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1:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Chris is a freelance consultant based in York, Uk with experience working in the public sector, small and large companies throughout North Yorkshire. Chris has over 10 years experience with PHP and has a keen focus on both software architecture and none functional requirements such as security, performance and maintainability. In his free time, Chris can often be found producing or playing with experimental libraries and contributing to Zend framework.\n "},{slug:"thijs-feryn",id:"thijs-feryn",name:"Thijs Feryn",avatar:"/assets/images/2024/speakers/thijs-feryn.png",company:"varnish",twitter:"@thijsferyn",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demonstrates content-driven and technical messaging through presentations, videos, books, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and other media. Thijs is a published author and wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache and Varnish 6 by Example. As a public speaker, he has a track record of over 300 presentations in 22 different countries, where he is often praised for his energetic and engaging presentation style. As an evangelist, Thijs is also active in many open-source communities, most notably the Varnish and PHP community. He has contributed to various communities for over 15 years both technically and as an organizer and facilitator. Prior to joining Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn spent 15 years in the web hosting industry, tackling web performance and scalability issues on a daily basis and evangelizing these topics.\n "},{slug:"derick-rethans-2024",id:"derick-rethans-2024",name:"Derick Rethans",avatar:"/assets/images/2024/speakers/derick-rethans.png",company:"",twitter:"@derickr",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions and related projects. He works for the PHP Foundation to improve PHP, and continues to contribute to the PHP project in numerous forms (Date/Time Extension, Xdebug, PHP 4.4/7.4 Release Manager, etc). He is a frequent lecturer at conferences, the author of php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming, and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming.\n "}],t=[{slug:"daniel-north",id:"daniel-north",name:"Daniel Terhorst-North",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/daniel-north.png",company:"",twitter:"",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:'\n <p>Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and operational knowledge to help business and technology leaders to optimise their organisations. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to complex business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques.</p> <p>With over thirty years of industry experience, Daniel is a frequent speaker at technology and business conferences worldwide. The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Daniel has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts. He occasionally blogs at <a href="https://dannorth.net/blog">dannorth.net/blog.</a></p>\n '},{slug:"kevin-dunglas",id:"kevin-dunglas",name:"K\xe9vin Dunglas",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/kevin-dunglas.png",company:"Les-Tilleuls.coop",twitter:"@dunglas",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Creator of the FrankenPHP application server, the API Platform web API framework and the Mercure.rocks real-time communication protocol. Co-maintainer of the Caddy web server and Symfony framework. Contributor to the Go and PHP languages. Co-creator of the Les-Tilleuls.coop worker cooperative.\n "},{slug:"lorna-mitchell",id:"lorna-mitchell",name:"Lorna Mitchell",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/lorna-mitchell.png",company:"",twitter:"",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09
1:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Lorna is based in Yorkshire, UK; she is a technology leader and developer experience expert who is passionate about APIs and developer tools. She is also a published author and regular blogger, sharing her insights on a variety of tech-related topics. Lorna serves on the OpenUK board, is on the Technical Steering Committee for OpenAPI specification, and maintains open source projects. To learn more about Lorna's activities, visit her website at https://lornajane.net.\n "},{slug:"nils-adermann",id:"nils-adermann",name:"Nils Adermann",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/nils-adermann.png",company:"Packagist Conductors",twitter:"@naderman",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"To Be Confirmed",bio:"\n Nils Adermann created Composer, the dependency manager for PHP, founded Private Packagist, a package repository as a service, and is a founding board member of the PHP Foundation. Through working on open-source and commercial PHP projects over two decades, he learned first hand which daily problems PHP developers face. His projects are now focusing on improving the developer experience around PHP and providing businesses with the tools to use PHP more efficiently.\n "},{slug:"katy-eriera",id:"katy-eriera",name:"Katy Ereira",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/katy-eriera.png",company:"Personio",twitter:"@maccath",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Katy Ereira is an accomplished software engineer and international conference speaker based in the UK. Having graduated from King's College London with a degree in Computer Science over a decade ago, Katy has since made her way down the IC track as a developer in a wide range of industries including fintech, edtech and artificial intelligence. Katy's favourite things include writing tests for complex and legacy codebases, and holding her teammates to excruciatingly high standards. Besides writing code, she also likes to play video and board games, and spend time in nature.\n "},{slug:"gina-banyard",id:"gina-banyard",name:"Gina Banyard",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/gina-banyard.png",company:"The PHP Foundation",twitter:"@Girgias",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Gina Peter Banyard is a PHP core developer who is funded by The PHP Foundation. She also maintains the PHP documentation.\n "},{slug:"chris-riley",id:"chris-riley",name:"Chris Riley",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/chris-riley.png",company:"",twitter:"@giveupalready",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Chris is a freelance consultant based in York, Uk with experience working in the public sector, small and large companies throughout North Yorkshire. Chris has over 10 years experience with PHP and has a keen focus on both software architecture and none functional requirements such as security, performance and maintainability. In his free time, Chris can often be found producing or playing with experimental libraries and contributing to Zend framework.\n "},{slug:"ivo-lukac",id:"ivo-lukac",name:"Ivo LukaÄ",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/ivo-lukac.png",company:"Netgen",twitter:"@ilukac",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Managing partner of Netgen with 20+ years of experience in the web industry. Participated in various web projects across the globe as an engineer, architect, project manager, consultant. Regularly speaking at conferences since 2010. Organizing Web Summer Camp since 2012.\n "},{slug:"craig-francis",id:"craig-francis",name:"Craig Francis",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/craig-francis.png",company:"",twitter:"",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n I've been creating websites for⦠too many years, with a particular focus on improving security. I gave early feedback on CSP, TrustedTypes, SameSite cookies, and SiteIsolation developments (as I believe these techniques actually address the respective problems). I'm currently one of the OWASP Bristol UK co-leads, help run a couple of Code Clubs for 8 - 12 year olds, I'm the WordPress Database component maintainer, and I'm currently working on how to solve Injection Vulnerabilities.\n "},{slug:"liam-hammett",id:"liam-hammett",name:"Liam Hammett",avatar:"/assets/images/2025/speakers/liam-hammett.png",company:"Future",twitter:"@LiamHammett",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09
1:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n I am a tech lead at Future plc, where I help manage millions of weekly requests for one of the largest publishing companies in the world. I deeply love the PHP ecosystem and am passionate about crafting tools and solutions that make all developers' lives easier. Whether it's improving the tooling you use to write your code, contributing to open source, or sharing the knowledge I learn day-to-day, my mission is to simplify complex workflows and improve productivity for development teams everywhere.\n "}],i=[{slug:"derick-rethans",id:"derick-rethans",name:"Derick Rethans",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/derick-rethans.webp",company:"",jobTitle:"Independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions and related projects",twitter:"",linkedin:"",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wednesday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"<p>Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions and related projects.</p>\n <p>He works for the PHP Foundation to improve PHP, and continues to contribute to the PHP project in numerous forms (Date/Time Extension, Xdebug, PHP 4.4/7.4 Release Manager, etc). He is a frequent lecturer at conferences, the author of php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming, and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming.</p>"},{slug:"naomi-gotts",id:"naomi-gotts",name:"Naomi Gotts",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/naomi-gotts.webp",company:"",jobTitle:"Lead Engineer at Tillo",twitter:"@naomigo",linkedin:"naomigotts/",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Naomi is a Lead Engineer and has been working with PHP professionally for over 18 years. Alongside a passion for Test Driven Development, helping others to learn via means such as mentoring, book clubs and internal tech conferences, writing code is still very close to her heart. Outside of work, Naomi is a big F1 fan and is likely never far from a crochet hook, especially in winter time!\n "},{slug:"volker-dusch",id:"volker-dusch",name:"Volker Dusch",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/volker-dusch.webp",company:"",jobTitle:"PHP 8.5 Release Manager and Performance Enthusiast",twitter:"",linkedin:"volker-dusch/",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n <p>With over 20 years of software development experience, Volker has seen PHP grow and mature from PHP 3, working on long-living custom applications in high-traffic environments. From social networks to medical data processing, he has worked as an engineer, team lead, and Head of Engineering, mostly focusing on PHP, Go, C, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and System Operations.</p>\n <p>In his role as PHP 8.5 Release Manager, he's also contributing back to the ecosystem that has shaped his career.</p>\n "},{slug:"alexandre-daubois",id:"alexandre-daubois",name:"Alexandre Daubois",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/alexandre-daubois.webp",company:"",jobTitle:"CTO @ Les-Tilleuls.coop / Symfony Core Team / PHP & FrankenPHP Core Maintainer",twitter:"@alexdaubois",linkedin:"alexandre-daubois",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:'\n <p>Alexandre is the CTO at Les-Tilleuls.coop and a leading figure in the PHP ecosystem.<p>\n <p>A major player in the open-source world, he is an active member of the Symfony and FrankenPHP Core Teams and a core maintainer of the PHP language itself. His expertise in crafting robust, high-quality code is distilled in his book, "Clean Code in PHP".</p>\n <p>As an international speaker at conferences like SymfonyLive and ForumPHP, Alexandre shares his deep insights on topics ranging from cybersecurity to object-oriented programming theory, all connected by a common thread: designing maintainable software for the decades to come.</p>\n '},{slug:"daniel-leech",id:"daniel-leech",name:"Daniel Leech",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/daniel-leech.webp",company:"DTL Software",jobTitle:"Software Engineer",twitter:"",linkedin:"daniel-leech-a32851252",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09
1:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Daniel has been developing with PHP for 17 years during which time he has comitted his time to numerous open source side- projects which include PHPBench and Phpactor. He cycled over most of Europe and plays the piano badly.\n "},{slug:"simon-hamp",id:"simon-hamp",name:"Simon Hamp",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/simon-hamp.webp",company:"",jobTitle:"Cofounder, NativePHP",twitter:"@simonhamp",linkedin:"simonhamp/",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n Simon is the co-creator of NativePHP and co-founder of Bifrost. He's enabling PHP developers everywhere to build native applications with their favourite language.\n "},{slug:"ondrej-mirtes",id:"ondrej-mirtes",name:"OndÅej Mirtes",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/ondrej-mirtes.webp",company:"PHPStan",jobTitle:"Open-source software developer",twitter:"",linkedin:"ondrejmirtes",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n <p>OndÅej is a full-time open-source software developer. He likes pointing out mistakes in other people's code so much that he created PHPStan, a popular static analyzer that focuses on finding bugs in code without running it. He shares his experience at conferences across the world, offers his expertise as a consultant, and organizes trainings.</p>\n "},{slug:"sebastian-bergmann",id:"sebastian-bergmann",name:"Sebastian Bergmann",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/sebastian-bergmann.webp",company:"PHPUnit",jobTitle:"",twitter:"",linkedin:"sebastian-bergmann-phpunit",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n <p>Sebastian Bergmann is the creator of PHPUnit, the testing framework that set the standard for quality and professionalism in PHP software development. As a founding partner and consultant with The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), he empowers development teams to adopt PHPUnit effectively, elevate their testing strategies, streamline workflows, and build more reliable, testable software.</p>\n "},{slug:"jessica-smith",id:"jessica-smith",name:"Jessica Smith",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/jessica-smith.webp",company:"DigiCert",jobTitle:"Senior Principal Software Engineer",twitter:"",linkedin:"jessicasmithuk",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n <p>Jessica is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at DigiCert DNS and has been using PHP for 27 years with 18 years experience in the hosting industry.</p><p>Alongside this, she also attends far too many LAN parties and works on a number of open source projects for the community. In her remaining spare time she looks after her 2 cats and occasionally goes climbing and sailing.</p>\n "},{slug:"florian-engelhardt",id:"florian-engelhardt",name:"Florian Engelhardt",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/florian-engelhardt.webp",company:"Datadog",jobTitle:"Software Engineer",twitter:"",linkedin:"florian-engelhardt",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09:00 â 09:30",bio:"\n <p>Florian is married with five kids and he likes to play table tennis \uD83C\uDFD3, table football â½, chess âï¸, and MTG. He is also a software engineer and builds a PHP profiler at Datadog.</p><p>He started writing small software on an IBM PS/2 30 286 in GW-BASIC back in 1993, throughout the 90s he learned HTML, JavaScript, Perl, C, and a bit of Assembler. It was September 2000 when he was introduced to PHP and he thought nobody would ever need it, but boy he was wrong.</p><p>In his spare time (and with five kids you do not have that much of it), he works on various open-source PHP projects and every now and then he writes blog posts and gives talks about anything PHP.</p>\n "},{slug:"paul-conroy",id:"paul-conroy",name:"Paul Conroy",avatar:"/assets/images/2026/speakers/paul-conroy.webp",company:"Square1 Solutions",jobTitle:"CTO",twitter:"@conroyp",linkedin:"paulconroy2",category:"To Be Confirmed",schedule:"Opening Keynote Speaker ⢠Wedensday 09
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