PHP UK Conference 2012 is PHP London's seventh annual conference. More information about the previous six events can be found on their archived websites:
The PHP UK Conference 2012 is powered by PHP London, a limited company of the UK. The conference planning committee is made of up the PHP London executive committee and additional volunteer members.
- Ciarán Rooney
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Ciarán is the CTO of Skimlinks where he leads the technical innovation for Skimlinks' products and the platform's infrastructure. Before joining Skimlinks, Ciarán worked in Ireland as Head of IT at one of the country's largest mobile communications companies. He also worked as a freelance developer before establishing Weeno Ltd, a web application and design company. Ciaran has been developing PHP applications at large scale for the past 10 years since he first studied Digital Media Engineering in Dublin City University. He also holds a Honors Diploma in Multimedia awarded by University of West London (formally Thames Valley University). Ciaran can be found on Twitter at @CiaranR
Ciarán is currently the President of PHP London and has also been a regular attendee for a number of years. Ciarán is this year's PHP UK Conference committees Chairperson.
- Dave Nattriss
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Dave has been building, maintaining and contributing towards media and entertainment-related websites and applications since 1996, covering popular musical artists/bands and publications, television shows, presenters and actors, online merchandise stores and fashion designers, journalists, magazines and newspapers. He first started using PHP in 2000, the year that he graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, and has since lived in London for nearly 10 years. He has worked freelance throughout that time, now within his own web development company, and regularly posts 'stuff' he finds on the web via Facebook, Twitter and on his tumblr blog.
He has been attending PHP London meetings since 2006 and volunteered himself to be their webmaster in early 2007, holding the position in his fifth year now. A year later he also took on the role as mailmaster and is effectively responsible for the organisation's growing amount of branding and PR. He has similar roles for the organisation of the conference, having been involved since the 2009 event - putting together and maintaining this website, liaising with community and media partners, running and supporting the registration system and sorting out delegate badges and bags for the event. He is also the secretary for one of the conference's community partners, Facebook Developer Garage London.
- Sam Bell
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Sam is Creative Director at Ideal Websites, a web agency specialising in PHP-driven websites and trading applications for hedge funds and financial services companies. Sam and his business partner founded Ideal Websites in 2005 and now focus mainly on their lead product Copia CMS, their content management system for fund managers (built using PHP and the Zend Framework).
Sam has been a regular attendee of PHP London for a number of years and is now the PHP London secretary, and is also responsible for organising the PHP UK Conference sponsorship.
- Franck Cassedanne
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Franck is the CTO of Info.com (a search engine company based in London and Chicago) where he leads its technical operations and directions. He is heavily involved in back-end and front-end developments on a daily basis and he is a skilled system administrator.
Franck has been developing in PHP since 1998 and he is the founder of OUARZ Technology Ltd, a one-stop-shop PHP-based site building and hosting platform. He holds the Zend Certified Engineer qualification in PHP5 development. Lately, he has been rumored to be working on a Javascript templating engine for PHP.
He has been a regular at PHP London since 2006 and has been part of its executive committee for over two years, helping out with the conferences since 2009.
Ciáran Rooney
Dave Nattriss
Sam Bell
Franck Cassedanne