A 3-day conference to help PHP developers level up their craft and connect with the larger PHP community, in Austin, TX.

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Thursday, 23rd October 2025

	Main Ballroom	Hill Country A	Elm
09:00	Mastering automated refactoring with custom Rector rules Dave Liddament	Bridge the Testing Gap: Mastering BDD with Codeception for Cross-Team Success Alena Holligan	Observing PHP for Fun and Profit Florian Engelhardt	09:00
12:00	Lunch	12:00
13:00	Grokking HTTP Ben Ramsey	Hacking the Juice Shop: Practical app security Mike Lehan	How to Run an Accessibility WCAG Audit: Step-by-Step for Beginners Stefany Newman	13:00

Main Ballroom

Hill Country A

Elm

09:00

Dave Liddament

Alena Holligan

09:00

12:00

12:00

13:00

Stefany Newman

13:00

	Main Ballroom	Hill Country A	Elm
09:00	The Immutable Laws of Software and Life: Code Accordingly Cory House			09:00
10:00	Defining an API Specification: A Step-by-Step Guide Janani Subbiah	PHP Security Mechanisms You Aren't Using Chuck Reeves	SQL Database Design For Developers Scott Keck-Warren	10:00
11:00	Beyond Compliance: Navigating the Accessibility Evolution AmyJune Hineline	Security On The (Bleeding) Edge Josh Butts	Better Database Testing with PHPUnit Charles Sprayberry	11:00
12:00	Lunch + Open Spaces Setup			12:00
13:30	Love Your Monolith Mike Lehan	AI Agents in Drupal, build agents without coding Marcus Johansson	Beyond the ORM: Practical Database Optimization Strategies for Modern Developers Alena Holligan	13:30
14:30	So You Just Inherited a $Legacy Application... Joe Ferguson	Local development made easy with DDEV Bernardo Martinez	Can AI Write Better SQL Than You? Dave Stokes	14:30
15:20	Open Spaces			15:20
16:00	Git as Game Logic: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Version Control Bree Hall	Building Resilient PHP Applications with an Event-Driven Mindset Savio Resende	Shifting Left: Incorporating Testing Early in the Development Lifecycle Mike Miles	16:00
17:00	TBD	You Didn’t Create That CVE — But You’re Shipping It Mandy Hubbard	Vibe Coding Laravel with Claude and Devin Joshua Ray Copeland	17:00

	Main Ballroom	Hill Country A	Elm
09:00	Turtles all the way down Florian Engelhardt			09:00
10:00	AssertTrue(isDecoupled("my tests")) Dave Liddament	The Command-Line for Beginners: An Introvert's Guide to Crawling into Your Shell Eric Poe	Synthetics Monitoring with Playwright Nočnica Mellifera	10:00
11:00	🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation James Titcumb	Understanding Unicode Evan Hahn	From PHP 5.3 to PHP 8: Conquering Legacy Code Migration Under Deadline Pressure Keith Davis	11:00
12:00	Lunch			12:00
13:00	Work Smarter: Code Like a Musician Cori Lint			13:00
14:00	PHP 8.5: New Features from the Source Daniel Scherzer	Advanced Rector Shenanigans Chris Abbey	Taming Time in PHP: Best Practices and Gotchas Scott Keck-Warren	14:00
15:00	A Field Guide to PHProperties Larry Garfield	Supercharged Search With Typesense Josh Butts	Writing a PHP extension in Rust Levi Morrison	15:00
15:50	Open Spaces			15:50
16:30	IAM Frustrated David Kerber	How To Make Your Website A Progressive Web App (And Why You Might Want To) Lemon	Creating Developer Friendly Projects Ben Batschelet	16:30
17:30	Saving Open Source Ben Ramsey			17:30