Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2006 - Call for Papers

October 29th – November 2nd, 2006 at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California

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.

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

Creating Modern Web Applications with PHP

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Session Specifications

Speaker Compensation

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

Submission Procedure

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

1. Your full name
2. Email address
3. Company
4. Proposed Track (PHP and Web Services, PHP Development, or PHP Management)
5. Title of Presentation (short but descriptive)
6. Abstract (300 word max)
7. Brief Bio and/or Resume
8. Conference speaking experience
9. Comments (special AV needs, scheduling, etc)

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

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