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Innovation & The future

This is where the future of Drupal projects is shaped. This is the place to discuss exciting new features and possibilities to explore for Drupal 11+ or contrib. Is Drupal the tool for ambitious site builders? What role does it play in the future of web development?

Where regular tracks and sessions focus on the present and immediate future, this track is explicitly about new or upcoming topics. It is not only about presenting ideas and plans but also about putting questions forward and finding answers to open questions.


Keywords: Core Conversations, Drupal future, Innovation

Visual Layout Suite for ambitious site builders

Room
HS4 (Ground level)
Speaker(s)
crzdev
tunic
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
Intermediate
VLSuite is the content editing experience on top of Site Builder that ambitious site builders are waiting for. This session features the capabilities of the VLSuite, completely independent from any theme or distribution but providing an out of the box editing experience that takes Layout Builder to the next level.

Human machines and machine humans

Room
HS1 (Ground level)
Speaker(s)
prestonso
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
All Attendees
In the Drupal community, we're contending with a rapidly changing near term and far future that have immense, even unsettling, implications for our ecosystem. This year's advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI), including OpenAI's emerging integrations with Drupal, and the fast growth in voice and other conversational technologies, cast in stark relief the risks and rewards—and the dangers to our commitments to equity, inclusion, and an open web—of allowing machines to become more human. At the same time, advancements in immersive technologies like the putative metaverse raise pertinent and urgent questions about what happens when humans become more like machines. Things feel unbalanced, unhinged, and unstable. Over the course of this keynote, we'll touch on all of these areas: conversational, immersive, and generative—and we'll look at their possible impacts on the Drupal community and ecosystem as well as the potential damage they might inflict on our sense of humanity, our sense of justice, and our sense of self. We'll look closely at topics like avatars, anthropomorphism, and AI bias to explore how our imminent future encodes oppression into our interfaces as they become more like us and reflect our society, and to inspect why we must confront difficult questions in order to keep Drupal relevant, resonant, and reliable far into the future—for everyone.

Revamp Transactional Email in Drupal Core

Room
HS13 (2nd floor)
Speaker(s)
znerol
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
Intermediate
Drupal Core currently provides a very rudimentary API for sending transactional emails. This applies to both, the way emails are constructed (markup rendered to plaintext) as well as the way they are delivered (using the very limited PHP mail function). A growing number of contrib projects are attempting to close this gap. However, to give site builders the tools they need to make their emails look good and work with modern email infrastructure, contrib projects must apply crude hacks to work around the limitations of the core mail API. This session is a very short introduction into core and contrib mail APIs followed by a (hopefully) long Q&A where the audience is encouraged to bring in their PoV regarding the future of transactional email. The results of this session will ideally lead to a clear and broadly accepted plan for the next step on how Drupal core transactional email is going to be modernized in upcoming releases.

Structured content within CKEditor 5. Do we still need paragraphs?

Room
HS13 (2nd floor)
Speaker(s)
erik.erskine
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
Intermediate
CKEditor 5 has an internal data model that's distinct from both the stored data and the resulting HTML. It's a document editor rather than an HTML editor. That gives us scope to use it for things that we might otherwise have implemented using paragraphs. Can we improve our content editing experience that way?

A Drupal inspired Render API for cloud and edge computing? An idea too crazy to fail.

Room
HS13 (2nd floor)
Speaker(s)
pdureau
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
Advanced
To promote design systems as universal and agnostic corporate assets, we package them as WebAssembly microservices, interfaced by a Render API strongly and proudly inspired by Drupal. We discovered interesting mechanisms which could find their way to Drupal Core.

Controlling Drupal via ChatGPT: Is Drupal coming for your Job? Exploring creating Views and interacting with a Search API index.

Room
HS1 (Ground level)
Speaker(s)
yautja_cetanu
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
All Attendees
Looking for the next big thing in Drupal? Look no further than ChatGPT! In this talk, you'll discover how large language models like ChatGPT 4 can produce effective code, including YAML files for Drupal. The presenters will demonstrate a small module that uses ChatGPT to create views entirely from scratch, giving you the power to control much of the functionality that a site builder once did using natural language. Plus, they'll showcase a document library that uploads PDFs and enables a Chatbot to ask questions based on Drupal permissions. With all the advancements happening in this space, this talk is sure to be an exciting and dynamic one that you won't want to miss!

Generative AI and Drupal

Room
HS4 (Ground level)
Speaker(s)
Iztok
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
Intermediate
This conference session will explore the transformative potential of Generative AI in the context of Drupal. The session will explore how AI has evolved to generate human-like content, explore online information, conduct research, and connect with other services, profoundly influencing content creators and Drupal users. We will examine how AI can simplify content building and publishing, replace traditional search filters with semantic search, and offer coding assistance.

Why we moved the database drivers to their own modules

Room
HS13 (2nd floor)
Speaker(s)
daffie
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
Intermediate
Why we moved the database drivers to their own module and what we want to do next. First thing is that we would like to use PHP Fibers to load data synchronously from the database. The second thing is that we would like to use MongoDB as a backend and store content entity data in a document format.

So I logged in, now what? The Dashboard initiative welcomes you

Room
HS1 (Ground level)
Speaker(s)
penyaskito
ckrina
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
All Attendees
Dashboards is a new Drupal Core initiative which aims at providing a better and personalized experience when you log in into your Drupal site.

Keynote: Keeping Drupal competitive on the modern web

Room
HS1 (Ground level)
Speaker(s)
Kingdutch
Session Category
Innovation & The future
Audience
All Attendees
Drupal is an amazing tool to model and manage data. From eCommerce platform; to a food magazine website; to a social network; Drupal can do it all. In the past years we've made great strides in improving the developer experience and make it easier to improve Drupal by utilizing work done by others in our ecosystem. At the same rate, competition for Drupal is growing by moving user experiences outside of the browser and building SaaS and serverless alternatives for data management for those projects. Where can we go with Drupal to keep it relevant for these new user experiences and share its strengths with others?

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