Each year the Drupal Association coordinates a few large-scale conferences for the global Drupal community. This time around the European conference is in Amsterdam, and we’ll be there to enjoy code sprints, meeting new members of the community, sessions, and, of course, presenting a few ourselves.

UPDATE: adding links to list of sessions below as they come in from Amsterdam.

First, a few details: DrupalCon Amsterdam runs September 29 through October 3 and will have a couple thousand people from the Drupal community in attendance. Like the North American DrupalCon, sprints, events, and over 100 sessions will happen over the course of the conference.

Palantir will have a number of folks in attendance, including our CEO George DeMet, President Tiffany Farriss, Director of Development and Professional Services Ken Rickard, and Senior Architect and Community Lead Larry “Crell” Garfield.

Larry “Crell” Garfield

Larry will be leading three sessions:

• Drupal 8: The Crash Course - A quick tour of the moving parts that make up most standard modules in D8. (Slides) - (Video)
• A Decoupled Drupal with Silex - Case study of using Drupal as part of a decoupled CMS architecture. There's also a Drupal Watchdog article on the same topic. (Slides) - (Video)
• Managing Complexity - Drupal internal management/strategy discussion. (Slides) - (Video)

Ken Rickard

Ken dives into the consulting piece for dev shops.

• Consulting Models that Work - View the presentation here

George DeMet

George has been involved with several Drupal working groups for some time now and will be on two panels related to such goings on.

• Drupal.org Working Groups: Who we are and What we're up to
• Drupal.org redesign? Oh yes!

In addition to ours and all of the other sessions – and Amsterdam as a city, of course – we’re also excited for all of the other things that come with DrupalCon. Whether it's sprint days making progress on Drupal 8 core and contributed module development, or the the PHP track this year (which showcases a number of leading presenters from the PHP world at-large helping continue to build bridges between Drupal and the PHP community), meeting new contributors (especially from the Symfony community), or working with the Drupal Association its working groups to help plan the future of Drupal.org and DrupalCon, it's a chance for all of us to grow as members of this and other communities.

Are you headed to Amsterdam for DrupalCon? If so, say hello to Tiffany, George, Ken, and Larry. And let us know what you’re excited about in the comments, or on Twitter here. We can keep you up-to-date via our newsletter as well. Hope to see you there!