Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2006 – Call for Papers

!http://devzone.zend.com/content/images/editor/conference2006/php_conference_2006_bar_561x94.jpg(Zend/PHP Conference 2006)!

p. *October 29th – November 2nd, 2006* at the “Doubletree Hotel”:http://www.doubletreesanjose.com/ in San Jose, California

p. Zend Technologies invites you to participate in what will be the premier forum for PHP in 2006. Present your technical concepts, cutting edge applications, or business applications. Your participation will make this conference a success. Share your ideas with fellow colleagues in the PHP community.

p. The conference selection committee will consider all abstracts submitted on or before June 15th, 2006. Notifications will be made by August 1st, 2006.

h1. Creating Modern Web Applications with PHP

p. The Web has become the platform for corporate application development. Inside the firewall companies deploy their collaboration, resource planning, customer and supplier management systems as web applications, thus avoiding the cost of maintaining client applications across their vast amounts of employee desktops. Externally companies are moving beyond their static web-based product catalogs, and engage their customers in meaningful web-based dialog at every stage of the product lifecycle. These modern web applications enable innovation at levels never before possible.

p. With the introduction of version 5, PHP has the scalability, robustness, integration, and support for web standards to make it the perfect fit for creating and deploying modern web applications. At the Zend/PHP Conference 2006 you will meet the experts and peers will share their experience and best practices for creating these commercial web applications with PHP.

p. The conference will include daily keynote addresses, technical and business sessions, an exhibit hall and evening activities. The event will include a wide range of sessions, from hands-on tutorials for PHP developers, to business case studies highlighting PHP-based enterprise solutions from Fortune 1000 companies. As part of the conference, attendees will also be able to participate in pre-conference Training and Certification sessions.

p. The speaker selection committee is looking for sessions that fit into one of the following tracks:

*PHP and Web Services – Architecting and Building Service Based Applications: From SOA to Mashups*

bq. This track is aimed at the use of web services both internally within application architecture, and externally in exposing and consuming web services in both traditional and “mashup” style applications. This track will include case studies, tutorials, and exploration around the issues in service based applications.

*PHP Development – Best Practices and Pivotal Skills for PHP Development*

bq. The sessions under this track will represent key areas of modern PHP development. We are looking for coverage across all areas of PHP via practical “how-to” oriented sessions. Talks in this track can range across all skill levels, and should focus on current best practices or key PHP skills required to succeed in modern PHP application development.

*PHP Management – Operating Business Critical PHP Applications*

bq. This track is aimed at technical people either starting or in the midst of developing and deploying PHP applications. This track will feature how-to sessions ranging from beginning-level to more advanced level. These sessions should feature practical use cases, techniques and coding standards for building solid, secure, stable, scalable, and functional PHP applications that can be deployed and maintained.

h1. Session Specifications

|Tutorials:|Prior to the general conference start, 3 – 3.5 hours in length|
|Sessions:|45-50 minutes long, with some double tracks available at 90 minutes|

h1. Speaker Compensation

p. For those speakers that are selected, accepted, and scheduled, the conference will provide the following:

*Featured Speaker or Tutorial:* Three nights accommodation full conference pass, and airfare reimbursement.

*Regular session speaker:* One night accommodation per one hour session track given, full conference pass, and airfare reimbursed to a limit set on a case-by-case basis by the selection committee

h1. Submission Procedure

p. Online submissions will be accepted starting in April via the “Zend Developer Zone”:http://devzone.zend.com. E-mail submissions may be sent prior to “phpconference@zend.com”:mailto:phpconference@zend.com with the following information:

# Your full name
# Email address
# Company
# Proposed Track (PHP and Web Services, PHP Development, or PHP Management)
# Title of Presentation (short but descriptive)
# Abstract (300 word max)
# Brief Bio and/or Resume
# Conference speaking experience
# Comments (special AV needs, scheduling, etc)

p. All submission abstracts may be made public in a community vetting process prior to the conference.

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6 comments to “Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2006 – Call for Papers”

scottmattocks
April 13th, 2006 at 3:17 pm

The article says that in April proposals can be submitted via the devzone. If they can in fact be submitted via the devzone, the location seems to be a secret. Maybe the article needs to be updated?

devzone_editor
April 13th, 2006 at 4:50 pm

Article submissions will be enabled on Devzone by this coming Monday along with other site updates. The link will be added here at that time.

scottmattocks
April 24th, 2006 at 12:27 pm

Just some friendly nagging.

_____anonymous_____
June 7th, 2006 at 10:49 am

"Online submissions will be accepted starting in April via the Zend Developer Zone."

Since it’s now June 7, and the CFP ends next week, perhaps now’s a good time to deliver on this promise.

ramsey
August 9th, 2006 at 9:49 am

Does anyone know when the schedule will be posted and speakers notified? This page says August 1, but I’ve yet to see a schedule posted on the zendcon.com site.

caseydk
August 20th, 2006 at 6:25 pm

I dropped an email to Zend last week and apparently they got a huge response. August 25th seems to be the date now.