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 Erik Wagner Tom McCracken	Intermediate
Building Conference & Event Websites in Drupal with COD Ezra Barnett Gildesgame Ben Jeavons Lisa Rex	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 Robert Douglass Jeff Walpole	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! Jeff Walpole Andrew Hoppin	Beginner
Lessons Learned from the Agile Process Applied Jenn Sramek Elizabeth Raley Justine Hirsch	Beginner
Project Management As an Art Form Nicole Lind Joel Sackett Amy O'Malley George DeMet	Intermediate
Resourcing for Drupal – Insight into Building a Stellar Team Glenn Hilton Dave Terry	Beginner
Show Me The Money! Liza Kindred Eric Gundersen James Walker Matt Westgate	Beginner
Strategies for Client Management Chris Strahl Vanessa Turke Amye Scavarda Seth Brown Rachel Scott	Beginner
Teaching Drupal: Creating Effective Drupal Training Materials for Clients, Employees, and the Public Chris Shattuck Tom Geller Matt Petrowsky	Beginner
The "tools of the trade" Lior Kesos Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg Aaron Pava Eric Gundersen	Beginner

Coder

Advanced Drush Moshe Weitzman Owen Barton Mark Sonnabaum	Intermediate
Aphorisms of API design Larry Garfield	Intermediate
Attain Apache Solr Coding Chops Peter Wolanin Chris Pliakas	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 Katherine Bailey Randy Fay	Advanced
Drupal Module Coding: Leaner Techniques for Faster Websites. Irakli Nadareishvili Erik Summerfield	Advanced
Drupal Security for Coders Greg Knaddison	Intermediate
Drupal Usability for Developers: How to Get Real People to Love Your Work David Rothstein Gábor Hojtsy	Intermediate
Git on Drupal.org: It's Easier Than You Think! Randy Fay Alan Burke	Intermediate
Introduction to Module Development Ezra Barnett Gildesgame	Beginner
Practical MongoDB and Drupal Doug Green Károly Négyesi	Intermediate
Test, Tune, Tweak, Hack, Repeat: Industrial-strength Performance and Scalability Matt Butcher Theresa Summa	Intermediate
The Render API in Drupal 7 Franz Heinzmann	Intermediate
Understanding the Semantic Web and Drupal Stéphane Corlosquet Lin Clark	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 Ivo Radulovski João Ventura Christefano Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire	Beginner
Certifications and Drupal: Three strategies Greg Knaddison Aaron Winborn Jeff Robbins	Beginner
Community benefits of the Drupal.org redesign Kieran Lal Lisa Rex Neil Drumm Chris Strahl	Beginner
Community Health: Some Doctor's Advice Addison Berry	Beginner
Community-Based Drupal Training Jennifer Hodgdon Douglas Vann Andy Laken Barry Madore	Beginner
Drupal Summit - A New Drupal Conference Paradigm Jared Stoneberg	Intermediate
Git Phase Next: The Promised Land Derek Wright Angie Byron Sam Boyer	Intermediate
Lessons from Drupal 3 Ken Rickard	Intermediate
New Directions for Drupal Documentation Jennifer Hodgdon Ariane Khachatourians	Beginner
Paying for the Plumbing Allie Micka Grace Francisco Carol Smith Robert Douglass	Intermediate
Scaling the Drupal Community Angie Byron Greg Dunlap	Beginner
The Platypus Problem Jeff Eaton	Intermediate
This is horribly broken, how can we fix it? Gábor Hojtsy	Beginner
Welcome to Drupal(Con) Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire Robert Douglass	Beginner

Design and UX

Avoiding a Frankenstein Website Design: Collaborating with Clients Samantha Warren	Beginner
Baby Got Backend: Content Administrators are Users Too Karen McGrane Jeff Eaton	Beginner
Design in the Browser: Use CSS to Stop Lying to Ourselves and Our Clients Mason Wendell	Intermediate
Design Thinking Steve Fisher Jared Ponchot Samantha Warren	Intermediate
Designing for Mobile Steve Fisher	Beginner
Don't design websites. Design web SYSTEMS! Todd Ross Nienkerk Adam Snetman	Intermediate
Drupal 7 : Interface patterns Roy Scholten Bojhan	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 Terrence Kevin O'Leary Aaron Stanush	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" Moshe Weitzman Jeff Eaton Irakli Nadareishvili	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 Ferdinand Alimadhi Dick Olsson Bryan Hirsch Wilbur Ince Jay Batson	Beginner
Drupal Commerce: Setting up Shop on Drupal 7 Ryan Szrama	Intermediate
Drupal in the Cloud Jim Salem Josh Koenig Robert Collazo Pierre Couzy	Intermediate
Failure to Launch: Drupal Performance Tuning Kenny Silanskas	Intermediate
From Zero to Distribution using Features, Profiler, and Drush Make dmitrig01	Intermediate
Media Aaron Winborn Jacob Singh	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 Robin Barre Colleen Carroll Ken Rickard	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 David Needham Jennifer Lea Lampton Carl Wiedemann Joe Shindelar	Beginner
Drupal on the go with jQuery Mobile Tim Cosgrove Brian McMurray	Intermediate
Faster Front End Performance Matt Farina Dan Mouyard	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 Brandon Bowersox-Johnson Hadi Rangin	Beginner
Making Beautiful Maps Alan Palazzolo Thomas Turnbull	Intermediate
Rockin’ HTML5 with Drupal Jen Simmons	Intermediate
Themeing Haiku with Haml, Sass and Peroxide Kyle Cunningham	Intermediate