San Francisco: Agenda

8:30AM Registration, Breakfast & Solutions Showcase

9:30AM Welcome: Acquia by Tom Erickson, CEO Acquia

9:35AM The Drupal Revolution - Buckle up, we're just getting started! by Dries Buytaert, Drupal Founder and Project Lead and CTO Acquia

10:00AM Open Leadership: Transform the Way You Lead with Social Technologies presented by Charlene Li, Author of Open Leadership, Co-author of Groundswell, and Founder of Altimeter Group

10:45AM Break and Solutions Showcase

11:00AM Resourcing for Drupal: Attracting Talent, Building Teams and Managing Rollouts
Panel session featuring Anna Murray from tmg-e*media, Michael Meyers from examiner.com and nowpublic.com and Matt Cheney, Managing Partner / Drupal Strategist from Chapter Three

11:45PM The Stanford Crucible: Innovation, Plurality, and Drupal by Zach Chandler, Stanford University

12:30PM Lunch and Solutions Showcase

1:30PM Drupal Powers the Travel Industry: Case Study of Classicvacations.com and the San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau by Tony Rems, System Integrator ThoughtMatrix

2:15PM Acquia Solutions: A Roadmap to Enterprise Success with Drupal, presented by Peter Guagenti and Bryan House, Acquia

3:00PM Break and Solutions Showcase

3:15PM Examiner.com Case Study - Migrating a top 100 Website to Drupal 7 and FOSS by Michael Meyers, examiner.com and nowpublic.com

4:00PM Drupal breaks the boundaries of traditional content management systems at Health Net by Matt Cleveland, Health Net 

4:45PM Closing Remarks by Tom Erickson, CEO Acquia

5:00PM Cocktails and Light Refreshments in Solutions Showcase

*Agenda is subject to change.

SESSION ABSTRACTS

Open Leadership: Transform the Way You Lead with Social Technologies: Talk with your customers. Listen to your employees. These are long-time, well tested truisms of business. But ask organizations to engage with people on Facebook or Twitter and a look of sheer terror crosses their faces. The long held concept of command-and-control leadership is being tested as organizations are experiencing the largest technological and sociological shift of our generation. In her new book, Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead (May 2010), Charlene advises leaders how to feel in command in a world where they’re no longer in control. For example, how open, how transparent, how authentic, and how real do you need to be? More importantly, how do you leverage and measure the impact of using social technologies in your organization? Charlene lays out a new approach that today’s leaders must adopt for competitive advantage. You’ll learn: why being open and in control is possible; the characteristics, skills, and behaviors of today’s “open” leaders; best practices in creating a coherent and effective social media strategy; how to implement an “open” strategy.

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 which pioneered the concept of Citizen Journalism. Drupal the software, the Drupal community, and FOSS fueled NowPublic's rapid growth and lead to the company being acquired In Sept. of 2009 by Examiner.com , a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Corporation and a top 100 North American website with over 60,000 members publishing an average of 3,000 articles a day covering local news and information in over 240 US cities. Over the last year Michael and his team of leading Drupal developers migrated Examiner.com and all its internal and consumer facing technologies from closed-source proprietary Microsoft based solutions to Drupal 7 and FOSS. Examiner.com relaunched in Sept. of 2010 making it one of the first Drupal 7 websites, and the highest trafficked Drupal site on the internet. In his presentation Michael will cover the rational behind the acquisition and Examiner's need for Drupal and FOSS, how he approached the transition and the challenges he faced in such a massive migration, and go over some of the lessons learned.

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.

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.