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Tuesday, 19th May 2026

Chicago
09:00

The Trust Protocol: Securing Code, Culture, and Collaboration

Nia Luckey

10:00

Modern PHP Features You're Probably Not Using (But Should Be)

Paul Conroy

Know Your Enemies: Live Exploit of a PHP Engine Security Breach

Alexandre Daubois

LGTM: Strategies for Successful Code Review

Andy Snell

Component Driven Design - The Wrapper Pattern

Phil Tadeo

11:00

Custom PHPStan Rules: Automate Standards and Save Time

Dave Liddament

The Command-Line for Beginners: An Introvert's Guide to Crawling into Your Shell

Eric Poe

Building MCP Servers: Extend AI Applications with PHP

Chris Tankersley

Equation to Animation: Crafting Dynamic Math Visuals on the Web

Courtney Yatteau

13:00

Don't Get Pwned: OWASP Top 10 for the Lazy PHP Developer

Gunnard Engebreth

Piping Hot PHP

Larry Garfield

Building Resilient PHP Applications with an Event-Driven Mindset

Savio Resende

Out-of-Order Streaming ? The Future of Web Development

Julian Burr

14:00

BattleSnake Hackathon

Tim Lytle

Bridge the Testing Gap: Mastering BDD with Codeception for Cross-Team Success

Alena Holligan

Stateful Functions Demystified: Manage Complex States in Serverless JavaScript

Priyatham Bazaru

Ansible for PHP Developers: Configure, Deploy, and Update Your Server Infrastructure

Joe Ferguson

15:00

Make confident changes across your application with Playwright

Nate Finch

Wednesday, 20th May 2026

Sessions
09:00

The Activated Leader - Leading Through Technical Transitions When Everything Is Changing

Lilah Jones

10:00

NativePHP 2026

Shane Rosenthal

Scaling Legacy PHP: Refactoring the Heart of the System Without Rewriting

Vijay Panwar

Modernizing Legacy PHP Infrastructure: From Anywhere to Cloud-Native

Joe Ferguson

It's Time To Talk About Signals

Julian Burr

11:00

Taming Time in PHP: Best Practices and Gotchas

Scott Keck-Warren

Kubernetes for PHP Developers: From Docker Compose to Production

Eric Mann

Nginx and You

Chris Lemon

Secure by Design -- Hardening JavaScript Applications in 2026

Bhaskar Bharat Sawant

13:00

Practical AI Contexts and Prompts

Mark Niebergall

Type Safe PHP: Leveraging Static Analysis for Robust Code

Dave Liddament

Iterators and Generators

Eli White

What Online Dating Taught Me about Algorithms

Diana Pham

14:00

PHP 8.6: The Inside Scoop

Daniel Scherzer

Building a Zero-Trust Architecture for PHP APIs and Applications

Guman Chauhan

Supercharge your PHP apps with Go-powered PHP extensions

Alexandre Daubois

Winning with JavaScript in Serverless Apps

Priyatham Bazaru

15:00

Demystifying Regular Expressions

Steve Grunwell

Advanced PHPUnit shenanigans

Larry Garfield

WebSockets Made Easy with OpenSwoole

Savio Resende

Reinventing Redux from scratch

Matteo Antony Mistretta

16:00

Avoiding Déjà Vu: Building Resilient APIs with Idempotency

Paul Conroy

Async PHP in production lessons benchmarks and tradeoffs

Pallavi Thukral

Describe Your API with OpenAPI

Ben Ramsey

React and the Art of Gamification

Courtney Yatteau

Thursday, 21st May 2026

Chicago
09:00

AI Assisted Development

Mark Niebergall

Shedding Light on the Shadow DOM

Chuck Reeves

What's new in PHP X: See the future and discover the past in PHP RFCs

Eric Poe

Build an API Your Users will Love

Chris Tankersley

10:00

Beyond OOP: Functional Programming Patterns in Modern PHP

Gunnard Engebreth

More than Just a Cache: Data Structure Databases

Andy Snell

A Beginner's Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect

Ben Ramsey

The AI Refactor: Upgrading 20-Year-Old Enterprise Systems to Modern JS Architecture

Kumuda Sreenivasa

11:00

From Concert Hall to Code Review, Symphony to Software

Sarah Peters

Semantic Search and Embeddings: Modernizing PHP Search with Vector Databases

Eric Mann

Ship Less Bugs via Static Analysis with PHPStan

Eli White

AI helped me learn Vue through the lens of a React Developer

Daniel Mendoza

13:00

🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation

James Titcumb

When PHP Stops Sleeping and Starts Thinking Concurrently

Pallavi Thukral

Semantic Versioning and the PHP Ecosystem: A Reality Check

Daniel Scherzer

Decoupling your CMS with NextJS

Nate Finch

14:00

Getting the Most From Your Test Suite

Steve Grunwell

Incident Response for Web Applications: When Your App Gets Hacked

Guman Chauhan

From Classroom Code to Production Code: Bridging the Gap Between School and the Software Industry

James Warmoth III

The "No-Magic" Framework: Building UIs with Zero Signals and Pure JS

Matteo Antony Mistretta

15:00

Advanced SQL: The Features You?ve Been Ignoring (But Shouldn?t)

Scott Keck-Warren

Modern PHP Workflows: Asynchronous Operations, Fibers, and High-Performance Data Systems

Vijay Panwar

htmx to modernize your old school endpoints

Kalen Johnson

LLM Patterns and Good Practices

Phil Tadeo

16:00

Code, Culture, and Conflict: Leading When Alignment Breaks Down

Jen Fry