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We will share our thanks and showcase upcoming Drupal events.

In my talk, we will delve into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) decision-making, examining its profound influence on our lives, and the risks it poses when imbued with unchecked biases. As AI systems are increasingly entrusted with critical decisions, from creditworthiness assessments to employment screenings, it's paramount that these systems are fair, transparent, and accountable. Yet, bias and discrimination have emerged as significant challenges, chiefly because AI systems tend to reflect and amplify the biases in their training data. These biases can inadvertently lead to unfair outcomes, exacerbating existing inequalities. Furthermore, I will discuss potential solutions, regulatory measures, and practices that can be instituted to mitigate these biases. The goal of this presentation is not only to expose the dark side of AI decision-making but also to inspire and guide the development of more equitable and accountable AI systems.

Initiatives were born out of a need to give contributors a framework to organize their work on specific goals for Drupal core. We've been widely successful with some of them, while major things happened outside of initiatives too. We'll discuss recent progress on key initiatives, look at where the model worked and I will share my thoughts on what may be the future of initiatives.

Learn how DDEV is making lifes of devs at Jobiqo easier.

Lupus Decoupled Drupal provides a complete, fully integrated solution for a headless Drupal out of the box - combining the power of Drupal with a modern frontend! In this session we are building a ddev-based project based upon Lupus Decoupled Drupal - live! We'll start from scratch and will go through all necessary steps to build the site, step-by-step, so you can follow along if you like.

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.

At https://www.jobiqo.com/ started our decoupled journey in 2018 the Drupal decoupled scene was new, very different and less mature than it is today. In this session I will go through the initial business (and technical) motivations to change jobiqo’s product from a very typical Drupal 7 architecture with a decoupled architecture using Drupal GraphQL and Next.js. We will discuss challenges, risk and patterns we found while working in Decoupled Drupal over the last 5 years

digital accessibility for content editors Some essential accessibility requirements can only be done by the web editors themselves! The following topics will be discussed e.g. wording pictures structuring / markup tables abbreviations foreign words links multimedia

Established in 1966, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization, and environmental sustainability. Under the new leadership of Dr. Gerd Müller, the organization is undergoing major reforms from organizational structure to the way we deliver services to our member states. The UNIDO Public Website being the face of the organization needed to reflect this change with clean and modern design, clear messaging and optimized experience across different screens. This session touches lightly on the technical aspects of the development of this project which is powered by Drupal and focusses more on the lessons learnt working on a project on a tight budget, tight schedule, fluid requirements while making almost no compromises on the quality, maintainability and scalability.

In this session we will discuss the much awaited feature automatic updates. We ll also discuss how you can set up automatic updates for your site to make maintenance for drupal sites easy. Attendees will be able to take away the following from this session: - Setting up Automatic updates for your local site and on the server. - How we can ensure our site is ready for automatic updates. - Customizing the update process. - Caveats and limitations of automatic updates.