Programme

We’re excited to share a full programme of sessions on content design, accessibility, product showcases and development - all shaped by and for the LocalGov Drupal community.

9:00am

Room Session
Parker Morris

Registration

Tea & Coffee

10:00am

Room Session Speaker
Parker Morris

Welcome &

Keynote

LGD Core Team

11:00am

Room Session Speaker
Parker Morris

Building blocks for better services: 

how we're using LGD to improve resident transactions at Greenwich

Alex Sturtivant,

Royal Borough of Greenwich

Garrett Anderson Content Designers Meetup & Networking

Will Callaghan, LGD Product Lead

Ben Hills-Jones, The Digital Word

Booth Room

So you think it's accessible?

Busting Myths and Moving Beyond the Checklist

Meri Wilson, GAIN
Sancho Demonstrating value: Publishing data to show council impact Michael Brown, Newcastle City Council
Cafe Open Space --

12:00pm

Room Session Speaker
Parker Morris

Event Channels and Finders: 

Show & Tell of LGD’s New Listings Feature

Rupert Jabelman, Chicken

Ryan Falcon-Hay, 

Hammersmith & Fulham Borough Council

Garrett Anderson Improving LGD for content designers

Will Callaghan, LGD Product Lead

Ben Hills-Jones, The Digital Word

Booth Room Picture this: Codesigning alt text and decorative images

Maria Young & Richard Rowley, 

Agile Collective

Sancho How can we develop an intranet as a product?

Sucharitha Revanuru, Essex County Council

Craig Barker, Cumberland Council

Cafe Open Space --

 

1:00pm: Lunch

 

2:00pm

Room Session Speaker
Parker Morris

One platform, many sites: 

How Essex County Council centralised LGD delivery (and what we learned)

Catherine Barton & Jennifer Scopes, Essex County Council

Paul Jenkins & Louwrens Erasmus, Big Blue Door

Garrett Anderson How analytics is important to drive content migration, review and redesign Shazia Attia, Cumberland Council
Booth Room

Writing for accessibility and usability 

(and how to bring your council along with you)

Lizzi Cox & Maria Rosenquist,

Bracknell Forest Council

Sancho

How LocalGov Drupal flourishes within the Drupal Ecosystem:

Migrating to Drupal.org and leveraging its credits system 

Tony Barker, Annertech

Finn Lewis, LGD Tech Lead

Aaron Hirtenstein, LGD Community Lead

Cafe

AI-powered LocalGov Drupal:

Open source, AI-human collaboration and trustworthy governance

Jamie Abrahams, 

Freely Give & Drupal AI Co-Lead

3:00pm

Room Session Speaker
Parker Morris

Importing PDFs into LGD Publications: 

A demo of the new community-funded tool

Rupert Jabelman, Chicken

Andy Broomfield, Brighton & Hove City Council

Garrett Anderson

Content, Content Everywhere: 

How to Populate Your New LGD Site 

(Without Losing Your Mind, and your day job)

Paul Jenkins, Alice Grey & Simon Stewart,

Big Blue Door

Booth Room

Accessible, Collaborative, Comprehensive, Transparent, Up to Date.  

This mediocre white man's journey into the SEND Local Offer.

Jonny Holden, pop pop studio
Sancho

Tech Drop-in:

Bring Your questions, ideas and issues

Finn Lewis, LGD Tech Lead
Cafe

AI-Powered Customer Journeys: 

Using LGD Content to support smarter services

Lewis Gallagher, Netcall

4:00pm

Room Session Speaker
Parker Morris Wrap up LGD Core Team

6:00pm

Drinks and nibbles at the Barley Mow, Horseferry Road.