Ski PHP is a 2-day, 3-track PHP conference with speakers from around the world. Come for the speakers, and stay for the skiing!

Thursday 14th January 2016

09:15
7
Talmudic Maxims to Maximize Your Growth as a Developer
Keynote by Yitzchok Willroth (30 minutes)

Talmudic Maxims to Maximize Your Growth as a Developer

10:00 Modern PHP Standards and Community
Talk by Ben Edmunds (50 minutes)

Modern PHP Standards and Community

HTTP is Dead, Long Live HTTP/2!
Talk by Ben Ramsey (50 minutes)

HTTP is Dead, Long Live HTTP/2!

1
Enjoyable Testing with Peridot
Talk by Austin Morris (50 minutes)

Enjoyable Testing with Peridot

11:00
5
What to Expect When You're Expecting: PHP 7
Talk by Davey Shafik (50 minutes)

What to Expect When You're Expecting: PHP 7

4
Real-Time Data Pipelines
Talk by Samantha QuiƱones (50 minutes)

Real-Time Data Pipelines

2
Database Basics for PHP Programmers
Talk by Dave Stokes (50 minutes)

Database Basics for PHP Programmers

13:00 Refactoring Legacy Code
Talk by Adam Culp (50 minutes)

Refactoring Legacy Code

3
DOs and DON'Ts of MongoDB
Talk by Jeremy Mikola (50 minutes)

DOs and DON'Ts of MongoDB

2
Urban Legends: What You Code Makes You Who You Are
Talk by PJ Hagerty (50 minutes)

Urban Legends: What You Code Makes You Who You Are

14:00 Hack Better, With SCIENCE!
Talk by Gemma Anible (50 minutes)

Hack Better, With SCIENCE!

Graph databases and PHP
Talk by Michelle Sanver (50 minutes)

Graph databases and PHP

Access Control Models: Controlling Resource Authorization
Talk by Mark Niebergall (50 minutes)

Access Control Models: Controlling Resource Authorization

15:00 Secure Design and Coding for the Modern PHP Developer
Talk by Jonathan Eskew (50 minutes)

Secure Design and Coding for the Modern PHP Developer

1
Scaling & Managing Asynchronous Workers (and staying sane!)
Talk by Justin Carmony (50 minutes)

Scaling & Managing Asynchronous Workers (and staying sane!)

Coding the Semantic Web with HTML5 and JSON-LD
Talk by David Kelleher (50 minutes)

Coding the Semantic Web with HTML5 and JSON-LD

16:00
3
Caching and Tuning fun for high scalability
Talk by Wim Godden (50 minutes)

Caching and Tuning fun for high scalability

Doctrine ORM - What's this then?
Talk by Margaret Staples (50 minutes)

Doctrine ORM - What's this then?

19:00
4
HTTP/2 and Asynchronous APIs
Keynote by Davey Shafik (1 hour, 30 minutes)

HTTP/2 and Asynchronous APIs

Friday 15th January 2016

09:00 Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
Keynote by Ed Finkler (45 minutes)

Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community

10:00
3
Profiling PHP: Prepare for Ludicrous Speed!
Talk by Davey Shafik (50 minutes)

Profiling PHP: Prepare for Ludicrous Speed!

Mocking with Mockery
Talk by Ben Ramsey (50 minutes)

Mocking with Mockery

Symfony2 - Getting Started
Talk by Margaret Staples (50 minutes)

Symfony2 - Getting Started

11:00
3
Refactor, Don't Rebuild
Talk by Eli White (50 minutes)

Refactor, Don't Rebuild

How To Be A Great Developer
Talk by Ed Finkler (50 minutes)

How To Be A Great Developer

Foundations of Zend Framework 3
Talk by Adam Culp (50 minutes)

Foundations of Zend Framework 3

13:00
4
Between London & Chicago: A Conceptual Map for TDD
Talk by Yitzchok Willroth (50 minutes)

Between London & Chicago: A Conceptual Map for TDD

2
MySQL's JSON Data Type
Talk by Dave Stokes (50 minutes)

MySQL's JSON Data Type

Intro to Laravel 5
Talk by Ben Edmunds (50 minutes)

Intro to Laravel 5

14:00 What To Do When It All Hits The Fan
Talk by Eryn O'Neil (50 minutes)

What To Do When It All Hits The Fan

Framework agnostic for the win
Talk by Jonathan Reinink (50 minutes)

Framework agnostic for the win

3
Growing up with PHP
Talk by Michelle Sanver (50 minutes)

Growing up with PHP

15:00
4
Micro-frameworks Make Awesome APIs
Talk by Austin Morris (50 minutes)

Micro-frameworks Make Awesome APIs

2
Supercharging Content Delivery with Varnish
Talk by Samantha QuiƱones (50 minutes)

Supercharging Content Delivery with Varnish

2
The promise of asynchronous PHP
Talk by Wim Godden (50 minutes)

The promise of asynchronous PHP