Drupal AI Summit New York City 2026
2026-05-14
New York City, United States
as the organisers put it
Drupal is an open source platform for building amazing digital experiences. It's made by a dedicated community. Anyone can use it, and it will always be free.
who it's for
Drupal developers, digital marketers, content architects, site builders, platform engineers, privacy and compliance officers, technical product managers
topics
private LLM proxies; vibecoding with Next.js; MCP server integrations; structured JSON content modeling; agent-friendly API surface; region-locked vector databases; AI-powered site migrations; Context Control Center module; document loader plugin architecture; RAG over vector databases; no-code visual AI agent builder; AI-assisted content workflows
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Session | Matthew Saunders | 16m |
Argues Drupal functions as an AI harness that wires models into workflows, governance, APIs, permissions, and human review; claims Drupal has over 290 AI… | ||
| CMS in the post-AI Era: from MCP to Vibecoding | Josh Koenig | 25m |
Claims Drupal can both run agents and be run by agents with a practical path from prototype to production, backed by a working MCP server plus provider plugins… | ||
| The AI-Driven DXP: New Horizons for Marketers | Martin Anderson-Clutz | 20m |
Zero‑click search results climb from 50% in 2019 to 65% zero-click searches by Q1 2026, eroding marketer visibility and forcing sites to serve crawlers and… | ||
| Why Private AI Matters: Data Sovereignty as the Foundation for Trustworthy AI on the Open Web | Matthew Saunders | 28m |
Claims that 72% of orgs rank privacy top, 44% report leaks, IBM finds 20% suffer shadow AI breaches costing ~$670k extra, and 77% of employees paste company… | ||
| Winning the AEO/GEO "Answer War": Why Structured Data is the Only AI Moat That Matters | Scott Delea | 25m |
Predicts 50% drop by 2028 in traditional search and says LLM-driven “Answer War” traffic converts at 4x higher conversion when you win. Recommends schema-first… | ||
| Context-driven AI for consistent, compliant, and compelling content | Kristen Pol | 28m |
Context Control Center is a Drupal module that centralizes brand rules, compliance checks, and editorial do/don’ts and maps them into prompts for LLMs; a… | ||
| How AI helps The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) be more efficient in a transparent way | Jeroen Spitaels | 22m |
EPSO deploys an AI-powered DXP on Drupal with marketing automation and a CDP, using RAG over a vector database to answer candidates’ questions with… | ||
| Beyond "Extract-and-Dump": High-Fidelity Migrations with Drupal AI | Jonathan Bourland, Mike Gifford | 24m |
Module called AI Migration module converts legacy HTML into Drupal entities by generating a JSON Schema contract from content types, sending selected HTML… | ||
| AI-Assisted Site Migrations in Drupal | Rob Loach | 19m |
A Drupal module called Document Loader converts unstructured sources into structured content using a plugin architecture inspired by LangChain-inspired… | ||
| Beyond Chatbots: Creating Smarter, Personalized Experiences | John Tran | 23m |
A Drupal-centered proof of concept for the University of Waterloo uses embeddings and a vector database to power semantic search, calls an agentic framework… | ||
| AI-native CMS vs vibe coding | Kristof Van Tomme | 23m |
Ten years of building developer portals in Drupal lead to a clear claim: AI changes the process, not just the output — adding metadata upstream in code… | ||
| Beyond the Prompt: Operationalizing the Human–AI Partnership as a Digital Teammate in Drupal | John Doyle | 23m |
Most organizations stall at experimentation and never ship; the claim is that the fix is a five‑stage maturity path — prompting → saved → teammates → embedded… | ||
| Drupal CMS AI - No-code Visual AI Agent builder - Future of Agents | James Abrahams | 28m |
Claims a no-code, visual agent workflow that turns a WordPress site into a live Drupal CMS in a day instead of a month, using Claude Code to generate… | ||
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