 Hello everyone and welcome sponsors to the About Your Sponsorship Benefit. We do this for every DrupalCon just to help you guys out with any logistics, questions, coordination, or concerns that you have with your sponsorship. DrupalCon is a monster of its own and our sponsorship packages tend to be unique in its own as well. So this webcast is here to help you guys out. Answer any questions that you guys have in regards to your sponsorship package and basically any general overview to make your experience a little better. First and foremost, I want to welcome you guys all and thank you. Without your guys' sponsorship support, DrupalCon would not happen and I can't stress that enough because it's true. And it is our role and it's my role to make sure that your sponsorship is appreciated and you guys have as easy as time and as fun as time as possible. So that's where this comes in. If you have any questions during this webinar, feel free to drop them in the Q&A window and bring in on the other end of this. We'll answer them and pause me when he has time and we'll answer those live right here for you. Alright, so just to get started right away, here's an agenda of today. We're going to cover all the benefits that come with the sponsorship packages. Keep in mind that all the benefits don't apply to your specific sponsorship but I will go over all of them just because basically each sponsorship package is a combination of these base benefits. So I'm going to cover how to fulfill them, what you need to do on your end when things are due and any specs and whatnot. Then I'm going to go over exhibiting. So this is going to cover the schedule of the conference as far as exhibiting goes, load and set up when you need to be ready. Then we're going to get into ordering services and materials for your sponsorship or for your exhibiting booth. We work with a number of vendors, each kind of service their own needs. So I'm going to cover there and how to go about doing that. Then we're going to go over shipping. Shipping tends to be a little bit complicated, especially when we are working internationally like we are now and Dublin in particular has strange customs to follow. Then we're going to go over basic travel and hotel to the venue and to Dublin. Many of you probably already know or are familiar with it and Jupecon is pretty unique. So I'm just going to go over the general program of Jupecon and what each programming aspect is for the conference's event. So as I mentioned before, we're going to start with your benefits. So all of you should have received an email from me and we'll basically say welcome to Jupecon Dublin 2016. Important information about your sponsorship. In that initial email there was a few due dates, but more importantly there was a link to this Jupecon Dublin Sponsory Event Kit. Inside this event kit you can literally find everything that you need in regards to your sponsorship. So you can find due dates, you can find contact information, you can find schedules, links to specific submission pages, whatever it may be. It's all going to live here, but do keep in mind that this is basically a document consolidating information from outside resources. So if you want to look at something specifically say shipping and handling, be sure to look at InterFlow's personal document and get in contact with them. But if you have a quick question that needs to be answered, you probably find the answer here. And then I also want to point out that this is a very long and complicated document. So just be sure when you're reading this, you're only reading what pertains to your specific sponsorship package. I created this sort of checklist of five things, the first things that you should do, and so the first thing I always like to do is go to the table of contents. And when you go down to the table of contents here, you can just simply find your sponsorship package. So if you're a core sponsor, you'll go to core. If you are a module sponsor, say you are a lunch sponsor, you go to your lunch and you can find what specifically needs to be done in regards to that specific sponsorship. Okay, so per this front page, I just want to let you know that if you guys are a core sponsor and you haven't chosen your bonus yet, most of you have, please let me know. And then just begin to run down each benefit that pertains to your seeing important deadlines, how to deliver upon them, and basically how to fulfill them on your end. And then I point out four or five more important and pressing matters that you can look at here, and then information about our exhibitors, service partners. So Hume and CCD cover all of that later. So let's jump right into the benefits. Again, all these won't apply to everyone, but since, you know, I can't narrow it down who I'm talking to, I'm just going to go ahead and cover them. The first one is your DrupalCon tickets. I've sent most of you your tickets, and basically what I sent was a set amount of these unique codes. There's six digit codes. So if you're a diamond, you got 20. If you're a silver, you got three. And what you need to do with these codes is go and redeem them. So you can redeem them by sending them to the person in which is going to claim the ticket. You can redeem the ticket for someone else, or you can redeem the ticket for you. And so how that works is when you go to the DrupalCon website, you'll want to go to register now. And as soon as this loads, you'll see a redeem a ticket page. So again, these codes that I'm sending you are blank and empty tickets. They aren't coupon codes as they were in the past. These are empty tickets ready to be redeemed. Simply take the ticket code, enter in your reservation code here. Notice that your Drupal.org account will be filled in automatically here. And then continue through registration. No need to go through a checkout. No need to go through an ordering process. The number one thing to keep in mind is that whoever is claiming this ticket needs to have a Drupal.org account, or be using an email address that is associated with their Drupal.org account. So if you don't have a Drupal.org account, or if you're trying to redeem the ticket for someone who doesn't have one, make sure they go ahead and get one done and then use that information. And then to jump back up to the top here, the next thing I want to talk about is just your exhibiting booth. If your core sponsor, meaning you are a Diamond, Platinum, Gold, or Silver, you get a booth or an exhibiting space. So just as a quick overview, if you're a Diamond or Platinum, you get a six meter by two meter booth, Gold gets three meters by two meters, and Silver gets a two meter table. So to get a better idea of what this looks like is in Europe, or Drupal.org in Europe, we go with the Shell scheme booth. So right here, this is what you're seeing is two three by two meter booths put together. So if you're a Diamond or Platinum and you have a six meter by two meter, you will remove this wall and you'll have the full space to work with. If you're an in-cap or you're on the side, you'll notice that you'll be open on two sides, but if you're in close, meaning you have a sponsor on either end of you, you will be closed on each side. Silver sponsors, this is the exact setup that you will be provided. Two chairs, table table cloth, and in each booth, whether if you're Gold or Platinum, you will also be provided this same setup. So what comes with your booth? You get shared Wi-Fi, but as we all know, Wi-Fi is not guaranteed, but you do have the option to order hardwire jobs if you are concerned about this. You get one or two tables depending on if you're a six meter by two meter or three meter by two meters plus two chairs per table. What's great about this years or this Drupalcon Europe is that it does come carpeted, so no need to order any carpets, though if you want to stand out a bit and have your booth space be separated from the general gray carpeting, you are welcome to order custom carpet or just have custom colors. There will be electricity provided. You'll have one double socket which provides 1,000 watts. Again, this is different than what's happened in the past, so I think you guys will be happy to learn. There will be two spotlights inside your booth, and you can have them point whichever way that you want. One waste basket for trash or rudge. If you notice here, you'll see a fascia board. You can customize this. You can have it be a printed design in which you'll work with. You are vendor partner, but if you don't make this known, it will come just saying your company name. If you want that customized, again, that is an option. If you are a silver sponsor and you just have the table, you are welcome to bring in a freestanding banner as long as it's no longer than two meters wide or a quarter meter in depth, essentially the length of your table without protruding too far behind you. Obviously, if you have a booth, you're welcome to fix anything to the walls, customize it as much as you would like as long as it fits within the booth, but when you are a silver sponsor, you are really confined to your booth space or to your table aside from the freestanding banner. You are welcome to order monitors and use this as you will and you can place the banner behind you or to the right of you, but keep in mind that space is limited. Again, coming back up top here, just walking down the list of benefits. Again, this is a complicated event kit which I'm working on making simpler. The next thing is just logo placement on the website. Nothing you really need to do here, but it is important that you send me your most up to date or correct logo. Some people or some companies want us to promote a specific product. Sometimes logos or branding change midway, but you can also provide the correct URLs. So go ahead and send me the right logo and the URL you would like me to link it to and I'll go ahead and upload it for you. The next thing I want to point out is the two ads. So if you're a Diamond Platinum or Gold, you get a print ad in our program guide. If you follow this bookmark, you'll see the specs for that. And it's important that I want to note that this is actually due July 20th. This takes a little bit more internal work on your end, so if you haven't started on that already, please do. Diamonds and Platinum, you get a full page ad. Goals, you get a half page ad. For the web ad, also due on the July 20th, please keep in mind there. Diamonds and Platinum each get the same size. And again, if you follow this link, you can see the specs here. So for the print ad, you'll notice that if you're a full page or if you're a half page, you can find the specs here. Here are the specs for the Dublin site or for the web ad. This web ad is actually going to be on the homepage of the DrupalCon website. So it's a pretty good benefit and the great part about it is is you can link it to whichever URL you want. So when you have these ads ready, please just send them directly to me. And again, the deadline for that is July 20th. And if you were not aware, when you click on these dates, it'll actually take you to a calendar or a list to where you can see all the upcoming dates. Again, many of them won't pertain to you, but for the ones that do, you can click this and you can copy it to your calendar so you don't forget. The next thing I'd like to talk about is the tote bag item. This one, again, doesn't apply to ad one. It applies to diamonds and platinum and the tote bag sponsor. But this takes quite a bit of time as there are logistics involved. The due date for this is July 16th. You can add that from the DrupalCon calendar if you would like. But basically what the DrupalCon tote bag item is is during registration, each attendee will be handed a bag full of goodies from you guys. This can be stickers. This can be little choppy toys. It can be pamphlets and flyers. Obviously, the more attractive or unique the item, the bigger the impact it's going to be on the attendee. Throwing flyers in there is an option, but I bet most of them will be thrown away. So please, if you're going to take advantage of this benefit, make it worthwhile. The bags are relatively small, however, so a full-on poster panel or laptop might not be the best bet, but there are some pretty unique, cool, smaller branded items that you can put out there. The most important aspect of this is going to be the shipping, but we'll get into that later. Just be sure it's arrived by September 16th to the Advanced Receiving Warehouse. For the name room and podium, again, this only applies to diamonds and platinum. I just want to make sure that I just kind of point out what this is. So each of these sponsors get a room named after them. So if there's a session room, this session room will be named sponsor-room number. So if you are going to attend a session or if you submitted a session and it looks like this company is in your room, it's not. It's just a way to designate this area. So if you want to see, if you're looking at a map and you're getting lost, you can say I'm looking for ex-sponsor room or ex-buff room, whatever it may be. But if you are a diamond or a platinum sponsor, just go ahead and submit your print-ready vector logo, and I'll take care of making sure your logo is represented on the maps and on the podium signs within this room. The keynote introduction. Nothing that anyone really needs to worry about here. These are custom opportunities worked directly with their respective sponsors. But I do want to cover the Drupal Showcase. This is another difficult benefit to fulfill, but probably the most advantageous if it's done right and more importantly, if it's done in time and you'll notice that the due date is actually tomorrow. I've been working with a bit of you before, but essentially what the Drupal Showcase is, is a case study in which our sponsors have the options to present. So you do not need to go through the selection process as a typical session goes. However, you do need to submit one. So to find more information on that, please follow this link because this link that you see here where it says submit your session, this is a custom link only available to you as sponsors. You can get an abstract of really what we're looking for. It's case studies. Feel free to bring in your clients talk with you through these case studies. Then go to submit a case study or submit a Drupal Showcase. You'll see if you have a Drupal Auto or account, you'll be auto populated there. Input your abstract, attach any of the files. Make sure you designate the experience level. Where it gets really specific is you need to scroll down here and select a Drupal Showcase. Business sometimes gets confused. So again, just be sure you scroll down to session check Drupal Showcase. Go ahead and save it. When this is done, please let me know and send me a link to your submission so I can publish it for you because right now submission says close. But I do have the authority to publish it live for you because again as a sponsor these are automatically accepted. But it's just important because it's the success of this session which can have a huge impact is based solely on the content you submit and whether people see it and people can't see it unless you submit it. So please send those over to me. And if you are a core sponsor we do actually have some time available if you are interested in purchasing a full 60 minute session. We do not offer 30 minutes or 15 minute sessions for purchase but you can purchase a full 60 minute one. This is a great opportunity to have some good content during the event. If you are interested, contact your account manager whether it's Delana or Mark or Kerry or just let me know and I will direct you to the right person. The next part I would like to talk about is just a logo in the email so Diamond and Platinum get their logos included in the attendee emails. I'm sure if you're registered or if you've been to a coupon before you've seen these attendee emails. So nothing you really need to worry about there unless you are a Diamond and Platinum sponsor just go ahead and send me your logo. The Drupal newsletter. So you'll see this down here. Drupal Association newsletter post. Don't worry about it here because this really is done on an individual basis and I will work with you directly. But the important thing here is to know this is a Drupal Association newsletter post not a DrupalCon newsletter post. So there's a difference there. For on the other hand if you have an inclusion in an attendee email so if you're a Diamond or if you're a Platinum and you're one of the three who have claimed this benefit you do have the ability to send me some content it's limited to a certain character amount and it will be included in one of these DrupalCon attendee emails. Please send me that by August 28th and I will take care of that for you. The next benefit I want to talk about is the attendee list because this does apply to quite a few of you. The attendee list is exactly what it sounds like. It's a list of all the attendees in which I will send out to you. However it only comes with the name, company, title and geographic information only. There is no contact information and if you want the contact information we won't provide it for you, I'm sorry. We'd like to hold our attendees privacy true so we won't cross any boundaries there. However when you do get the attendee list there is this community page. So if you go to the DrupalCon website simply go to community, look who's coming you can see public profiles of everyone who has opted in to be on this public page. You can see their job title, you can see their names you can even see a picture of them but even better yet you can contact them directly. So it's always good to just scout out who's coming because if you've never been to a DrupalCon before there's a lot of people. If you're interested in setting meetings with people if you're interested in just general networking and you know the type of people that you want the community page is a great tool. Next part would be the Drupal jobs credit because this does apply to everyone so this one's going to be a little bit more complicated. On August 26 I will be sending you a coupon code for Drupal jobs. If you have not been to Drupal jobs before it is a very very cool job board because it focuses on Drupal. So if you are in need of a Drupal developer a Drupal front-end developer an architect, a project manager, sales person these job posts allow you to target this talent which most of us know is pretty difficult to find out there. So I will be sending you a code and how it will work is you will go to Drupal jobs jobs.drupal.org store and as mentioned in the event kit you either are going to get five featured postings or ten regular postings. So most of you will have ten regular postings. So what you'll need to do is you add one to the cart and more all the way up until you reach the ten job credits amount. You will see this is a $199 value per job so this is very valuable if you want but when you use this code it is important that you have all ten credits in your account as you proceed through checkout as this code will only apply to a specific value. You need to use this code within 30 days or will expire however if you purchase all ten of these job credits they will live in your they will live in your Drupal jobs account until you use them. So if you don't have a need for ten Drupal developers but you think you might later on please just redeem this coupon code in this coupon field as soon as you can add coupon you will see all ten discounted down to zero in which you can proceed from there. The next benefit I would like to cover real quick is the listing in the program guide so you'll see that right here very simple just send me over when you ideally when you're sending me your logo and URL the name of your company how you wish it would how you wish for it to be listed in print. So some people again have specific products they would like to push or abbreviations or capitalizations or spaces however may be just make sure you send that over to me. For the next one the logo on the main screen side nothing you need to do there side from sending me the correct logo so I always recommend first thing you do send me a logo name and URL and it will take care of all these for you. Another benefit as a sponsor you get to provide trivia night prizes triple trivia is probably one of the most popular events during the whole conference and you as a sponsor have an opportunity to donate prizes to be given away with attribution to you so the bigger and better the prize the bigger and better the impact simply bringing these items to registration desk at Drupalcon. The last benefit that I would like to cover is access to the VIP sponsor slash border reception this happens on Wednesday of the Drupalcon after the days activities at the venue it's pretty fancy nice networking opportunity free beverages free snacks and as a sponsor you get a set amount of passes or tickets so if you haven't done so already you want to simply RSVP through this web form we've created here for you again you only get a certain amount of them so whoever you decide to send make sure it's worthwhile a lot of people like to send executives or leaderships or anyone else that it's important to network in front of some of the most from some of the most well recognized Drupal figures within the community this is a great event I take a lot of pride in it so I would love to see all of you guys attend and talk to you myself so again if you're not a core so now the next time I want to talk about it so if you're not a core so you are a lunch or a sprint sponsor or whatever it may be go to your specific sponsorship and you can find these exact same things so all these module sponsorships are basically just a combination of the ones below so how to redeem your tickets how to submit your program guide it's all there however if you are a lunch sponsor or any sort of sponsor that deals with catering so coffee, lunch, sprints opening receptions you have the option to provide branded catering items I just quickly want to cover what that means so if you want your coffee to be served in a branded coffee cup with your logo on it you have the option to do that if you want to napkins to be served you have the option to do that but you are responsible for having the produced and for paying for them and then you have to ship them so there's information on how to ship them in this side of this event kit but as far as procuring the items it's up to you but this is a great benefit because it gets your brand in everyone's hand alright so the next thing I want to talk about is exhibiting so the first place to start here would be the exhibiting schedule so this basically is when is the exhibit hall open and when you need to be fully staffed and ready to go so that means when you should have max capacity staff to handle large traffic or maybe some time to relax a bit so the first thing we want to point out is that you can start setting up your booth on Monday September 26th at 12 o'clock you'll notice here from 12 to 15 is loading and setup meaning you are able to load in any large material bags however it may be but at 15 o'clock the large garage door is closed and so you'll be forced to use the front door which is going to be a little bit more difficult but you can continue setting up all the way until 17 o'clock at which time opening reception starts so again this is Monday September 27 or September 26 at 17 opening reception starts this is a very important time to be fully set up and fully staffed as the next two hours will probably be the most busy you'll see the exhibit hall the entire conference this is due in part to this is the only thing happening in the entire event so a lot of people like to dedicate this time to pass out all their swag just get all their branding items out there collect leads and then leave the rest of the days to have the sort of more rich conversations that you are there to have can be drinks, snacks and a lot of excitement so please be ready again for opening reception the following two days Tuesday and Wednesday will have the same schedule the exhibit hall will be open to the public at 10.15 you will be able to come in there earlier as a sponsor and it's going to be the destination on your badge which will let you come in so if you are registering you will be able to enter that you indicate you are a sponsor and then it will be open until 18.00 I have these breaks highlighted because these will be the most the heavily trafficked times of the day and these are the times of the day where you guys will want to be fully staffed at the booth while sessions and bops and trainings are happening it's not as important but these breaks specifically so at 10.15 to 11.00 there will be a large free coffee break this is going to be a pretty popular one so be staffed there new this year there is going to be two lunches so basically from 12.00 to 14.00 just stay ready you guys will have access to lunch before and after and you guys are always obviously welcome to grab the lunch during the lunch break so keep in mind it's important during lunch to have as much staff as you can so people can grab lunch or communicate with attendees as needed and then from 15.15 to 15.45 there will be a short break on Thursday it's essentially the same schedule until 14.30 at which time you can begin tearing down and moving out and you have until 18.00 to be out of the exhibit hall during tearing down and move out if you have outbound shipping needs you are of course welcome to arrange this through your own courier but our courier partner interflow can handle this for you they like to point out that Dublin is pretty unique and complicated as far as crack filing and declaring for customs so they welcome all of you to contact them directly and work that out for them and just a quick overview because obviously it's nice to know where or what it's going to look like you can find a link to the exhibit hall here and just see the general layout of the booth what you see here is these orange lines are where the buffets are going to be during lunch the blue is salad stations during lunch the red is coffee during lunch and during coffee breaks purple dots are going to be dessert stations these blue are going to be the shell booths these tables on the side are going to be the silver tables and all these little grey dots in between are just general tables for people to sit at you can take a time for that if that's what interests you alright so now that we know what the layout look like and what the exhibiting hours looks like it's kind of important to know how to go about customizing your booth again if you don't have a booth it probably won't matter to you but basically we have three partners we have Hue Expo they are going to be the ones managing your setup of your booth if you want to have customized furniture or customized booths in general or specific lighting audio visual you order that from them and you can even work with them directly so basically just email email Hue himself and you guys can build custom booths but again of course they will charge a fee for there but that is an option the next partner is the CCD or the Dublin Convention Center which is where the event is going to be so if you are interested in catering hospitality audio or hardwire internet you'll want to do that through catering our other partner is InterFlow which I've touched on InterFlow is our shipping and logistics partner I'll cover that later but for now I just want to quickly walk through Hue and the CCD as mentioned Hue is in charge of furniture rentals, displays, custom booths branding additional electrical needs, lighting and then any printed panels or that custom fashion board I mentioned before so what they provide for you is a ordering system it's just a general commerce site it's pretty easy to navigate so if you want a if you want to look at let's say specific furniture you have the ability to scroll through catalog style and add it to cart if you want to do some stand upgrade products so this is going to be if you want these printed counters or if you want your own graphics and design you can do this here, you add it to cart and when you get to add to cart you'll be able to proceed to checkout you can input specific notes about how you want it to look you can attach files make sure you indicate that you are doing this for a Drupalcon Dublin and then the thing I do want to point out is that you won't be able to order until you have been given an official booth number or stand number we are underway with booth selection but official numbers have not been designated yet but we still have time so don't stress don't worry about it just know that this is there because the same thing is going to happen when you go through ordering, catering through the CCID so what's different though is you do have a show ID when you go to the CCD portal you're going to want to enter in the show ID here so I provided it, you just simple copy paste and you continue to exhibitor ordering again this is if you have a booth and you would like to order some sort of catering so I always recommend if you want people to come to your booth give them a reason to come so free food and drinks is always a good option you're going to need to create an account here so if you don't have an account, create an account and then go ahead and log in and you will have access to essentially another commerce portal order specific foods, specific beverages, alcoholic, non-alcoholic you can order professional services such as bartending security cleaning but that's nice it's a nice little tool there's also some additional audio visual equipment you can order through them and hardwire internet and I want to stress out that you will need to order everything by September 9 to avoid a 25% surcharge this goes for Hue and the CCD again September 29 or September 9 but there is plenty of time so just because you don't have your booth number now doesn't mean you need to stress if you don't have your booth number on September 8th, yes you probably should stress going through a booth selection as fast as possible and should have this information for you soon the next part I would like to cover as far as your sponsorship is going to be your shipping and handling information I mentioned before that our partner is Interflow Logistics they're based right there out of Dublin so they understand their customs and clearance more than anyone so I always recommend just contact them directly they are happy to help and they've been telling me to have you guys work with them directly here's all the contact information you need but if you have special needs or confused they're going to be the ones to go to because essentially what I did is just consolidate the information from their documents that you can find multiple times throughout here and put it in an easy to read format so you can find stuff in this event kit but again if you want the more specific detail information I recommend just working with them so the first thing that I do want to cover is that they do provide a advanced warehouse so if you're shipping anything to be that you need at your booth or you need for specific module sponsorship you can bring this in you can use your own courier but I highly highly highly highly recommend just shipping it to the advanced warehouse because they will take care of making sure it's at your booth when you arrive or it's at the specific location of the venue depending on your sponsorship so please just ship everything to the advanced warehouse you can see the address here and if you have a specific destination where you want to be say you're shipping booth material we've even created these specific labels for you to use so just put your booth number, what carrier how many boxes it is that you're using and the items will be at your booth when you arrive if you're shipping a tote bag item you have your own special label here so always just designate what your sponsor is so who, what's your sponsor's name who the courier is and I always recommend if it's for your booth or if it's for tote bag or if it's for just general swag to be distributed at the summits or sprints right on the box as many places as you can your name what the item is and what the item is for so if it's for booth say it's for the booth it's for the tote bag say it's for the tote bag and label it everywhere you can on the outside because when you're put on an event handling about handling hundreds and hundreds of shipments sometimes it gets confusing and so if you're shipping catering items for branding catering sponsorship you have your own label as well but just be sure that this you designate saying this is for a Tuesday coffee or for the Monday first time attendee social again more details of the better if you're there are deadlines associated with this I pulled them out here but again you can be found in the document so our show dates are 27 through 29 depending on which transport method you are taking you're going to need to be 10 days, 18 days or 5 days, 3 days before the requested delivery date but I just recommend ship everything between September 16th and September 22nd deadlines, certain deadlines do apply and once you pass this depending on which which method you're using if you go beyond this 18 days or this 5 days you will be charged a 25% surcharge so on top of your general cost you will be charged 25% more so pay attention to these dates add them to your calendars again you can find the shipping and guidelines and ordering forms here so everyone's going to need to order shipping and handling and order the transferring and this is where you can do it so simply fill out a booking form so Exhibition, Truplicon, hall booth number Exhibitor so that's your name all this information I don't know for you but I'm sure you can figure it out here is your payment information and then you also need to fill out a sample commercial invoice and package list for customs there's a little bit more detail pulled out here on what that means and then you have the cost associated with it so there's two documents here the shipping guidelines and ordering forms this is what it's going to say what is needed how to order it and then if you're interested on how much it's going to cost you you can find that here alright so now just to get into the general overview of the event so about Duplicon if you didn't know it's in Dublin if you're interested on or confused or want to know the best travel routes we provide this travel page so go to about getting here and you can find all that information on this page so here's the address to the conference venue notes on arriving by plane notes about arriving on train then we also provide a set of block hotels our three partner hotels are the Gibson the Hilton and the Clayton Hotel we've reserved these discount prices for you for this event so please take advantage of it and if you want to be in the thick of the Duplicon action we also recommend just take advantage of this so go to this page visit see if there's some information you know we try to do a good job of making sure the prices vary and each hotel accommodates to your specific needs the farthest ones 10 minute walk from the venue so that's nice but if 5 minutes is a huge deal go ahead and do this one each hotel has its own reservation reservation portal so if you want to reserve your room click through here and you can order directly through here and this is where how you take advantage of that discount again we've done this for you guys we want to make sure everyone has a affordable time and it can be in the thick of the action without having to go to a hostel or do whatever it needs to be the main hotel will be the Gibson this is where the 24 Sprint lounge will be this is where majority of the attendees will stay if you're interested in being in that that's where you want to go the next thing I want to cover and last thing is just the general programming of jubicon many of you have probably been to jubicon before or been to conferences similar so you understand so to start what is the session the session is generally basically a an educational or training period you will have a speaker so it's not conversation as much as it is a presentation but then there's specific tracks so if you want to just learn about being human so this is you know we all work digitally are within the digital systems and spend a lot of time on the computer but you know it's important to reflect and like you know these are humans that are building this great project then you can go all the way down to coding development if that's what you want mostly sessions will be an hour long we try to make it so there's something that interests everyone if you are prospecting or if you have clients that are attending you know we always recommend sending them to these the Drupal showcase is the sponsor one that's probably a good one to you know have your prospects or clients attend to learn a little bit more about Drupal the next thing are boss or birds or feather you notice they're not here yet so these are going to be the more conversation types they're smaller there's no presenter but there is a facilitator and it's just going to be conversations around with people that feel passionate about a similar topic or just have the same sort of questions revolving a certain topic once those open up you are welcome to submit it and it's basically first come first serve if you see an open room you click on that room and put the title and put an abstract and you know as they say if you build it so if you are really passionate about something there's probably a good chance that someone else is of your company has questions or issues and you think other people do submit that boss when you have a chance and it's good chance for you to get into some really really important conversations that need to be held at Drupal con that's what it's here for a physical get together of the Drupal community when these conversations need to be had we hope that they're had here trainings so trainings happen on Monday before the actual programming starts trainings is just what it sounds like they're training classes they're going to be more developer development focused so if we're front and back in Drupal 8, twig whatever it may be once the trainings are announced you'll be able to purchase tickets to attend these or purchase them for your developers for a little bit of professional development summits are also going to happen on Monday so these are vertical specific get-togethers again similar to a boss these are much larger than boss they happen all day but it's going to be more conversational there is a facilitator but if you're interested or you work in the higher education industry or the government industry and you want to talk with the fellow people that work in the same industry as you and you want to see why Drupal is the chosen platform if you want to talk about questions or concerns that you have I recommend attending these these are these are some of the most rich conversations that you'll have all day yes it is a long day 9 to 17 but it's more than worth it if you want to attend the business summit this is a chance for you to meet and share your concerns with the other fellow Drupal shops so if you're a Drupal agency these are going to be the owners and executives of these that are their lifestyle and the success of the business lives with Drupal if you're a dev ops or if you just want to learn about how to get into the Drupal community attend these they do have a fee but the community summit is free again these happen on Monday and so now I just kind of want to cover the schedule at a glance so just a quick rundown of what the week's activities will look like because it is more than the three days it is a week and it is from morning to night so on Sunday registration opens up at 15 to 18 if you guys are the ones that just want to get started as soon as possible because you're so excited you can come in on Sunday on Monday as I mentioned before you'll see trainings, summits there will be sprints so if you have developers please send them over to these sprints and you know let's build Drupal there will be the first time attendee social which is a nice nice event for first timers you don't have to be a first timers but this could be a good place for you first timers it's nice networking social event it's always fun and then the opening reception this is when you're an exhibitor you want to be there ready staff ready to exhibit ready to network with all the attendees but if you're not an exhibitor come because it's blast it's one of my favorite events of the whole time on Tuesday Wednesday it's going to be very similar schedules each morning we'll start with the keynote the exhibit halls will open sessions will begin boss will begin the sprint lounge will be open all day and then later in that evening on Tuesday women in Drupal will start you can find out more information on that online on Wednesday it's the same thing keynote exhibit hall session boss sprint lounge is going to be open but if you're interested in attending a Drupal association public board meeting come on in Thursday very similar again aside from the fact that the keynote is a community keynote exhibit hall sessions boss sprint lounge is going to be open and then around 15 o'clock the closing session will happen this is fun you know just relax wind down and get a recap of what happened and then Drupal trivia that will happen later in the evening information is available here on the website if you want to find it please attend that's the best it's not trivia night it's Drupal trivia night I think that's enough said right there and then on Friday all the sprints happen this is a huge day if you're a company send in all your developers have them repping your brand brand shirts logo shirts whatever may be because this is one of the most critical aspects of Drupal con is important that people within the Drupal community get together in person and fix issues or innovate on the Drupal project so if you're a first-timer there's stuff for you if you're interested in contributing to core there's going to be people there to teach you how and then there's going to be general sprints I'm sure most of your developers are going to be aware of that alright that was a lot to talk about and there will be another webcast that's going to be how to maximize your sponsorship investment happening on the 31st of August this one's going to be more about strategy preparation follow-ups and goals basically how to maximize each of your benefits and on just the general fulfillment on when things are due turn in time etc so it's going to be a little bit more in depth what Drupal con is all about how to reach the audience that you want to reach from a marketing and business perspective how to create your business objectives that are in line with the Drupal community so again if you're interested in that especially if you're a first-time please attend but I think I mentioned before both of this webcast and the next one will be recorded so you all have access to that on our YouTube channel I like this one because it really does get into the meat and potatoes behind your sponsorship and finally I'd like to say thank you again because as I mentioned time and time and again without your support this event wouldn't happen these critical conversations would not be taking place between the Drupal minds out there and these sprints would not be able to happen to fix these issues and really we wouldn't be able to witness the Drupal community at its finest so thank you so much for what you guys do if you guys have any questions please reach out to me there's my email address there's my Skype there's my phone number there's my Drupal.org name I'm pretty accessible so please reach out to me and I'm happy to help you with anything you need and with that being said I will conclude this webcast and I hope to see you in the next one