Drupal 8 was recently released with new features like Symfony components, Twig, and configuration management. Drupal 6 sites need to migrate by February 2016 as it reaches end-of-life. Drupal 8 provides an improved migration system using plugins to import content from Drupal 6, 7, or other data sources like CSV, JSON, and XML. The speaker is a Drupal developer and expert who can help with Drupal 8 migrations.