New York City: Agenda
9:00AM Registration, Breakfast & Solutions Showcase
10:00AM Opening Remarks by Lynne Capozzi, VP Marketing Acquia
10:05AM The Drupal Revolution - Buckle up, we're just getting started! by Dries Buytaert, Acquia
10:20AM The Social Web and WCM, by Kathleen Reidy, 451 Group
11:00AM Using Drupal to Open Up the New York State Senate by Andrew Hoppin, NY State Senate
11:45PM Resourcing for Drupal: Attracting Talent, Building Teams and Managing Rollouts
Panel session featuring Jay Hartley from Taunton Press, Jamie Clark from Zagat Survey, Sandra Mattiessen from Time Out New York, Jacob Redding, Drupal Association,and Anna Murray from tmg-emedia.
12:30PM Lunch & Solutions Showcase
1:30PM Examiner.com Case Study - Migrating a top 100 Website to Drupal 7 and FOSS by Michael Meyers, examiner.com and nowpublic.com
2:00PM Acquia Solutions: A Roadmap to Enterprise Success with Drupal, by Peter Guagenti and Bryan House, Acquia
2:45PM Break & Solutions Showcase
3:15PM NYSE Euronext goes Drupal, by Robert Kerner, VP Technology New York Stock Exchange
4:00PM When your site can't be a joke: Cartoon Network Case Study, by Martin Coady, VML
4:45PM Closing Remarks by Chris Moschovitis, CEO tmg-emedia
5:00PM Cocktails and Light Refreshments in Solutions Showcase
*Agenda is subject to change.
SESSION ABSTRACTS
Panel Discussion: Resourcing for Drupal: Attracting Talent, Building Teams and Managing Rollouts: Using Drupal to power you business means building strong Drupal teams. Yet finding experienced talent in a relatively new technology space can be a challenge. What are the best ways to recruit resources? What about training? What can I expect to pay in compensation? Can I develop a team and roll out a project at the same time? Listen to those who have done it for sound advice and practical tips. Along the way, hear more case studies from businesses using Drupal to power their Social Web initiatives.
Acquia Solutions: A Roadmap to Enterprise Success with Drupal: Implementing and maintaining Drupal websites has never been easier. Acquia offers expertise and managed services that enable companies and organizations to take advantage of the power of Drupal while meeting both your business and technical requirements. This session will articulate how Acquia can assist site owners at every stage in their web development projects - from training and prototyping through to deployment and operation of a Drupal website.
Using Drupal to Open Up the New York State Senate: Over the past two years the "Open Senate" online Gov 2.0 project has helped to transform the New York State Senate from an opaque and even dysfunctional legislative body into one of the most transparent, efficient, and participatory legislatures in the nation. Open Senate is comprised of multiple sub-projects led by the Office of the Chief Information Officer in the New York State Senate, ranging from migrating to cost effective, open-source software solutions, to developing and sharing original web services providing access to government transparency data, to promoting the use of social networks and online citizen engagement. Participatory websites were developed for all 62 Senators and more than 40 Senate Committees, and integrated with social networking tools; data portals for publishing and receiving public comment on all administrative and legislative data were deployed; use of open-source software, open data standards, and cloud-based-hosting services minimized the cost of these innovations.
When your site can't be a joke: Cartoon Network Case Study: There are times when a web site needs to focus on creating a rich user experience above all else. However, it’s rare that’s all the site will be required to do. It will still need to have interactive features, it will still need to be updated over time, it might even need to be localized. This list can go on and on. Unfortunately, rich user experiences are rarely cheap and easy and they often have the budgets to prove it! This can leave very little left to build out the other elements that will enhance a user’s experience and provide the proper management tools to ensure it can be easily updated post launch. However, with the right tools and planning you can create the required user experience without sacrificing standards and best practices. We’ve found Drupal to be the ideal solution when faced with projects like this. Cartoon Network is a prime example where the expectation of the interface was literally something cartoonish! We’ll use this and other examples to show how Drupal allows for even the most experiential sites to have robust management for all content as well as supporting interactive site functionality users expect.
Examiner.com Case Study - Migrating a top 100 Website to Drupal 7 and FOSS: Michael Meyers is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the first venture backed drupal based startup, NowPublic.com
The Social Web and WCM:Social computing and all things "2.0" have had a dramatic impact on the ways organizations from a variety of industries put together and manage their Web experiences. Yet there are some fundamentals, particularly when it comes to managing content, that haven't changed. This presentation will look at how Web content management is shifting to become Web experience management and the key role that social content and bi-directional interactions with all kinds of constituents have in that shift. We'll also look at relevant technologies from a market perspective, examining a number of considerations and recommendations for vendor and product selections...including the role of open source in the market for social web technologies.