Want to attend the PNW Drupal Summit? We can help you make the case.
Professional development is an investment—for you and for your organization. The PNW Drupal Summit brings together web professionals from across the Pacific Northwest for two days of practical learning, knowledge sharing, and connection.
Whether you work in development, content, design, accessibility, UX, devops, strategy, or web leadership, the Summit is an opportunity to learn from people doing this work every day—and bring those ideas back to your organization.
Why should your organization send you?
Learn skills you can put to work
The Summit program covers a wide range of topics relevant to today's web teams, including AI, accessibility, design, content strategy, development, devops, security, search, and user experience.
You'll leave with practical ideas, techniques, and approaches that you can apply to your organization's websites and digital projects.
Bring new ideas back to your team
Conference attendance shouldn't stop when you get home.
Share what you learn with your colleagues, recommend new approaches, identify opportunities for improvement, or bring back resources that can help your team work more effectively.
The Summit is a great opportunity to gather ideas from outside your organization and bring a fresh perspective to your current projects.
Connect with peers facing similar challenges
Working on the web can be isolating. The Summit gives you a chance to talk with other people doing similar work—about what's working, what's not, and how they're approaching the challenges your organization may be facing too.
These connections can become an ongoing professional network and a valuable source of advice long after the weekend is over.
Invest in professional development
Technology and best practices are constantly changing. Attending the Summit gives you dedicated time to learn, explore new ideas, and develop skills that benefit both your career and your organization.
And because the Summit is a regional event, you can get this professional-development experience without the cost and scale of a large national conference.
What will your organization get in return?
Consider offering to:
- Share a short recap of your key takeaways with your team.
- Identify two or three ideas from the Summit that could benefit your organization.
- Share relevant resources, tools, or techniques with your colleagues.
- Bring new perspectives to current web projects and challenges.
- Connect your team with people and organizations who have tackled similar problems.
- Apply something you learned at the Summit to an upcoming project.
What's the investment?
Early bird registration is $100 through September 4. Regular registration is $125.
Registration includes both days of the Summit and lunch at the event.
If you're traveling from Seattle, Portland, or elsewhere in the region, you may also want to request support for transportation and one or two nights of accommodation.
Think of it as an investment in two days of focused professional development, with practical knowledge you can bring back to your organization.
Need to ask your manager?
Here's a starting point you can customize:
Subject: Professional development opportunity — PNW Drupal Summit
I'd like to attend the PNW Drupal Summit, a two-day regional conference for people who work with websites, Drupal, and digital technology.
The program includes sessions on topics that are relevant to our work, including [insert 1–3 topics relevant to your role or current projects]. I think it would be a valuable opportunity to learn practical approaches from other web professionals and bring ideas back to our team.
Registration is currently $100 through September 4, and $125 after that. Lunch is included. I'd also like to request support for [travel / one or two nights of lodging, if applicable].
In return, I'll share my key takeaways with the team and identify specific ideas or practices from the conference that could be useful for our work.
Would you be open to supporting my attendance?
Make it relevant to your role
When asking for approval, focus on the parts of the Summit that connect directly to your organization's goals and your current work.
Developers & technical teams: Learn about development practices, architecture, devops, security, performance, AI, and emerging technologies.
Content & communications teams: Explore content strategy, accessibility, search, user experience, and ways to make your organization's digital presence more effective.
Design & UX teams: Learn from practitioners working on accessibility, design systems, user experience, and inclusive digital experiences.
Managers & web leaders: Bring back ideas for improving web strategy, team practices, technology decisions, and organizational effectiveness.
Drupal practitioners: Stay current with the Drupal ecosystem, learn from experienced community members, and build relationships with other Drupal professionals in the region.
We hope to see you there
The PNW Drupal Summit is built by and for the people who make the web work. Come learn something new, meet people who understand what you do, and bring something valuable back to your team.
