Following the announced event roadmap, Magento Inc. organized Magento Live at UK in October, 2013. More than 500 people from all around Europe which includes Partners, Merchants and Developers gathered to know, understand and network insights, knowledge and persons in the event. The environment was awesome, full of positive thoughts, sessions and conversations for the growth of the participants as well as the community. Let’s look into a sneak peak of MagentoLive Uk 2013 Post Event Update:
- Jamie Clarke started the early session describing the importance to choose the right Business Partners and start to explore new Target Geographic quickly and in a Cost effective manner
- Roy Rubin, the big daddy of Magento shared his vision of Growth for Marchants and Partner Companies through innovation and help from Magento and eBay Inc.
- Who will be the more appropriate speaker than Jimmy Duvall, Magento’s Head of Products, briefing the community on newest versions like Magento Community 1.8, Magento Enterprise 1.13 and Magento 2
- Promotion is not the only area to focus, feed relevant content to the visitors and this was the topic of discussion of Danny Essner, describing the SEO Best Practices
- It’s always helpful to get benchmarks and parameters from proven eCommerce Businesses to make a comparison and achieve set target, Roger Wilcocks from Screenpages shared these insights across 100+ stores
- Performance Limitations of Magento was always a key point to discuss, well this time in MagentoLive a full session was given on Performance Testing and how to boost the performance, also apart from that Chris Wells from Nexcess briefed how to leverage site performance to maximize sales
- Conversion on Mobile Website and responsive designs is a concern for Merchants, Kestrel Leman from Bronto took a session to discuss and share some of their experience on this
And last but not the least there was a 3 hours Cocktail Party in the evening, it seems everybody was enjoying the ambience with their drinks.
