DrupalCon Baltimore 2017: Plugging in your Bot - An extensible bot framework for Drupal 8

This talk explores the integration of chatbots with Drupal 8, focusing on a project initiated by the White House that provides a module for building chatbots on Facebook's Messenger Platform. The speaker discusses how they enhanced this module by decoupling it from Facebook, enabling integration with various platforms such as Slack and creating custom clients. The session details the refactoring of the original module to utilize the Drupal 8 Plugin API, showcasing the addition of new clients and back-ends, including a Managed Content Workflow for user-managed content. Attendees will learn about common bot use cases, essential components of a chatbot, and how to configure a Drupal 8 site to serve as the backend for multiple chatbot platforms.