The Event: Seminar: Dries Buytaert, Founder of Drupal, speaking on Drupal's Future

When: Oct 29, 2009 - 9:00am - 1:00pm

Where: Abingdon Theater Company
312 West 36th Street
New York, NY

What: Featuring presentations by:

Dries Buytaert, Drupal Project Founder, Acquia CTO and Co-Founder

In his session, Mr. Buytaert will discuss how organizations are using Drupal to power their social publishing strategies, share insights on the upcoming release of Drupal 7 and talk about the role Acquia plays to help organizations succeed with Drupal. We also are planning presentations by industry experts on scaling Drupal in the enterprise as well as implementation best practices.

Michael Mainiero, Director of Web & Digital Media Services, NYU Langone Medical Center IT

Higher Education and larger not for profit organizations have a unique opportunity to support the diverse needs of hundreds of departments or subsidiaries with a more efficient, dynamic and customizable Web content management system known as Drupal, one of the most popular Web publishing platforms in the world today. In this Webinar, Michael Mainiero, the Director of Web & Digital Media at NYU Langone Medical Center, will discuss best practices using Drupal.

Jeff Rigby, Drupal Developer, DPCI

Within the past few years, organizations that previously avoided implementing open-source Web content management platforms have now looked to Drupal as an alternative to meet the high performance demands of the enterprise. In this session, Jeff Rigby, Drupal Developer at DPCI, will present best practices and lessons learned for scaling Drupal to the enterprise.

A Wine and Cheese social will follow the presentations

Due to limited space this event is by invitation only. For more information please contact us at seminars@databasepublish.com.

Speaker Bios:

Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform as well as the co-founder of Acquia. He also serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish. A native of Belgium, Dries holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Ghent University.

Mike Mainiero directs all development and infrastructure services for the design and implementation of enterprise content management at NYU Langone Medical Center. This includes hundreds of websites for patient care, research and education. Mike currently oversees a full production web shop that includes design, architecture, content, SEO, and web marketing.

Jeff Rigby is a core Drupal Developer at DPCI, having architected solutions for organizations such as Allied Advertising (www.gofobo.com), IPI (www.memberlink.net), and PMG (https://warl.securedonation.org/warl/form). Jeff was also a core contributor to projects at NYSHA (www.nysha.org), Hachette Filipacchi Media US (www.pointclickhome.com), and many others.