2026 Sessions/Trainings


Accessibility Debt: The Bugs You Don’t See

Session Category Site Building User Experience & Accessibility Audience All Attendees Speaker(s) volkswagenchick
In this session, we’ll dig into how accessibility debt shows up in Drupal projects and why it’s so easy to miss. We’ll look at the usual suspects across theming, content workflows, design systems, and day-to-day maintenance, along with ways to catch issues earlier without slowing everything down.

Build Your First CI/CD Pipeline

Session Category DevOps Audience Beginner Speaker(s) Amber Matz
In this session, we’ll walk through how to transition from a local command-line tool to an automated step inside a CI/CD workflow. I’ll show you how I built my first CI/CD pipeline and how I iteratively added QA checks that now run automatically on every commit.

Designing for Difference: Practical Strategies for Building a Neuroinclusive Organization

Session Category Community Audience All Attendees Speaker(s) Matthew Saunders
Most organisations are not struggling because of people. They are struggling because of how they are designed.

This session explores how hidden cognitive friction in organisational systems reduces performance, slows teams down, and drives burnout. Framed through the lens of neurodiversity, it shows how the same design flaws that impact neurodivergent contributors ultimately affect everyone.

Attendees will learn how to identify friction in hiring, team operations, and leadership practices, and how to redesign systems to improve clarity, predictability, and psychological safety.

From Marketing to Sales

Session Category Business Development Audience All Attendees Speaker(s) Bob Snodgrass
Transforming your marketing practices into real business development activities. Learn how anyone can be comfortable doing business development and increase sales.

Getting Started with Drupal AI: A Practical, Open Approach to Building Real Workflows

Session Category Emerging Technology Audience Beginner Speaker(s) Matthew Saunders
A hands-on introduction to applying AI in Drupal using a structured, open source curriculum. This session shows how to move from experimentation to real workflows with practical examples, including content transformation, automation, and no-code solutions. Based on the Drupal AI Training 101 project (https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal_ai_train_101) open sourced by Matthew Saunders and Rod Martin, participants will learn a repeatable approach they can take back to their teams, along with open materials they can reuse, adapt, and extend for their own internal training and adoption efforts.

How Intelligence Informs Experiences: New Horizons for Marketers

Session Category Emerging Technology Audience All Attendees Speaker(s) Martin Anderson-Clutz
AI continues to transform what to expect from virtually everything, and your website is no different. In this session we’ll explore how new, agentic capabilities will allow even resource-constrained marketing teams to orchestrate omnichannel experiences like never before.

Level up: AI driven workflows

Session Category Emerging Technology Audience Beginner Speaker(s) Chris Weber
This is the talk that folks that haven't spent any time with AI, are just getting started, or folks that want to learn more / even more about how to do more with AI should go to. It can also be the talk for folks that looking for great use cases / examples for using AI + Drupal. While we will start at the very beginning and share tips on how to get started with AI, we'll end up with all kinds of great usage examples and things you can reuse to improve your daily work.

Local like a yokel - how to pick & fiddle your sandbox to new heights

Session Category Emerging Technology Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Dan Gurin
Master your development sandbox! "Local like a yokel" shows you how to push your environment to its limits for $0. We’ll dive into Cloudflare SSH tunnels to share your work with the world and explore hosting OSS tools like Twenty CRM and ListMonk on your own hardware. Crucially, we’ll tackle the new frontier: sandbox AI. Learn to set up Ollama and integrate it with Dalia to revolutionize your Drupal development. This session is for developers who want to transform their workstation from a simple server into a powerhouse of automation and intelligence.

You Don't Need JS for That

Session Category Front End Audience All Attendees Speaker(s) Aubrey Sambor
Have you been writing JavaScript to do things on the web and wondered if there was a better way? Fear not, CSS and HTML are here to ease your JavaScript woes! I'll go over a few new and upcoming CSS and HTML attributes, elements, and APIs that eliminate the need for JavaScript, such as:

* The Invoker Commands API
* The Popover API
* Anchor positioning
* View transitions
* Scroll driven animations
* and more!

Learn how to use the newest HTML and CSS techniques to replace excessive JavaScript and improve performance using the latest web native technologies.

Your AI Decisions Are Creating Risk: What Agency and Business Leaders Need to Own Now

Session Category Emerging Technology Audience All Attendees Speaker(s) Matthew Saunders
AI is already part of how work gets delivered.

It’s in the tools teams use, the platforms being recommended, and the solutions delivered to clients. In many cases, it has been introduced without a clear decision or a full understanding of the implications.

In Europe, that raises real concerns around data privacy and sovereignty.

This session looks at how AI is entering delivery workflows, how data is being handled, and where control is being lost or retained. It gives agency and business leaders a clearer view of what they are responsible for, and how to manage that more deliberately.