ZendCon 2015 schedule

The Annual ZendCon will bring together developers, IT managers and PHP experts from around the world. With a focus on PHP, mobile and cloud development, attendees at this highly acclaimed conference will expand their skills and explore new technologies.

Schedule

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Title Title & Description

Monday 19th October 2015

09:00	7 Wax On, Wax Off: Code Kata Dojo Workshop by Yitzchok Willroth in Artist A1 (3 hour) Wax On, Wax Off: Code Kata Dojo
	20 DB2 and SQL in depth for PHP on IBM i Workshop by Alan Seiden in Artist A2 (3 hour) DB2 and SQL in depth for PHP on IBM i
	2 Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 1) Workshop by Christian Wenz in Artist A3 (3 hour) Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 1)
	10 ZF2 Done Properly Workshop by Gary Hockin in Artist A4 (3 hour) ZF2 Done Properly
	4 The OOP in PHP Workshop by Matthew Turland in Artist A5 (3 hour) The OOP in PHP
	12 Building Development Environments with Docker Workshop by Josh Butts in Artist A6 (3 hour) Building Development Environments with Docker
	3 What happens in runtime DOESN'T stay in runtime Workshop by Justin Jones in Studio 1B (3 hour) What happens in runtime DOESN'T stay in runtime
	2 Scaling Magento - Reaching Peak Performance Workshop by Mathew Beane in Studio 3A (3 hour) Scaling Magento - Reaching Peak Performance
13:30	4 Apigility Workshop Workshop by Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Julien Guittard in Artist A1 (3 hour) Apigility Workshop
	0 From Monolith to Microservice Workshop by Jeff Carouth in Artist A2 (3 hour) From Monolith to Microservice
	2 Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 2) Workshop by Christian Wenz in Artist A3 (3 hour) Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 2)
	5 Workshop : Build a REST API with Symfony Workshop by Sarah Khalil in Artist A4 (3 hour) Workshop : Build a REST API with Symfony
	13 My app is secure...I think Workshop by Wim Godden in Artist A5 (3 hour) My app is secure...I think
	12 PHP 7 Jumpstart Workshop by Cal Evans in Artist A6 (3 hour) PHP 7 Jumpstart
	1 Best practices for WordPress plugin development Workshop by Juliette Reinders Folmer in Studio 1B (3 hour) Best practices for WordPress plugin development
	5 PHP Dependency Management with Composer Workshop by Clark Everetts in Studio 3A (3 hour) PHP Dependency Management with Composer

Tuesday 20th October 2015

08:30	13 Opening Keynote - The Joint Keynote by Andi Gutmans in The Joint (1 hour, 15 minutes) Opening Keynote - The Joint
10:00	9 The PHP 7 Journey Talk by Zeev Suraski in The Joint (1 hour) The PHP 7 Journey
	5 Drupal 8: Crash Course Talk by Larry Garfield in Artist A1 (1 hour) Drupal 8: Crash Course
	8 The Things Your Application Does While You’re Not Looking Talk by Josh Butts in Artist A2 (1 hour) The Things Your Application Does While You’re Not Looking
	2 Intro to Laravel 5 Talk by Ben Edmunds in Artist A3 (1 hour) Intro to Laravel 5
	12 Asynchronous API Interaction with Guzzle Talk by Jeremy Lindblom in Artist A4 (1 hour) Asynchronous API Interaction with Guzzle
	6 Strategic Modernization with PHP Talk by Alan Seiden in Artist A5 (1 hour) Strategic Modernization with PHP
	1 Creating a Z-Ray Plugin in 30 Minutes Talk by Gregory Chris in Artist A6 (1 hour) Creating a Z-Ray Plugin in 30 Minutes
	0 The Zend DevTools Ecosystem Talk by Kaloyan Raev, Michel Gerin in Studio 1B (1 hour) The Zend DevTools Ecosystem
11:15	7 Head First Into Laravel Talk by Taylor Otwell in The Joint (1 hour) Head First Into Laravel
	14 Is your code SOLID? Talk by Julien Guittard in Artist A1 (1 hour) Is your code SOLID?
	3 Deep Dive into PHP 7 Internal Changes Talk by Dmitry Stogov in Artist A2 (1 hour) Deep Dive into PHP 7 Internal Changes
	8 Using APIgility to build APIs Everyone Can Enjoy Talk by Cory Fowler in Artist A3 (1 hour) Using APIgility to build APIs Everyone Can Enjoy
	3 Magento 101: Getting Started with Magento Development Talk by Mathew Beane in Artist A4 (1 hour) Magento 101: Getting Started with Magento Development
	1 Pretty Continuous Delivery - Bamboo and Zend Server Talk by Jan Burkl in Artist A5 (1 hour) Pretty Continuous Delivery - Bamboo and Zend Server
	4 Which PHP Coding Style Should IBM i Programmers Use? Talk by Stephanie Rabbani in Artist A6 (1 hour) Which PHP Coding Style Should IBM i Programmers Use?
	0 Joomla in a box - Joomla meets Vagrant Talk by Johan Janssens in Studio 1B (1 hour) Joomla in a box - Joomla meets Vagrant
13:30	14 Cloud is the New Normal - The Joint Keynote by Jeff Barr in The Joint (1 hour) Cloud is the New Normal - The Joint
14:45	14 No More Overtime; or, How To Train Your Manager Talk by Paul M. Jones in The Joint (1 hour) No More Overtime; or, How To Train Your Manager
	3 Laravel Forge: Hello World to Hello Production Talk by Joe Ferguson in Artist A1 (1 hour) Laravel Forge: Hello World to Hello Production
	2 Making Magento Go Fast Talk by Thijs Feryn in Artist A2 (1 hour) Making Magento Go Fast
	1 Building Custom Applications using Joomla! & Fabrik Talk by Tessa Mero in Artist A3 (1 hour) Building Custom Applications using Joomla! & Fabrik
	9 Testing APIs with Codeception Talk by Matthew Turland in Artist A4 (1 hour) Testing APIs with Codeception
	9 Into the ZF2 Service Manager Talk by Chris Tankersley in Artist A5 (1 hour) Into the ZF2 Service Manager
	8 Beyond PHP : It's not (just) About the Code! Talk by Wim Godden in Artist A6 (1 hour) Beyond PHP : It's not (just) About the Code!
	4 Extend your Database Connectivity with PHP Talk by Shlomo Vanunu in Studio 1B (1 hour) Extend your Database Connectivity with PHP
16:00	15 PSR-7 and Middleware: The Future of PHP Talk by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in The Joint (1 hour) PSR-7 and Middleware: The Future of PHP
	6 Do You Queue? Talk by Mike Willbanks in Artist A1 (1 hour) Do You Queue?
	3 Test-Driven Laravel Talk by Adam Wathan in Artist A2 (1 hour) Test-Driven Laravel
	1 How to Build a Pure Evil Magento Module Talk by Fabrizio Branca in Artist A3 (1 hour) How to Build a Pure Evil Magento Module
	0 Destination Cloud: Deploying Applications To The Cloud With Docker Talk by Jonathan Kaufman in Artist A4 (1 hour) Destination Cloud: Deploying Applications To The Cloud With Docker
	7 Zend Server and IBM i Administration Talk by Jim Oberholtzer in Artist A5 (1 hour) Zend Server and IBM i Administration
	5 Sandboxing your Development Environment with Vagrant Talk by Eric Mann in Artist A6 (1 hour) Sandboxing your Development Environment with Vagrant
	0 OroPlatform - Open source Business Application Platform (BAP) Talk by Dima Soroka in Studio 1B (1 hour) OroPlatform - Open source Business Application Platform (BAP)
17:15	7 ZF2, How the Arrays Will Save Your Project Talk by Michelangelo van Dam in The Joint (1 hour) ZF2, How the Arrays Will Save Your Project
	4 Does Your Code Measure Up? Talk by Adam Culp in Artist A1 (1 hour) Does Your Code Measure Up?
	4 Supercharging Content Delivery with Varnish Talk by Samantha Quiñones in Artist A2 (1 hour) Supercharging Content Delivery with Varnish
	3 Testing the Untestable Talk by Matt Land in Artist A3 (1 hour) Testing the Untestable
	3 Sharing Laravel Talk by Matt Stauffer in Artist A4 (1 hour) Sharing Laravel
	8 Anti-Patterns Found in Your Object-Oriented Codebase Talk by Jeff Carouth in Artist A5 (1 hour) Anti-Patterns Found in Your Object-Oriented Codebase
	4 Conscious Uncoupling: Web/Application Architecture for the Next Ten Years Talk by Josh Koenig in Artist A6 (1 hour) Conscious Uncoupling: Web/Application Architecture for the Next Ten Years
	2 Building PHP Extensions on IBM i Talk by Tony Cairns in Studio 1B (1 hour) Building PHP Extensions on IBM i
18:15	1 Opening Reception by IBM Bluemix - Exhibit Hall Social Event by IBM Bluemix in The Joint (1 hour) Opening Reception by IBM Bluemix - Exhibit Hall

Wednesday 21st October 2015

08:30	16 The Web Leaps Forward - The Joint Keynote by Moh Haghighat in The Joint (1 hour, 15 minutes) The Web Leaps Forward - The Joint
09:45	10 Apigility: Agile APIs Talk by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in The Joint (1 hour) Apigility: Agile APIs
	4 WordPress for the Win! Talk by Juliette Reinders Folmer in Artist A1 (1 hour) WordPress for the Win!
	0 Many Drupals Talk by Larry Garfield in Artist A2 (1 hour) Many Drupals
	12 Modernising the Legacy Talk by Marek in Artist A3 (1 hour) Modernising the Legacy
	2 Lessons Learned from Running Massive WordPress Sites at Scale Talk by Cory Fowler in Artist A4 (1 hour) Lessons Learned from Running Massive WordPress Sites at Scale
	4 A Tale of Two Test Suites - WordPress, API Mocking, and Integrations Talk by Eric Mann in Artist A5 (1 hour) A Tale of Two Test Suites - WordPress, API Mocking, and Integrations
	7 Create a welcoming development environment on IBM i Talk by Alan Seiden in Artist A6 (1 hour) Create a welcoming development environment on IBM i
	2 An Overview of the Drupal 8 Plugin System Talk by Joe Shindelar in Studio 1B (1 hour) An Overview of the Drupal 8 Plugin System
11:00	10 Microservices: Packs small, plays BIG! Talk by Stephan Hochdörfer in The Joint (1 hour) Microservices: Packs small, plays BIG!
	1 Queued Jobs: Simplified Talk by Taylor Otwell in Artist A1 (1 hour) Queued Jobs: Simplified
	3 Symfony, the Official Best Practices! Talk by Hugo Hamon in Artist A2 (1 hour) Symfony, the Official Best Practices!
	5 The Road to Continuous Delivery Talk by Matt Land in Artist A3 (1 hour) The Road to Continuous Delivery
	1 Z-Ray & Magento: A Customizable Development Tool Belt Talk by Mathew Beane in Artist A4 (1 hour) Z-Ray & Magento: A Customizable Development Tool Belt
	4 High Performance PHP 7 Talk by David Stewart in Artist A5 (1 hour) High Performance PHP 7
	15 Zend Framework Development Good Practices Talk by Marco Pivetta in Artist A6 (1 hour) Zend Framework Development Good Practices
	2 Easy DDD for the IBMi world Talk by Massimiliano Cavicchioli in Studio 1B (1 hour) Easy DDD for the IBMi world
13:30	5 The Challenges of Being a Web Developer in 2015 - The Joint Keynote by Stephen O'Grady in The Joint (1 hour) The Challenges of Being a Web Developer in 2015 - The Joint
14:45	4 From Idea to Prototype in 50 Minutes with Laravel Talk by Matt Stauffer in The Joint (1 hour) From Idea to Prototype in 50 Minutes with Laravel
	13 Asynchronous PHP Talk by Christopher Pitt in Artist A1 (1 hour) Asynchronous PHP
	2 Build RESTfull APIs easily with Symfony Talk by Sarah Khalil in Artist A2 (1 hour) Build RESTfull APIs easily with Symfony
	2 Single Page Apps with Drupal 7 Talk by Chris Tankersley in Artist A3 (1 hour) Single Page Apps with Drupal 7
	4 DevOps for Small Teams Talk by Joe Ferguson in Artist A4 (1 hour) DevOps for Small Teams
	1 Rock-solid Magento Development and Deployment Workflows Talk by Fabrizio Branca in Artist A5 (1 hour) Rock-solid Magento Development and Deployment Workflows
	4 Intro to ZF2 on IBM i Talk by Stephanie Rabbani in Artist A6 (1 hour) Intro to ZF2 on IBM i
	6 JSON in MySQL 5.7 Talk by Morgan Tocker in Studio 1B (1 hour) JSON in MySQL 5.7
16:00	2 Magento 2 - An Introduction to a Modern PHP-Based System Talk by Joshua Warren in The Joint (1 hour) Magento 2 - An Introduction to a Modern PHP-Based System
	1 Building Joomla Extensions with Nooku Framework Talk by Johan Janssens in Artist A1 (1 hour) Building Joomla Extensions with Nooku Framework
	1 Contributing - Behind the Scenes of the Joomla! Project Talk by Tessa Mero in Artist A2 (1 hour) Contributing - Behind the Scenes of the Joomla! Project
	12 Fear Not the Machine of State! Talk by Yitzchok Willroth in Artist A3 (1 hour) Fear Not the Machine of State!
	3 WordPress Best Practices for Enterprise Talk by Taylor Lovett in Artist A4 (1 hour) WordPress Best Practices for Enterprise
	2 Apigility-Powered APIs on IBM i Talk by Chuk Shirley in Artist A5 (1 hour) Apigility-Powered APIs on IBM i
	5 Performance Tips & Tricks for Zend Framework 2 Applications Talk by Slavey Karadzhov in Artist A6 (1 hour) Performance Tips & Tricks for Zend Framework 2 Applications
	3 PHP at Google Scale Talk by Terrence Ryan in Studio 1B (1 hour) PHP at Google Scale
17:15	4 Templates with Twig - Easier than you Think Talk by Margaret Staples in The Joint (1 hour) Templates with Twig - Easier than you Think
	1 Control the Cloud with the AWS SDK for PHP Talk by Jeremy Lindblom in Artist A1 (1 hour) Control the Cloud with the AWS SDK for PHP
	4 The Dark Art of Debugging Talk by Joe Shindelar in Artist A2 (1 hour) The Dark Art of Debugging
	1 Continuous WordPress, life is all good Talk by Michelangelo van Dam in Artist A3 (1 hour) Continuous WordPress, life is all good
	6 ZF2 Service Manager: From Zero to Epic Talk by Gary Hockin in Artist A4 (1 hour) ZF2 Service Manager: From Zero to Epic
	11 Let's Refactor! Talk by Adam Wathan in Artist A5 (1 hour) Let's Refactor!
	1 Optimizing Zend Server Performance on IBM i Talk by Jim Oberholtzer in Artist A6 (1 hour) Optimizing Zend Server Performance on IBM i
	2 Essential Debugging - PHP Debugging techniques, tips & tricks Talk by Kaloyan Raev in Studio 1B (1 hour) Essential Debugging - PHP Debugging techniques, tips & tricks
18:15	0 Reception by IBM Bluemix - Exhibit Hall Social Event by IBM Bluemix in The Joint (45 minutes) Reception by IBM Bluemix - Exhibit Hall
19:30	10 Special Evening Performance - The Joint Keynote by Lior Suchard in The Joint (1 hour, 30 minutes) Special Evening Performance - The Joint

Thursday 22nd October 2015

08:00	4 Drinking from the Firehose - Real-time Metrics Talk by Samantha Quiñones in The Joint (1 hour) Drinking from the Firehose - Real-time Metrics
	1 PHP Data Serialization with Symfony Talk by Hugo Hamon in Artist A1 (1 hour) PHP Data Serialization with Symfony
	10 Co-operative Multitasking with Generators Talk by Christopher Pitt in Artist A2 (1 hour) Co-operative Multitasking with Generators
	3 Outsourcing to Your Compiler Talk by Larry Garfield in Artist A3 (1 hour) Outsourcing to Your Compiler
	0 Microservices: Panacea or Pandora's Box(es)? Talk by Yitzchok Willroth in Artist A4 (1 hour) Microservices: Panacea or Pandora's Box(es)?
	1 Practical Zend Framework Migration: Lessons from the Field Talk by Clark Everetts in Artist A5 (1 hour) Practical Zend Framework Migration: Lessons from the Field
	8 Modern and Secure PHP Talk by Ben Edmunds in Artist A6 (1 hour) Modern and Secure PHP
	1 How to scale WordPress on AWS in 15 minutes Talk by Boaz Ziniman in Studio 1B (1 hour) How to scale WordPress on AWS in 15 minutes
09:15	7 Components, PSR-7, and Middleware: Zend Framework 3 Talk by Matthew Weier O'Phinney in The Joint (1 hour) Components, PSR-7, and Middleware: Zend Framework 3
	9 PHPSpec & Behat - Two Testing Tools That Write Code for You Talk by Joshua Warren in Artist A1 (1 hour) PHPSpec & Behat - Two Testing Tools That Write Code for You
	0 Mission (Im)possible: Quality Decoupled Code with Drupal 7 Talk by Marek in Artist A2 (1 hour) Mission (Im)possible: Quality Decoupled Code with Drupal 7
	4 HTML5 Offline Mobile Apps: Real World Insights Talk by Stephan Hochdörfer in Artist A3 (1 hour) HTML5 Offline Mobile Apps: Real World Insights
	0 Pushing the Limits of PHP Density and Scale with Containers Talk by Josh Koenig in Artist A4 (1 hour) Pushing the Limits of PHP Density and Scale with Containers
	4 ElasticSearch in Action Talk by Thijs Feryn in Artist A5 (1 hour) ElasticSearch in Action
	1 Understanding PHP Memory Talk by Julien Pauli in Artist A6 (1 hour) Understanding PHP Memory
	3 Who’s Doing What with PHP on IBM i Talk by Mike Pavlak in Studio 1B (1 hour) Who’s Doing What with PHP on IBM i
10:30	8 Solving the N+1 Problem; or, A Stitch In Time Saves Nine Talk by Paul M. Jones in The Joint (1 hour) Solving the N+1 Problem; or, A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
	0 YooopeeCache Talk by Julien Pauli in Artist A1 (1 hour) YooopeeCache
	3 Doctrine ORM - What's this then? Talk by Margaret Staples in Artist A2 (1 hour) Doctrine ORM - What's this then?
	2 Control your home with PHP Talk by Jan Burkl in Artist A3 (1 hour) Control your home with PHP
	1 The future of Symfony : Symfony3 Talk by Sarah Khalil in Artist A4 (1 hour) The future of Symfony : Symfony3
	3 Service Oriented Architecture as a Pattern of Development Talk by Mike Willbanks in Artist A5 (1 hour) Service Oriented Architecture as a Pattern of Development
	2 Building a Micro-Framework with Zend Framework 3 Talk by Marco Pivetta in Artist A6 (1 hour) Building a Micro-Framework with Zend Framework 3
	4 Journey of a Thousand Bytecodes Talk by Sara Golemon in Studio 1B (1 hour) Journey of a Thousand Bytecodes
11:45	14 Going Pro - The Joint Keynote by Cal Evans in The Joint (1 hour) Going Pro - The Joint

ZendCon 2015 19 - 22 Oct 2015 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Schedule

Monday 19th October 2015

Tuesday 20th October 2015

Wednesday 21st October 2015

Thursday 22nd October 2015

ZendCon 2015
19 - 22 Oct 2015 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino