Author, speaker, trainer, Emma Hogbin has been delivering public presentations and workshops for over 20 years. She loves to teach and inspire others and is best known for her presentations technical presentations on the content management system Drupal and non-technical presentations on retaining women in IT and small business in the global economy. As of the spring of 2011, Emma can also speak with in-depth experience on enhancing a political campaign with social media tools. Her fun approach to very technical topics never fails to engage even the greatest of technophobes. If you're interested in having Emma speak at your event, or you are interested in hosting a workshop, please get in touch.
My book on Drupal are available on Amazon (Front End Drupal, Drupal User's Guide and Drupal's Building Blocks).
Upcoming Engagements
DrupalCon Denver - From PSD to Drupal Theme
Past Technical Presentations
Below is a selection of past conference presentations and workshops.
2011
Free Software and Open Source Symposium - Five Secrets to Building Faster Themes and Site Building Extravaganza DrupalCamp Toronto - Selling Hopes and Dreams [video] [slides] DIG London (Ontario) - Five Profitable Tips to Building Better Web Sites and Responsive Web Design: Retrofitting your site Waterloo Region Drupal User Group - Selling Hopes and Dreams From PSD to Drupal Theme. Acquia webinar. DrupalCon London. Session on Forensic Theming. Getting Connected: Taking your business online, Walkerton and Sauble Beach. DrupalCon Chicago. Pre-conference training (Theming for Non-Themers) and conference presentation (Forensic Theming).
Intro to Web Design, Owen Sound, October 3 Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association Summit, September 28 Web Writing Workshop, Owen Sound, September 10 SEO Workshop, Owen Sound, August 8 [online mini-workshop] Open Source technology summer camp, Ottawa, Ontario, August 14 [slides] DrupalCon, PHP for Drupal Designers and Presenting You! (speaker training), SanFrancisco, April 16-21 CMS Expo, Intro to Drupal Theme Design, Advanced Drupal Theme Design, Chicago, May 3-5 Southern California Linux Expo, Beautiful in Print [slides], Lessons from Life Coaching [slides, video (I'm a few speakers in)], February 20, Los Angeles Women in Open Source, Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination [slides], How to Give a Lightning Talk (aka Presenting You!) [slides], February 19, Los Angeles Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand, February 15, Wellington, New Zealand
Kiwi Foo Camp, invited participant, February 12-14, Mahurangi College, Warkworth, New Zealand DrupalSouth, PHP for Designers (Front End Drupal) [slides], The "We" Economy [slides], January 24-25, Wellington, New Zealand
Linux Conf Australia (in NZ), Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination [slides], January 18-23 Business Mini-Conf, The 100 Mile Client Roster [slides], January 18, Wellington, New Zealand Haecksen Mini-Conf, Version Control for Mere Mortals [slides], January 18, Wellington, New Zealand Front End Drupal Intensive, January 11, Vancouver, Canada
Kiwi Foo Camp, invited participant, February 12-14, Mahurangi College, Warkworth, New Zealand DrupalSouth, PHP for Designers (Front End Drupal) [slides], The "We" Economy [slides], January 24-25, Wellington, New Zealand
Linux Conf Australia (in NZ), Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination [slides], January 18-23 Business Mini-Conf, The 100 Mile Client Roster [slides], January 18, Wellington, New Zealand Haecksen Mini-Conf, Version Control for Mere Mortals [slides], January 18, Wellington, New Zealand Front End Drupal Intensive, January 11, Vancouver, Canada
Drupal Front End Tips and Tricks (aka PHP for Designers), Drupal Camp Chicago [slides] Drupal Front End - PHP for Designers, Do It With Drupal, New Orleans [slides] Writing Effective Self-Help Guides for World Domination, Ontario Linux Fest [slides] [video] PHP for Designers, DrupalCon Paris, France [slides] [video] Bazaar for Mere Mortals, OSCON, San Jose, CA [slides] bzr vs git smackdown. Open Source Bridge Portland, OR Conference chair. Writing Open Source, Owen Sound, Canada Presenting You! presentation and workshop, DrupalCon Washington DC The Themer's Toolkit, DrupalCon Washington DC Version control for mere (and freelance) mortals, SCaLE 7x, Los Angeles, USA [slides] Drupal multi-site for fun and profit, FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium [slides] [video]
2008
Theming Forms, Drupal Theme Workshop (Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto) [slides] Version control for mere (and freelance) mortals, OntarioLinuxFest, Toronto [slides] Subverting Proprietary Economics, Free Software and Open Source Symposium, Toronto [slides]
DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary Presentations:
Crafty Drupal, DrupalCampToronto Moving In: How to port your content from * to Drupal, DrupalCampToronto [slides] Attended BSDCan (it's not a presentation, I know, but it was an excellent conference!)
HICK Tech (conference chair, Owen Sound)! Form an orderly queue, ladies, LugRadioLive USA (San Francisco) [video]
HICK Tech, The rural technology experience, NotACon (Cleveland, OH) [slides] [video] The Business of Art (Owen Sound) [slides] Getting Connected in Owen Sound, Markdale, Durham and Meaford [handout] [slides] Taking Your Business On-line info session (Owen Sound) Intro to Podcasting, Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound) [handout] [slides]
DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary Presentations:
Open for (small) Business - subverting traditional economic models [slides] [video] BoF - Crafty Drupal BoF - Front End Drupal - The Book!
Podcasting at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery Moving In: How to port your content from * to Drupal, Waterloo Drupal Group Form an orderly queue, ladies OSCON (Portland, OR) [notes] [slides - awarded SlideShow of the Day on July 28] Form an orderly queue, ladies LugRadioLive UK (Wolverhampton, UK) [video]Crafty Drupal, DrupalCampToronto Moving In: How to port your content from * to Drupal, DrupalCampToronto [slides] Attended BSDCan (it's not a presentation, I know, but it was an excellent conference!)
HICK Tech (conference chair, Owen Sound)! Form an orderly queue, ladies, LugRadioLive USA (San Francisco) [video]
HICK Tech, The rural technology experience, NotACon (Cleveland, OH) [slides] [video] The Business of Art (Owen Sound) [slides] Getting Connected in Owen Sound, Markdale, Durham and Meaford [handout] [slides] Taking Your Business On-line info session (Owen Sound) Intro to Podcasting, Tom Thomson Art Gallery (Owen Sound) [handout] [slides]
2007
A Tour of the GBCN Web site with its builders (Hanover) [slides] On-line Promotion, Ontario CONTACT (Mississauga) [slides] HICK Tech (conference chair, Owen Sound)
2006
Accessibility training for the City of Owen Sound Web Site Action Plan, Business Enterprise Centre (Owen Sound)
2004
Documentation, Libre Software Meeting (Bordeaux France) Presentation Boot Camp, Toronto Perl Mongers Presentation Boot Camp, KW LUG Presentation Boot Camp, BGLUG
