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Architecture

Building a citizen portal for 100+ services using a microservices architecture

Talk
Industry track
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Hreinn
Hreinsson
Web director
City of Reykjavik

The city of Reykjavik is facing the challenge of integrating a heterogeneous landscape of systems into a coherent city website based on design thinking and best practice UX.. This landscape contains simple services like applying for a dog permission or allowance to make changes to your house. But also complex services like admissions of children to school, or applying for an social apartment need to be integrated.

2.03 vanadium

Connecting media solutions beyond Drupal

Talk
Industry track
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Miro
Dietiker
Founder
MD Systems
Kampaweb

We want to look at existing third party solutions and how you can benefit from their seamless integration into Drupal media.

An overview of Digital Asset Management systems, embedding, Content Delivery Networks and external storage.

3.03 germanium

Contentpool - Centrally editing distributed content!

Talk
Industry track
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Oliver
Berndt
Founder, Senior PM
media-c Digital Solutions e.U.
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Wolfgang
Ziegler
CEO / CTO
drunomics GmbH

Today, a typical organization and publishing houses runs dozen of websites. Besides the desire of quickly spinning up and launching new sites, the need of re-using content quickly comes up. This is where our contentpool Drupal distribution comes in!

3.03 germanium

Data visualisation

Talk
Industry track
Daniel
Wehner
Senior engineer
THE world universities insights

A strong content model enables to present the data not just as a website. Beside serving your content onto different devises you can also present the data in a different way. One more and more important one is data visualisation you'll learn about

3.03 germanium
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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

Drupal as an interface to a world of commerce

Talk
Industry track
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Jeroen
Meeus
Technical Lead
Emakina
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Klaas
Van den brande
Product owner
Emakina.be

Micro services are the new cool, but administration interfaces are either decoupled, connected using an SSO, or that monolith in the stack added on top.

In this talk we will focus on how Drupal 8 is not just a CMS, but a construction kit to build powerfull interfaces for a bunch of decoupled micro-services.

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2.04 titanium

Drupal Infrastructure Exchange

BoF
Industry track

Following up on what happened with BoFs at DrupalCon Vienna here is another round of infrastructure exchange between our engineering team from the DA and other folks being involved in providing infrastructure for the Drupal community. While this exchange is open in general the target group are clearly people with an engineering record on serving infrastructure either within the community or it's companies.

Scope is about sharing experience with certain technologies, integrating present central and decentralized infrastructures, envisioning future landscape of community services, understanding different privacy and law contexts, finding synergy effects and lean ways of contribution/collaboration and most important establishing further meetups and communications. An actual agenda should be defined once sitting together ...

3.07 argon

Drupal.org Update

Panel
Industry track
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Timothy
Lehnen
Director of Engineering
Drupal Association
Neil
Drumm
Drupal.org Architect
Drupal Association
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Ryan
Aslett
Drupal.org Developer Services
Drupal Association

The Drupal.org panel provides an update on the last six months of work by the Drupal Association engineering team to improve the tools and processes that support the Drupal project.

3.08 neon

How Greenpeace built an engagement platform on Wordpress

Talk
Industry track
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Lilian
Reyes
Planet 4 Implementer
Greenpeace International

It has been a year since the decision to go for a multi instance architecture Wordpress was made, and since then the technical track has focused on the much needed groundwork to enable such architecture and complete redesign of Greenpeace.org Greenpeace's global CMS.

2.04 titanium

How UNICEF Built A Donation Platform Across 135 Currencies and 7 Languages

Talk
Industry track
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Mike
Conlow
Head of Technology Consulting
Blue State Digital
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Jeff
Tomlinson
Architect
Four Kitchens

In our session, we’ll discuss how UNICEF partnered with Blue State Digital, Four Kitchens, and Motherlode Media to build a custom global payments platform.  We’ll focus on how we addressed UNICEF’s need to set up global campaigns, localized to donors in different countries in a matter of minutes, while simultaneously supporting local UNICEF offices in their own fundraising needs.

Materials

spectrum A

Launching a successful educational portal

Talk
Industry track
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Wouter Immerzeel
Wouter
Immerzeel
dev dude
Finalist IT Group
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Tom van Vliet
Tom
van Vliet
Principal
Finalist IT Group

Creating a good performing, multi target engaging portal seems like a daunting task, in this talk we will sketch some of the challenges you''ll encounter when creating an educational portal and how to overcome those challenges.

3.09 helium

Modular software, modular infrastructure

Talk
Industry track
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Jakub
Piasecki
CTO
Linkfactory A/S

In this session, we will take a look at a trend called Infrastructure as Code (IaC), we are gonna take programming principles and try to apply them to how we organize and create our infrastructure. Finally, we will introduce drupaldocker.org and elaborate on why it's important to share the knowledge about basic principles and best practices, that should be featured by every project utilizing Dockerized environment.

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2.03 vanadium

mylife.de - looking back over the past two years

Talk
Industry track
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Leon
Kerker
Projektmanagement
UEBERBIT
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Frank Meyerer
Frank
Meyerer
Head of Project Management
UEBERBIT

Mylife is the health portal of BurdaLife, the business division in the National media brand of Hubert Burda Media which has the most reach. Our project team took care of both the SEO concept as well as the conception and design development of the platform. We also carried out the technical implementation by using thunder.

3.02 hassium
Expertise topics

Myths and Legends of Breaking the Monolith

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Branislav
Bujisic
Product Engineer
Platform.sh

Think about the following scenario: you have a giant Drupal 7 project with heaps of services and custom code, and things. It is a single point of failure and you want to replace it. Is Drupal 8 the logical option? Do you really want to switch from one to another monolith? There were others who had the same dilemma. Come to the session to find out what they did.

3.02 hassium
Expertise topics

Paperless: The paper-to-digital transformation chronology

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Dima
Danylevskyi
CxO
Root.ua Agency

One of the YMCAs located in Minnesota with almost 30 locations has been suffering from paperwork for many years. Every day hundreds of visitors had to sign papers just to enter gym or swimming pool. Some of the papers have to be stored for 20 years. As a result tons of paper have been just occupying the place and time of the staff.

2.07 aurum
Expertise topics

The OpenEuropa Initiative

Talk
Industry track
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Antonio
De Marco
Director
Nuvole Web
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Jean-François
Hovinne
Owner
Cleverway
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Hernani
Borges de Freitas
Technical Architect
 

During this session, we will present the OpenEuropa Initiative, the Open Source components that you can already use in your projects, and the (micro)Service Oriented Architecture and Technical Governance that drive the design and development of these components.

spectrum A

Upgrading vs. Upcycling - How to stay ahead of the curve

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Josef
Dabernig
Agile Consultant
Amazee Labs

A full rebuild of a website can be a time and money consuming process. This session is about exploring different approaches between upgrading and upcycling existing websites.

2.07 aurum
Expertise topics

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