all Speakers
Check out our speaker line-up for our all PHP UK Conference. We're proud to host the best speakers, attributors and educators from around the world and provide our community with the best resources on the PHP programming language every year.


Pauline Vos
Pauline is a software engineer and consultant, currently working in the aviation space. She likes good, clean software design and being as ef...
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Alexander M. Turek
@derrabus
Alexander has been developing applications with PHP for over 20 years. As a freelance software developer, he modernizes old applications and ...
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Derick Rethans
@derickr
Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert and author of Xdebug. He works as an independent contractor and consultant on PHP extensions and rel...
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Dave Liddament
@DaveLiddament
Dave is a director at Lamp Bristol, a software consultancy. He’s been writing software commercially for over 20 years in many languages inclu...
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David Flanagan
@rawkode
Founder of the Rawkode Academy, open source contributor, and beloved husband and father to my wife, two amazing kids, and a plethora of anima...
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Gina Banyard
The PHP Foundation
@Girgias
Gina Banyard is funded to works as a PHP core developer by The PHP Foundation. They also maintain the PHP documentation and are the lead main...
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Freek Van der Herten
Spatie
@freekmurze
Freek Van der Herten is a developer and partner at Spatie. You can find him on Twitter and read his blogposts on PHP and Laravel at freek.dev...
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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos
@evrtrabajo
Emmanuel Valverde Ramos (Manu) is a seasoned software developer who started his professional programming career in 2012. With extensive exper...
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James Brooks
Laravel
@jbrooksuk
James is a software developer living in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Working at Laravel, he is focused on creating epic developer tools inc...
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Jakub Zalas
@jakub_zalas
Jakub Zalas helps teams to deliver software that survives change. Being focused on quality, Jakub promotes agile development practices like t...
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Jessica Rose
@jesslynnrose
Jessica Rose is a linguistics and open source nerd living her professional dream working with the Mozilla Foundation on the Common Voice proj...
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Jim Seconde
Vonage
@SecondeJ
A trained actor with a curious background: from Theatre Studies, to Q/A, to Business Intelligence development, to full stack web development,...
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Marcel Pociot
Beyond Code
@marcelpociot
Marcel is a managing partner and developer at the Beyond Code GmbH in Germany, which builds custom Laravel web projects and focuses on Chatbo...
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Mark Bradley
Armakuni
@braddle
London based Mark Bradley works as a Senior Consulting Engineer for Armakuni, helping companies adopt Cloud Native technologies, practises an...
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Mathéo Daninos
SensioLabs
@matheodaninos
Mathéo is a pure child of Symfony. He developed these developer skills thanks to the Symfony community, by reading the source code, or by fol...
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Matthieu Napoli
@matthieunapoli
Matthieu is an open-source developer and AWS serverless hero. He is the creator of projects like [Bref], [Lift] and [PHP-DI], as well as the ...
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Mike Lehan
StuRents
@m1ke
Mike has been working in web application development using PHP for 13 years, including time as a CTO and startup founder. Through working on ...
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Milana Cap
XWP
@DjevaLoperka
Milana Cap is a WordPress engineer at XWP, freelance WordPress engineer at Toptal, WordPress Documentation Team representative, and Documenta...
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Neal Brooks
Proton
@nealio82
Neal Brooks is a software engineer at Proton AG, where he works on helping to scale privacy-focused web services in order to create a better ...
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Ondřej Mirtes
@OndrejMirtes
Ondřej is a full-time open-source software developer. He likes pointing out mistakes in other people's code so much that he created PHPStan, ...
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Paul Conroy
Square1
@conroyp
As the CTO of Square1, a leading digital agency based in Dublin, I bring over 20 years of experience in software development to the table. I'...
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Paul Dragoonis
ByteHire
@dr4goonis
My name is Paul, and I'm from Glasgow, Scotland. I'm an open-source contributor, public speaker, trainer, and consultant by trade. I'm a memb...
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Chris Riley
@giveupalready
Chris is a freelance consultant based in York, Uk with experience working in the public sector, small and large companies throughout North Yo...
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Rob Allen
Nineteen Feet Limited
@akrabat
Rob Allen is a software consultant and developer with many years experience in a variety of interesting languages. He's particularly interest...
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Thijs Feryn
varnish
@thijsferyn
As the Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software, Thijs Feryn focuses on web performance, software scalability, and content delivery. He demon...
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Daniel Terhorst-North
Daniel Terhorst-North uses his deep technical and operational knowledge to help business and technology leaders to optimise their organisa...
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Kévin Dunglas
Les-Tilleuls.coop
@dunglas
Creator of the FrankenPHP application server, the API Platform web API framework and the Mercure.rocks real-time communication protocol. Co...
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Lorna Mitchell
Lorna is based in Yorkshire, UK; she is a technology leader and developer experience expert who is passionate about APIs and developer tool...
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Nils Adermann
Packagist Conductors
@naderman
Nils Adermann created Composer, the dependency manager for PHP, founded Private Packagist, a package repository as a service, and is a fo...
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Katy Ereira
Personio
@maccath
Katy Ereira is an accomplished software engineer and international conference speaker based in the UK. Having graduated from King’s College L...
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Gina Banyard
The PHP Foundation
@Girgias
Gina Peter Banyard is a PHP core developer who is funded by The PHP Foundation. She also maintains the PHP documentation.
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Wim Godden
Cu.be Solutions
@wimgtr
Wim Godden has been working with open source technologies since 1997 and has been involved in open source projects such as PHPCompatibili...
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Chris Riley
@giveupalready
Chris is a freelance consultant based in York, Uk with experience working in the public sector, small and large companies throughout Nort...
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Ivo Lukač
Netgen
@ilukac
Managing partner of Netgen with 20+ years of experience in the web industry. Participated in various web projects across the globe as an engi...
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Craig Francis
I’ve been creating websites for… too many years, with a particular focus on improving security. I gave early feedback on CSP, TrustedType...
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Liam Hammett
Future
@LiamHammett
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....
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