Confirmed sessions

DrupalCon Chicago will feature dozens of curated sessions and panels from some of the most influential people and brightest minds within the Drupal community and beyond. Topics will include design and user experience, coding and development, implementation and configuration, theming, business and strategy, and the Drupal community. Sessions will be targeted at users of all levels, from those new to Drupal to the most seasoned veterans of the community.

Business and Strategy

&%$@ My Internet Marketing Company Says

Intermediate

Building Conference & Event Websites in Drupal with COD

Beginner

Competing with Giants - How to Win with Drupal vs Proprietary Alternatives

Bryan House
Beginner

Creating an Online Community the Open Source Way

Jason Hibbets
Beginner

Drupal As a Mature Software Industry

Beginner

Drupal in the Enterprise, IBM and Norwegian Cruise Line

Rob Shea
Intermediate

Getting Early Estimates Right

Jakob Persson
Beginner

Introducing OpenPublic: the Government Drupal Distribution!

Beginner

Lessons Learned from the Agile Process Applied

Beginner

Project Management As an Art Form

Intermediate

Resourcing for Drupal – Insight into Building a Stellar Team

Beginner

Show Me The Money!

Beginner

Strategies for Client Management

Beginner

Teaching Drupal: Creating Effective Drupal Training Materials for Clients, Employees, and the Public

Beginner

The "tools of the trade"

Beginner
Coder

Advanced Drush

Intermediate

Aphorisms of API design

Larry Garfield
Intermediate

Attain Apache Solr Coding Chops

Intermediate

Automated Testing and Drupal

Steven W. Merrill
Intermediate

Coder Module: Easily Port Modules to Drupal 7

Stella Power
Advanced

Drupal 7 JavaScript for Developers

Advanced

Drupal Module Coding: Leaner Techniques for Faster Websites.

Advanced

Drupal Security for Coders

Greg Knaddison
Intermediate

Drupal Usability for Developers: How to Get Real People to Love Your Work

Intermediate

Git on Drupal.org: It's Easier Than You Think!

Intermediate

Introduction to Module Development

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame
Beginner

Practical MongoDB and Drupal

Intermediate

Test, Tune, Tweak, Hack, Repeat: Industrial-strength Performance and Scalability

Intermediate

The Render API in Drupal 7

Franz Heinzmann
Intermediate

Understanding the Semantic Web and Drupal

Beginner

Views for hackers

Karim Ratib
Intermediate
Drupal Community

Bad Judgement, Eldorado Superfly, Khaaaaaaan: Joke modules and what they tell us about Drupal

Matt Butcher
Beginner

Building Successful Local Communities: Insights and Best Practices

Beginner

Certifications and Drupal: Three strategies

Beginner

Community benefits of the Drupal.org redesign

Beginner

Community Health: Some Doctor's Advice

Addison Berry
Beginner

Community-Based Drupal Training

Beginner

Drupal Summit - A New Drupal Conference Paradigm

Jared Stoneberg
Intermediate

Git Phase Next: The Promised Land

Intermediate

Lessons from Drupal 3

Ken Rickard
Intermediate

New Directions for Drupal Documentation

Beginner

Paying for the Plumbing

Intermediate

Scaling the Drupal Community

Beginner

The Platypus Problem

Jeff Eaton
Intermediate

This is horribly broken, how can we fix it?

Gábor Hojtsy
Beginner

Welcome to Drupal(Con)

Beginner
Design and UX

Avoiding a Frankenstein Website Design: Collaborating with Clients

Samantha Warren
Beginner

Baby Got Backend: Content Administrators are Users Too

Beginner

Design in the Browser: Use CSS to Stop Lying to Ourselves and Our Clients

Mason Wendell
Intermediate

Design Thinking

Intermediate

Designing for Mobile

Steve Fisher
Beginner

Don't design websites. Design web SYSTEMS!

Intermediate

Drupal 7 : Interface patterns

Intermediate

Free and Open Source Tools for Integrating Web Accessibility into the Design Process

Jon Gunderson
Intermediate

From Usability to UX Strategy

Leisa Reichelt
Intermediate

Interface Therapy: Emotional design and Drupal’s user experience

James Elliott
Intermediate

The Right Way to Wireframe

Russ Unger
Intermediate

The type revolutionary’s cookbook

Intermediate

Visual Hierarchy 1, 2, 3: This MUST Be Important!

Jared Ponchot
Beginner
Implementation and Config

"Drupal as a Framework" vs. "Drupal as a Platform"

Beginner

Advanced Features Usage

Neil Hastings
Advanced

Become an IA superstar: building essential navigation in Drupal

John Albin Wilkins
Beginner

Building Drupal Platforms

Frank Febbraro
Intermediate

Developing Apps for iPhone/iPad/Android using drupal as Base System

Sumit Kataria
Intermediate

Distribution Deli

Beginner

Drupal Commerce: Setting up Shop on Drupal 7

Ryan Szrama
Intermediate

Drupal in the Cloud

Intermediate

Failure to Launch: Drupal Performance Tuning

Kenny Silanskas
Intermediate

From Zero to Distribution using Features, Profiler, and Drush Make

dmitrig01
Intermediate

Media

Beginner

Videola: Anatomy of a Drupal distribution

Jeff Robbins
Beginner

Views Demystified

Rain Breaw
Beginner

Webform 3: The Survey Tool for Drupal

Nathan Haug
Beginner

Workbench: Managing Content Management

Intermediate
Theming

Advanced Accessibility in Drupal

Katherine Lynch
Intermediate

Best practices for cross-browser compatibility of Drupal website

Vadim Mirgorod
Intermediate

Building awesome user interfaces with Drupal 7's Form, AJAX, and Theme systems

Alex Bronstein
Intermediate

Crafting App Interfaces with jQuery

Nathan Smith
Intermediate

Drupal 7 Theming Basics

Beginner

Drupal on the go with jQuery Mobile

Intermediate

Faster Front End Performance

Intermediate

Forensic Theming: Key Techniques to Building Effective Drupal Themes

Emma Jane Hogbin
Beginner

How to Make Awesomesauce

mortendk
Intermediate

Intro to Accessible Site-Building in Drupal

Beginner

Making Beautiful Maps

Intermediate

Rockin’ HTML5 with Drupal

Jen Simmons
Intermediate

Themeing Haiku with Haml, Sass and Peroxide

Kyle Cunningham
Intermediate

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Gold Sponsors

 
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