It's 106 Miles to DrupalCon and We Got a Full Tank of Gas: Tag1 Is Headed to Chicago

DrupalCon is coming back to Chicago, March 23 to 26, and Tag1 will be there as a Champion Plus sponsor with sessions, coffee, and a lot to talk about.

This year's conference coincides with Drupal's 25th anniversary, which feels like the right moment to take stock of where we've been and where the platform is headed. We've been building and contributing to Drupal since its earliest days, and the work the community is doing right now, particularly around AI integration, Workspaces, and modern developer tooling, is some of the most exciting we've seen.

We're bringing three sessions to DrupalCon Chicago this year, covering testing, enterprise content staging, and what happens when you point AI at a seriously complex migration.

Drupal Test Traits: Learn by Example

Moshe Weitzman | Tuesday, March 24 at 9:00 AM | Salon A-1

Moshe will kick off our session lineup with Drupal Test Traits (DTT), the open source testing framework he built that takes a fundamentally different approach to testing content-heavy Drupal sites. Rather than spinning up empty databases and populating them with mock data, DTT tests against your actual site content, so you're validating the things that actually matter to your editors and visitors. Expect practical examples drawn from Massachusetts' mass.gov testing suite.

Workspaces Is Revolutionizing Drupal Core

Fabian Franz & Peta Hoyes | Wednesday, March 25 at 3:00 PM | Salon A-4

Fabian and Peta will present on Workspaces, one of Tag1's major contributions to Drupal core and the foundation for true enterprise content management in Drupal. If you've followed our recent work on the Drupal AI Initiative, you already know that Workspaces is the governance layer we're extending to manage AI-driven changes, but the session goes well beyond AI, covering site-wide content staging, publishing workflows, rollbacks, translation management, A/B testing, and more. If your organization has outgrown single-item content moderation, this is the session for you.

Migrate Smarter: How a Structured AI Methodology Unlocked a Complex Drupal 7 to 11 Migration

Marco Molinari | Wednesday, March 25 at 3:00 PM | Salon A-5

Yes, we know, we're double-booked. How awkward! Marco's talk on AI-assisted migration covers how he used BMAD (Breakthrough Method for Agile AI-Driven Development) to migrate an Italian humor site (132K nodes, 100K newsletter subscribers, 18 custom modules, 93 contrib modules) from Drupal 7 to Drupal 11. What makes the session valuable is Marco's candid assessment of where AI-assisted development delivered real acceleration and where human expertise was still irreplaceable.

Come See Us (and Try Something New)

You'll find us at the big orange Tag1 booth on the expo floor with coffee in the morning, cool drinks in the afternoons, and comfy seating all day. Come recharge with us!

We're also offering a special sneak peek of Tag1's Drupal AI site builder. It can generate multi-page sites with real content, multilingual support, and layout customization, all using Plus Suite, Workspaces and Drupal best practices. If you catch Fabian and Peta's Workspaces session, the demo is a natural next step to see that content staging infrastructure in action. And if you've read our recent post on joining the Drupal AI Initiative, this is where that work comes to life. Come play with it, and tell us how you're using AI on your own sites.

On Tuesday evening, we'll have two tables at the Drupal 25th Anniversary Gala. We're looking forward to great food, a special anniversary beer, live music, and a chance to celebrate 25 years of Drupal with the people who built it. We'd love to see you there.

See you in Chicago!

• AI
• Drupal
• Testing
• Workspaces