PHPBenelux Conference 2017 is an annual PHP oriented conference in Antwerp, Belgium. We offer two days of stellar tutorials and talks, epic social events and a lineup of the best local and international businesses involved with PHP.

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Friday, 27th January 2017

Tutorial room Social area A B C
09:00

Burnout your keyboard - get out the most of PhpStorm

Emii Khaos

09:00
12:30

Tutorial lunch

PHPBenelux

12:30
13:20

Welcome & Introduction

PHPBenelux

13:20
13:30

Using Open Source for Fun and Profit

Gary Hockin

13:30
14:40

Dip Your Toes in the Sea of Security

James Titcumb

Debugging Your Set-Up

Derick Rethans

Functional structures in PHP

Marcello Duarte

14:40
15:40

Friday afternoon break

PHPBenelux

15:40
16:00

Write history, keep a diary (Uncon)

Jachim Coudenys

Code Archaeology: Becoming Indiana Jones

Michael Heap

Make Legacy great again!

Donatas Aleksandravičius

Serving 30,000,000 Requests an Hour in the Cloud

Terrence Ryan

16:00
17:10

Creating a realtime dashboard with PHP and websockets (Uncon)

Freek Van der Herten

A recommendation engine in your PHP applications

Michele Orselli

How I (ab)used PHP with the help of ReactPHP

Stijn Vannieuwenhuyse

Elastic scaling in a (micro)service oriented architecture

Bastian Hofmann

17:10
18:20

How to start with Docker (Uncon)

He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty programmer!

Matt Cockayne

Keep your users up-to-date in real-time with WebSockets!

Ondřej Mirtes

Python for PHP developers

Joshua Thijssen

18:20
19:20

Friday evening social event

PHPBenelux

19:20

Saturday, 28th January 2017

A B C Tutorial room Social area
09:00

Beyond patterns & principles - writing good OO code

Matthias Noback

Expect the un-expected: How to handle errors gracefully

Bastian Hofmann

The secrets of Cryptography

Christopher Riley

09:00
10:10

CQRS & event sourcing in the wild

Michiel Rook

Divide and Conquer - Your Business Code and your Framework

Andreas Hucks

Caching the right way, increase your application performance and validate it with profiling

André ®ømcke

Elastic Search & Spatial (Uncon)

Frederik Wouters

10:10
11:10

Saturday morning break

PHPBenelux

11:10
11:40

Going crazy with caching: Caching pages of logged in users

David Buchmann

Extremely defensive PHP

Marco Pivetta

Locate all the things

Derick Rethans

Giving birth to an elePHPant (Uncon)

Mark Baker

11:40
12:40

Lunch

PHPBenelux

12:40
13:40

Time Management For Grumpy Programmers

Chris Hartjes

Asynchronous processing with RabbitMQ

Ondřej Mirtes

The true value of objects

Stijn Vannieuwenhuyse

GPG and the temple of doom (Uncon)

Dennis de Greef

13:40
14:50

Connecting people - Identity in your platform

Rowan Merewood

PHP without frameworks

Patrick Allaert

Caching with PSRs

Hannes Van De Vreken

GoPHPer - Introduction Go for PHP developers (Uncon)

Frederick Vanbrabant

14:50
15:50

Saturday afternoon break

PHPBenelux

15:50
16:10

Bridging the designer-developer gap

Nicole Saidy

Kafka will get the message across, guaranteed.

David Zuelke

The Stateful ElePHPant

Rick Kuipers

Voodoo PHP (Uncon)

Marco Pivetta

16:10
18:00

Saturday evening social

PHPBenelux

18:00