EECONF Toronto Agenda
Day 1
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Getting off the Hamster Wheel - Strategies for Successfully Managing Project Management and Growth
Do you find yourself struggling with juggling the number of projects and clients and responsibilities you have on your plate? Is the management of your project load preventing you from growth? Have you considered that the solution is not spreadsheets and data, but people and conversations?
Tim shares insights from his 15 years of client and project management. While part of a small, boutique agency, he was key at balancing the needs of over 100 maintenance clients and up to 12 active projects. He will offer some of his perspectives for success and some tactics to help move you from overwhelmed to “comfortably whelmed.”
With
Day 2
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
All Bones, No Body: Building a Headless EE Site with Astro for $0/month
Everyone loves to declare ExpressionEngine dead. Turns out it was just hiding the body. In this talk we pop the head clean off EE, turn it into a tidy content API, and bolt on a blazing-fast Astro front end, then ship the whole thing for exactly zero dollars a month.
We'll use a real build as the patient on the table: the marketing site for Karani, our donor management CRM. You'll see how to give editors a CMS they actually enjoy using, then hand a static site builder everything it needs to go fast.
What you'll walk away with:
- Modeling real-world content with Bones, Bloqs, and Structure so editors get a clean, predictable authoring experience
- Exposing that content to a decoupled front end without fighting the platform
- Wiring up Astro to consume EE content and render a fully static site
- Offloading images to Cloudflare R2 so your server stops sweating
- Deploying to Netlify on the free tier, with a build pipeline that just works
Come for the skeleton puns, leave knowing ExpressionEngine has plenty of life left in it. It just looks better without the head.
With
Doug Black
11:46 AM - 12:46 PM
Employing those Little Gray Cells: Solving Tech Support Mysteries
In London spirit and with a nod to Agatha Christie, Robin Sowell (Packet Tide) explores the detective side of tech support. Debugging is like solving a mystery—examining the crime scene, interrogating unreliable witnesses, and using forensic tools. Master your “little gray cells” to crack cases, fix bugs, and delight clients.
With
Robin Sowell
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