We are so pleased to announce that Mr. Andi Gutmans of Zend Corporation (The PHP Company) will be our special opening keynote speaker at this year's conference.

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Saturday, 22nd August 2015

10th Floor Sampson Horace
09:00

Opening Keynote: The PHP Renaissance

Andi Gutmans

09:00
10:30

PHP Data Structures (and the impact of PHP 7 on them)

Patrick Allaert

Your API is a UI

Christopher Hoult

10:30
11:30

5 absolutely beautiful things about Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Cory Fowler

Architecting with Queues for Scale and Separation

Sandy Smith

Unit testing done right

Brian Fenton

11:30
13:30

Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community

Ed Finkler

Don't Fear the Regex

Sandy Smith

Scaling PHP at Wayfair

Ben Clark

13:30
14:30

PHP 7: The Big 5

Cal Evans

Embracing TDD - A Beginner's approach to get acquainted with TDD workflow

Viraj Khatavkar

Staying sane with Drupal (a PHP Developer's Survival Guide)

Oscar Merida

14:30
16:00

Rediscover the Power of WordPress

Eric Mann

PHP for Micro-Services

Andrew Curioso

Kickstarting a Laravel app - Modern techniques and common best practices

Jad Joubran

16:00

Sunday, 23rd August 2015

10th Floor Sampson Horace
09:00

Professional-grade software design

Brian Fenton

Designing Micro Experiences

Melinda Rainsberger

Pain and Gain of Service Oriented Architecture

Kiran Patel

09:00
10:00

High Performance PHP

Anthony Ferrara

Really Fast HTML5 Game Development with CreateJS

David Kelleher

How to talk to humans: a different approach to soft skills

Sharon Steed

10:00
11:00

Developing for the Internet of Things

Mark Robert Henderson

Magento 2 - An Introduction to a Modern PHP-Based System

Joshua Warren

Does Your Code Measure Up?

Adam Culp

11:00
13:00

Interfaces and Traits go together like peas and carrots

Chase Peeler

API-driven design

Eric Stern

PHP Interoperability with PPI Framework

Paul Dragoonis, Vítor Brandão

13:00
14:00

Essential Git for developers

Adam Culp

Advanced debugging techniques

Patrick Allaert

PHP Tuning for Large Scale - taming memory and other bottlenecks

Martin Langhoff

14:00
15:30

Closing Keynote

Susie Sedlacek

15:30