Meet the Speakers

Confirmed speakers of 2026

Glenn Reyes

Engineer, Speaker & Teacher at Adverity

Sam Morrow

Lead Developer, GitHub MCP Server at GitHub

Bernardus Peters

Solutions Engineer at GitHub at GitHub

Maartje Keulen

Founder and AI strategist at Control Alt Lead

Liam Hammett

Senior Tech Lead @ Future plc

Derick Rethans

Xdebug Creator and PHP Wrangler at The PHP Foundation

Dariusz Drobisz

Senior Software Engineer at domaindriven.pl

Helvira Goma

Computer Whisperer / Founder of Motiv'Her

Susanne Bach Ladefoged Hou

Software Engineer @ Danske Commodities | Speaker | Guardian of the Dependency Galaxy | Driven by Passion, Powered by ADHD at Danske Commodities

Tamás Bazsonyi

Solutions Engineer @ Bitrise at Bitrise

Rick Kuipers

Developer at Testersuite

Ayesh Karunaratne

Software Architect and Security Researcher at PHP.Watch

Vicky Pirker

Strategic UX Consultant • International Keynote Speaker • WTM Ambassador • Hacker School Inspirer • Mentor at Vicky Pirker UX Consulting

Stefan Sinca

Full Stack Engineer at ING Hubs Romania at ING Hubs Romania

Mike Lehan

CTO, StuRents.com at StuRents.com

Matthias Zieger

Field CTO at digital.ai at digital.ai

Kilian Valkhof

Founder at Polypane browser for developers at Polypane

Sebastian Bergmann

Created PHPUnit. Co-Founded thePHPcc. Helps developers build better software. at thePHP.cc

Jachim Coudenys

Director of Software Engineering at team.blue at team.blue

Jessica Smith

Senior Principal Software Engineer, DigiCert at DigiCert Ltd

Stefan Koopmanschap

Co-owner and co-founder, Ingewikkeld at Ingewikkeld BV

Wim Godden

CTO at Mobile Locker at Mobile Locker

Johannes Pichler

Teamlead Webdevelopment @ Wimberger Management GmbH at Wimberger Management GmbH

Sander ten Brinke

Senior Software Engineer @ Arcady | Microsoft MVP (Developer Technologies) at Arcady

Ondrej Mirtes

PHPStan at PHPStan

Vincent Amstoutz

Lead Developer @Les-Tilleuls.coop / OSS contributor at Les-Tilleuls.coop

Melinda Seckington

Speaker Coaching + Employee Evangelism + Workshop Facilitator | Founder at Learn Build Share at Learn Build Share

Arne Blankerts

Co-Founder thePHP.cc at thePHP.cc

Soumaya Erradi

Senior Software Developer @ Atlantis at Atlantis

Frank Prins

Software Engineer

John Goudzwaard

Software Engineer at Dawn Technology

Heather Thacker

Developer Advocate at Gatling

Mathieu Lamiot

VP Engineering @ group.one at group.one

Max Snow

Head of Engineering at Pensure AI

Pieter Jordaan

Lead Developer at Paqt.com

Soma Holler

Software Engineer at TOPdesk

Thomas Hondema

CTO - Chief Tinkering Officer at ICEPAY

Johan Janssens

Fractional CTO. Co-Founder @joomla . Web Developer. Free Software Advocate.

Sergès Goma

Software Developer at Eveasoft

Peter van Vliet

Co-Founder and Lead Architect @ Masking Technology at Masking Technology

Krasimir Tsonev

Professional wheel re-inventor at Antidote.me

Alexandre Daubois

CTO @ Les-Tilleuls.coop / Symfony Core Team / PHP & FrankenPHP Core Maintainer at Les-Tilleuls.coop

Damien Seguy

Code quality expert at Exakat

Gina Peter Banyard

The PHP Foundation, PHP Core developper at The PHP Foundation

Dave Liddament

Developer at Lamp Bristol

Jason Viljoen

Senior software engineer - Marketplace at Vesper

Bert Lobbezoo

Senior developer at Dawn Technology

Johan Kromhout

Uncon host at Dawn Technology

Anuradha Kumari

Senior Frontend Developer, GDE, MVP, Accessibility Advocate

Marcin Samsonowski

Enterprise Architect | International Speaker & Trainer | Academic Teacher | Mentor | Community Organizer | Engineer at mBank

Jeroen Keppens

IT & Management Consultant at SkillTilt

James Titcumb

Consultant and Developer at Roave at Roave

Paul Conroy

CTO at Square1.io at Square1 Software

Marius Obert

Developer Evangelist • Web Developer • Speaker • Author • Trainer at Twilio

Henning Schwentner

Coder, Coach, Consultant at WPS – Workplace Solutions at WPS – Workplace Solutions

Gerard van Engelen

DevOps Engineer | Public Speaker | Grafana Champion at Openpeople BV

Speakers of past conferences

Aakansha Doshi

Open-source enthusiast at Excalidraw

Airton Zanon

Software Developer at Temper

Aleksandr Nasedkin

Engineer Lead at ManyChat

Alexandra White

Technical Writer at Google at Google

Andreas Heigl

Solution-Provider at stella-maris.solutions

Arnout Boks

Software architect at Moxio at Moxio

Ayush Mittal

Chapter Lead IT at ING

Beppe Catanese

Developer Advocate, Adyen at Adyen

Berry Langerak

Chief Technology Officer at Tilaa at Tilaa B.V

Bert Hubert

Software developer, publicist

Bert Hubert

Software Developer, Publicist

Borna Matijanić

Backend team lead at Netgen at Netgen

Brecht De Ruyte

DevRel at iO, Google Dev Expert, Writer at iO

Brent Roose

Developer Advocate for PHP at JetBrains

Caneco ​

Full-Stack Developer at Medicare

Carly Richmond

Principal Developer Advocate & Manager @ Elastic at Elastic

Chris Riley

Software Architect

Christian Woerz

Senior Fullstack Developer at Typed Rocks

Conference Team

Conference organizers at Mybit Group

Craig Spence

dork @ phenomnomnominal

Daniel Danielecki

Senior Frontend Engineer | Mobile & Web at ABN AMRO

Daniel Leech

Consultant at DTL Software

Daniel Madalitso Phiri

Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate

Danny van der Sluijs

Open Source Enthusiast at Infi

Eileen Fürstenau

Software Engineer @ MaibornWolff at MaibornWolff

Erwin de Keijzer

DevOps Engineer at Fullstaq, chindōgu Engineer at home at Fullstaq

Fabrizio Balliano

Senior web engineer, 5x Magento Certified, MahoCommerce founder at freelance

Florian Engelhardt

Proud dad of 👧🧒🧒🧒👧, Coder, Author, Speaker, Geek. Linux 🐧, Vim, PHP 🐘, Rust 🦀, OpenSource! PHP Profiling @ Datadog at Datadog

Helvira Goma

Computer Whisperer / Founder of Motiv'her at Sunday

Hugo Hamon

CEO at KODERO

Iulia Feroli

Senior Developer Advocate @Elastic

Iulia Feroli

Senior Developer Advocate @Elastic

Ivan Herak

Senior Developer at Netgen

Ivo Jansch

Founder of Egeniq, Organizer of Appdevcon

Jeb Barabanov

Performance Tech Lead at Wix.com at Wix.com

Jeff Watkins

Chief Technology Officer at CreateFuture

Jessica Henneman

Organizer at Dutch PHP Conference

Joralf Quist

Member of Management Team / (Technical) Project Manager at Infi

Jorrik Klijnsma

Senior Front-end Engineer @ Sopra Steria | AI Enthusiast at Sopra Steria

Josefine Schaefer

Accessibility Engineer at Storyblok

Juliette Reinders Folmer

Opinionated, passionate busy-body at Advies en zo

Karim Pinchon

Backend developer at NIQ

Katy Ereira

Geeky software engineer & international conference speaker. at Personio

Keyvan Minoukadeh

Developer and co-founder at Mochi Digital

Koen Aerts

CTO at Team Rockstars IT

Kræn Hansen

Senior Software Engineer on the Realm JS team at MongoDB at MongoDB

Laura Broekstra

Android Developer at Triodos Bank

Lianne Potter

Cyber Anthropologist, Head of Security Operations and technology podcast host @ Compromising Positions at Compromising Positions

Lily Chen

Senior Software Engineer | Profiling at Datadog

Marcus Bointon

Skier, biker, coder, PHPMailer maintainer, sysadmin, pentester, privacy advocate, speaker, baker, SO answerer, DBA, guitarist, drummer, daddy, in French alps at Devalps

Marcy Ericka Charollois

Inclusion advocate, content strategist and UX compliant at Merci Marcy / Paattern.tech

Mark Niebergall

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead at Nucleus Security

Martijn van der Kleijn

Chaos monkey & Senior DevOps Engineer at HCS Company B.V.

Matthieu Napoli

Making serverless more accessible at Null

Max Fomichev

Infrastructure Engineer at Manychat

Maximiliano Firtman

mobile+web developer

Maxwell Ivey

If the blind blogger max ivey can do it, then what's your excuse. Chalenging the excuses that hole you back from greatness. at The Accessibility Advantage

Melanie de Koeijer-van Vliet

Organizer at Dutch PHP Conference

Michelle Sanver

Senior software architect at Liip at Liip

Mike van der Bijl

Security Expert @ Scyon at Scyon

Neel Bhatt

Chapter Lead & Solutions Architect at RTL Netherlands

Nic Wortel

Software Consultant, Trainer & Coach at Self employed

Peter Eijgermans

Sopra Steria, position: CodeSmith, Architect and Google Developer at Sopra Steria

Pim Elshoff

DDD adept, TDD enthusiast, OO pro at Superscript

Rafael Dohms

Architect @SurveyMonkey. Builder of simple code, streamer of data and communicator. at SurveyMonkey

Ramon de la Fuente

company owner, developer, public speaker, writer and family man (not necessarily in that order) at Future500

Ramona Domen

Software Engineer at Team Rockstars IT

Robert Slootjes

Director of Platform Technology at ID&T / Superstruct Digital Services

Robin Martijn

Senior Backend Developer at Bitfactory

Rowdy Rabouw

Front-End Focused Senior DevOps Engineer at Nationale-Nederlanden

Sander Bol

Solutions Architect at Egeniq

Sasha Denisov

EPAM, Chief Software Engineer, Flutter and Dart GDE at EPAM

Shruti Balasa

Tech Educator at Self employed

Simon Painter

Senior Developer at Müller Dairy | Microsoft MVP | O'Reilly Author at Talos365

Sofia Lescano Carroll

Senior Software Engineer at Benevity

Tejas Chopra

Senior Software Engineer, Netflix at Netflix, Inc.

Thijs Feryn

Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software

Tim Damen

Frontend Chapter Lead & Accessibility lead at ABN AMRO at ABN AMRO bank

Timo Bakx

Backend developer, building API's in Symfony at Linku

Toni Van de Voorde

Senior Software Architect at Ibuildings

Vladas Diržys

Solutions Architect at Sportradar at Sportradar

Willem Hoogervorst

Digital consultant at Dockbite