Biz Conf

Platinum Sponsors

• Hashrocket

  

  Hashrocket is an expert consultancy group that uses best-of-breed technologies like Ruby on Rails to deliver the highest quality software in the least amount of time. Whether you’re looking for a strong start to your new project or you just want to improve your existing situation, our experienced team has the knowledge and resources to help your web application take off.

  http://www.hashrocket.com

• ELC Technologies

  

  Founded in 1991, ELC Technologies is powering the hottest Ruby on Rails web applications. From Cisco to ESPN to Live Nation, ELC Technologies is bringing Ruby on Rails to business-critical applications. Our work and speed of implementation has received praise from the Rails core team and we couldn't have been as effective on any other platform. Our company has one of the largest and most experienced Ruby on Rails teams, tuned in to the latest web technologies and aesthetics, with a broad palette of agile practices to help client projects succeed. ELC Technologies has its headquarters in Santa Barbara, California, and international offices in London, England and Dublin, Ireland. ELC is focused on providing successful programs built on Rails, and we're leading the way in application development. Our core team has worked together for many years which gives us a high level of trust between each other and our clients. Short iterations, demos early and often, and constant and strong communication of vision and progress are all integral pieces of our process.

  http://www.elctech.com/

Gold Sponsors

• Engine Yard

  

  Engine Yard provides automation technologies and services for Ruby on Rails. These include the leading Rails hosting services and the first Rails cloud service to market. Engine Yard employs numerous top industry experts and sponsors or contributes to many Open Source projects and efforts such as Ruby on Rails (www.rubyonrails.org), Merb (www.merbivore.com) and Rubinius (www.rubini.us). Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., Engine Yard is backed by Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com.

  http://www.engineyard.com/

• Heroku

  

  Heroku, the instant ruby platform. Deploy any ruby app instantly with nothing but Git. Take advantage of advanced features like HTTP caching, memcached, rack middleware, and instant scaling built in to every app. Never think about hosting or servers again.

  http://heroku.com/

• HARVEST

  

  Harvest is a web-based service that let's you track time, log expenses, and invoice clients all in one streamlined application. Simple and intuitive to use, you will be up and running with Harvest in minutes. Visual reporting shows you the health of your operation at-a-glance while providing drill down capability for detailed analysis. Used by today's top service professionals, Harvest is the ideal tool for managing your small business.

  http://www.getharvest.com/

• New Relic

  

  New Relic is the creator of RPM(TM), the first application performance management software tool available as a service. Since its introduction, more than 4,000 developers and 1700 organizations have downloaded and subscribed to RPM to monitor and manage their production Ruby on Rails applications. RPM is a software-as-a-service implementation which enables developers and operations teams to monitor performance indicators, troubleshoot problems and tune continuously throughout the application lifecycle.

  http://www.newrelic.com/

• Workbeast

  

  Workbeast gets IT clients and consultants more money by taking recruiters out of the hiring process. All jobs are referred via your professional network. For consultants, this means no more bogus leads or waiting around for the phone to ring. For clients, this means a higher quality candidate that's been referred by people you trust. It's easier, cheaper and more efficient for everyone.

  http://workbeast.com

• PipelineDeals

  

  PipelineDeals is designed by a sales agent for a sales agent. PipelineDeals offers the simplest and most intuitive solution to help businesses get organized around their business’s lifeline of future revenue. Part customer relationship management (CRM) software, part sales tracking, part lead tracking all wrapped into a super simple interface, PipelineDeals provides a real choice in the hosted CRM software market. Sales people are wired to work with other people, not drive software. At PipelineDeals, we understand that businesses today need to spend less time using software and more time on growing their business.

  http://pipelinedeals.com

Silver Sponsors

• Pivotal Labs

  

  A respected leader in the Rails and Agile worlds, Pivotal Labs has helped over 60 entrepreneurs translate their ideas into living products, and has helped household brands to hone their development methodology. At the end of their journey, clients come away with a production-quality web application and a rigorous approach to development. Along they way, we developed the Jolt Award winning Pivotal Tracker, an embodiment of our planning methodology in software, and shared it with the world.

  http://pivotallabs.com/

• PeepCode

  

  We pack the useful information you need to know into about an hour. Unlike day or week-long training courses, you can pause, replay, or watch again at your leisure.

  http://peepcode.com

• Blue Box Group

  

  Founded in 2003, Blue Box Group evolved quickly into a boutique provider of reliable, comprehensive and customized shared web-hosting solutions. In a true spirit of collaboration, customers are treated as partners in this approach, which seeks to find answers that propel success. In us, customers find experts in technology and scalable Ruby on Rails deployments they can call upon at any time. We deliver focus, dedication and quality service to each customer, ensuring the best rails hosting experience every time. We also give each company a customized set of products to meet their goals, because we know every situation is unique and we are here to provide a full-service hosting experience.

  http://www.blueboxgrp.com

• Forward Internet Group

  

  Forward Internet Group comprises of Forward3D, a marketing agency specialising in search, and Forward Innovations, a collection of money-saving consumer websites and tools. Forward3D's proprietary technology powers hundreds of millions of advert impressions, clicks and bid changes every day. Clients include Skype, Hilton, eBay and Zappos among others. Forward Innovations includes InvisibleHand, a patent-pending money-saving browser plugin that has identified over $90 million of savings for its 150K users since its launch.

  http://forward.co.uk

• BTG

  

  BTG is passionate about matching business challenges with technology enablers, driving measurable results while delighting our most precious assets, our clients. We help organizations achieve success, manage and sustain growth, and maximize revenue.

  http://www.btginc.com

• Lithespeed

  

  LitheSpeed offers premium Agile software development training, executive coaching & consulting services. We blend Agile methods like Scrum and XP with Lean process expertise to speed value delivery and drive enterprise evolution. Our pragmatic approach lets us worry about the methods, while you concentrate on your business needs.

  http://www.lithespeed.com