Speaker
Nils Adermann Forumatic, LLC
Nils Adermann is a passionate free software developer who has been contributing to phpBB and various other open source projects for the past 7 years. Nils co-founded Forumatic, a forum hosting service based on phpBB and Symfony2 and is particulary interested in improving interoperability and cooperation among PHP projects.

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 is a mastermind of PHP development and PHP quality assurance. He has instrumentally contributed to tranforming PHP into a reliable platform for large-scale, critical projects. Companies and PHP developers around the world benefit from the tools that he has written.

Arne Blankerts thePHP.cc
Arne Blankerts solves IT problems long before many companies realize that they even exist. IT security is his passion, which he attends with almost magical intuition creating solutions that clearly bear his hallmark. Companies around the world rely on his site system and
Unix-based system architectures.

Jordi Boggiano Nelmio
Jordi Boggiano is the author of a few open source apps/libs (Composer, Monolog, php-console, ..), and frequent contributor to other OSS projects (Symfony2, Twig and others). He has been involved in web development for about 10 years, working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, and is currently doing Symfony2 consulting and application development at Nelmio. Find out more on http://nelm.io/jordi
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Of knowledge sharing and the developer quality lifecycle
2010-10-11 | 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | Gutenberg III

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.

Benjamin Eberlei SimpleThings GmbH
Benjamin Eberlei is software developer at SimpleThings GmbH. In his spare time he is project lead of the Doctrine ORM team and contributes to several other open-source projects.

Stefan Esser SektionEins GmbH
Stefan Esser is an independent Security Consultant that is well known in the security community for his advisories about popular Open Source Software packages like Linux, NetBSD, Samba, Cyrus IMAPD, Gaim, Ethereal, CVS, Subversion, MySQL, and PHP.
He is also known as the first who completely broke the DRM of the Microsoft XBOX with software only exploits.
Stefan contributes to the source code of PHP for 5 years and was a founding member of php.net's Security Response Team until he retired from it in the end of 2006. Because of his indepth knowledge of the PHP source code, he is an excellent auditor for PHP web applications, with a background knowledge that is unique in the PHP community.
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Lesser Known Security Problems in PHP Applications (2010 Edition)
2010-10-13 | 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Gutenberg II -

Johann-Peter Hartmann SektionEins GmbH
Johann-Peter Hartmann is founder of the PHP support enterprise ThinkPHP, CTO of Mayflower GmbH and CEO of the web application security startup SektionEins GmbH. He has been speaker at several conferences and published several articles in the area of PHP and security. He is responsible for the PHP and web 2.0 security scanner Chorizo! and contributed to the security of well known PHP tools.

Pierre-A. Joye Microsoft
Pierre is a long time core developer and lead developer of many extensions as well as being the PHP Windows Core team coordinator. He is the main developer of the LibGD and helps in numerous other pojects. After many years of freelancing, he works for the Microsoft Open Source Labs as software engineer and PHP specialist.

Dominik Jungowski CHIP Xonio Online GmbH
Dominik Jungowski is a specialised computer scientiest in software development. He\'s been involved with agile development and psychology for a couple of years and is successfully using this knowledge in everyday\'s work. At the moment Dominik is an agile coach at CHIP Online and is as one of his coaching jobs the Scrum Master for the price comparison team.

Slavey Karadzhov Zend Technologies GmbH
Slavey Karadzhov is working since 2008 as a Consultant at Zend Technologies in Stuttgart, Germany. With more than 10 years of PHP experience (and also in many other programming languages) he has specialized in finding the perfect language for prototyping. He is also the founder of Bulgaria's biggest Linux Community Site (linux-bg.org), which won the Bulgarian "IT Innovation Of The Year" award in 2004.

Stefan Koopmanschap
Stefan Koopmanschap is a Zend PHP5 Certified developer, consultant and trainer. He is a community person and is active in the european PHP community as secretary of the phpBenelux Usergroup as well as in the symfony community as Community Manager amongst other things.

Till Kubelke Kuborgh* GmbH
Till Kubelke, born in 1976, studied Information Systems at the University of Applied Sciences in Wedel. He is involved in the IT business since 1997.

Tobias Kunze Briseño Red Hat
As co-founder and former CTO of Makara, Tobias is now driving the technical vision behind Red Hat’s PaaS strategy with his continuing passion for cloud, web development, and high-performance computing. Prior to co-founding Makara, Tobias ran development and operations for Lycos’ price comparison franchise, serving many tier-1 clients such as AOL, Yahoo!, and T-Online. Before that, he served in lead technical roles at many innovative web and media companies.

Robert Lemke
Robert Lemke is the lead developer of TYPO3 Phoenix 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. Robert works full-time for the non-profit TYPO3 Association and lives in Lübeck, Germany, together with his wife, his daughters and Vibiemme, their espresso machine.

Tom Melendez Skybox Imaging, 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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Increase performance and uptime with Apache Traffic Server
2010-10-11 | 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | Gutenberg III

André Morys Web Arts AG
André Morys, born in 1974, founded Web Arts AG in 1996. By now the company employs 35 people, supervising a lead/retail volume of about 2.8 billion Euros. Web Arts is one of the leading agencies for e-commerce and conversion optimization. Among their customers are B2C retailer like Baur, Schwab and frontline, as well as B2B companies like Fraport, Sage or Sparkassen-Leasing.
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Life, the Internet and Everything
(A very short Story about Users, Money and the Meaning of the Web.)
2010-10-12 | 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM | Gutenberg I-II

Kore Nordmann Qafoo
Kore Nordmann graduated in 2010 with a degree in computer science (University). He managed and manages different open source projects, like Arbit, PHPillow, VCS-Wrapper and others. Some of them can be found on his website, on Ohloh orgithub. During the last years he presented on national and internationalconferences and published several articles and books. In 2010 I founded the Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality - together with Tobias Schlitt and Manuel Pichler, in which he provides Consulting and Training aiming for bettersoftware quality.

Dariusz Parys Microsoft Deutschland GmbH
Since 2007 Dariusz Parys is Technology Consultant at D&PE and working for Microsoft Germany since 2000. His focus is on WCF, WF and VSTS as well as C++ and Performance Computing.
Dariusz has formerly been working as an Enterprise Architect (from Microsoft Consulting Services) for a big company. He shares his knowledge and experience in presentations, developer conferences and seminars. He is blogging at http://blogs.msdn.com/dparys

Stefan Pasel blueend web:applications
Stefan Pasel is Co-Founder of blueend web:applications AG and for more than 15 years working in the IT business. After developing numerous client-side projects, he is developing and deploying enterprise-grade portals for more than 10 years, now and is specialized in the conceptual part by bringing IT strategies in line with the corporate strategy.
Stefan is significantly involved in the development of easyCMS and xelos.net, a modern and innovative community portal.
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First Steps: Lizenzverwaltung und Updates in Form eines eigenen PHP AppStores
2010-10-12 | 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | Gutenberg I

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.

Stefan Priebsch thePHP.cc
Stefan Priebsch unites expert knowledge with extraordinary sense when to use which tool. His specialties are object-oriented development and software architecture. As an internationally acclaimed author and speaker he thrills auditoriums and likes to share his tremendous practical experience.

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 Yatego GmbH
Thorsten Rinne, graduated in Computer Science, is working as senior developer for Yatego GmbH in Munich, Germany. He is the founder and maintainer of the open source FAQ management software phpMyFAQ. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and Certified Scrum Master. He also has spoken at various conferences around the world.

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
Tobias Schlitt has a degree in computer science (German "diplom") and works for more than 10 years in professional web projects on basis of PHP. As an open source enthusiast, he contributes to various community projects. Tobias is a co-founder of Qafoo GmbH (http://qafoo.com), which helps people around the world to produce high-quality PHP code. This includes e.g. consulting and training on quality assurance and professional software engineering, as well as technical support for several PHP QA tools and the Apache Zeta Components.

Johannes Schlüter Oracle
Johannes, living in Munich/Germany, a software engineer for Oracle's MySQL development team. Being a OpenSource developer from heart he's heavily involved with the PHP project and serving as release manager of PHP 5.3. His personal homepage and blog can be found on http://schlueters.de

Sascha Schumann SOPRADO GmbH
Sascha Schumann is Principal Consultant and founder of the PHP powerhouse SOPRADO based in Munich, Germany. He is also one of the founding members of the PHP Group and member of the Apache Software Foundation. Sascha co-wrote one of the first books on PHP development (Professional PHP Programming, 1999). He authored and co-authored several PHP extensions and high-performance webserver modules (e.g. ext/session, ext/ircg, thttpd). Sascha has 15 years experience in professional software development for clients such as Sixt AG, E.ON IT, TomTom and the Gala Coral Group.

Dana Stoll aliando.com
Dana Stoll has got a long-time experience as Technical Director, later on as Principal Business Analyst for web.de AG (Combots AG/Kizoo AG). Currently, she is Consulting Senior Analyst for Deutsche Telekom AG. Here, she is in charge of daily Scrum meetings and is supervising the interim management of software-ports and the development of Data-Quality-Analysis and -Modelling, amongst others.
Since 2008, Dana is sharing her knowledge as freelancer and consultant.
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Develop for Lean Administration - Chances from the Cloud
2010-10-12 | 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM | Zagreb I

Zeev Suraski Zend Technologies Ltd.
Zeev Suraski was a lead contributor to PHP starting in 1997, when he and Andi Gutmans developed the foundation for PHP 3. That new version was a turning point for the language, which today powers over 20 million websites including Facebook and Yahoo! and enjoys a following of over 5 million developers. Zeev spearheaded the PHP 4 project, the version that tipped PHP to become the most popular Web development platform in the world, and later contributed to the PHP 5 project.
Zeev co-founded Zend Technologies in 1999 together with Andi Gutmans. He has led the company's research & development teams to create the foundations for the company's current key technologies. In addition he serves as Zend's CTO and helped forge Zend as one of the key Web solutions providers, secured four rounds of financing, and established Zend's presence in the European market.
Zeev serves on the board of Zend Technologies and is a member of the PHP Group and the Apache Software Foundation. Suraski holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Richard Temme Peter Prochaska Softwareentwicklung
Since 2009 Richard Temme is PHP developer at Peter Prochaska Softwareentwicklung. He successfully deployed many projects based on SilverStripe.

Todd Trichler Oracle
Todd Trichler is an Oracle veteran of over ten years, having worked in alliances, product management, and marketing. As senior principal product manager for OTN, he has been working closely with development to drive Oracle's engagements with JUGs, LUGs, PUGs and other members of the Java, Linux, and PHP technical communities.
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Virtualization Strategies for Developing and Deploying High Performance PHP Applications
2010-10-13 | 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | Gutenberg I

Ulf Wendel Oracle/MySQL
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 consulting company. He has been doing PHP development for more than ten years and regularly speaks at conferences around the world about lovely topics like HTTP, REST, CouchDB, MapReduce and, of course, PHP.











