Key Speakers Named for Magnolia Conference 2010

Online, July 19, 2010 (Newswire.com) - NEW YORK, NY - Magnolia, the open source content management vendor that delivers simplicity on an enterprise scale, today named key speakers for Magnolia Conference 2010, to be held in Basel, Switzerland, September 16-17 2010. The talks were chosen from a broad range of proposed business and technical presentations, from CMS for Small Devices to Integrating Magnolia with the Spring Framework using Blossom.

"Following last year's sold out conference we received such an overwhelming number of presentation proposals for our second annual meeting that it was tough to pick which ones to slot. In the end we went for a range of topics that demonstrate the diverse business and technical possibilities of Magnolia CMS," said Boris Kraft, Magnolia CTO. "We invite everyone else to organize their own talks during the event's second "Community Day".

Business Talks

CMS for Small Devices: Magnolia, iPad and WebKit, by Markus Franz, CEO, Sucomo KG

Magnolia STK for the International EADS.com Project, by Ingo Werren, team leader and senior project manager, Aperto AG

Magnolia for VPRO's Pinkpop Music Festival Website, by Gerbrand Meijer, Technical Coordinator, VPRO Digitaal

Managing Content of Flash-powered Websites with Magnolia, by Manuel Molaschi, Technology Architect, Openmind

Extending Magnolia CMS with ModeShape, by Mark Newton, JBoss Community Lead, Red Hat

Technical Talks

Integrating Magnolia with the Spring Framework using Blossom, by Tobias Mattsson, Senior Software Engineer, Magnolia International, Ltd.

Integrating Kona Kart with Magnolia, by Ruben Reusser, Lead Developer, Headwire.com

Content-Driven Web Applications with Magnolia and Ruby on Rails, by Patrik Metzmacher, Managing Director, Dievision GmbH

Empowering Magnolia for Enterprise Use Cases - Experience Report, by Sebastian Frick, Technical Project Manager, & Joerg von Frantzius, System Architect, Aperto AG

High Performance Magnolia with Anycast Routing, by Michael Robertson, Managing Partner and Founder & Mathias Seiler, MiroNet GmbH

The Magnolia Conference draws current and potential Magnolia users, partners, and community contributors from all over the globe, to meet and learn about open source, standards-based Java CMS. Through expert instruction, hands-on tutorials, case studies, and presentations, attendees will gain the knowledge they need to rapidly build open source content management solutions with Magnolia CMS.

Event to be held in Basel, Switzerland, September 16-17 2010

Magnolia Conference 2010 will be held at Magnolia International in Basel, Switzerland, September 16-17 2010. To learn more about the Magnolia Conference, purchase tickets, please visit http://www.magnolia-cms.com/conference.

About Magnolia Americas

Magnolia Americas, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Magnolia International Ltd, whose open source content management system delivers simplicity on an enterprise scale. Its outstanding combination of ease-of-use with a flexible, standards-based Java architecture has led to its adoption by enterprises and governments throughout the world, including ING, JBoss.org, Johnson & Johnson, Lloyds TSB, Sony, Seat, Unilever, and the US Department of Defense. To find out more about Magnolia, including service, support, implementation, consulting, training, and our international network of qualified partners, please visit www.magnolia-cms.com.

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