Diversity

Co-Founder of 1xINTERNET, a growing Drupal company in Frankfurt, Germany and Conil, Spain. Baddy has been an active member to the Drupal Community since 2013 and is a member of the board, helped to organise Drupal Europe and is known to really understand both business and open source, she believes both are empowering each other and could even be a necessity. Baddy will talk about the importance of contributions within a business context and how it helps not only the broader community but also the financial baseline of a company, the net profits.

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In this session I will tell you how my journey to become a Drupal developer started and how Drupal and its community helped me develop professionally, but as a person as well. 

My aim is to help those who have the desire to become a Drupal developer (or just started recently) by addressing the pitfalls I faced. However, I also want to create awareness by those who already incorporated Drupal into their hearts by noticing actions we can take to help juniors to overcome (relatable) pitfalls.

Who is Preston So?

Preston So is an innovator, researcher, speaker, and writer.

A globally recognized voice on decoupled Drupal and subject matter expert in areas including the decentralized web and conversational design, Preston is Director of Research and Innovation at Acquia, where he helms Acquia Labs, an innovation center architecting groundbreaking projects for clients like the State of Georgia and Nestlé Purina.

Who is Danielle Jacobs?

Danielle Jacobs is General Manager of Beltug, the largest Belgian association of Digital Technology Leaders, and Computable IT person of the year. She brings together IT decision makers from different sectors to share knowledge.

Danielle will share her point of view on open source communities like Drupal and will try to give her perspective in how this is different from the world that she is representing as General Manager of Beltug.

As a community we constantly talk of giveback, at Cons we even have a track called 'being human'...but do we empathise enough with our fellow human beings? are we engaged enough beyond our bubble? 

The session is an exploratory one. Exploring how we may take strengths and learnings that make us a successful Open Source community to wider audiences with a view of facilitating social transformation that addresses the needs of our societies globally. 

In recent times the four bigger messaging apps surpassed requests on the major social networks.

Drupal is also evolving more and more into services oriented systems, with API first initiatives, GraphQL and oAuth2 in restful environments.