Schedule

We built it. We optimized it. We secured it. But outside of our issue queues and Slack channels, does the wider tech world know—or care?

For years, the Drupal community has suffered from a "build it and they will come" mentality. We have created one of the most robust platforms on the web, yet we often find ourselves preaching to the converted in a comfortable, self-referential bubble.

In this session, I will share the uncomfortable reality of taking the Drupal Association to Web Summit Lisbon—a massive, generalist tech event where "Drupal" was just another booth in a sea of startups. I will share the messy details of what happens when you step out of the "Drupal Island" and face the market head-on.

But this is not a talk about marketing; it is a talk about survival.

As developers, we have a responsibility that goes beyond code quality. We need to confront the "Tragedy of the Commons" that threatens open source projects: everyone relies on the ecosystem, but few invest in its external visibility. I will explore how our technical decisions—from DX to API design—either reinforce our isolation or help us burst the bubble.

Mago is a developer tool to improve the quality of the PHP code you write. In the era of AI it is important to have strict, reliable and fast guard rails to validate your code. We will talk about Coder, PHPStan and Mago - tools for static code analysis.

For 25 years, Drupal has provided the velocity builders need. However, trying to serve every audience with a single tool often meant compromise. The recent strategic distinction between Drupal Core and Drupal CMS has unlocked a new path: parallel improvements that embrace the specific ways different builders work.

With the arrival of Drupal CMS 2, the introduction of Drupal Canvas and Site Templates fundamentally changes the game. These tools shift the focus to visual, component-based building, allowing users to launch new sites with best-practice features already configured.

But what does this shift mean for the future of Drupal Core and the wider ecosystem? For those not using Drupal CMS (yet)—and for critical use cases like headless architectures, social platforms, and e-commerce—what is the path forward? What can developers and architects expect as we look toward Drupal 12?

Join us to discuss how catering to these distinct needs will shape the broader ecosystem and what the long-term implications are for the community.

AI is already transforming Drupal projects. This session shows practical, real world AI integrations in Drupal from editor assistants in CKEditor 5 to AI powered chatbots and automated workflows, while respecting privacy, performance, and Open Web principles.

Stop mapping fields by hand: this session shows how the module AI Content Migrate can detect repeatable patterns in legacy pages, propose content models and mappings, generate selectors, recover media, and produce ready-to-run migration files that generates faster iterations, fewer surprises, and safer rollbacks.

For a few years now, DA has created templates for CI/CD to be used by maintainers of contrib modules in DA's infrastructure. They offer an out-of-the-box solution for testing and linting your code. It also offers many customizations and it can expand your testing, allowing your module be more secure from core and dependency updates, catching errors and deprecations, preventing releasing hotfix releases

Complex Drupal projects rarely fail because of code. They fail because intention, implementation and reality drift apart. This session shows how AI-assisted codebase and specification analysis can restore control, clarity, and confidence in large, long-lived Drupal systems.

Learn how to embed interactive React components inside SDCs while keeping your theme lightweight, and maintenable.

Work is underway to modernize the transactional email APIs in Drupal Core. Discover what is already available and what is currently in development.

Drupal’s front stack is actually under exciting modernization. Pierre, a Core’s provisional front-end manager, will show how those changes and additions can help us build modern UI and revolutionize the display building experience.

Drupal's configuration schema layer has been a stable underpinning for custom data structures, in this session we'll go over the basics and end up explaining all the possible ways to use it.