PHP UK Conference
20 Feb 2026 at 1 America Square

This was a great talk from Paul. I enjoyed the humour and the lighthearted flow through the presentation and I really resonated with the evolution of the side project and the early blockers that can put you off really starting at all. Great to see how AI was utilised here to clear those blockers and retain the enjoyment of building something whilst clearly still retaining the engineering and decision making that allows AI to be a tool not a replacement.

The talk also had a good helping of general views on AI, how we should be using it more generally which is always valuable in the ever changing landscape of tech especially with so many unanswered questions on where AI leaves us. Good to see some of the insights into keeping track of the costs thrown in too.

Thanks Paul really enjoyed this one!

Enjoyed this talk from Naomi. I leaned into this one for the AI to get a view of how everyone is applying it in their workflow and though it wasn't quite what I was expecting I still really enjoyed it. Liked the journey that was covered as Tillo moved towards event-driven architecture and felt the worked examples of event sourcing and how this was applied leveraging AI was really useful.

Thanks Naomi!

Great keynote to kick of PHP UK 26, plenty of humour and insights along the way. The audience interaction element was cool and the questions thought provoking. Really enjoyed it, thanks Gary!

It was a fun, insightful keynote that got me thinking differently about everyday choices. The interactive polls were great, made the session feel dynamic and kept things entertaining.

I really loved the structure of the entire talk that centred around one particular issue, and showcased different tools to get to the root cause. The performance issue that the talk was centreded around was not trivial and actually benefits from techniques used, which for me drove the points home.

Really loved this talk. I think Sebastian explained well what the benefits are of having an event driven system and how you would go about testing it. I've never considered that you could render all the links between the commands and events as giant diagram that essentially documents your entire application.

Great talk - well structured, very clearly presented and gave me a lot of good ideas!

This was a great keynote to start the conference - fun, thought provoking & energising and the interactive voting was a very nice touch!

I found this presentation really informative of API Platform, it's certainly something I'll be looking at for my own projects. Unfortunately the time constraint was against us, but i took alot away from this talk. Thank you!

Good presentation. Good use of interaction with the audience of devs