Program At-a-Glance

Below is the list of sessions and speakers. Click on a session to read its abstract, or on a name to read the speaker's bio. Schedule subject to change.


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     Intermediate             Business  
     Advanced             Technical  
     All             Zend Framework  

TUTORIAL DAY - Monday, October 8
9:00am
to
12:00pm
PHP Security Crash Course (1)

John Coggeshall
PHP Development Best Practices (1)

Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Sebastian Bergman
Mike Naberezny
Extending PHP (1)

Marcus Boerger
Sara Goleman
Wez Furlong
Zend Certification Crash Course (1)

Christian Wenz
12:00pm
to
1:00pm
Lunch
1:30pm
to
4:30pm
PHP Security Crash Course (2)

John Coggeshall
PHP Development Best Practices (2)

Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Sebastian Bergman
Mike Naberenzy
Extending PHP (2)

Marcus Boerger
Sara Goleman
Wez Furlong
Zend Certification Crash Course (2)

Christian Wenz
5:00pm
to
7:00pm
Certification Testing

Tuesday, October 9
7:30am
to
8:30am
Continental Breakfast
8:30am
to
9:45am
Zend Opening Keynote: Unlocking the Value
Harold Goldberg -- Keynote
10:00am
to
11:00am
The Internet is an Ogre: Finding Art in the Software Architecture

Terry Chay
Enterprise PHP: Cross Section of a real Implementation

John Coggeshall
Marc Urbaitel
A Short Trip to Enterprise City at the World's Largest Car Manufacturer. Sights: Notes, SAP, & PHP

Jens-Paul Berndt
Importance of load tests before application release

Massimiliano Cavicchioli
         
10:00am
to
12:00pm
Certification Testing
10:00am
to
6:00pm
Community Lounge
11:15am
to
12:15pm
Zend Framework MVC Quick Start

Matthew Weier O'Phinney
PayPal: New Solutions for PHP Developers

Damon Williams
Build a Sexy Front End to a Zend Framework Powered Application

Renaun Erickson
Give Your Site A Boost With memcached

Ben Ramsey
           
12:15pm
to
1:30pm
Lunch
1:00pm
to
3:00pm
Certification Testing
1:30pm
to
2:30pm
Intelligence Emerging from the Internet Space
Robert Picciano -- Keynote
2:45pm
to
3:45pm
State of PHP Security

Ilia Alshanetsky
Project Management Methods to Maintain IT standards

Eric David
IBM DB2 with PHP 5.2 and AJAX

Thorsten Rinne
Creating RIA With PHP

Stanislav Malyshev
         
4:00pm
to
5:00pm
Zend Framework Database Quick Start

Bill Karwin
The Bionic App

Keith Casey
Mobilizing & Sharing: How the Zend Framework Builds Community for Nokia MOSH

Ben Ramsey
Brian DeShong
High Performance PHP & MySQL Scaling Techniques

Eli White
           
4:00pm
to
6:00pm
Certification Testing
5:15pm
to
6:15pm
IBM Mashup Maker & the Evolving Ecosystem

David Boloker
Working With Web Services

Rob Richards
Building Scalable Development Environments

Shahar Evron
Best Practices for Sending Mail from PHP

Wez Furlong
       
6:00pm
to
9:00pm
Evening Reception in the Exhibit Hall
7:00pm
to
8:00pm
Birds-of-Feather Sessions
7:00pm
to
midnight
Community Lounge
9:00pm
Meet the Zend Development Teams


Wednesday, October 10
7:30am
to
8:30am
Continental Breakfast
7:45am
to
8:30am
Birds-of-Feather Sessions
8:30am
to
9:30am
Designing PHP Based RIAs for Richer Internet Experiences
Lee Brimelow -- Keynote
9:45am
to
10:45am
PHP Features You Didn't Know Existed

Eli White
Implementing Access Control with Zend Framework

Darby Felton
Optimizing Service Oriented Architectures with PHP

Glen Campbell
PHP::$unicode->i18n()

Andrei Zmievski
          
10:00am
to
6:00pm
Community Lounge
10:00am
to
12:00pm
Certification Testing
11:00am
to
12:00pm
Content Indexing with Zend_Search_Lucene

Shahar Evron
Time = Money

Derick Rethans
Speeding to Web 2.0 with PHP

Jacob Taylor
Amazon's EC2 and S3

Brian Aker
       
12:00pm
to
1:30pm
Lunch
1:00pm
to
3:00pm
Certification Testing
1:30pm
to
2:30pm
Great Software
Joel Spolsky -- Keynote
2:45pm
to
3:45pm
Zend Platform Job Queue Advanced Use Case

Massimiliano Cavicchioli
PHP Diversity -PHP applications in a Heterogeneous IT Environment

Joe Stagner
PHP and E-Commerce: More Than Just a Shopping Cart

Elizabeth Naramore
To Be Announced
       
4:00pm
to
5:00pm
Premium PHP

Laura Thomson
Connection Pooling & Other Features for Data Scaling

Christopher Jones
The Grown-Up Company's Guide to Development

Brian DeShong
Security 2.0

Chris Shiflett
      
4:00pm
to
6:00pm
Certification Testing
5:15pm
to
6:15pm
MySQL Performance Coding - From Soup to Nuts

Jay Pipes
Performance Tuning for PHP with Oracle Databases

Christopher Jones
Identity Panel Discussion

Sara Goleman
Dmitry Stogov
Vijay Rajagopalan
PHP & Agile Development Methodologies

Eddo Rotman
    
6:00pm
to
8:30pm
Exhibit Hall Reception
7:00pm
to
8:00pm
Birds-of-Feather Sessions
7:00pm
to
midnight
Community Lounge
8:00pm
to
midnight
PHP Nightclub


Thursday, October 11
7:30am
to
8:30am
Continental Breakfast
8:30am
to
9:30am
Stay Free! How Open Source Affects Culture
Cory Doctorow -- Keynote
9:45am
to
10:45am
Evaluating PHP as a technology platform for SOA implementations

Vedanta Barooah
PHP Migration Concepts

Stefan Priebsch
The Fragmented PHP Development Tools Market & The Impact of Eclipse/PDT

Yossi Leon
How to optimize and deploy PHP on Windows for development and production

Hank Janssen
John Bocharov
     
11:00am
to
12:00pm
QEDWiki and Zend Framework

Stewart Nickolas
API Design in PHP

David Sklar
Monitoring & Managing PHP Applications

Nir Ilani
To Be Announced
        
12:15pm
to
1:00pm
Closing Keynote
Premal Shah -- Keynote


Legend

     Beginner             Web Services  
     Intermediate             Business  
     Advanced             Technical  
     All             Zend Framework  


Special IBM i5 Sessions

Tuesday, October 9
2:45pm
to
3:45pm
Introduction to PHP on System i
Erwin Earley
4:00pm
to
5:00pm
Leveraging DB2/400 data and RPG/COBOL/CL programs
Erwin Earley
5:15pm
to
6:15pm
Best Practices for running PHP on System i
Erwin Earley
Sam Pinkhasov