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50 Way to Rock the Web TomDude48 50 strategies, 50 slides, 50 minutes; let’s start building better websites that get results! Building a great, high performing website is no easy feat. You have to be an expert in; digital... Beginner Business + Strategy
Building a Better Base with Bootstrap EvanLovely Don't reinvent the wheel, stand on the shoulders of giants! One of the best things to come into the Front End Developers arsenal in a while is the beautiful and powerful UI framework Bootstrap, baked... Intermediate Frontend
A Practical look at building CRM System in Drupal xcf33, pingers Drupal has been at the forefront of the open source CMS evolution. The next frontier of Constituent/Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is now possible with core Drupal components. A wide range of... Intermediate Site Building
Moving a mountain: A university evolution story rcross Sometimes there are projects that are daunting and would ordinarily seem a little too big, or too difficult to tackle. Sometimes it feels like that pile of dirt in front of you is a mountain, and the... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Communication for Communities with Drupal schiavone Since its beginnings Drupal has been a tool for building communities, facilitating communication, and encouraging collaboration. Buried inside Drupal core are some powerful tools, some new and some... Beginner Site Building
Flying a plane while building it rcross This session will discuss the experience building on top of a distribution while the distribution was still being built: Cancer Connections is a website run by the Cancer Council of NSW, assisted... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Power Themeing: Powerful responsive css without template frameworks jmoughon Are template frameworks the best option? Do you do a lot of custom themeing? Is there something that can significantly help? In the current age of Responsive Web Design (RWD) and multiple browsers... Intermediate Frontend
Your workflow needs work: Site building as a separate discipline. zeropx Site building as a separate discipline starts with good planning. But what’s a good plan? This session will cover a start to finish concept benefitting most site-builders and teams to finish their... Beginner Site Building
Validate cheap and quick: lean prototyping and user testing GarenCheckley, technicka So you’re improving or building a website or product, but how do you know you’re doing it right? In this talk, we’ll outline simple, quick and cheap ways to prototype and test. This process is... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Advocacy Non-Profits Leveraging Drupal for Social Change AaronPava Drupal has a long history as an advocacy platform for small community groups and nonprofits. This session will explore specific case studies of how small and mid-size organizations are using Drupal... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Configuration Management Initiative and Features: Professional Change Management for Drupal kerasai Drupal is notorious for holding many configurations in its database which makes change management daunting. This sessions focuses on strategies to store configurations in a file-based format in order... Intermediate DevOps
Designing organizational culture with LeanUX and coffee technicka As user experience professionals, we are constantly in tune with what our users feel and what they need to meet their goals. Why should we not have the same perspective about what our own team and... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Build a great nonprofit site in a week with Open Outreach nedjo Do nonprofits need to spend tens of thousands of dollars and months of custom development to get the basics they need in a website? Not any more. Find out how to use the Open Outreach... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Drupal in the Mainstream: Making Passion Scale gdemet In the last few years, Drupal has exploded in popularity from a niche platform to the software that powers some of the biggest and most important websites in the world. Much of its success to date... Beginner Community
Fast Local Development + Pantheon + Drush = Kalabox pirog We will discuss the various local and on-server Drupal development environments that are currently available and how readily available/free/open source local development environments have fallen... Intermediate DevOps
Case Study: Building Drupal for Building Products Aimee Degnan Building bridges needs building materials, which you can find from Pacific Coast Building Products, a family of companies that manufacture and distribute construction materials such as brick,... Beginner Business + Strategy
Building a 21st Century Democracy -- Drupal & the Digital Government Strategy AaronPava Drupal has seen massive adoption across the entire federal government and is well-placed to be the leading open source content management system solution for federal agencies. In this session, we’ll... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Adept Application of SASS & LESS EvanLovely This session will focus on how to use CSS Preprocessors best by focusing on the methodology, organization, and specific features used in the front end development of Drupal Themes. It doesn't matter... Intermediate Frontend
Results Oriented Agile: How to Get More of the Right Results, Sooner and with Less Risk. TomDude48 Drupal gives you a huge tool box to deliver features. As Drupal accelerates the website development cycle, the question changes from “How do we build sites?” to “What should we build?” This session... Beginner Business + Strategy
Setting up Drupal as an OData provider on Windows Azure brianbenz In this session we’ll take you through the steps to set up Drupal on Windows Azure as an OData provider, and show you examples of working with OData on a live example. As you’ll see, this is a great... Beginner Site Building

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