The team at php[architect] are once again going to run php[tek], their premier professional PHP conference. The conference will take place on May 19-23, 2014 in Chicago, USA, and will feature:

Monday 19th May 2014

09:00
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Jump Start PHP Training
Workshop by php[architect] (7 hour)

Jump Start PHP Training

Tuesday 20th May 2014

09:00 Build your first Symfony2 application
Workshop by Stefan Koopmanschap (3 hour)

Build your first Symfony2 application

3
Making an iOS client for your REST API
Workshop by Garrison Locke (3 hour)

Making an iOS client for your REST API

6
Grumpy Unit Testing Bootcamp
Workshop by Chris Hartjes (3 hour)

Grumpy Unit Testing Bootcamp

14:00 Hacking Sites for Fun and Profit
Workshop by David Stockton (3 hour)

Hacking Sites for Fun and Profit

Introduction to Laravel
Workshop by Collin Schneider (3 hour)

Introduction to Laravel

Introduction to Databases
Workshop by Jeremy Mikola, Davey Shafik (3 hour)

Introduction to Databases

Wednesday 21st May 2014

09:00
7
Inside the Tech Challenges of Wikimedia
Talk by Terry Chay (1 hour)

Inside the Tech Challenges of Wikimedia

10:30
5
PHP 5.6 and beyond: because incrementing major versions is for suckers
Talk by Adam Harvey (1 hour)

PHP 5.6 and beyond: because incrementing major versions is for suckers

Advanced Date/Time Handling with PHP
Talk by Derick Rethans (1 hour)

Advanced Date/Time Handling with PHP

Introduction to OAuth
Talk by Matt Frost (1 hour)

Introduction to OAuth

Accelerating Web Applications with Varnish
Talk by Samantha Quiñones (1 hour)

Accelerating Web Applications with Varnish

12:00
11
How to Hack Conversations
Talk by Greg Baugues (30 minutes)

How to Hack Conversations

Adaptive Delivery - The other responsive
Talk by Josh Trout (30 minutes)

Adaptive Delivery - The other responsive

How Silex and Cilex became the glue for a media transcoding application
Talk by Stefan Koopmanschap (30 minutes)

How Silex and Cilex became the glue for a media transcoding application

7
Introduction to October CMS
Talk by Collin Schneider (30 minutes)

Introduction to October CMS

14:00 What to expect from Drupal 8
Talk by Larry Garfield (1 hour)

What to expect from Drupal 8

Building scalable PHP applications using Google’s App Engine
Talk by Ian Barber (1 hour)

Building scalable PHP applications using Google’s App Engine

Security Is Not a Feature, It's a State of Mind
Talk by Elizabeth Marie Smith (1 hour)

Security Is Not a Feature, It's a State of Mind

1
Introduction to Zend Framework 2
Talk by John Coggeshall (1 hour)

Introduction to Zend Framework 2

15:30 Basic Intrusion Detection with PHPIDS
Talk by Greg Wilson (1 hour)

Basic Intrusion Detection with PHPIDS

6
Why You Can't Test
Talk by Chris Hartjes (1 hour)

Why You Can't Test

Grokking Regex
Talk by David Stockton (1 hour)

Grokking Regex

Becoming a GoPHPer
Talk by Paddy Foran (1 hour)

Becoming a GoPHPer

17:00 Contributing to Core: My Journey to Add array_column() to the PHP Core
Talk by Ben Ramsey (1 hour)

Contributing to Core: My Journey to Add array_column() to the PHP Core

4
Virtualization for Developers
Talk by John Coggeshall (1 hour)

Virtualization for Developers

JavaScript's Difficult Concepts
Talk by Jeff Carouth (1 hour)

JavaScript's Difficult Concepts

5
Threading in PHP
Talk by Stefan Willkommer (1 hour)

Threading in PHP

Thursday 22nd May 2014

09:00 How to Get There
Keynote by Larry Ullman (1 hour)

How to Get There

10:30 Async PHP with React
Talk by Jeremy Mikola (1 hour)

Async PHP with React

Modern PHP
Talk by Ben Ramsey (1 hour)

Modern PHP

You Can UX Too: Avoiding the Programmer's Interface
Talk by Eryn O'Neil (1 hour)

You Can UX Too: Avoiding the Programmer's Interface

From SQL to noSQL
Talk by Derick Rethans (1 hour)

From SQL to noSQL

12:00 Recursion: Making Big Problems Smaller
Talk by Jeremy Lindblom (1 hour)

Recursion: Making Big Problems Smaller

Obtaining Closure with Anonymous Functions
Talk by Andrew Cassell (30 minutes)

Obtaining Closure with Anonymous Functions

Static Sites with Sculpin
Talk by Beau Simensen (30 minutes)

Static Sites with Sculpin

Adventures in Contract Development
Talk by Tim Lytle (30 minutes)

Adventures in Contract Development

14:00 Functional PHP
Talk by Larry Garfield (1 hour)

Functional PHP

4
Schemas for the Real World
Talk by Carina C. Zona (1 hour)

Schemas for the Real World

How To Be A Great Developer
Talk by Ed Finkler (1 hour)

How To Be A Great Developer

Composer: Stability and Semantic Versioning Demystified
Talk by Beau Simensen (1 hour)

Composer: Stability and Semantic Versioning Demystified

15:30
2
HHVM in 2014
Talk by Elizabeth Marie Smith (1 hour)

HHVM in 2014

3
Building Modules for Drupal 8
Talk by Brant Wynn (1 hour)

Building Modules for Drupal 8

No Modes – The Future of all Web Applications
Talk by Andrew Cassell (1 hour)

No Modes – The Future of all Web Applications

6
Working with difficult people
Talk by Laura Thomson (1 hour)

Working with difficult people

17:00
8
Groking Browser Performance
Talk by Josh Holmes (1 hour)

Groking Browser Performance

Stop Multiplying by 4: Practical software estimation
Talk by Chuck Reeves (1 hour)

Stop Multiplying by 4: Practical software estimation

Building Web Service Clients with Guzzle
Talk by Jeremy Lindblom (1 hour)

Building Web Service Clients with Guzzle

Two Factor Authentication and You
Talk by Chris Stone (1 hour)

Two Factor Authentication and You

Friday 23rd May 2014

09:00
3
Exploiting New MySQL Features
Talk by Dave Stokes (1 hour)

Exploiting New MySQL Features

Socket Programming with PHP
Talk by Elizabeth Marie Smith (1 hour)

Socket Programming with PHP

Faster Web Development with Yii 2
Talk by Larry Ullman (1 hour)

Faster Web Development with Yii 2

Mocking Dependencies in PHPUnit
Talk by Matt Frost (1 hour)

Mocking Dependencies in PHPUnit

10:30 Git and Github: Working Effectively on a Team
Talk by Jeff Carouth (1 hour)

Git and Github: Working Effectively on a Team

3
Scaling PHP in the real world!
Talk by Dustin Whittle (1 hour)

Scaling PHP in the real world!

Shell Revolution
Talk by Chris Stone (1 hour)

Shell Revolution

0
Stop! Hammer time.
Talk by Josh Trout (1 hour)

Stop! Hammer time.