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Turning AI's Promise Into Practical Results at Drupal AI Summit Paris 2026

For most organizations, the question is no longer whether AI matters, but how AI fits into their own work, on what terms, and at what cost.

On December 1, 2026, the Drupal AI Summit Paris will bring together experts and organizations that have already worked through those questions, including EU institutions and medical researchers, to share what they learned.

Your summit ticket also gets you all three days of the Future of Software Technologies (FOST) conference, December 1-3, with over 300 sessions to choose from.

Marketing and Content Teams Moving Faster Without Losing Their Voice

For marketing and content teams, trustworthy content is essential. It has to sound like their brand and get published without weeks of waiting. That's the promise of Drupal AI.

When pages drift off-brand and don't keep up with the brand, they lose their importance and credibility. They lose what sets them apart.

AI working as the editor, not the author, is the focus of this session. Bruno Bruno from 1xINTERNET will show how AI can review content against an organization's own standards and suggest fixes, keeping hundreds of pages consistent. All while people still write the content and decide what gets published.

Landing pages are often the centerpiece of a campaign. The summit will also feature Canvas AI, showing how you can build a complete, brand-compliant landing page from a text prompt or by drag and drop, and then route it to the right people for approval. That way, the page goes live on time and in the right voice.

Marketing teams also have to make changes across many pages at once. Fabian Franz from Tag1 will demonstrate how AI can make a change across an entire university site in a separate workspace, so nothing reaches the live site until a person reviews and publishes it.

Preparing for a Changing Search Landscape

The way people discover information online is changing. Increasingly, potential customers are turning to AI assistants and answer engines to research products, services, and organizations.

For website owners and marketing teams, this raises an important concern: content that performs well in traditional search may not necessarily be discoverable or cited by AI systems.

Two sessions at the summit tackle this question: one focused on what's changing and the other on how to respond.

Martin Anderson-Clutz from Acquia will look at how AI is changing the role of websites, from how content is discovered to how organizations approach personalization and digital marketing.

Christoph Breidert from 1xINTERNET picks up from there with a practical approach to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), building on one of last year's most popular discussions about AI search visibility. His session will explore how organizations can with S1xSignals assess their content for citation readiness, query alignment, content structure, authority and trust, semantic clarity, and technical accessibility.

Content structure, metadata, and schema are at the heart of these signals, and Drupal does these well.

Learning From Organizations Already Putting AI to Work

There is a considerable difference between showing what AI can do and making it work in an organization with established systems, responsibilities, and regulatory requirements.

Tens of thousands of candidates turn to the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) for information about careers with the European Union institutions. Working with Dropsolid, EPSO implemented an AI-powered answer engine to help them find what they need in all 24 official EU languages.

It uses EPSO's own documentation rather than general AI information, cites the source behind every answer, and runs on European-sovereign infrastructure with governance and auditability built in. At the summit, Dominique De Cooman, Founder and CEO of Dropsolid AI, will explain how Drupal's structured content and API-first architecture make all of that possible.

Not every use of AI faces the public. At the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), it works inside the review process. CPRD provides anonymized clinical data to researchers around the world, and every application to use that data goes through a careful, multi-stage human review. CPRD added an AI reviewer that checks each application against its own rules on data use, while people still make the decisions. At the summit, Vijay Mani from Reading Room will share how they made it work in a highly regulated environment.

On top of EPSO and CPRD, Dan Lemon from amazee.io will present more examples of Drupal AI in production, including content classification, accessible content rewriting, and improved search experiences, all supported by private AI infrastructure. Some of these organizations went from not using AI to making it an integral part of their work cycle.

Moving Forward With AI While Maintaining Control

For many European organizations, responsible AI and data sovereignty are central to technology choices. Decision-makers need straightforward information to make clear, well-thought-out plans.

Of course, they also have to follow the GDPR, and the fines for getting it wrong can be large. So they need to know where their data is processed, which providers can access it, and who reviews what AI produces. Open source lets them make those choices for themselves, and Drupal AI supports multiple models and providers, including locally hosted options, so each organization can choose what fits best.

Two sessions pick up from there: Jamie Abrahams from FreelyGive will look at how subscriptions, the fear of lock-in, and the push for national AI sovereignty are leading people, companies, and governments toward open source. Wolfgang Ziegler from drunomics will show how people and AI agents can combine efforts while always allowing for approval to rest with people.

Both point to the same idea: adopting AI shouldn't mean giving up control of an organization's data, content, or decisions.

One Summit, Hundreds of Opportunities to Learn

The Drupal AI Summit opens the Future of Software Technologies (FOST) conference, December 1-3, 2026, at CNIT Forest in Paris. More than 5,000 people are expected across the three days.

If you make decisions about AI, run a website, or work in marketing, it's a chance to see how AI can improve what you already do, and what may shape your next decisions.

Friends of the Drupal Community can get a summit ticket for €149, which covers all of FOST. The regular FOST pass is €499, so it's a remarkable value, especially with everything else that's included.

Last year's event sold out, and we expect the same this time, so if you're thinking about coming, get your ticket now.

Frequently Asked Questions

When and where is the Drupal AI Summit Paris 2026?

On 1 December 2026, at CNIT Forest in Paris. It opens the Future of Software Technologies (FOST) conference, which runs 1 to 3 December.

How much does a ticket cost?

For Friends of the Drupal Community, a summit ticket is €149, and it covers all of FOST. The regular FOST pass is €499.

What does a summit ticket include?

All three days of FOST, with more than 25 conferences and over 300 sessions.

Who should attend?

Marketing and content teams, IT and compliance teams, and business leaders who want to see how AI can fit into their own work, on their own terms.