SensioLabs is organising the 3rd edition of the Symfony Live in the United States Symfony Live is the biggest international conference about Symfony. It s built on the great success of the Symfony Live San Francisco 2011 and 2012. This year the event will be in May and will co-locate with DrupalCon Portland and WebVisions. The first time ever that the Symfony Live will co-locate with two other significant long-standing conferences. Symfony Live Portland 2013 19 24 May 2013 Oregon Convention Center 777 Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard Portland, OR 97232 http://portland2013.live.symfony.com Organized by
Symfony Live Portland 2013 Date / Venue: 19-24 May 2013 Oregon Convention Center 777 Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard, Portland, OR 97232, USA Visitors: about 3,700 visitors are expected to come for DrupalCon, Symfony Live and WebVisions Price: What to expect: A unique event with a lot of Symfony/PHP developers from all over the world. The possibility to reach highly influential web developers and managers working with Open- Source technologies. A lot of highly expertise speakers, great partnerships, and good communication supports. Tickets sale schedule Symfony Live Combo Pass Opening - March 15 (early) $290 $500 March 16 - April 26 (regular) $390 $600 April 27 - May 18 (late) $440 $650 Who: IT service companies using Open-Source technologies to build web projects. Project managers working with Open-Source technologies. Web developers and system administrators. May 19-23 (onsite) $490 $700 Participants can either buy a ticket for the Symfony Live conference or a Combo Pass wich includes a ticket for Symfony Live, DrupalCon Portland &WebVisions.
What is Symfony Live? In 2013, others Symfony Live will be organized around the world (France, Germany and UK), but Symfony Live Portland 2013 remains the main event of the Symfony community out of Europe. Plus, this year is special since it s the first time the conference will co-locate with DrupalCon and WebVisions. It s a unique occasion to learn from other communities, share knowledge and meet new Symfony, Drupal or web addicts. The Symfony Live conference is organized by SensioLabs, the designer of the framework! This is a unique opportunity to talk to the Symfony core team, local and international experts as well as the sponsors, and talk about the latest features included in Symfony and its evolution in the years to come. The Symfony Live 2013 conference will take place in cool Portland at the Oregon Convention Center and will co-locate the venue with DrupalCon and WebVisions. This place offers a dynamic atmosphere that will stimulate interaction between all the visitors, speakers and sponsors from all conferences. Each day, the conference starts at 09:30 am, and ends at 6:30 pm, with a lunch at around 12:00.
What is Symfony? Symfony (www.symfony.com) is an Open-Source framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP that helps developing professional applications. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing Symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise. Symfony is based on experience. It does not reinvent the wheel: it uses most of the best practices of web development and integrates some great third-party libraries. Thousands of developers already trust Symfony for their applications! And more than 1,000,000 unique visitors go on the official Symfony website each month. Symfony is used by many companies like Yahoo!, Dailymotion, Ted.com, Electronic Arts, Orange, ArianeEspace, and many more. Symfony, it s also a huge Community of several ten of thousands of developers from all over the world who all work together to improve the framework daily!
The event at a glance 6 days of awesome speeches and workshops Sunday, May 19 th 2013 Workshop day on Symfony topics related to Drupal Monday, May 20 th 2013 Workshop day on Symfony topics Symfony Certification exam Tuesday, May 21 st 2013 Workshop day on Symfony topics Wednesday, May 22nd 2013 Conference day Keynote speeches, two tracks Thursday, May 23rd 2013 Conference day Keynote speeches, two tracks And on Friday, May 24th 2013 Combined Code Sprint day with DrupalCon and WebVisions!
Special Event: Symfony Party on Wednesday evening During two days, speakers will be invited to talk about real life solutions that will help developers and project managers face challenges when developing professional Symfony applications. It is then a tradition, that the community, the organizers and speakers meet after the conference to exchange information in a relaxed performance. Party: Wednesday May 22 nd, 2013 Location: Portland
Sponsoring-packages Anybody can sponsor the Symfony Live Conference, from big companies to freelancers. We have come up with several plans that should appeal to most companies wanting to support the event. It s a unique way to talk directly to IT professionals.
Become a sponsor of the Symfony Live Bronze Silver Gold Platinum Before the Conference Logo on the official Symfony Live website Mention in a tweet from the official event twitter account Mention on the Symfony.com blog posts where we talk about the event Ad on the SensioLabs toolbar Right to use the official Symfony Live logo on your own websites and communication materials During the Conference Logo on the main slides of the training (training day) Logo on documents related to the event (flyers, kakemono, ) Not all Logo displayed between sessions in the conference rooms Promotional items handout at registration 1 item or 1 literature 1 item and 1 literature Items and literatures Named room during training sessions Booth in the Exhibit Hall with DrupalCon $1,500 10x10 10x20 10x20 Symfony Live Cocktail Party invitation Free tickets 1 2 4 8 After the Conference Note in the thank you email Prices Portland Conference $2,000 $4,000 $7,000 $10,000 Extras Coffee Break Sponsor (one sponsor for 2 days) $2,000 Lunch Sponsorship (one sponsor per day) $3,000 Room key sponsor (your logo on guest room keys) $3,000 Code Sprint Sponsor (only one sponsor) $4,000 Party sponsor TBD
Symfony Live Portland 2013 is coming soon, become a Sponsor now! We are of course at your disposal if you want to do something special that is not listed in this guide. Contact: SensioLabs 92-98, Boulevard Victor Hugo 92115 Clichy Cedex - France Anne-Sophie Bachelard + 33 1 40 99 82 89 annesophie.bachelard@sensiolabs.com Organized by: