Vancouver Drupal Business Summit 2012

Vancouver

Featured Speakers

Director of Web Communications
Kristin is the Director of Web Communications at Portland State University, one...
Co-founder and CEO
Jeff is the co-founder & CEO of Phase2 Technology, one of the world’s...
Technical Director Enterprise Sales
Kieran is the Technical Director of Enterprise Sales at Boston-based Acquia. In...
VP of Services
Peter Guagenti is responsible for the consulting, support, and training teams,...

Featured Sessions

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The flexibility and creativity of Drupal as a CMS is fueling broader adoption, and as a community, we continue to see the boundaries of versatility pushed across industries. This session will explore the ways content strategies and platform designs that work well for publishing are being translated...
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Today, digital teams create mounds of content online. The challenge for customers is to wade through web content, email blasts, social & mobile marketing information to find what’s relevant to them. While the challenge for businesses is to know which information is most engaging to their...
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Wrangling 300+ sites into an enterprise-level CMS, backed with full analytics, integrated search, global breadcrumbs and site-wide navigation and IA to gently guide the 800k visits across the 2.9 million page views for our 345,000 unique monthly visitors. Rewind three years, pre-Drupal: no...
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Mac's Convenience Stores is part of the Couche-Tard network, the second largest convenience store chain in North America. Since launching in December 2009, MyMacs.ca has grown to over 215,000 members. Drupal provides the backbone of our strategy, and has solved the following key business objectives...

Drupal is

Drupal is a leading open-source web content manage platform that is maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+ users and developers. This open development model means that people are constantly working to make sure Drupal is a cutting-edge platform that supports the latest technologies that the Web has to offer. Presently there are over 10,000 modules available to download and with Drupal's rapid growth it now makes up approximately 2% of the web. Notable sites on Drupal include MTV.UK, WB Records, Whitehouse.gov, Popular Science, etc.

Drupal organizes, maintains, and publishes the content for business results. As you pursue new opportunities and your needs change, Drupal ensures that you have the flexibility to continue to compete with your web experiences, to build your business.

 

 

The Drupal Business Summit is

The Vancouver Drupal Business Summit brings together entrepeneurs, business leaders, and technology strategists to learn about Drupal-powered solutions. Throughout the day we will share examples of Drupal-in-action, sketch lessons learned, and identify best practices. You’ll discover how smart investments in the leading open source content platform returns immediate business benefits and also continues to pay dividends for many years to come.

 

What People Are Saying

"The Business Summit was just out of this world. It was such an incredible event. I'd give it a ten out of ten".  ~ Don Platon, Project Manager, Ninjitsu Development

"Coming to the Summit and being face to face with people is really important because you start to get a feel for the personal side of the Drupal community". 
~ Dan Gervais, IT Strategy Consultant, The Decisions Group
 
"What I think will come out of the Drupal Business Summits is a spark of creativity that hasn't been seen in the business community in a very long time!" 
~ Ben Finklea, CEO, Volacci