Elliott Mower
CEO, Current
New York City, New York, United States
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Elliott is the CEO of Current, a full-stack digital agency that builds, optimizes, and markets digital products in a continuous cycle — ensuring the work never stops performing after launch.
Since joining Mediacurrent in 2021, Elliott has moved quickly through the organization — from Creative Strategy Director to Head of Product to CEO — before building Current through the strategic combination of Mediacurrent and Rhythm. That journey reflects a through-line he's carried across his career: the belief that great digital products and smart marketing shouldn't live in separate worlds.
It's a conviction he's put into practice across education, financial services, and media and entertainment — and one he developed long before Current. At EY Design Studio and Doberman NY, Elliott's work ranged from reimagining the grocery store of the future for the world's largest retailer, to building an accessible technology ecosystem for a New York City arts institution, to crafting an award-winning digital platform for a national fast-casual brand. Different problems, same instinct: making complex systems feel invisible for the people who use them.
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The Agency Merger Retrospective
The agency market is consolidating. Acquisitions, mergers, and closures are happening across the industry. Some get a press release and many happen quietly, and few leaders get to hear how one actually went.
In 2026, Mediacurrent, a long-standing Drupal agency, combined with Rhythm, a marketing agency, to form Current. Two delivery models, two pricing structures, two service lineups, two client bases, and two teams became one.
This session is a firsthand account, told from inside the integration. Expect what went well, what didn’t, and what nobody saw coming. Many Drupal agencies will face a version of this decision as acquirer, target, or partner, and few publish the mechanics. Attendees will leave with questions to ask before and after a deal and a realistic picture of the first year.
KEYNOTE: Drupal CMS Spotlights
Meet key Drupal CMS leaders to get insights on how the platform is being built and learn about future plans. Topics include Experience Builder, AI, user experience, documentation and more.
Client Experience is Everyone’s Responsibility
Client Experience is at the heart of everything we do in the agency world but we often silo the responsibility of just a few, specific team members. How do you make everyone in your agency a Client Experience expert? Enter: Client Experience Academy (CXA) an internal training program that goes beyond technical skills to build the professional competencies that make client relationships thrive.
This session will take you behind the scenes of creating, implementing, and iterating on a structured professional development program. You'll learn how we designed content that bridges the gap between internal team dynamics and external client success, the challenges we faced running it with both producers/project managers and engineers, and the measurable impacts on our client relationships and team culture.
Whether you're leading a small development team or managing client services at scale, you'll walk away with practical frameworks, discussion prompts, and implementation strategies you can adapt for your own organization.
That's Not a Theme, It's a Template
The Experience Builder design system for Drupal CMS: one system, three site templates, and a streamlined path to low-code site creation—launching together to guide site builders, themers and designers.
Behind the Build: How We're Creating Drupal’s New Default Design System
Get a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the new default design system for DrupalCMS.
This session will explore how the project is coming to life: from research and exploration to the development of a cohesive, accessible, and brand-agnostic system. We’ll dive into the collaborative process, key challenges, and the strategies we're using to balance flexibility, simplicity, and scalability for a diverse community of users.
Whether you're a developer, designer or strategist, this talk will provide valuable insights into the technical and creative decisions that are actively shaping Drupal’s next evolution. Learn what it takes to build a design system that not only empowers content creators but also sets a new standard for an ever-evolving web.
Death to Personas: A Mindset-Focused Approach to Designing Inclusive Web Experiences
User Personas have been a mainstay of UX design since practically the beginning of UX design. But they’re actually not great tools for designing and building inclusive digital experiences. This session will introduce the idea of “Audience Mindsets” as a replacement for traditional User Personas. We’ll take a little trip back into the history of user-centered design and design thinking to look at the origins of Personas and then look at how product design has evolved and where we are now. We’ll get deep into how to define Audience Mindsets and how to use them in Design and Development.
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