Stanford WebCamp 2025: What We Hosted, Heard, and Learned

Now that the dust has settled, let's talk about what a successful Stanford WebCamp we had this year!

I first want to take the time to thank our organizers Irina Zaks, Aaron Cole, Ashley Brandt, Andrea Kapitan, Albert Hughes, Emily Gwynn, Drake Greeott, our participants, speakers, and sponsors (Acquia, Jakala, Aten, Four Kitchens, Pantheon, the Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford UComm, Stanford Online, Stanford H&S, and our financial sponsor MOSA).  Without them, none of this would be possible.  I joined the organizing team for WebCamp 2024, and what a great experience it has been working with wonderful people to showcase what Stanford has to offer.

This year’s WebCamp was the first in person event to be held since 2019 and it was amazing!  WebCamp started out virtually on Thursday May 8^th and continued virtually and in person on Friday May 9^th with a keynote presentation from Paul Nuyujukian PhD MD. Paul is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Neurosurgery, and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering; and a Faculty Scholar of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.  His talk Bringing Science into the DevOps Era focused on IT best practices spanning real time data acquisition, trusted timestamping of the data and code, and containerized pipelines for data analysis to improve the reproducibility, rigor, and transparency of scientific research.  This talk was not recorded or streamed, but only in person at 10 am on Friday May 9^th. If you are interested in learning more about Paul’s research you can find a list of publications and lab homepage https://bil.stanford.edu/.

Talks ranged on topics about Backdrop CMS, Drupal, and Stanford’s own sites platform presented by Dena DeBry from Stanford web services to AI, IA, and Drupal initiatives like Open University presented by Andre Angelantoni.

Friday concluded with a happy hour at The Treehouse at Stanford generously sponsored by Pantheon with reunions, introductions, hugs, handshakes, and great talks about all things web future and past.

Stanford WebCamp started out in 2010 as Stanford DrupalCamp until changing the name to Stanford WebCamp in 2019 to be more inclusive to all web technologies.

We will be back in 2026 for our 16^th year and plan to make it the best Stanford WebCamp yet!