It’s almost time for Collaborate 2015! This year has a plenty of great events planned and we wanted to take a moment to go over the basic schedule as well as some standouts. Check out our picks and don’t forget to visit us at booth #1140!

Sunday, April 12

IOUG Pre-Conference Workshops*

9 am – 4 pm

Collaborate starts for IOUG members Sunday morning! Check out some of the great pre-conference workshops that Collaborate has in store. Speakers from Oracle will lead hands-on workshops on Enterprise Manager, Oracle Database 12c, Accreditation for Advanced Users and more.

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IOUG Welcome Reception*

6 pm – 8 pm
Mandalay Bay Ballroom K

Celebrate the return of the #IOUGenius to Collaborate! Enjoy h’oeuvres, enter the raffle, and do some networking with your fellow #IOUG technologists. Don’t forget to stop by the photobooth!

*IOUG badge required to attend these events

Monday, April 13

Registration and Caffeination

7 am
Mandalay Bay Foyer

Get registered and grab a coffee before a day of breakout sessions, exhibitions, and more.

Opening Keynote – Erik Wahl of UNthink™

8 am – 9 am

Graffiti artist, author, and entrepreneur Erik Wahl will be gracing us with his presence to talk about how creativity is within everyone’s reach–even if you’re not an artist. UNthink will inspire you to unlock your own creative potential.

Morning Educational Breakout Sessions

Detecting and Stopping Cyber Attacks against Oracle Databases

9:15 am – 11:30 am
Room North Convention, South Pacific J

Oracle Databases are a target of cyber attacks by hackers looking to obtain sensitive data such as credit card numbers and personally identifiable information used in identify theft. Even though databases are not externally accessible, they are still a target as most cyber attacks penetrate the network perimeter and look for high value targets within your internal network. Based on lessons learned from recent high-profile cyber attacks, a framework and techniques for detection and prevention of these cyber attacks against database will be presented.

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Oracle E-Business Suite: Strategy, Update and Roadmap

9:15 – 10:15 am
South Seas F

In this session, hear from Oracle E-Business Suite General Manager Cliff Godwin as he delivers an update on the Oracle E-Business Suite product line. The session covers the value delivered by the current release of Oracle E-Business Suite applications, the momentum, and how Oracle E-Business Suite applications integrate into Oracle’s overall applications strategy. You will come away with an understanding of the value Oracle E-Business Suite applications deliver now and in the future.

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Women in Technology Luncheon – Registration required

11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Mandalay Bay Ballroom A

Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman of Oracle will lead this tech-forward meet up for women in the field to discuss personal experiences and strategies for success. Men are also welcome to join! Sign up is during morning registration.

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Afternoon Educational Breakout Sessions

Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Procurement

12:45 pm –  1:45 pm
Breakers G

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle Procurements experts – the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.

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Insightful EBS Purging Strategies

2 pm – 3 pm
Mandalay Bay D

Purging and Archiving are very complex subjects and there is so much information available that it is impossible to cover everything in one presentation. This presentation is meant to discuss purging features and functionality of the Oracle EBS Applications that is available in Release 12.

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Another Security Patch – How Do I Keep Up?

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Room North Convention, South Pacific J

Every quarter Oracle provides security patches for Oracle E-Business Suite, the database and Exadata/Exalogic. We will discuss the need for applying these patches quarterly, how to plan for them, test them, and best practices on when to apply them.

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Welcome Reception

5:30 pm – 8 pm
Room Shoreline AB

Drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and networking! Check out the opening of the Exhibitor Showcase and check out this year’s participating companies.

Tuesday, April 14

Oracle Keynote: Keeping Your Head in the Cloud – Leadership Edge in the Digital Transformation

8 am – 8:45 am
Mandalay Bay Ballroom

Mark Sunday is Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Oracle, responsible for the information technology infrastructure used across the company globally. Mark’s responsibilities have also included the operational infrastructure for Oracle’s on-demand product offerings. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, Mr. Sunday was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Siebel Systems. With more than 30 years in the high technology industry, he has also served in various IT leadership positions at Motorola, ST Microelectronics, and Texas Instruments. Mr. Sunday supports the innovation, technology and science community serving as Vice Chair of Utah Technology Council and board member of the Leonardo – a museum dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology.

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IBM Keynote: Building for the Future: APIs, Cognitive Computing and Customizing Your Oracle Applications in Cloud

8:45 am – 9:45 am
Mandalay Bay Ballroom

IBM Cloud Platform APIs are a critical component to developing ecosystems around your technology as well as building modern, born on the cloud, web and mobile applications. Given the popularity of customizing social functionality into Oracle applications, it should come as little surprise that daily API calls to some of the more popular social networking platforms can number in the billions. While impressive as a stand alone statement about the increasing value and significance of building and using APIs, it also highlights a substantial new market opportunity.

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Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite Financials

9:45 am – 10:45 am
Room Breakers G

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle Financials experts – the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.

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Advanced Architectures for Oracle E-Business Suite

11 am – 12 pm
Room Islander D

Attend this session to build on the three-tier logical Oracle E-Business Suite architecture to meet your business requirements and to assist you with planning a disaster recovery project for your environment. If you want to learn more about how to deploy advanced configurations for Oracle WebLogic Server and parallel concurrent processing, this session is for you. It covers features that provide high availability, scalability, and performance, including load-balancing, clustering, virtualization and DMZ.

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E-Business Suite 12 Payments: The Centralization of Payment Processing

2 pm – 3 pm
Room South Seas C

This presentation highlights the new E-Business Suite Release 12 Payments module. This new module supports both funds disbursement and funds capture. The discussion will focus not only on the benefits of centralization, but will illustrate the new payment factory model and the out-of-the-box support for funds capture. Several new user dashboards that facilitate more efficient processing will be shown and discussed, as will the new setup form. Critical similarities and differences between Release 12.1 and 12.2 will also be highlighted. Finally, key implementation milestones and timelines will be emphasized.

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ERP Project Management for the Busy Professional

3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room South Pacific H

While the PMBOK provides some great knowledge on the best practices for managing projects, it is sometimes difficult to apply these practices in real-life. Learn the everyday skills and methods needed to assess and deliver almost any type of ERP project. Starting from project intake and working through project execution and closure, we’ll share our thoughts on how to setup a structure to manage projects successfully.

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Exhibitor Showcase Happy Hour

5:30 pm – 7 pm
Room Shoreline AB

Self explanatory. Have a drink and network!

Wednesday, April 15

Oracle E-Business Suite Patches: Fear no More!

8 am – 9 am
Room South Seas I

For many organizations, applying a patch to their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) system can be a tenuous experience, regardless of the patch size. The high costs and risks associated with deploying EBS patches deter many organizations from deploying them. However, “sitting on the fence” and not deploying necessary patches can also be a costly and risky business!   Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, will share how they significantly reduced the risk, time and cost when implementing patches using Panaya’s SaaS impact analysis solution.

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From E-Business Suite with Love: An Excel-Based Reporting Alternative to Oracle Discoverer

10:45 am – 11:45 am
Room South Pacific C

Are you on a mission to replace Oracle Discoverer? Meet Wand, Reports Wand. Our Excel-based ad hoc reporting tool for E-Business Suite is shaken, not stirred and is empowering users around the world. See why Reports Wand is a viable alternative and a much less complex option than migrating to OBIEE. Friendly to end users, our solution installs in minutes without consultants or heavy IT resources and allows for greater flexibility and customization with reporting. See how you can also use it with NoetixViews.

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Meet the Experts: Oracle E-Business Suite In-Memory Applications

3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Room Breakers G

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with the Oracle Service Management experts – the people who design and build the applications. This session is where you can have discussions regarding the Oracle Applications strategy and your specific business and IT strategy. The experts will be available to discuss the value of the latest releases and share insights into the best path for your enterprise, so come ready with your questions.

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Young Professionals Forum Cocktail Meet-Up

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Room Islander C

Are you looking to connect with other young professionals in the Oracle Applications community? Start the Groovy 60s Party with your peers at happy hour. Build your network and your knowledge during our pre-party event. Pick up your pass at the OAUG Welcome Reception at LIGHT Nightclub on Sunday.

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Thursday, April 16

Getting Optimal Performance from Oracle E-Business Suite

8:30 am – 9:30 am
Room South Seas H

This packed Oracle Development session summarizes practical tips and lessons learned from performance-tuning and benchmarking the world’s largest Oracle E-Business Suite environments. Apps sysadmins will get concrete tips and techniques for identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks on all layers of the technology stack. They will also learn how Oracle’s engineered systems such as Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic can dramatically improve the performance of their system.

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Oracle DBA Profession Life Skills – from a 25-Year Veteran

12:15 pm –  1:15 pm
Room Banayn E

Learn life lessons from a 25-year Oracle veteran who started with Oracle 5.1!

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Search the full schedule and don’t forgot visit us at booth 1140!

A few days ago, we added recurring billing to the Merchant Center and just wanted to take a moment to provide a walk through to show how easy it is it set up billing plans! This feature is perfect for any merchant with customers with subscriptions, nonprofits that want to easily set up and track recurring donations, and more.

Let’s get right into it.

1. From your account home page, click on the Billing tab. Then click “New Billing Plan.”

That will bring you to this page:

2. Enter the name of an existing customer into the search bar to populate the fields with their information.

3. After the customer fields are populated, you can select an existing card to append to the billing plan, or add a new card.

4. You can then choose your billing plan interval. Simply choose Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly and select frequency.

Click “Save Plan” and you’re done!

Remember, this feature is available to any merchant who is set up with our Virtual Terminal. Tune in next week and learn about other helpful features of our new recurring billing tool.

After the amount of breaches last year, it should come as no surprise that retailers took a financial hit. According to BI‘s analysis of a recent Lexis Nexis report, the cost of fraud rose to $32 billion in 2014. Additionally, “fraud as a percentage of retail sales increased as well, likely as a result of massive data breaches at Target, Home Depot, Nieman Marcus, and others.”

Although merchants are upgrading to EMV, BI warns that this technology will not be enough on its own to protect against fraud. Additional layers of security such as point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and tokenization are essential to reducing the instance of cyber crime.

Check out the full study here.

New technology is undeniably exciting, especially when it comes to payments. In many instances, new technology can mean cost saving, more efficiency and greater convenience, but it can also result in new vulnerability. Every time a new type of payment tech is released onto the market, cyber criminals work hard to poke holes in unforeseen vulnerabilities.

ISO and Agent reports that as EMV becomes more widespread, integrated terminals will become new targets. These terminals allow for advances like Apple Pay to exist, which allows for transactions to be delivered in new, potentially vulnerable ways. The best way to protect against attacks? According to Julie Conroy of Aite Group, it’s a “three-legged stool” consisting of tokenization, point-to-point encryption, and EMV–an approach we whole-heartedly agree with.

Check out the full article here.

2014, the year of ice bucket challenges, Flappy Bird, and the Frozen phenomenon has come to a close and the New Year is here. Not only are there several deadlines in place for merchants this year regarding payment processing and security, but exciting new technology is beginning to separate the market. Plus, after the amount of payment cards compromised this year grew 38%, there’s never been a better time for businesses to rethink their processing and security practices.

Along with your personal resolutions this year, why not make some as a merchant? Below are our top five payments resolutions for 2015.

1. Achieve PCI-compliance–for good.

Get that credit card data out of your systems! To be truly PCI compliant, sensitive data should not be touching your workstations, and it certainly should not be stored. One of the best ways to do this is with point-to-point encryption (P2PE), a process recommended for all merchants by the PCI Council. When you accept cards using P2PE, the card data is encrypted at the point of interaction. This means that unencrypted data never touches your system, making PCI compliance a much easier task. Want to be as iron-clad as possible? Combining P2PE and tokenization is a great way to lock down your sensitive data and keep it out of the hands of cybercriminals.

Remember, the deadline for PCI 3.0 compliance was January 1st, 2015–here’s what you need to know.

2. Get EMV-ready

The EMV deadline is approaching fast, and it can never hurt to be ahead of the game. Especially since some major banks have already begun distributing chip-enabled cards. The technology was implemented in Europe over 20 years ago, and now that it’s moving to the United States, merchants are rushing to prepare. By October of this year, all merchants must be equipped with EMV-ready terminals.

While we believe EMV is a necessary and important step in the right direction, it is by no means a silver-bullet to credit card fraud. Payment security will take a lot more than a single solution to perfect, and it’s important that merchants remain vigilant in protecting their card data.

3. Stay educated

These days, the payments industry is evolving quickly along with other technology. Keeping abreast of what’s new can take a little work, but it can be worth it in the long run. For example, you’ve probably heard of Apple Pay, but do you know how it works? It’s compatible with both Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Near-Field Communications (NFC) technology, both delivering unique customer experiences. BLE allows customers to pay from anywhere within the store using their smart phone, while NFC requires being closer to the payment terminal. Combined with technology like Touch ID, it has the potential to really change the in-store shopping experience.

The best way to stay up to date on new payments technology is by reading publications like Digital Transactions and PYMNTS.com. Tradeshows like Money 20/20 are also the perfect place to learn about the latest and greatest in the payments industry.

4. Ditch flat-rate processing

Flat-rate pricing is tempting, we completely get it. It’s an easy to understand thing in a difficult to grasp industry. Payment processing is complicated, but that’s all the more reason that pricing should be more intricate.

All transactions incur three fees:

1. A fee to the issuing bank, e.g., Chase (interchange)
2. A fee to the card brand, e.g., MasterCard or Visa (assessment)
3. A fee to the credit card processor

The assessment is a fixed cost, but interchange varies greatly. Flat-rate pricing has to be such to cover for all interchange scenarios, and can cost merchants up to 20% more than they need to be paying.

Interchange-plus pricing aims to optimize costs for merchants by carefully monitoring basis points and pricing accordingly. This way, merchants are never charged more than they need to be for interchange, and it gives them more control. Learn more about interchange-plus pricing here.

5. Crack down on chargebacks

Cutting costs is always a good thing, and for the most part chargebacks (and their related fees) are an avoidable one. Chargebacks occur a few ways. One is when a customer is unhappy with a product or service and requests a refund from their bank. These chargebacks can generally be avoided with excellent customer service and good communication with customers. Another reason chargebacks occur is when customers suspect fraud. These are a bit harder to avoid, but can be well worth the effort in the long run.

Check out this guide on how to avoid all types of chargebacks, from customer dissatisfaction to fraud.

These resolutions are really just a jumping-off point—what other payments resolutions are you going to make this year? Let us know on Twitter and Facebook!

It’s no secret that mobile point of sale is big right now. It seems like everywhere you go, small businesses are outfitted with dongles fastened to tablets and smart phones. The appeal is clear. These portable, cloud-based solutions are generally attached to uncomplicated flat rate processing and the hardware comes at little or no cost to the merchant. Obviously mPOS is gaining popularity, but it’s more difficult than you might think to determine the actual rate of retail adoption. As popularity increases, providers are branching out from simple processing and focusing more on value-added services.

Many surveys currently suggest that retailer adoption of mPOS is around 40%, but as Business Insider recently pointed out, this number is likely closer to 30%. Adoption rates among retailers are lower than businesses in general for several reasons. One is that merchants without employees tend to use mobile POS systems in high numbers. These smaller vendors benefit from location flexibility, and costs are, at least upfront, generally less than legacy systems. BI’s research established that adoption rates in New York are actually lower than reported, and it’s not uncommon for small retailers to try out an mPOS system only to revert back to a legacy system. Additionally, it should be noted that retail doesn’t represent all mPOS adoption–it has also been utilized by construction, the arts, real estate, etc.

That said, mobile point of sale is still expected to reach almost 80% penetration by 2019 despite some of its criticism. It’s definitely disruptive, not to mention competitive.

Challenges for mPOS

Generally, mPOS companies target small businesses, as their systems don’t properly support the needs of larger organizations. Thus, small businesses have a higher adoption rate of mPOS than larger companies. While most businesses in the United States are considered “small businesses”, they don’t make up a large percentage of total revenue. More than half of the businesses in the US earn less than $5 million/year. 46% of businesses have zero employees, but generate just 2% of total revenue.

Why is this important? Because the majority of mPOS companies make their money from percentages of each transaction. If all of their customers are small businesses bringing in low revenue, the amount of money the company can bring in is extremely limited.

One of the main reasons mPOS was adopted so widely so quickly was that the hardware necessary to support it cost very little, so any merchant hesitant to put down the money for a legacy terminal jumped on board. Despite that fact, dongle businesses aren’t easy or cheap to run. They require a large and knowledgeable support staff. It’s for this reason that several companies have had to ditch their dongle business.

Alternative sources for revenue

In a word? Software.

mPOS provides a major service to small businesses, but as they start to evolve their needs grow. This is where inventory management software comes in, and mPOS companies are the perfect ones to provide it. Since mPOS already relies on a software component, it’s simple to tack on more complex features to offer a la carte for businesses that want to take advantage of them.

Functionality can include everything from payroll to labor management, sales analysis and reporting–even marketing efforts. With the right technology, companies with limited staff can have access to incredibly valuable data that they would have never had otherwise.

This is hardly a new concept—the transition towards more software-focused solutions has already begun. Since the mPOS boom, we have noticed our own merchants gravitating heavily toward solutions that offer options like analytics, inventory management, and apps custom-built for their type of business.

Point of sale, unplugged

One great example of a company taking full advantage of this opportunity is Instore. Their iPad point-of-sale system helps thousands of restaurants, bars, cafes, and more to accept payments smoothly. Their analytics software not only provides businesses with invaluable data, but it also allows for employee management, time keeping, and more. Merchants only need an iPad to get started—the hardware is provided free.

Another company taking mPOS by storm is Clover. Clover POS launched earlier this year with their stunning “tablet style” point-of-sale system, and recently they’ve gone fully mobile. Clover Mobile takes all the best parts of Clover POS and makes it wireless. Learn more here and sign up to be notified when Clover Mobile becomes available.

Here at CardConnect, we’re getting in the holiday spirit—and not just with the tree in the reception area. For the second year in a row, CardConnect is participating in the Adopt a Family program for Cityteam Chester. The Greater Delaware Valley’s branch of Cityteam provides hot meals, shelter, and clothing to the homeless population of Philadelphia year-round. They also provide a recovery program for men with addiction problems, and assist low-income families by providing food and supplies for mothers.

The CardConnect holiday tree, decorated with a tag for every child we will be providing gift for through Cityteam Chester.

Cityteam Chester is a fantastic organization that has been serving the area for over 25 years, and each holiday season the Adopt a Family Program provides gifts to thousands of children in need.

So how does it work? Participants select a child (or children!) they’d like to sponsor, and receive their wish list. Then, they go shopping! Toys get delivered in time for the holidays and volunteers get to spread a little cheer.

CardConnect was made aware of the Adopt a Family Program last year through Chief Architect, Joe Summers. By partnering CardConnect with Cityteam, we were able to provide gifts to 50 children in need, and this year we’ve upped our goal to 60. Joe and his brother then volunteered to deliver the gifts to the families. Joe spoke a bit on the experience of distributing the gifts:

“It warmed our hearts seeing the joy on the faces of the parents when we walked up to their door with gifts. It brought smiles to our faces watching parents usher their kids away so as to not ruin the surprise…It makes me very thankful that programs like Adopt a Family exist and grateful that I have the opportunity to be a part of something so important.”

Joe thought the workplace would be an ideal venue for such a program, and he was right. Not only were we able to team up to help a great deal of families in need, but it brought joy to our office as well.

“I’ve seen employees going shopping as a team, laughter as they chat about what they wanted at that age, competition as they try to out-do each other in classic one-up-man-ship style, all as hidden ancillary benefits.”

Last year, Cityteam volunteers throughout Greater Philadelphia were able to provide toys and clothing for 2,772 children–that’s over 13,000 toys and over 300 bicycles! This year we’re hoping for even more.

Want to get your office involved with Adopt a Family or something similar? Talk to your HR department and volunteer to help raise awareness in the office and gather participants. And don’t forget you don’t have to stick to the holidays! People are in need year-round.

If your city has a local Cityteam chapter, you can also sign up here to volunteer your time.

We’ll leave you with a message from Joe:

“Just as we have all overcome obstacles in our lives, we have all needed help at one point or another. Programs like Adopt a Family offer that help during a time when families and children need it the most. I applaud the employees and management of CardConnect for their continued commitment and encourage others to get involved. You may end up feeling like you get more than you give.”

CardConnect was honored to sponsor Women & Venture Capital at the Chicago Venture Summit this October. The event was organized by the wonderful people at Ms. Tech, who work tirelessly to expand awareness of the women in the tech field and connect them with venture capitalists, investors, funding, and provide networking opportunities. They also work to encourage women to become entrepreneurs, leaders, and receivers of venture capital. The fact is, women need better access to the tech field, and organizations like Ms. Tech have made it their mission to bring together like-minded individuals and build a supportive community. In fact, our very own Katya Siddall will be joining Ms. Tech as a council member in 2015!

The Chicago Venture Summit was a one day event that brought in 9900 capital companies from both coasts to educate them on the start-up landscape in the Midwest. Ms. Tech and their vision were a perfect pairing. The Women & Venture Capital event was held at Paris Club Bistro in Chicago and had a fantastic 75 person turnout that brought venture capitalists and female-run startups together for an evening of networking and discussion.

Check out some photos from the event below and read more about Ms. Tech here!

It’s been almost two weeks since the 7th annual Barcamp Philly, and this year CardConnect was honored to be a Luchador-level sponsor. If you’re not familiar, Barcamp is an “unconference”– a day of talks and discussions generated that very day by none other than the attendees themselves. Talks can range from the techy (Dirty Code: How Geek Culture is Breaking Modern IT) to the unexpected (Why Every Girl Should Shave Her Head Once), resulting in a full day of learning, collaborating, and inspiration.

Barcamp is pretty incredible, and we had a fantastic time this year. In an effort to keep the inspiration going we’ve decided to round up some of our favorite tweets from the event.

In nerdvana– @mailchimp brought the goods to @barcampphilly with hand #crocheted hats! #bcphilly #swag pic.twitter.com/YmXerXEwQ1

— NickyKnacks Crochet (@nickyknacks) November 15, 2014

So many options… #bcphilly http://t.co/OoANWqFm0k pic.twitter.com/HZGtUphDW0

— Kristina Cassar (@KKCassar) November 15, 2014

Bacon makes everything better #bcphilly pic.twitter.com/c8cZQa8jTs

— Charles Treatman (@ctreatma) November 15, 2014

"Find out who your users are and what they need" should always be step one of your process #bcphilly

— Charles Treatman (@ctreatma) November 15, 2014

Learning so much from @obiwankimberly talking about the web at 25. Did you know the web's birthplace was a hallway? #bcphilly #mindblown

— Megan DiFeo (@megandifeo) November 15, 2014

.@Ingridcheng holding court on teaching under privileged kids about electronics using accessible materials. #bcphilly pic.twitter.com/61vuA3PYsZ

— bmac (@BezoMaxo) November 15, 2014

An hour into Barcamp Philly and already inspired. That's why this day is awesome! #bcphilly

— Arielle Friedlander (@ariellemargot) November 15, 2014

Come on… It's in the requirements – with @PMOwned & @abbyfretz at @BarcampPhilly #bcphilly pic.twitter.com/xJ3mEI8lOG

— Laura Richardson (@_LRichardson) November 15, 2014

Build. Measure. Learn. Words to live by, with agility. Thank you @movie_pundit ! #bcphilly

— Deborah Wyse (@DeborahWyse) November 15, 2014

#bcphilly is the best! It's a great place to start conversations about things that you want to learn more about. pic.twitter.com/79Nm8BlhVC

— Melissa Milloway (@MelMilloway) November 15, 2014

Emma makes a splash at her first @BarcampPhilly talk! #bcphilly #eightandbrave #girlpower @kmartino pic.twitter.com/4xgwepoc74

— Amanda Clark (@CaptnPollyanna) November 15, 2014

Loving "Why Everyone Should Shave Their Head Once" by Laura Oxenfeld. What an incredibly interesting topic #BCPhilly pic.twitter.com/dEFamGRfH1

— BarCamp Philly (@BarcampPhilly) November 15, 2014

I'm watching an amazing 8 year old present at #bcphilly about how to use iMovie. How's your day?

— JP Toto (@jptoto) November 15, 2014

Watching @kmartino's 8 year old daughter bounce playfully from room to room making a video on her iPad is just awesome. #BCPhilly

— Alex Hillman (@alexhillman) November 15, 2014

Reasons you may have a high bounce rate from @lizlockard #bcphilly pic.twitter.com/8ifYkiUVZQ

— Zoe Rooney (@zoe_rooney) November 15, 2014

Huge thanks also to our Lunchador sponsors! @CardConnect @comcast @RJMetrics @SGAdvTech #bcphilly You guys are the BEST!

— BarCamp Philly (@BarcampPhilly) November 15, 2014

"Specializing is like a tree. Branch your knowledge broadly while going DEEP with that one thing you love." – @mdmnky #bcphilly

— Lisa Burgess (@CSSLovinn) November 15, 2014

Today l learned that @BarcampPhilly gets better every year! #bcphilly pic.twitter.com/FeEMUYnyCH

— Drew Sudell (@asudell) November 15, 2014

the transaction is probably the least important part the story of your relationship with customer. #bcphilly #contentmarketing

— AQ (@eadamquinn) November 15, 2014

It's been yet another fun and educational day here @BarcampPhilly #bcphilly pic.twitter.com/TUT7fjSlRt

— Frankelly Valdez (@frankyurban) November 15, 2014

feel like there's a business or two being hatched here @BarcampPhilly after party #bcphilly #hustle pic.twitter.com/Qqda2xfmpx

— Chris Galasso (@toosmart) November 16, 2014

Barcamp was a full day of learning, inspiring, and meeting some of the brightest folks in Philadelphia. We had an absolute blast and can’t wait to see everyone next year!