The Zend Developer Zone has posted the official press release for this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo:

Zend Technologies, The PHP Company, announced today that registration is open for the fourth annual Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, the world's largest gathering of the PHP community. Leading PHP experts, professional PHP developers, and business managers will convene September 15 - 18 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. The theme of this year's conference is "High Impact PHP" and sessions will explore the many ways that PHP is used to deliver breakthrough design, functionality, performance, and scalability in new web applications, resulting in real business advantage for their users.

You can already register for the conference and reserve a room at a nearby hotel of your choosing. Speakers this year include Chris Shiflett, Sebastian Bergmann, Jay Pipes and several speakers on a System i track.

Check out the ZDZ post for a long list of some of the great talks that will be presented during the week.