DrupalSouth Melbourne 2025
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
11th Mar to 13th Mar
Welcome to Melbourne
We hope you enjoy your visit to Melbourne. Guides to the venue and the city coming soon.
Tuesday, 11 March
| 09:00 - 15:00 | 💻 Code Contribution Sprint sponsored by PreviousNext. Venue: TBC |
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| 15:00 - 17:00 | International Women's Day Welcome Drinks Panel/welcome |
| 18:00 - 22:00 | Agency Leaders Dinner |
Wednesday, 12 March
| Rooms | Cinema 1 | Cinema 2 | Swinbourne |
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| 08:00 | Registration | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome to country | ||
| 09:10 |
Official welcome Group photo |
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| 09:20 | Keynote 1 | ||
| 10:05 | 💬 Break | ||
| 10:15 | Drupal & Firebase: Real-time Config & Content for Android & iOS Apps \ Daynis Olman, Seeing Machines Drupal Development |
Getting Started on the AI Journey \ Joseph Chin Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
Dude, where's my users? \ Emily Mills, Pragma Partners User Experience & Content |
| 10:45 | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:15 | Ready, Set, Drupal: Simplifying Development with Feature Recipes \ Gaurav Garg, Salsa Digital Drupal Development |
Automating Attendance: How Georgia Tech Built an RFID Check-In System in Drupal \ Jimmy Kriigel, Georgia Institute of Tech Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
How inclusive can your documents get? / Adrian Redman, Department of Social Services User Experience & Content |
| 12:00 | Room change | ||
| 12:15 | Building the experience builder experience \ Lee Rowlands, PreviousNext Drupal Development |
Managing emergencies with cutting edge technology \ Nigel Cunningham Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
AX: Turning your B2B tech strategy into content that converts \ Felicity Brand, Open Strategy Partners User Experience & Content |
| 12:45 | Lunch | ||
| 13:45 |
Avoiding CSS crime scenes - practical tips for maintainable styles \ Tina Reymann, PreviousNext
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Automated AI Testing with Postman \ Michelle Parker, Master Builders Association of NSW Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
Super-charging Drupal and GovCMS with ethical personalisation and content powered by Salesforce \ Chris Dodds, ICON and Xenai User Experience & Content |
| 14:15 | Room change | ||
| 14:30 | Building webform workflows using core workflows and webform workflows elements module \ Philip Joseph, Symphony3 Drupal Development |
Drupal and the Open Web in the Australian Government - 2025 edition \ Sean Hamlin, Amazee.io Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
Writing for Australian Government websites \ Amber Henry, Morpht User Experience & Content |
| 15:00 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 15:20 | TBC | Lead, Manage, Succeed: From Technical Lead to Drupal Project Manager / David Flores-Condezo, Morpht People & Culture |
First time contributor workshop |
| 15:50 | Room change | ||
| 16:00 | Splash awards | ||
| 17:00 | Networking drinks | ||
Thursday, 13 March
| Rooms | Cinema 1 | Cinema 2 | Swinbourne |
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| 08:00 | Registration | ||
| 08:30 | Tea dnd coffee | ||
| 08:50 | Introduction day 2 | ||
| 09:00 | Keynote 2 | ||
| 09:45 | Room change | ||
| 10:00 | Transforming Drupal data workflows: An in-depth look at Data Pipelines and Search API \ Brynn Briedis, Pragma Partners Drupal Development |
Building a Versatile Design System for Pacific Data Hub: Bridging Drupal Themes and Headless Frontends \ Rox Flame, Xequals Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
Mindful connections: enhancing mental health awareness in a remote work culture \ Angela Rako, Salsa Digital People & Culture |
| 10:30 | Morning Tea | ||
| 10:50 | Launch your design system into hyperdrive with Starshot's Experience Builder \ Thomas Peterson, Salsa Digital User Experience & Content |
Hashes and Nonces and Violations, Oh My! Everything you need to know about Content Security Policy (CSP) \ Michael Strelan, PreviousNext Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
Let's bring new people to Drupal! \ Daniel Carvalhinho, Acquia People & Culture |
| 11:20 | Room change | ||
| 11:30 | Lightning talks: My journey to becoming a Core maintainer \ Daniel Veza, PreviousNext Level up your PHPStan \ Luhur Abdi Rizal, PreviousNext Drupal Development |
Lightning talks: Using generative tools to assist with software development \ Vladimir Roudakov, Tomato Elephant Studio The Pygmy Stack: The Little Docker Helper Tool That Could \ Karl Hepworth, Amazee.io Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
Forming an AI strategy for a digital agency \ Kurt Foster, Salsa Digital People & Culture |
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:00 | How Drupal Plays Its Role in Modern Enterprise Digital Architecture \ Weynham Zheng, CI&T Drupal Development |
Setup projects and onboard developers in minutes with Vortex \ Alex Skrypnyk, Drevops Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
DrupalSouth Steering Committee - Panel & Open Discussion \ DrupalSouth Steering Committee People & Culture |
| 13:30 | Room change | ||
| 13:40 | Making a splash with an accessible, consistent design system \ Melissa Coombs, Single Digital Presence, Department of Government Services User Experience & Content |
Transforming websites with serverless functions and edge computing \ Stuart Rowlands, QuantCDN Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
Strategies and game-plans for when everything turns to crap \ Jim Koutsouris People & Culture |
| 14:10 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 14:30 | Building digital experiences that align to Digital Service Standards \ Paul Morriss, Salsa Digital User Experience & Content |
How we modernised our frontend tooling using Vite and Storybook \ Jack Taranto, PreviousNext Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
Two Suppliers, One Team: A case study on a collaborative Drupal project in the Digital Transformation of Catholic Schools NSW \ Griffyn Heels, PreviousNext & Joanne Paterson, Folk People & Culture |
| 15:00 | Room change | ||
| 15:10 | Unlocking GovCMS Personalization: Custom Metatags and Convivial Profiler in Action \ Naveen Valecha, Morpht User Experience & Content |
Deep Telemetry with eBPF and Rust \ Nick Schuch, PreviousNext Web Tools & Complementary Technologies |
The climbnz story - crowd-sourced route database \ Jonathan Hunt, Catalyst Drupal Development |
| 15:40 | Room change | ||
| 15:50 | Closing remarks | ||
