Drupal Europe Launches its Industry Verticals — First Up: Media and Publishing

As you’ve probably read in one of our previous blogposts, industry verticals will be a new concept at Drupal Europe. Verticals replace the summits, which typically took place on Monday, before the conference. Sometimes these were in a separate location from the main conference venue, and often the conference ticket did not cover access to the summits. At Drupal Europe summits have become industry verticals and are integrated with the rest of the conference — same location, same ticket. Following is a summary of what to expect in the new verticals at Drupal Europe.

Verticals bring together people from an industry to:

• learn about outstanding projects being developed in their field
• share their interests and ideas
• listen and learn together in sessions
• discuss challenges and develop solutions for their market

With all the topics under one roof, every session you are interested in is within easy reach. There will be a guide to specific sessions and people that are involved in your industry: Media and Publishing.

However, nothing will stop you from getting off the beaten track to mix & match your interests! One Drupal Europe ticket gives you access to everything we have on offer: sessions, workshops, panels, contribution opportunities, and BoFs. In this example you might start with a great session about a new top-notch publishing site, get dragged into details of the site’s complex workflow rules and later jump into a technical session, to understand a specific decoupled approach the site was built with.

All attendees will enjoy a amazing program providing insights into industry-specific challenges and solutions. The Media and Publishing industry itself faces many challenges. It has had to almost reinvent itself to adapt to the digital age in order to be successful in the 21st century with our society’s media consumption shifting from paper to digital.

We want to provide the best possible lineup of speakers, panels and sessions for the publishing/media vertical. Drupal Europe will be open to allow you to submit your great session idea very soon. As a choice of different verticals will be available on the website, please tag your session as publishing/media to indicate that it is related to this industry. We welcome proposals for all topics related to publishing/media!

If you have something interesting to share (questions, thoughts, advice), that might help us before we officially open our call for papers, please reach out to [email protected].

We can’t wait to see you at Drupal Europe, 10th — 14th September in Darmstadt Germany!