As Freek Van der Herten has mentioned in a new post to his site, the videos from this year's Laracon US conference (2018) have been released.

Laracon US was held in July 2018 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

[...] Though there isn't a playlist to hold them yet, you can view recordings of all other talks on the StreamACon channel on YouTube. Be sure to check out the amazing talks by Jason McCreary, TJ Miller, Samantha Geitz and Caleb Porzio.

You can also check out the full list of talks and summaries on the Laracon US website to help narrow down the ones you might want to watch.

On the Laravel News site they've posted an interesting perspective that reflects on some of the speakers from this year's Laracon US (2018) sharing the books some of them have written.

We love books here at Laravel News! The Laracon US 2018 all-star lineup of speakers delivered stellar talks, and many of them have written best-selling books! We thought it would be a good idea to compile a list of books authored by Laracon speakers as well as other books mentioned during their talks.

Books mentioned include:

• Laravel Up and Running
• Clean Architecture
• Rework
• Refactoring to Collections

There are several others in the list, each with a brief summary of their contents and links to a few other related resources.

For those that weren't able to make it to the Laracon US 2018 (Chicago) conference, the Laravel News site has posted a recap of the event and their experiences.

Laracon US 2018 is now in the books and it was a fantastic event and a lot of fun was had in Chicago. As someone who has never visited Chicago before I was very impressed with the city. The weather was magnificent and the parts I walked around seemed safe and pretty clean for a large city.

[...] Every Laracon strives to bring a great experience from the venue to the location, the swag, and this year didn’t disappoint.

The post then goes on to talk about some of the swag the conference handed out, the venue where it was held and a link to the keynote from Laravel creator Taylor Otwell (and a matching live blog). The post also includes several pictures the author (Eric Barnes) took during the conference.

The Laracon US conference, being held in Chicago, Illinois in July (2018) has just announced a very special addition to their lineup for this year's event: Robert C Martin (a.k.a. "Uncle Bob").

Laracon US officially announced that Robert C Martin (colloquially known as Uncle Bob) is speaking at Laracon 2018 this year!

Uncle Bob is a well-known software developer, author, and public speaker. He runs a consulting firm Uncle Bob Consulting and cleancoders.com which is home of videos on agile software development and writing clean code, among other software topics.

The post also lists out some of his books and other publications. It also mentions some of the other speakers that will be joining him including Matt Stauffer, Adam Wathan and Taylor Otwell. Their Call for Papers is still open and you can find out more about the conference on the laracon.us website.

Following closely on the heels of the announcement of Laracon Australia in 2018, the Laravel News site has posted another conference announcement for the Laracon US also coming in 2018.

The Laracon US 2018 site is now live and the early information is available for the event. It will be held in Chicago Illinois, July 25-26, 2018.

The current speaker line up includes Taylor Otwell, Jason Fried, Adam Wathan, and Matt Stauffer, and a CFP is open if you’d like to be on this list.

This year the event will be hosted at the The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and admission to the museum is included with the price of the conference ticket. Tickets aren't available yet but you can join the mailing list to receive information for when they go on sale.