Approved Talk Schedule
Only registered ticket holders / participants will be able to access the Webinar Schedule page, from which you can access the official online webinars. An email will be sent on Wednesday April 29th to all ticket holders/participants registered in EventBrite with the password. On the day of the event, if you need the password you'll be able to sign into our help desk GoToMeeting where a moderator will confirm your registration and provide the password.
| Title & Description | Experience Level | Platform/ Library/ Language(s) | Area of Focus | Start Time |
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Digital Accessibility - Understanding WCAG requirementsPresented by Matthew Elefant Session Starts @ 9amHaving a website that is accessible for people with disabilities is no longer a nice to have consideration. Recent court cases have proven that websites are covered under title II and title III of… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors |
All / Any
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A11y, Performance | 9am |
Selling a CMS to Enterprise ClientsPresented by Jodie Riccelli Session Starts @ 9amEnterprise clients are a unique group that requires special attention with their complex CMS setups. In this talk, we will look at the methods to attract this level of client, how to relay the… Recommended for: Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
Intermediate
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Business Strategy, Admin UX | 9am | |
Wagtail: The Only CMS I Still Love After YearsPresented by Timothy Allen, Tom Dyson Session Starts @ 9amMost of us have had the experience of loving a CMS at first, but souring over time, as the limitations and shortcomings come to light. We have had this experience too many times during our careers… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Designers, UX Strategists, Developers (Back-end php focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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Case Studies | 9am |
Community Events in WordPressPresented by Francesca Marano Session Starts @ 9amWordPress.org is an open source project created and maintained by a community of users. Its mission is to democratise publishing through open source software.… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Designers, UX Strategists, Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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Community | 9am |
Let's Build Our First WordPress Plugin!Presented by David Wolfpaw Workshop Starts @ 9amIf you’ve ever wanted to build your own plugin for WordPress, this is the session for you. We’re going to start from scratch and work our way up. First, we'll take a look at the basic… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused) |
Novice / Beginner
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Custom Development | 9am |
Composer 101Presented by Michael Miles Session Starts @ 9amComposer is a package manager that alleviates the complexity of dependencies in PHP based projects (such as Drupal 8). This session provides an introduction to the core concepts behind package… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
Novice / Beginner
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DevOps | 9am |
Embracing the modern web using a Headless CMS with GatsbyJSPresented by Jesus Manuel Olivas Session Starts @ 9amA headless CMS allows content creators to manage their content through a familiar admin interface and providing the content via API endpoints, allowing developers to implement a fully customized… Recommended for: Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused) |
All / Any
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FrontEnd, Design systems | 9am |
Introduction to the GraphQL API for WordPressPresented by Leonardo Losoviz Session Starts @ 9amThe GraphQL API for WordPress enables to access the WordPress site data using GraphQL. It has been designed for security, speed… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
Intermediate
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Assorted | 9am |
Optimize SEO with serverless sitemapsPresented by Meeky Hwang Session Starts @ 10amSitemaps are the key ingredients for the site SEO optimization. There are many WordPress plugins to generate sitemaps but for enterprise level sites with… Recommended for: Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
Intermediate
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A11y, Performance | 10am |
Make your site last 5 years (possibly more)Presented by Anne Stefanyk Session Starts @ 10amAs we forge through these uncertain times, it’s imperative to make pragmatic choices in business. Websites are typically an organization’s largest marketing… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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Business Strategy, Admin UX | 10am |
Backdrop CMS: a LTS version of D7 on steroids (a.k.a. "Everything you wanted from D7 w/o the D8 overhead")Presented by Greg Netsas Session Starts @ 10amPerhaps you currently own or support Drupal 7 sites, and you don't see Drupal 8/9 as a good fit for them moving forward. Maybe you are simply happy with Drupal 7, and for whatever reason you are… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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Case Studies | 10am |
Selfish ContributionPresented by Francesca Marano Session Starts @ 10amWhy do people contribute to the WordPress project? If you’ve ever wondered this but never gotten involved in an open source project, you might want to know the… Recommended for: |
All / Any
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Community | 10am | |
How I'm migrating JeffGeerling.com from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8Presented by Jeff Geerling Session Starts @ 10amAfter putting off an upgrade for many years, I finally decided to upgrade my personal website, JeffGeerling.com, from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
All / Any
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Custom Development | 10am |
Introduction to LandoPresented by Geoff St. Pierre Session Starts @ 10amLando uses a single config file to specify the tech stack, dev dependencies, and custom tooling on a per project basis. This makes it very easy to share your config in the project with your team… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
All / Any
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DevOps | 10am |
Building a Decoupled, CMS-Agnostic Front EndPresented by Shaun Baer Session Starts @ 10amFractal is a powerful component library and style guide system that runs on node.js. This talk will demonstrate how Fractal can be used to build front-end components that can then be used in… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused) |
Intermediate
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FrontEnd, Design systems | 10am |
Lucky 7: Don't install ANYTHING 'til you hear this WordPress Plugin PresentationPresented by Joe A Simpson Jr Session Starts @ 10amMost of us hit the ground running with WordPress - we have a site to build for a client or ourselves and install anything and everything to help us achieve our goals. As a WordCamp Lead and… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors |
Novice / Beginner
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Assorted | 10am |
Drupal (And Maybe WordPress) Site Content with AirtablePresented by Pete Inge Session Starts @ 11amAirtable is a powerful app that takes content creation to the next level allowing content creation and collaboration for most projects. At Bluecadet, our Content teams have fully embraced Airtable… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Developers (Back-end php focused), Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
Intermediate
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Business Strategy, Admin UX | 11am |
Love Your CMS: An Overview of CraftPresented by Greg Jenkins Session Starts @ 11amThis session is a high-level introduction to the highlights and features of Craft CMS from the perspective of both the developer and the client. We'll explore… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers |
All / Any
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Case Studies | 11am |
Drupal, GraphQL, Views, View Modes and Gatsby for a US Gov sitePresented by Jesus Manuel Olivas Session Starts @ 11amDuring this session I will talk about a case study for the US Gov and the challenges to move to Gatsby without… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused) |
All / Any
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Case Studies | 11am |
Scaling Community Discussion and Decision-makingPresented by Benjamin Melançon Session Starts @ 11amAny Free/Libre Open Source Software project will have elements of do-ocracy (rule of those who do the work) but not all decisions should… Recommended for: Designers, UX Strategists, Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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Community | 11am | |
Lost in CMS Translation: Custom Plugin Development across Craft, Drupal, and WordPressPresented by Matt Schaff Session Starts @ 11amLearn tips, tricks and strategies for developing custom and contributed modules and plugins across three popular CMS frameworks: Craft CMS, Drupal, WordPress. Whether you're contributing… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused) |
Intermediate
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Custom Development | 11am |
Using a single Frontend Design System for WordPress and Drupal with EmulsifyPresented by Dean Oest Session Starts @ 11amIf you have more than one web site to manage you know the challenges of trying to keep the frontend in sync. In this talk we will show you how to use create a single source of frontend components… Recommended for: Designers, UX Strategists, Developers (Front-end focused) |
Intermediate
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FrontEnd, Design systems | 11am |
Webforms for EveryonePresented by Jacob Rockowitz Session Starts @ 11amThis presentation will explore how site owners, site builders, and developers can leverage the Webform module for Drupal 8 to build complex and robust forms for their end-users. Topics… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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Assorted | 11am |
Writing Inclusive DocumentationPresented by Alanna Burke Session Starts @ 1pmDocumentation is only useful if people can read it, so it stands to reason that it needs to be accessible. But what about making it inclusive? What does that… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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A11y, Performance | 1pm |
HAX All the PlatformsPresented by Bryan Ollendyke Session Starts @ 1pmHAXTheWeb is a platform, code base, mantra, and way of web components based life for the team surrounding it. Since it was first announced at DrupalCon Baltimore as a theoretical idea, HAX has… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Designers, UX Strategists |
Intermediate
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Business Strategy, Admin UX | 1pm |
Apostrophe: Node.js CMS without sacrificing power or dev experiencePresented by Alex Bea Session Starts @ 1pmNode.js CMSes are less rare than they used to be, but most are designed for static sites or simpler use cases. Similarly, more CMSes offer in-context editing than in the past, but the in-context… Recommended for: Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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Case Studies | 1pm |
UX RoundtablePresented by Suzanne Dergacheva BoF Starts @ 1pmIt can be hard to decide which user experience techniques to use on a project. Should you do user testing? How much research is needed? How much time to spend on wireframes and user journey… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Designers, UX Strategists, Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers |
Community | 1pm | ||
When there's not a module for thatPresented by Benjamin Melançon Session Starts @ 1pmYou've built sites with Drupal 8 and know that with a few dozen modules (and a ton of configuring), you can do nearly everything in modern Drupal. But what do you do when there's not a… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Designers, UX Strategists, Developers (Back-end php focused) |
All / Any
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Custom Development | 1pm |
Deploying PHP applications with Ansible, Ansible Vault and AnsistranoPresented by Oliver Davies Session Starts @ 1pmGreat! You’ve built your website, and now you just need to deploy it. There are various ways that this could be done - from (S)FTP, to SCP and rsync, to running commands like Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
Intermediate
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DevOps | 1pm |
Wait, We Can Re-use this? Design Systems and Component Libraries for Fun and ProfitPresented by Aaron Couch Session Starts @ 1pmComponent libraries can help speed development, improve implementation of designs, aid in improving accesibility, and help teams re-use design and component assets across projects. But… Recommended for: Designers, UX Strategists, Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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FrontEnd, Design systems | 1pm |
Reasons NOT to decouplePresented by John Grubb Session Starts @ 1pmAlt title: Headless is bad and you will feel bad. Let's be honest - there is only one good reason to build a decoupled app in 2020 and that's to serve multiple frontend applications from a… Recommended for: Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
All / Any
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Assorted | 1pm | |
Multilingual Web AccessibilityPresented by Aimee Hannaford Session Starts @ 2pmThis session will cover two challenging topics together: multilingual websites and accessibility/Section 508 compliance. Many organizations may need to successfully fulfill both requirements on… Recommended for: Designers, UX Strategists, DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
Intermediate
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A11y, Performance | 2pm |
Injecting React Into Your Authoring ExperiencePresented by Pete Inge Session Starts @ 2pmImproving your CMS content-authoring experience should always be a goal as a developer. Through paragraph bundles and custom field types we can achieve most of our data needs, but Drupal node… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Javascript focused) |
Intermediate
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Business Strategy, Admin UX | 2pm |
The hidden power of Layouts in Backdrop CMSPresented by Tim Erickson Session Starts @ 2pmThe layout system in Backdrop CMS is a powerful tool for site builders and developers to position their content and customize their sites. Recently, Backdrop added flexible layout templates that… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Designers, UX Strategists, Developers (Front-end focused) |
Novice / Beginner
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Case Studies | 2pm |
2020 Developer Tool Survey ResultsPresented by Chris Session Starts @ 2pmPerhaps you consider yourself a proficient Drupal developer, but you’re curious to learn what everyone else uses for their local development work. Or, maybe you’re just getting started with Drupal… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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Community | 2pm |
Managing Content... StaticallyPresented by Brian Hasselbeck Session Starts @ 2pmTome is a suite of Drupal modules that can make your site into secure, fast, static HTML. When Tome is enabled, any changes to config, content, or files will be automatically synced to your local… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
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Custom Development | 2pm | |
Apostrophe + Docker (2hr Interactive) WorkshopPresented by Greg van Brug Workshop Starts @ 2pmThis session is a 2hr workshop which will provide an introduction to Docker, an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Preregistration is strongly encouraged. We'll… Recommended for: Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
Intermediate
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DevOps | 2pm |
Taking Flight with Tailwind CSSPresented by Oliver Davies Session Starts @ 2pmAn introduction to utility class and component based styling, and how to soar with Tailwind CSS. Things we’ll cover:
Recommended for: Developers (Front-end focused) |
Novice / Beginner
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FrontEnd, Design systems | 2pm |
Frontend Performance for Craft CMS WebsitesPresented by Justin Holt Session Starts @ 2pmLet's explore some concepts to improve our Craft CMS application performance, both perceived and measurable. Template caching, prefetch and prerender attributes, responsive and next-gen format… Recommended for: Developers (Front-end focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
Intermediate
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Assorted | 2pm |
Speed Up Media UploadsPresented by Matt Dorman Session Starts @ 3pmWith so many image sizes the upload process can take minutes to finish, or never does! If you Google it there are probably 20 “best” plugins to fix this. I’ll… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
Intermediate
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A11y, Performance | 3pm |
Using Twig in Wordpress to enhance the Editor ExperiencePresented by Michael Crawford Session Starts @ 3pmWith Drupal 8 we use the Twig architecture as its templating language. With the Timber plugin, we can utilize the same twig templating in Wordpress. In this session, we will review how to add… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
Expert
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Business Strategy, Admin UX | 3pm |
COVID-19 Crisis Project and Knowledge SystemPresented by Michael Caudy Session Starts @ 3pmThe goal of the COVID-19 Crisis Project and Knowledge Base is to identify the most critical facts… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Designers, UX Strategists, Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
All / Any
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Community | 3pm |
Empowering Site Owners by Developing Custom Views PluginsPresented by Jim Vomero Session Starts @ 3pmViews is an indispensable tool for Drupal site builders - allowing them to create complex queries and displays without writing a single line of code. But too often developers like myself avoid… Recommended for: Developers (Back-end php focused) |
Intermediate
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Custom Development | 3pm |
Drush for BeginnersPresented by Adam Bergstein Session Starts @ 3pmDrush is a great tool for quickly managing routine tasks with a drupal installation. It allows you to search d.o, install Drupal and modules, enable modules and much more. This session is… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Developers (Back-end php focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers |
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DevOps | 3pm | |
ES6 and beyond: writing better code with modern JavaScriptPresented by Tom Boutell Session Starts @ 3pmHow does modern JavaScript help us write better code on the first try? Ready to say goodbye to "var," callbacks, and typing "then" all day? What are the benefits of new language features and are… Recommended for: Developers (Javascript focused) |
All / Any
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FrontEnd, Design systems | 3pm |
Moving to Backdrop CMSPresented by Jen Lampton, Luke McCormick Session Starts @ 3pmIf you are interested in moving to Backdrop CMS but are already the proud (or not-so-proud) owner of an existing website, there are several ways to get your beloved content from the current CMS… Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Designers, UX Strategists, Developers (Back-end php focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
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Assorted | 3pm | |
Virtual Happy Hour (and Top 30 Modules: Two sheets to the Drupal)Presented by Session Starts @ 4pm Happy HourThis virtual happy hour "talk" has moved to a GoToMeeting.
CMS Philly 2020 Meet & Greet, HelpDesk Room Recommended for: Content Managers, Editors, Designers, UX Strategists, Developers (Back-end php focused), Developers (Front-end focused), Developers (Javascript focused), DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers, Product Stakeholders & Decision Makers, Project Managers, Producers, & Product Owners |
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Community | 4pm Happy Hour |
