Room
Acquia Theatre
Audience
All Attendees
Speaker(s)
Anna Mykailova
Change can be exciting, but it can also be challenging and destabilizing. In this session, we will cover tips and techniques to regain control and balance, adapted from real-life experiences of immigrating to Canada from Ukraine. This talk will also include AI as a significant factor in navigating these shifts.
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Coffee Break
Break for coffee and conversation.
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Drupal AI + Canvas = A Marketer's Dream CMS
Session Category
New to Drupal
Site-Building
AI
Room
Acquia Theatre
Audience
All Attendees
Speaker(s)
Aidan Foster
Imagine marketers creating sophisticated content independently, maintaining brand consistency at scale, and accelerating their workflows. This session reveals how Drupal's new AI ecosystem makes it possible. As part of the team behind the DrupalCon Vienna Dries Note demo, I'll show you the tools and practical applications that transform how marketing teams work. See the future of AI-powered CMS—no coding required.
It’s Not You, It’s the Process: Breaking Bad Habits in Drupal Teams
In this interactive session, we’ll explore five common challenges web teams face, dig into their root causes, and discuss practical solutions to empower teams for long-term success.
Martin and Eric will demonstrate a website that loads critical CSS so that the first paint of the site happens very quickly and improves Google Lighthouse scores dramatically.
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How the Royal Ontario Museum Built a Smarter Information Architecture
Learn about how the ROM streamlined decades of accumulated content into a flexible, scalable structure with just 11 well-defined content types and support for AI translation, event registration, and cross-promotional content.
What Neurodivergence Taught Me About UX and Emotional Safety
Room
Woolwich Web Works Room E
Audience
All Attendees
Speaker(s)
Michelle Balge
Poor UX creates emotional friction: confusion, stress, or overwhelm that affects everyone, though it can impact neurodivergent users more strongly. As an autistic UX/UI designer, I've experienced these challenges firsthand. In this session, we'll explore how designing for emotional safety benefits all users while also building a deeper understanding of neurodiversity. You'll come away with practical UX solutions to reduce friction and create inclusive, positive digital experiences.
Room
Evolving Web Room C
Audience
Beginner
Speaker(s)
jwitkowski79
Scaling design systems across different audiences, purposes and applications can be challenging if you don’t know what to plan for. As systems designers, how can we better identify and understand those challenges so we can create successful plans for scaling a design system?
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Lunch
Selection of boxed lunches with drinks and treats
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Drupal for Warriors: Multilingual Drupal from Configuration to AI integration, in the original Klingon
How mutlilingual works in Drupal. What are the features, parts, and tools to manage users and content in multiple languages. From what comes with Drupal to AI integration and translation. Examples will be in English, French, and Klingon.
Room
Woolwich Web Works Room E
Audience
All Attendees
Speaker(s)
monicadear
If accessibility is not considered a pillar of your infrastructure in design and development, now is a great time start. This presentation offers review, guidance, and additional support for digital professionals concerned about increasing accessibility considerations in their work.
Room
Evolving Web Room C
Audience
Beginner
Speaker(s)
Daniel O'Connor
Why terrible images are everywhere and how to fix it with mindful design, Drupal Focal Point and thoughtful content strategy.
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Getting Started with ECA: Event-Condition-Action in Drupal
Session Category
Site-Building
Room
Acquia Theatre
Audience
All Attendees
Speaker(s)
metasim
Learn how the ECA module brings no-code automation to Drupal 10+ through Event-Condition-Action workflows. This quick introduction covers core concepts, the visual ECA Modeler interface, and a live demo building practical automation.
Perfect for site builders and developers seeking a modern alternative to Rules or custom code.
Use AI to Automate Your Business Processes with Maestro
Session Category
Project Management & Consulting
AI
Off the "Drupal Island"
Room
Woolwich Web Works Room E
Audience
All Attendees
Speaker(s)
Randy Kolenko
If it can be flow-charted, then it can be automated with Maestro. Use Maestro AI to automate business processes, offloading mundane tasks to AI to increase productivity. Time permitting, a demonstration of our Maestro AI Agent that allows you to explain a process to automate and the agent creates it for you.
Simplify, man! Harmonizing Layout Paragraphs and Single Directory Components to alleviate content fatigue
Room
Evolving Web Room C
Audience
Intermediate
Speaker(s)
Andrew Lefebvre
Are you a content editors or developer getting frustrated by configuring and maintaining content in multiple places?
Sounds like you're working for your Drupal site, Simplify man.
Learn ways to improve content editing workflows by configuring layout paragraphs along with SDC to provide a content editing experience that encourages content management to simply the entity editing form.
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Five types of landing pages that every website probably needs
Session Category
New to Drupal
Theming, Design, Usability & Accessibility
Room
Acquia Theatre
Audience
All Attendees
Speaker(s)
Suzanne Dergacheva
Everyone knows that flexible page-building tools are a must. And Drupal Canvas will bring exciting new options for designers and content editors, but flexibility alone doesn’t make for a strong content strategy. In this session, we’ll look at five types of landing pages and the role that each one plays in contributing to your content strategy.
Custom Importers 101
Session Category
Development & Performance
Room
Evolving Web Room C
Audience
Intermediate
Speaker(s)
nord102
Creating large amounts of content from external sources can be tedious but is a common problem for many Drupal builds. Importers are tools that can be created and used to make this process easier while maintaining control over content-specific details.
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Closing thoughts
Room
Acquia Theatre
Thank-yous and give-aways.
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After-Party / Dinner: Crabby Joe's, King Street
Come join other conference attendees at Crabby Joe's on King Street, a short walk from the Library, for conversation and networking.
