The cast of the
keynote
Everyone named on stage or inside the six tutorials — maintainers, teammates, partners, one very organized editor, and a few demo legends.
The humans behind the announcements
Dries Buytaert
The keynote’s narrator: Rotterdam’s motto, magical thinking, the reputation gap, six announcements, the Rosetta sprint — and the demand to talk louder.
SEEN IN: every chapter · visit →Sean Panit
Opens the keynote with the one word that runs through the community — contribution — and the cardboard booth that turned into a $50,000 donation to Drupal.
SEEN IN: Overview · visit →Gabor
Shouted out from the stage (alongside Pam) for shipping multilingual support in Drupal Canvas — the thing “so many people said they were waiting for.”
SEEN IN: Tutorial I · visit →Pam / Pamela Barone
Also thanked for Canvas multilingual. Later name-checked in the Advocacy Program as the model for attribution: always “name the speaker” — e.g. Pamela Barone’s talk on Drupal CMS.
SEEN IN: Tutorial I & VI · visit →Laurie
Credited with treating frontend developers as first-class citizens in Canvas Code Components — “no Drupalisms, no tradeoffs.”
SEEN IN: Tutorial II · visit →Berlint
Named alongside Laurie for the JavaScript frontends work that lets Canvas speak pure React to the people who build with it every day.
SEEN IN: Tutorial II · visit →Christoph
His team runs with the Drupal AI demo experience: “I’m sure Christoph and team will talk about it here as well at DrupalCon.”
SEEN IN: Tutorial IV · visit →Dominic
The person to talk to if your organization wants to join the Drupal AI partners — “it’s not too late, go talk to Dominic or fill out that form.”
SEEN IN: Tutorial IV · visit →Fago
Spotted in the audience mid-keynote: “Shout out to Fago — where was Fago? There he is!” Typed Data is the foundation the Tool module is heavily based on.
SEEN IN: Tutorial V · visit →Matt Glaman
Co-developed the Tool Module Research Prototype with Dries and Michal Lander — the declarative bridge between Drupal modules and AI agents.
SEEN IN: Tutorial V · visit →Michael (“Michal’) Lander
Credited inside the tutorials as the author of the Tool module — “one of the most critical Drupal modules in the AI era.”
SEEN IN: Tutorial V · visit →Shibin Das
Built FlowDrop, the visual workflow orchestration module that runs MCP tools with or without AI — deterministic forms in under a second, or autonomous ReAct agents.
SEEN IN: Tutorial V · visit →Heineck
Quoted on stage by Dries: “Drupal people talk louder, tell the stories, fight for Drupal.” The post that crystallized the Advocacy Program’s spirit.
SEEN IN: Tutorial VI · visit →Maya
The authenticated Drupal account in the live MCP demo: logs in via OAuth, grants scoped permissions to ChatGPT, and has two Dutch membership pages restored by her AI assistant.
SEEN IN: Tutorial V · visit →Honorary cast members
Not all heroes of this keynote are in the room. Some are 97, some are inflatable, and one was promoted without being consulted.
Oma
The needle in the 10,603-photo haystack: “Do you have that photo of Oma wearing her sunglasses?” Answer delivered by MCP: one photo, “Heart eyes for Oma,” October 2025, heart-shaped sunglasses, pink top.
SEEN IN: Tutorial V · visit →Professor Vargas
Promoted mid-semester in the Drupal AI demo: one prompt to Claude/ChatGPT finds 10 pages mentioning her and drafts every update — as drafts, never surprises.
SEEN IN: Tutorial IV · visit →The Druplicon
36 photos found in the dri.es archive (2005–2016): giant inflatables at DrupalCons in Dublin, Munich and London, a Lego build, a costume, a tattoo — even a Halloween pumpkin.
SEEN IN: Tutorial V · visit →