Training
Learn from the Best
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 both in-person and virtually during the pandemic. We are so excited to be offering in-person training again! And new this year, we will be offering certificates for PDUs and CLPs for some of the training offerings.
REMINDER- The training ticket code will be shared with registered attendees. If you would like to attend a training, please register to attend Drupal GovCon.
Thursday Training
Storybook to Drupal: Building front-end components (Sold out)
In this training, you'll learn how to design and implement a frontend architecture that is maintainable, scalable, and optimized for rapid development. We’ll define the key principles that matter — from maintainability and single source of truth to community-driven tooling and lean implementation strategies. By evaluating smart practices and migrating confidently to modern workflows like Storybook, attendees will gain the knowledge to streamline frontend development without unnecessary complexity.
August 14th: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Full Day Training
Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Room: Thurgood Marshall Room
Trainer: Chaz Chumley
Empowering WebOps Excellence: Harnessing AI Tools for Modern Project Management (Sold out)
Join us for a hands-on workshop tailored for practicing scrum masters, project managers and product owners, and those aspiring to enhance their skills in Agile project management within the WebOps context. This session will explore how to leverage AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Notebook LM to elevate your project management techniques specifically for WebOps environments. Participants will learn essential skills such as preparing a backlog, refining user stories and acceptance criteria, automating workflows as well as testing processes.
August 14th: 8:30am to 12:30pm
Half Day Training
Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Room: Crosslands Room
Trainer: Jeramy Gatza, COO at Digital Polygon
Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Drupal (Drupal Helps)
If you're brand new to Drupal, then the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Drupal is the class for you.
You'll learn all of the key concepts you need to understand, navigate and use a Drupal site.
You'll learn how to build a Drupal 11 site, from content and user organization, to working with modules and themes.
August 14th: 1pm to 5pm
Half Day Training
Level: Beginner
Room: Crosslands Room
Trainer: Drupal Helps (Rod Martin)
Preparation for the Drupal 11 Back End Specialist Certification Exam
In this training, we will begin preparing for the Back End certification exam, and show you what the rest of the process will look like.
August 14th: 8:30am to 12:30pm
Half Day Training
Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Room: Calvert Room
Trainer: Debug Academy (Ashraf Abed)
Introducing GovCMS: The Compliance-First Next Generation Platform for Government Websites
Join us for an exclusive first look at GovCMS, the revolutionary platform designed to solve government web development's biggest challenges: excessive costs, lengthy timelines, and compliance complexity.
August 14th: 1pm to 5pm
Half Day Training
Level: Beginner
Room: Calvert Room
Trainers: Drupal Forge (Sal Lakhani, Will Kirchheimer)
Friday Training
Drupal AI - Practical AI Integration for Content Workflows (Sold out)
In this training, you'll learn foundational AI concepts within a Drupal context, how to install and configure DrupalAI for real-world applications, and build editorial automations using prompt-based workflows. Explore responsible AI practices—including accessibility, bias, and transparency.
August 15th: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Full Day Training
Level: Intermediate
Room: Thurgood Marshall Room
Trainers: Amazee (Matt Saunders, Rod Martin)
Intermediate to Advanced CSS for Practical Peoples
This training is for people who have to use CSS occasionally (e.g. back-end devs/designers/power editors) or people that have learned the basics but are new to CSS. Our goal is to help attendees feel comfortable styling a page from scratch, knowing what styles work best for different scenarios, and to feel comfortable debugging layout, CSS custom properties, and other styling issues.
We'll be focusing on the "why and how" of CSS, so you'll know what's possible and what tools to reach for, giving your knowledge structure.
August 15th: 8:30am to 4:30pm
Full Day Training
Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Room: Calvert Room
Trainer: Wes Ruvalcaba
Branching Out: Create and maintain your own design system
Thinking about building your own design system? In this intermediate training, you'll learn directly from experts who've actively contributed to the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS). We'll show you practical steps and share our insights and tips for creating and maintaining your design system.
There will be code portions, but you don't have to be an engineer to get involved. We'll use tools like StorybookJS, USWDS, and Twig to build and document components.
August 15th: 8:30am to 12:30pm
Half Day Training
Level: Beginner
Room: Crosslands Room
Trainer: Bixal (James Mejia, Ray Estrada)