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Prenote!

Event
Industry track

Don't miss it! 8:15 a.m. Wednesday (yes)! Get a good seat for Dries's keynote!

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Jeffrey
Alexander
McGuire
Open Strategy Partners
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Campbell
Vertesi
Microsoft
Adam
Juran
Forum One
Expertise topics
spectrum A

Driesnote

Talk
Industry track

During his keynote, dubbed the 'Driesnote', Belgium-born Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert shares the state of Drupal with the community as well as where we are headed.

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Dries
Buytaert
Drupal
Acquia
Expertise topics
spectrum B
spectrum C

Contribution

Contribution

Contribution possibilities all day in two separate rooms. If you are entirely new to contribution, this is probably not a good time to start, make sure to come Friday. If you want to contribute to a team, look for their table and say hi! Read more about contribution opportunities and mentoring.

Open Web Lounge

Contribution

Enjoy three days of sharing and networking in open space style with such partners as Wordpress, Joomla, TYPO3, CMS Garden and the Open Source Initiative. An informal gathering of like-minded individuals: bring your topics and decide on the premises what, when and who will present or discuss in the Open Web Lounge all day.

Traditional group photo

Event
Industry track

Help us capture the community spirit on the traditional attendee group photo before getting some coffee and snacks.

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Josef
Dabernig
Amazee Labs

Coffee break

Break

Grab your snacks and coffee at various points in the building.

2.06 argentum
lounge

How do $CMS do their marketing?

Talk

An introduction and walkthrough to how other CMS projects in open source have opensourced their marketing efforts and what the Drupal community can learn from their successes and failtures.

2.02 chromium
3.05 radon
3.09 helium
0.04 dynamicum
2.03 vanadium

Modern Workflows for the Modern Developer

Talk
Industry track

The modern web is a thing of beauty, but it is a complex beauty. Modern workflows require package management, build steps, automatic testing via continuous integration, cloud hosting platforms, and production parity local development options. This session will break down the needs of the modern developer and talk about the tooling required to meet those needs and create web magic.

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Matthew
Cheney
Pantheon
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Mike
Pirog
Tandem
Lando
2.04 titanium
spectrum A
3.02 hassium

Symfony Framework style API building in Drupal

Talk
Industry track

Want to see new ways to take full advantage of Drupal using Symfony Components? This is for you! As a non-Drupal developer who works with Symfony Framework for years I'm trying to bring communities together by showing Drupal developers the power of the Symfony components available in Drupal and to show Symfony Framework developers that Drupal can also do the things they are used to work with.

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Robert
Slootjes
MediaMonks
3.08 neon

The Drupal Association: What it is, isn’t, and could be.

Panel
Industry track

The Drupal Association was born out of crisis.

It has grown to be an important supporting partner to the project but there are many misconceptions about what it is, what it does, and how it works.

This panel will describe the reality, bust the myths, and take your questions.

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Donna
Benjamin
Catalyst IT Australia
Drupal Association
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Suzanne
Dergacheva
Evolving Web
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Piyush
Poddar
Axelerant Technologies, Inc.
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Megan
Sanicki
Drupal Association
Drupal Association
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Timothy
Lehnen
Drupal Association
3.03 germanium
2.07 aurum
3.07 argon

Drupal Association supporting partners roundtable

Event

Short break

Break
3.02 hassium

24Kitchen, the no. 1 platform for food lovers

Talk
Industry track

With FOX News Network and The Persgroep Netherlands backing this european TV format, working on 24Kitchen was a feast. As one of the most popular platforms on food, cooking and lifestyle, an entirely new online experience allows for quick access to thousands of healthy recipes, cooking inspiration and cross media selling.

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Baris
Wanschers
LimoenGroen
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Imre
Gmelig Meijling
LimoenGroen
Drupal.nl
0.04 dynamicum

Create a chatbot on Drupal Data

Talk
Industry track

Why would you want a chatbot, why wouldn't you? How does that even work? Male, Female? How to add in your api? How to organise all that architecturally?
Find some of your answers here.

This talk is for you if you don't know how to start developing a chatbot. Both from a development or a management point of view.

Not much Drupal, Very much chatbot. Most examples from dialogflow, few from watson. 

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Frederik
Wouters
Flemish Government
Expertise topics
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ICOs, a revolutionary way to raise money for your company

Talk
Industry track

Blockchain technology leads to a number of innovations. One of them is the Initial Coin Offering or ICO. Doing an ICO opens up tons of opportunity for your company. However there are some things to carefully consider. We will take a deep dive into ICOs and what it can mean for Drupal agencies to transform their business in a way that has never been possible before.

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Taco
Potze
Open Social
GoalGorilla
Expertise topics
2.07 aurum

Paperless: The paper-to-digital transformation chronology

One of the YMCAs located in Minnesota with almost 30 locations has been suffering from paperwork for many years. Every day hundreds of visitors had to sign papers just to enter gym or swimming pool. Some of the papers have to be stored for 20 years. As a result tons of paper have been just occupying the place and time of the staff.

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Dima
Danylevskyi
Root.ua Agency
Expertise topics
2.02 chromium
3.08 neon
spectrum A

The OpenEuropa Initiative

Talk
Industry track

During this session, we will present the OpenEuropa Initiative, the Open Source components that you can already use in your projects, and the (micro)Service Oriented Architecture and Technical Governance that drive the design and development of these components.

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Antonio
De Marco
Nuvole Web
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Jean-François
Hovinne
Cleverway
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Hernani
Borges de Freitas
2.03 vanadium

The Way We Work: Culture, Communication, and Containers

Talk
Industry track

Is it possible to completely rethink the way we work? We would like to share how DRUD was founded on DevOps principles and how we continue to integrate our philosophy of work into our daily flow. In telling our story, we hope to inspire and help you support excellence in your team culture by building stability and quality into your daily workflow and agency philosophy. 

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Kevin
Bridges
Drud Technology
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Elli
Ludwigson
Open Strategy Partners
lounge

What's new in $CMS

Talk
3.03 germanium

YES, you can get the company you work for to contribute to Drupal

In order to spread the word that it is possible to get large enterprises to support Open Source software I will present a case study on how leadership within the company I work for was swayed to support the Drupal Association and get more involved in the Open Source communities in which they live and work.

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George
Matthes
Johnson and Johnson
Expertise topics

Lunch

Break

Food is served in the exhibition areas and the contribution lounge.

2.03 vanadium

A present for lazy developer: automating code quality control

Talk
Industry track

A session is focusing on code quality control and goes from simple to more complicated:

1. Defining the types of problems of the code

2. Evaluating its risks: psychological, reputational, time-related

3. Looking at the tools available to evaluate the code against the problems defined: PHP Lint, PHP Code Sniffer, PHP Mess Detector

4. Covering Drupal specifics of the task

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Yauhen
Zenko
Colours BV
3.02 hassium

Add open source to your DNA – how Burda built the Drupal 8 distribution for professional publishing

Talk
Industry track

Contributing to open source technology is no stranger to members of the Drupal community. But for a traditional company, the concept is quite unusual. That's why it was quite a bang when Hubert Burda Media decided to take this path with its Drupal 8 distribution Thunder.

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Kai
Riecke
Burda Magazine Holding
2.06 argentum
2.04 titanium
3.03 germanium

Enrich your Paragraphs workflow with features you didn’t know about

Talk
Industry track

Paragraphs module is one of the most used Drupal 8 contrib modules when it comes to content creation. The module offers many powerful, but not well known features that can significantly boost content creation experience.

In this presentation I am going to answer some of the most frequently asked How-To questions when working with Paragraphs

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Milos
Bovan
MD Systems
2.07 aurum

Full Stream ahead in 8 weeks and beyond

In this presentation we will showcase our approach on the digital transformation for the Oil & Gas Industry with the migration of GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes. Expect a combination of the business case, a customized agile approach and the technical solution as topics for this presentation. 

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Jason
Lentink
MediaMonks
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Martijn
Smit
MediaMonks
spectrum A

Hackers automate but the Drupal Community still downloads updates on drupal.org or: Why we need to talk about Auto Updates

Talk
Industry track

This session will highlight these topics:

  • The current state of the Drupal community and their common update processes from a security point of view
  • What’s the Automatic Update Initiative discussion about?
  • Auto Updates in Drupal - future case discussion
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Joe
Noll
Drop Guard
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Hernani
Borges de Freitas
0.04 dynamicum
3.09 helium
2.02 chromium

Open Source E-commerce solutions : Stop to compare, start to analyze

Talk
Industry track

Open-Source Ecommerce solutions are mostly compared based on how many sites uses them and how much plug and play modules are available.
In this session we will intend to build a big picture understandable by anyone by presenting these solutions from different perspectives: developer, advertiser and M2M.

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Mathieu
Le Cain
L'équipe.tech
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Fabien
Clément
L'équipe.tech
lounge

Team organisation in Open-Source-Software (running an open source team)

Talk
3.08 neon

The Future of Drupal Watchdog Magazine

Talk
Industry track

Drupal Watchdog magazine is at a crossroads... Come to this session to find out the current status, what's coming up, and to give your input on the future of Drupal Watchdog!

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Brian
Osborn
Drupal Watchdog
3.05 radon

Using React with Drupal. The Basics.

Workshop
Industry track

The frontend ecosystem and especially the React community is very large and confusing to new developers. This workshop aims to provide a gentle introduction to developers used to the traditional Drupal theming approach how they might use React in the wild today.

It will be a very practical step-by-step coding guide with explanations (where needed) how a simple decoupled client can be built from scratch.

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Martin
Spencer
1xINTERNET GmbH
Expertise topics
3.07 argon

Drupal Association European associations meeting

Event
3.08 neon
spectrum A

Introducing the Gutenberg content editor for Drupal 8

Talk
Industry track

Drupal needs a modern UI for rich content creation. This fall WordPress 5 is out with the brand new Gutenberg editor, a decoupled React based editing experience. It works great! And: It's open source, so we ported it to Drupal. Combining Drupal and Gutenberg is a killer combination, empowering content authors to build rich landing pages inside a rock solid CMS framework.

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Per Andre
Rønsen
Frontkom
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Marco
Fernandes
Frontkom
Expertise topics
2.03 vanadium

Modules proudly hosted elsewhere

Talk
Industry track

While drupal.org offers a great infrastructure to host modules sometimes you just want a little more. With the use of Travis CI it's easy to run all kinds of tasks to ensure you only release high quality code for the rest of the world to use. Allow pull requests for your module instead of working with patch files? Easy!

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Robert
Slootjes
MediaMonks
2.02 chromium

Multicurrency with Drupal 8 Commerce

Talk
Industry track

Being a Central-European Drupal shop, multicurrency is an important feature that our customers are looking for. In this session, you can learn about possible approaches for multicurrency and about the solution we chose for our customer and its pros and cons.

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Miro
Michalicka
CoolStranky
Expertise topics
3.02 hassium

mylife.de - looking back over the past two years

Talk
Industry track

Mylife is the health portal of BurdaLife, the business division in the National media brand of Hubert Burda Media which has the most reach. Our project team took care of both the SEO concept as well as the conception and design development of the platform. We also carried out the technical implementation by using thunder.

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Leon
Kerker
UEBERBIT
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Frank
Meyerer
UEBERBIT
Expertise topics
lounge

Political extremism and open source ("Your friendly nextdoor Nazi looking for help")

Panel

Short break

Break
3.08 neon

Analyzing the Drupal Community: a Data-driven Approach

Talk
Industry track

Drupal 8 is bigger and better than any earlier release. But does the same hold for the community behind it? It's time to let numbers speak. By applying data mining techniques to drupal.org and code repositories we can now measure the impact Drupal 8 had on the Drupal community, gather insights on the new generation of Drupalers and make recommendations for improvement.

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Andrea
Pescetti
Nuvole
spectrum A

Blockchain Panel for the Open Free Web

Panel
Industry track

As an Open Source community, we have a Blockchain panel for the Open Free Web.

Blockchain technology is predicted to change the web as we know it. Our panelists are working on our future, applying blockchain technology within the realm of an open web by building fair publishing environments and enhancing open source communities.

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Audra
Martin Merrick
Red Backpack Limited
Drupal Association Board Member
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Taco
Potze
Open Social
GoalGorilla
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Gagik
Yeghiazarian
PUBLIQ Foundation
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Ingo
Rübe
Botlabs
Expertise topics
2.02 chromium
0.04 dynamicum

Content management in AI-driven world

Talk
Industry track

Is it possible to find navigation elements that result in the best visitor experience? The answer is likely yes, and this question can be reformulated as one of the classic machine learning tasks.

Let's talk what are other classic machine learning tasks, and if and how they can be applied to content management

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Valery
L
Lourie
FFW Agency
Expertise topics
2.03 vanadium

GitLab (Auto) Review Apps with Drupal

Talk
Industry track

Automatic Drupal instances per Git branch under your control, on your own server or your Kubernetes cluster.

When working with a (remote) team and/or for your sprint review, it is essential that your colleagues, product owners or stakeholders can easily try out your software, that is, not only see, but also make use of what you have implemented. Preferably, this should be possible for each branch in your repository.

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Markus
Orenstrat
Reinblau eG
3.09 helium
2.07 aurum

OpenSource meets Enterprise - how Drupal and SAP Hybris can team up

Drupal is highly suitable for enterprise needs. In this case study you will learn about how Drupal can work seamlessly with commercial enterprise systems. And how they team up to provide a mighty e-business and marketing platform for our client and its international team. And you can also learn about the human digital transformation.

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Jan
Pilarzeck
trio-interactive it services gmbh
http://www.trio-group.de
3.02 hassium
3.03 germanium
lounge

Genius but Unpleasant – how to handle toxic contributors?

Panel

Coffee break

Break

Grab your snacks and coffee at various points in the building.

3.08 neon

Community events in WordPress

Talk
Industry track

WordPress.org is an open source project created and maintained by a community of users. Its mission is to democratise publishing through open source software.

WordPress is a global and inclusive project made up of hundreds of thousands of people that meet online, through Slack, and team blogs. 

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Francesca
Marano
SiteGround
Expertise topics
3.03 germanium

Data visualisation

Talk
Industry track

A strong content model enables to present the data not just as a website. Beside serving your content onto different devises you can also present the data in a different way. One more and more important one is data visualisation you'll learn about

Daniel
Wehner
THE world universities insights
Expertise topics
3.05 radon
2.03 vanadium

Down the rabbit hole: containerizing your Drupal site on Kubernetes and deploying it the blue/green way

Talk
Industry track

This session is about containerizing your Drupal site in Kubernetes (on Google Cloud) and deploying it with Jenkins and pipeline scripts.
We'll be using a method called "blue/green" deployments to dramatically minimize the downtime of your site and provide redundancy features / having some extra safety nets in case something goes wrong.

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Nils
Peeters
ScaleCity
3.09 helium

GDPR and Privacy Experience

Talk
Industry track

Beyond GDPR, there is an opportunity to build a competitive advantage. There is PX, the Privacy Experience.

PX is about building trust by giving transparency and control to individuals over the processing of their personal data. By showing them, that they are using a service from the "Good Guys", who care about their personal data, who are responsible and very professional.
 

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Peter
Ponya
BRAINSUM
Expertise topics
2.05 palladium
2.06 argentum
2.08 platinum
spectrum A

Responsible disclosure, cross-project collaboration, and Drupal 8 security

Talk
Industry track

The Drupal project has been following a responsible disclosure model for more than 12 years. As Drupal has grown from a few thousand installs to more than 1 million, and as the number of contributed projects on Drupal.org has grown from tens to tens of thousands, the Drupal Security Team has continually evolved our processes to scale our security coverage.

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Jess
(xjm)
Acquia
0.04 dynamicum
3.10 hydrogenium
3.02 hassium

Towards a standard for User interface text

Talk
Industry track

User interface texts are all those words that users see when they interact with a Drupal site  and they are an important factor in the user experience. So it is time we got a UI text standard, that would make it easier to write good UI texts.

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Antje
Lorch
ifrik
Expertise topics
2.07 aurum
2.02 chromium

Short break

Break
3.03 germanium

Coming soon, Drupal 8 and a half!

Talk
Industry track

Remember when Drupal 8 was brand new and full of new features?

Are you still excited about Drupal 8? Drupal 8 has added many great features since 8.0.0 and many more features are coming soon(ish). If you haven't started with Drupal 8 or haven't kept up with new features that are being develped for Drupal core, this session is for you.

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Ted
Bowman
Acquia
Expertise topics
2.07 aurum

Compelling USPs for Drupal in large organisations

Way too many times Drupal specialists compete with other CMS systems about the features and functions of their solution, forgetting about what really matters for the clients: reducing risk and cost while increasing growth! But how does Drupal fit into this calculation? Let's have a look at technical and business reasons, why large organizations rely on Drupal to achieve their goals!

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Rouven
Volk
Acquia
Expertise topics
3.08 neon

Dries Q&A

Talk
Industry track

Based on earlier event attendee feedback, the Dries Q&A, traditionally done as part of the “Driesnote” was far too short and not enough questions could be asked. This is especially true with Drupal Europe's shorter session formats.

The Dries Q&A being in its own session time will allow time for more questions and for them to be more in-depth. Dries will also have more time to explain his answers!

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Rachel
Lawson
Drupal Association
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Dries
Buytaert
Drupal
Acquia
3.02 hassium
2.04 titanium
spectrum A

How UNICEF Built A Donation Platform Across 135 Currencies and 7 Languages

Talk
Industry track

In our session, we’ll discuss how UNICEF partnered with Blue State Digital, Four Kitchens, and Motherlode Media to build a custom global payments platform.  We’ll focus on how we addressed UNICEF’s need to set up global campaigns, localized to donors in different countries in a matter of minutes, while simultaneously supporting local UNICEF offices in their own fundraising needs.

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Mike
Conlow
Blue State Digital
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Jeff
Tomlinson
Four Kitchens
2.03 vanadium
0.04 dynamicum
2.02 chromium

The king is dead, long live the king - or how Hooks were superseded by object oriented alternatives in Commerce 2.x.

Talk
Industry track

Commerce 2.x has almost completely ditched Hooks. They were replaced by Plugins, Services, Events. In this session, we will go through the Commerce API to answer, how can we implement the complex business logic and make your upcoming Commerce 2.x project a success story.

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Andreas
Albers
Linkfactory A/S
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Jakub
Piasecki
Linkfactory A/S
Expertise topics
3.09 helium

Did not find what you are looking for? Organise your own informal discussion (BoF)! We have plenty rooms and times available for holding BoFs throughout the three session days.

Read more and submit a BoF.

Most social events are organised by community members and sponsors. We are looking forward to expanding our social events list with you.

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