Speakers
Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo has been participating in Internet conversations since 1992, having launched Lockergnome.com as a content publishing network and building Gnomedex to be one of the blogosphere’s highly regarded conferences. He publishes a personal blog and lifecast to tens of thousands of viewers, and is a top subscribed partner on YouTube.
Session: How to Make a Better Blog [Common Track, Beginner Level]
Trey Ratcliff
Trey is best known for the site stuckincustoms.com, which has become the #1 Travel Photography Blog on the internet with around 350,000 visits per month, including one from his mom. He's a Flickr dude; his photos recently passed over 21 million views.
Session: Clever Tricks to Make Your Blog More Beautiful and Popular [Common Track, Beginner Level]
Dave Moyer
Dave Moyer has been on the web since 2003 and on the airwaves even longer. Today he's the founder and President of Bitwire Media, a multimedia content network that produces all-original podcast, radio and web TV programming, including the WordCast blogging, social media, and WordPress network. Dave is also seventeen years old.
Session: Podcasting Power-Ups [New Media Track, Advanced Level]
Frederick Van Johnson
Marketer, professional photographer, and host of "This Week in Photography”, one of the world’s most popular photography podcasts. He regularly lectures and conducts training on topics ranging from social media marketing to photographic techniques. Also runs Mediabytes Marketing, aimed at helping businesses leverage social media and other non-traditional marketing tools to get their voices heard.
Session: Social Media Marketing & Social Mediocrity [Common Track, Beginner Level]
Jeff Martin
Director of Search Marketing for TouchStorm, managing search marketing and video distribution and optimization strategies for name brands. He is also on the board of directors for the Dallas-Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association.
Session: Why Settle For #1? Butt Kickin' Video Optimization and YouTube Tactics [New Media Track, Intermediate Level]
Christopher Justice
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Sparksight, a new media and event agency with headquarters in Austin, Texas; former board member of the Joomla project; contributor to various open source projects.
Session: Integrating Joomla! (or any CMS) with External Sites and Applications [Joomla Track, Advanced Level]
Mike Pratt
Former Goldman Sachs trader and hedge fund manager turned digital strategist, WordPress developer and BuddyPress community builder.
Session: BuddyPress: How to transform your WordPress site into a niche community [WordPress Track, Beginner Level]
Jonathan Bailey
CEO of CopyByte and operator of Plagiarism Today, a site dedicated to helping content creators protect their work.
Session: How to Share Your Content - Without Hurting Your Copyright [WordPress Track, Beginner Level]
Jeremy Wilken
Lead developer at Joomla Shack and avid blogger at Gnome on the Run, Jeremy has been building sites on Joomla as well as Drupal and Wordpress for many years.
Session: Joomla! Templates Can Do THAT? [Joomla Track, Intermediate Level]
Joe LeBlanc
Joe is a freelance Joomla! developer developer based in the Washington DC area. He's the author of the book Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development,as well as the video series Joomla! Essential Training at Lynda.com.
Session: Joomla! Development Tools and Tricks [Joomla Track, Intermediate Level]
Alex Andreae
An electrical engineer in a past life, Alex co-founded SourceCoast Web Development in 2008. Based in Austin, TX, SourceCoast provides custom Joomla development and also runs an extension club with a focus on extensions to grow your site quickly and then help monetize that growth.
Session: Joomla! Development - From Modules to Components, It's Easier Than You Think! [Joomla Track, Advanced Level]
Jason Sharp
Jason is co-founder and President of Crossvale, Inc. a professional services firm singularly focused on helping their clients maximize the performance of their people, processes and technologies by providing tailored integration, automation and portal solutions that deliver results.
Session: Multi-Departmental Authoring in Drupal [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Randall Knutson
Randall Knutson has been a Drupal developer and active community member for several years now. He is a senior developer at Allplayers.com
Session: Creating a Development Workflow with Context, Spaces and Features [Drupal Track, Advanced Level]
Chris Koenig
Chris Koenig is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft in March of 2007, Chris worked as a Senior Architect for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect for the global solution provider Avanade. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana while specializing in Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight development.
Session: Windows Phone 7 Up Close [.NET Track, Intermediate Level]
Caleb Jenkins
Caleb is the founder and Principal Mentor at Proaction Mentors. Prior to forming Proaction Mentors, Caleb was the Senior Software Architect at Six Flags Corporation and a Principal with Improving Enterprises. He also had a successful tenure working with the Microsoft Corporation as a Developer Evangelist and technology expert.
Session: .NET on the Cheap (Free and OSS resources from the Redmond Giant) [.NET Track, Intermediate Level]
Blair Williams
Blair is the author of several plugins for WordPress including Mingle -- an easy to setup social networking platform and Pretty Link -- a personal link shrinking and management plugin. Pretty Link & Mingle have been downloaded almost 200,000 times and are among the most popular plugins for WordPress. Blair has also released the Pretty Link Pro plugin for WordPress — providing a ton of useful features and premium support on top of Pretty Link.
Session: Supercharging Your Blog's Performance [WordPress Track, Advanced Level]
Joe Hyde
Joe Hyde was the co-founder of LIVE! Magazine, a TMC entertainment monthly coupled with two high-trafficked Drupal Web sites. Today, Hyde is a fulltime freelance Drupal developer and working on his next big thing from his ranchito in San Angelo, Texas.
Session: Integrating Facebook API with Your Drupal Site and Vice Versa [Drupal Track, Advanced Level]
Elie Khoury
Elie Khoury is the co-founder and lead developer at iFusion Labs, LLC, the company behind Woopra and lives in Lebanon. Beside Woopra, he's also the co-founder of YallaStartup, Inc. YallaStartup is an NGO trying to solve unemployment problems in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) by fostering entrepreneurship and building a suitable eco-system in the region.
Session: HTML5 + CSS: Changing the Face of the Web [Common Track, Beginner Level]
Keith Anderson
Keith Anderson is a 15-year veteran of the Technical Communication Wars. He has served with honor on many industrial fronts including healthcare, banking, telecommunication, retail, and IT consulting. Keith is also a Big Design Conference organizer and the creator of the “Beerinar", a spin-off conference about beer for beer lovers.
Session: Future Proofing Content [WordPress Track, Intermediate Level]
Corey Pennycuff
Corey is a Senior Drupal Developer at AllPlayers.com and lives in Wichita Falls, TX. He has been working in Drupal for over 5 years.
Session: Advanced Views [Drupal Track, Advanced Level]
Patrick McLeod
Patrick McLeod is a staff member in Academic Computing and User Services at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas where he works as a systems administrator and systems developer. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Library and Information Sciences in UNT's College of Information.
Session: Making A DIFference: Drupal, Islandora, and Fedora Commons Integration [Drupal Track, Advanced Level]
Gary McCants
Gary is a Principle Consultant with Improving Enterprises' Agile Practice. He entered the craft in 1986 and has played roles from Analyst Programmer to educator to CIO. Gary's passion is centered in forming and nurturing high-performance teams, and he has found agile methods to be the perfect companion.
Session: The Payoff of Agile [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Robert Ristroph
Robert Ristroph is a software developer and system administrator with years of experience in high-performance code, distributing computing load over clusters of systems, maintaining code repositories and bug trackers, and numerous other systems administration tasks.
Session: Debugging Techniques for Drupal (and other web applications) [Drupal Track, Advanced Level]
Darren Peterson
Darren Peterson is the CEO and founder of Launch Interactive Media, an open source web and mobile application development firm located in Austin, Texas. Darren is passionate about open-source technology, and has been an open-source evangelizer before open-source was cool.
Session: Social Networking with Joomla! is Easy! [Joomla Track, Beginner Level]
Brent Bice
Brent is an Account Manager and Web Strategist for LevelTen Interactive, with over eight years of usability, web design and development experience.
Session: Planning and Executing a Successful Drupal Implementation: LevelTen’s Process for Creating Drupal Websites [Drupal Track, Beginner Level]
Mike Orren
Last year, NBC5 named Mike one of the 25 most interesting people in Dallas. He was named a top business leader under 40 by the Dallas Business Journal and won a North Carolina Press Association award. In 2005, he founded PanLocal Media, which includes The Daily You™ network and its flagship site, Pegasus News. In 2009, Archstream Media, a subsidiary of GAP Broadcasting, bought the company from Fisher. Orren still leads the operations of Pegasus News and a growing list of affiliate sites as publisher. PanLocal sites have won the Katie Award for best news website and an EPpy award for best entertainment website.
Session: Starting a Successful Media Company: Lessons Learned [New Media Track, Beginner Level]
Eric Swayne
Eric Swayne is Senior Social / Digital Strategist at Rockfish Interactive, a published author in marketing and business, award-winning front-end developer and guest blogger for AdAge. He provides strategic thinking in all forms of digital media, as well as frame works that leverage these channels to gain deeper insight from and relationship with consumers.
Session: You Don't Know Click: Measuring what counts in Social Media [New Media Track, Beginner Level]
Kyle Kondas
Kyle Kondas is a local pod-caster, free--lance videographer and new media artist. He's also the head shaver of the new cancer charity, Shave Dallas as well as the assistant director of inter.sect Art Collective and a visiting Lecturer at UT Dallas.
Session: Creating Video Through Mobile Devices [New Media Track, Intermediate Level]
Giovanni Gallucci
Recovering .NET programmer turned tech evangelist and online marketing consultant. Giovanni provides strategy for new developments in search, mobility, social media, community building, online public relations and buzz marketing.
Session: Practically Illegal Blackhat SEO Techniques [Common Track, Beginner Level]
Jay Batson
Jay is the founder of Acquia, the second technology company Jay has founded. It is also his second commercial open-source effort (the previous having been Pingtel, acquired by Nortel). Jay's passion is to build great companies that build products that make users happy. So at Acquia, he searches out and helps bring to market new products and services that make Drupal more valuable to those who use it.
Session: Drupal Directions [Drupal Track, Array Level]
Dave Curlee
Dave Curlee has spent the last 20 years producing video both online and off. Currently he is producing Cooking With Kat, a web cooking show he co-created with his wife Kat Curlee and is also producing GeekBeat.TV with Cali Lewis, seen on the Revision 3 network. DaveCurlee Media, his production company, also produces video and other digital media for several companies around the DFW area.
Session: Advanced Video Production [New Media Track, Advanced Level]
Jerod Morris
Jerod Morris is an SEO consultant, blog strategist, and professional blogger who joined Orangecast in 2008. In his first month on the job, Jerod started a blog to serve as a sandbox for SEO and social media strategy. Being a diehard sports fan born in Indiana, it was no surpise that the blog he created was called Midwest Sports Fans.
Session: Getting to the Front Page: Make Your Own Breaks! [WordPress Track, Intermediate Level]
Lorelle VanFossen
One of the top bloggers, and women bloggers, in the world. Host of the "Lorelle on WordPress" blog, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. She is also the Woopra team as their community manager and producer -- and official "disruptive thinker" -- of Bitwire Media, which produces the WordCast podcast.
Session: WordPress Plugins That Blow Your Mind [WordPress Track, Beginner Level]
Josh Holmes
Josh Holmes is a passionate soul who gets his kicks solving problems with deep fried awesomeness. He is currently employed by Microsoft as a UX Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the dev partners with a UX or Rich Internet Application offering in Central Region.
Session: Scaling Wordpress (and really any PHP app) on the Microsoft Stack [WordPress Track, Intermediate Level]
Scott Ellis
Entrepreneur, author, photographer, musician, Managing Partner at BlackBox Technologies -- a company specializing in products and services for the WordPress platform -- and Starbucks junkie.
Session: Categories, Tags and Taxonomies Oh My! Get Seriously Type A About Organizing Your Content in WordPress [WordPress Track, Intermediate Level]
Stephanie Leary
Stephanie Leary and a core group at Texas A&M University Health Science Center founded Uweb, a grassroots organization for web education and advocacy at Texas A&M. In 2006, Stephanie and Sarah Schroeder combined their interests in writing and web design and opened Paged Media, a freelance business catering to authors and other publishing professionals. Stephanie is the author of Beginning WordPress 3, published in June by Apress.
Session: WordPress Hidden Gems [WordPress Track, Intermediate Level]
Scott Kingsley Clark
Scott specializes in WordPress and Pods CMS Framework development using PHP, MySQL, AJAX / JavaScript. He's a WordPress plugin developer and presents at WordCamps, Meetups, Conferences, and Teleconferences across the globe.
Session: WordPress isn't just for Websites anymore.. with Pods CMS [WordPress Track, Advanced Level]
Kyle Ledbetter
Kyle is Chief Cat Wrangler for JoomlaPraise, AdminPraise and Projectfork. Intnernet ADHD assist in jumping from designing Joomla templates, administrative UI and project manager UI. Kyle is passionate about passion for any type of design.
Session: Joomla! Admin - Perception of Progress [Joomla Track, Beginner Level]
Jim Adams
When Jim Adams is not gathering intel for Four Kitchens, Jim can be found teaching classes on firearms, SCUBA, self defense, or swimming. Jim is also is an avid martial artist, currently studying both Krav Maga and Ving Tsun Kung Fu.
Session: Tips & Tricks for Developing & Maintaining Custom Modules [Drupal Track, Advanced Level]
Jason Smith
If it bleeps, he can make it bloop. Technology mastermind, and purveyor of trivia. After sharing his genius with WorldCom and AAAS, Jason came to Houston with his beautiful wife to begin his family and finish his degree in Biology, Chemistry minor with Honors.
Session: Introduction to Module Development in Drupal [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Tony Valenti
Tony Valenti is the original founder of PowerDNN. He loves every aspect of technology, from software development and CISCO networking, to marketing and business planning. As CEO, Tony focuses a lot of his time and energy on setting the direction and corporate strategy of the company. In his free time, he loves writing code in C# and playing around in Photoshop.
Session: Build a Basic Website with DotNetNuke [.NET Track, Beginner Level]
Eric Shafer
Eric is the founder of Click and Create and has been a trainer and developer of technology solutions for over 19 years. His goal is to provide a proven system that not only guides you through your website’s design and implementation, but also helps you define your site’s purpose and gives you the tools to track your success.
Session: E-commerce in DotNetNuke [.NET Track, Intermediate Level]
Lee Raney
Lee is the Director of Web Technologies at Stratmark Digital, an interactive agency serving non-profits with web solutions including Convio and Drupal. Lee has expertise in donor management software, and in on-line marketing, technology trends, and social media.
Session: Integrating Social Media with Your Drupal Website [Drupal Track, Beginner Level]
Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt is a web developer, public speaker, university instructor, and myth enthusiast from Dallas.
Session: Working with Images in WordPress [WordPress Track, Intermediate Level]
Josh Ward
Josh Ward’s passion is fostering great experiences for online users. As VP of Business Development and Relationship Management, Josh directs sales and the alliance partner program for Volacci. He guides clients to gain maximum advantage from SEO, advertising, and conversion rate optimization (CRO).
Session: Selling Drupal [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Chris Ruppel
Chris Ruppel is a web developer in Dallas, TX. Front-end wizard by day and Drupal warrior by night, Chris is a passionate advocate of both web standards and open source software. Currently employed at Javelin, he works primarily on AT&T marketing, but has deployed about 20 Drupal sites for both clients and Javelin.
Session: Semantic is the New Standard [Drupal Track, Advanced Level]
Philip Nelson
NewTek SVP Strategic Development. One of the foremost experts on big event live streaming in the world. Philip is behind live web coverage of Diggnation, NBA, NHL, ESPN X Games, Miss Universe, MTV Video Music Awards and more.
Session: Live Streaming: How To & Why [New Media Track, Intermediate Level]
David Hahn
David is Co-owner of Tarakan Design, a Dallas-area Drupal development company specializing in building online communities and content management systems for small businesses and organizations. A leader and organizer of the Dallas Drupal Users Group, DrupalCamp Dallas 2009 and OpenCamp.
Session: Going Mobile with Drupal [Drupal Track, Beginner Level]
Stephen Fierbaugh
Stephen Fierbaugh is the Director of IT for a rapidly growing 501(c)3. He has 20 years of IT experience with IBM, a Dot Com (& dot bomb), and other companies. During the Dot Com boom, Stephen was technomadic for 3 years, getting large companies all over the US & Europe online.
Session: Getting LAMP Ready for Production [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Gabe Sumner
Writer, programmer, speaker and dog trainer. Gabe Sumner is a web programmer with a decade of experience. Gabe now works as a Developer Evangelist with Telerik. At Telerik, Gabe provides developer education, product messaging guidance and community engagement.
Session: Introduction to Telerik’s Sitefinity CMS [.NET Track, Beginner Level]
Mark Sonnabaum
Mark likes to build web-things with Drupal that are fast and available. He currently works as a technical consultant at Acquia. He secretly codes in Ruby when he can, and if possible, would probably marry Vim.
Session: Drupal Performance [Drupal Track, Array Level]
Wilma Howell
Wilma Howell is a long-time technology veteran and self-acclaimed geekette. In addition to leading and organizing the local Joomla! User Group in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, Wilma also serves as part of the JUG team in the Joomla! community working group, helping other user groups get registered and off the ground.
Session: Joomla! 1.6 - Coming Attractions [Joomla Track, Beginner Level]
Chris Atkins
I have been a Drupal fan for over 4 years and have built and administered several Drupal websites for DFW non-profits and a few personal sites. My main focus is site building. Some of my interests are Drupal as a blogging platform, photo galleries, Ubercart e-commerce and conference registration.
Session: Beginning Drupal with cPanel [Drupal Track, Beginner Level]
Gary Leland
Gary Leland, of former Podcast Pickle fame, has taken his social media and podcasting knowledge into the world of Fastpitch Softball by creating Softball Media. Softballmedia.com consists of The Fastpitch TV Show, The Fastpitch Radio Show, and the Fastpitch News Blog. Gary was recently on The Fox Business News Your Money Your Questions.
Session: Turning Passion into Profit with Podcasting [New Media Track, Beginner Level]
Lee Odden
Lee Odden is CEO of TopRank Online Marketing, a pioneering internet marketing agency that helps companies improve customer relationships and increase online sales through integrated search, social media and content marketing services. Odden’s client consulting experience ranges from large companies HP & McKesson to B2B solutions like PRWeb and Marketo. “Online Marketing Heroes”, published by Wiley, features Odden’s advice on internet marketing topics and he’s contributed to influential industry publications including Mashable, ClickZ and MediaPost. He is also editor of Online Marketing Blog with over 38,000 subscribers and ranked by Advertising Age as one of the top Marketing blogs online.
Session: Boosting Social SEO for Blogs [WordPress Track, Intermediate Level]
Cali Lewis
Host and producer of GeekBeat.TV, an online news show about technology and gadgets. Lover of bacon. As a public speaker, Cali talks about the impact of technology we experience today.
Session: Success with Multimedia [Common Track, Beginner Level]
John Pozadzides
John P. is the founder of HTMLHelp.com, and was an early contributor to the development of HTML and CSS (the code that makes the Web run). John is also the CEO of Woopra, host of the popular Wealth Nation podcast, former Chief Marketing Officer for Layered Tech, and former Vice President for SAVVIS Communications.
Session: Welcome to Day 2 of OpenCamp [Array Track, Beginner Level]
DB Ferguson
Webmaster of No Fact Zone, the #1 Stephen Colbert fan site on the web. Breaking news from that site has been featured in such locations as the LA Times, Chicago Tribune blog, E! Best Week Ever blog, Huffington Post, and New York magazine media blog.
Session: Analytics: A Deeper Look at Woopra [WordPress Track, Array Level]
Scott Kublin
Scott Kublin first got involved with the Internet in 1996 when he and his father started up a website design company. He then spent the next 12 years learning a wealth of information about Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization in order to further help his client's online success. Scott learned so much about how to monetize websites, that in 2008 he fired all of his clients and began working full-time on his own personal arsenal of websites.
Session: Online Marketing Mindset [Common Track, Beginner Level]
Ryan Ozimek
Ryan Ozimek is the President of Open Source Matters (OSM), the non-profit organization that helps manage the Joomla! project. Ryan has been an officer on OSM's board of directors, and has provided stewardship and guidance in the project's fundraising and event management. During this time, the Joomla! project has expanded greatly, now topping more than 16 million downloads and over 380,000 registered users in its forums.
Session: The State of Joomla! [Joomla Track, Beginner Level]
Brian Clark
Writer, entrepreneur and founder of Copyblogger, a site that teaches copywriting and content marketing to over 114,000 web writers, bloggers, and online marketers. Cofounder of DIY Themes, co-creator of the popular Thesis Theme for WordPress.
Session: Copywriting for Bloggers: Who Cares? [WordPress Track, Beginner Level]
Doug Vann
You won't find anyone much more enthusiastic about Drupal than Doug Vann. In the past three years Doug has become the Johnny Appleseed of Drupal, traveling from Drupal event to Drupal event showing people how they can make their lives as web developers more fruitful. Doug has especially enjoyed opportunities to address events like OpenCamp, LinuxFests and other settings where the audience is not Drupal specific.
Session: Ubiquitous Drupal [Drupal Track, Beginner Level]
Tom McCracken
Tom McCracken is the Director of LevelTen, helping clients develop high ROI interactive media and marketing through strategic agile methodologies. He chairs the Dallas Drupal User group and is a Certified Scrum Product Owner.
Session: Drupal Search Engine Optimization [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Cory Webb
Author of "Beginning Joomla Web Site Development" (Wrox, 2009), Cory founded Cory Webb Media in 2008, specializing in building Joomla-powered websites.
Session: Joomla! Template Frameworks - What They Are and Why You Can't Live Without Them [Joomla Track, Intermediate Level]
Jason Burnett
Jason oversees the people and the systems that make up NeoSpire’s core network and systems infrastructure, ensuring the highest level of service for our customers. Prior to joining NeoSpire, he built data centers and worked as a system administrator while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Session: Better, Faster, Stronger - Designing Large/Enterprise-Level Drupal Environments [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Paula Berg
Paula Berg is the Digital Media Leader at Linhart PR, a national public relations and corporate communications counseling firm based in Denver, CO, where she specializes in social media strategy, integration, infrastructure, and crisis management. Paula earned her social media stripes at Southwest Airlines, where she served as the company’s first Manager of Emerging Media.
Session: Slashing Through Red-Tape to Revolutionize Corporate Communication [Common Track, Beginner Level]
Peter Petrik
Peter Petrik is an entrepreneur, business proprietor, and a frequent consultant to small business owners and non-profits. Peter regularly shares his knowledge and expertise as a School of Management professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Session: CiviCRM for Non-Profits and Small Businesses [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Jason Kergosien
Jason is CEO and lead architect of Ingen Systems. He has more than 10 years experience in the development and implementation of web strategies and architecture in varied industries, including financial services, public utilities, energy, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and high-tech. His extensive background incorporates leading companies in data management, portals and content management in Microsoft technologies.
Session: Social Communities in DNN [.NET Track, Intermediate Level]
Todd Stone
Senior software developer at HBS Systems in Dallas, TX. He's active in the local .NET community as President of the D/FW Connected Systems User Group, member of the South Central District Developer Guidance Council, and as a speaker at local user groups and regional events.
Session: Building Web Sites with mojoPortal [.NET Track, Beginner Level]
Mark Ramsey
Mark is the Technology Evangelist for Hype Anvil, a small business digital marketing firm. Mark is also the co-host of Pigskin Radio, a sports fan podcast as well as several other shows.
Session: Audio Podcasting Tips for Newbies [New Media Track, Beginner Level]
Brian Sullivan
Brian Sullivan is Usability Principal at the Sabre Human Factors Center. He is the President of the DFW-UPA chapter, one of the organizers of the Big Design Conference, and for the past two years, Brian has been the chair of World Usability Day. He is a reviewer for the UPA Body of Knowledge project. Brian enjoys collaborating with designers. Brian’s mission is to prevent usability issues rather than to treat them.
Session: Design Like Da Vinci [New Media Track, Beginner Level]
AJ Wood
A.J. Wood has been recognized as the #1 Adobe Certified Instructor worldwide more than once. A self-described "creative generalist", A.J. brings a wealth of technical experience and product expertise to the classroom. Students benefit from his ability to communicate complex ideas in the simplest of terms. A passionate instructor, the only thing A.J. enjoys more than teaching is time with his family.
Session: Photographers - Create Your Website/Blog in WordPress! [New Media Track, Beginner Level]
Chad Cumba
Co-Chair of the Austin Drupal User's Group and Head Developer for emPowered Software, a Drupal Development firm based in Austin, TX. Chad is a passionate contributor the the Drupal project and has released various patches to contributed modules as well as contributed themes.
Session: Coming soon
Cash Williams
Cash Williams is the web applications developer for the Texas Transportation Institute. He has been developing Drupal sites since version 4.7 and currently maintains several governmental Drupal websites.
Session: Managing Multiple Drupal Sites with Aegir [Drupal Track, Advanced Level]
Dustin Currie
Dustin Currie is an open source Web developer who happens to think he's also a designer. He has extensive experience in Drupal, jQuery and Flash Actionscripting. After nearly 30 years of life he still isn't quite able to write an entire paragraph about his experiences. Dustin is an alumnus of the University of Texas.
Session: Theming - The Look and Feel of Drupal [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Valarie Stuart
Valarie has been a web designer since the Internet became popular in the 1990s, and recently won the Drupal Gardens Design Competition, scoring a free iPad from Acquia!
Session: Build Your Social Website Quickly with Drupal Gardens [Drupal Track, Beginner Level]
Chris Christensen
Chris Christensen is a senior developer at allplayers.com. He was pleased when he found the Drupal framework and the vivid open source community. Chris’s love for Drupal only grew after attending the first Drupal Camp in Dallas and hopes you have the same experience at Open Ca.mp!
Session: Reuse with Drupal Features [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]
Chris Sloan
Chris has an extremely vast knowledge of Drupal ranging everywhere from basic site building to themeing, SEO and module development. He has spoken about Drupal at several organized camps and user groups and has been very involved in training both novice and intermediate Drupal users.
Session: Cool Drupal Modules You’ve Probably Never Heard Of [Drupal Track, Beginner Level]
Tom Canavan
A 24-year technology veteran, Tom is arguably the top security and disaster recovery expert in the Joomla world. Author of two published Joomla! Books, he is genuinely interested in sharing his years of experience.
Session: Come On - How Secure is Joomla!, Really? [Joomla Track, Intermediate Level]
Jeremy Johnson
Jeremy is a User Experience Designer who is passionate about technology, mobile trends, and all things the Internet. He also enjoys art, photography, travel, and gaming.
Session: Taking Your Content Mobile [New Media Track, Beginner Level]
Tom McCracken
Tom McCracken is the Director of LevelTen, helping clients develop high ROI interactive media and marketing through strategic agile methodologies. He chairs the Dallas Drupal User group and is a Certified Scrum Product Owner.
Session: Why Drupal is Different [Drupal Track, Beginner Level]
Aaron Brazell
Aaron Brazell is the author of the WordPress Bible (Wiley), and the lead developer for WP Engine, a premium WordPress platform provider. He has been an active member of the WordPress community since 2004 as a developer, user and consultant. He advises small- and medium-sized businesses (and on occasion, an enterprise, educational institution or non-profit organization) on innovative WordPress solutions and guides them in strategy and business decisions pertaining to their endeavors.
Session: WordPress' Undiscovered APIs [WordPress Track, Advanced Level]
