Featured Sessions & Speakers Announced

Hi everyone,

We're very, very excited to announce our first batch of featured sessions for DrupalCon Sydney, with full details at http://sydney2013.drupal.org/local-headliners-international-cast

This includes some of the highest profile people in the Drupal community, including:

• Justin Randell (Beejeebus) - Australia's most prolific Drupal core contributor headlining the Developer track.

• Addison Berry (add1son) - Lullabot's Education Manager and the brains behind Drupalize.me featured in the Community track.

• Erica Branham (ericaordinary) - Melbourne's Site Builder extraordinaire showcasing code-free Drupal techniques

• Vesa Palmu (wesku) - CEO of the newly formed Wunderkraut - Europe's biggest Drupal services firm - joining us from Finland to expound the virtues of Agile development and Drupal in the Business & Strategy track.

• Jen Lampton (jenlampton) - Recently departed from Chapter 3 in San Francisco, organiser of BADCamp and DrupalCon San Francisco, joining Erica in the Site Building track to do a deep dive into the Panels module.

And this is only half the featured sessions! We'll announce more early next week to keep the buzz high.

In the meantime, we've got less than 10 days before session submissions close on Friday October 26, so get yours in ASAP at http://sydney2013.drupal.org/program/submit-session.

We're also well past the half way mark on available tickets, so if you don't want to miss out, register at http://sydney2013.drupal.org/register