be more economical and sustainable than embarking in a multi-year, full-on redesign-and-rebuild project. In addition to that, not fully outsourcing the project would allow us to take advantage of our small but experienced web-development team. We’ll explore the main aspects of our approach: 1. We hired vendors for key project milestones: content strategy to integrate the new content while preserving the site’s integrity, and design and front-end development for new and refreshed components 2. We established a multi-office collaboration process with strong project management and internal communication to make the process transparent and inclusive of all stakeholders, including school leadership and site owners 3. We have been progressively rebuilding the site using modern, flexible, and sustainable techniques, from layout patterns to coding standards and Drupal-related technologies https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/teaching-old-site-new-tricks-refreshing-flagship-harvard-medical-school read more
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Agent Experience (AX) and AI-driven Drupal

Scott Falconer (scott-falconer) We spend significant time optimizing User and Developer Experience (UX/DX), but our next frontier is Agent Experience (AX). As AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex become everyday tools, how do we ensure they actually understand Drupal's unique architecture, APIs, and best practices? Out of the box, general-purpose AI agents may wander or fail at tasks because they lack appropriate context. Today, our community is actively defining the infrastructure for AI-driven Drupal - unifying AGENTS.md, CLI tools, and "Agent Skills" into a cohesive standard. In this session, we will demystify this new ecosystem and show you how to drastically scale your Drupal workflows. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/agent-experience-ax-and-ai-driven-drupal read more
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Beyond Chunk and Pray: Smarter RAG for Drupal AI

Vincenzo Gambino (vincenzo gambino) Everyone’s talking about RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), but let’s be honest: the standard demo usually goes something like this: split your content into chunks, toss them into a vector database, cross your fingers, and hope the LLM comes back with something vaguely useful. That’s fine for a project with straightforward content, but in the case of a hundred thousand Drupal nodes, you need a different RAG setup and strategy. In this session, we’ll look at how to make RAG actually reliable. We’ll cover: Introduction to RAG and embeddings: a tour through the basics of combining large language models with external knowledge. Hybrid retrieval: mixing semantic embeddings with old-school keyword search (BM25) so you don’t miss the obvious. Smarter chunking: using headings, paragraphs, and semantic cues instead of arbitrary splits. Re-ranking: allowing smaller models to refine the retrieval process before the LLM takes over. Context injection: using user profiles, session data, and relationships between nodes to give the model the “bigger picture.” You’ll leave with a clear sense of how to move from basic “embeddings in a box” to a proper AI assistant that respects your content structure, scales with Drupal, and maybe, just maybe, makes your users think you’ve built magic. Bring your curiosity, and perhaps a cup of tea. We’ll be doing more than chunking this time. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/beyond-chunk-and-pray-smarter-rag-drupal-ai read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Managing Configuration for Drupal Multisites: Config Splits, Templates, and Automation

Jordan Thompson (nord102) Running multiple sites from a single Drupal codebase is powerful—and tricky—when it comes to configuration. One site needs a feature, another must not have that feature; environment overrides creep in; and “just export and import” stops being simple. This session presents a clear, repeatable approach built around distinct Config Split types and shows how to templatize and automate them so adding a new site is a 5‑minute task, not a much longer ordeal. What we’ll be covering: - Site-level splits (per-domain overrides), feature-level splits (toggleable features any site can opt into), and environment-level splits (dev/stage/prod tooling). - Setting split precedence using Config Split - Opinionated directory structure and naming conventions that prevent overlap and drift. - Reusable site-level split templates - A lightweight automation command that scaffolds a new site-level split from the template and runs a quick validation so you know it’s sound. We’ll walk through creating a feature split, generating a new site split from a template, opting the site into the feature, and importing config across two sites locally. You’ll leave with an understanding of patterns, templates, and a simple automation you can adopt immediately. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/managing-configuration-drupal-multisites-config-splits-templates-and-automation read more
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Escape from Drupal Island! (Spice level: 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ )

Josh Koenig (joshk) It's been 13 years since the original call to "get off the island" went out. Since then the web has grown and changed quite a lot, yet DrupalCon remains a sea of familiar faces. Community is a comfort, and there’s much to celebrate on this 25th anniversary, but for this project to thrive it must tap new sources of energy. Much of the thinking in this community is informed by hard-won experience, but also biased towards the past. The web is being ripped apart and put back together in real time, but the rate of adoption of Drupal is basically flat. The time is now to question everything. What if the solution isn't putting more into Drupal, but putting Drupal into more things? Instead of importing more features to Drupal Island, what would it take to get out there and build connections, bridges, and conduits to other sources of innovation? In this provocative presentation, Pantheon Co-Founder and Drupal user number 3,133 Josh Koenig will present market data on the state of the Web, AI’s impacts on our profession, and lay out a what he sees as the best path for Drupal practitioners to chart their course forward for themselves, and for their organizations. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/escape-drupal-island-spice-level read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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From Chaos to Clarity: Building a Sustainable Content Governance Model with Drupal

Richard Nosek (richard-nosek) CJ Pagtakhan (cjpagtakhan) Organizations often struggle with fragmented content, inconsistent messaging, and editorial bottlenecks—especially as websites grow and multiple teams contribute to the same platform. In this session, we’ll explore how to design and implement a sustainable content governance model in Drupal that keeps your content organized, high-quality, and future-proof. Attendees will learn practical workflows for content authors, editors, and administrators, including strategies for approval processes, content audits, and lifecycle management. The session also covers frameworks for defining roles, responsibilities, and standards that scale across teams and departments. Real-world examples from Drupal sites of varying sizes will illustrate how structured governance not only improves content quality but also enhances collaboration, reduces technical debt, and supports long-term digital strategy goals. By the end of the session, you’ll have actionable insights to create a governance model that transforms chaotic content operations into a streamlined, sustainable system. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/chaos-clarity-building-sustainable-content-governance-model-drupal read more
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Designing for Depth: Information Architecture Strategies in Large Drupal Sites

Anne Lentino (alentino) When your Drupal site spans thousands of pages, good content structure isn’t just helpful, it’s essential. This 30-minute session will share practical strategies for managing large-scale Drupal sites through user-centered information architecture (IA) and smart use of Drupal’s tools. You’ll see how user research informed taxonomy design and content prioritization, how to build navigation patterns that help users explore deep content archives, and which Drupal features enable scalable, flexible, and future-friendly IA structures. Whether you’re redesigning a large site or maintaining a complex one, this session will give you actionable approaches to architect smarter, faster, and more intuitive Drupal experiences. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/designing-depth-information-architecture-strategies-large-drupal-sites read more
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Next steps for Drupal Canvas

Lauri Timmanee (lauriii) For years, the Drupal community has talked about a component-driven future. The Drupal Canvas is where that future finally becomes a reality. This is more than just an evolution of Layout Builder; it's a fundamental paradigm shift in how we think about building with Drupal. Join us for a visionary, forward-looking session that goes beyond a simple roadmap. We'll explore the core concepts behind Drupal Canvas and demonstrate how upcoming features will unlock new possibilities. You will leave this session empowered to shape the future of digital experiences with Drupal Canvas. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/next-steps-drupal-canvas read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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AI as a PM’s Co-Pilot: Decision-Making with the OODA Loop

Jaspreet Singh (jaspreetsingh31) As a project manager, I remember how overwhelming it was to handle that big Drupal multi-site rollout. There were so many tickets to track, and the client’s priorities kept shifting. With different teams depending on each other, I often felt like I was just putting out fires instead of steering the project. I started looking into AI tools, not to replace me, but to act as an assistant — something to help me see things clearly and make decisions faster. I used the OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) to give structure to how I worked with AI. a) Observe: I had AI scan Jira boards, Slack chats, and long client emails to pull key points and risks into short summaries. b) Orient: It helped me analyze workflows, spot stuck tickets, and highlight dependencies. c) Decide: With that context, I could prioritize better, unblock the team, and shift focus where it mattered most. d) Act: I laid out the next steps simply, kept the team aligned, and updated the client so everyone stayed on the same page. This gave me structure, reduced chaos, and helped me feel in control. AI is everywhere now, but without a framework, it can add clutter. The OODA Loop bridges that gap — not replacing PMs but helping us make quicker, clearer decisions. Using this, we caught problems earlier, sprints felt more manageable, meetings ran shorter, and clients noticed steady progress with fewer surprises. For me, it meant less time lost in my inbox and more time moving the project forward. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/ai-pms-co-pilot-decision-making-ooda-loop read more
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Context is Everything: Configuring Drupal AI for Consistent, On-Brand Content

Kristen Pol (kristen pol) Aidan Foster (afoster) AI can generate landing pages, service pages, and blog posts in seconds - but without the right context, the results feel generic, off-brand, or just plain wrong. Context is what takes you from AI-slop to content that is authentic and resonates with your audience. In this session, we'll show you how to configure Drupal's Content Control Center and Canvas AI to produce content that actually sounds like your organization. You'll see how simple markdown files defining brand voice, tone, and content structure can dramatically improve AI outputs. Through demos, we'll walk you through creating a landing page, service page, and blog post to demonstrate how different context rules and guidelines can be applied in various applications. You'll leave with a practical starter framework for building your own context files, plus clear guidance on how to apply it to your Drupal site. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/context-everything-configuring-drupal-ai-consistent-brand-content read more
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HTMX: a new toolset in Drupal Core

Shawn Duncan (fathershawn) HTMX has steadily risen among JavaScript projects since its release in recent years, gaining more new stars on GitHub in 2024 than React. Now HTMX is integrated into Drupal core and forms the basis of a subsystem that will replace our jQuery based Ajax API. HTMX is both simple and powerful. It enables any HTML element to become a hypermedia control, enhancing interaction with the site. HTMX uses HTML as its data structure enabling replacement or addition of new markup anywhere on the page. Drupal 11.3 shipped with a new subsystem that allows straightforward integration of HTMX into Drupal. This session will introduce this subsystem and the theory and practice of hypermedia web applications built with HTMX. We will walk through examples of how you can start using HTMX in your own projects and also look at the current status of the community initiative to replace the Ajax API. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/htmx-new-toolset-drupal-core read more
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Get Aligned or Stay Stuck: How Experiments Unlock Team Potential

Cori Neslund (cneslund) Team's aren't getting stuck because they lack ideas -- they get stuck because they can’t agree on what to try next. Whether it’s due to navigating internal politics, a fear of failure, or decision fatigue, progress becomes a never-ending churn when a path forward struggles to be defined. Iterative experimentation doesn't just solve problems or reduce risk, it creates a sense of shared confidence in a team's abilities and demonstrates their capacity in tackling bigger, cooler, more impactful issues. In this session, we'll explore how the practice of designing safe-to-try experiments gives teams a way to unblock themselves consistently. Come learn how to design and implement experiments, build buy-in, and translate results into forward momentum. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/get-aligned-or-stay-stuck-how-experiments-unlock-team-potential read more
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Publish once in Drupal, Syndicate Everywhere

Keegan Rankin (megakeegman) Drupal excels at the Create Once, Publish Everywhere (COPE) model—using structured content to enable the same individual piece of content to flow into a variety of contexts. Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) is a relevant Indieweb principle, which is more specific to publishing content on your own site, and then to the places where it will actually reach your audience. Drupal has great potential in making it easy for content editors to govern content across multiple platforms. 3 years ago, it was difficult to make good recommendations on how to approach this potentially complex feature-set. Today, however, such solutions are increasingly flexible and easy to configure. Between the technical and cultural implications following the fragmentation of our social media networks, and the continued innovation by the Drupal community, our ability to practice POSSE in Drupal is looking better than ever. In addition to briefing on why now is such an opportune moment, I will demonstrate easy ways to syndicate content from your Drupal site, and provide guidance on which methods are suitable for various use cases. Expect to leave with a good understanding of how to write your content once and send it everywhere, with no extra services required. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/publish-once-drupal-syndicate-everywhere read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Let the Browser Decide: Responsive Images as a Tool to Bridge the Digital Divide

Perry Brown (uptil4music) A major contributing factor to the Digital Divide - the unequal access to and effective use of digital technology - lies squarely with those of us who build and maintain websites. We often compel users to download enormous images to use our sites, without considering the burden this places on infrastructure, devices, data costs, and personal patience. The sheer magnitude of image-based web content, estimated at about 35% by volume, exacerbates the problem. It's time for us to responsibly use the excellent tools Drupal places at our disposal. We must architect our sites to balance our desire for visual impact with our duty to be good digital citizens, by empowering the browser to choose the most optimal image for every situation. It's time to rethink responsive images, relinquish centralized control, and let the browser decide. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/let-browser-decide-responsive-images-tool-bridge-digital-divide read more
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Migrate Smarter: How a Structured AI Methodology Unlocked a Complex Drupal 7 to 11 Migration

Marco Molinari (marco) Migrating a 15-year-old Italian humor site (132K nodes, 100K newsletter subscribers, 18 custom modules, 93 contrib modules, and a MailUp integration) to Drupal 11 is the kind of project that traditionally requires a team, months of work, and a budget that's hard to swallow. This session shows how a structured, artifact-driven AI methodology rewrote that calculus on a real, completed project. Tag1 Senior Architect Marco Molinari applied BMAD (Breakthrough Method for Agile AI-Driven Development) to deliver 40+ stories across 5 epics, migrating 300K entities, building 6 custom Drupal 11 modules, and completing integrations with Cloudflare, MailUp OAuth2, and Iubenda GDPR. Zero blockers. 100% story completion. The kind of results that redefine what's possible within a client budget. Drupal 11's clean architecture (Composer-based dependencies, config sync, typed services) proved to be a real advantage; these are patterns AI can reason about reliably in ways that Drupal 7's hook-heavy approach never allowed. Marco covers what worked, what didn't, and what this approach genuinely demands in time and expertise. Attendees leave with concrete practices and an honest picture of where AI-assisted development delivers and where experienced judgment is still irreplaceable. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/migrate-smarter-how-structured-ai-methodology-unlocked-complex-drupal-7-11 read more
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Frontend Strategies for Drupal: From Multisite to Migrations

Rich Lawson (rklawson) Dharizza Espinach (dharizza) Drupal’s frontend ecosystem continues to evolve, and the right frontend strategy depends on the project context. Rather than a narrow “how-to” on a specific editor or framework, this session looks across types of Drupal frontend projects and the strategies that make them successful. Through case studies (multisite rollouts, design-system adoption, platform migrations and consolidations), attendees will learn which frontend approaches and tradeoffs map to which project types — and how to plan for maintainability, editor happiness, and cross-team adoption. read more
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Engineering for security compliance: How to prepare before the audit

Matthew Connerton (mrconnerton) Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cwnuN5UooC_dnwGhzFqt8rTGBVV4YAD9/view?… Security and privacy compliance certifications—like SOC 2 (a leading audit standard for security, availability, and confidentiality) and HITRUST (a healthcare-focused security framework)—are quickly becoming standard requirements for healthcare, finance, and other regulated industries building on Drupal. The challenge isn’t just writing policies—it’s proving through code, infrastructure, and process that your systems are secure and well-governed. This session shares engineering lessons from Encore Healthcare’s journey to SOC 2 and HITRUST readiness on a Drupal-based SaaS platform. Instead of focusing on checklists, we’ll explore how to design Drupal architecture, CI/CD, and infrastructure so compliance readiness is continuous, not seasonal. You’ll see how access control, logging, configuration management, and deployment pipelines can produce auditable evidence automatically. We’ll cover aligning Drupal’s configuration management, custom modules, and hosting environments with security controls for change management, encryption, and least privilege. You’ll learn how observability practices can turn audit requirements into real-time visibility and ongoing assurance. You’ll leave with a blueprint for building compliance-aware Drupal applications where your infrastructure, code, and processes work together to make audits almost boring. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/engineering-security-compliance-how-prepare-audit read more
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Preparing your Pipeline for the AI Era

James Sansbury (q0rban) Whether you're an AI optimist, a pessimist, or somewhere in-between, there's no getting around it: if you aren't shipping AI-generated code yet, you will be. Are you and your team prepared for it? The traditional code review process wasn't designed for machine-generated code. When AI can produce hundreds of lines in seconds, human reviewers become the bottleneck—and more critically, they miss things. AI generates seemingly perfect code that can harbor subtle business logic errors, security vulnerabilities, or integration issues that only surface under real conditions. No amount of peer review is sufficient for AI-generated code. The solution? Test everything before it merges. When AI can generate features in minutes, your testing strategy needs to match that pace—or risk becoming the new bottleneck. In this session, we'll explore how to build testing pipelines that scale with AI, and why your deployment strategy might determine whether AI becomes your superpower or your liability. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/preparing-your-pipeline-ai-era read more
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From Search Bars to Chatbots: Decoding User Expectations for AI Chat

Emily Kodner (emoleee) Alma Meshes (ameshes) Chat bubbles are everywhere, but are they actually working for users? Sandstorm® conducted usability studies with actual users to uncover what people really want when interacting with AI-driven tools. We tested transactional bots, generative AI, hybrid models, and domain-specific chat experiences to see where they succeed, where they fall short, and how they compare to traditional search. In this session, we will share 5 key findings from our research, including where users instinctively go for support, how they react when AI is in play, and what kinds of experiences foster trust instead of frustration. Attendees will walk away with a practical decision framework for when to use search, chat, or both to create more intuitive and effective Drupal experiences. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/search-bars-chatbots-decoding-user-expectations-ai-chat read more
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Using Drupal Doesn't Make You Open Source — Lessons from Europe's Largest Public Sector Platform

Adam Nagy (joevagyok) Today the European Commission runs one of the largest Drupal platforms in the world. In the beginning it was adoption without contribution. Each institution tried to implement similar solutions. This talk is about what changed when we stopped trying to justify giving back to the community and started building in a way where contribution is what comes out the other end. Shared modules, common governance, and a platform designed so that doing the work well and doing open source are the same thing. If your organization uses open source but hasn't figured out how to give back, this one's for you. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/using-drupal-doesnt-make-you-open-source-lessons-europes-largest-public-sector read more
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Strategies for Integrating Drupal Canvas in Your Existing Drupal Platform

Boyan Borisov (boyan.borisov) Explore practical strategies for adopting Drupal's Drupal Canvas in existing platforms, ensuring a smooth transition without compromising current investments. Drupal's Drupal Canvas introduces a new approach to content management with an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface for creating and styling pages directly within the browser.​ For organizations with established Drupal sites utilizing tools like Layout Builder or Paragraphs, transitioning to Drupal Canvas presents both opportunities and challenges. This session will explore practical strategies for adopting Drupal Canvas in existing platforms, ensuring a smooth evolution without compromising current investments. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/strategies-integrating-drupal-canvas-your-existing-drupal-platform read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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KEYNOTE: Drupal CMS Spotlights

Gábor Hojtsy (gábor hojtsy) Kristen Pol (kristen pol) Mike Herchel (mherchel) Bálint Kléri (balintbrews) Scott Falconer (scott-falconer) Jim Birch (thejimbirch) Dive deeper into the latest developments of Drupal CMS and the AI Initiative in a series of lightning talks. The speakers are not only experts in their field, but they are the ones leading each area of development or research. By engaging directly with the experts spearheading these efforts, you’ll have the unique opportunity to join the groundbreaking efforts currently redefining the open-source landscape and play a direct role in building the next generation of the web. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/keynote-drupal-cms-spotlights read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Drupal Association Public Board Meeting

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Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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KEYNOTE: Alexandra Bell, The Security Implications of AI

AI technologies are evolving faster than our ability to understand them, much less control them. While these technologies have the potential to improve our quality of life across multiple sectors, it is essential to global security that governments and civil society weigh the both the costs and benefits of AI expansion. From nuclear proliferation to the environment to public health to the global economy, AI can bring hope or wreak havoc. Bell will outline both the threats at hand, as well as how to manage or mitigate those threats. A noted policy expert and former diplomat, she oversees the Bulletin‘s publishing programs, management of the Doomsday Clock, and a growing set of activities around nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. Before joining the Bulletin, Alexandra Bell served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Affairs in the Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability (ADS) at the U.S. Department of State. There she managed the Offices of Strategic Stability and Deterrence and Multilateral and Nuclear Affairs. From 2017 to 2021, Bell was the Senior Policy Director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and the Council for a Livable World. Previously, Bell served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security and as an Advisor in ADS, then named the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. Before joining the Department of State in 2010, she worked on nuclear policy issues at the Ploughshares Fund and the Center for American Progress. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/keynote-alexandra-bell-security-implications-ai read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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You can (and should!) build a site template

Andy Giles (andyg5000) Adam G-H (phenaproxima) Site templates are a big deal. They have the potential to open Drupal up to more people than ever by delivering functional and beautiful starter sites. But it's up to the Drupal community to create them. And, as with anything in the Drupal world, there are a few ways to go about it. In this session, we'll cover two main ways to build site templates: * The quick way, which empowers site builders to build on top of Drupal CMS and deliver awesome site templates with minimal coding. * The detailed way, for developers who want to keep their recipes well-organized, cleanly architected, thoroughly tested, and reliable. Through real-world examples and a live demo of our recipe stack, you’ll leave with practical knowledge and the confidence to structure site templates that meet your organization’s needs today while remaining adaptable for the future. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/you-can-and-should-build-site-template read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Serious Results, Surprisingly Fun: A Playbook for KPI-Driven Digital Transformation

Tiffany Farriss (farriss) Need a little joy right now? This story has it all: success metrics exceeded, meaningful digital transformation, and a team that genuinely enjoyed the journey. As one usability test participant put it: “I can’t wait until this is live!” In this session, we’ll take you behind the scenes of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ two-year effort to digitize and centralize over 9,000 resources from its Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRC)—making vital support more accessible to people across Wisconsin. The result? A transformation that was as measurable as it was meaningful, and as technologically innovative as it was fun. Cross-functional teams from WDHS and Palantir.net collaborated through a highly iterative, human-centered process that prioritized accessibility, measurable outcomes, and joy. We experimented, co-created, and celebrated small wins that added up to big impacts. We’ll share how: - Agile practices and co-creation fostered trust, creativity, and momentum - Continuous feedback loops kept stakeholders engaged and energized - Behavior-driven development (using example mapping) aligned engineers and subject matter experts - A shared sense of purpose helped us navigate complex challenges - KPIs told the story: 664% more resource engagement and 25% longer user engagement times If you’re looking for a roadmap to results—and a reminder that impactful government work can be deeply rewarding—this session is for you. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/serious-results-surprisingly-fun-playbook-kpi-driven-digital-transformation read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Streamlining Content Relevance, Translation, and Migration with a Content Audit tool

Marcelo Hespanhol (mhespanhol) In this session, we will showcase a custom module designed to assist editors with conducting a content audit, including a ROT analysis (Redundant, Outdated, and Trivial) and translation reviews on their website. Periodically performing these analyses is essential for ensuring the relevance of website content, and it is a crucial step during content migration. Our module also leverages AI to evaluate the accuracy of translations for each piece of content, providing a score to help editors maintain consistency across multiple languages. This reduces the risk of discrepancies when one language is updated, ensuring all content remains up-to-date. Based on these reports, editors can choose which content to migrate and which to exclude if it's not relevant to the new site. These selections are integrated into the migration process, ensuring that only the content approved by the client is transferred to the new website. Agenda: - Introductions - Common Challenges - ROT Analysis Report - AI-Powered Translation Review - Content Migration Review - Module Roadmap - Q&A https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/streamlining-content-relevance-translation-and-migration-content-audit-tool read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Security Team Panel

Tim Hestenes Lehnen (hestenet) Greg Knaddison (greggles) The security team will present topics from their work promoting a more secure Drupal project. The team will also talk about how they recruit new members, refinements to their procedures, and what you can do to support Drupal security. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/security-team-panel read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Exposing Your Drupal Site’s Unique Content and Features to LLMs with MCP

Joe Shindelar (eojthebrave) Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Claude are increasingly used for search, support, dev tools, and content creation. Out of the box, they can read but not interact with your Drupal sites content and features. Model Context Protocol (MCP) solves this by defining a standard way for LLMs to interact with external data sources and tools. Teaching the LLM to interact with Drupal and perform searches, flag nodes, and more. By the end of this session, you will be able to: * Understand what MCP is and the problems it solves. * Use MCP with Drupal’s entity system, and the evolving suite of MCP related modules to support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and action execution. * Allow an LLM to authenticate and access member-only content and features. * Explore methods for implementing an MCP server to broker requests between an LLM and Drupal. * Build practical use cases, such as retrieving upcoming events, drafting blog posts from recent content, or generating Drupal modules and code explanations. I’ll illustrate by exposing Drupal docs and Drupalize.Me tutorials to an LLM for more context when generating Drupal code. The focus is on learning how to configure your Drupal site—and its unique data and features—so an LLM can understand and interact with it. This technical session is for developers interested in AI \+ Drupal integration, focusing on building custom MCP servers. This is a rapidly evolving space -- we'll focus on the current options, and the future. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/exposing-your-drupal-sites-unique-content-and-features-llms-mcp read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Elevating Drupal Experiences with Vanilla Javascript

Andrés Díaz Soto (adiaz) Maria Annuar (mariannuar) Modern web experiences don’t always require decoupled architectures, complex frameworks, or external libraries like React. In this session we’ll show, using real world examples, how vanilla JavaScript can bring rich and interactive storytelling to Drupal without sacrificing performance or editorial workflow. The tools and techniques we’ll cover can be used to build feature-rich interfaces like: - Parallax slideshows for immersive storytelling - Interactive grids that open content in overlays - Scroll-driven animations for storytelling - Sticky / Scroll-Follow Elements like headers, menus, or sidebars that stick while scrolling. - Transitions and animations to provide an app-like experience in a regular web site - Other interactive and responsive interfaces fully integrated into Drupal We’ll share not only our approach and lessons learned, but also practical ideas for other uses of vanilla Javascript to enhance user experience while keeping sites maintainable, performant, and fully within the Drupal ecosystem. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/elevating-drupal-experiences-vanilla-javascript read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Headings the Right Way: Site Building Tips for Accessible Page Content

Mike McCaffrey (mikemccaffrey) For websites to be accessible, content needs to be thoughtfully arranged into sections and navigable by headings, so users can easily scan a page and find the information they are seeking. Ensuring that proper structure can be one of the biggest accessibility challenges for a Drupal site, with many pages ending up with improperly nested heading levels, sections without explicit headings, or regular text that is styled like headings, but missing the proper semantic markup needed by screen readers. At Kalamuna, we are passionate about building Drupal sites that empower and encourage editors to properly structure their content and provide the headings needed for easy navigation (and passing accessibility scans). Whether content on your site is managed using Field Groups, Twig templates, Paragraphs, Layout Builder, Canvas, or just one big WYSIWYG field, we have tips for how to set things up in a way will result in far more accessible content and much happier users. https://events.drupal.org/chicago2026/session/headings-right-way-site-building-tips-accessible-page-content read more
Drupal Association 13.08.2026

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Drupal AI Learners Club - 2026-07-31 - Getting AI to Read Your Docs with Jürgen Haas

Most of us have asked an AI assistant a question about a tool, only to get a confident, plausible-sounding wrong answer. Jürgen Haas has spent the last several months tackling that problem head-on for ECA — building out an MCP server, an agent skill, and a full documentation overhaul so that when you ask AI for help building an ECA model, it actually knows what it's talking about. ​Jürgen will walk us through: ​What MCP actually is and how it lets AI agents query live, structured documentation instead of guessing from stale training data ​A live show-and-tell using the ECA Guide as the example — what it looks like when an AI assistant can genuinely help you build a workflow model from natural language ​Other "robot-findable" docs strategies (llms.txt, agent skills, structured markdown, etc.) and an honest discussion of what's actually paying off versus what's still unproven ​If you maintain documentation for a module, product, or team wiki and you're wondering whether it's time to make it AI-legible — this is the session for you. Resources from this talk: https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/development-tools/ai-coding-tools-for-drupal-development/drupal-ai-learners-club-sessions/2026-07-31-%E2%80%94-getting-ai-to-actually-read-your-docs-so-it-can-help-you-build read more
Drupal Association 01.08.2026

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Dries Buytaert talks about the value of experimenting with AI

Dries Buytaert, project lead for Drupal, talks about the value of experimenting with AI through his Drupal Digests project, contributing to Drupal core issues, and more. read more
Drupal Association 23.07.2026

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Drupal AI Learners Club: What Did the AI Just Do? Turning Coding Sessions into Learning Trails

You let the AI write the code — but do you understand what it built, and why? ​Join us for a show-and-tell with Owen Bush (Senior Developer at Lullabot), creator of Decodie — an AI learning companion that turns every coding session into a structured learning trail. As you code with your agent of choice (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and 70+ others), Decodie captures the why behind each decision — patterns used, trade-offs made, alternatives passed over — so you can actually learn from what the AI wrote. ​Owen will demo the full ecosystem: agent skills, a VSCode extension, a local web UI with lessons and progress tracking, plus a GitHub Action and bot for automatic PR analysis. Come for the demo, stay for the Q&A. read more
Drupal Association 18.07.2026

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Drupal Association Community Election 2026: Community forum with the candidates

This is a recording of our July 15th community forum with the candidates for the 2026 Community Election for one of the two Director-at-Large positions that hold alternating 2 year terms. This is being supported by a 24 hour asynchronous Slack Q&A with candidates starting on July 16th in Drupal Slack #drupal-association. drupal.org/join-slack to join read more
Drupal Association 15.07.2026

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Drupal AI Learners Club — How to Enhance Drupal Development with AI with Mateu Aguiló Bosch (e0ipso)

A deeper-dive session from Mateu Aguiló Bosch (e0ipso) on getting your AI coding harness — Claude, Codex, or whatever you're running — to adapt to your own codebase instead of working against it. Mateu will get into improving context management and building long-term project memory, so your tools hold onto what actually matters across a project rather than starting cold every session. ​Topics to be covered include: adapting your AI harness to an existing codebase, context management strategies, and long-term project memory. RSVP for upcoming Drupal AI Learners Club sessions on Luma: https://luma.com/drupal-ai read more
Drupal Association 02.07.2026

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Drupal AI Learners Club: Know Before You Owe

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Drupal Association 19.06.2026

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How Southwark Council uses AI and open source software to transform PDF Publishing in Drupal

Hear directly from the team behind an award-winning AI solution built for local government. What does genuinely useful AI in public services look like? Not a concept, not a pilot, but a working solution that saves hours of manual work, improves accessibility, and puts better content in front of citizens faster. Southwark Council's AI-powered PDF importer for Drupal is exactly that, and it won the prestigious Digital Leaders AI Impact Award 2026. Host: James Hall, Product Lead for Websites at Everyone TV Guest: Angie Forson, Web and Digital Program Lead at Southwark Council Download LocalGov Publications Importer: https://www.drupal.org/project/localgov_publications_importer Learn more about Drupal AI: https://www.drupal.org/ai More about the problem solved Manual PDF conversion has long been one of the most time-consuming tasks facing council web teams. Converting a single document can take hours. Multiply that across thousands of PDFs and the burden becomes significant, both in staff time and in the delay it creates before citizens can access accurate, accessible information. The Southwark team, working with their partners at Chicken, built an AI-powered importer for the LocalGov Drupal Publication Module that reduces that process to minutes, often under one minute. How it works Each PDF passes through a three-step pipeline: Extract - a PDF parser pulls the raw content from the document Transform - AI converts it to properly structured, accessible HTML with logical pagination Save - clean HTML pages are ready to review and publish directly in Drupal The result is an HTML representation of the PDF content, saved into a Drupal Publication and ready for review before going live. Every import is logged, so errors can be identified and resolved efficiently. The module uses a plugin architecture, meaning each step in the pipeline can be swapped out. Councils can use different extractors, AI models, or output to different Drupal content types, making the solution adaptable to a wide range of content and operational requirements. Built the right way The team delivered this project with an agile, user-centred approach, continuously refining requirements to ensure the tool meets real user needs rather than simply ticking a technical specification. "This project is a great example of AI working alongside and empowering content creators, and Drupal as a platform supports this really well." - Farez Rahman, Drupal Developer "I'm excited about the impact this product will have, not just for our users, but also in transforming how we design, build, and create content internally. We're shaping a future where services start with HTML-first thinking." - Evelyn Francourt, User Experience Lead Why this matters beyond Southwark Local government teams across the country face the same challenge. This solution, built on open source Drupal and the LocalGov Drupal ecosystem, is designed to be shared, not kept in one place. If your organisation publishes PDFs, manages large volumes of content, or is exploring where AI can deliver practical value without unnecessary complexity, this webinar is for you. read more
Drupal Association 18.06.2026

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Live Vibing: Let's port webchick's D7 blog to Drupal CMS with Fable LOL NOPE (Round 2 😅)

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Drupal Association 16.06.2026

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Live Vibing: Using Claude Dynamic Workflows to upgrade webchick's old, crusty D7 blog (Part 1)

In this Drupal AI Learners Club session, Angie "webchick" Byron attempts a live, no-safety-net migration of her ancient Drupal 7 personal site (webchick.net) to Drupal CMS using Claude Code — with a roomful of community experts watching and heckling in the best possible way.What starts as a planning exercise turns into a real-world tour of agentic coding: the good, the funny, and the "even when you think you've sorted out access, you haven't." Part 2 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoD0YuEy-ks 0:00 Welcome & intros (todo) 27:12 Inheriting a crusty D7 site: why you plan first 27:50 Grounding Claude in current Drupal facts (not training data) 28:41 Surprise: core migrate modules deprecated/removed in D12 30:04 Context windows + clearing context after planning 31:34 Picking a path: Drupal CMS rebuild vs big-bang vs hybrid 34:04 The plan: fresh Drupal CMS install + targeted D7 migrations 36:04 Rewind, fork, and branch: managing context (and cost) 38:04 Pro tip: log in to use your subscription instead of API tokens 39:34 Reading the plan: migration state file, tiered models, gates 42:04 Claude doesn't know its own new feature (dynamic workflows) 45:04 What dynamic workflows actually are + fixing the plan 46:34 Time to YOLO the plan: auto mode + guardrails 47:34 The "$1,000?!" jump scare (it was $1.00) 49:04 Security check-in with Marlene: prompt injection & separation 52:04 Local stack decisions: DDEV, Docker, Composer 56:04 Handing off SSH creds safely (never paste secrets in chat) 58:34 Playwright & browser automation: impersonating yourself online 1:02:04 Opting out of training on your data + privacy settings 1:05:04 What makes a good agent skill + AI Best Practices 1:09:04 Docker won't cooperate: the privileged port battle 1:14:04 Memories vs skills: fixing it for you vs everybody 1:16:04 Getting SSH working: keys, the "!" escape, ssh-agent 1:25:04 Handing off to a second agent via handoff.md 1:32:04 Wrapping up: what we learned + Part 2 teaser Highlights: Why planning mode matters before you let an agent YOLO a big job Grounding the agent in current Drupal facts vs. its training cutoff — core's migrate modules are deprecated/removed in D12 and NOT moving to contrib The strategic case for landing on Drupal 11 + Drupal CMS now, while D7 source plugins still exist Claude not knowing about its own newly-shipped dynamic workflows feature until pointed at the docs — verify everything! Context management: rewind, fork, branch, and clearing context to stay lean (and cheap) The "$1,000?!" jump scare (spoiler: it was $1.00 — read your decimal points, friends) Playwright browser automation, and why impersonating yourself on drupal.org to auto-post is probably against the rules Marlene's security perspective on prompt injection and keeping research/coding agents separated Why you should NEVER paste private keys or SSH creds into chat — and how to opt out of training on your data A real, unscripted battle with SSH agent / authorized_keys that we did NOT fully solve on camera Agent handoffs: writing a handoff.md to pass state to a second agent Why webchick built AI Best Practices — the "Drupal CMS of agent skills" A Part 2 is planned to pick up where we left off (once that SSH gremlin is sorted). Thanks to Dieter, Marlene, Carlos, Ali, and everyone who hung around late into the night. read more
Drupal Association 16.06.2026

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Drupal AI Learners Club Livestream

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Drupal Association 13.06.2026

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Southwark Case Study

This example demonstrates how AI, built into Drupal, is helping people work smarter, connect communities, and communicate with clarity. Find out more about Drupal AI here: https://new.drupal.org/ai read more
Drupal Association 12.06.2026

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Basel Stadt Case Study

This example demonstrates how AI, built into Drupal, is helping people work smarter, connect communities, and communicate with clarity. Find out more about Drupal AI here: https://new.drupal.org/ai read more
Drupal Association 12.06.2026

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DB Schenker

This example demonstrates how AI, built into Drupal, is helping people work smarter, connect communities, and communicate with clarity. Find out more about Drupal AI here: https://new.drupal.org/ai read more
Drupal Association 12.06.2026

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World Cancer Day AI assisted moderation of user generated content using Drupal

For World Cancer Day 2026, the Union for International Cancer Control partnered with 1xINTERNET, who developed and deployed AI-powered moderation to review thousands of personal cancer stories submitted from around the world. This example demonstrates how AI, built into Drupal, is helping people work smarter, connect communities, and communicate with clarity. Find out more about Drupal AI here: https://new.drupal.org/ai read more
Drupal Association 12.06.2026

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AI Learners Club: Getting Ready to do Cool Stuff with AI in Drupal! — 2026-06-10

A hands-on walk-through from Mike Anello of DrupalEasy on setting up the Drupal AI module — what it includes, how to configure it, and why it's the first step to leveraging AI right inside the Drupal UI. Covers AI providers, default models, logging, external moderation, guardrails, and the AI API explorer — plus a taste of what's possible with the AI CKEditor submodule. read more
Drupal Association 10.06.2026

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Quick Wins with Drupal AI for accessibility: Tone changes from within CKEditor

A demonstration of how content can be re-written from within Drupal's editor for a different audience. In this example we rewrite the content of an article to be easily understood by a reader in grade 2 of the US school system. Learn more about Drupal AI: http://drupal.org/ai/ read more
Drupal Association 01.06.2026

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Quick Wins with Drupal AI for accessibility: Content Translation

A demonstration of the editor workflow for quickly translating content into multiple languages using AI. In this example we translate an article from English to Portuguese. Learn more about Drupal AI: http://drupal.org/ai/ read more
Drupal Association 01.06.2026

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Quick Wins with Drupal AI for accessibility: Alt Text Generation

A demonstration of how easy it is for content editors to generate image alt text using AI. In this example we create useful alt text for use by screen readers and search engines. Learn more about Drupal AI: http://drupal.org/ai/ read more
Drupal Association 01.06.2026

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Drupal AI Learners Club: Claude Design

Aidan Foster introduces Claude Design, Anthropic's new AI-assisted design tool, to vibe design web user interfaces, how the Drupal AI UX initiative uses it for prototyping and design discussion, and tips and pitfalls to be aware of. read more
Drupal Association 30.05.2026

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Beyond Chatbots: Creating Smarter, Personalized Experiences with AG-UI

This video is part of a series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjSZBJ76O07Z9cafBpLPkhBL recorded at Drupal AI Summit New York City 2026. To learn more about Drupal AI visit https://www.drupal.org/ai. Discover more Drupal AI events in your region https://www.drupal.org/about/ai/events John Tran builds innovative technical solutions for global brands, helping organizations get real value from their technology while staying focused on business goals. Before ImageX, he founded a technical agency serving Electronic Arts and later led technology at a WPP agency supporting major clients. Discover how Drupal can evolve beyond chatbots into a collaborative, AI-powered experience platform with AG-UI. This session shows how interactive AI agents can work directly within your Drupal site to support content teams, streamline workflows, and deliver more personalized, intuitive experiences for users, without adding technical complexity. We are witnessing a fundamental shift in how businesses utilize Artificial Intelligence. The era of simple, text-based chatbots is ending. In its place, a new generation of "AI Agents" is emerging—intelligent digital assistants capable of reasoning, using tools, and collaborating with humans in real-time to customize content experiences. For Drupal site owners, marketers, and content teams, this opens up a powerful opportunity. Imagine your website becoming a collaborative workspace, where AI collaborates with your visitors to personalize experiences in real time as they interact with your content. This session will introduce a new approach to bringing these interactive AI assistants into Drupal using a component-based toolkit built on AG-UI. While the technology runs behind the scenes, the experience is designed to feel natural and intuitive, AI that is embedded into your end user content experience, rather than in a disconnected pop-up. We will demonstrate how this custom toolkit bridges the gap between complex AI logic and the intuitive Drupal user experience you expect. read more
Drupal Association 29.05.2026

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Why Private AI Matters: Data Sovereignty as the Foundation for Trustworthy AI on the Open Web

This video is part of a series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjSZBJ76O07Z9cafBpLPkhBL recorded at Drupal AI Summit New York City 2026. To learn more about Drupal AI visit https://www.drupal.org/ai. Discover more Drupal AI events in your region https://www.drupal.org/about/ai/events Matthew Saunders is an AI Ambassador at amazee.io and a long-time Drupal leader with two decades of contribution. He helps organizations adopt practical, secure AI within Drupal, with a focus on data sovereignty, enterprise delivery, and neuro-inclusive design. As organizations race to integrate AI into their digital platforms, a critical question is being overlooked: who actually controls the data? Today, 72% of organizations rank data privacy as their top AI concern, 44% have experienced sensitive data leaking into AI systems, and shadow AI is spreading unchecked. For enterprises running on open-source platforms like Drupal, the answer is not to avoid AI but to deploy it on infrastructure where data never leaves organizational control. This session covers the three pillars of AI sovereignty — data, model, and operational sovereignty — and shows how open-source foundations like Drupal and Kubernetes make it possible to run AI without vendor lock-in, without cross-border data risk, and without sacrificing compliance. Drawing on real-world deployment patterns including private LLM proxies, region-locked vector databases, and open-source Drupal AI provider integrations, this talk connects the strategic "why" to the engineering "how." Whether you are evaluating AI architecture, managing shadow AI risk, or building AI features into Drupal responsibly, you will leave with a clear framework for deploying AI that is powerful, auditable, and fully under your control. read more
Drupal Association 29.05.2026

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Drupal CMS AI - No-code Visual AI Agent builder - Future of Agents

This video is part of a series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjSZBJ76O07Z9cafBpLPkhBL recorded at Drupal AI Summit New York City 2026. To learn more about Drupal AI visit https://www.drupal.org/ai. Discover more Drupal AI events in your region https://www.drupal.org/about/ai/events James Abrahams is the cofounder of FreelyGive, a technology agency specialising in native Drupal CRM and business applications. He is a thought leader in Drupal AI and plays a key role in shaping the direction of AI within the platform, contributing from a strategic and product perspective. Flowdrop UI for Agents is an intuitive visual interface layer for designing, building and managing AI agents, most often used within Drupal’s AI ecosystem. It is not an AI model in its own right, but an orchestration and design environment that sits above agent infrastructure, making complex workflows more accessible and manageable. In this session, Jamie will demonstrate Flowdrop in practice, showing how it enables integration with external systems via MCP and supports the creation of AI agents using agent-driven approaches. The focus will be on how teams can move from concept to working implementations with greater clarity and control. Looking ahead, the session will explore how agent-driven systems are beginning to generate and coordinate other agents, extending the reach of Drupal’s capabilities through AI. Tools such as Claude Code are already enabling near end to end automation, from Figma designs through to fully functioning Drupal sites and migrations. The next phase is likely to bring this level of orchestration directly into Drupal itself. Attendees will leave with a clear view of current innovation within Drupal AI and a considered perspective on how these developments may evolve. read more
Drupal Association 29.05.2026

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Beyond the Prompt: Operationalizing the Human–AI Partnership as a Digital Teammate in Drupal

This video is part of a series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjSZBJ76O07Z9cafBpLPkhBL recorded at Drupal AI Summit New York City 2026. To learn more about Drupal AI visit https://www.drupal.org/ai. Discover more Drupal AI events in your region https://www.drupal.org/about/ai/events John Doyle is CEO of Digital Polygon, a WebOps agency focused on open source. With 18+ years as a software architect, he leads delivery of scalable, enterprise-grade solutions. He works at the intersection of Drupal and AI, helping organisations move past hype to implement practical automation and WebOps strategies that deliver measurable results. Most organizations are stuck in a loop of AI experimentation that never reaches production. The problem isn’t the models; it’s that we’re trying to build houses on sand. Without structure, governance, and reliable data flows, AI is just a parlor trick. Drupal is often overlooked in the AI conversation, but its greatest strength is exactly what AI needs: a robust, API-first architecture and a mature content model. In this session, I’ll show you how we’re moving past prompts to build digital teammates—AI agents that are governed, measurable, and embedded directly into real-world editorial and marketing workflows. We’ll look at a two-part framework for operationalizing AI in Drupal: Stop experimenting, start systemizing: How to define a digital teammate charter so AI has clear inputs, outputs, and SLAs. Moving Beyond the Sandbox: How to take the logic from your team’s best individual experiments—like custom GPTs or Gems—and bake them directly into Drupal. We’ll talk about how to turn isolated wins into shared, governed, human-in-the-loop workflows that actually move the needle for the entire organization. read more
Drupal Association 29.05.2026

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How AI helps The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) be more efficient in a transparent way

This video is part of a series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjSZBJ76O07Z9cafBpLPkhBL recorded at Drupal AI Summit New York City 2026. To learn more about Drupal AI visit https://www.drupal.org/ai. Discover more Drupal AI events in your region https://www.drupal.org/about/ai/events Jeroen Spitaels is the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) & Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dropsolid, where he shapes the company's strategic growth initiatives and revenue strategies for its open, AI-driven Digital Experience Platform (DXP). Drawing from his background as a tech entrepreneur and founder, Jeroen leverages extensive experience in business development and international operations to drive innovation and scale the company's market presence. In this talk we'll explain how EPSO (European Personnel Selection Office a.k.a. EU Careers from the European Commission) implemented AI in their online portal. We'll explain the hurdles we went trough, the wins after going live (some obvious, some less obvious). We'll also give some insights in how we make this AI implementation transparent. read more
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AI-native CMS vs vibe coding

This video is part of a series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjSZBJ76O07Z9cafBpLPkhBL recorded at Drupal AI Summit New York City 2026. To learn more about Drupal AI visit https://www.drupal.org/ai. Discover more Drupal AI events in your region https://www.drupal.org/about/ai/events Kristof Van Tomme is co-founder of Pronovix, where he has spent over a decade building developer portals in Drupal. The company recently joined the Drupal AI Initiative. An active member of the Drupal, Write the Docs, and APIDays communities, he focuses on how AI is reshaping APIs, documentation, and developer portals. Over the years there have been many different technology waves that have changed how teams build developer portals: Static site generators, MACH, or React based applications, a range of open source technologies like Backstage or Docusaurus. Through all these waves content management systems like Drupal have been a fixture, often brought in out of necessity when requirements for the portal reached a certain level of complexity. Now that AI is making it possible for tech writers to vibe code solutions for highly specific complex requirements, is there still a need for a CMS? In this talk I will explore the difference between vibe coded documentation portals and systems that use structured data formats to enable and constrain AI. Using two practical examples from the developer portal world, to help you decide what approach would be better for your use case. read more
Drupal Association 29.05.2026

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CMS in the post-AI Era: from MCP to Vibecoding

This video is part of a series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpeDXSh4nHjSZBJ76O07Z9cafBpLPkhBL recorded at Drupal AI Summit New York City 2026. To learn more about Drupal AI visit https://www.drupal.org/ai. Discover more Drupal AI events in your region https://www.drupal.org/about/ai/events Josh Koenig has been a part of the Drupal ecosystem for over 20 years, and has spent his career focused on helping web teams deliver faster, with less stress, and more impact. With the open web being torn apart and reassembled by AI, the role of open source and web teams is more important than ever. The open web is being torn apart and put back together, and the purpose of content management is up for grabs. Who it's for, what it tracks, how it operates — all of this is changing. But AI is also blending in with the rest of the tech. The story is less and less about AI itself, but how it is applied so solve real world problems. As the leading open source framework for structured content, now with a fully functional internal AI subsystem, Drupal can play a much needed role in helping mature organizations use AI to accelerate, without compromising sustainable practices or quality. Drupal can run agents, but it can also be run by agents. With a solid MCP server foundation and provider plugins for all major models, there's a clear path to go from vibe-coded prototype to sustainable production system, including running a scalable and sustainable content production pipeline. read more
Drupal Association 29.05.2026

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Wozu braucht man Drush bei #Drupal 9? Module lassen sich direkt updaten. Drupal Update mit Drush hat einen Aufkleber "deprecated". read more

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Olivero is the new default theme in #Drupal10 & 9 – and the most accessible one yet. Learn more about this modern theme’s best features, as well as its notable namesake. https://t.co/JHwH3hexgq #Drupal https://t.co/zTEKd7wOMa read more

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Wir danken unserem Bronze-Sponsor @arocom_GmbH! 🥰 "Sie suchen eine auf das CMS #Drupal spezialisierte Internetagentur? Dann sind Sie bei der arocom GmbH genau richtig. Wir entwickeln individuelle Internetauftritte, Portale, Shops und Intranetlösungen." (gs) #dcruhr23 https://t.co/eR7Ql6Tmns read more

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I love all my Drupal and Magento projects I developed in the past 😁🙌 especially Shutterstock from the USA liked it #drupal read more

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On episode #390, Employee Owned Business with Seth Brown, CEO @lullabot. https://t.co/KiYM6Zwz5C #drupal read more

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Want to learn how to contribute to #Drupal? Join @opensourceway's @volkswagenchick at @FoxValleyDrupal next month to learn the ins and outs of the Drupal issue queue. Spoiler alert: you don't have to be a coder to give back to open source. … https://t.co/yi56be3YUR read more

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@bretwp I recommend #Drupal for sites that have the need to tie together dynamic content in a plethora of ways. Good for HighEd or government sites. read more

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#365daysOfCode Day 356 1. Anki 2. Reading: Javascript Security 101 3. #Drupal : Block Views, built my first one! Still need to push more on drupal it's tough (anyone know any good resources?) 4. #100Devs Standup 5. PoW Dev Hangout 6. Codewars 6th read more

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In the previous versions of #Drupal, you used the #rules module to trigger an action upon an event. In #durpal8 #drupal9 / #drupal10, you subscribe to events and dispatch your own. read more

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Drupal 10 upgrade: Custom code upgrades, post by @darthsteven of @computerminds https://t.co/StelwGvv96 #Drupal read more

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By not upgrading your #Drupal websites to the latest version of #Drupal, you're making it difficult for yourself in the future. read more

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I am not surprised by these new #drupal modules, and I welcome our new AI-based content overlords with peace and love 😜 https://t.co/gXLVYFZ19q Thanks, @kevinquillen, for giving me something new to be distracted by. read more

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To compete with some of the largest companies on the web, independent bookstores need a platform with all of the e-commerce features people have come to expect. See how we helped create a full-featured alternative to platforms like Shopify. https://t.co/A6ApsA1LWP #drupal read more

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You can write documentation and examples about that documentation. This is also considered a contribution towards the #Drupal project. read more

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