DrupalSouth Melbourne 2025
Sprint Contrib @ 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 venue and the city coming soon.
Tuesday, 11 March
| 09:00 - 15:00 | 💻 Code Contribution Sprint sponsored by PreviousNext. Venue: Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne (Opposite Queen Vic Market) |
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| 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 | Humanizing technology/ Keynote / Nicola Nye | ||
| 10:05 | 💬 Break | ||
| 10:15 | Varnish session \ TBC |
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 \ Richard Gaunt, 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 |
Writing for Australian Government websites \ Amber Henry, Morpht 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 |
The Future of Web - Emerging Trends
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| 15:00 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 15:20 | Drupal & Firebase: Real-time Config & Content for Android & iOS Apps \ Daynis Olman, Seeing Machines Drupal Development |
Lead, Manage, Succeed: From Technical Lead to Drupal Project Manager / David Flores-Condezo, Morpht People & Culture |
TBC |
| 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 |
Super-charging Drupal and GovCMS with ethical personalisation and content powered by Salesforce \ Chris Dodds, ICON and Xenai User Experience & Content |
| 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 | ||
