Welcome to the 5th Annual Zend/PHP Conference!

The Zend PHP Conference 2009 will be the largest event of the PHP community and a unique opportunity to meet with PHP developers, web experts and IT managers. This year's conference will be held October 19-22, 2009 in San Jose, California and will be co-presented by Zend and S&S Media. We will bring together developers and business managers from around the world for three days of exceptional presentations and
networking events.

At ZendCon 2009, sessions will focus on creating, deploying and managing applications that take advantage of the speed, scalability and simplicity of PHP. Five tracks will include sessions on topics including:

• Learning advanced PHP techniques for high performance, maintainability, rich web applications, database optimizations, IBM i, and more
• Deploying more reliable, secure, and higher performing PHP while saving costs
• Reusing code and frameworks that embody best practices for PHP
• Managing teams throughout the PHP application lifecycle for more productivity and governance from development/testing to deployment/maintenance
• Learning how operations and development peers and thought-leaders have solved PHP real-world challenges

ZendCon is a premier event for technical education and the conference attracts attendees including developers, IT executives and managers, and PHP users at all levels.

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Conference Highlights