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Friday

10:00am to 11:00am
Understanding Drupal Speaker(s): dinarcon Location: 235 Site Building Drupal is an extremely flexible system. To achieve this, various layers of abstractions were built into it. A lot of concepts were created to explain these abstractions. Unfortunately, they are not always intuitive. This session aims to explain the basic building blocks for assembling a Drupal site
Drupal and the Music Industry: Learning from Our Success Speaker(s): mtift Location: 238 Business, Community Wellness The music industry is one of those areas where Drupal does well. For example, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Eric Clapton, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Turner Broadcasting, Atlantic Records, Nonesuch, Warner Bros. Records, the Grammys, and Radio France all use Drupal. But this list of
Lando Ddev Docksal - Battle Royale of local development Speaker(s): Wylbur Location: 321 Getting Started, Site Building, Back-end Design & Development, Front-end Design & Development Three nimble contenders will enter the ring...which will survive? In this session we will compare 3 docker based development environments and see how they stack up. We'll explore their strengths and weaknesses, and consider how they perform on MAC, Windows and Linux machines. We'll explore the
Taking a Clients Business Worklow Online with no Custom Code Speaker(s): JJmonterey Location: 446 Site Building, Front-end Design & Development This Session is for site builders who have little experience with PHP.

11:15am to 12:15pm
Keeping Drupal 8 Up-to-Date Speaker(s): ambermatz Location: 235 Site Building Between Drupal 8's regularly scheduled updates and its security releases, it's more important than ever to understand how to keep your Drupal 8 site up-to-date. Getting your Drupal 8 site up-to-date can depend on a number of factors: - How the Drupal site was installed in the first place - What
Component Based Theming With UI Patterns and Pattern Lab Speaker(s): brianperry Location: 238 Site Building, Front-end Design & Development Since the release of Drupal 8, great strides have been made to develop a component based theming workflow that takes advantage of the best that Twig has to offer and also plays nice with living style guides and pattern libraries. Gone are the days of redundant styles and markup, making way for the
Progressive Decoupling: A case study with PRI Speaker(s): Brandon Hundt Location: 321 Site Building, Front-end Design & Development, Project Management, Business In 2015, Dries published a blog post titled “The Future of Decoupled Drupal”. In this post, he outlines several ways to approach “decoupling”, a fancy word that refers to the process of migrating from a monolithic CMS to an API-driven, distributed architecture. One of the concepts Dries outlined in
The GDPR is here. Are you ready? (You need to be!) Speaker(s): ochenk Location: 446 Back-end Design & Development, Project Management, Business The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) just went into effect May 25, 2018. So, 1) What is it? And 2) Do you have to care about it? The short answer is: 1) It’s complicated. And 2) Almost certainly, yes. You are probably legally obligated to care about it.

1:45pm to 2:15pm
Developing a Culture of Mentorship Speaker(s): tessak22 Location: 235 Community Wellness It’s easy to spend your entire day, heads down, coding projects without thinking twice about other developers around you. We often get too absorbed with completing our immediate deadlines to spend any time considering the future of our projects, the future of our teams. By not mentoring new
Scaling Community Decision-making Speaker(s): mlncn Location: 238 Community Wellness Any Free/Libre Open Source Software project will have elements of do-ocracy (rule of those who do the work) but this approach does not work for all decisions a software community must make. Largely of necessity in heavily volunteer-driven projects, all people who must carry out a decision have to
Next Level Twig: Extensions Speaker(s): kerasai Location: 321 Back-end Design & Development Drupal 8 features many enhancements, one of the most-prominent being the implementation of the Twig templating system. But are you really getting the most out of your Twig? If you’re not using Twig extensions, then no--you’re not. Twig extensions allow developers to add processing capabilities to
The Next Big Thing and Why Should I Care? Speaker(s): minneapolisdan Location: 446 Front-end Design & Development Let’s take a quick run down on today’s “next big things” and try to understand them better. Things like augmented reality, voice-activated search, AMP and GDPR. Specifically, (a) what is this and why should I care? (b) how can I start using these today? (c) is there a practical application with

2:30pm to 3:30pm
Configuration Management for Humans Speaker(s): broeker Location: 235 Site Building This session aims to unravel the mysteries of the Drupal 8 configuration system, and to outline an evolving set of best practices explained in human terms.
Dr. Upal is In: Healthcheck your site Speaker(s): socketwench Location: 238 Site Building, DevOps Every site is "healthy" until it isn't. Don't leave things to chance by doing a site health check! In this session we'll introduce the tools and techniques to perform a health-check on your Drupal site using easy, off-the-shelf tools. We'll outline the goals of the health check, and what to do if
Drupal 8 Migrate: It's not rocket science... Speaker(s): franksj Location: 321 Back-end Design & Development ...But we'll do some live migrations against from NASA APIs, so we'll make it rocket science!
A Drupaler's Guide To Marketing Speaker(s): dgorton Location: 446 Project Management, Business Those of us planning, designing, building or supporting Drupal for others are increasingly working for people who see that work through the lens of Marketing. This session will start by looking at the big picture of what's happening in the web market (Wix, WordPress, Sitecore, etc.), where Drupal

3:45pm to 4:45pm
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: How Weightlifting Helped Me Accept My Place in Tech Speaker(s): krismaye Location: 235 Community Wellness Weightlifting and tech. On the surface, these two things may not seem to have much in common, but as a woman trying to navigate both of these male-dominated spheres, I’ve often been intimidated, and doubted whether I really belonged. While I was able to overcome imposter syndrome in my
CiviCRM secrets for Drupalers Speaker(s): dsnopekkerasaielliotc Location: 238 Site Building CiviCRM is an Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system, primarily for nonprofit or civic organizations, that can be integrated into Drupal (6, 7 & 8) as well as Wordpress, Joomla and Backdrop. And it's Open Source! Drupal and CiviCRM have had a long history together, but there is only
Easy, Flexible and Accurate Drupal 8 Search with Dr. Seuss and Search API Speaker(s): adam_fuchs Location: 321 Site Building Who has ever been frustrated by complex, inaccurate, or otherwise painful Drupal 8 search setups. The Whos have—that’s who!
Antaeus At Work; Human Centrism in Experience Design Speaker(s): christephan Location: 446 Project Management, Business, Community Wellness With the rise and proliferation of User Experience (UX) or Experience Design (XD) as a practice and profession, people have come to a nodding understanding of what it is, what it's for, and what it requires. The problem is that many of them are wrong.

Saturday

10:00am to 11:00am
Why fork Drupal? The philosophy behind Backdrop CMS Speaker(s): jenlamptonquicksketch Location: 235 Getting Started, Site Building, Business, Community Wellness Backdrop CMS is the Drupal fork. It is a faster and less-complex version of Drupal 7 with more features you want, and fewer you don't. This session will highlight the Backdrop Mission, it's intended audience, and it's guiding principles. We'll explain the decision making process, introduce the
Rediscover Google AMP: Learn to integrate AMP with your Drupal project Speaker(s): jasonawant Location: 238 Getting Started, Site Building, Back-end Design & Development, Front-end Design & Development Come learn about the current state of the Google AMP project and its integration with Drupal, where it's all heading, and how to incorporate AMP with your current or next project.
Maximum PhpStorm Speaker(s): cosmicdreams Location: 321 Getting Started, Back-end Design & Development, Front-end Design & Development Together we'll go beyond learning how tools like PhpStorm can level up your developer-y super powers and demonstrate how your developer life can change if you maximize your use of these tools. --- As developers we struggle everyday to solve problems and we rely on development tools to help us
SEO! Snippets! Schema! What is going on? Speaker(s): dianekulseth Location: 446 Site Building, Business The world of search engine optimization is changing faster than ever, thanks to artificial intelligence, and marketers are clamoring for new updates to websites to meet these changes. What changes are most important to the website and how do you manage these? What should you be proactive about,

11:15am to 12:15pm
Accessibility 101 - What's It All About? Speaker(s): keithbundy Location: 235 Getting Started, Front-end Design & Development, Business, Community Wellness This session will discuss what accessibility is, why it is important, and who it benefits. The presenter is totally blind and will incorporate a demonstration of a screen reader with the program.
Steering the Open Web Speaker(s): mbabker Location: 238 Business, Community Wellness To varying degrees, each one of us are responsible for steering the open web. From businesses who create platforms based on open source technologies to "decision makers" involved in managing open source projects, each one of us in some way influence how the open web evolves.
Drupal with and without React, a head to headless comparison Speaker(s): void-- Location: 321 Back-end Design & Development, Front-end Design & Development, Business If you've been a part of the Drupal world over the past few years you've no doubt heard of, pondered, or taken part yourself in the headless debate. JavaScript frameworks like React and Vue are the new hotness, and they're taking the world by storm; at the same time Drupal 8 has gone in a similar
Hello [user:name]: Personalization for Everyone Speaker(s): cgreaten Location: 446 Business Today, people have access to more information than ever before and they can access that information across many different devices. However, just having access to more information and more access to that information does not translate into an engaging user experience. Content providers have a wealth

1:45pm to 2:45pm
Nobody wants a website. They want results! Speaker(s): mcdwayne Location: 235 Project Management, Business How many times have you been in a situation where the client is never happy with the results, no matter what you do? How many 'emergency' messages have you responded to because the site isn't quite right in some new way? How many clients have you lost or fired because they honestly had no idea
How to cope when the community lets you down? Speaker(s): Tim Erickson Location: 238 Community Wellness Attend any Drupal event and you will hear people talking about how important the Drupal community is to them or how much the Drupal community has impacted their life. Look deeper and ask around and you will also find many people who at some point in time have felt betrayed or let down by the
Everything is a Block: How WordPress Rewrote the WYSIWYG Speaker(s): stevector Location: 321 Site Building, Front-end Design & Development Adding structural concepts to a CMS is easier than removing them. Drupal has collected the concept of blocks, regions, Panels, Panes, layouts, beans, theme hooks, render elements, view modes, Views, and the list goes on and on. WordPress, that other GPL, LAMP stack CMS from the early 2000s, has the
Data4Drupal - What data is important for successful site redesigns? Speaker(s): sethviebrock Location: 446 Front-end Design & Development, Business Developers, designers, and clients alike should be data advocates. In today’s age, data is plentiful and an important precursor to successful website redesigns. Just like stereotypes can misrepresent reality, best practices can misrepresent what actually works for your particular site redesign.

3:00pm to 4:00pm
Ready? Set. Contribute! Speaker(s): eojthebrave Location: 235 Getting Started, Community Wellness Sharing is at the root of our community. We share code, knowledge, experiences, and sometimes even conflict—all in the interest of making Drupal better, our community stronger, and improving ourselves. But sharing is rarely easy to do. Competing forces like lack of time, imposter syndrome, and the
Predictive Analytics using R with Drupal Speaker(s): ladew222 Location: 238 Front-end Design & Development I have gotten a lot of interest recently on my use of R, google analytics and Drupal to create a website that has dynamic content that is predictive based on a users previous browsing history of the site and behavior relative to site goals. The project uses R, and an additional server, and can be
Conscious Uncoupling -Drupal 8 meets Metalsmith Speaker(s): wernerglinka Location: 321 Site Building, Back-end Design & Development, Front-end Design & Development Drupal 8 is a great back-end content management system that can be used to feed data to all sorts of clients. This case study describes a project that uses a headless Drupal 8 installation that feeds content to a local Metalsmith-based static-site build process. Server data are used to build pages
Personal Internet Security Basics Speaker(s): dandaman Location: 446 Getting Started, Business No matter if you're a developer, designer, manager or a business owner, you're a person. And these days, being a person on the Internet can be a minefield. Phishing attacks are trying to steal your information and some of your passwords have been published on the internet. But you have to work on

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