I am happy to announce the 1st Russian Zend Framework Conference (ZFConf 2010) which will take place in Saint-Petersburg, Russia at the end of March.

An initial list of topics has been decided and the conference is open for registration.

I am glad to participate in the event along with other speakers, some of which are acknowledged specialists and have a wide experience in using Zend Framework. The official language of the conference is Russian.

The expected topics:

Proposal Lifecycle
Alexander Veremyev (Zend Technologies, Zend Framework Team member)

Zend_Search_Lucene in the Details
Alexander Veremyev (Zend Technologies, Zend Framework Team member)

Performance of Zend Framework Applications
Alexander Mahomet (ZendFramework.ru Community, Founder)

Zend Framework and MVC, ‘Fat’ Model
Alexander Steshenko (Norada Corporation, PHP Programmer)

Fotostrana.ru: Prototyping Project with Zend Framework
Leonid Zhavoronkov (Fotostrana.ru, Teamlead)

Using Message Queues in Day-to-Day Projects
Denis Baklikov (Obnovlenie, Web Developer)

Zend Framework and Doctrine
Stepan Tanasiychuk (Stfalcon.com Web Studio, Chief)

Zend Framework and Multilingual
Stepan Tanasiychuk (Stfalcon.com Web Studio, Chief)

History of e-Shtab.ru
Anatoliy Larin (e-Legion, Web Developer)

What News Zend Framework 2.0 Brings to Us?
Nadezhda Blinova (Wizartech, Web Programmer), Georgy Turevich (Wizartech, Lead
Web Programmer)

jQuery and Dojo Toolkit JavaScript-frameworks Integration with Zend Framework
Georgy Turevich (Wizartech, Lead Web Programmer)

For further information concerning the event:

I also want to express gratitude to conference organizer — Wizartech company, conference partner — ZendFramework.ru, and the community for their great work in preparing the conference!

It should also be mentioned that the organizers welcome sponsors to participate in the event. Please contact the conference organizers by e-mail if you are interested in becoming a sponsor.