MySQL and the UK Drupal community are pleased to invite you to a half day event in London focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in your business.
Whether you are evaluating Drupal or running in production, this yearly event is a great opportunity to learn more about Drupal deployments, put your questions to the experts, and connect with the London Drupal community.
This event is free, but registration is required:
Presentations
How Learning Styles Ease the Drupal Learning Curve
Paula Hudspith, Director of Learning, IO1 Limited
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
This is an informal, interactive session lead by Paula Hudspith from
IO1. For many, Drupal has a steep learning curve. In this session
you'll discover how understanding learning styles and incorporating
them into formal and informal training sessions can boost someone's
learning experience, interest and retention rate. This is a hands-on
session so please bring along your laptop.
Drupal and Web Services
Django Beatty, Managing Director, Adub
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
A look at the cutting-edge of Drupal web services and some interesting applications for enterprise.
Enterprise Search In Drupal
David Stuart - Axis Twelve
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Exploring Drupal and Apache Solr advanced search features including indexing File attachments, Drupal Apache Solr Views, Synonyms, N-Gram Filters and Faceting.
Using Drupal To Deliver Professional Video
Jakub Suchy, Director, Dynamiteheads
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Examples of using video in Drupal and a a detailed look at the new Brightcove Module for Drupal.
Communicating With Your Users With Email And SMS
Robert Castelo, Director, Code Positive
4:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
How to keep users connected with a website by broadcasting content via email and SMS.
How RDF Will Impact Internet Marketing
Fintan Galvin, Managing Director, IO1 Limited
4:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
RDF explained, and how the semantic web will boost your SEO.
Scaling and Managing MySQL for Drupal
Ivan Zoratti, Director of Sales Engineering, MySQL
5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
A look at how to scale and manage the backend database infrastructure that Drupal runs on.
Location, Maps, Drupal and You
Andrew Larcombe, Freelance Geospatial Consultant
5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Using Drupal to leverage your business' geospatial data - a beginners guide
Proving The Value Of Social Networks For Businesses
Matt Rhodes, Head of Client Services, FreshNetworks
7:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Using case studies of businesses and organisations who have used Drupal as a social media platform, Charlie will look at how businesses can prove the value of social media and online communities, and will show how to measure success and ROI.
i18n - Multilingual Drupal
Russell Blakeborough, Director, BrightonART
7:00 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Find out what it's like run an international website: an
introduction to Drupal's multilingual features followed by a short tour
of Brightonart's latest production in 5 languages - energyunion.eu
Adding Enterprise Content Management to your Drupal site using CMIS
David Gildeh, Founder & Director, SambaStream
8:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Drupal currently has little out the box support for managing and
searching documents. This presentation will show how to integrate an
Enterprise Content Management system with your Drupal site.
Securing Your Digital Identity with Drupal
Mysty, white hat security systems expert
8:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Demonstrating how easy it is to secure digital identities and make the web safer with OpenID in Drupal.
Food, Drink, and Books
Packt Publishing have kindly donated Drupal books to be won by a few lucky attendees, and food and drinks will be provided.
Note
There is a pub below the venue, where the meeting will likely move afterwards.
The tag for this event is dfoenterprise, all presentations will be available after the event, and we may be providing live streaming.
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