Optimizely Dev Happy Hour North America

What is Happy Hour? In order to support and grow our partner ecosystem, we host a monthly online technical meetup for Optimizely's technical community called the Optimizely Dev Happy Hour! The goal is to bring together the technical community, talk about Optimizely and anything else going on (non-Optimizely related) in order to share knowledge and get to know one another better. Nothing formal - just a relaxed environment and a place to ask questions, learn and share. This page will be updated monthly with some high level topics that will be covered.

This initiative started out as a temporary weekly series during the Covid-19 pandemic in order to generate a sense of community online. It was a great success and we decided to bring the series back permanently, on a monthly basis. Thank you to everyone that continues to join and we look forward to many great sessions! Don't forget to download Kahoot app on your device! 

Below are the details.

When: The last  Friday of every month from 8:00 AM PST / 10:00 AM CST / 11:00 AM EST

Next Session: Friday June 30th 2023

Note: We are also hosting an Optimizely Developer Happy Hour especially target towards our developers and partners in EMEA and APJ, see the dedicated EMEA page and APJ page for details on schedule and agendas.

Where: https://Optimizely.zoom.us/j/96216197308

Calendar Invite: Monthly Invite.ics

Meeting ID: 962 1619 7308

Password: 573682

Sessions

Session Agenda Follow-Ups/Recap

Friday, May 26, 2023

 Speakers/Topics:
  • Luc Gosso, AI Assistant addon for Optimizely CMS
  • Anil Patel of Knight Frank, Integrating ChatGPT in Optimizely CMS
  • Ali Hart of Optimizely, AI in the CMP: Create Better Content, Faster

 

Friday, April 28, 2023

 Speakers/Topics:
  • Kyle Sharp of Optimizely, Beta programs for Optimizely Experimentation
  • Marshall Serlin of Optimizely, ODP Audience Targeting (Real-Time Segments) with Feature Experimentation

 

Friday, March 31, 2023

 Speakers/Topics:
  • Fredrik Johansson of Optimizely, New Optimizely Academy
  • Doug Yoder of Verndale, Optimizely Connect Platform & ODP Data Manipulation

 

Friday, February 24, 2023

 Speakers/Topics:
  • Jonas Bergqvist of Optimizely, Headless application using Content Graph
  • Valdis Iljuconoks of Geta, Overview of less known Optimizely plugins

 

(Missed the first 10 minutes due to technical difficulty)

Friday October 28, 2022
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Guest Speaker: Joshua Folkerts of Optimizely
  • Guest Speaker: Chris Vafiadis of Optimizely
  • Halloween Costume Contest
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week :

  • Joshua Folkerts
  • Chris Vafiadis

Friday August 26, 2022
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Guest Speaker: Jeffery Cheal of Optimizely
  • Guest Speaker: John Peebles of Chartis
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week :

  • Jeffery Cheal
  • John Peebles

Friday July 29, 2022
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Guest Speaker: Drew Null of Rightpoint
  • Guest Speaker: Lee Anderson of Optimizely
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week :

  • Drew Null
  • Lee Anderson

Friday June 24, 2022
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Guest Speaker: Kenny Gutierrez of Century Communities!
  • Guest Speaker: Scott Reed of Niteco!
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week :

  • Kenny Gutierrez
  • Scott Reed

Friday April 29, 2022
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Guest Speaker: Mark Hall, Director of Innovation and Transformation
  • Guest Speaker: John Nguyen, Senior Software Engineer
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week :

  • Mark Hall
  • John Nguyen

Friday March 25, 2022
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Meet the Dev Marketing Team at Optimizely!
  • Big Announcement!
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Optimizely's Developer Marketing Team
    • Hannah St. Claire
    • Patrick Lam
    • Darcell East

 

Friday February 25, 2022
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Education Update!!!
  • Full Stack Demo!
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Dr. Tammy Trierweiler
  • Josh Shaffer

 

Friday January 28, 2022
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Welcome Welcome (Learn all about our new acquisition)!!!
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Shafquit Islam
  • Debra Barlow
  • Jocelyn Brusco

 

Friday December 3, 2021
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • "How Do You Start A Formula 1 Engine?".  A lesson in caching
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Éric St-Pierre - Yaksa

 

Friday October 29, 2021
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Content Recs in Custom View
  • Q&A
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Jorge Cárdenas - Verndale

 

Friday September 24, 2021
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Experimentation Strategy
  • .NET 5 Update
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Hazjier Pourkhalkhali - Optimizely

 

Friday August 27, 2021
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • B2B Commerce Cloud Integrations
  • Philosophy on ODP Connectors
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Alain Marsolais - Absolunet
  • Alexandra Matheny - Optimizely

 

Friday June 11, 2021
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Cool Share of the Month!
  • Load Testing Best Practices
  • .NET 5 (.NET Core) Sneak Peek!
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Jason Murray - Optimizely

 

Friday April 30, 2021
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Cool Share of the Month!
  • ODP (previously Zaius) Dev Deep Dive!
  • Image Optimization
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Jorge Cárdenas - Verndale

 

Friday March 26, 2021

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Drew Null - Rightpoint

Friday February 26, 2021
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Cool Share of the Month!
  • Multi-site Management
  • Optimization as a Service
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Chris Sharp - Blue Bolt

Friday January 29, 2021
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Welcome Ben Schaeffer!
  • EMVP Program Updates!
  • How To Use Episerver Foundation As A Starting Point
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Deane Barker, Asa Schachar & Kody O'Connell - Optimizely
  • Santiago - Verndale

Friday December 4, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Optimizely Full Stack!
  • Integrating Optimizely into Epi
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Asa Schachar, Optimizely

Friday October 30, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Education Update - Preparing for the Episerver Developer Certification Exam
  • Epi B2B Commerce Spire (React/Redux overview)
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Bruce Gordon, Episerver
  • Cody Anhorn, Episerver

Friday September 25, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • Announcements!
  • Epi CMS and B2B Commerce
  • Product Showcase: Data Collection R&D
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Alain Marsolais, Absolunet
  • Dustin Sier, Episerver

Friday August 28, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • Dynamic Facets
  • React/SPA – Updates!
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guest of the Week:

  • Calin Lupas, ThinkMax

Friday July 31, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • Content Recommendations & Intelligence – An Implementation
  • Foundation– Site Settings
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guest of the Week:

  • Kevin Schofield, Verndale

Friday June 26, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • HTML 5 Apps
  • .NET Core
  • Certification Tips ​
  • Kahoot!​

Special Guest of the Week:

  • James Stout, Episerver Solution Architect, discusses HTML 5 apps!

Friday May 29, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • Dev Happy Hour Recap
  • Competition ​
    • Kahoot!​

Friday May 22, 2020

 Due to Memorial Day, the Dev Happy Hour will take a week off on Friday May 22.

Friday May 15, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • Roadmap
  • Competition ​
    • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Justin Anovick - Chief Product Officer and Nate Barad - Director, Product Marketing.  This is your chance to ask questions and get to know our roadmap!

Friday May 8, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • DXP Improvements
  • Deployment API in Action!
  • Meet Mark Hall
  • Competition ​
    • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Mike Dillon
  • Eric Markson from Perficient
  • Find Eric Markson's presentation below (links to the GitHub repo are in the PPT)

Friday May 1, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • Foundation React/SPA
  • Headless​
  • Meet Chris V
  • Competition ​
    • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Remko Jantzen
  • Deane Barker

Friday April 24, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • A word from our CEO
  • Expert Services share some hotfixes to improve performance!
  • Insite Commerce​
  • Open Discussion ​
  • Competition ​
    • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Alex Atzberger - Episerver CEO
  • Lance Farquhar & Jeff Fischer from Expert Services
  • Trevor Pope - Insite Commerce

Friday April 17, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers! ​
  • Education Update ​
    • ​ Free training/webinars
    • Dev subscriptions
    • Certification exams
    • Volume discounts ​
  • Content Recommendations & Diagnostics ​
  • Foundation MVC CMS ​
  • Open Discussion ​
  • Competition ​
    • Kahoot!​

Special Guests of the Week:

  • Steve Long from Education
  • Kevin Li - Content AI Guru

Friday April 10, 2020
  • Intro & Cheers!
  • Education Update
    • Free Online Learning
    • Areas of Focus
    • Guide to Certification
  • Episerver Quick CMS-only Version
  • Foundation Documentation
  • Open Discussion - Bring your ideas & questions!
  • Competition
    • A fun trivia game for bragging rights!  Download Kahoot on your mobile device prior to the Happy Hour.  The Game PIN will be provided during the Happy Hour!

Special Guest of the Week:

  • Episerver Education Staff!