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Tuesday, 20th May 2025

Wrigley Field Roave Stadium Petco Park
09:00

Let Go of Ownership

Tim Lytle

09:00
10:00

Processing One Billion Rows in PHP

Florian Engelhardt

The Beauty of PHP Value Objects

Steve Grunwell

Enums in the wild

Dana Luther

10:00
11:00

Internationalization & Localization With PHP

Ben Ramsey

Intro to Automated Refactoring with RectorPHP

Chris Abbey

I Promise() to Teach You Asynchronous PHP

Eric Mann

11:00
13:00

Serializing modern PHP

Larry Garfield

Breaking it Down: Microservices Architecture for PHP Developers

Peter Meth

SQL Database Design For Developers

Scott Keck-Warren

13:00
14:00

Building an AI Powered Application with Prism

TJ Miller

Mastering automated refactoring with custom Rector rules

Dave Liddament

Behavior-Driven Development and Browser Testing with Codeception

Alena Holligan

14:00

Wednesday, 21st May 2025

Wrigley Field Roave Stadium Petco Park
09:00

PHP Security Mechanisms You Aren't Using

Chuck Reeves

Keeping Up with PHP

Andrew Woods

Event Sauce: Using Event Sourcing For Better Applications

Christopher Miller

09:00
10:00

Cron Jobs Gone Wrong: The Top Mistakes That Keep Your Tasks from Ticking

Peter Meth

Immutability to Save an Ever-Changing World

Andrew Cassell

Is This Test Worth It? Evaluating the Real Value of Testing

Tim Lytle

10:00
11:00

Fortifying your Defenses with Threat Modeling

Eric Mann

Measuring PHP using Metrics

Mark Niebergall

Introduction to PHP Extensions

Derick Rethans

11:00
13:00

Event sourcing a legacy app with verbs

Daniel Coulbourne

Return to REST

Ben Ramsey

Admin, Product and Beyond with FilamentPHP

Easton Meth

13:00
14:00

Secrets Security End-To-End

Dwayne McDaniel

The Art of API Design

Chris Tankersley

Growing the PHP Core---One Test at a Time

Florian Engelhardt

14:00
15:00

Systemic PHP typing: best practices

Damien Seguy

Design Choices When Implementing Your API

Jack Polifka

Test Less To Test All: Client-side Philosophy In Testing

Phil Tadeo

15:00
16:00

NativePHP: Past, Present, and Future

Shane Rosenthal

In defense of "monolithic microservices"

Sarah Savage

Commanding Accessibility: Designing CLI Programs for Inclusivity

Chuck Reeves

16:00

Thursday, 22nd May 2025

Wrigley Field Roave Stadium Petco Park Uncon
09:00

Event Sourcing Teardown: Understanding the Pattern

Tim Lytle

Reducing Bugs With Static Code Analysis

Scott Keck-Warren

Better Debugging With Xdebug

Derick Rethans

Meta-Analysis and Talking with Strangers

Amanda H. Matson

09:00
10:00

A Field Guide to PHProperties

Larry Garfield

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code

Sarah Savage

Better Dotfiles II

Andrew Woods

The Big`Ugly Truth About Big-O

Chuck Reeves

10:00
11:00

Architecture for Scalable PHP Applications

Andrew Cassell

Advanced Rector Shenanigans

Chris Abbey

Code Review: For Me & You

Steve Grunwell

11:00
13:00

Converting Your Dev Environment to a Docker Stack

Dana Luther

Writing Testable Code

Mark Niebergall

Amazon Web Services: What Services Should You Use For Hosting Your Applications?

Jack Polifka

13:00
14:00

Extending the PHP language with PHP

Dave Liddament

Domain Driven PHP

Christopher Miller

Scaling Your Database: A Real-World Journey from Millions to Billions

TJ Miller

14:00
15:00

8 Rules for Better Applications

Chris Tankersley

Passing the Code Torch: A Father and Son's Story of Teaching, Failing, and Laughing in Tech

Easton Meth, Peter Meth

Prepare Your Code for PHP 9: Overview of PHP 8 Deprecations

Damien Seguy

15:00
16:00

Mastering the Loyal Dog: Harnessing Your Brain's Instincts for Peak Performance in Tech

Molly McQueary

16:00