PHP Tek 2026
19 - 21 May 2026 at Sheraton O'Hare Suites

Great engaging talk! Anyone who can keep a room full of engineers engaged and paying attention has some serious skills. Good topics, good actionable learning and talking points, and very applicable soft skill to talk about. Great closing keynote.

Talk information was good. Slides were really hard to read - either make the text bigger, or link the slide here before the talk. Presentation was fun and loose, which was good for end of the conference. I was able to dabble with local LLMs during the talk, applying what was being discussed and tinker with it.

Great use of musicianship as a metaphor for working in dev. The violin solos were a huge bonus!

Native PHP has improved so much in the last year! Very cool that PHP is now a first class mobile language. We as a community and project need to promote the hell out of that.

Very good content, and very informative! Please don't talk so fast, though. It was hard to keep up. :-) Also, some syntax highlighting would help.

I really need to dig into FrankenPHP more. It's clear to me that we need to move the ecosystem to it and move away from FPM. So exciting!

Also yay, don't have to write C!

Good material and information, and a balanced take on tradeoffs. But reading directly from a script undermined the strength of the talk.

Great comprehensive overview on PHP's history with SQL. Went over many SQL features that were formally only known to enterprise DBAs.

[COULD] Provide High-Level Context: Start with a clear, high-level overview of what you are describing and what the final result will look like before diving into the individual components. This will help the audience follow the structure and prevent the talk from feeling a bit disjointed. It felt with like a bunch of random “things to know” without a common goal.

[SHOULD] Optimize Text Size: Increase the font size on the slides. There is currently too much empty white space, and larger text will improve readability.

[MUST] Bring Candy: Ensure candy is provided for the audience.

Good content and information. The slides were unreadable, unfortunately. It also appeared the speaker was reading a script rather than just notes, which always distracts from a session.