What's the Role for Drupal After AI Eats the Web?

Session Category Sessions off the "Drupal Island" Audience All Attendees

AI adoption has surpassed any previous technology, and is quickly becoming the primary way people research buying decisions. In fact, AI agents can now even make purchases, so customers can even buy from you without even visiting your website.

There's lots of exciting progress on how Drupal can integrate AI for content generation, chatbots, and even site building and even more complex tasks. Most sites have already experienced the impact of mass ingestion of content by AI crawlers, and there's an evolving set of approaches to mitigate those effects.

The bigger question, however, is: how does AI change what a website need to be? In this session we'll explore the ways a Drupal website can be built to best suit the needs of a web where Large Language Models (LLMs) and similar tools are the primary interface people use to start their online journeys.

About the Speaker

Martin Anderson-Clutz

Principal Solutions Engineer at Acquia

London, Ontario, Canada

Martin started his Drupal journey in 2005, with version 4.6. Since then, he has demonstrated his passion for the community in his frequent participation at Drupal user groups, local Drupalcamps, and Drupalcons, often as a speaker. He recently appeared on the Talking Drupal podcast as a guest and host and most recently as host of the "Module of the Week" segment, and has blogs published on OpenSource.com and a handful of other sites. In his current role as a Senior Solutions Engineer at Acquia, he is able to evangelize Drupal to a wide variety or organizations, from local nonprofits to multinational corporations. He also maintains a number of contrib modules, including Smart Date, Search Overrides, and a number of others.