DrupalSouth Melbourne 2025
Contribution Day @ the Multicultural Hub, conference @ ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image)
11th Mar to 13th Mar
Welcome to Melbourne
We hope you enjoy your visit to Melbourne.
Guides to the city, venue and accomodation.
Tuesday, 11 March
| 09:00 - 15:00 | 💻 Contribution Day sponsored by PreviousNext. Venue: Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne (Opposite Queen Vic Market) |
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| 15:15 - 17:15 | Varnish for Drupal developers: the hands-on workshop \ Thijs Feryn Venue: Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne (Opposite Queen Vic Market) |
| 18:00 - 22:00 | Agency Leaders Dinner Invitation only (Managed by Ironstar) |
Wednesday, 12 March
| Room | Foyer | ||
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| 08:00 | Registration | ||
| Room | Cinema 1 | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome to country | ||
| 09:10 |
Official welcome Group photo |
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| 09:20 | 09:20 - Cinema 1 Humanizing technology / Keynote / Nicola Nye (Blackmill) YouTube | ||
| 10:05 | 💬 Break | ||
| Cinema 1 | Cinema 2 | Swinburne | |
| 10:15 | 10:15 - Cinema 1 Varnish for Drupal developers [40 mins] / Drupal Development / Thijs Feryn (Varnish) | 10:15 - Cinema 2 Takeaways from teaching Drupal in college / People & Culture / Vladimir Roudakov (Tomato Elephant Studio) YouTube | 10:15 - Swinburne Dude, where's my users? / User Experience & Content / Emily Mills (Pragma Partners) YouTube |
| 10:45 | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:15 | 11:15 - Cinema 1 Ready, Set, Drupal: Simplifying Development with Feature Recipes / Drupal Development / Richard Gaunt (Salsa Digital) | 11:15 - Cinema 2 Automating Attendance: How Georgia Tech Built an RFID Check-In System in Drupal / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Jimmy Kriigel (Georgia Institute of Technology) YouTube | 11:15 - Swinburne How inclusive can your documents get? / User Experience & Content / Adrian Redman (Department of Social Services) YouTube |
| 12:00 | Room change | ||
| 12:15 | 12:15 - Cinema 1 Building the experience builder experience / Drupal Development / Lee Rowlands (PreviousNext) | 12:15 - Cinema 2 Managing emergencies with cutting edge technology / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Nigel Cunningham () YouTube | 12:15 - Swinburne AX: Turning your B2B tech strategy into content that converts / User Experience & Content / Felicity Brand (Open Strategy Partners) YouTube |
| 12:45 | Lunch | ||
| 13:45 | 13:45 - Cinema 1 Avoiding CSS crime scenes - practical tips for maintainable styles. / Drupal Development / Tina Reymann (PreviousNext) | 13:45 - Cinema 2 Automated AI Testing with Postman / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Michelle Parker (Master Builders Association of NSW) YouTube | 13:45 - Swinburne Writing for Australian Government websites / User Experience & Content / Amber Henry (Morpht) YouTube |
| 14:15 | Room change | ||
| 14:30 | 14:30 - Cinema 1 Building Workflows into Drupal Webforms: A Practical Guide / Drupal Development / Philip Joseph (Symphony3) | 14:30 - Cinema 2 Drupal and the Open Web in the Australian Government - 2025 edition / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Sean Hamlin (amazee.io) YouTube |
The Future of Web - Emerging Trends
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| 15:00 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 15:20 | 15:20 - Cinema 1 Drupal & Firebase: Real-time Config & Content for Android & iOS Apps / Drupal Development / Daynis Olman (Seeing Machines) | 15:20 - Cinema 2 Lead, Manage, Succeed: From Technical Lead to Drupal Project Manager / People & Culture / David Flores-Condezo (Morpht Pty Ltd) YouTube |
The Future of Web - Emerging Trends
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| 15:50 | Room change | ||
| 16:00 | Cinema 1:  Splash Awards and Community Recognition sponsored By Ironstar |
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| 17:00 | Networking drinks (concludes 8pm) The Meadow, Beer DeLuxe, Federation Square |
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Thursday, 13 March
| Room | Foyer | ||
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| 08:00 | Registration | ||
| 08:30 | Tea and coffee | ||
| Room | Cinema 1 | ||
| 08:50 | Introduction day 2 | ||
| 09:00 | 09:00 - Cinema 1 Sustaining Open Source Software: Tools For Change Keynote / Justin Warren (PivotNine) YouTube |
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| 09:45 | Room change | ||
| Rooms | Cinema 1 | Cinema 2 | Swinburne |
| 10:00 | 10:00 - Cinema 1 Transforming Drupal data workflows: An in-depth look at Data Pipelines and Search API / Drupal Development / Brynn Briedis (Pragma Partners) YouTube | 10:00 - Cinema 2 Building a Versatile Design System for Pacific Data Hub: Bridging Drupal Themes and Headless Frontends / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Rox Flame (Xequals) YouTube | 10:00 - Swinburne Mindful connections: enhancing mental health awareness in a remote work culture / People & Culture / Angela Rako (Salsa Digital) YouTube |
| 10:30 | Morning Tea | ||
| 10:50 | 10:50 - Cinema 1 Launch your design system into hyperdrive with Starshot's Experience Builder / User Experience & Content / Akhil Bhandari (Salsa Digital) YouTube | 10:50 - Cinema 2 Hashes and Nonces and Violations, Oh My! Everything you need to know about Content Security Policy (CSP) / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Michael Strelan (PreviousNext) YouTube | 10:50 - Swinburne Let's bring new people to Drupal! / People & Culture / Daniel Carvalhinho (Acquia) YouTube |
| 11:20 | Room change | ||
| 11:30 | 11:30 - Cinema 1 My journey to becoming a Core maintainer [Lightning talk] / Drupal Development / Daniel Veza (PreviousNext) YouTube | 11:30 - Cinema 2 Using generative tools to assist with software development [Lightning talk] / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Vladimir Roudakov (Tomato Elephant Studio) YouTube | 11:30 - Swinburne Forming an AI strategy for a digital agency / People & Culture / Kurt Foster (Salsa Digital) YouTube |
| 11:45 | 11:45 - Cinema 1 Object Oriented theming with Pinto [Lightning talk] / Drupal Development / Adam Bramley (PreviousNext) YouTube | 11:45 - Cinema 2 The Pygmy Stack: The Little Docker Helper Tool That Could [Lightning talk] / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Karl Hepworth (Amazee.io) YouTube | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 | 13:00 - Cinema 1 How Drupal Plays Its Role in Modern Enterprise Digital Architecture / Drupal Development / Weynham Zheng (CI&T) YouTube | 13:00 - Cinema 2 Setup projects and onboard developers in minutes with Vortex / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Alex Skrypnyk (DrevOps) YouTube | 13:00 - Swinburne DrupalSouth Steering Committee - Panel & Open Discussion / People & Culture YouTube |
| 13:30 | Room change | ||
| 13:40 | 13:40 - Cinema 1 Making a splash with an accessible, consistent design system / User Experience & Content / Melissa Coombs & Kate Faulkner (Single Digital Presence, Department of Government Services) YouTube | 13:40 - Cinema 2 Drupal F1 Trivia with Salsa Digital – Test Your Knowledge & Win Prizes! / Sponsor session / Akhil Bhandari (Salsa Digital) | 13:40 - Swinburne Super-charging Drupal and GovCMS with ethical personalisation and content powered by Salesforce / User Experience & Content / Chris Dodds (ICON and Xenai) YouTube |
| 14:10 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 14:30 | 14:30 - Cinema 1 Building digital experiences that align to Digital Service Standards / User Experience & Content / Paul Morriss (Salsa Digital) YouTube | 14:30 - Cinema 2 How we modernised our frontend tooling using Vite and Storybook / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Jack Taranto (PreviousNext) YouTube | 14:30 - Swinburne Two Suppliers, One Team: A case study on a collaborative Drupal project in the Digital Transformation of Catholic Schools NSW / People & Culture / Griffyn Heels & Joanne Paterson (Folk) (PreviousNext & Folk) YouTube |
| 15:00 | Room change | ||
| 15:10 | 15:10 - Cinema 1 Unlocking GovCMS Personalization: Custom Metatags and Convivial Profiler in Action / User Experience & Content / Naveen Valecha (Morpht) YouTube | 15:10 - Cinema 2 Deep Telemetry with eBPF and Rust / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Nick Schuch (PreviousNext) YouTube | 15:10 - Swinburne Turning rules and legislation into interactive digital experiences / Web Tools & Complementary Technologies / Phillipa Martin (Salsa Digital) YouTube |
| 15:40 | Room change | ||
| 15:50 | Cinema 1: Closing remarks | ||
| 16:00 | Afterparty The Duke of Wellington, 2/146 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Google Maps || Apple Maps |
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