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

All sessions Starred only

Sessions Key

Keynote

Talk

Workshop

Social

Event Related

Monday, 19th October 2015

Artist A1

Artist A2

Artist A3

Artist A4

Artist A5

Artist A6

Studio 1B

Studio 3A

09:00

Wax On, Wax Off: Code Kata Dojo

Yitzchok Willroth

DB2 and SQL in depth for PHP on IBM i

Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 1)

ZF2 Done Properly

Matthew Turland

Building Development Environments with Docker

What happens in runtime DOESN'T stay in runtime

Scaling Magento - Reaching Peak Performance

09:00

13:30

Apigility Workshop

Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Julien Guittard

From Monolith to Microservice

Jeff Carouth

Zend PHP 5.5 Certification Boot Camp (Part 2)

Workshop : Build a REST API with Symfony

My app is secure...I think

PHP 7 Jumpstart

Best practices for WordPress plugin development

Juliette Reinders Folmer

PHP Dependency Management with Composer

13:30

Tuesday, 20th October 2015

The Joint

Artist A1

Artist A2

Artist A3

Artist A4

Artist A5

Artist A6

Studio 1B

08:30

Opening Keynote - The Joint

Andi Gutmans

08:30

10:00

The PHP 7 Journey

Zeev Suraski

Drupal 8: Crash Course

The Things Your Application Does While You’re Not Looking

Intro to Laravel 5

Asynchronous API Interaction with Guzzle

Jeremy Lindblom

Strategic Modernization with PHP

Creating a Z-Ray Plugin in 30 Minutes

The Zend DevTools Ecosystem

Kaloyan Raev, Michel Gerin

10:00

11:15

Head First Into Laravel

Is your code SOLID?

Julien Guittard

Deep Dive into PHP 7 Internal Changes

Using APIgility to build APIs Everyone Can Enjoy

Magento 101: Getting Started with Magento Development

Pretty Continuous Delivery - Bamboo and Zend Server

Jan Burkl

Which PHP Coding Style Should IBM i Programmers Use?

Stephanie Rabbani

Joomla in a box - Joomla meets Vagrant

11:15

13:30

Cloud is the New Normal - The Joint

Jeff Barr

13:30

14:45

No More Overtime; or, How To Train Your Manager

Laravel Forge: Hello World to Hello Production

Making Magento Go Fast

Building Custom Applications using Joomla! & Fabrik

Tessa Mero

Testing APIs with Codeception

Matthew Turland

Into the ZF2 Service Manager

Chris Tankersley

Beyond PHP : It's not (just) About the Code!

Extend your Database Connectivity with PHP

Shlomo Vanunu

14:45

16:00

PSR-7 and Middleware: The Future of PHP

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Test-Driven Laravel

How to Build a Pure Evil Magento Module

Fabrizio Branca

Destination Cloud: Deploying Applications To The Cloud With Docker

Jonathan Kaufman

Zend Server and IBM i Administration

Jim Oberholtzer

Sandboxing your Development Environment with Vagrant

OroPlatform - Open source Business Application Platform (BAP)

Dima Soroka

16:00

17:15

ZF2, How the Arrays Will Save Your Project

Michelangelo van Dam

Does Your Code Measure Up?

Supercharging Content Delivery with Varnish

Samantha Quiñones

Testing the Untestable

Sharing Laravel

Anti-Patterns Found in Your Object-Oriented Codebase

Conscious Uncoupling: Web/Application Architecture for the Next Ten Years

Josh Koenig

Building PHP Extensions on IBM i

Tony Cairns

17:15

18:15

Opening Reception by IBM Bluemix - Exhibit Hall

IBM Bluemix

18:15

Wednesday, 21st October 2015

The Joint

Artist A1

Artist A2

Artist A3

Artist A4

Artist A5

Artist A6

Studio 1B

08:30

The Web Leaps Forward - The Joint

08:30

09:45

Apigility: Agile APIs

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

WordPress for the Win!

Juliette Reinders Folmer

Modernising the Legacy

Lessons Learned from Running Massive WordPress Sites at Scale

A Tale of Two Test Suites - WordPress, API Mocking, and Integrations

Create a welcoming development environment on IBM i

An Overview of the Drupal 8 Plugin System

Joe Shindelar

09:45

11:00

Microservices: Packs small, plays BIG!

Stephan Hochdörfer

Queued Jobs: Simplified

Symfony, the Official Best Practices!

The Road to Continuous Delivery

Z-Ray & Magento: A Customizable Development Tool Belt

High Performance PHP 7

David Stewart

Zend Framework Development Good Practices

Easy DDD for the IBMi world

Massimiliano Cavicchioli

11:00

13:30

The Challenges of Being a Web Developer in 2015 - The Joint

Stephen O'Grady

13:30

14:45

From Idea to Prototype in 50 Minutes with Laravel

Asynchronous PHP

Christopher Pitt

Build RESTfull APIs easily with Symfony

Single Page Apps with Drupal 7

Chris Tankersley

DevOps for Small Teams

Rock-solid Magento Development and Deployment Workflows

Fabrizio Branca

Intro to ZF2 on IBM i

Stephanie Rabbani

JSON in MySQL 5.7

Morgan Tocker

14:45

16:00

Magento 2 - An Introduction to a Modern PHP-Based System

Building Joomla Extensions with Nooku Framework

Contributing - Behind the Scenes of the Joomla! Project

Tessa Mero

Fear Not the Machine of State!

Yitzchok Willroth

WordPress Best Practices for Enterprise

Apigility-Powered APIs on IBM i

Performance Tips & Tricks for Zend Framework 2 Applications

Slavey Karadzhov

PHP at Google Scale

16:00

17:15

Templates with Twig - Easier than you Think

Margaret Staples

Control the Cloud with the AWS SDK for PHP

Jeremy Lindblom

The Dark Art of Debugging

Joe Shindelar

Continuous WordPress, life is all good

Michelangelo van Dam

ZF2 Service Manager: From Zero to Epic

Let's Refactor!

Optimizing Zend Server Performance on IBM i

Jim Oberholtzer

Essential Debugging - PHP Debugging techniques, tips & tricks

17:15

18:15

Reception by IBM Bluemix - Exhibit Hall

IBM Bluemix

18:15

19:30

Special Evening Performance - The Joint

Lior Suchard

19:30

Thursday, 22nd October 2015

The Joint

Artist A1

Artist A2

Artist A3

Artist A4

Artist A5

Artist A6

Studio 1B

08:00

Drinking from the Firehose - Real-time Metrics

Samantha Quiñones

PHP Data Serialization with Symfony

Co-operative Multitasking with Generators

Christopher Pitt

Outsourcing to Your Compiler

Microservices: Panacea or Pandora's Box(es)?

Yitzchok Willroth

Practical Zend Framework Migration: Lessons from the Field

Modern and Secure PHP

How to scale WordPress on AWS in 15 minutes

08:00

09:15

Components, PSR-7, and Middleware: Zend Framework 3

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

PHPSpec & Behat - Two Testing Tools That Write Code for You

Mission (Im)possible: Quality Decoupled Code with Drupal 7

HTML5 Offline Mobile Apps: Real World Insights

Stephan Hochdörfer

Pushing the Limits of PHP Density and Scale with Containers

Josh Koenig

ElasticSearch in Action

Understanding PHP Memory

Julien Pauli

Who’s Doing What with PHP on IBM i

Mike Pavlak

09:15

10:30

Solving the N+1 Problem; or, A Stitch In Time Saves Nine

Julien Pauli

Doctrine ORM - What's this then?

Margaret Staples

Control your home with PHP

Jan Burkl

The future of Symfony : Symfony3

Service Oriented Architecture as a Pattern of Development

Building a Micro-Framework with Zend Framework 3

Journey of a Thousand Bytecodes

Sara Golemon

10:30

11:45

Going Pro - The Joint

11:45