php|architect has officially announced some of the speakers that will be joining the CodeWorks 2009 tour this fall. Here's the list so far:

• Derick Rethans will be speaking on date/time, XDebug and development processes
• Sebastian Bergmann will be speaking on unit testing, quality assurance and best practices
• Ed Finkler will be speaking on creating RIA desktop applications (PHP and Javascript) and introducing CodeIgniter
• Cal Evans will be speaking on design patterns and skills/problems PHP programmers could face
• Lukas Smith will be talking about database-driven websites
• John Coggeshall is talking on two topics - android development in PHP and the Flex/PHP combination.
• Arne Blankerts will be a part of the code review tutorial and PHP security
• Scott MacVicar will be speaking about alternative databases, pecl and getting involved with PHP.
• Ben Ramsey will talk on AtomPub and HTTP
• Nate Abele will be speaking on PHP in general, frameworks and best practices
• Matthew Weier O'Phinney will speak on the Zend Framework

Keep an eye on this post for more of the nationwide speakers as they're announced!