Schedule

Tuesday March 8th, 2011

Sheraton 4 & 5 Acquia	Chicago 6 & 7 VPS.NET	Chicago 8 & 9 Phase2	Sheraton 1 WorkHabit	Sheraton 2 & 3 Trellon	Chicago 10 Pantheon
8:30AM-9:15AM Drupal Community Welcome to Drupal(Con) Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire Robert Douglass Beginner
9:30AM-11:00AM Keynote - Dries Buytaert
11:00AM-12:30PM Lunch
12:30PM-1:30PM Coder Introduction to Module Development Ezra Barnett Gildesgame Beginner	Implementation and Config Media Aaron Winborn Jacob Singh Beginner	Drupal Community Community Health: Some Doctor's Advice Addison Berry Beginner	Business and Strategy Competing with Giants - How to Win with Drupal vs Proprietary Alternatives Bryan House Beginner	Theming Forensic Theming: Key Techniques to Building Effective Drupal Themes Emma Jane Hogbin Beginner	Design and UX Free and Open Source Tools for Integrating Web Accessibility into the Design Process Jon Gunderson Intermediate
1:45PM-2:45PM Coder Drupal Security for Coders Greg Knaddison Intermediate		Drupal Community Lessons from Drupal 3 Ken Rickard Intermediate	Business and Strategy Getting Early Estimates Right Jakob Persson Beginner	Theming Rockin’ HTML5 with Drupal Jen Simmons Intermediate	Design and UX The Right Way to Wireframe Russ Unger Intermediate
2:45PM-3:15PM Break
3:15PM-4:15PM Coder Aphorisms of API design Larry Garfield Intermediate	Implementation and Config Webform 3: The Survey Tool for Drupal Nathan Haug Beginner	Business and Strategy The "tools of the trade" Lior Kesos Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg Aaron Pava Eric Gundersen Beginner	Drupal Community Drupal Summit - A New Drupal Conference Paradigm Jared Stoneberg Intermediate	Theming Crafting App Interfaces with jQuery Nathan Smith Intermediate	Design and UX From Usability to UX Strategy Leisa Reichelt Intermediate
4:30PM-5:30PM Coder Views for hackers Karim Ratib Intermediate	Implementation and Config "Drupal as a Framework" vs. "Drupal as a Platform" Moshe Weitzman Jeff Eaton Irakli Nadareishvili Beginner	Business and Strategy Strategies for Client Management Chris Strahl Vanessa Turke Amye Scavarda Seth Brown Rachel Scott Beginner	Drupal Community Paying for the Plumbing Allie Micka Grace Francisco Carol Smith Robert Douglass Intermediate	Theming Advanced Accessibility in Drupal Katherine Lynch Intermediate	Design and UX Designing for Mobile Steve Fisher Beginner
7:00PM-10:00PM Field Museum Party

Wednesday March 9th, 2011

Sheraton 4 & 5 Acquia	Chicago 6 & 7 VPS.NET	Chicago 8 & 9 Phase2	Sheraton 1 WorkHabit	Sheraton 2 & 3 Trellon	Chicago 10 Pantheon	Superior A/B Palantir.net
9:00AM-10:00AM Keynote - Clay Shirky
10:00AM-11:00AM Break
11:00AM-12:00PM Implementation and Config Views Demystified Rain Breaw Beginner	Coder Git on Drupal.org: It's Easier Than You Think! Randy Fay Alan Burke Intermediate	Business and Strategy Teaching Drupal: Creating Effective Drupal Training Materials for Clients, Employees, and the Public Chris Shattuck Tom Geller Matt Petrowsky Beginner	Drupal Community New Directions for Drupal Documentation Jennifer Hodgdon Ariane Khachatourians Beginner	Theming Drupal on the go with jQuery Mobile Tim Cosgrove Brian McMurray Intermediate	Design and UX Avoiding a Frankenstein Website Design: Collaborating with Clients Samantha Warren Beginner	Business and Strategy Creating an Online Community the Open Source Way Jason Hibbets Beginner
12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM-2:00PM Implementation and Config Developing Apps for iPhone/iPad/Android using drupal as Base System Sumit Kataria Intermediate	Coder Automated Testing and Drupal Steven W. Merrill Intermediate	Business and Strategy Project Management As an Art Form Nicole Lind Joel Sackett Amy O'Malley George DeMet Intermediate	Drupal Community Bad Judgement, Eldorado Superfly, Khaaaaaaan: Joke modules and what they tell us about Drupal Matt Butcher Beginner	Design and UX Drupal 7 : Interface patterns Roy Scholten Bojhan Intermediate	Theming Making Beautiful Maps Alan Palazzolo Thomas Turnbull Intermediate	Business and Strategy Building Conference & Event Websites in Drupal with COD Ezra Barnett Gildesgame Ben Jeavons Lisa Rex Beginner
2:15PM-3:15PM Implementation and Config Failure to Launch: Drupal Performance Tuning Kenny Silanskas Intermediate	Design and UX Design Thinking Steve Fisher Jared Ponchot Samantha Warren Intermediate	Coder Attain Apache Solr Coding Chops Peter Wolanin Chris Pliakas Intermediate	Drupal Community Certifications and Drupal: Three strategies Greg Knaddison Aaron Winborn Jeff Robbins Beginner	Design and UX Don't design websites. Design web SYSTEMS! Todd Ross Nienkerk Adam Snetman Intermediate	Theming Themeing Haiku with Haml, Sass and Peroxide Kyle Cunningham Intermediate	Business and Strategy &%$@ My Internet Marketing Company Says Erik Wagner Tom McCracken Intermediate
3:15PM-3:45PM Break
3:45PM-4:45PM Implementation and Config From Zero to Distribution using Features, Profiler, and Drush Make dmitrig01 Intermediate	Design and UX Baby Got Backend: Content Administrators are Users Too Karen McGrane Jeff Eaton Beginner	Coder Coder Module: Easily Port Modules to Drupal 7 Stella Power Advanced	Drupal Community Community-Based Drupal Training Jennifer Hodgdon Douglas Vann Andy Laken Barry Madore Beginner	Business and Strategy Show Me The Money! Liza Kindred Eric Gundersen James Walker Matt Westgate Beginner	Theming Intro to Accessible Site-Building in Drupal Brandon Bowersox-Johnson Hadi Rangin Beginner	Business and Strategy Introducing OpenPublic: the Government Drupal Distribution! Jeff Walpole Andrew Hoppin Beginner
5:00PM-6:00PM Implementation and Config Distribution Deli Ferdinand Alimadhi Dick Olsson Bryan Hirsch Wilbur Ince Jay Batson Beginner	Coder Advanced Drush Moshe Weitzman Owen Barton Mark Sonnabaum Intermediate	Coder Drupal 7 JavaScript for Developers Katherine Bailey Randy Fay Advanced	Drupal Community Community benefits of the Drupal.org redesign Kieran Lal Lisa Rex Neil Drumm Chris Strahl Beginner	Business and Strategy Drupal As a Mature Software Industry Robert Douglass Jeff Walpole Beginner	Theming Best practices for cross-browser compatibility of Drupal website Vadim Mirgorod Intermediate	Business and Strategy Drupal in the Enterprise, IBM and Norwegian Cruise Line Rob Shea Intermediate

Thursday March 10th, 2011

Sheraton 4 & 5 Acquia	Chicago 6 & 7 VPS.NET	Chicago 8 & 9 Phase2	Sheraton 1 WorkHabit	Sheraton 2 & 3 Trellon	Chicago 10 Pantheon	Superior A/B Palantir.net
9:00AM-10:00AM Keynote - Jared Spool
10:00AM-11:00AM Break
11:00AM-12:00PM Drupal Community Scaling the Drupal Community Angie Byron Greg Dunlap Beginner	Theming How to Make Awesomesauce mortendk Intermediate	Coder The Render API in Drupal 7 Franz Heinzmann Intermediate	Implementation and Config Workbench: Managing Content Management Robin Barre Colleen Carroll Ken Rickard Intermediate	Coder Practical MongoDB and Drupal Doug Green Károly Négyesi Intermediate	Implementation and Config Advanced Features Usage Neil Hastings Advanced	Coder Understanding the Semantic Web and Drupal Stéphane Corlosquet Lin Clark Beginner
12:00PM-1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM-2:00PM Drupal Community The Platypus Problem Jeff Eaton Intermediate	Theming Faster Front End Performance Matt Farina Dan Mouyard Intermediate	Implementation and Config Drupal Commerce: Setting up Shop on Drupal 7 Ryan Szrama Intermediate	Implementation and Config Videola: Anatomy of a Drupal distribution Jeff Robbins Beginner	Coder Drupal Usability for Developers: How to Get Real People to Love Your Work David Rothstein Gábor Hojtsy Intermediate	Design and UX Design in the Browser: Use CSS to Stop Lying to Ourselves and Our Clients Mason Wendell Intermediate	Design and UX Visual Hierarchy 1, 2, 3: This MUST Be Important! Jared Ponchot Beginner
2:15PM-3:15PM Drupal Community This is horribly broken, how can we fix it? Gábor Hojtsy Beginner	Theming Drupal 7 Theming Basics David Needham Jennifer Lea Lampton Carl Wiedemann Joe Shindelar Beginner	Implementation and Config Building Drupal Platforms Frank Febbraro Intermediate	Implementation and Config Become an IA superstar: building essential navigation in Drupal John Albin Wilkins Beginner	Coder Drupal Module Coding: Leaner Techniques for Faster Websites. Irakli Nadareishvili Erik Summerfield Advanced	Business and Strategy Resourcing for Drupal – Insight into Building a Stellar Team Glenn Hilton Dave Terry Beginner	Design and UX Interface Therapy: Emotional design and Drupal’s user experience James Elliott Intermediate
3:15PM-3:45PM Break
3:45PM-4:45PM Drupal Community Git Phase Next: The Promised Land Derek Wright Angie Byron Sam Boyer Intermediate	Theming Building awesome user interfaces with Drupal 7's Form, AJAX, and Theme systems Alex Bronstein Intermediate	Implementation and Config Drupal in the Cloud Jim Salem Josh Koenig Robert Collazo Pierre Couzy Intermediate	Drupal Community Building Successful Local Communities: Insights and Best Practices Ivo Radulovski João Ventura Christefano Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire Beginner	Coder Test, Tune, Tweak, Hack, Repeat: Industrial-strength Performance and Scalability Matt Butcher Theresa Summa Intermediate	Business and Strategy Lessons Learned from the Agile Process Applied Jenn Sramek Elizabeth Raley Justine Hirsch Beginner	Design and UX The type revolutionary’s cookbook Terrence Kevin O'Leary Aaron Stanush Intermediate
5:00PM-5:30PM Closing Plenary

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