Join Us for PHPverse 2026 on June 9
JetBrains PHPverse – a community-inspired professional event for PHP developers – returns once more on June 9, 2026. This year, we’re gathering some of the most influential voices in the PHP ecosystem to share their insights on shaping the modern PHP language, the internals of ecosystem tools and frameworks, and the adoption of agentic workflows for shipping PHP code.
About PHPverse 2026
Expect a one-day event of curated talks, live Q&As with the speakers, several special announcements, and even a few surprises (after all, it’s PHP’s 31st birthday).
When: 11:00 am – 3:50 pm UTC on June 9, 2026.
Where: Streamed live on the PHP Annotated YouTube channel.
Hosted by: Brent Roose, JetBrains Developer Advocate for PhpStorm and creator of the PHP Annotated YouTube channel, and Nuno Maduro, creator of Pest, Larastan, and Laravel Pint, and staff software engineer at Laravel.
This year’s lineup
- PHP Foundation Keynote by Elizabeth Barron, Executive Director at the PHP Foundation.
- My AI Writes Perfect* PHP by Ashley Hindle, Founder of Fuel and creator of Laravel Boost.
- WordPress Is Dead, Long Live WordPress! by Jonathan Bossenger, Developer Advocate at Automattic.
- Packagist Internals by Nils Adermann, Co-Founder at Packagist.
- Running a Large Open-Source Project Like Symfony by Fabien Potencier, Founder and Project Lead at Symfony.
- PHP RFCs by Larry Garfield, Functional Programming Enthusiast.
- How AI Is Changing the Programmer World by Jeffrey Way, Founder at Laracasts.
For more information about the speakers and their talks, see the PHPverse 2026 page.
PHPverse 2025 recap
PHPverse took off last year as a celebration of PHP’s 30th anniversary, with over 15,000 viewers worldwide tuning in to the livestream. The event outreach and feedback showed how big and vibrant the PHP community is and why we should keep gathering every year to connect and learn from the people behind the major frameworks and tools.
You can catch up with recordings of last year’s talks:
- FrankenPHP: The Future of PHP? by Kévin Dunglas
- 20 Years of Symfony by Nicolas Grekas
- MCP in PHP by Marcel Pociot
- Q&A With Taylor Otwell
- Growing PHP for the Future by Roman Pronsky and Gina Banyard
- The Future of PHP Education by Jeffrey Way, Povilas Korop, and Kevin Bond
I gotta say #PHPverse was awesome today! Well done to everyone who spoke for building so many awesome things! pic.twitter.com/lJttpMlxvG
— Liam Hammett (@LiamHammett) June 17, 2025
#PHPverse 2025 was such a valuable experience! We got practical advice from dope developers like @naderman (who happened to be co-host), also @jeffrey_way and @PovilasKorop.
— Timothy Samuel (@tsshekwogaza) June 17, 2025
My favourite session was: Laravel Q&A With @taylorotwell.
I feel super inspired to level up 💪#PHP30 pic.twitter.com/IT1vAksITr
Stay tuned
JetBrains PHPverse 2026 is free, online, and open to everyone. Register now, and we’ll send you a reminder email before the event. You can tune in for the whole day or drop in for the talks that interest you most.
Can’t make it on June 9? Register anyway, and you’ll receive the link with the talk recordings via email after the event.
In the meantime, join the event’s Discord server to receive the latest updates or drop your questions for the speakers – the event hosts will make sure to ask them during the Q&A sessions.
PHPverse grows as its community reach grows. Spread the word among your colleagues, use the #PHPverse hashtag in your social media posts, and help us bring more people into the conversation about the present and future of PHP.
See you at PHPverse!
