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title: PHPConf.Asia 2015 – The First Pan-Asian PHP conference
date: 2015-09-22 08:56:41
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2015/09/22/phpconf-asia-2015-the-first-pan-asian-php-conference/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
  - Event
tags:
  - PHP
  - PHPConf.Asia
  - Rasmus Lerdorf
---

The first Pan-Asian PHP conference, [PHPConf.Asia](http://phpconf.asia/) 2015, starts today. The two-day conference is held at Kent Ridge Guild House (9 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119241).

[![PHPConf.Asia 2015](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5767/21412191000_4444bf18a6_c.jpg "PHPConf.Asia 2015")](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5767/21412191000_2958638a22_o.png "PHPConf.Asia 2015")

We are honoured to have, [Rasmus Lerdorf](http://lerdorf.com/), who is the creator of [PHP](http://php.net/) to give the opening keynote.

For the closing keynote, we are also honoured to have, [Jenny Wong](http://jwong.co.uk/), who is a Community Engineer at [Human Made](https://hmn.md/) as a speaker. I am a fan of Human Made because Human Made is a Leading WordPress Development Agency in the UK.

Other notable speakers based on GitHub followers include:

- Extremely Defensive PHP by [Marco Pivetta](https://github.com/ocramius) (Software Consultant, Roave, LLC)
- Performance Testing for Modern Apps by [Dustin Whittle](https://github.com/dustinwhittle) (Developer Evangelist, AppDynamics)
- PHP7, HHVM and Co by [Pierre Joye](https://github.com/pierrejoye) (Software Engineer, php.net / Microsoft)
- Writing PHP with React by [Jack Lenox](https://github.com/jacklenox) (Design Engineer, Automattic)
- Go Reinvent The Wheel by [Sam-Mauris Yong](https://github.com/mauris) (Student, NUS)

[![PHPConf.Asia 2015 - Schedule](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/686/21600297855_50f65345a3_c.jpg "PHPConf.Asia 2015 - Schedule")](https://farm1.staticflickr.com/686/21600297855_a50a2e741d_o.png "PHPConf.Asia 2015 - Schedule")

Managed to take a photo with Rasmus at yesterday’s [Singapore PHP Communities Combined Meetup](https://www.facebook.com/events/1489608294667118/).

[![PHPConf.Asia 2015 - Rasmus Lerdorf and I](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5751/21412249990_7e60718680_c.jpg "PHPConf.Asia 2015 - Rasmus Lerdorf and I")](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5751/21412249990_963dfd51fc_o.jpg "PHPConf.Asia 2015 - Rasmus Lerdorf and I")