All 2009 speakers

Kristina Halvorson is the founder and president of Brain Traffic, a nationally-renowned agency specializing in content strategy and writing for websites.

Widely recognized as one of the country’s leading content strategists, Kristina speaks regularly to audiences around the world about how to deliver useful, usable content online, where and when your customers need it most. Read more »

Lane Becker is co-founder and President of Get Satisfaction, a web startup dedicated to fostering new methods of communication and collaboration between companies and their customers. Read more »

Addison Berry takes part in many aspects of both the Drupal software and community. In addition to being the Documentation Team Lead, she contributes patches to core Drupal, maintains several contributed modules, and is active in various mentoring programs such as the Drupal Dojo group and Google's Highly Open Participation (GHOP) program. Read more »

Angela Byron is an Open Source evangelist who lives and breathes Drupal. She got her start as a Google Summer of Code student in 2005 and since then has completely immersed herself in the Drupal community. Her work includes core coding and patch review, creating and contributing modules and themes, testing and quality assurance efforts within the project, improving documentation, and providing user support on forums and IRC. Read more »

Ben is the founder and CEO of the Drupal SEO company Volacci. In September 2009, his first book entitled Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization was published by Packt Publishing. He is active in the Drupal community and contributed the Drupal SEO Checklist module. As an internationally-known consultant, speaker, and trainer on topics related to SEO, Drupal, and building successful high-tech businesses, Ben's dynamic and engaging style appeals to audiences of all technical levels. He has built and managed SEO campaigns for many companies including HP, Fast Company, Acquia and Amazon. Read more »

Eric is President of Development Seed, an online strategy shop in Washington, DC. Eric has developed communications strategies and tools for organizations around the world, ranging from international development organizations to major media outlets. Recently he has been mapping food security projects in Africa, developing the intranet at the World Bank for their international communications team, and building decentralized data collection tools to survey public health organizations' capacity to respond to bird flu outbreak on the ground in Southeast Asia. Read more »

Alec Hendry is the Director of Development & Operations for MTV Networks UK & Ireland, Australia & New Zealand working with a number of well known brands including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. He works across multiple platforms with video workflow and production being a speciality. Prior to MTV he worked at new media agency Deepend and was heavily involved with the launch of QuickTime streaming in Europe and a number of world firsts in web casting, including the first live web cast from the Glastonbury festival. Read more »

Andrew started building online communities using open platforms during the 2004 US Presidential campaign, helped to support the early Drupal consulting services community as Business Strategy Director for the CivicSpace Labs project from 2004-2005. Later, as co-founder of Goodstorm, he invested in the buildout of Drupal's ecommerce capabilities, and, as co-founder of the CoLab project at NASA, in a Drupal-based Conference Organizing solution. Read more »

For nearly 4 years Greg has been helping organizations leverage Drupal to achieve their goals. For 2 years he has been a member of the Drupal security team focused on education: helping keep the Drupal sites of the world safe. Last year he started writing a book about security in Drupal and this spring it was finally finished and published. Read more »

Micki Krimmel is the founder of NeighborGoods.net a community where you can meet your neighbors and share your stuff.

Micki (aka Mickipedia) is well known in the Web 2.0 space for her work in online community development and her popular videoblog. As a web consultant and advisor, Micki has worked with many technology startups and new media companies build sustainable communities for authentic conversation and engaged participation. Read more »

Michael E. Meyers is entrepreneur who has been involved in numerous successful (and some not so successful) technology startups across a wide range of industries. Most recently, Michael was the co-founder and CTO of NowPublic.com, the first venture backed start-up based on Drupal, that pioneered the concept of Citizen Journalism. Read more »

Allie has been an open source developer and advocate since 2001. She has worked on several open source applications, and went "Drupal Pro" in 2005.

Her emphasis is on creating relationships between a wide variety of information such as demographics and ecommerce information, but also participatory and locative data that create a big-picture view of how an online community functions. Her goal is to provide tools that deliver this information in ways that make sense and work well for site administrators of all skill levels. Read more »

Four Kitchens co-founder Todd Ross Nienkerk has been involved in the web design and publishing industries since 1996. Since that time, he has designed and built countless websites and written for, edited, and managed several online and print publications. Although Todd’s interests focus primarily on graphic design, his strong background in development and site architecture allows him to contribute to virtually any creative or technical task. Todd is a member of both the Drupal Documentation Team and the Drupal.org Redesign Team. Read more »

Paul Reeves is the senior developer for MTV Networks UK & Ireland and became a Drupal Evangelist after attending DrupalCon Boston in 2008. After building bespoke content management systems for around 9 years, he wishes he'd discovered Drupal around 9 years sooner.

Four Kitchens co-founder Aaron Stanush is a graphic artist and web designer who harbors a special love for logos, branding, and typography. Building large-scale websites occupies most of his time, with most of his efforts guiding sites’ aesthetics and user experience. As a member of the Drupal.org Redesign Team, Aaron has been invited to participate in several Drupal.org redesign sprints held around the world.

Ryan has lived in Louisville, KY for the last 10 years, starting in high school, through college, to the present where he now works full time as an e-commerce consultant with Commerce Guys and as the Ubercart project lead. He has a degree in Biblical Studies from Boyce College but got into professional web development thanks to his hobby QuickBasic (7.1 to be exact) and FreeBASIC programming. It's great to have hobbies that pay the bills! Read more »

James Walker is Lullabot's Director of Education where he oversees the company's public workshops, seminars and private Drupal trainings, combining his passion for both technology and teaching, A leader in the Drupal community, James is a founding member of the non-profit Drupal Association and the Drupal security team. As a long time member of the Drupal community, James maintains over a dozen modules and has contributed countless patches to Drupal core. Read more »