Dutch PHP Conference 2017
The Dutch PHP Conference 2017 in Amsterdam is a PHP event I’ve been attending since 2008 (with 1 or 2 exceptions).
It makes perfect sense to me to attend this conference for a variety of reasons:
- Quality content
- Lot’s of influential community members attending
- Not that far: I can actually drive to the event
- Lots of our clients and partners attend the Dutch PHP Conference
- Amsterdam is great
- The opportunity to speak
I was there as a regular attendee, and not as a speaker this time. I spoke there on many occasions. The Dutch PHP Conference edition 2010 was my very first international speaking gig. It launched my career as a public speaker and ever since I’ve been doing very well. I’m still grateful for the opportunity.
Although I wasn’t selected as a speaker for the main conference, I did speak at the uncon about ProxySQL.
The vlog
I also made a vlog about the entire experience.
You’ll notice that the episode does not start in Amsterdam. I had the idea to leave a day earlier and visit our offices in The Netherlands to meet some of my colleagues.
Check it out:
Dutch PHP Conference 2017
Edition 2017 seemed very attractive to me: the speaker lineup was great and included a bunch of my community friends. So not only would I see great presentations, I would have the opportunity to hang out and chat with my friends.
My 9th @dpcon, still as excited as the 1st time I attended. #dpc17 pic.twitter.com/xCE6zVluuw
— Thijs Feryn (@ThijsFeryn) June 30, 2017
The keynotes by Juozas Kaziukėnas and Marco Pivetta were really good. I even managed to interview Juozas.
My buddy @juokaz doing the @dpcon opening keynote. #dpc17 pic.twitter.com/i7DmhuGo6p
— Thijs Feryn (@ThijsFeryn) June 30, 2017
I was also quite impressed by Rowan Merewood‘s Progressive Web Apps talk and by Bastian Hoffmann‘s microservices & Kubernetes talk.
Another great edition of the Dutch PHP Conference. Now I need to remind myself to submit a presentation for next year’s edition. I have a keynote idea in mind, maybe I should work on that.
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