Registration
Join us at the start of the day to register, collect your badge, and enjoy refreshments before the sessions begin. This is a great opportunity to settle in, meet fellow attendees, and get ready for DrupalCamp England 2026.
Welcome
Kick off DrupalCamp England with a warm welcome covering key safety information an venue details. followed by an introduction to our inspiring keynote speaker who will set the tone for a day of learning, collaboration, and open-source innovation.
The Augmented Future: Winning with AI
We’ve all played with AI, but has it really brought real Return on Investment? While we view AI as Artificial intelligence, the true winners test it as Augmented Intelligence.
We discuss how to build the foundations to truly win with AI by focusing on real value, and most importantly, on how to Augment your organisation.
Group photo & Coffee
Join us for a quick group photo and a coffee break at DrupalCamp England - a chance to refuel, connect with fellow attendees, and capture the community spirit before heading into the sessions.
Protect the Brand, Promote the Brand: Navigating the New Era of AI Bots
The digital landscape has fundamentally shifted, with AI bots now accounting for 51% of all web traffic. This surge - a 300% increase has disrupted traditional discovery, moving users away from keyword-driven "blue links" toward hyper-personalised, conversational answers.
For brands, this means the "fight for the click" has evolved into a mission to "win the answer".
Bursting the Bubble: Why Code Alone Won’t Save the Open Web
In this session, I will share the uncomfortable reality of taking the Drupal Association to Web Summit Lisbon—a massive, generalist tech event where "Drupal" was just another booth in a sea of startups. I will share the messy details of what happens when you step out of the "Drupal Island" and face the market head-on.
But this is not a talk about marketing; it is a talk about survival.
Using HTMX To Make Interactive Elements In Drupal
This talk will introduce you to HTMX outside of Drupal, by looking at a couple of examples of using the package to create interactive elements without writing JavaScript at all.
We need to talk about AI
We need to talk about AI - not about how we could use it in a Drupal project, but about the hidden costs and other effects that come with it.
This ranges from adverse effects on the climate and the environment, to energy usage, chip prices and global markets, to effects the use of AI can have on people in vulnerable positions and the care they can get, and to effect AI use can has on us as an Open Source community. And how can we take these issues into account in our own projects and in products we build for clients?
This session doesn't require any technical knowledge, but an open mind to se
Same Image, Different Story: Why Drupal Needs Contextual Architecture
The session begins by demonstrating the problem statement, revealing how the fundamental architectural gap for contexts in Drupal affects:
Accessibility compliance (poor alt text experiences)
Editorial workflows (frustrated content creators)
Storage efficiency (duplicate image uploads)
Media management (cluttered media libraries)
But the good news is, there is a solution.
Lunch
Take a break for lunch at DrupalCamp England - enjoy some food, recharge, and connect with fellow attendees. It’s the perfect opportunity to continue conversations, share ideas, and build new connections before the afternoon sessions begin.
Scaling Drupal Multisite Deployments with GitHub Actions
In this session, I walk through the evolution of a real deployment pipeline built with GitHub Actions. Starting from a simple sequential approach, we explore different ways of scaling it and the problems that appear along the way.
Drupal CMS AI - No-code Visual AI Agent builder - Future of Agents
During this talk I'll show you the Flowdrop UI for Agents module that was demoed to the European Commision Drupal Community of Practise and their hackathon. It works with existing Agents such as the Drupal CMS AI Assistant but puts everything all in one place. It seemlessly allows you to integrate with other systems via MCP and even allows you to build AI Agents using an AI Agent!
Growing a team to transform a university website
manifesto has partnered with the University of Edinburgh to deliver several business-critical Drupal websites. We will highlight key learnings, challenges and personal development that occurred during this multi-year partnership as the combined team turned the initial vision into reality.
From 2021 to 2024, manifesto and the Prospective Student Web team from The University of Edinburgh worked together to not only deliver a new student-centred presence but also generate new ways of working within an evolving and improving multidisciplinary agile team.
Speed up your site with Partytown
Learn how Partytown can mitigate the negative impacts of using 3rd parties by moving those scripts off the main thread. We'll cover:
- The risks and impacts of using 3rd parties
- What is Partytown and how does it solve this problem
- How to use the Drupal module to integrate Partytown with your site
Importing PDFs into Drupal automatically.
Web content teams really hate PDFs, for a load of good reasons. We've built a module for the LocalGov Drupal community to automatically convert PDFs into content, saving staff at councils from hours of tedious copy and paste. I'll run through the history and architecture of the project, and show you what we learnt along the way.
Tab Traps, Focus Fails, and ARIA Fixes: Real Drupal Accessibility Challenges
Most Drupal developers know the accessibility basics - semantic HTML, alt text, heading structure. But when you build interactive components like disclosure widgets, accordions, or custom navigation, things get complicated fast. A beautifully designed widget can trap keyboard users in infinite loops or leave screen reader users completely lost.
Afternoon coffee
Join us for a coffee - a chance to refuel and connect with fellow attendees before heading into the next round of sessions.
Drupal CMS: What’s here, what’s coming (and the UX behind it)
In this session, we will
• Explore the current state, key contributions, and achievements of Drupal CMS
• Understand the roadmap and strategy driving the community forward
• Learn how UX research translates into product features and innovation
• Discover what you or your company can gain from Drupal CMS
How Cambridge Simplified a Sprawling Web Estate
This session will cover Zoocha and Pantheon’s joint work with the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine (SoCM). After 180 wordpress sites were taken offline, Zoocha, Pantheon, and SoCM worked in collaboration to build the estate back better, optimising for scalability, flexibility, and security.
Drupal websites that dream of content improvement
This session is a practical case study in what breaks, what scales, and what Drupal AI needs next if it is going to build the alluring idea that websites could identify across a large editorial estate the issues that need fixing, ready for human review in the morning.
Suspending Reality: PHP Fibers in Drupal Core and beyond
PHP Fibers were introduced in 8.1, and have recently started gaining adoption in Drupal core, resulting in massive performance improvements in Drupal 11.3 and the promise of making Drupal applications more performant and capable of handling larger amounts of traffic.
This is a session for PHP/Drupal Developers who are completely unfamiliar with Fibers, want to understand how they differ from other concurrent execution models, or want to dive deeper if they only know a little.
Building a Design System Using UI Pattern Suite in Drupal (Remote session)
This session will be presented remotely. This session aims to equip developers, designers, and site builders with the knowledge and skills needed to leverage UI Patterns effectively within the Drupal 10 ecosystem.
Wrap up day one
Close out day one at DrupalCamp England with our wrap-up session. Reflect on key insights, celebrate highlights from the day, and get a preview of what’s ahead before joining us at the social event.
Social event: BrewDog Peter Street
Join us for the DrupalCamp England social at BrewDog Peter Street, sponsored by 1xINTERNET and Annertech. Connect with fellow attendees over drinks and conversation in one of Manchester’s iconic venues - an ideal way to continue the day’s discussions and celebrate our community together.
Breakfast
Start your day at DrupalCamp England with a hearty breakfast—grab coffee, pastries, and light bites while connecting with fellow attendees. The perfect way to fuel up and kick off a day of learning, networking, and Drupal fun.
Drupal in a day
Whether you’re a student in computer science, media, design, or business, or just want to know what all that buzz is, this is your chance to kickstart your Drupal journey and explore future career opportunities in open-source technology.
Mentored Contribution
Take part in our Mentored Contribution Session at DrupalCamp England. Whether you’re new to contributing or looking to work on a specific issue, experienced mentors will guide you through issues, patches, and best practices.
Drupal in a day
Whether you’re a student in computer science, media, design, or business, or just want to know what all that buzz is, this is your chance to kickstart your Drupal journey and explore future career opportunities in open-source technology.
Mentored Contribution
Take part in our Mentored Contribution Session at DrupalCamp England. Whether you’re new to contributing or looking to work on a specific issue, experienced mentors will guide you through issues, patches, and best practices.
Drupal in a day
Whether you’re a student in computer science, media, design, or business, or just want to know what all that buzz is, this is your chance to kickstart your Drupal journey and explore future career opportunities in open-source technology.
Why Drupal remains a robust choice in today's AI era
Featuring perspectives from agency leadership, the non-profit sector, and media product management, this panel will unpack real-world examples of how Drupal acts as the ideal engine to future-proof a company's digital architecture.
Attendees will learn how to leverage Drupal’s structure to power AI-driven experiences, understand the critical benefits of Open Source governance and Data Sovereignty, and gain strategic insights on the ‘Build vs Buy’ debate, from leading UK organisations.
Mentored Contribution
Take part in our Mentored Contribution Session at DrupalCamp England. Whether you’re new to contributing or looking to work on a specific issue, experienced mentors will guide you through issues, patches, and best practices.
Coffee break
Take a moment to recharge with refreshments, connect with fellow attendees, and reflect on the morning sessions.
Unconference
Join us for Unconference Day at DrupalCamp England - a participant-led experience where the agenda is shaped by you. Propose topics, spark discussions, and collaborate on the ideas that matter most to the Drupal community.
Drupal in a day
Whether you’re a student in computer science, media, design, or business, or just want to know what all that buzz is, this is your chance to kickstart your Drupal journey and explore future career opportunities in open-source technology.
AI Workshop
Join the AI Workshop at DrupalCamp England to get hands-on with Drupal AI. Learn how to integrate AI tools, automate workflows, and enhance your Drupal projects with practical tips and guided exercises.
Mentored Contribution
Take part in our Mentored Contribution Session at DrupalCamp England. Whether you’re new to contributing or looking to work on a specific issue, experienced mentors will guide you through issues, patches, and best practices.
Lunch
Take a break for lunch at DrupalCamp England - enjoy some food, recharge, and connect with fellow attendees. It’s the perfect opportunity to continue conversations, share ideas, and build new connections before the afternoon sessions begin.
Closing session
Wrap up DrupalCamp England with our closing session. We’ll reflect on highlights from the camp, share final announcements, and thank our speakers, sponsors, and volunteers.
Unconference
Join us for Unconference Day at DrupalCamp England - a participant-led experience where the agenda is shaped by you. Propose topics, spark discussions, and collaborate on the ideas that matter most to the Drupal community.
Drupal in a day
Whether you’re a student in computer science, media, design, or business, or just want to know what all that buzz is, this is your chance to kickstart your Drupal journey and explore future career opportunities in open-source technology.
Mentored Contribution
Take part in our Mentored Contribution Session at DrupalCamp England. Whether you’re new to contributing or looking to work on a specific issue, experienced mentors will guide you through issues, patches, and best practices.