2025 Schedule

Registration outside the North Academic Center (NAC) Multipurpose Room.

Join us in the session room for a warm welcome to Decoupled Days and key information and housekeeping!

“Moving at the Speed of Content” explores how decoupled websites can help your team publish faster, adapt quicker, and stay relevant in a fast-paced digital world. Traditional CMSs often create bottlenecks—rigid components, slow approvals, and limited flexibility—that delay content and cost you opportunities.

In this hands-on session, we’ll dive deep into the process of decoupling Drupal and WordPress for headless CMS architectures. Through live coding examples and configuration demonstrations, we'll explore how traditional content management systems can be leveraged as content services, powering modern front-end frameworks. Attendees will learn how to configure APIs, implement content syndication, and optimize front-end experiences using JSON:API, GraphQL, and other headless tools.

Modern front-end development isn't. Front-end developers have been forced to worry about domains that were previously a back-end concern: routing, authentication and access control, cache invalidation, and more…

Lunch on your own near the venue!

In today’s competitive digital landscape, providing personalized content is crucial to increasing user engagement and conversions. Personalized experiences help websites retain users by delivering relevant content based on individual preferences, past behaviors, and interactions. By leveraging AI-driven personalization within Drupal, websites can create dynamic, tailored user journeys that reduce bounce rates and improve overall engagement.

Delivering content from headless CMS platforms at scale isn’t easy—especially when performance, security, and cost all matter. In this session, we’ll explore practical strategies to improve API delivery, reduce infrastructure demands, and keep your CMS secure.

The rise of generative AI has changed everything ... or has it? Bits&Letters founder and veteran developer David Demaree discusses how we’re thinking about AI for ourselves and our clients, debunking some myths and offering some practical tips for taking advantage of these powerful new tools.

What’s it been like to organize eight years of Decoupled Days across the advent of headless content and commerce, the COVID-19 pandemic, and now the evolution of artificial intelligence? Join Decoupled Days organizers Mark Casias, Ho-Ling Poon, and Preston So for a wide-ranging discussion about the nuts and bolts (and behind-the-scenes inner workings) of one of the last remaining non-profit, community-led, and volunteer-run events on the industry circuit.

Join us in the session room for a warm farewell from Decoupled Days and key information and housekeeping!

Join us for our official conference party! The Decoupled Days Code of Conduct is in effect at our closing party. Please consult your printed program for location and details.