Sessions
Kentico connection conference is divided into two separate tracks:
• Technology track will focus on the development, architecture, IT system maintenance, etc.
• Business track will focus more on the business, marketing, strategy etc.
Bellow, we have outlined a final list of the Kentico Connection sessions.
|
Closing Keynote
|
|
Opening Keynote
|
|
Ask the Experts (sponsored by Microsoft)
In this session, you can talk to the Kentico development team (including CTO) and get the answers to difficult questions. You will be also able to discuss with members of Sales department, Consultants, Product Manager and Partner Program Manager.
|
|
Creating websites from scratch using ASPX model
ASPX templates is a development model that can be chosen by advanced ASP.NET developers who prefer to create the web site using standard ASP.NET architecture and using standard development tools, such as Visual Studio. In this session you will see step-by-step how to prepare and create your website using this model. You will see how to deploy CSS, how to develop master pages and page templates, how to add webparts and more. You will also see how to mix together portal engine and ASPX templates. Part of this session is a short introduction of news in Kentico CMS 6.0 like widgets & web part used by the ASPX templates.
|
|
Creating websites from scratch using Portal Engine
Portal Engine is a model that allows building of websites using web parts and widgets in the browser-based user interface without any programming knowledge. In this practical focused session you will see step-by-step how to create your new web site from the scratch. You will see how to deploy a CSS, how to prepare master page and page templates, how to create your first pages using webparts and widgets, how to prepare new document types and more.Step-by-step process of preparing and creating a new website using the Portal Engine. |
|
Document life-cycle, workflow and their customization
Illustrating the build-in Kentico CMS workflow which can help you to better manage document life-cycles. You will see how to prepare custom event handlers and custom actions for the workflow and how to join workflows together.
|
|
Does your website speak Chinese?
You website is available globally but many organizations don’t pay much attention to multilingual and other globalization issues when implementing their websites. With e-commerce on the rise and the growing global audience these issues can no longer be ignored. In this session you will see step by step how to prepare your multilingual website and what best practices you can use with Kentico CMS to make your site speak multi-languages. |
|
E-commerce customization
In this session, we will show you the basics of the E-commerce customization. You will see E-commerce customization model and you will learn how to use custom e-commerce providers, how to customize ordering steps, how to create new payment gateway, what’s new in E-commerce 6.0 and more.
|
|
Going mobile
As the market share of smartphones is rapidly growing up and thanks to Apple they are getting more popular. It’s more important than ever to prepare your mobile website and offer them your content. In this session we will focus on main differences between traditional websites and websites for mobile devices. Kentico CMS supports mobile devices and we will show you how to prepare your websites for mobile devices, how to share content between main website and mobile part and more. |
|
Kentico CMS performance and its optimization
In this session, you will see how to improve the performance of your website and how to create performance tests of your solution before it is published.
|
|
Macros in action
Macros are available across whole Kentico CMS and there are like an “invisible” part of it. Using macros we can do almost everything – setting values/parameters/properties/etc., there are integrated math functions/string functions, support of nested macros, using parameters and much more. In this session you will see the amazing power of macros in Kentico CMS. Moreover, we will show you what’s coming in next release Kentico CMS 6.0 – e.g. browsing through the Kentico CMS object model or queries in macros. |
|
Kentico CMS Deliver Now! Methodology
Nowadays, when everyone tries to maximize results while reducing the resources allocated for the project, it is a huge advantage to have an on hand methodology that can help you follow this path. You would probably agree that it is important to realize what the main goal you are willing to deliver is at the beginning of each project. Getting the whole picture of what is involved in the process of planning and delivering the project to the customer will help you stick to your primary goal- a project fulfilling its purpose. To ensure the success of your project, Kentico professionals developed a methodology that describes the project development cycle for Kentico CMS. Furthermore, it defines the various stages of development and points out important areas which specifically deserve your attention. The presentation will bring insight on the Deliver Now! Methodology. You will learn how the methodology can help you maximize the potential of Kentico CMS to make your project nothing else but a great success.
|
|
Multi-site management
Kentico CMS natively support multiple websites running from one instance. If you are not well-familiar with this feature this session is right for you. You will see how to run multiple websites from one instance, how to share content between sites, how to manage them and more.
|
|
Upgrade of Kentico CMS without any pain
Upgrading and hotfix applying could be sometimes a bit painful long running process. If you would like to know how to minimize the time spent on the upgrade, attend this session, where you will learn how to optimize the upgrade process and more. |
|
Using Kentico CMS API
What can you do with the Kentico API? With over 200 ready to use web parts and a detailed API at your disposal the possibilities are endless. Event handlers, custom providers, customized data structures; programmatically create documents – to name a few. In this session we will explore ways that you can use this API to extend your CMS applications.
The co-speaker for this session is Bryan Soltis, Senior Software Engineer from Bit-Wizards Custom Software Solutions, Inc.
|
|
Web parts development
Kentico CMS offers you great possibilities of extending the set of existing features and thus enhancing the functionality delivered to the website visitors and CMS users. One of the most powerful elements of the Kentico CMS are web parts. Web parts are controls adding unique functionality to your website. You can develop custom web parts delivering the functionality you need. The session will present you with all the considerations of the web part development process. You will see how to create a web part from scratch and how to use it with Kentico CMS afterwards. |
|
What’s new in web development on Microsoft platform
Windows Azure, OData, IE9, Webmatrix - four new web platform technologies for professional developer and for hobby developers. You will see basics of all those technologies in practice demos.
- Windows Azure: platform for professional developers who needs high performance, availability and security.
- OData: new de-facto standard for data publishing on the internet. This protocol is used by Sharepoint 2010, Windows Azure, CRM 5, Windows Live and more.
- IE9: Supports HTML5, CSS3, hardware acceleration of page rendering and more.
- Webmatrix: if you need to deploy a new server in a few minutes or you need some easy way to write web applications this is the tool for you.
|
|
|
Closing Keynote
|
|
Kentico Case Study - AlphaTV
AlphaTV
Speaker: Dimitris Rakopoulos
|
|
Kentico Case Study - Conduit
Conduit:
Speaker: Guy Malachi
|
|
|
Opening Keynote
|
|
|
Ask the Experts (sponsored by Microsoft)
In this session, you can talk to the Kentico development team (including CTO) and get the answers to difficult questions. You will be also able to discuss with members of Sales department, Consultants, Product Manager and Partner Program Manager.
|
|
Building my on-line store
Creating and managing an on-line store (e-shop) is as easy as you use the right system that offers not only the E-commerce functionality but also content management and other. Kentico CMS provides out-of-the box E-commerce software that can be used for any size of the on-line store. In this session you will see how easily you can create your own shop; how to configure it; how to manage products, customers, orders; how to customize the shop and more. |
|
How to be succesful in selling Kentico CMS
Make sure your proposals are success. We will provide you with better understanding of Kentico licensing and its use in a real–life scenarios to make it easier for you to sell Kentico CMS. Each project is different and so are your client’s needs and expectations so offering the right model is the key factor of getting the deal. Learn how to answer the frequently asked questions of your customers and memorize the best selling points of Kentico CMS. |
|
Kentico Case Studies
Tellonline
Speakers: Alex Johnson and Julian Roberts
|
|
Let’s get ready for the Kentico Certified Developer Exam
Are you certifiable? In this interactive session, we will prepare for the Kentico Certified Exam. Come and spend some time reviewing sample test questions to see if you are ready to take the exam.
The co-speaker for this session is Bryan Soltis, Senior Software Engineer from Bit-Wizards Custom Software Solutions, Inc.
|
|
CMS Trends
Web Experience Management (WEM) is one of the newest buzzwords in the WCM field. Traditional Web Content Management is shifting to more marketing oriented platforms. As customers become the focal point instead of content, a new holistic approach is required to achieve the best customer experience on your website. The kind of experience that will build a closer connection with your visitors and allow you to convert more of them to clients. You will see what trends we find important and how Kentico plans to tackle them. Trends in CMS space. |
|
Creating on-line communities
On-line communities or social networks are getting more and more important not only for the end-users but also for businesses. There are plenty of social networks like FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many others that are very successful from the user and business perspective. In this session you will see how easily you can build your on-line community using Kentico CMS and its Social Networking package, which supports the building of workgroups and friends, an internal messaging system, forums, blogs, sharing information with other social networks and other features. |
|
Google Adwords
AdWords is Google’s flagship advertising product which offers pay-per-click (PPC) and site-targeted advertising for text, banner and rich-media ads. In this session you will get basic overview of the AdWords and how to use it to better optimize your advertisement on the internet and get more leads from your web site.
|
|
How to Improve Internal Communication with Kentico Intranet Solution
Despite the SharePoint phenomenon, Kentico CMS gets more traction in the intranet sphere. So we decided to support our clients who want to build highly flexible intranet, extranet and collaboration portals. In this presentation, you will see an overview of new features, including Document Libraries, WebDAV support, Project Management, Workgroups, Departments and others. And those of you who just want to quickly deploy an intranet without complex development or configuration will see how you can use Kentico CMS as an out-of-the-box intranet solution. You will learn how Kentico Intranet Portal helps you manage the content chaos, streamline internal communication, deliver personalized content to your employees and replace your shared folders with easy-to-use document management. |
|
Kentico Enterprise Marketing Solution
Do you want to increase the number of leads or sales coming from your website? On-line marketing is a new trend in the changing WCM field that helps you better understand your visitors and optimize their experience to boost your marketing and sales results. In this presentation, we will introduce the new Kentico On-line Marketing Solution and show you how it will help increase the efficiency of your website. You will learn how new features such as A/B Testing, Multi-variant Testing, Contact Management, Segmentation, Lead scoring, Campaign Management and Personalization will help you increase the efficiency of your marketing efforts. |
|
Selling Against Open source
With over 350 ‘free’ open source CMS solutions on the market today, why would a client select a commercial solution? More importantly, why should a client select Kentico CMS as the platform to support their online presence and web strategy. When selecting a content management solution for any project, there are a number of factors that play into that decision. These factors include: usability, functionality, security, flexibility, support and price. In this session, we will discuss the many reasons clients are drawn to open source solutions and how to sell against these arguments and help them select the right solution for their project. With Kentico CMS as your hammer, is it possible that most web project can be a nail? |
|
Optimizing your website for more leads and sales
Web site optimization can stand for the physical/HTML optimization of your code, hardware, HTMl etc. or for the business optimization where we would like to enhanced the visibility and usability of our web site. In this session we will focus on the business web site optimization. We will see the main recommendation to be more business optimized, how to increase the conversion rate of the visitors, what are the most used tools and much more. As the web site optimization example you will see how we optimized the Kentico.com website. |
|
Getting more traffic with Search Engine Optimization
SEO – search engine optimization – is very important for your marketing presence on the web. SEO is a process of improving ranking of your website in the search engine results. To become on the top of the search result we have to implement several recommendations like using smart names for your URL addresses, sitemap of your public content, using keywords in metadata and others. In this session we will focus on the most important SEO recommendations and how Kentico CMS supports SEO to build highly optimized websites.
|
|
Understanding your web analytics
In this session, you will see how to use the integrated Kentico CMS Web Analytics to better understand your website traffic and trends. |
|
Windows Azure
The cloud platform is getting more and more attractive to the computing world. Azure is a new cloud system from Microsoft that allows applications to run from a remote connected system, hosted in a Microsoft data center, and store data in the cloud. The platform consists of three main parts – Development runtime, Azure runtime and Applications like SQL Azure. In this business focused session you will see the main business overview of this cloud platform, and why Kentico is the right Azure CMS. |