DrupalCon Europe 2021

During his keynote - a.k.a. Driesnote - at DrupalCon Europe 2021, Dries will give one of his engaging keynotes about the state of the Drupal project. Belgium-born Drupal founder Dries Buytaert is a pioneer in the open source web publishing and digital experience platform space.

This year, DrupalCon Europe is partnering with local Camps and Communities. You will discover everything you need to know on this video.
Click to register https://events.drupal.org/europe2021/registration-information

CHAPTERS
0:00 What is new this year?
0:32 Why bringing together DrupalCon and the Camps?
2:06 When will it take place?
2:48 Where can we attend?
3:22 Which are the benefits?
4:46 DrupalCon Europe x DrupalCamp Kyiv
5:23 DrupalCon Europe x DrupalJam
6:07 DrupalCon Europe x Drupal Germany

Below is the list of participating Camps:
Drupaljam, The Netherlands
Drupal Mountain Camp Switzerland
Drupal Germany
DrupalCamp Kyiv
DrupalCamp Finland
DrupalCamp Belgium - Ghent 2021
Drupal Wrocław

Enhancing the core Layout builder module using the contributed modules, Layout Builder Modal, Styles and Restrictions.

This session is a Bug-smash community initiative keynote. We will discuss status report, how we work and how to get on-boarded.

Small things count - Create accessibility compliant digital content by distributing roles & responsibilities across cross functional teams.

How do you pick between coupled, partially decoupled, or fully decoupled Drupal? We'll review questions to help you pick the right solution.

While accessibility is a “top priority”, it's clear the entire web industry has been thinking about it in a way that has failed all of us.

Case study: Future-proofing digital experience for a leading utility
Client: SoCalGas
https://moonraft.com/work/utility-website-redesign

Architectural overview of Drupal for content delivery, SAP for commerce functionality, and React for the front end. Demo and highlights.

Drupalist Rick Torzynski as explains how to connect JavaScript and Drupal using TensorFlow.js to integrate Machine Learning with the CMS.

Why the buy-in of your marketing/technical peers is essential to your digital experiences success. And how to get it.

Battle-tested strategies, action items, dos & don'ts that will help a professional services firm to scale, sell, perform and govern better.

AAA compliance is the ultimate achievement, but is rarely ever actually necessary. Hear our lessons learned from our latest AAA project.

This session will coach agencies on how to package up smaller services that can lay the foundation for big, long-term contracts.

Being working with Drupal & seeing the talent demand for almost 8+ years now, I feel there has always been a higher demand than availability for Drupal talent. With Drupal till Drupal 7, since the learning curve was steep, it was also difficult to bring in new talent to the Drupal pool easily.

Axelerant introduced life coaching 6 years back and it turned around the experience of working at an agency. How? Let me tell you a story...

Why a mutual basic understanding of accessibility is vital to project success, and how you can have fun with it with your clients.

How LocalGov Drupal is using the power of Sociocracy to make decisions and collaborate effectively on a local government open source project

Summer is here and you want a six pack in a week? Can't help with that, but I can tell you how to improve your quality in a matter of hours.

How you lead impacts the well-being of your organization's culture. Learn how transforming your mindset makes you a more effective leader.

In this talk, you'll learn to increase the efficacy of your candidate search & tips and tricks to implement right away.

We will share our onboarding playbook and the advantages it can bring to your teams.

Drupal Steward gives you the peace of mind to update sites on your own terms - come ask us your questions and learn more.

Conducting a Discovery right at the beginning of your project will build trust and a common vision, and get things right from the start.

Salsa Digital partners with Today Design to architect and build a unified digital experience platform for a key Australian government agency

Our traditional Opening Reception has transformed into a Networking Reception this year! What’s better than being able to meet, mingle, share & have fun at DrupalCon Europe 2021!
After a short introduction on the Main Stage, Women in Drupal will be happening on Zoom for an hour and the 4 Hallway Tracks will be the place to be for a few hours!

Learn advanced techniques to successfully integrate components with Drupal.

Find out the reasons why 12 councils in the UK chose Drupal and the LocalGov Drupal distribution for web publishing, and why a few didn't.

Our small team was overwhelmed with hundreds of sites. A thoughtful system of governance freed us to focus on the work that mattered.

Drupal, Mautic, Apache Unomi & N8N can be seen as a Digital Experience Platform without vendor & data lock-in. Learn how to get started!

Standardize your local dev setup, check it in, and run every project... on different platforms and with different configurations.

Key differences and similarities between E-commerce for B2B and B2C and how we approach this using Drupal Commerce for all the things!

We'll show how we've build the ambitious content editing experience which is available in the Open Source Drupal 9 Rocketship Distribution

Exploring Top Media & Publishing Drupal Distributions

Blue State, Dovecot & Axelerant will discuss migrating a complex website to Drupal 8 & leveraging taxonomy to make content more accessible.

Config Split 2.0 has many new and exciting features. Some of which could be adopted by Drupal core in the upcoming sprint for CMI2.

A quick, hands-on walk through the Search API ecosystem in Drupal 9: How to set it up, what you can do, what to keep in mind, what to avoid.

This session gives a technical overview how we use Ansible and Drupal to manage 2000+ environments in a scalable and secure way

DruxtJS is an open-source framework for building Fully Decoupled Drupal experiences with JSON:API and Nuxt.js.

Case study on creating and managing a Drupal distribution for a global company and stakeholder teams, and challenges in scaling the product.

Learn about "always cacheable" content which can have cache variations & provide "always fresh" content via purge and Akamai CDN in Drupal.

Join the Drupal.org team to talk about upcoming features for the community, improvements to collaboration tools, & recognizing contribution.

To sub-theme for a distribution, you need a plan. Our LocalGov Drupal distribution base theme takes sub-theming from weeks to hours.

A comprehensive talk on what's new and changing in the next major PHP version - PHP 8.1

Discover how to use your strengths and passions to give back to Drupal through a community project.

This session will cover the 5 things to know when you're localizing a Drupal website in 2022 and how you can start implementing them today.

Join the board and staff of the Drupal Association, and learn more about the non-profit that fosters the Drupal Community. Bring questions!

Building the Trusted Web, together. With timestamps, we make truth part of the internet’s DNA. Transparency & accountability for content.

Join our workshop to learn how Drupal development & UX teams can collaborate in a fun & fruitful way to deliver successful digital products with great user experience. High-quality user experiences are vital for the success of your brand. Users need to be able to reach their goals in a meaningful, easy and enjoyable way when they interact with your product. In order to achieve this, it’s crucial that UX thinking is integrated through every step of the building and development process.

In this workshop, we’ll discuss how development and UX teams can collaborate in ways that are productive and beneficial for both sides, suggest tools and techniques for maximising user experience with Drupal, and help you to understand why developers should fall in love with UX.

A quick-introduction to the modern Vue.js framework for Drupal developers.

Test out your Drupal knowledge! In the grand tradition of the Trivia Night at DrupalCon, there will be 6 rounds of 10 questions covering all things Drupal, and a few more questions about general web topics. Your team of 5 will compete to capture the title of Drupal Trivia Champions, and win small prizes to boot!

A panel discussion exploring building in public, sharing lessons learned and strategies on collaboration, successes, and failures.

Learn about some of the more challenging issues the Drupal Community Working Group has faced and what the group has learned from them.

OpenSource contributions are rewarding, but it is tricky to implement. We'll share the strategy that sustainably worked for us.

The Webform module offers so much flexibility and features, you need to choose your own adventure.

In this talk, I'll tell the story of how I passed from working in a production line to working as a teacher in a web development Bootcamp.

PHPUnit Tests become chaotic when it's bombarded with input data. And this session will teach you DRY'ing up tests ensuring maintainability.

The goal of the initiative is to release Drupal 10 in 2022, providing adequate time to update sites while keeping Drupal up to date.

Tips and tricks to handle running periodic data imports. We'll share what we've learned after years of using Migrate.

Learn Drupal site building concepts by creating a functional website using nodes, content types, fields, views, and more.

How Implicit Bias Affects Diversity and Inclusion in Open Source.

Learn about anxiety, strategies to cope with it, and how to use some of its unique traits to your own advantage.

In this session, we'll walk you through the process of migrating your Drupal 7 website to D9, what are the stages of a migration project and how to plan thoroughly the implementation of a large migration. By the end of this session, you'll be ready to scope and prepare your upcoming migration and you'll know the key points for being able to scale your migration to hundreds of websites. We're going to share our recent experience of completing a large Drupal migration for the University of Waterloo (with more than 900 websites) and we'll share how we approached the project, the lessons learned, and some practical advice that will simplify your Drupal migration projects.This session is the result of a training webinar that we, at Evolving Web and Pantheon, presented together at the beginning of September and all the questions gathered from our audience there.

Learn about the process of taking an open source project public and donating it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Join us for a fun survey of interesting and potentially useful tools, strategies, and apps for you to explore!

Website performance matters. Research shows that if page load time increases from 1 second to 3
seconds, the bounce rate increases by 32%, which is massive. On top of that, platforms like Google
Search use the Core Web Vitals set of metrics to evaluate page performance for the purposes of ranking.
Therefore, we all want to build fast websites. While website performance depends on the type of hosting,
a highly performant website also depends on good configuration of Drupal.
In this workshop we will focus three main parts:
1. What the Core Web Vitals are and how they work
2. How to research your website's performance with the Core Web Vitals to find out where your
website is lacking
3. How to improve performance of your Drupal website with configuration and contrib modules
During the workshop every attendee will get a Drupal website where they can themselves research the
performance and improve it with contrib modules. If time permits, we can also look at results from your own websites.

This panel brings together designers from across the OSS contribution experience to discuss how design and OSS can work towards success.

Hands-on demonstration how to move your Drupal to an Open Digital Experience platform, using n8n.

N8n is an open source Integration Hub that allows you to create and maintain secure data integrations and workflow automation via an intuitive UI.

Why, how and when to evolve your Drupal project?

Keep your data secure, your visitors engaged and your developers happy.

In this session, Nick will elaborate on the right reasons, time and approach to evolve your Drupal environment to a newer version. Both for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 projects.

Human beings crave connection with others. In this talk, we’ll cover three questions you must answer in order to create a thriving community

Be amazed by witnessing creation of a fully functioning modern brochure website in 30 minutes using Wix like interface without any coding.

e, the 3 assembly modes, how to know which to use & when. How to use low code & decoupled together. Why Drupal

In a world where everything is moving online, It is time to think of accessibility hard and the right way.

This new user-friendly authoring experience based on Layout Paragraphs allows teams to publish beautiful content in Drupal, quickly.

Acquia Lightning is EOL with Drupal 8, and now there is this new “Acquia CMS” for Drupal 9. There have been lots of questions about how this can be used, and how it can help you build better Drupal 9 applications, Join us to learn:
• How Lightning did what it was intended to do
• What Acquia CMS is for
• How to use Acquia CMS (or parts of it)
• How you can make it your own
The good news is that there is a lot of great stuff here that anyone can use, whether they are an Acquia customer or not. Like with Lightning, we are hoping to help drive innovation in the community and make it easier to create amazing applications with Drupal.

CarsIreland is a leading car classified site with 50k+ classified ads. Here we discuss how we delivered a lightning-fast search experience.

With Mautic, you can manage campaigns, track visitors on websites, display personalized content dynamically, & integrate with other systems.

The Gin Admin Theme is the most used Admin Theme in Drupal 9. We'll talk about how it started, how it's going and where it's heading.

Case study of migration and building new version of Culture.pl. Presenting solutions selected to made portal based on Vue.js and CMS Drupal

Websites are a co-creation of visitors, editors, designers, devs and more. Successful teams harmonize it all; these questions can help.

Think about your pipeline. You have integrations dedicated to unit and visual regression tests. You have others set aside for code quality, coverage, and deployments. A suite of automation entirely dedicated to making sure that nothing breaks, and that reviews can take place on a qualitative level once all the boxes have been checked.

But what about performance? How confident are you that a new feature doesn’t result in a regression? Are you able to determine who exactly experiences degraded performance and when? How do you pinpoint the problem causing the issue, and know how to resolve it quickly?

One tool that provides exactly these insights - from individual commits in development through to production monitoring - is Blackfire.io. Blackfire is unique, because it contains not only an application performance monitoring solution for your production site, but also a profiler that makes it possible to define per-commit builds across multiple user scenarios that tie performance metrics into your existing pipeline. That means nothing can reach production that sacrifices user experience, and that you can make performance improvement tuning into a regular, incremental part of your lifecycle.

In this talk, you’ll get an introduction to Blackfire, and how it can be integrated into your workflow for more performant Drupal applications.

Start the day with a refreshing intervention of Rachel Lawson and Audra Martin Merrick, where Tuesday’s highlights will be shared: Keynotes, Sessions, Camps, BoFs, Contribution, Sponsors, Social Events: you will know everything to make the most of this second day at DrupalCon Europe 2021!

USERS & EDITORS - Optimizing the content editor experience: comparing Drupal, WordPress, and Contentful

Allowing your users to choose their experience is better than assuming you know what they want. This talk reviews UX and a11y pain points.

This session will introduce two modules enhancing the editorial experience in Drupal 8/9 - Autosave Form and Conflict.

I would like to share my experience as a content editor throughout the process of developing Drupal pages and create more awareness.

You only have 5 seconds to leave a good impression through your website, make it count!
UX techniques, best practices & references.

Hands-on demonstration how to move your Drupal to an Open Digital Experience platform, using Mautic.

Mautic is an open source Marketing Automation platform that allows you to extend your websites with marketing forms, lead nurturing and multistep customer journeys.

Join Danny as he shares the methods Cyber-Duck used to grow their team by two thirds, increase revenue by more than half and profit by 65%.

Want something better than your boring Drupal University site? Use Drupal, but do it right! A modern approach unlocks many opportunities.

Presenting two projects about why having a well planned content architecture is necessary, and how a company can save money on seamless UX.

SiteBuilder is a platform that allows marketers to create a Drupal platform and deploy it, without a technical agency dependency.

The role of DXP in building Drupal experiences that engage customers, enhance conversions and help businesses stand out.

In this session we will demonstrate how Schwabe managed to gain control over all digital properties by developing a multisite solution.

No-estimation is a win-win for dev teams and project funders alike. Learn how to position the benefits of a better approach to estimation.

How the Support + Kanban structure works unitedly?

Hear the dramatic tale of how a simple request to add a link to a header menu creates a crisis that cascades through an entire web team.

A panel discussion with representatives from active Drupal distributions including Rocketship, LocalGov Drupal, Thunder and Open Social.

You can be a much better developer by mastering developer tools. I'll show you how!

Kuoni Congress, Cecilia Levy, Hana Peregrinova, Heather Rocker (Drupal Association), Rachel Lawson (Drupal Association), Imre Gmelig Meijling (Drupaljam), Jean-Paul Vosmeer (Drupaljam), Nick Veenhof (DrupalCamp Ghent), Alla Petrovska (DrupalCamp Kyiv), Anatoliy Poliakov (DrupalCamp Kyiv), Andrii Podanenko (DrupalCamp Kyiv), Baddý Sonja Breidert (German Drupal Association), Janne Kalliola (DrupalCamp Finland), Dan Lemon (Drupal Mountain Camp), Karol Bryksa (Drupal Wrocław)
Let’s celebrate Drupal's 20th birthday and kick off DrupalCon Europe 2021 together! This year’s Opening Ceremony promises a great time. You will have the opportunity to experience the community spirit by meeting the participating Camps and Local Communities on DrupalCon Europe 2021 Main Stage!

We will share how we enhanced Drupal’s Paragraphs module to create a Layout Builder-esque drag and drop UI to create flexible web pages.

In our world and in our work, evolution happens a pace so slow that we barely notice it. Web technologies have evolved. Marketing and IT teams have evolved. Drupal has evolved. But have our conversations about content, websites, and Drupal with clients progressed at all?

This discussion attempts to capture what has changed for marketers and organizations, and what has changed in the Drupal CMS. It attempts to remap what Drupal does now to what our customers are seeking in this moment. It attempts to present a contemporary and compelling starting point for dialog about the value of Drupal.

The open source community is amazing, and nobody tells you that you can leverage open source contributions to improve your life.

In this session you will learn the ins and outs of how to build a multilingual Gatsby website using Drupal as its backend CMS.

A glimpse into the history and future of content editing & site building with layout builder. A multilingual future without paragraphs?

Setting up Drupal Tours to guide content administrators & site visitors learn, help developers define done, and aid in QA testing.

Optimizing the sitemap for a client to support articles by month required creative solutions.