Orchard Harvest 2024
Orchard Harvest 2024
The Orchard Harvest conference will be in Las Vegas, on September 12th and 13th 2024.
Just like the last Harvest, it's going to be a great opportunity to
share knowledge, talk about development plans and ideas, and foremost, meet the rest of the
worldwide community.
See the program
We've prepared an exciting program for you, with talks from renowned community members and other sessions to make Orchard Harvest the biggest Orchard Core event of the year. Check out the program below!
Get your tickets
You can register to the conference using this link
This
ticket grants you two days of all-access to Orchard Harvest 2024.
Book your hotel
To book your stay at The Orleans Hotel & Casino with our discounted rate, visit this page.
Take a part in the discussion
Do you have questions about the conference, or ideas for it? Visit the discussion board.
Get hyped!
To give you a bit of a Harvest feeling, although from an online conference, check out last year's videos.
Speakers
Our awesome speakers are renowned members of the community and here to bring you the Orchard Core topics your care
Benedek Farkas
GitHubOrchard community member since 2011 and core contributor for more than a decade. Co-Founder and Managing Director of Lombiq Technologies, university guest lecturer since 2014. Full-stack and .NET developer and architect with multiple Orchard-based projects under his belt as a lead developer.
Bruno Samardzic
GitHubBruno Samardzic is a senior .NET developer and entrepreneur who enjoys working with Orchard Core. He's implemented a number of systems on top of Orchard, including the a main website of one of the leading courier services in the region, IOT hubs and user portals. Been using orchard since v1 onwards.
Drew Brasher
GitHubDrew is a Software Development Manager with 10 years of experience in Software Development. She is excited about Orchard Core and has used it both in her professional work and personal projects like her blog drewbrasher.com. When not creating software or learning cyber security, she enjoys spending time with her wife and children, watching shows/movies, hiking, walking, kayaking, bicycling, and fireside conversations.
Mike Alhayek
GitHubAs a software engineer, I have a passion for collaborating with the Microsoft Stack, specializing in ASP.NET Core and Orchard Core.
Sipke Schoorstra
GitHubSince 2000, Sipke has specialized in designing software solutions with a focus on the .NET ecosystem and cloud computing, working on diverse projects nationally and internationally. His career as a freelance developer was spearheaded by extensive work on Orchard projects, leading to his current deep involvement with Elsa Workflows, an open-source .NET project aimed at simplifying workflow creation. Beyond work, Sipke enjoys hiking, mountain biking, reading, gaming, and exploring blockchain technology's potential to transform industries and society.
Toby Dodds
GitHubToby Dodds is a career web professional based at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. As the Director of Web and IT he oversees the technical well-being of the Smithsonian Folkways website and digital collection. He has helped implement numerous innovations over his career and is a lifelong music enthusiast and avid photographer. He holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Washington in Seattle, and a Masters in Library and Information Science degree from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
Program
We've prepared an exciting program for you, with talks from renowned community members and other sessions to make Orchard Harvest the biggest Orchard Core event of the year.
Your host for the day will be Viktória Magyar, who's the main organizer of Harvest.
All sessions will be recorded and published on the Orchard YouTube channel after the event, so even if you can't make it live, you'll be able to see the sessions. However, being there live will allow you to ask the speakers, meet other community members, and have a lot of fun!
All indicated times are Las Vegas local time. After each session, you'll have a chance to ask questions, and we'll have a short break too.
Day 1
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Registration
Registration, Coffee, and Breakfast Snacks
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Leisurely arrive at the venue, grab your badge, and mingle with other community members with a cup of coffee and some snacks.
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Opening
Opening
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
We officially open Orchard Harvest 2024.
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Welcome and introduction
9:05 AM - 9:15 AM
Who do we have attending? Don't worry, we won't ask you to introduce yourself to the room!
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Keynote
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Orchard Core as it is today, a review of what happened since last year, milestones and big events, what's in focus now, and what do we have planned for the foreseeable future.
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Award
Announcement of the Winner of the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Every year, the community votes on who has done the most for Orchard Core and thus who we can bestow the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award on.
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To Be Announced
10:10 AM - 11:05 AM
Stay tuned for an exciting session to be revealed soon.
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Demystifying Shapes
11:15 AM - 12:10 AM
Shapes are the arcane magic of Orchard Core's theming. Or are they? While they are awesome, there's no magic, and by the end of this session, you'll fully understand them too!
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Break
Lunch Break
12:10 PM - 1:40 PM
Visit one of the many restaurants and bars of The Orleans and enjoy a meal with the other community members. Please note that lunch is not included in the conference ticket.
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Content Warning Module Demo
1:40 PM - 2:35 PM
The Content Warning module lets you hide some content behind a warning so that users can decide if they want to view it or not. In this session, you will get to see it in action and take a look at the code that makes it happen. We will see how this is done with a Shortcode as well as a Content Part that adds a wrapper to the parent Content Item.
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Panel
Panel Discussion
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Submit your questions in advance or bring surprise questions and engage with our expert panel.
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Break
Coffee Break and Snacks
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Mingle with other community members and grab a cup of coffee and some snacks.
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Using Orchard as a Central Portal for the Biggest Small Business Association in SE Europe
4:05 PM - 4:40 PM
This talk is a showcase of how we used Orchard to implement this portal and what problems we encountered in the meanwhile. It's now been running for 2 years. What we feel worked, what could be better, and what hacks we resorted to.
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From Zero to Azure: Setting Up Your Orchard Application for Success
4:50 PM - 5:45 PM
In this talk I'll go through a complete process of setting up an Azure environment tailored for Orchard, enhanced by various open-source components to aid developers and maintainers.
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Closing
Closing
5:45 PM
We end the first day of Orchard Harvest 2024.
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Dinner
Social Event - Dinner
evening
We'll keep you in suspense about the details for now!
Day 2
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Coffee
Coffee and Breakfast Snacks
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
No need to register this time, just arrive at the venue and mingle with other community members with a cup of coffee and some snacks.
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Building the Orchard Core Community
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Over the course of the last year or so, we've seen numerous improvements to how we function as a community. In this talk, we'll go through what has happened, what effects certain changes had on our community life, and a vision for what we'll see next.
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Understanding the Performance Characteristics of Orchard Core
9:10 AM - 10:05 AM
Why is Orchard Core slow when it's slow, why it's fast when it's fast, and how can you figure all of this out? From the performance guy of the ASP.NET Core team.
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Smithsonian Folkways Collection Management and Orchard Core Demonstration
10:20 AM - 10:55 AM
With a mission to increase and diffuse knowledge, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings digitizes and distributes a large catalog of historic sound recordings. At the middle of our enterprise is an Orchard Core implementation that has been customized to support the needs of our collection and website. By blending the role of website CMS with a robust collections management platform, Folkways has achieved its goals of broadly distributing its collection via its website and through multiple 3rd party music services and platforms - reaching millions of listeners per year.
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Unlocking Hyperproductivity with Orchard, Elsa, and Intelligent Agents
11:10 AM - 12:05 PM
In this session, we will explore the integration of Orchard Core, Elsa Workflows, and intelligent agents to revolutionize content management. You will learn how to harness the power of AI to automate and enhance various stages of content creation and publishing using workflows and agents, achieving unprecedented productivity.
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Break
Lunch Break
12:05 PM - 1:35 PM
Visit one of the many restaurants and bars of The Orleans and enjoy a meal with the other community members. Please note that lunch is not included in the conference ticket.
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Security Scanning an Orchard Core Application
1:35 PM - 2:10 PM
As a web developer, you have tons of security aspects to keep in mind: preventing XSS and SQL injection, configuring HTTPS and HSTS, setting up the proper CSP headers… While you do need to understand these, you have help doing them right: security scanning! In this talk, I'll show you how you can scan your Orchard Core app for security issues with Zed Attack Proxy, also doing it automatically as part of UI testing.
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Speeding Up: Custom Development
2:20 PM - 3:00 PM
The talk's focus is on speeding up custom development via modules that bring new possibilities to Orchard Core. We have developed a module for creation & migration of DB tables, a module to fill these tables via CSV/Excel import and a module that shows them in dynamic tables with filters, sorters and more. All editable in admin, (almost) no-code required, so developers can focus on more complex tasks. Still a WIP though.
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Hackathon
Hackathon
3:10 PM - 5:10 PM
Collaborate and innovate with fellow attendees over coffee and snacks. We'll bring some Orchard Core issues that you'll be able to work on with fellow community members, for all skill levels.
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Closing
Closing
5:10 PM
We end the second day of Orchard Harvest 2024.