Rich Lawson
Associate Director of Technology at Evolving Web
With over 21 years of digital and 12 years of agency experience, Rich is a seasoned internet professional and technical leader who has successfully launched dozens of ambitious, accessible digital products for clients in many different verticals, ranging in size from startups and smaller non-profits to large organizations and enterprises, including a Fortune 50 company.
Whether working with engineers, cross-functional teams, or directly with clients, Rich fosters close collaboration to deliver best-in-class solutions and digital experiences.
This session explores how developers can leverage Ollama to run open-source large language models (LLMs) locally and integrate them with Continue, an extension for both VSCode and JetBrains, to leverage those models for Drupal coding assistance.
Attendees will learn about some popular open-source LLMs and their usage for Drupal, as well as practical use cases for how Continue can assist with good development practices and improve efficiency.
The session also includes a demonstration of Ollama and Continue within VSCode so that attendees can see them working together in action.
Previous presentations:
I also presented this at MidCamp and GovCon:
https://www.midcamp.org/2025/topic-proposal/ollama-using-open-source-ai-drupal-development
https://drupalgovcon.org/2025-sessions (see the Friday sessions)