Recent Talks

Managing dates and times is often complex: recurring events, timezones, daylight savings times, regional formatting conventions, and more. Add in additional presentation requirements like add-to-calendar links, registration links, and related content (like agendas, that change for each date instance) and the complexity can seem bewildering.

Fortunately Drupal offers a rich toolset for solving these challenges. In this session we'll explore the solutions, not only showing how they work, but also detailing the modules and the configuration needed.

The code to use recipes has already been merged into Drupal 10.3, and will be a key feature in how we use Drupal 11, and the coming Starshot initiative.

But how will recipes make your life easier, building and managing Drupal websites? In this talk we'll explore exactly what a recipe is, how you can use them, and how you can make your own. We'll talk about the recipes already available, and how the recipes still being developed will play a central role in the future of Drupal.

Join us for an engaging panel discussion on the Drupal Starshot initiative, an ambitious project aimed at propelling Drupal into the next decade of innovation. Our panel of industry experts and community leaders will delve into the vision behind Starshot and discuss its potential to transform the Drupal ecosystem.

In this session, we will explore:

Join us for an inspiring keynote as we explore the exciting opportunities within the Drupal community, ignited by the Starshot initiative announced at DrupalCon Portland. Whether or not you are a coder, there are countless ways to get involved and make a meaningful impact.

We will share practical tips for first-time contributors and showcase real-life examples from Martin's personal Drupal journey. Discover how he stays passionate and motivated, and learn how you can find your own unique path in the Drupal community.

Don’t miss this chance to embark on your Drupal adventure!

News about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the ways it is transforming numerous industries is everywhere. As power and capabilities of AI-based tools continue to grow, the pace of these changes will only accelerate. The good news is that by mastering these tools and using them to make you better at the work you do, you can make AI a source of job security.

Managing dates and times is often complex: recurring events, timezones, daylight savings times, regional formatting conventions, and more. Add in additional presentation requirements like add-to-calendar links, registration links, and related content (like agendas, that change for each date instance) and the complexity can seem bewildering.

Fortunately Drupal offers a rich toolset for solving these challenges. In this session we'll explore the solutions, not only showing how they work, but also detailing the modules and the configuration needed.

The Drupal content management system is known for its flexibility. Drupal can be used for many types of websites, from corporate websites and media portals to e-commerce sites, community forums, and intranets. Drupal’s media management features are also very powerful, and integrating a DAM (Digital Asset Management) with Drupal has the added benefit of being able to reuse your digital assets across platforms. 

MarTech tools are evolving at an incredible pace. Learn how to integrate AI, robust analytics, and personalization within your CMS and DAM solutions to drive business success and future-proof your marketing strategies.

You’ll learn about:

• Cutting-edge tools to streamline and enhance your marketing processes
• Opportunities and challenges of adopting innovations
• Actionable tips for integrating MarTech solutions into your workflows

Managing dates and times is often complex: recurring events, timezones, daylight savings times, regional formatting conventions, and more. Add in additional presentation requirements like add-to-calendar links, registration links, and related content (like agendas, that change for each date instance) and the complexity can seem bewildering.

Fortunately Drupal offers a rich toolset for solving these challenges. In this session we'll explore the solutions, not only showing how they work, but also detailing the modules and the configuration needed.

Inefficient toolchains are a major source of lost productivity for development teams. This talk will demonstrate managed, cloud-based tools that make your team more efficient at every stage of the software delivery life cycle.

There’s lots to be excited about in Drupal 10 and Drupal 10.1 was just released, boasting tons of new features, including tech upgrades that help developers build better, automatic updates that make life way easier, a fresh admin experience that content editors will love and Drupal's most accessible default theme ever.  This talk will explore the new and improved features just released, and how to make the most of them, as well as some other exciting functionality the community is working on.

Marketing budgets are stretched thinner than ever: Teams have to reach increasingly distracted stakeholders, across channels and markets, under ever-changing conditions. How can your team get to market faster, with less effort, and better brand experiences? We’ll talk about a rapidly evolving toolset that promises to unleash the productivity of your team.

One of the key strengths of Drupal is its flourishing ecosystem for contributed modules. Best of all, you can jump in and add yoour own module! All you really need is a good idea, though of course some programming knowledge, understanding of Drupal coding standards, and a few other technical things would help. This talk will focus less on how to write code or what code you should write, and more on the process of creating a module, submitting it on Drupal.org, and getting it adopted by the community. We'll touch on such topics as:

Drupal 10 was released in late 2022 and is the platform's most recent major update. What new features and capabilities of interest to marketers were added? If your website hasn't been updated, is now the time? Martin Anderson-Clutz, a senior solutions consultant at Acquia, will explain what marketers need to know about Drupal 10.

There’s lots to be excited about in Drupal 10, but the Drupal 10.1 release is just weeks away. What new features will we see? This talk will explore the changes almost ready for release, as well as some other exciting functionality the community is working on.

There's a lot of excitement around headless headless websites. Is headless always better? In this conversation we'll unpack the true benefits of a headless architecture and some areas where it's often oversold.

We often talk about UX as a focus on making a site intuitive and easy-to-use for anonymous visitors, or perhaps registered users who need manage their account, make a purchase, and so on. But what about the people who will use your site most? While an engaged visitor might return to your site 3-5 times a month, a site admin use the site that many times a week, or more!

This session will explore how UX principles apply to Drupal's back end, as well as recommend some modules and best practices to make your site easy and intuitive for your contributors.

I sat down with Jeremy Wood to discuss careers in tech, my own journey, and what lies ahead.

The Talking Drupal hosts and I had a spirited discussion about why image optimization is important, and what tools are available.

Your site speed is a crucial element of good UX, and an important part of technical SEO efforts. We often think of optimizing Drupal's speed in terms of accelerating the page rendering, but often the speed of Drupal sites is hurt even more by requiring visitors to download much bigger image files than are truly necessary.