Ryan Szrama
CEO of Centarro, Creator of Drupal Commerce
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Ryan discovered Drupal in 2005 through his work at an open source based eCommerce company. There he developed Ubercart to replace the company's osCommerce implementation before leaving to co-found Commerce Guys and develop the Drupal Commerce project. Leading the company through a spin-out and rebranding, Ryan today helms Centarro, the company behind Drupal Commerce, creating a future where anyone who wants to sell online can compete without compromise.
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Drupal Commerce's Starshot Roadmap
The vision for Drupal CMS (née Starshot) is bold and inspiring, inviting everyone in the Drupal community to consider how they might help end users accomplish even more with Drupal. Hear from the Drupal Commerce maintainers how they revised their roadmap to incorporate Starshot initiatives and to rethink key elements of Commerce Core in line with the Drupal Starshot product strategy. Recent, pending, and future features include:
* Commerce recipes to solve common eCommerce use cases
* AI agents that help merchants with complex configuration tasks
* An express checkout initiative to increase conversion rates
* Experience Builder support for product and order pages
This session will touch on these items and more, with a live demo of the new features based on Commerce Kickstart, the fastest way to start building on Drupal Commerce. You will leave ready to evaluate the platform afresh yourself, contribute to these and other initiatives, and implement it for your next merchant client.
Drupal Commerce in 10 minutes or less
Commerce Kickstart is the fastest way to start selling on Drupal. In this lightning talk, we'll start from a clean slate and install / configure the software so it's ready to go in under 10 minutes.
Accelerating Drupal Commerce Adoption through a new Commerce Kickstart
Commerce Kickstart 2.x was the most popular Drupal distribution ever created, achieving an install base of over 10,000 sites during the Drupal 7 lifecycle. It gave evaluators a complete, out of the box demo store to explore, and it also served as the foundation for countless stores - some of which grew to sell millions of orders!
However, Drupal 8's switch to Composer and configuration management in core left the future of a distribution like Commerce Kickstart in doubt. Project maintainers Centarro (formerly Commerce Guys) considered other options to replace Commerce Kickstart, but determined in 2021 to relaunch a new version of the distribution as the quickest way to get started with Drupal Commerce.
* Learn in this session how the evolving Drupal development and site management standards required a new approach to distribution development and maintenance.
* Receive a guided tour of its features designed to make the onboarding process for Drupal Commerce merchants much easier than ever before.
* Hear firsthand the strategy Centarro implemented to ensure a single distribution could support multiple use cases - demo store, full-stack project base, and headless project base - without requiring site builders to work against or undo out of the box features and content.
Ryan Szrama
CEO of Centarro, Creator of Drupal Commerce
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