It’s that time of year again - that’s right, DrupalCon! We’re excited to visit sunny (and warm, and apparently very dry) Los Angeles this year for DrupalCon 2015. We might have to dust off our shorts for this one.

The location for this year’s conference holds a special place in our hearts, as we have a handful of awesome clients and partners (and some friends, too) that we can’t wait to see while we geek out about all things Drupal. As always, we’ll all be running around during this four day event, but here are all the specific places where you can catch up with us:

Exhibit Hall

We’re partnering with our friends MailChimp at booth 800. Stop by for some cool swag, to talk shop, and learn about the exciting work we’re doing porting the MailChimp module to Drupal 8. We’re also hiring for several positions, so if you’d like to meet face to face and get a better feel for what it would be like to join the ThinkShout team, come chat with us.

Official Sessions

Scaling Your Business Starts with the Right Spreadsheets: Performance Metrics

Join ThinkShout’s Sean Larkin and Forum One’s Chris Wolz as they discuss tools and techniques for collaboration and management that will help you make better long-term decisions for your business.

Tuesday May 12th, 10:45-11:45am

Room: 502B - Lullabot

If I Only Had a Frame(work): Crafting Experiences Across 3rd-Party Systems

Lev Tsypin and Brett Meyer will discuss creating and developing a create a cohesive experience across multiple platforms even when they aren’t all open source.

Wednesday May 13th, 1-2pm

Room: 515A - Phase 2

Building Your Drupal-Based Business, Or, What Keeps You Up at Night

This facilitated panel session will include ThinkShout’s own Sean Larkin, and will cover insights from agency owners on lessons learned, areas of focus, and what NOT to worry about. All that and some guidance on best practices, and ideas to sustain and support growth - with an active audience Q&A to boot.

Wednesday May 13th, 2:15-3:15pm

Room: Petree C - Acquia

Ballin' on a Budget: How to Create Great Design Without Breaking the Bank

Our Lead User Experience Designer, Josh Riggs, will give us the low-down on creating kick-ass designs for any budget by utilizing solid design fundamentals, great communication, and maybe a few tricks up the sleeve.

Thursday May 14th, 10:45-11:45am

Room: 501 - NewMedia

MailChimp and Drupal, The Anatomy of a Successful Partnership

In this Lightning Talk, ThinkShout CTO Lev Tsypin and MailChimp API guru Nathan Ranson will cover the evolution of MailChimp's support for Drupal, the basics of how the integration works, and hint at what's to come for Drupal 8.

Thursday May 14th, 1:15pm

Room: TBD

Birds of a Feather (BoF)

ThinkShout team members will also be leading a couple of great BoF sessions. We hope to see you there!

Design and Prototyping Methods for Responsive Drupal Sites with Josh Riggs (@joshriggs)

Tuesday May 12th, 10:45-11:45am

Room: 410 - The Cherry Hill Company

Integrating Drupal with Salesforce with Tauno Hogue

Wednesday May 13th, 10:45-11:45am

Room: 505 - Chromatic

And finally, as we mentioned earlier, we’re excited about visiting LA this year because we’ll get a bit of face time with some of the great west coast clients and partners we’ve been working with over the last few years. We will be hosting a special happy hour reception celebrating these LA organizations and honoring one of our long-time clients and partners, the Los Angeles Conservancy, with a donation from our team.

We hope to see you at DrupalCon this year. If you can’t make it, get in touch with us and we’ll fill you in on what you missed! You can also follow along on all the social networks: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram - we’ll keep you posted!

To those of you heading down to LA, California or BUST!