Thursday, October 20

Talk Schedule for Thursday, October 20, 2016

 Find the talks you most wish to see.  You can click on a talk to see more detail about it.

8:00-9:00 am – Registration

 

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive

Everybody step right up! It's time to register for the conference, get your badge and your bag, and meet friends both old and new.  Coffee will be served. You will need to show identification on the ground floor to gain entrance to the NERD center. As 9:00 am approaches, you'll travel to the MIT campus for the next event.

 

 

 

9:00-10:00 am – Keynote Address

 

Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab

Keynote: The Super Integrator

by Annette Lewis

Annette will walk us through the process she uses to go from design comps to finished site in 2 weeks - with everything done through the web.

10:00-10:20 – relocate to Microsoft NERD Center

 

10:20-11:00 am – Talks and Demonstrations

 

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive

Mann Room

Sampson/Paul Room

Learn How We Deliver. Continuously.

by Nejc Zupan

How to keep customers happy by delivering features fast, and bug fixes almost immediately - without breaking stuff.

Adams/Attucks Room

11:00-11:10 – Hallway Track

 

Move between rooms, grab a bite.  Talk amongst yourselves!

11:10-11:50 – Talks

 

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive

Mann Room

Sampson/Paul Room

Docker and Plone

by Alin Voinea

From development to continuous deployment.

Adams/Attucks Room

11:50-12:00 – 

 

12:00-12:40 – Talks and Demos

 

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive

Mann Room

Sampson/Paul Room

Adams/Attucks Room

12:40-14:00 – Lunch

 

14:00-14:40 – Talks and Demos

 

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive

Mann Room

The Headless CMS

by Érico Andrei

It's all the rage. Érico explains how to do it with Plone.

Sampson/Paul Room

Making Everyone Happy

by Jeff Bowman

Jeff will show us how Plone+Salesforce helps The Mountaineers, a diverse, volunteer-driven nonprofit, keep pace in the digital age.

Adams/Attucks Room

14:40-14:50 –

 

14:50-15:30 – Talks and Demos

 

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive

Mann Room

Greater Than the Sum of the Parts

by David Glick

Lessons from integrating Pyramid, React, and Plone (and elasticsearch, and Salesforce, and a payment gateway, and...)

Sampson/Paul Room

Static Websites with Lektor

by David Baumgold

Static websites are back in vogue, and for good reason: they’re incredibly cheap, limitlessly scalable, and impossible to hack.

Adams/Attucks Room

15:30-15:50 – Break

 

15:50-16:50 – Talks and Demos

 

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive

Mann Room

Deployment Showdown

by Sven Strack

Sven will host a live competition where entrants show how many different cloud platforms they can deploy a working Plone instance to in 15 minutes.

Sampson/Paul Room

Django + Salesforce

by Bill Blanchard

Bill will describe how Salesforce.com can be used as a Django database backend.

Adams/Attucks Room

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions are open sessions where like-minded people gather to discuss interests they have in common (similar to the "open space" concept).

 

16:50-17:50 – Lightning Talks

 

Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, One Memorial Drive

Mann Room

 

 

Lightning talks are quick off the cuff presentations that last up to FIVE MINUTES. Use them to rant, praise, muse, show off something you've done or something you think we need to know about! You will have a microphone, projector, and video projector.

See Maurits van Rees' notes