Speaker
Ian Barber Ibuildings
Ian is a professional services consultant at Ibuildings in the UK, where he leads development teams for a variety of large enterprise clients. He blogs regularly at phpir.com, covering information retrieval, text mining, natural language processing and other interesting topics.

Sebastian Bergmann thePHP.cc
Sebastian Bergmann holds a degree in Computer Science and is a pioneer in the field of quality assurance in PHP projects. His test framework PHPUnit is a de-facto standard. He is actively involved in the development of PHP and creator of various development tools. Sebastian Bergmann is an internationally sought-after expert. As an author he shares his long-standing experience in books and articles. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

Arne Blankerts thePHP.cc
Arne Blankerts is a co-founder and Principal Consultant with thePHP.cc and head of development at Ballyhoo advertising agency in Hamburg, Germany. Furthermore he offers security consulting and training with thePHP.cc, is a regular author writing articles for the German PHP Magazine, php|architekt and others. Arne is the inventor and lead developer of an open source site system called "fCMS" (http://fcms.de) and in the unusual case of spare time he helps maintaining the German translation of the PHP manual.

Jordi Boggiano Liip AG
Jordi Boggiano is a senior developer at Liip AG, the developer of the Slippy presentation app and the Dwoo template engine, and frequent open source contributor (Arbit, Phergie, Okapi and others). He has been involved in web development for almost 10 years, working with PHP, JavaScript and ActionScript. Aside from coding he enjoys music and reading the whole internet. You can find his blog and contact details on http://seld.be

Jan Burkl Zend Technologies GmbH
Since November 2006, Jan Burkl is working at Zend Technologies in Stuttgart, Germany. As System Engineer and Trainer he advised business clients in PHP based software projects and taught web developers, consultants, project leads and decision makers on the job with Zend products and development tools (Zend Studio, Zend Platform and Zend Framework) for several years. Furthermore he gave free and interactive webinars in context of the Zend PHP training courses. Now, as Senior Pre-Sales Engineer Jan gives free webinars about how to optimize PHP development and production environments or ways of improving PHP applications.

Robert Lemke TYPO3 Association
Robert Lemke is the lead developer of TYPO3 CMS and founding developer of the FLOW3 application framework. He is passionate about clean code and found his personal mission in bringing successful development and architecture techniques from other programming languages to the PHP world.
He works full-time for the non-profit TYPO3 Association and lives in Lübeck, Germany, together with his wife, his daughter and Vibiemme, their espresso machine.

Tom Melendez Yahoo!, Inc
Tom Melendez, a geek transplanted from Long Island, NY to the Silicon Valley area of Northern California. From his first day in NorCal he missed the bagel and pizza perfection he was acustom to in his home state but just couldn’t resist the joy that a snowless winter would bring him. Oh, and he began working for Yahoo!.
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Kore Nordmann Qafoo GmbH
In 2010 Kore Nordmann will receive a master's degree in Computer Science (University). During his studies he worked as a developer and software architect at eZ Systems, the manufacturer of the leading enterprise open source CMS. In addition, he is developing and/or maintaining various open source projects, such as Zeta Components, Arbit, WCV, Image_3D, PHPUnit and others. For several years, Kore is a regular speaker on national and international conferences and has published several books and articles. He offers consulting as a partner in the Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality.

Manuel Pichler Qafoo GmbH
Manuel Pichler is a software engineer. Beside his professional activities he is passionate about Quality Assurance.
Manuel is author of phpUnderControl and PHP_depend, tools for static code analysis and for the calculation of software metrics.

Fabien Potencier Sensio
Fabien Potencier discovered the Web in 1994, at a time when connecting to the Internet was still associated with the harmful strident sounds of a modem. Being a developer by passion, he immediately started to build websites with Perl. But with the release of PHP 5, he decided to switch focus to PHP, and created the symfony framework project in 2004 to help his company leverage the power of PHP for its customers.
Fabien is a serial-entrepreneur, and among other companies, he created Sensio, a services and consulting company specialized in web technologies and Internet marketing, in 1998.
Fabien is also the creator of several other Open-Source projects, a writer, a blogger, a speaker at international conferences, and a happy father of two wonderful kids.

Stefan Priebsch thePHP.cc
Stefan Priebsch is a Co-Founder and Principal Consultant with thePHP.cc. He holds a degree in computer science and is author of various books and technical articles. As a consultant, he helps customers to improve development processes and make better use of PHP, with a focus on software architecture, OOP, design patterns, and tools and methods. Stefan is a frequent speaker at IT conferences around the world.

Ben Ramsey Moontoast
Ben Ramsey is the Senior Software Architect at Moontoast, the social commerce network. He is a prolific writer and frequent speaker, often writing and speaking about web services and HTTP. He has written for php|architect, International PHP Magazine, and Zend Developer Zone and is a co-author of php|architect's Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide. Ben is the founder of the Atlanta PHP user group and organizer of the Nashville PHP user group. He blogs at benramsey.com, and is on Twitter at @ramsey.

Derick Rethans
Derick Rethans has contributed in a number of ways to the PHP project, including the Xdebug debugging tool, the mcrypt, date and input-filter extensions, bug fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He's 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. Derick works as an independent contractor doing various PHP related jobs while focussing on internals and extensions. In his spare time he likes to travel, hike, ski and practise photography. You can reach him at derick@derickrethans.nl

Thorsten Rinne Mayflower GmbH
Thorsten Rinne, graduated in Computer Science, is working as senior developer/team lead for Mayflower GmbH in Munich, Germany. His main focuses are business critical reporting and Basel-II-compliant rating applications based on PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL. He is the founder and maintainer of the open source FAQ management software phpMyFAQ. He's a Zend Certified Engineer and Certified Scrum Master. He also has spoken at various conferences around the world and he frequently writes articles for the German PHP Magazine.

Frank Ruske Mayflower GmbH
Frank Ruske is a software developer currently employed at Mayflower GmbH Germany. He has more then 8 years expierence in web development and team leading.
He also is an author for the leading german php magazine.

Tobias Schlitt Qafoo GmbH
obias Schlitt is a qualified IT specialist and is right about to finish his studies of computer since at the university of Dortmund. He is an open source enthusiast and is involved with professional PHP application development for more then 10 years. Tobias is co-founder of Qafoo GmbH, which provides services around quality assurance in the PHP area, and works there as a consultant, trainer and developer.

Johannes Schlüter Sun Microsystems
Johannes is working as software engineer for Sun Microsystems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation with the development team of MySQL - the world's most popular open source database. Being a OpenSource developer from heart he's heavily involved with the PHP project and serving as release manager of PHP 5.3.

David Soria Parra Mayflower GmbH
David Soria Parra is a developer at Mayflower GmbH. With more than three years of experience working with decentralized version control systems, he occasionally gives Git and Mercurial trainings and talks. He is a contributor to the Git and Mercurial SCM and maintainer of the official Git mirrors of the PHP Subversion repository.

Ulf Wendel MySQL GmbH/Sun Microsystems GmbH
Ulf Wendel is working for MySQL since 2004, he picked up first experiences in MySQL back in 1997. His current position in the Connectors Team is reflecting his actual background in web-development with PHP and MySQL. Right now he is working on drivers for PHP, C++ and OpenOffice. Ulf is accompanying the International PHP Conference since 2000 with sessions and workshops. And in 2009 he was touring all around the german PHP usergroups in the name of "MySQL PHP BBQ Tour".

David Zuelke Bitextender GmbH
David Zuelke is the lead developer of the Agavi project, an open source MVC framework for PHP, and managing director at Bitextender GmbH, a Munich, Germany based software company. He has been doing PHP development for more than ten years and regularly speaks at conferences around the world.











