Speakers 2026

Alessandro Lai

MASTER OF CEREMONIES 2026 | Head of Platform @ Facile.it

Carolina Greno

Speaker & Communication Mentor

Will talk about

• Communication for devs: explaining complex ideas simply

Daniel Leech

Software Engineer

Will talk about

• PHP, Value Objects and You 🫵

Derick Rethans

Independent contractor

Will talk about

• Better Debugging With Xdebug
• Panel: the future of PHP

Estelle Gaits

Web developer @Akawaka and @Sylius Key Contributor

Will talk about

• Introduction to the Sylius Stack

Gary Hockin

Associate @ Roave

Will talk about

• It Depends
• Panel: the future of PHP

Gina Peter Banyard

PHP core developer & conference speaker

Will talk about

• Panel: the future of PHP
• Progress lies within Backwards Compatibility breaks

Grzegorz Drozd

Lead PHP Developer, Payments team

Will talk about

• PHP’s Real-time Toolkit: All the Ways to Notify Clients

Jessica Smith

Senior Principal Software Engineer @ DigiCert

Will talk about

• Packets, Protocols and PHP: Networking Fundamentals for Developers

Luca Lusso

Lead developer @ Sparkfabrik

Will talk about

• The PHP AI Battleground: Choosing Your Agentic Framework

Marco Pivetta

Consulting Software Architect @ Roave

Will talk about

• Reliable, reproducible, immutable deployments

Michelle Sanver

Independent senior software architect

Will talk about

• Advanced Serializing in PHP: Speed it up!

Norbert Orzechowicz

Software Architect / Consultant

Will talk about

• Data Processing in PHP

Paul Conroy

CTO @ Square1.io

Will talk about

• Avoiding Déjà Vu: Building Resilient APIs with Idempotency

Rob Allen

Independent API and backend web development specialist

Will talk about

• Securing Your API: The OWASP Top 10

Roberto Gallea

Senior Information Technology Officer @ UniPa

Will talk about

• Understanding Modern Identity: From Login Basics to OIDC and Passkeys

Samuele Lilli

MASTER OF CEREMONIES 2026 | Senior Backend Developer @ Madisoft

Sara Golemon

PHP Foundation Board

Will talk about

• PHP Foundation Updates
• Panel: the future of PHP

Stéphane Decock

CTO @ DigtAg

Will talk about

• Mastering Failures: Building Resilient PHP/Symfony Apps with Domain-Driven Exceptions

Volker Dusch

Head of Engineering @ Tideways, PHP 8.5 Release Manager

Will talk about

• Shipping PHP 8.5
• Panel: the future of PHP

Wim Godden

Lead Architect at Cu.be Solutions

Will talk about

• Building your apps in offline-first mode