Those attending the PHP Benelux conference (coming up soon!) will be happy to know that Ibuildings will be sponsoring an evening social event.

The official conference social event is taking place right after the main conference, in the exhibition/lunch room of the conference. We are very grateful for Ibuildings to have stepped up to support us in organizing this conference, and especially also the social event! Thanks to them, everyone will be able to let off some steam when the conference is over. We'll have two hours of free drinks and some snacks for everyone who feels like hanging out.

There will also be a pre-conference social time at DeVagant. You can find out more about the conference here (and here). Unfortunately, the conference has already sold out, so there'll be no more tickets at this time.

The PHPBenelux conference has officially released their schedule for this year's event. Speakers include:

• Fabien Potencier
• Juliette Reinders Folmer
• Ivo Jansch
• Cal Evans
• Paul Borgermans
• Rowan Merewood

The conference, being held January 30, 2010, Antwerp, Belgium, is also accepting registrations and has early bird pricing of 75 Euro until the December 24th deadline.

As Stefan Koopmanschap mentions in a new post to his blog, the official website for the PHPBenelux Conference 2010 is now live!

This is the first time we're doing a conference of this size, but definitely not the last time. And it's exciting already. We have already announced our first speaker: David Zuelke will be speaking about the state of SOAP in PHP. Aside from that, we have 9 other excellent speakers that will be announced in the coming days, plus two top-notch keynote speakers, also to be announced in the coming days.

You can get Early Bird pricing if you register before January 30th at a cost of 75 Euro. The PHPBenelux is the main representative for the PHP community in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (BeNeLux), providing monthly meetings and special events for PHP enthusiasts.

Stefan Koopmanschap has let us know that the first phpBenelux conference (happening in 2010) has been announced!

The phpBenelux team is very proud to announce the first edition of the phpBenelux Conference. On Saturday January 30th, we will be hosting this first conference in Antwerp, Belgium. The day will be filled with great content, great people and lots of fun!

Their Call for Proposals is open too - they're looking for talks that are about an hour long and are related to PHP on things like CMSs, frameworks and general programming topics. The CfP will last until October 31st. The speaker package includes conference admission, some hotel night(s) stay and a speaker dinner. This page on the phpBenelux site has the full details.