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Drupal Developer Days 2026

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rupal Developer Days 2026 will take place in Athens, Greece, from April 22nd to 25th, hosted at the modern and spacious innovation hub of OTE Academy. This annual gathering is the 16th edition for developers, site builders, and contributors who are passionate about Drupal. The event features sessions, hands-on workshops, and contribution sprints focused on…

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63Voices
18Underwriters
0Exhibitors
21On the bill · sessions
21Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at Drupal, in alphabetical order.
Alex Moreno
Anand Toshniwal
Andreas Pelekoudas
Aris Magripis
Bill Seremetis
Christian Lamine
Christoph Breidert
David Galeano
Denise Spangler
Dimitris Kritsotakis
Dominique De Cooman
Dries Buytaert
Founder and Project Lead of Drupal. Co-founder and Executive Chair at Acquia. · Acquia
ekes
Emma Horrell
UX Research Lead Drupal CMS · Drupal CMS
Erik Erskine
Fabian Bircher
Ferran Bosch
Floris van Geel
Francesco Maria Battaglia
Frederik Wouters
Open Source innovator and co-creator of the Drupal AI module
Gábor Hojtsy
Gareth Alexander

— and 41 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
inDigitalPlatinum
PantheonPlatinum
Aperta (asup.io)Gold
DotsoftGold
DropsolidGold
E-Sepia Web InnovationGold
PointblankGold
1xINTERNETSilver
HostdogSilver
Kraut.HostingSilver
Private PackagistSilver
ThunderSilver
ZoochaSilver
AnnertechCoffee / Tea Sponsors
Drupal Bulgaria AssociationCoffee / Tea Sponsors
gfossIn-Kind Sponsors
Hinto GroupSocial Night Sponsors
The Drop TimesMedia Partner Sponsors
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The Programme

Selected from 21 sessions on the bill.
  • Fri 09:30-10:15

    Keynote Session: "Emotional Intelligence and AI: The Psychology of Coding"

    Drupal’s motto has long been “Come for the code. Stay for the community.” If our code comes from smart people and our community comes from kind people, we could rephrase our motto …

  • Fri 10:25-10:40

    Indigital Sponsor Talk: "AI as a Service: Building an In-House AI Platform That Plays Nice with Drupal"

    As AI reshapes every industry, organizations face a critical choice: rely on expensive big-tech APIs or build tailored, in-house AI capabilities. In this session, InDigital's team …

  • Fri 10:45-11:00

    Pantheon Sponsor Talk: "Drupal CMS AI and Google Gemini"

    This session demonstrates what can be achieved with the combination of Drupal CMS’s AI capabilities, including the new Tools API, and the most advanced models available from Google…

  • Fri 11:15-12:00

    Keynote Session: "We need to talk about AI"

    We need to talk about AI. Not how you use it in your projects, but how it affects us an open source community, how we can continue to collaboratively work on code and contribute to…

    Community Health
  • Fri 12:15-12:55

    BoF: "Artificial Intelligence as a Service: Using external APIs or deploying in-house models?"

    Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS) offers businesses two primary paths: leveraging external APIs from providers like OpenAI or AWS, or building and deploying proprietary …

  • Fri 12:15-12:55

    Migrating messy content to Drupal

    Drupal migrations can be scary, unknown processes. Content is often messy and full of edge cases. What often starts out as simple can quickly grow out of control, with seemingly en…

    Agency & Business
  • Fri 12:15-12:55

    Stop the Stampede: Scaling and Defending Drupal in the Age of AI Scrapers

    Are your servers ready for the "AI stampede"? Learn how to protect your Drupal site from aggressive AI scrapers and infrastructure failures using advanced support engineering tacti…

    InfoSec & DevOps
  • Fri 12:15-12:55

    Supercharge Your Drupal Queues with Symfony Messenger

    Ever struggled with delayed processing, lack of real-time feedback, or the inability to choose how and when your queue items run? What if you could hand-pick your message transport…

    Coding & Site Building
  • Fri 13:55-14:35

    BoF: Local Associations websites project (la_eu): demo & questions

    The Local Association (EU Sites Project) makes it easier for local associations to create their own Drupal site for their association. Using this shared codebase, associations will…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 21 companies, parsed from the program.

21 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
18Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
3Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

2% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner12%
  • Research / Science12%
  • Other roles6197%

Of 63 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 011xInternetSp·S
  2. 02AnnertechSp·C
  3. 03Aperta (asup.io)Sp·G
  4. 04DotsoftSp·G
  5. 05DropsolidSp·G
  6. 06Drupal Bulgaria AssociationSp·C
  7. 07E-Sepia Web InnovationSp·G
  8. 08gfossSp·I
  9. 09Hinto GroupSp·S
  10. 10HostdogSp·S
  11. 11inDigitalSp·P
  12. 12Kraut.HostingSp·S
  13. 13PantheonSp·P
  14. 14PointblankSp·G
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum2
11% of 18
gold5
28% of 18
silver6
33% of 18
social night sponsors1
6% of 18
media partner sponsors1
6% of 18
in-kind sponsors1
6% of 18
coffee / tea sponsors2
11% of 18
06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters