EECI2010 Top Ten, #7! Return on Investment
Top Ten Reasons Why EECI is the Event of the Year. Register now!
Do you make some or all of your living deploying ExpressionEngine and/or CodeIgniter? Do you want an opportunity that has an unbelievably high return on investment for your time and money? Then please carefully consider this list of EECI2010 speakers:
- Rick Ellis: Wrote pMachine, ExpressionEngine, and CodeIgniter. EECI is a rare opportunity to meet one of the people who shaped blogging and web publishing from the beginning.
- Leslie Camacho: I’ve helped thousands of web professionals succeed for over a decade and I’ve had the privelidge of building one of the most influential web publishing software companies.
- Derek Jones: The current mastermind behind most of ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter’s on going development with years of experience deploying code to thousands of users.
- Derek Allard: Creative specialist with years of experience translating community feedback into an improved software platform. Plus, he’s the… actually, can’t talk about that yet.
- Simon Collison: The mighty Simon Collison, known best as Colly, has been an EE evangelist almost from day one. Colly was the first to write in-depth EE tutorials in a book from a major publisher but is best known for being a design super star. He was one the brains behind the ExpressionEngine 2.0 Example Site that helps people learn EE from the HTML/CSS all the way through final implementation. He gave one of the best presentations at EECI2009 and I’m personally looking forward to what he does at EECI2010.
- Adii Rockstar: One of the masterminds behind WooThemes, one of the most successful and influential theme communities.
- Thomas Myer: Author of one of the first CodeIgniter books with years of experience developing and deploying web applications to clients.
- Ryan Irelan: There are a handful of people in the EE Community that EllisLab considers “Community Avatars” because they embody in a single person what the EE Community is all about. By day he works for Happy Cog, by night he’s the Community Super Hero who has single handedly empowered thousands of developers to be more successful.
- Leevi Graham: One of the premiere EE add-on developers with years of experience deploying EE add-ons in all sorts of environments… from small budgets to enterprise installations.
- Lea Alcantara: Marketing and Branding superstar featured all over the web, from A List Apart to .NET Magazine. In-addition she is considered one of the 50 Best Female Web Designers in the World.
- Ed Finkler: Security expert from CERIAS at Purdue University who loves integrating CodeIgniter with other technologies like Appcelerator Titanium, Adobe AIR, PhoneGap, and good “old fashioned” JavaScript.
- Jamie Pittock: One of Erskine Design’s super stars with years of experience deploying EE for high end corporate and enterprise level clients.
- Jamie Rumblelow: He’s done more at age 15 then most people have by 60. Seriously. He’s EllisLab’s CodeIgniter Community Chieftain, and a specialist at energizing people to do more with passion and joy. I didn’t believe “the hype” about Jamie until I met him at EECI2009.
- Brandon Kelly: Brandon makes a few of the most beloved ExpressionEngine add-ons. People threaten EllisLab with bodily harm if they break his add-ons. Okay, that might be an exaggeration but not by much. Brandon’s ability to design compelling user experiences set the standard that 3rd party add-ons are measured by.
- Mark Huot: Mark designed one of the only add-ons that become so popular EllisLab was compelled to integrate it directly into ExpressionEngine. Its a singular accomplishment that has yet to be matched. He is also part of Happy Cog and brings years of high-end EE development and deployment experience.
- Lodewijk Schutte: He named his houseboat Float:Right because that’s what a dedicated front-end specialist does! “Low” is an outstanding member of the EE Community with a particular knack for using PHP in EE templates.
- Greg Wood: Another hero from Erskine Design, Greg is an expert in designing for content, a discipline that is becoming known as “editorial design.” He’s committed to giving content the attention it deserves.
- Michael Boyink: Mike is another EE Community Avatar. He wrote the first book on ExpressionEngine and runs the most successful ExpressionEngine education service, Train-ee. Mike is particularly known for the wisdom he brings to the planning process and utilizing it to create extremely cost effect websites. He’s also the person EllisLab selected to research ExpressionEngine Certification options.
- Travis Schmeisser: Travis dared to change the way people build EE sites with Structure, he’s popular add-on that enables people to build EE sites in a really different way. People love or hate it, the mark of focused, quality work that has earned him the respect of the community.
- Leslie Flinger: Blue Flavor’s ExpressionEngine expert, an experienced educator, accomplished blogger, known for doing everything in a human friendly fashion. She has deployed 100s of EE sites in the wild from the very small, to the very big.
- Kenny Meyers: Mr. Meyers has deployed a number of large, complex EE installations in his time. He’s also a CodeIgniter specialist and a regular contributor to EE Insider.
- Matt Weinberg: Matt is an expert at integrating ecommerce into ExpressionEngine. At EECI2010 he’ll share his unique perspective on that with you.
- Anton Peck: A celebrated “Jack of All trades”, Anton is known for his creative approach to just about everything (illustration, coding, blogging, community…), including innovative ways of deploying conditionals in EE templates.
- Jonathan Longnecker: Jonathan is co-founder of FortySeven Media, a team known for their creative an entrepreneurial approach to the web professional community.
Whew! That is literally decades and decades of real world experience with ExpressionEngine, CodeIgniter, and related web professional fields to learn from. Plus, don’t forget that just about all of EllisLab will be attending. We’ve gathered them all up in a single location and made it as easy as possible to integrate their knowledge into your own endeavors.
What EECI represents is an unbelievable return on investment for your time and money. In a few short days for a comparative small amount, you have access to people with information that can absolutely help take your business to the next level.
I’ve personally met and know most of the speakers on the list. They are people who want to help you succeed and who want to learn from you as much as you want to learn from them. We are a community that helps each other succeed, a phenomenon we’ve enjoyed being a part of for years. We know it works.
This is your opportunity to invest in your future success and the community at the same time, to share in an experience that is unique to the EE and CI Community.
See you at EECI.
