Save the date — 28–30 January 2027 IIT Bombay

DrupalAsia Connect India 2027 Session Schedule

Thursday, 28 January

To be announced soon

We are finalising the Day 1 program and will publish it here first.

See the Day 2 program

Friday, 29 January

31 sessions across five rooms · 08:00–18:30

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    Registration60 min

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    All attendees

    75 min

    Keynote

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    Speakers and room to be announced.

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    Group photo15 min

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    45 min

    PHP Fibers and Drupal: From Core's Biggest Performance Leap to the AI Layer

    • Room 1
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    PHP 8.1 Fibers quietly powered Drupal 11.3's biggest performance gains in a decade — and now the AI module uses the same feature to run LLM calls concurrently. This session shows how it works and how to make your own code benefit.

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    45 min

    Blueprint Before Code: Spec-Driven Development in Drupal

    • Room 2
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    Explore how Spec-Driven Development transforms Drupal development by using structured specifications to guide AI coding assistants. Learn to build reliable, maintainable Drupal features with less guesswork, clearer requirements, and better…

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    45 min

    Engineering for the Agentic Web When 50% of Your Traffic is Robots

    • Room 3
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    I will share the strategic and architectural shifts the organisations are facing to embrace this new web reality. This isn't about meta-tags; it's about re-architecting how a business presents itself and its content in the AI-driven…

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    Success Stories & Innovation

    20 min

    12 Years, 12 Clearings, Zero Drama. How Drupal carried UCAS through UK Clearing Day, for the twelfth year running

    • Room 4
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    Every August, hundreds of thousands of UK students find out at the same moment whether they have a university place. For twelve years, Drupal has powered UCAS through that day.

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    Short break15 min

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    45 min

    Build your website by chatting with it: Building Atelier on Drupal and FlowDrop

    • Auditorium
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    Atelier CMS by AIncient Labs is an open-source, chat-driven site builder on standard Drupal, powered by FlowDrop workflows. A live tour of how a conversation becomes safe Drupal operations, and what is new in FlowDrop.

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    45 min

    Accelerating Client Delivery with Drupal Canvas: A Practical Modernization Demo

    • Room 1
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    Discover the full power of Drupal Canvas in this practical, 45-minute live demo! Watch a hands-on showcase exploring Canvas components, structured content templates, native AI, translation, and headless live preview.

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    20 min

    HTMX Without Breaking Screen Readers: Accessibility Patterns for Drupal 11

    • Room 4
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    HTMX is now fully integrated in Drupal 11.3, and it makes dynamic interfaces dramatically cheaper to build. It also makes them dramatically easier to break for keyboard and screen reader users. This session demonstrates five real…

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    Lunch75 min

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    All attendees

    90 min

    Panel discussion

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    Speakers and room to be announced.

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    Agency, Business & Marketing

    45 min

    The AI-Ready Drupal Agency: From Implementation Partner to Innovation Partner

    • Room 1
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    Customers now expect AI speed and ideas from their Drupal agency, not just a clean build. James Sims shows the business models that turn that shift into growth, and John Faber shows the Acquia Source workflows and technical readiness that…

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    45 min

    From Prompt to Policy: Governing AI with Drupal Context Control Center

    • Room 3
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    Explore how Drupal’s Context Control Center (CCC) can turn scattered AI prompts and organisational knowledge into a reusable, governed context layer. This session demonstrates practical patterns for scoping, managing, debugging and…

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    20 min

    From Prompt to Interface: Building Adaptive CMS Experiences with Drupal AI and A2UI

    • Room 4
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    See how Drupal AI and A2UI can transform an editor’s natural-language goal into a safe, task-specific CMS interface. This session demonstrates a provider-independent Drupal module that renders AI-generated forms, workflows, and editorial…

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    Coffee break30 min

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    Community Health

    45 min

    I seem to be known as an AI skeptic. So, why did I sign up Cambridge University Press and Assessment as a Drupal AI Partner?

    • Auditorium
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    Find out why Rachel signed Cambridge University Press and Assessment up to the Drupal AI Partners programme, how it is going, and what it might mean for similar initiatives in the future.

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    User Experience, Accessibility, & Design

    45 min

    Beyond the Lighthouse Score: What Accessibility Automation Can't See

    • Room 1
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    A 100 accessibility score is only the beginning. Through real-world examples, this session reveals what automated tools can't see and how teams can combine automation, manual testing, and AI to create truly accessible digital experiences.

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    Agency, Business & Marketing

    45 min

    Brooks' Law Meets Agentic AI: Can More Agents Actually Slow You Down?

    • Room 2
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    Can adding more AI agents actually slow down project delivery? Using Brooks' Law and practical Drupal examples, I'll explore how agent coordination, dependencies, and human oversight impact productivity—and how to find the right balance.

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    45 min

    Which MCP Server for Drupal? A Field Guide to Choices, Trade-offs and Gaps

    • Room 3
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    Drupal now offers several ways to connect AI agents to your site through MCP, and the right choice isn’t obvious. This session compares the options on design, security and maturity, so you can choose with confidence and see where the…

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    Digital Sovereignty & Open Web

    20 min

    Building an Open Source AI Community: From Code to Collective Impact

    • Room 4
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    AI needs a community model just as much as it needs a technology model. This session introduces Bharat AI Mission and explores how the principles of open source can be extended beyond software to build communities, knowledge…

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    Short break15 min

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    Drupal CMS

    20 min

    Building Next-Generation Drupal Components with SDC, Canvas & AI

    • Room 3
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    Discover how Drupal CMS combines SDC, Canvas, APIs, and AI to build reusable, scalable, and intelligent digital experiences. Learn how AI-enabled components can enhance personalization, automation, and content delivery through practical…

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    20 min

    Beyond the Search Box: How CPRD.com Answers Questions with Drupal and Foundry IQ

    • Room 3
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    Follow one research question through Drupal, Azure AI Search and a Foundry IQ knowledge base to see how the feature retrieves evidence, builds an answer and handles gaps in the available content.

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    Community Health

    20 min

    Through the Looking Glass: Impostor Syndrome on Both Sides of the AI Mirror

    • Room 4
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    Two AI mirrors now sit between us and our careers. One is the hiring bot that rejects qualified people without explanation. The other is the chatbot that tells us what our colleagues have said for years, and this time we believe it. For…

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    Development, AI and Agentic Architecture

    20 min

    Back to Basics: Understanding Cache and the Architecture Behind Scalability

    • Room 4
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    This session shares the overview of fundamental knowledge for building scalable sites, focusing on caching and architecture. This session is useful not only for junior developers and architects, but also for site builders, marketers or…

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    All attendees

    30 min

    Closing ceremony

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    Speakers and room to be announced.

Saturday, 30 January

To be announced soon

We are finalising the Day 3 program and will publish it here first.

See the Day 2 program
Working together DrupalAsia Steering Committee
In association with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Hosted by Drupalers Association Pune