Intermediate

Display Builder: Drupal's Unified Visual Builder

Session Category Site Building User Interface & Design Site-Building Theming, Design, & Usability Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Dan Hansen
Come learn about Display Builder, a powerful tool designed to streamline and modernize the site building experience across a whole host of legacy Drupal layout systems.

Google Looker Studio: More than just GA4 reporting

Session Category User Experience & Accessibility Project Management & Consulting Off the "Drupal Island" Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Stephen Pashby
Google Looker Studio is a full featured, free data reporting tool. While frequently used to produce attractive reporting for Google Analytics 4 data, it also can be connected to a variety of other data sources. We will cover several less common use cases including reporting on data from multiple GA4 data sources and Google Sheets. Learn how to use Google Looker Studio for reporting on more than just Google Analytics 4 by leveraging different data sources!

AI + Accessibility: Benefits, Limitations, and Practical Workflows

Session Category User Experience & Accessibility Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Carie Fisher
This session explores how AI can support digital accessibility and where it falls short. Learn to evaluate AI-generated fixes, compare tools, and understand key risks like overreliance and overlays. Emphasizing human review, participants will develop practical strategies and a 90-day action plan to responsibly integrate AI into accessibility work.

Ctrl+F5 Won't Save You: Strategies for Static Asset Caching

Session Category Back End Development & Performance Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Chris Burge
By default, Drupal instructs external caches (Varnish, CDN, browser, etc) to cache static assets, such as CSS, PDF, and JPG, for 1 year. Without a caching strategy for static assets, you're likely to experience some headaches with these files. In this session, we'll cover the Purge, Purge File, and Media Entity File Replace contrib modules, along with several others. We'll also dive into the Cache-Control header and how it can be leveraged to manage external caches.

Local like a yokel - how to pick & fiddle your sandbox to new heights

Session Category Emerging Technology Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Dan Gurin
Master your development sandbox! "Local like a yokel" shows you how to push your environment to its limits for $0. We’ll dive into Cloudflare SSH tunnels to share your work with the world and explore hosting OSS tools like Twenty CRM and ListMonk on your own hardware. Crucially, we’ll tackle the new frontier: sandbox AI. Learn to set up Ollama and integrate it with Dalia to revolutionize your Drupal development. This session is for developers who want to transform their workstation from a simple server into a powerhouse of automation and intelligence.