Sessions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Simplify your deployments to any host with this one-size-fits-most GitHub Actions workflow

Bob McDonald
Managing Drupal sites across hosts like Pantheon, Acquia, and Platform.sh often requires separate CI/CD workflows—adding complexity and maintenance overhead. Attendees will leave with a ready-to-use template and practical strategies for customizing it, managing Drupal settings per environment, reducing rebuilds, and improving reliability through automation.

Finding Creativity in Structure - Lessons on Technology from the Haiku

Dustin Boeger
While it's an unusual comparison, come see how the UC Davis SiteFarm team has emulated a nearly 400 year old Japanese poetry style to create a Drupal ecosystem, that enforces structure, while also providing opportunities to use modern Front End frameworks for engaging data displays.

Preparing your Pipeline for the AI Revolution

James Sansbury
🚀 AI codes in seconds, but your testing pipeline wasn't built for that speed. Learn how to evolve your deployment strategy to match AI velocity without sacrificing quality. Essential for CTOs & engineering leaders navigating the AI development revolution.

Get off your SASS (and use native CSS)

Mark Casias
With the introduction of Single Directory Components and the ability to have CSS bound to a component, it is not as necessary to have your design system “built”.

Creating an AI Chatbot in Drupal: The Easy Way

Jordan Koplowicz
In this presentation, I'll show you how to build your own AI chatbot in Drupal, which can answer questions based on your own website content. This is Retrieval Augmented Generation. By the time we're done, you'll have all the tools you need to build your own RAG. Even better, there's no coding required; you can build the whole thing using nothing but community-contributed modules. (Plus a couple API keys, and some fine tuning... but we'll get there!)

Quick and Easy Migrations and Upgrades Using AI

Luke McCormick
In this hands-on session at #BADCamp, you’ll learn how to use real AI tools to streamline Drupal migrations and upgrades — no “vibe coding,” just practical results.

Preparing for the future of AI: The Changing Consumption Landscape and Combating AI threats

Steve Carlson
Content creators shouldn't have to choose between giving away their work for free or blocking AI entirely—there's a third option where you can actually get paid for AI access to your content.
As AI-powered cyberattacks get more sophisticated, it's time to fight AI with AI rather than relying on outdated security tools that can't keep up.

Recipe Unpack: Leaving Drupal CMS Is What You're Supposed to Do

Josh Mitchell
With the release of Drupal 11.2, the Recipes feature gets an important new capability. You can now "unpack" recipes after they are run so that your composer.json will have the direct dependencies from the recipe rather than a dependency on the recipe itself.