speakers

Fabien Potencier
Fabien Potencier

Sensio Labs, Paris (France)

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.


Topic:
The State of Symfony2

Jonathan Wage
Jonathan Wage

Sensio Labs, Nashville (USA)

Jonathan is a software developer who resides in the rolling hills of Nashville, Tennessee. He joined the Doctrine project as a contributor in early 2007 and has been involved in one way or another since then. Jonathan currently works full-time as a software developer at Sensio Labs.


Topic:
Doctrine MongoDB Object Document Mapper

Kris Wallsmith
Kris Wallsmith

theGOOD, Portland (USA)

Kris Wallsmith is the Senior Interactive Developer at theGOOD in Portland, Oregon and Release Manager for symfony 1.4. He spends his days in the Silicon Forrest leading the initial builds of web startups, playing soccer and raising his two young children.


Topic:
Advanced symfony Techniques

Stefan Koopmanschap
Stefan Koopmanschap

symfony Community Manager, Utrecht (Netherlands)

Stefan Koopmanschap is a freelance PHP developer, consultant and trainer. He is a community person and is active in the Benelux PHP community as secretary of the PHPBenelux Usergroup as well as in the symfony community as the Community Manager.
Stefan has a wide history in Open Source, having been Support Team Leader for phpBB, documentation translator for Zend Framework and community manager, plugin developer and maintainer plus various other things for symfony.
Stefan is also a best practices advocate. He prefers easy and useful explanations of best practices over the academic and theoretical stuff found in most literature.


Topic:
Workshop

Pierre Joye
Pierre Joye

Microsoft, Munich (Germany)

Topic:
Session 2

Christian Schaefer
Christian Schäfer

Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg (Germany)

Christian Schaefer (33) has been working with PHP for over 10 years and over 3 years with the symfony framework. He has been a co-founder and developer near Leipzig, a web developer in Bremen and Edinburgh, a lead developer at Lycos Europe and is now Senior System Architect and symfony evangelist at Gruner+Jahr International Magazines in Hamburg. He is also the head behind the technical blog test.ical.ly where he focusses on symfony, unit testing and other code quality related topics.


Topic:
Unit testing symfony plugins with PHPUnit

Gaylord Aulke
Gaylord Aulke

100 DAYS Software Projects, Stuttgart (Germany)

Gaylord Aulke is a passionate ambassador for PHP in enterprise environments. He sold and organized reasonably huge php based development projects in companies like Daimler, HypoVereinsbank, Boehringer Ingelheim and Deutsche Telekom. Coming from a technology background with 20 years of professional development experience in different programming languages, he re-established his 100 Days Software Project GmbH beginning of 2010. Until January 2010, Gaylord worked as "Director Professional Services" for Zend Technologies.


Topic:
Framework or CMS