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Drupal GovCon 2025

event starts

13 Aug 2025

event ends

15 Aug 2025

location

Stamp Student Union - 3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742 College Park, Maryland, United States


Drupal GovCon brings together people from all over the country who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform with a focus in government. Although there is a focus on government, there is also a heavy representation of attendees from the private, non-profit, and education sectors as well.

Drupal GovCon is the heartbeat of the DC Drupal community. We come together for three days every year, to learn, improve, and innovate as a community. Drupal GovCon will feature a full schedule of educational, contribution, and networking opportunities.

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  • Sessions should share knowledge and enhance the community—rather than sell products or services.
  • Preference will be given to sessions that aren’t already available online.
  • We encourage longtime Drupal4Gov and Drupal GovCon presenters to lift as they climb by partnering with other community members and presenters to bring new speakers into the community.
  • To create well-rounded presentations with varied perspectives, we encourage session partnerships between service providers and clients and generally recommend that session presenters represent different organizations.
  • The number of presenters per session is limited. See information in the session types section below.
  • Presenters are required to read and adhere to the Drupal GovCon Code of Conduct. 
  • Please ensure that your session submissions are thorough, thought out and complete. Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed.

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116 submissions
Submitted sessions
Nneka
  • Harnessing the Digital Dragon: Web Management
Kanika Watson
  • The Pivot Plan: Reset Your Resume. Reclaim Your Story
Henok, Mike Endale
  • Next-Gen Drupal Development: Boosting Velocity and Quality with AI-Powered IDEs
bendygirl
  • More Than A Root Cause Analysis
  • A First Journey into DrupalCMS AI features
  • I beg you, Don't AI your RFP responses, AI them
KelseyL
  • Plain Language for Drupalers
Jill Farley
  • Serious Results, Surprisingly Fun: A Playbook for KPI-Driven Digital Transformation
Gena Dellett
  • Open Source in Action - How Johnson County Government Connects the Public with Drupal and CiviCRM
Sean Lehane
  • Code Without Borders: Unlocking Open Source in North American Government
Marien Regnault
  • Navigating the Drupal labyrinth - What I wish I knew when starting with Drupal
SAL, Thomas Scola (flux423)
  • Introducing GovCMS (US): The Gold Standard for Secure, FedRAMP, HIPAA, S 508 & USWDS Compliant Sites
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John Franklin
  • Unlocking ATO Success: Top 5 Actions for Your Drupal Project
Rolando Scott
  • Battle of the Bots: How to Fight Back Against Bad Crawlers
  • Human First, AI Enhanced: Managing Tech Teams in 2025
Alex Schedrov
  • Smarter Digital Experiences: Connecting CRM, CMS, analytics and AI
junaidmasoodi
  • Accessible by Design: Research-Driven Strategies for Inclusive Front-End Components
  • Beyond Compliance: What Real Users Taught Us About Front-End Accessibility
Simon Morvan
  • Decoupled Drupal: Are We There Yet?
Jolie Dobre, Nathan
  • Play to Learn: Using a Hackathon to Explore AI Chatbots in Drupal
Bill Renk
  • I Am Not a COBOL Developer
Amy Shropshire
  • Start with Users, End with Drupal: Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration That Works
  • AI as Your Assistant, Not Your Author: Ethical Editorial Workflows in Government
  • When Numbers Meet Narrative: Using Analytics for Smarter Content
ednark
  • Government Drives Drupal: Why Public Sector Involvement Matters in Open Source
  • Client-side search implementation for small sites.
Jacob Yeager
  • Best Drupal is No Drupal: Static Site Generation with Tome and Microservices
Matt Poole
  • Happy Editing: Embed UI Components in CKEditor Using Embedded Content
straypacket
  • Proving the concept: An AI Chatbot Architecture for USA.gov
Matt West
  • AI Crawlers Are Breaking .Gov Websites — What You Can Do About It
Britany Acre
  • Shield and Amplify: How to Use Your Privilege to Support Authenticity and Safety for Others
  • Safety Is a Group Effort: How Privileged Team Members Can Create Space for Authenticity
Lizzi Pittman
  • An Art Lover’s Guide to Documentation: Writing the CMS Guide Using Agile
Schnitzel
  • amazee.ai - a peak behind the curtain on how we run an opensource, global and privacy first AI Infra
  • LLMs, VectorDBs, Prompts, MCP, Agents - Oh my!
Pritam Prasun
  • Rethinking CMS Strategy: Why Drupal Still Wins in 2025 for Scalability, Compliance, and Control
Pritam Prasun, SAL
  • Continuous Compliance: From Afterthought to Automation
MatthewS - he/him/his
  • Getting Hands-On with DrupalAI: Build Smarter Sites with Zero Code
  • Designing for Difference: Practical Strategies for Building a Neuroinclusive Organization
  • The Neurodivergency SuperPower - How Diverse Teams Function Better
Ivonne Carrillo
  • The importance of UX Research in Creating Effective AI
imrodmartin
  • Advanced Image Styles - Flexibility and Design Standards
Buddy Harlow
  • Accelerate your Drupal Career: Tips and Strategies for Obtaining an Acquia Certification as a New De
agentrickard
  • Faster API development with mock services
Gaurav Mishra
  • Answer Engine Optimization: Why traditional SEO is dead?
andileco
  • Keep Your Database Clutter-Free: Use Views CSV Source!
Bernardo Martinez
  • Back to the Basics: Releasing a recipe on drupal.org
ergonlogic
  • Supply Chain Security in Drupal and Composer
  • Turning clients into partners: How we use Sociocracy to engage project stakeholders
  • Drupal is so much more than a CMS
ergonlogic, lamech
  • Finding common-ground: Gherkin is a DSL for understanding your clients
  • Everyone's voice matters: Empower Stakeholders with Sociocracy
Anna Femath
  • Config Pages: The Missing Admin UI for Your Custom Site Settings
Clarence Maeng
  • Unlocking the Secrets to High Performing Digital Teams
UpTil4Music
  • From Mess to Masterpiece: Taming Images in Drupal the Smart Way
Rich Lawson
  • Ollama: Using Open-source AI for Drupal Development
Ray Estrada
  • The Handoff: Guide to Drupal project transitions in the public realm
Oscar Merida
  • Klaatu Barada Nikto! Optimizing Drupal Static Site Generation with Tome.
starshaped
  • What a Front of the Front End Developer Brings to Your Team
Stephen Pashby
  • Reporting in Google Analytics 4: It’s easier than you think
  • Google Looker Studio: More than just GA4 reporting
  • How LLMs and Generative Engines are changing search and SEO
Adrienne Smith, Bruna Siqueira-Davis
  • Dynamic Duos: how information architects and UX designers make magic happen
Michael Neal
  • Agile Self Organizing Drupal Teams
chrisod
  • Future proof your Drupal site with Next Drupal
  • Migrating the country’s largest state court system to Drupal 10
  • How the National Association of Realtors learned to love Drupal again with Next Drupal
Kerry Greer
  • Mapping Success: Building Effective Product Roadmaps for Drupal Projects
q0rban
  • The Bug Stops Here — The State of Georgia Shifts Left
zaurav
  • Up and Running with DrupalCMS
Sean Willess
  • From Storybook to Drupal: A Developer-focused Experience
Sam Lerner
  • Elevating government search with Vertex AI and Drupal
tekNorah
  • Optimizing Productivity for Client Success
joshuami
  • Time is ticking... DOJ Accessibility Ruling Compliance in 2026 and 2027
  • 10 Translation Best Practices for Government Websites
Montgomery
  • Personas and Scenarios: Building Drupal Sites That Truly Meet Client Needs
Abby Milberg
  • The tech project Babel fish: I speak English, not [Developer/Designer/Strategist]!
danrogers
  • More than just multisite. Modern architecture to support many sites.
Alexis Church
  • Accessible Content Design for Parks and Recreation
Colin Panetta
  • Getting your money’s worth: Preserving and utilizing research insights in the long run
Brian Smith
  • USWDS: It's Not Just For Federal Government
Stephen Recker
  • Modern Tools, Forgotten Faces: Using AI to Bring Museum Archives to Life
UltraBob
  • Designing Approval Systems Users Understand—and Stakeholders Trust
  • Simplify your deployments to any host with this one-size-fits-most GitHub Actions workflow
  • Search Done Right: a Practical Guide to Search API and Solr for Real-World Sites
RobbyMo
  • Accelerating AI-Powered Chatbots in Drupal to Enhance User Experiences
Bernardo Martinez, RoloDMonkey
  • Enhancing code reusability on SBA.gov using Single Directory Components and Recipes
cneslund
  • Structured Flexibility: The Case for Agilefall in Public Sector Projects
mmelkhatib
  • “Taming the View Mode Safari": Lessons from Drupal's View Mode Ecosystem
Alfred Lin, Jeremy Gottwig, Amy Swackhamer
  • Building Accessible Experiences: Implementing a Design System in Drupal with SDCs
Nick Pistone
  • How to integrate data into your product lifecycle
Ed Gordon
  • From Uncertainty to Direction: Turning Disruption into Opportunity
Ang Buxton
  • Leveraging LLMs for Real Human Connection
mandclu
  • From Chatbots to Content Magic: The AI-Driven Future of Drupal
  • Your Camp Website Here! All the Features in Drupal’s Event Platform
mandclu, JohnPicozzi
  • The Path from Developer to Drupal Evangelist
Myke
  • Micro-Apps in Drupal: Svelte & Vite for Dynamic Front-End Experiences
David Maine
  • “Test Failed…Let’s Celebrate! Understanding And Maximizing The Value of Automated Testing”
Paul Bellows
  • Participatory Government with Drupal
Suzanne Dergacheva
  • When Accessible Isn’t Easy: Website Features That Need Extra Love
Joshua Northcott, Austin Amento
  • Government Web Trends in 2025 and Beyond, Hounder
Baba Brinkman
  • Drupal GovCon Rap Ups
Nina Ogor
  • Balancing Act: Navigating Resourcing with Empathy and Efficiency
  • From Numbers to Action: How Metrics Guide Drupal GovCon
Muhammad
  • Digitising Governance: Automating Public Accounts in Balochistan with Drupal
Matthew Elefant
  • First-Hand — and First-Ear — Access: Understanding Screen Readers Through the User’s Perspective
Jeff McWherter
  • Navigating Growth: Scaling Your Drupal Agency Successfully
  • Cultivating Technical Leadership at Every Level of Your Organization
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Mentoring and Career Development for Tech Teams
Kurt Trowbridge
  • Ctrl+Alt+Delegate: Making The Shift from Developer to Manager
scotwith1t
  • Building government intranet with the Group module
Brahmanand Reddy Bhavanam
  • Resilient Digital Health Architectures for Government: Leveraging Emerging Tech to Modernize Patient
Kat Shaw
  • Understanding “The Why” in Accessibility
Sibu Stephen
  • Enhancing Web Accessibility in Drupal with AI Tools
Kelly Smith
  • A Design Team's Journey to the Center of the Drupalverse