Held in Brussels during EU Open Source Week, the Drupal4Gov.eu Conference 2026 brought together policymakers, digital leaders, technologists, and members of the open-source community from across Europe to share experiences, exchange knowledge, and explore how open-source technologies support the digital transformation of public administrations.
The conference highlighted the role of Drupal as a collaborative platform for government, enabling institutions and public organisations to build secure, accessible, and reusable digital services for citizens. Through keynote presentations, case studies, and practical insights, speakers showcased how public administrations across Europe are leveraging open technologies to improve efficiency, foster innovation, and strengthen cooperation across institutions.
- 9.15Welcome by the European Commission
Digital Enablers & Innovation Leadership — Leontina Sandu
- 9:30Organisers introduction
Joris Vercammen, Frederik Wouters
- 9:45Keynote: Unlocking public sector contributions to open source
Sachiko Muto
- 10:15European Commission web presence in Drupal: Lessons Learned
Sandro d'Orazio, Massimiliano Molinari
- 10:35The Web Accessibility Directive, European Accessibility Act and Drupal
Mike Gifford
- 10:55Break
- 11:15GovNL CMS: A component-based website platform for the Dutch government
Rikkert Steenbergen
- 11:35Accessibility as a journey, not a checklist
Estela Francisco
- 11:55How AI is supporting end users and editors at Kanton Basel-Stadt
Josef Kruckenberg
- 12:15Bring LocalGov Drupal to the French market
Mark Conroy, Greg Harvey
- 12:35Lunch Break
- 14:00Power, data protection, pragmatism, and European digital sovereignty
Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire
- 14:20Deploying 60+ Drupal websites for the French Ecological Transition Ministry
Sylvain Moreau, Audrey Vittecoq-Laporte
- 14:40The EDPS Website Compliance Awareness Campaign and Website Evidence Collector
Xabier Lareo
- 15:00EASA: How Drupal and open source propel the airline industry towards carbon neutrality
Sofiane Boudadi, Janick Cox
- 15:20Break
- 15:35Implementing AI solutions for the French government
David Suissa, Nicolas Ljubenovic, Cecile Paquet
Leontina Sandu
Leontina Sandu Director - Digital Enablers & Innovation DIGIT.DDG.B- Digital Enablers & Innovation |
Sachiko Muto
Sachiko Muto Chair of OpenForum Europe, a senior researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, and a Board member of the Drupal Association. She originally joined OFE in 2007 and served for several years as Director with responsibility for government relations and then as CEO. Sachiko has degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics; she received her doctorate in standardisation policy from TU Delft. |
Audrey Vittecoq-Laporte
Audrey Vittecoq-Laporte After earning a Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics, Audrey moved from back-end development into digital project leadership. She joined the agency ecedi in 2010 as a Lead Drupal Developer and later took on roles as Quality Manager, Digital Accessibility Expert, and Project Director. Since 20218, she has been working as a Project Director for the French Ecological Transition Ministry (MTE), leading large-scale Drupal projects for the public sector. Specialised in Drupal projects for public administrations, she supports institutions in addressing key challenges such as digital accessibility, quality, regulatory compliance, digital responsibility, and the long-term sustainability of public digital services. Certified in Opquast and Digital Responsibility, Audrey is strongly committed to knowledge sharing and skills development, with the goal of building accessible, sustainable Drupal platforms in service of the public interest. |
Cecile Paquet
Cecile Paquet Data Science Project Manager |
David Suissa
David Suissa Involved in the Drupal development community for quite some time, see: I have worked with the European, French or UK public services, on a wide range of Drupal applications. |
Estela Francisco
Estela Francisco Estela has worked at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for over a decade, providing strategic guidance and hands-on support to enhance the user experience, accessibility, and search visibility of the agency’s Drupal-based website. Collaborating closely with developers, UX teams, and content editors, she ensures accessibility is embedded early in design, development, and editorial workflows, with a focus on meaningful content structure, semantics, and usability for people using assistive technologies. She also contributes to enhancing open-source components shared across European institutions, supporting EMA and other europa.eu websites in delivering more inclusive digital public services. |
Greg Harvey
Greg Harvey I am the Director at open source specialist digital agency Code Enigma. As open source specialists we are naturally leaning towards social and environmental goals and outcomes. We specialise in designing, delivering, hosting and supporting high quality Internet solutions, predominantly built using the Drupal content management system, though we work with a whole range of open source software. We work with organisations of all shapes, sizes and budgets. As long as the Internet is central to completing your goals and you're doing positive things in the world, we are a good fit. |
Janick Cox
Janick Cox Janick Cox works at the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in Cologne. With over 20 years of experience in digital communication and web management, his work centres on applying open source and open web principles—specifically through Drupal and Mautic—to the public sector. He recently led the development of the EASA Sustainability Portal, a platform for aircraft operator reporting under the ReFuelEU Aviation regulation. He also works on implementing the Flight Emissions Label regulation, which provides the greenhouse gas emission calculations. Across these projects, Janick focuses on usability and driving efficiency gains, ensuring complex regulatory processes are streamlined for both the agency and its stakeholders. |
Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire
Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire Jeffrey A. "Jam" McGuire is a partner at Open Strategy Partners, a marketing agency that helps B2B technology, open source, and other companies connect their complex solutions to the value they deliver. He helps companies communicate and grow by finding and telling the stories that connect their technologies to the value they deliver. His approach to technology marketing focuses on communicating the human context of complex technology solutions. An experienced speaker, he has hosted numerous award ceremonies over the past 15 years and has delivered dozens of keynotes, more than 150 conference presentations, and more than 220 podcast interviews. |
Josef Kruckenberg
Josef Kruckenberg Josef is Lead Generative AI & Drupalista at Liip, a Swiss digital agency. Josef is an active contributor to open-source, passionate about bringing together the community and digital creators for digital human progress. |
Mark Conroy
Mark Conroy Drupal Core Maintainer for
Frontend lead for LocalGov Drupal distribution and LocalGov Drupal Microsites distribution I like to think about - and then help implement - scalable, large scale frontend systems for Drupal, LocalGov Drupal, and Design Systems. |
Massimiliano Molinari
Massimiliano Molinari Head of Corporate web solutions Sector |
Mike Gifford
Mike Gifford Mike Gifford is the Open Standards & Practices Lead at CivicActions, a company that helps government agencies build modern digital services. A thought leader on open government and accessibility, he has a deep background in open source, including extensive experience with the Drupal CMS. Mike's work focuses on helping governments become better buyers of digital services, and he is a recognized expert on accessibility and procurement. |
Nicolas Ljubenovic
Nicolas Ljubenovic Project Manager |
Rikkert Steenbergen
Rikkert Steenbergen Solution Architect specialsing in Drupal-based web platforms for the Dutch government |
Sandro d'Orazio
Sandro d'Orazio I'm an IT engineer who began my career as a developer before joining the European Commission in 2006. Over the years, I evolved into an IT architect and later transitioned into management roles. I eventually moved to the Directorate-General for Communication, where I now serve as Deputy Head of Unit in the Web Communication Unit. Although my career path has shifted toward management and communication, my passion for technology and IT remains at the heart of everything I do. |
Sofiane Boudadi
Sofiane Boudadi
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Sylvain MOREAU
Sylvain MOREAU Long time Open Source Advocate (since 2001) and Drupal enthusiast (since 2006), I've created and run a french drupal Agency for more than 20 years, working on big institutional and cultural websites for large organizations (ie : UNESCO), and contributing to many drupal module development and translations, like the Scald suite in Drupal 7, that became the drupal core media solution since Drupal 8.4. Since 2025, I've joined the Ctrl-A (https://www.ctrla.fr) crew as a CSO, working on other fields that matter to me : Eco-design, Digital Accessibility, Inclusivity and Digital Sovereignty. |
Tiffany Farriss
Tiffany Farriss Tiffany Farriss has been deeply involved with the Drupal Association (DA), serving on its Board of Directors. Her tenure includes service from 2009 to 2017 and a return to the board in later years. |
Xabier Lareo
Xabier Lareo Head of Sector for Technology Monitoring and Foresight at the EDPS Technology and Privacy Unit. He joined the EDPS in 2018, following ten years of experience as a data protection inspector at the Spanish Data Protection Authority. |


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