Speakers

Fabien Potencier

Sensio Labs

Fabien Potencier is a serial entrepreneur. In 1998, right after graduation, Fabien founded his very first company with a fellow student. The company was a web agency focused on simplicity and Open Source technologies, and was called Sensio. His acute technical knowledge and his endless curiosity won him the confidence of many French big corporate companies. Fabien is the lead developer of the symfony framework. Today, Fabien's spends most of his time as Sensio's CEO and as the symfony project leader.

Jonathan Wage

Sensio Labs

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.

Kris Wallsmith

Kris Wallsmith is a freelance web developer from Portland, Oregon. He spends his days in the Silicon Forrest leading the initial builds of web startups, playing soccer and raising his two young children. Kris is a member of the symfony core team and Release Manager for versions 1.3 and 1.4.

Dustin Whittle

Yahoo!

Dustin Whittle is a Developer Evangelist for Yahoo's Open Strategy. When he is not advocating Yahoo's Open Stack, he helps develop it through his work on the Yahoo! Developer Network and Yahoo! Application Platform. Prior to his work helping create an open Yahoo!, he has contributed to Yahoo! Answers and Delicious. When not focused on Yahoo!, he is an active open source contributor for the symfony project and is a regular speaker at technical conferences around the world.

Stefan Koopmanschap

Stefan Koopmanschap is a PHP developer, consultant and trainer. He currently works as senior developer at Unet. He is a community person and is active in the dutch 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.

Scott Chacon

GitHub

Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and developer working at GitHub.com. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress (progit.org), the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage (git-scm.com) and the Git Community Book. Scott has presented at OSCON, RuPy, KungFu Rails, RailsConf, RubyConf, Scotland on Rails, Ruby Kaigi and a number of local groups and has done corporate training on Git across the country.

Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Zend

Matthew Weier O'Phinney is project lead for Zend Framework, in which role he serves as both architect and community liaison. He is a vocal advocate of open source, standards, and development best practices. He blogs regularly at http://weierophinney.net/matthew/, contributes periodially to Zend's Developer Zone (http://devzone.zend.com), and has been published both in php|architect as well as Sitepoint's second edition of "The PHP Anthology." He makes his home in Vermont, USA, with his wife, two children, and aging Basset Hound.

Lukas Kahwe Smith

Liip AG

Lukas Smith is co-release manager for the PHP 5.3 branch and speaker at various conferences around the globe. As an author of several popular open source components and the experience of 10+ years of Internet development, he works for Liip AG in Switzerland specializing in database-driven Intranet applications.

Xavier de Cock

PHP dev since 2004, presently working at foto.com, co-author of an emailing platform used by major medias in Belgium, author of the BBCode PECL extension. I learned to obtain high performance from PHP and run high traffic website on low-end servers. I start working on swiftmailer when the version 4 came out with the strict standard compliance and the performance penalty that came with it.

Thomas Rabaix

Thomas is symfony fan since the early days. He's working as a PHP and symfony freelance since many years and he is very active in the symfony community. Thomas is helping companies with Quality Assurance issues when developing new symfony projects.

John Cleveley

blinkworks

Partner at blinkworks based in the UK. We develop bespoke web applications for the likes of NHS, Hornby and local government agencies. I personally have been using symfony since 2006 and am an active member of the forum and user groups. Originally studied systems engineering at Loughborough University and then went on to start my own business with another developer.

Geoffrey Bachelet

Sensio Labs

25 years old french developer, working at Sensio Labs, interested in every aspect of new technologies, especially web-related ones.

Marcos Labad

Acilia Internet

After Studying Business Administrantion, started in the Internet industry by 1998, in a small start-up called Dondecomprar.com. I've always been a technology passionate and I become responsible for technical operations in Spain later on, when this company merged with Kelkoo. After this, I took some roles as Head of Market Engineering for Yahoo! in Spain and Deputy-CTO for BuyVIP. Now I run my own company, Acilia Internet, where we develop web projects using agile project management and new development techniques.

Thomas Parisot

Clever Age

Thomas is a Web consultant, both on frontend and backend sides of development at Clever Age Bordeaux. While enjoying good food and a glass of wine, he contributes to its toolbox ecosystem: symfony, WordPress, jQuery and so on. He already has been a workshop animator for the french yearly event Paris-Web. He is also author of a french book about professional blogging.

Dennis Benkert

Interlutions

Dennis Benkert is a web developer from Cologne, Germany. As an employee at the web agency Interlutions he builds symfony applications for all kinds of clients. Besides developing symfony applications he is maintainer and co-programmer of the official symfony Textmate Bundle. When Dennis happens not to be working on symfony specific topics you can find him organizing community events and meetups or advocating interchange between users of different frameworks. Dennis has published articles and interviews for a couple of German magazines and held talks at symfony Day 09.

Alvaro Videla

NetCircle

I'm a Zend Certified Engineer currently working as Senior Developer at The NetCircle in Shanghai. I used symfony since 2007, having developed with it one of the biggest dating websites for Germany.
I've contributed several plugins, including the popular FireSymfony.
I'm the author of the article "The Propel ORM" for php|architect - October 2008 issue and I use to write articles about programming in my blog: http://obvioushints.blogspot.com/
Besides programming I like traveling with my wife, playing music and reading books.