Speakers

Elizabeth Barron
Elizabeth Barron
Keynote Speaker

Elizabeth Barron is the Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, an organization focused on the long term sustainability of the PHP language and ecosystem. She is a long time open source contributor and advocate with almost 30 years of experience at organizations like GitHub, Pivotal/VMWare, Sourceforge, and CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software). She is also a published author, public speaker, community organizer, and award winning nature photographer. She is currently working toward achieving her MBA and she lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Eric Mann
Eric Mann
Keynote Speaker

Eric Mann is a cybersecurity and infrastructure engineer who has spent twenty years building things that have to work—resilient SaaS platforms, industry-defining e-commerce and AI/ML systems, and the occasional language runtime. He's a PHP 8.3/8.4 Release Manager, an O'Reilly author (PHP Cookbook), and php[architect]'s long-running Security Corner columnist. He's led teams large and small, lectures regularly on scalable engineering and security, and belongs to both ISACA and OWASP. Eric writes code in public, opinions in his column, and the occasional middle-grade adventure novel for his kids.