Schedule

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Accelerating Innovation: The Drupal AI Initiative

Kristen Pol
Explore how the Drupal community is uniting to harness the power of AI. This session introduces the Drupal AI Initiative—its goals, funded work, and community momentum—to deliver smarter tools for site builders, marketers, and developers.

Where are you *actually* managing your content?

Chris Reynolds
Does your content management system actually manage your content? If you use any other tool than your CMS to write your content, you're doing too many things. There's a better way.

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Getting Hands-On with DrupalAI: Build Smarter Sites with Zero Code

J Matthew Saunders
Learn how to build smarter, AI-powered Drupal sites without writing code. This hands-on beginner session shows you how to launch your own DrupalAI site, structure effective prompts, and tap into unlimited AI credits through amazee.ai’s open provider framework.

Drupal CMS Late 2025 Update

André Angelantoni
The 1-year anniversary of Drupal CMS is coming up soon! What has happened in the last year? In this session, we'll discuss:
• Experience Builder
• Site templates and building with Recipes
• Preparing hosting partners
• Advances in AI
• Marketing
and more.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Beyond the Site: Your Design System's Next Chapter

Melissa Miller
This session presents a strategic framework for making design system architecture decisions that will help you build the right system for your organization's unique needs. Through real-world examples and practical guidance, you'll learn to navigate common scenarios and recognize when standard approaches may not be enough.

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Higher Ed Summit

The Higher Education Summit is a unique opportunity for site owners, IT managers, developers, and content creators dedicated to supporting and advancing the use of Drupal in academia to share, lear

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2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Secure but Accessible: Building Digital assets your users can actually use

AmyJune Hineline
Security and accessibility don’t always play nice, but they can.

Join us for a session at BADCamp that breaks down common barriers like CAPTCHAs, pop-ups, and gated content. Learn how assistive tech interacts with security features and explore open source solutions that are both secure and inclusive.

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

What can Drupal learn from other projects?

Luke McCormick
Chris Reynolds
Renea Davis-Leathers
Join our roundtable at #BADCamp to explore how WordPress, Joomla, CraftCMS & more tackle the same challenges we face in Drupal. Community, sustainability, UX—nothing’s off the table. Bring your stories to this interactive session!

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

How you can build low-budget sites with Drupal and still make a profit

Ashraf Abed
Can low-budget Drupal sites be profitable? Absolutely.

Join us for "How you can build low-budget sites with Drupal and still make a profit" — a practical session for freelancers, agencies & site builders looking to work smarter with Drupal.

AI on Headless Drupal

Jordan Koplowicz
A more advanced talk on creating an AI chatbot on a _headless_ Drupal site. I'll lead you through a hands-on exercise to build your own ecosystem.