Beyond Drupal

In this session we'll review some new FIGMA features introduced at Config 2023 in June that will help you supercharge your design process and share the love with your clients and your development team. From variables to modes to Dev Mode, you'll leave this session with new tools in your toolbox to enhance your design process and improve the designer to developer experience.

When trying to make the most of your career, determining what to prioritize can be difficult. You might find yourself asking questions like, "Should I prioritize my current clients? Should I look to new clients for growth?" At times, the list of questions and things to do may feel endless. This endless cycle causes frustration and burnout, resulting in the inability to make the most of our career. Whether it's growth problems, or feeling you've reached a plateau, this talk will help you to build awareness and intentionality into all your career decisions moving forward. 

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is changing the way we work and live. 
AI is estimated to create an additional 13 trillion US dollars of value annually by the year 2030. And that is including all the sectors not limited to the software industry.
Few examples where AI is used is in smart speakers (Alexa, Google Talk), Self-driving cars...
And now it has also started contributing to content management systems.

In this session we will talk about:

Let's Write Secure Drupal Code!

At times the most important issue seen while developing an application is security and vulnerabilities, the knowledge of this is required for each and every individual from developer to QAs. This session is for everyone to have an understanding of the issues that arise while going to production or taking an application live. This session will give you the knowledge of application vulnerabilities and the ways to fix those, one can fix a issue only when the one knows about its existence. 

The composer as a dependency management tool for PHP is a complete feature-rich package that addresses a lot of developer and deployment problems. But unfortunately, most of the developers only get to know about commands like 'composer require drupal/module', 'composer install', and 'composer update'. One such lesser-known and lesser-used feature out of many is 'Composer Scripts'.

In this session we will cover the following:

The ultimate goal of a business is to increase their customers and the corporate website plays an important role in this process. Customer growth requires the lead generation and increased conversions. Higher numbers of web visits generate more leads - so this is a basic starting point in your business strategy to increase customers.

Many organizations use Drupal to build their websites today. It is essential for developers and marketers to have a basic understanding of increasing traffic to a Drupal website. This session will explore this topic in more detail.

Overwhelmed by the never-ending onslaught of new webdev trends, tools and frameworks? Got FOMO when someone mentions the latest hot "thing"? Don't know where to dedicate your limited "learning time"? Come learn practical tips to help you become the master of your own professional development. 

This session covers:

• How to forge a personal learning strategy

• How to set realistic knowledge goals

• How to identify and optimize your learning style

• How to combat information overload