On the Symfony blog there's a new post for those that have been putting off getting their tickets to SymfonyLive London and, more specifically, the pre-conference workshops. Time is limited and the training sessions are almost sold out!

All Symfony conferences come with pre-conference workshops. We organized them to enable the conference attendees to get trained on Symfony and its ecosystem just before the conference, during special workshops sessions at a very special price. The idea is to get the most out of the conference and enhance your Symfony skills before learning new tips and tricks from the speakers’ experience during the conference. We organize 4 different pre-conference workshops at SymfonyLive London 2018 on September 27th and they are almost all sold out!

They also share a listing of the pre-conference workshops happening at this year's event:

• "Symfony 4 Best Practices" by Nicolas Grekas from Symfony
• "Building API-driven apps with API Platform" by Kévin Dunglas from Les-Tilleuls.coop
• "Symfony Messenger" by Samuel Rozé, creator of the component
• "Lightning Fast Tests" by Jakub Zalas, Symfony core team member

Each workshop title in the post is a link to more information about the workshop and how to pick up your tickets. For more information about the conference, ticket pricing and to order yours, check out the main conference site.

On the Symfony blog there's a new post announcing the speakers for SymfonyLive London 2018 happening in late September.

We’re very pleased to announce that the conference schedule for this year’s edition of the SymfonyLive conference in London is online. Join us on September 28th for an intense conference day dedicated to Symfony, divided into 2 tracks.

Discover now all the speakers selected and the talks they will present there! We’re very excited to welcome 14 speakers at the conference.

Speakers at this year's event include:

• Michael Cullum
• Nicolas Grekas
• Neal Brooks
• Samuel Roze

Fabien Potencier, founder and project lead for Symfony, will also be there to give the opening keynote for the conference. You can find out more about the conference on the main site and pick up your tickets for either just the training days, just the session days or for a package of both.

In a recent post to the Symfony blog they've posted the official announcement of SymfonyLive London 2018:

We’re so thrilled and excited to announce SymfonyLive London! We’ve just confirmed the official dates, SymfonyLive London will be held on September 28th at the Park Plaza Westminster! Symfony is proud to organize the 7th edition of the British Symfony conference and to welcome the Symfony community from all over the UK and Europe.

Join us to share Symfony best practices, experience, knowledge, make new contacts, and hear the latest developments with the framework!

Come to attend SymfonyLive London, conference day will be on September 28th, and the pre-conference workshops will take place, one day before the conference, on September 27th.

Early Bird registration is already open and you can pick up main event tickets for 129£ and full conference tickets (includes training) for 543£. Additionally, if you'd like to speak at this year's event, the Call for Papers is still open and runs until June 17th.

On the Laravel News site today there's an announcement about the next Laravel Live UK conference happening this coming June (2018) in London.

Laravel Live UK is a brand new one-day conference that will be held on June 12th, 2018 at The British Library.

Confirmed speakers include Matt Stauffer and Lorna Jane Mitchell. They’ve also just opened up CFP, and are specifically looking for talks focused on diving deep into Laravel and the Laravel ecosystem.

The conference already has tickets on sale for this single-day event too. The Early Bird tickets are already gone but you can get a General Admission ticket for £100 or a last minute ticket for £125.

On the Symfony blog they've posted an update about their upcoming Symfony Live London event happening in just three weeks.

We’re almost there! Only 3 weeks until the SymfonyLive London conference! We’re getting more and more ready as the days go, what about you? It’s high time you got your ticket!

What’s in store for you?

The post goes on to talk about the different features of the conference including:

• Pre-conference workshops on September 15th
• A full day double-track conference
• The sponsor village
• The Social event with all the attendees

They also mention a raffle they're holding to give away Symfony elePHPants to a select few individuals. You must purchase your ticket during a certain time to be entered into the raffle but you could win an elePHPant or a full reimbursement of your ticket to the conference. Check out the full post for more details.

That Podcast, hosted by PHP community members Beau Simensen and Dave Marshall has posted their latest episode today - Episode #22: The one where we're in London again (...because it is symfony live London time again!).

Beau and Dave get together at Symfony Live London for a quick catch up and chat with Matthias Noback. Sorry about audio quality, there's a bit of mic handling and swapping going on as we're out on location!

Topics mentioned include:

• the Hexagonal Architecture Training
• PHPNW 15
• Box UK
• PHP & Symfony - Matthias Noback

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. Be sure to subscribe to their feed or follow them on Twitter for more information about the latest episodes as they're released.

On the Symfony blog today they've announced the opening of the Call for Papers for SymfonyLive London, SymfonyLive Berlin and SymfonyLive Paris (happening in September, October and December respectively).

The Call for Papers for SymfonyLive London, SymfonyLive Berlin and SymfonyCon Paris are currently all open! If you ever wanted to speak at a Symfony conference, you have now 3 chances to make your dream comes true.

The post includes details about each of the conferences including the dates, an overview of the event, the speaker package and - of course - a link to the respective Call for Papers. There's also a few helpful tips for speakers wanting to increase their chances of being selected (such as submitting more than one talk or submitting on unique subjects).

The Laravel News site has a post talking about a new Laravel-related conference happening in London on July 9th and 10th (at the Barbican): ArtisanConf, "the premier UK conference for Laravel and modern PHP enthusiasts. Up to 300 artisans will convene in the heart of London’s Tech City for two days of inspirational talks, engaging networking and amazing learning opportunities."

Jonty Behr is one of the organizers of ArtisanConf, and I asked him why he decided to start this new conference. “Laravel is incredibly popular in the UK, and a lot of developers have been requesting a UK based conference for a while. Although the guys at LaraconEU do an amazing job, not all developers in the UK are able to travel to Amsterdam and we hope to help, educate and build their experience within the community.”

The conference already has some amazing (and well known) speakers lined up. Plus they are hoping that there will be something for both beginners and the experienced at ArtisanConf. There will be two full days of talks and more details will be released soon.

You can already pick up tickets from the conference site or, if you'd like a chance at speaking, head over and submit to their Call for Papers.

The Symfony blog has another in their "2014 Year in Review" series posted, this time with a focus on the London Symfony meetups and the presentations that were made.

2014 was a really successful year for the Symfony Meetup Group in London. I've been involved helping to organize these meetups for a few years now, but it was never a regular thing until this year. With a huge help of my SensioLabs UK colleagues we managed to bring the group to the next level. Each meetup we're getting around 60-90 attendees, which is a big improvement compared to the previous years. We also started recording the talks. Since the Symfony community in London is much bigger, I believe we can do even better in 2015!

Talks presented this year included:

• Optimizing Your Front End Workflow
• Applying Domain Driven Design with Symfony2 projects
• Silex saved me from my legacy code
• Scaling Symfony2 apps with RabbitMQ
• Speed up your Symfony2 application and build awesome features with Redis

Each topic has a summary, a link to the slides and a video of the presentation (if available).

That Podcast has posted their latest episode today, a shorter add-on to their previous episode (#7): Episode 7.5, "The Short One in London".

Beau and Dave recap SymfonyLive London 2014 in their first live in person recording.

Topics mentioned in this episode include Mybuilder.com, Behat, Drupal and Game of Thrones (along with several members of the community). You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 of the show. If you enjoy the show, check out others in their list and be sure to subscribe to their feed for the latest as they're released.