Accepted sessions

Session Experience level Track
15 Drupal Modules You've Probably Overlooked but Shouldn't
Chris Sloan

Drupal has not shortage of modules and the number of modules continues to grow almost everyday. For anyone new to Drupal, the time to do the research and reading, find the module you need, install...

Beginner Basics and Sitebuilder
Accelerate Your Business with Drupal Gardens and Drupal Commons
Kieran Lal

In this session, we will walk through Acquia's packaged business solutions, Drupal Gardens and Drupal Commons. Drupal Gardens is our Drupal as a service platform, built on Drupal 7. We will demo...

Beginner Drupal Solutions
Accelerated Grid Theming with NineSixty
Todd Nienkerk

This session will demonstrate the principles of grid-based theming and the NineSixty theme for Drupal. Subtheming NineSixty for rapid site design and deployment will be covered, as well as...

Intermediate Design and Theming
Acquia Dev Cloud: Improving the Drupal Developer Experience
Kieran Lal

This session will demonstrate how Acquia's Dev Cloud makes it easy to develop, test, and deploy your Drupal site through the entire development lifecycle without losing your mind. Acquia Dev...

Beginner Developer
AEgir - All your Drupal are belong to us
Cash Williams

AEgir can make creating and installing a Drupal site as simple as clicking a button. It can also make managing and moving sites quick and simple, with roll back support in the event of a failure...

Advanced Developer
Agile Estimating and Planning
Gary McCants

Gary McCants from Improving Enterprises will present on using Agile methods for planning and estimating projects.

Abstract:
Our customers and business partners must answer tough...

Beginner Drupal Solutions
AllPlayers.com and the Business Case for Drupal
Travis Tidwell, Bill Miller

Business Case Study: This session will look at why Drupal was chosen as the primary web platform for AllPlayers.com and the resulting benefits and trade-offs since that decision. Also explored...

Beginner Drupal Case Studies / Best Practices
Big Websites
Diana Montalion Dupuis, Robert Ristroph

Drupal powers many small-to-medium websites, from personal blogs to company intranets. Drupal also powers big sites like The Economist and The White House. How are the big sites different from the...

Beginner Drupal Foundations
Building and maintaining a high-end messaging framework with Drupal.
Arturo Contreras

Over the years, there has been a lot of development trying to achieve a greater and improved messaging framework that best suits the drupal community. Modules such as notifications, messaging,...

Beginner Developer
Building JQuery Slideshows in Drupal
Joe Hyde

This session covers Drupal 6 and 7.

For site builders and themers, there are many options for building interactive JQuery slideshows in Drupal. I have found through experience that learning...

Beginner Basics and Sitebuilder
Building Mobile Applications with Drupal
Jeff Linwood

Want to create mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, or Android with your Drupal content?

I'll show you how to configure Drupal 7 with Services to provide content to your mobile...

Intermediate Design and Theming
Building Responsive Websites and Apps with Drupal
Chris Ruppel

Responsive (or adaptive) layouts are a hot topic right now, and for good reason: they allow us to serve an appropriate UI to any device loading our site. Once you create a responsive design, how...

Intermediate Design and Theming
CiviCRM for Non-Profits and Small Businesses
Peter Petrik

In this session, Peter will provide a general overview of CiviCRM and its implementation on a Drupal website. CiviCRM is a free, open source software customer relationship management solution. It’...

Intermediate Drupal Solutions
Content optimization & SEO: secret weapons for driving traffic and engage visitors
Tom McCracken

Drupal gives you a wealth of tools for engaging visitors. It has a great architecture for driving traffic from search engines, blogs and social media. Yet most sites produce anemic traffic from...

Beginner Drupal Foundations
Creating a New Administration Paradigm
Kris Vanderwater

Administration within Drupal tends to be a monolithic structure that users must learn to navigate and utilize if they ever want to take full advantage of the platform. In addition to this, the...

Intermediate Developer
Creating Effective Requirements Definitions for New Websites
Jean McClelland

Whether the website will be a completely new one or major changes to an existing site, the requirements must be understood by both the functional users and the web builders - from the programmers...

Advanced Drupal Foundations
Designing Future Proof Websites
Zach Meyer

The internet is a buzz with the words adaptive, responsive, mediaqueries etc.. why should you care about it? Multi-device design is uncharted territory, sort of. The cow paths are a little...

Beginner Design and Theming
Don't design websites. Design web SYSTEMS!
Todd Nienkerk, Aaron Stanush

Drupal's theme layer is very flexible and can accommodate just about any web design. It's important for designers to remember, however, that they're not really creating a page — they're building a...

Intermediate Drupal Case Studies / Best Practices
Drupal on Windows
Keith Casey

While most of us deploy Drupal on a LAMP stack, the vast majority of our development time and effort is spent working on Windows locally. These different environments can make development tricky...

Intermediate Drupal Sidetracks
Drush Make - Install Like a Pro
Chris Ruppel

It only takes a few Drupal installs to notice the pointless repetition of the process. First you download Drupal core, then the latest modules, your favorite base/admin themes, other libraries for...

Intermediate Developer