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October 24

9:00 AM–4:30 PM

Higher Education Summit

Pauley East

The Higher Education Summit is a unique opportunity for site owners, IT managers, developers, content creators, and agencies dedicated to supporting and advancing the use of Drupal in academia to share, learn, and strengthen our community of practice. Through panels, talks, and ample breakout sessions, participants share and learn from one another’s victories and challenges, and build momentum in cross-institutional initiatives.

Pizza and salad will be provided for lunch.

October 25

9:00 AM–5:00 PM

October 26

9:00 AM-9:45 AM

10:15 AM-11:00 AM

Data Security in Drupal 8

security / backend development / data
Intermediate

Watch the session video here.

Your website’s data is at risk, but knowing how to protect it can mean the difference between another day in the office and a data breach. By building in encryption from the beginning stages of your site, you will avoid headaches from having to bolt it on after the fact and have more tools at your disposal to keep your users secure.

11:15 AM-12:00 AM

Design for Non-designers

design / ux / being human
Beginner

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Great design helps you reach your audience, increase credibility and achieve organizational goals. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s impractical to hire a designer for every visual task—whether it’s editing an image for social media, creating a flyer or an entire website. You may be left to your own devices when it comes to visual decisions.

1:30 PM-2:15 PM

Building websites with React & Gatsby

site building / decoupled
Intermediate

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React started as a way to build apps. People soon discovered that React's ability to render to string meant that React could be used for building websites where shipping a fast HTML version of the site was necessary.

Gatsby is a very popular way to build websites with React and recently became a company with VC backing to take React deep into the world of CMSs.

3:45 PM-4:30 PM

October 27

10:15 AM-11:00 AM

11:15 AM-12:00 PM

Drupal 8 Custom Module Architecture: What’s Going On?

backend development / architecture / php
Beginner

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It is all fun and games modifying existing code, but what about when you have to venture out to unknown waters and create your own custom module? Don’t worry! We can get through this together!

This talk is a deep dive into creating custom modules from scratch, and the role of each component in the final product.

Feeds UI + Migrate Engine = Dream Migrations and Imports

backend development / process / community
Intermediate

Feeds and Migrate were two primary contrib modules used for data import since early versions of Drupal.  Quick comparison of two modules: Feeds module has great friendly UI that allows site builders configure and import data, Migrate is built for developers with power to perform complex backend data processing but UI for this module was less than ideal.

In D8 migrate module is in core to support one-click upgrades from earlier Drupal versions – great news. In the hallway of Baltimore DrupalCon maintainers of Feeds and Migrate started conversation about using migrate engine to power Feeds UI – seems to be a win-win solution for everyone – developers, site builders, content managers, end users. 

1:30 PM-2:15 PM

Four Brain Hacks to Manage Clients and Win

leadership / people management / being human
Intermediate

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(ALL skill levels – *Not* a technical talk.)

That heart-attack-moment. Your client is freaking-out, right now; right in your face with a full-blown meltdown! At the end of it all they always ask that same question, "So what are you going to do about this!?..."

2:30 PM-3:15 PM

3:45 PM-4:30 PM