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24Kitchen, the no. 1 platform for food lovers

Talk
Industry track
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Baris
Wanschers
Managing Director
LimoenGroen
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B.Sc
Imre
Gmelig Meijling
Commercial Director
LimoenGroen
Drupal.nl

With FOX News Network and The Persgroep Netherlands backing this european TV format, working on 24Kitchen was a feast. As one of the most popular platforms on food, cooking and lifestyle, an entirely new online experience allows for quick access to thousands of healthy recipes, cooking inspiration and cross media selling.

3.02 hassium

A Drupalers Guide to Marketing

Talk
Industry track
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Drew
Gorton
Director of Developer Relations, Pantheon
Pantheon

Marketers are an important audience for Drupal professionals. Learn why marketers matter, what motivates our marketing colleagues, what they care about and how to make your work more relevant and valuable to them.

2.04 titanium
Expertise topics

Befriending Goliath: how to manage large projects from a small agency perspective

Talk
Industry track
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Ramon
Vilar
CEO
Ymbra

As a small Drupal agency with big aspirations you have to decide what kind of projects you want set your focus on:

  • If you choose small scale projects, you need to have strong sales process to sell a lot of those.
  • If you choose to pursue large scale projects and clients, you need to take risks that sometimes jeopardize your team.

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2.03 vanadium
Expertise topics

Come play with us! Empathy Building via Serious Play

Workshop
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Tracy
Evans
Partner
Open Strategy Partners
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Ken
Rickard
Director of Innovation
Palantir.net
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Jeffrey
Alexander
McGuire
Partner
Open Strategy Partners

We've created a cooperative, empathy-building board game, that draws on ideas from Serious Play and cross-cultural movements like DevOps. Come play Rhino Rescue with us!

3.05 radon

Compelling USPs for Drupal in large organisations

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Rouven
Volk
Solutions Architect
Acquia

Way too many times Drupal specialists compete with other CMS systems about the features and functions of their solution, forgetting about what really matters for the clients: reducing risk and cost while increasing growth! But how does Drupal fit into this calculation? Let's have a look at technical and business reasons, why large organizations rely on Drupal to achieve their goals!

2.07 aurum
Expertise topics

Digital Transformation in the Financial Sector: Challenges and Opportunities

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Ivo
Radulovski
Senior Key Expert (ext.)
European Investment Bank

What challenges do banks and financial institutions and enterprises face in the era of digital transformation and which opportunities does Drupal offer? In this session, we will set our focus on digital transformation in the financial industry.

3.09 helium

Essential Drupal marketing at the regional level

Talk
Industry track
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B.Sc
Imre
Gmelig Meijling
Commercial Director
LimoenGroen
Drupal.nl

The Dutch Drupal Association connects Dutch Drupal professionals, agencies, users and (potential) businesses. We do this by organising events DrupalJam (450 people), SplashAwards (initiated in 2014) and Drupal Training Day (200+ students, now Drupal in a Day). Mainly run by a team of volunteers, organizing these (successful) takes up the bigger part of our (free) time.

2.04 titanium

Handling Agency Team Capacity Challenges

BoF
Industry track

We're all in Drupal business. And no matter what the agency size is, either it's a one-man shop or 100+ company, sales ups and downs happen everywhere. Have you faced the issue, when you can't handle the brand new client request because of the lack of your in-house team? 

If that's typical for you at this stage or you see the potential risks in the upcoming future, let's discuss the ways how to find a balance between new sales opportunities and the team workload.

3.04 europium

Herding cats – How to build and run a large distributed team of experts

Talk
Industry track
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Joonas
Kiminki
Ex-CEO & founder @ Wunder
Rebound Business

The vast majority of organisations and companies today run in a model that’s designed for the Industrial Age. The world is seen as a complicated place, where a small team of expert leaders is required to make sense of it and provide instructions for the operational staff. This mode of operation is no longer applicable in the Internet Age we operate in. At best, the company fails to tap into the full potential of its employees.

2.02 chromium
Expertise topics

How the biggest trade fair in sports became a leading digital publisher

Talk
Industry track
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Peter
Bilz-Wohlgemuth
Chief Operating Officer
The Digitale GmbH
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Stefan
Borchert
CEO
undpaul
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Lucio Waßill
Lucio
Waßill
Senior Drupal Developer
undpaul

We had 6 months to migrate a high traffic news portal from a Java based enterprise CMS to a new platform. ISPO wanted to turn from a trade fair to a leading digital publisher. We will show how it was done starting from the evaluation phase to the successful launch - our client will be there to share how they experienced the process and how Drupal improved their daily work compared to the previously used Java-based enterprise CMS.

3.03 germanium
Expertise topics

Native Drupal CRM in D8

BoF
Industry track

A general discussion on native Drupal CRM and how it compares to integrating with other CRM system, with particular focus on the Contacts module in Drupal 8

2.08 platinum
Expertise topics

The digital revolution at Chatham House - from fight to full flight

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Josie
Tree
Head of Digital Strategy and Development
Chatham House
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Paul
Johnson
Drupal Director
CTI Digital

Driving digital transformation and explaining its value within a traditional, inward-looking organisation presents an enormous challenge. A key part of this is to connect the value of digital to the overall strategy of the organisation, in order to leverage support for change.

2.07 aurum

Using game theory to close bigger (Drupal) sales

Talk
Industry track
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Dr.
Erik
Evrard
Global Partner Manager
Platform.sh

As Drupal is becoming more ambitious and is targeting enterprise website and organisations, agencies are facing the fierce competition of established proprietary software vendors, who have decades of selling experience behind them. In order to survive as a Drupal or any other FOSS company, it is crucial that you start to master the art of strategy.

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YES, you can get the company you work for to contribute to Drupal

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George
Matthes
Technology Manager
Johnson and Johnson

In order to spread the word that it is possible to get large enterprises to support Open Source software I will present a case study on how leadership within the company I work for was swayed to support the Drupal Association and get more involved in the Open Source communities in which they live and work.

3.03 germanium
Expertise topics

🌶Out of the BoF! Umami, Out of the Box and all that Jazz 🌶

BoF
Industry track

The Umami demo profile from the Out of the Box initiative is available in Drupal 8.6.0! However there, is much to do, including deciding going forward what there is to do. Come and join the initiative leads as we discuss 

  • existing core functionality we are not yet demoing
  • upcoming core functionality we can begin to prototype
  • how we can better involve people in the Out of the Box initiative 
  • sprint priorities for the week
2.05 palladium

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