Track 1

Building your apps in offline-first mode

Panel: the future of PHP

⚡️⚡️ Lightning Talks

"PHP Foundation Updates" by Sara Golemon - World's tallest Gnome, trying to teach rocks to think. - phpday Verona (Italy) | 14-15 May 2026

PHP Foundation Updates

"Shipping PHP 8.5" by Volker Dusch - Head of Engineering @ TIdeways, PHP 8.5 Release Manager - phpday Verona (Italy) | 14-15 May 2026

Shipping PHP 8.5

"The PHP AI Battleground: Choosing Your Agentic Framework" by Luca Lusso - Lead developer @ Sparkfabrik - phpday Verona (Italy) | 14-15 May 2026

The PHP AI Battleground: Choosing Your Agentic Framework

"Reliable, reproducible, immutable deployments" by Marco Pivetta - Consulting Software Architect @ Roave - phpday Verona (Italy) | 14-15 May 2026

Reliable, reproducible, immutable deployments

"Advanced Serializing in PHP: Speed it up!" by Michelle Sanver - Independent senior software architect - phpday Verona (Italy) | 14-15 May 2026

Advanced Serializing in PHP: Speed it up!

"PHP's Real-time Toolkit: All the Ways to Notify Clients" by Grzegorz Drozd - Lead PHP Developer, Payments team - phpday Verona (Italy) | 14-15 May 2026

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

"Progress lies within Backwards Compatibility breaks" by Gina Peter Banyard - The PHP Foundation, PHP Core developper - phpday Verona (Italy) | 14-15 May 2026

Progress lies within Backwards Compatibility breaks