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The 5 pressure points you need to hit to knock out big competitors JacobSingh Yes grasshopper, you have come far, but learn my Drupal-fu and you never be defeated. Moving from small sites to the enterprise has presented new challenges for people trying to win Drupal... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Attack of the clones: Why Certification won't ruin Drupal. JacobSingh There are plenty of dirty words thrown around the Drupal community in my 7 years here, but perhaps none more loaded than Certification. A fiercely independent community, we have long been resistant... Beginner Business + Strategy
Vim for Drupal CrashTest_ This session is for finding out how the old-school editor, Vim, is just dandy for Drupal. We will cover some cool plugins, and awesome resources, as well as answering questions about how to use... Intermediate Coding + Development
Coder review douggreen I developed Coder to help developers write better code. I presented Coder at OSCMS Sunnyvale, DrupalCon Barcelona, Szeged, and Boston. It's been almost five years since my last Coder presentation and... Intermediate Coding + Development
Introduction to Drupal DevOps cyberswat In case you missed the news, Drupal is growing. As Drupal grows it continues to evolve and become a critical component of mission critical, high performance systems. Development teams are growing and... Beginner DevOps
Baby Steps: Get Your DevOps Process Started By The End of This Session ldpm Alternate title: "Okay, we've installed Jenkins. Now what?" DevOps is in the sweet spot for many medium size development firms, but it can be a tougher fit for others. When management is used to... Beginner DevOps
Open Book Management: Empower Your Team DuoKelly If the Open Source movement works so well in the technology world, why not expand those same principles to how you manage your company? This session will cover what Open Book Management is and how... Intermediate Business + Strategy
All Your Base Are Belong to Us chaz.chumley In all the years of designing for Drupal, the one thing I have learned is to always borrow from the best and build it into a base theme. Now, I know you’re saying to yourself—not another base theme... Beginner Frontend
Getting to Awesome: How to Become an All-Drupal Shop DuoKelly If you didn't start out as an all-Drupal shop, how do you get to be one? what's the process? This session will focus on the real-world implications of becoming an all-Drupal firm by describing the... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Large Drupal Projects: Blessing or Burden? chrisstrahl, Nicole Lind Drupal in the last couple of years has grown up. It has been chosen, built, and deployed by some of the largest companies and corporations in the world. This maturation has brought a whole new set of... Beginner Business + Strategy
How to Create "Drupal Candy" for Motivating and Maintaining your Drupal Talent! Nicole Lind The infamous “Drupal talent crunch” is a challenge felt by many organizations in our space today. Strong Drupal developers are in high demand; attracting and keeping them is both critical and... Beginner Business + Strategy
PANEL: State of the (Freelance) Union kbell, stevepurkiss, pirog, Andrew_Mallis, j. ayen green Are you a Drupal freelancer? Do you love the freelancing life (at least most of the time)? You're not alone! This session will share strategies designed to help you love your life ALL the time.... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Responsive Design for Print Publications webwags On most sites, the annual report is just PDF version of the print piece. You know you need it on your site but it’s so ho-hum boring that hardly anybody ever downloads it. And if someone did click on... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Responsive Design with Drupal chaz.chumley We have all heard the buzzword "Responsive Design". There are countless examples of Responsive websites and you may have even dabbled in creating Responsive elements of a website. But starting with... Beginner Frontend
Creating Dynamic Web Experiences Drupal 7's AJAX API mkadin As the functionality gap between native and web applications shrinks, users are expecting a more fluid experience when interacting with Drupal sites. Using an AJAX powered interface, users can use... Intermediate Coding + Development
Drupal gets its App Store GuGuss, bojanz Drupal Commerce merchants now have the power of building and extending their Drupal site without any technical knowledge whatsoever. They can browse a Marketplace, choose the modules and services... Intermediate Coding + Development
Modules 101: Introduction, Installation, and Removal; Or, the What, When, Where, Why, and Especially How SKrossa This is a practical introduction to Drupal modules. Learn the basics of what modules are, when to use contributed modules, where to find them, why choose one over another, and — step-by-step— how to... Beginner Site Building
Growing and Managing Drupal Organisations jannekalliola The success of any IT project, Drupal site development included, depends on the people. The key to success is hiring only good people, avoiding mediocrity, and growing the knowledge of the team with... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Startup Stories - Lessons in Rapid, Agile Prototyping and Development with Drupal jay.u, akucharski, jsnoles49 Drupal continues to gain increasing momentum among startups, both pure-play startup companies and internal startup groups within large organizations. Join Promet Source and Limina for this exciting... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Migrating the Library studiozut We'd like to present on our experience migrating a high traffic higher ed site (GW Libraries) to Drupal. We'll discuss planning, user testing, module selection, and cat herding with a strong emphasis... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education

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