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Thursday, Oct 23
Tutorials

Time	Room Name
Time	Main Ballroom	Hill Country D	Hill Country C
9:00am 12:00pm	Mastering automated refactoring with custom Rector rules by Dave Liddament	Bridge the Testing Gap: Mastering BDD with Codeception for Cross-Team Success by Alena Holligan	Observing PHP for Fun and Profit by Florian Engelhardt
12:00pm 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm 4:00pm	Grokking HTTP by Ben Ramsey	Hacking the Juice Shop: Practical app security by Mike Lehan	How to Run an Accessibility WCAG Audit: Step-by-Step for Beginners by Stefany Newman
6:00pm 7:00pm	AustinPHP / MergePHP Meetup Hang out with members of the PHP community, attend lightning talks, or present your own. Free and open to the public, both in-person and online via the MergePHP YouTube channel.

Friday, Oct 24
Main Conference Day 1

Time	Room Name
Time	Main Ballroom	Hill Country D	Hill Country C
9:00am 9:50am	The Immutable Laws of Software and Life: Code Accordingly by Cory House
10:00am 10:50am	Defining an API Specification: A Step-by-Step Guide by Janani Subbiah	PHP Security Mechanisms You Aren't Using by Chuck Reeves	SQL Database Design For Developers by Scott Keck-Warren
11:00am 11:50am	Beyond Compliance: Navigating the Accessibility Evolution by AmyJune Hineline	Security On The (Bleeding) Edge by Josh Butts	Better Database Testing with PHPUnit by Charles Sprayberry
12:00pm 1:30pm	Lunch + Open Spaces Setup Sponsored by:
1:30pm 2:20pm	Love Your Monolith by Mike Lehan	AI Agents in Drupal, build agents without coding by Marcus Johansson	Beyond the ORM: Practical Database Optimization Strategies for Modern Developers by Alena Holligan
2:30pm 3:20pm	So You Just Inherited a $Legacy Application... by Joe Ferguson	Local development made easy with DDEV by Bernardo Martinez	Can AI Write Better SQL Than You? by Dave Stokes
3:20pm 4:00pm	Open Spaces Break up into small groups across the conference area to discuss topics voted on earlier on Friday.
4:00pm 4:50pm	Git as Game Logic: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Version Control by Bree Hall	Building Resilient PHP Applications with an Event-Driven Mindset by Savio Resende	Shifting Left: Incorporating Testing Early in the Development Lifecycle by Mike Miles
5:00pm 5:50pm	PHP Attributes: Let's get Meta by Larry Garfield	You Didn’t Create That CVE — But You’re Shipping It by Mandy Hubbard	Vibe Coding Laravel with Claude by Josh Copeland
5:50pm 9:00pm	Afterparty Sponsored by:

Saturday, Oct 25
Main Conference Day 2

Time	Room Name
Time	Main Ballroom	Hill Country D	Hill Country C
9:00am 9:50am	Turtles all the way down by Florian Engelhardt
10:00am 10:50am	AssertTrue(isDecoupled("my tests")) by Dave Liddament	The Command-Line for Beginners: An Introvert's Guide to Crawling into Your Shell by Eric Poe	Synthetics Monitoring with Playwright by Nočnica Mellifera
11:00am 11:50am	🥧 A slice of PIE: revolutionising PHP extension installation by James Titcumb	Understanding Unicode by Evan Hahn	From PHP 5.3 to PHP 8: Conquering Legacy Code Migration Under Deadline Pressure by Keith Davis
12:00pm 12:50pm	Lunch
1:00pm 1:50pm	Work Smarter: Code Like a Musician by Cori Lint
2:00pm 2:50pm	PHP 8.5: New Features from the Source by Daniel Scherzer	Advanced Rector Shenanigans by Chris Abbey	Taming Time in PHP: Best Practices and Gotchas by Scott Keck-Warren
3:00pm 3:50pm	A Field Guide to PHProperties by Larry Garfield	Supercharged Search With Typesense by Josh Butts	Writing a PHP extension in Rust by Levi Morrison
3:50pm 4:30pm	Open Spaces A second session of breaking into smaller groups and chatting about topics voted on on Friday, whether new topics or continuations of discussions from Friday
4:30pm 5:20pm	IAM Frustrated by David Kerber	How To Make Your Website A Progressive Web App (And Why You Might Want To) by Lemon	Creating Developer Friendly Projects by Ben Batschelet
5:30pm 6:15pm	Saving Open Source by Ben Ramsey
6:15pm 8:30pm	Afterparty Sponsored by:

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