Join Us At DrupalSouth Wellington 2026

Automated traffic on the internet has evolved well beyond simple crawlers and brute-force attacks. Modern bots use headless browsers, residential proxy networks, and AI-driven scraping that deliberately mimic real users, making traditional IP blocking and rate limiting increasingly ineffective.

This session explores how Drupal teams can respond to this new reality using pragmatic, layered defences. In addition to Drupal modules such as Perimeter, CrowdSec, AbuseIPDB, and Facet Bot Blocker, the talk demonstrates how to place Anubis in front of a Drupal site to selectively protect high-cost or high-risk endpoints such as forms, search, pagination, and authenticated flows.

Rather than attempting to block all bots, this talk focuses on reducing abuse where it hurts most, understanding trade-offs, and integrating modern bot controls without breaking accessibility, SEO, or legitimate users.

📅 Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2026

🕜 Time: 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM

📍 Room: Breakout 1

Most organizations approach AI integration by starting with use cases and then scrambling to find infrastructure that meets their security and compliance needs. We took the opposite approach: we built a comprehensive AI platform first, then developed a suite of Drupal-based tools and modules to demonstrate its capabilities.

This talk will explore how amazee.ai created (and open-sourced) an AI infrastructure, designed around LiteLLM, to support multiple AI providers while maintaining complete data sovereignty. We'll discuss the key architectural decisions that went into building a platform that handles authentication, vector databases, and multi-region deployment - all while ensuring no data is stored or used for model training.

Then, we'll showcase how we leveraged this platform to develop practical Drupal integrations, including:

• A custom Drupal AI Provider module that enables one-click setup without managing API keys
• Default integration with Drupal CMS 2.0 and the Drupal AI module ecosystem for content generation, accessibility improvements, and multilingual support
• Real-world implementations solving challenges like batch alt-text generation for 10k+ product catalogs, interactive chatbots powered by vector databases, and more!
• And we’ll even cover how (and why!) we used Drupal as the base for our private AI Assistant

Attendees will learn why choosing and building infrastructure first - rather than bolting it on later - supports more flexible, secure, and scalable AI solutions. We'll share lessons learned from our platform-first approach, including technical decisions around user management & reporting, regional compliance, and provider-agnostic architecture.

📅 Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026

🕜 Time: 1:20 PM - 1:50 PM

📍 Room: Breakout 2