Lake Theatre, Loft by the Lake, Vienna
Starts at 08:00
A day in Vienna for everyone who wants to shape the digital future of their municipality.
Whether it is citizen services, data protection or new AI applications: digitalisation sets big tasks for towns and municipalities. In uncertain times one question becomes ever more important: who actually controls the data and the systems that public administration relies on? Digital sovereignty and open source are no longer a topic for federal governments and the EU alone, they concern every municipality.
At the first LocalGov Day in Vienna, representatives from municipalities, administration, politics and the IT industry come together to find answers: which solutions already exist, what can municipalities learn from each other, and how do they shape their digital future on their own terms?
Friday, 20 November 2026. Doors open at 08:00.
TimetableAt Loft by the Lake in Vienna, Austria.
Venue & directionsTickets are free, but limited to 80 people. Register to reserve your place.
Tickets (opens in new tab)The first speakers are confirmed. More will follow.
New speakers every week. We announce more speakers and sessions on this page until the day. We could tell you everything at once, but where is the fun in that? Keep it exciting and come back to see who joins.
Will Callaghan is Product Lead of LocalGov Drupal and has shaped the project from the first idea. Before that he worked at the UK Government Digital Service, where he helped move government departments onto the shared GOV.UK platform. He has also held senior roles in several UK local authorities, including Brighton & Hove, Croydon and Cumbria. He knows first-hand how digital change works in councils and how to win many authorities over to a shared project.
Nico Grienauer is founder and CEO of the Vienna digital agency ACOLONO and has been a defining figure of the Austrian open-source scene for almost 20 years. As deputy chair of Drupal Austria he has brought numerous international conferences to Vienna, including DrupalCamp Vienna and the Drupal Developer Days. He also created the Austrian open-source award "Open Minds" and the Open Source Ball. For LocalGov Drupal he supports the rollout in Austria and Germany.
Alex Gruber is managing director of the Vienna digital agency lowfidelity and has been active in the Drupal community for many years. In the Drupal Austria community he is especially committed to making Drupal more visible in Austria. For LocalGov Drupal Austria he contributes his knowledge on several levels.
Wolfgang Ziegler, known as fago in the Drupal community, is Managing Partner and CTO of drunomics in Vienna, and co-founder and deputy chairman of Drupal Austria. He has worked with Drupal since 2005, wrote modules such as Rules and Profile2, and was maintainer of the Form and Entity API in Drupal core. At drunomics he gained extensive experience with decoupled architectures that combine Drupal with a Nuxt.js frontend, and he advocates DevOps principles.
Nikolaus Reisl is President of OSBIG Austria, Head of Platforms at the City of Vienna (MA 01) and mayor of the municipality of Meiseldorf.
Keynotes, panels and tool talks will be added here every week.
The first sessions are fixed. More follow step by step; you find the times in the timetable.
LocalGov Drupal began when councils in the United Kingdom chose to share one codebase instead of each building their own website. Will Callaghan was there from the start. He tells how the website of one council became a platform for many, how local governments and local suppliers worked side by side, and what Austrian municipalities can learn from it.
Will Callaghan, Product Lead, LocalGov Drupal UK
An overview of the Drupal system: built by municipalities, for municipalities. Open source and data sovereign.
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Nikolaus Reisl, President, OSBIG Austria
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Wolfgang Ziegler, Managing Partner and CTO, drunomics
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Nico Grienauer, Christian Ziegler
Friday, 20 November 2026, in Vienna. The first sessions are fixed. We fill the open slots step by step, and times may still change.
LocalGov Day takes place in the Lake Theatre at Loft by the Lake in Vienna, Austria. Doors open at 08:00.
Tickets are free, but limited to 80 people. Register now to reserve your place.
LocalGov Day is for everyone who works with, or wants to start with, LocalGov Drupal.
Decision-makers and teams who run or plan a municipal website.
People who build and maintain websites for local government.
Companies that build, host or support websites for municipalities.
Everyone who cares about open source, shared code and data sovereignty in the public sector.
The community and the code behind the day.
The Austrian network for municipalities, councils, suppliers and everyone who works with Drupal for local government.
Over 80 councils worldwide use LocalGov Drupal.
localgovdrupal.at (opens in new tab)
LocalGov Drupal Austria is run and supported by the Drupal Austria Association (Verein Drupal Austria).
LocalGov Day is a day for everyone who builds, runs or wants to start a website for a municipality or council with LocalGov Drupal (opens in new tab): the free, open-source platform that local governments develop together.
LocalGov Day takes place on Friday, 20 November 2026.
LocalGov Day takes place in the Lake Theatre (opens in new tab) at Loft by the Lake in Vienna, Austria. The programme will be published on this page.
Will Callaghan, Product Lead of LocalGov Drupal and one of the co-founders of the project, gives the keynote "Together, not alone: how UK councils succeeded with LocalGov Drupal" in English. Nico Grienauer and Alex Gruber present the launch of LocalGov Austria. Nikolaus Reisl of OSBIG gives a keynote on increasing digital sovereignty. Wolfgang Ziegler of drunomics talks about knowledge management in the age of AI. More speakers are announced on this page every week.
Tickets are free, but limited to 80 people. Register on Eventbrite (opens in new tab) to reserve your place.
LocalGov Drupal is a free, open-source website platform for councils and municipalities, built on Drupal (opens in new tab). It was created by councils in the United Kingdom, who share one codebase instead of each building their own website, and it provides ready-made features for typical council content such as services, guides, news, events and directories. It is also used in Ireland, France and Austria.
Yes. The software is open source under the GPL licence, like Drupal itself, so there are no licence fees. Municipalities pay only for what they need around it, such as hosting, setup, design and support, either from their own team or from a local supplier.
Yes. Since September 2026, LocalGov Drupal has been a verified digital public good, listed in the registry of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (opens in new tab). Digital public goods are open-source solutions that meet the DPG Standard: an open licence, clear ownership, privacy and do-no-harm by design, and relevance to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
LocalGov Day is an independent community event organised by Nico Grienauer and ACOLONO GmbH, who also initiated the Austrian network LocalGov Drupal Austria (opens in new tab). It is not an official LocalGov Drupal website. Details are in the imprint.
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