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Friday, 20th February 2026

Ludgate and Cornhill Fleet Walbrook
09:15

It Depends

Gary Hockin

09:15
10:15

Crafting Custom PHPStan Rules

Ondřej Mirtes

Event-Driven Evolution with AI as my Partner in Design

Naomi Gotts

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

Alexandre Daubois

10:15
11:30

From Events to Insights: Testing and Documenting Event‑Based Software

Sebastian Bergmann

Everything Is Showbiz: Lessons from a PHP + AI Side Projects

Paul Conroy

Packets, Protocols and PHP: Networking Fundamentals for Developers

Jessica Smith

11:30
12:30

Building Native Apps with PHP

Simon Hamp

The Four Pillars of Observability

Florian Engelhardt

PHP, Value Objects and You 🫵

Daniel Leech

12:30
14:30

Saving Time by Using a Debugger

Derick Rethans

PHP & AI: Beyond the Hype

Christopher Hertel

PHP Performance Demystified - Measure, Understand, Optimize

Volker Dusch

14:30
15:30

Securing Your API: The OWASP Top 10

Rob Allen

PHP Foundation Update

Sara Golemon

Stepping away from the code... but not quite...

Wim Godden

15:30
16:30

No OSS, No Users: Why Investing in Open Source Matters

Pauline Vos

API Platform: From Rest & GraphQL APIs to state-of-the-art standards in seconds

Vincent Amstoutz

Escaping the Code Maze

Yannick Chenot

16:30