Training
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Tuesday is Training Day at Drupal GovCon 2026! From our start with Capital Camp to the iterations of Drupal Government Days to Drupal GovCon, we've worked to provide amazing cutting edge training for Drupal users of all stripes, and this year is no different. Content specialists, developers, site business leaders—there's a training here for you!
Remember that you must have a (free) Drupal GovCon ticket to register for a training.
Half Day Trainings
One Codebase, Many Sites: Managing Many Small Projects with Site Templates, Recipes, and a Multisite Architecture
Small Drupal projects have a math problem: each one demands its own codebase, hosting, updates, and security patches - overhead that eats whatever the project pays. That's why so many of us turn small work away. The multisite model changes the math: many sites run on one codebase, so you maintain once and every site benefits.
This hands-on session covers the full workflow. You'll stand up a codebase and multisite from an existing Site Template - no need to build your own foundation from scratch. Then we'll use Recipes to facilitate packaged functionality which varies from site-to-site without signing up for ongoing maintenance. Then we'll go over how maintenance and updates work across many sites, where this approach shines (and where it doesn't), and even discuss issues clients have faced with their multisite implementations. Finally, we'll discuss different tools to facilitate this work, and how you can do it yourself. Bring a laptop with DDEV and a Drupal 11 site installed.
Tue August 11, 2026: 8:30am to 12:30pm
Half Day Training
Trainer: Debug Academy (Ashraf Abed)
Registration Code: DRUPALGOVCON2026
Modern Advanced Module Development - with AI, without the Slop: Architecture and Workflows for Maintainable Code
AI writes working code fast, but it regularly leaves behind significant technical debt - by writing "hacky code". That debt compounds: the AI starts duplicating functionally-equivalent code, avoiding the messiest parts of the codebase, and, eventually, struggles to understand the code holistically - resulting in bugs being introduced each time AI solves a new task. The worse this gets, the more tokens (=money & time) it costs to run. Eventually you wonder when your codebase got so buggy.
This session teaches how to use AI effectively without heading down that path. We'll dicuss topics such as effective use of plan mode, strategic prompting for efficient token consumption, which model to use when, making sure AI doesn't take down prod, and we'll even learn some standard yet advanced software development practices which AI typically does not follow - but - when followed - helps to significantly reduce the number of bugs.
Demos use Claude Code, but every principle applies to Cursor, Copilot, or whatever you run. There is something in this talk for all developer levels, and the lessons apply to Drupal module development but also to all PHP-based projects (laravel, Symfony, even WP!)
Tue Aug 11, 2026: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Half Day Training
Trainer: Debug Academy (Ashraf Abed)
Registration Code: DRUPALGOVCON2026
Storytelling Through Data: How to Build a Great Dashboard in Google Data Studio
Dashboards are only as good as the story they tell. In this hands-on, half-day training, you’ll learn the foundational principles behind building dashboards that actually get used — dashboards that turn raw website data from Google Analytics into insight people can act on. Through guided and independent practice, we’ll cover core design and functionality principles, how to translate stakeholder questions into measurable KPIs, and how to apply all of it to real strategic and business questions. Whether you’re new to Data Studio or looking to sharpen your existing reports, you’ll leave with a practical framework — and firsthand experience — building dashboards that are not just functional, but genuinely useful to the people who rely on them.
Audience: This training is for anyone who works with data — or wants to. No dashboard-building experience needed. Whether you’re a marketer looking to demonstrate campaign impact or a designer trying to understand how your audience navigates and engages with your site, this workshop is for you.
Experience Level: This training is geared towards beginners but will include tiered activities where people with more experience can choose a more advanced prompt.
Tue Aug 11, 2026: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Half Day Training
Trainers: Axolotl Digital (Nick Pistone)
Registration Code: DRUPALGOVCON2026
Mis-Classified — Who Owns What Your Content Means?
Your agency may have a Chief Data Officer, a data inventory, records management, a governance board. Maybe several of those. And still, in most organizations, nobody owns the thing underneath all of it: what your content actually means. Which term is authoritative. What a category includes. Whose definition wins when two offices disagree.
That gap was survivable when the cost was a bad search result. It isn't now. A system that can't tell your source of truth from a stale draft still answers anyway: fluently, confidently, and wrong, in front of someone making a decision.
The Mis-Classified article argued that this foundation belongs at the strategy table, and ended on a question: where does this work sit in your organization today, and is that where it belongs? This workshop begins where the article left off.
It's a working session, not a talk. In two hours a small group will map where this work actually sits in their own organizations, then work through what a body that could own it requires: sponsorship, real decision rights, membership, what it settles first, and how to ask for subject-matter-expert time in a way a supervisor can actually approve.
Tue Aug 11, 2026 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Full Day Training
Trainer: Aparna Darisipudi
Registration Code: DRUPALGOVCON2026
Full Day Trainings
Drupal AI - Practical AI Integration for Content Workflows
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing how organisations create, manage, and deliver content. Yet many Drupal teams are still trying to determine where AI fits into their existing workflows and how to adopt it responsibly.
This hands-on session provides a practical introduction to using Drupal AI to enhance content operations without requiring a developer background. Starting with a clean Drupal installation, participants will learn how to install and configure the Drupal AI module and build prompt-driven workflows that support real-world content tasks.
We’ll explore practical use cases including:
- Content summarization
- Translation workflows
- Metadata enrichment
- AI-assisted authoring within CKEditor
- Content quality improvements and editorial assistance
Beyond implementation, we’ll discuss important considerations around privacy, accessibility, governance, and bias mitigation to help teams deploy AI responsibly.
Attendees will leave with working examples, implementation checklists, and a clear roadmap for piloting AI within their own Drupal environments.
Audience: No prior AI experience is required. This session is designed for content editors, site builders, product owners, digital strategists, and anyone interested in understanding how AI can improve content workflows in Drupal.
Tue Aug 11, 2026 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Full Day Training
Trainer: Amazee.io (Matthew Saunders, Rod Martin)
Registration Code: DRUPALGOVCON2026
