DrupalCon Atlanta 2025: Keynote - The Future of Drupal CMS | #Driesnote

Dries Buytaert, Drupal Founder

Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for Drupal, a powerful open source platform for building websites and digital experiences. Dries is also Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer of Acquia, the open source digital experience company.

Honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, he holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science (MsC) from the University of Antwerp. Dries also has been recognized as CTO of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, New England Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and a Young Innovator by MIT Technology Review.

[GunterGielen]

As a drupal themer I'm very exited about the market place. Delivering high quality themes! People need this.

[AndrewKucharski-PrometSource]

A Drupal marketplace is a fantastic idea. We 100% need this

[catzzzvb]

Drupal CMS 2.0/3.0 will be what finally brings me back from Wordpress sites and that is so exciting!

[gxstthq]

Trying to get a site started that is not using the dated-looking olivero theme has been what's prevented me from jumping ship from self-maintained wordrpess sites

[pawelnachname]

Experience builder is looking very tasty...