Presented by DreamHost
DreamCon is the world's FIRST DreamHost user conference!
Whether you're a blogger, a hardcore software developer, or anything in between,
we guarantee that DreamCon will have something you'll want to see!
DreamCon is the world's FIRST DreamHost user conference!
Whether you're a blogger, a hardcore software developer, or anything in between,
we guarantee that DreamCon will have something you'll want to see!
It's the world's FIRST DreamHost user conference! Join us for an intense two-day session designed to help you get the most out of your DreamHost experience, most of which will be taught by DreamHost's own subject matter experts - our employees!
Whether you are a blogger, a hardcore software developer, WordPress nut, DreamObjects professional, an Internet entrepreneur, or anything in between, we guarantee that DreamCon will have something you'll want to see!
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
| 6pm—9pm |  Kickoff Reception at the DreamHost Office at AON. Hosted bar & delicious appetizers by Whim Kitchen. Don't miss your chance to tour the DreamHost office and mix n' mingle with the Dream Team! For entrance, a DreamCon badge is required. More details will be sent out once tickets are purchased. |
| Business & Marketing | WordPress |
|---|
| 9:00am | Simon Anderson | DreamHost – Keynote presentation | 9:00am | Simon Anderson | DreamHost – Keynote presentation |
| 10:00am | Matt Mullenweg | WordPress Keynote | 10:00am | Matt Mullenweg | WordPress Keynote |
| 11:00am | Chris Sheridan | Domain name industry review and new TLDS | 11:00am | Mike Schroder | Intro to WordPress |
| 12:00pm | Lunch Break | To be provided | 12:00pm | Lunch Break | To be provided |
| 1:00pm | Brett Dunst | Staying True to Your Roots While Spreading Your Wings | 1:00pm | Mika Epstein | Picking WordPress plugins and themes |
| 2:00pm | Jason W. Brown | Make your website faster: Optimizing images for the web | 2:00pm | Glen Jackson | Rise of the WordPress malware menace |
| 3:00pm | Rick Borucki | Search engine marketing: Where do you begin? | 3:00pm | Mika Epstein | Get out of the monkey house: don't overdesign your website |
| 4:00pm | Ralph Castro | DreamHost's customer and technical support growth | 4:00pm | Mike Schroder | Managing WordPress with awesome WP-CLI |
| 6:00pm | Reception | TBA | 6:00pm | Reception | TBA |
| Afterparty |
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| 8pm—11pm |  LA's hottest new ping pong parlor, Spin @ the Standard Hotel. An hour open bar, late night snacks & ping pong included. Come on by for drinks & ping pong against favorite DreamHosters! For entrance, a DreamCon badge is required. More details will be sent out once tickets are purchased. |
| Software Development | Cloud |
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| 9:00am | Dallas Kashuba | Opening remarks | 9:00am | Dallas Kashuba | Opening remarks |
| 10:00am | Jonathan LaCour | Perl, Python, and programmers | 10:00am | Justin Lund | Intro to DreamObjects |
| 11:00am | Dan Johnson | Intro to version control | 11:00am | Ryan Petrello | Object storage for your app |
| 12:00pm | Lunch Break | To be provided | 12:00pm | Lunch Break | To be provided |
| 1:00pm | Matt Felten | UI frameworks | 1:00pm | Jonathan LaCour | DreamHost & OpenStack: A love story |
| 2:00pm | Justin Knierim | Understanding MySQL usage & how to best manage your MySQL databases | 2:00pm | Kyle Bader | DreamObjects |
| 3:00pm | Oscar Padilla | Understanding VPS memory usage | 3:00pm | Patrick McGarry | In-Ceph-Tion: Deploying a Ceph cluster on DreamCompute |
| 4:00pm | All Speakers | Open panel: Ask us anything! | 4:00pm | All Speakers | Open panel: Ask us anything! |
• Speakers and sessions are subject to change at DreamHost's sole discretion •
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine
can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Simon Anderson
CEO
Simon is Chief Energizing Officer of DreamHost. He generally runs around making grandiose vision statements and power shakes for the team.
Rick Borucki
Director of Online Marketing
Fear not, fellow human...Rick's bio will be added shortly. He's been busy doing the things that Marketing Directors do. You know, busy marketing stuff.
Jason W. Brown
Creative Director
Thanks to all of the experimenting Jason's parents did while he was in the womb, he is what some people would call a creative person. Creative people are cool.
Ralph Castro
VP, Technical Support
Ralph Castro is a DreamHost veteran and VP of Technical Support who loves his wife and 3 boys, football, baseball, making music, and finding ways to constantly improve the customer experience here.
Brett Dunst
VP, Marketing & Corporate Communications
Brett has no known food allergies and has a history of responding favorably to applause, laughter, and deep tissue massage.
Mika Epstein
WordPress Guru
Mika Ariela Epstein slashes support tickets, wrangles WordPress plugins, presents how-tos that involve beer, and writes ebooks about all that in her spare time, because she can't get enough of WordPress or DreamHost.
Matt Felten
Designer
Pizzatarian. Internet explorer. Knows the names of all the bounty hunters in Empire Strikes Back.
Dan Johnson
Technical Support Lead
Dan uses his training in software engineering and love of debugging and problem solving to help Dreamhost customers with their projects and development issues.
Dallas Kashuba
Honcho
Dallas is passionate about helping people connect through music, technology, and the Internet, and likes to build tools that make that easier.
Justin R. Knierim
Technical Support Lead
With DreamHost for 7 years now, Justin has enjoyed helping customers, fixing servers, geeking out and last but not least the awesome foosball games.
Jonathan LaCour
VP, Product & Development
Fear not, fellow human...Jon's bio will be added shortly. He's been busy cataloging his bottles of fine whiskies, and lurking throughout the dev departments.
Patrick McGarry
Director, Community (Inktank)
Patrick is currently incarnated as a community monkey for Inktank, goes by the nomme du keyboard of scuttlemonkey, and has strong feelings about tomatoes; he delights in playing with FOSS and longs for his deep, dark cave.
Oscar Padilla
Technical Support Lead
Oscar has become the most respected foos champion around these parts, and occasionally works on VPS issues when he's not honing his ping pong skills.
Ryan Petrello
Senior Developer
Ryan Petrello is a developer at DreamHost who enjoys making things like software, BBQ, and fermented beverages.
Mike Schroder
WordPress Specialist, Developer
A WordPress 3.5 Recent Rockstar and contributor to wp-cli, Mike enjoys a good cup of coffee, with a side of Open Source.
Chris Sheridan
VP of Business Development @ eNom.com
Chris Sheridan is the VP of Business Development for eNom.com. He has responsibility for Reseller sales, business development, and strategic partnerships.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine
can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. (read more)
CloudFlare, Inc. makes sites twice as fast, protects them from attacks, ensures they are always online, and makes it simple to add web apps with a single click. Thanks to our awesome sauce technology, every month hundreds of millions of people experience a faster, safer, better Internet. (read more)
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
I'm no mind-reader, but if I had to guess, you're looking for the location and ticket info, right? Boy, am I good or what!? Okay, so you'll find the event location and ticket info below. What was that? You still have questions? Drop us a line using the email address below, and we'll get back to you ASAP!
Aon Center ( 2nd tallest building in California! )
707 Wilshire Blvd, #2600, Los Angeles, Ca 90017
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