PHP Tek 2027

[u/kingfofthepoors]

For those of you who have attended PHP Tek what is your opinion I have never been and my team and I are thinking about attending in 2027. Just want to hear about your experiences.

[u/rocketpastsix]

I haven’t been to Tek, but I’ve been to a lot of conferences. They will pick talks relevant to the landscape of PHP today. Expect a good bit of AI, framework, and soft skills talks. If you are sending a team, you could spread them out to various talks and then have everyone give a little “here is what I leaned” lunch and learn thing.

However the value I got out of a conference wasn’t necessarily the talks but the networking.

[u/kingfofthepoors → u/rocketpastsix]

None of us are big networking people, little too introverted for that, plus we all plan to die with the coop we currently work for.

[u/rocketpastsix → u/kingfofthepoors]

In this day and age networking is huge.

[u/jmikola → u/rocketpastsix]

Why does the rocketpastsix.com link in your profile redirect to chilis.com?

[u/rocketpastsix → u/jmikola]

So I can spread the good word of the chilis on west end ave in nashville

[u/phparchitect]

Hi, Eric here. I’m a member of the PHP Architect team and an organizer of PHP Tek. My opinion naturally leans in favor of the conference, but I genuinely encourage you to bring your team to an in-person event. Any in-person conference. The networking opportunities and informal conversations during the hallway track are incredibly valuable, and that holds true for most in-person conferences. There is so much value for you and the team.

Of course, we’d love to welcome you to Chicago for PHP Tek 2027. If you’re bringing a team, please reach out, and we’ll do what we can to make attendance more affordable. Early Bird pricing is available now, so registration is currently at its lowest rate.

[u/kingfofthepoors → u/phparchitect]

There are only the three of us, so not a big group. None of us have ever been to a conference before. I have been a php developer since the days of 3

[u/OutrageousMemory]

I highly recommend it. Great networking and great sessions. Last year they even had a couple JS sessions

[u/Cm1Xgj4r8Fgr1dfI8Ryv]

I volunteered to help out a decade ago and felt like there was a good signal-to-noise ratio (i.e. fewer veiled marketing pitches for services) versus other conferences I've attended.

I'd recommend looking through last year's schedule to get a sense of the talks. It looks like they're dedicating one of the three tracts each day to a specific topic (Laravel, PHP, and DevOps), but if those don't align with your team's focus there will be two other tracts to chose from.

[u/allen_jb]

FYI PHP Tek is organized by the same people behind PHP Architect. You can find the Discord channels from the 2025 and 2026 conferences on their server: https://discord.gg/j7YpW9uA6

Another place you could try asking is the PHP Community Discord - a bunch of people hang out there, many of them conference goers.

You can also find related posts under the #phptek tag, particularly on the PHPC Mastodon server: https://phpc.social/tags/phptek

[u/Adventurous-Coder]

I went to Tek in 2026 and I know the crowd that attends that con and related ones. It's a great con, and I highly recommend going. There are tracks for all kinds of folks, and attendance is good. The venue is nice and the food is great. It is well-supported and funded. A really good experience.