On the Laravel News site, they've posted an announcement about tickets for the Laracon 2017 US conference (happening in New York City next month) for livestream only.

Laracon US is once again offering tickets to the live stream plus early access to the recorded videos for $29.99.

Please note that the live stream feed connection information will be distributed the day of the conference. This ticket also includes early access to full video archives. Refunds are generally not distributed in the event of connection problems since early access to video archives is provided.

Speaker at this year's event include:

• Freek Van der Herten
• Matt Stauffer
• Nils Adermann
• Laura Elizabeth

They will also be joined by Jeffrey Way, Adam Wathan and the creator of Laravel itself Taylor Otwell.

The Laravel News site has a new announcement posted about a new online-only conference for the Laravel (and general PHP) community: Laracon Online.

Laracon Online is a brand new one-day conference that will be held entirely online. This means no matter where you live you can now take part in Laracon. No hotels, no airfare, just signup and spend the day watching some of the best speakers right from your computer.

The speaker list includes Taylor Otwell, Jeffrey Way, Matt Stauffer, Adam Wathan, Evan You, Rachel Andrew, Nick Canzoneri, and Jason McCreary. Covering everything from new Laravel features to Vue.js, CSS, and more.

The event is happening on March 8th starting at 9am EST and will run all day until around 6pm EST. The schedule hasn't been posted yet (other than the session times) but Early Bird registration is open and tickets are available for only $10 USD. If you can't attend, all sessions will be recorded and will be available post-conference. For more information, check out the conference website.

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.

There's a new post on 7PHP.com talking about a new giveaway they're doing in collaboration with the Nomad PHP (virtual) user group and giving away two tickets for the upcoming meeting.

NomadPHP is already on their 3rd edition and I’m hence also on my 3rd Ticket(s) give-away. [...] The topic of this 3rd talk will be centered around PHP and Websockets and will be presented by speaker Corey Ballou.

There's two ways to enter into the contest - either subscribe to their mailing list or Tweet about it (with the given tweet). The contest ends July 21st, so hurry and enter if you're interested. The Nomad PHP user group is "a (virtual) place to call home" if you don't have a user group in your area. It meets online once a month.

As was mentioned by Zend late yesterday, the registration for this year's Zend/PHP Conference have officially opened!

The 7th Annual Zend PHP Conference (ZendCon) will take place October 17-20, 2011, In Santa Clara, California. ZendCon is the largest gathering of the PHP Community and brings together PHP developers and IT managers from around the world to discuss PHP best practices and explore new technologies.

The Early Bird pricing will last until September 10th saving you about $200 USD off the price of the ticket. The full ZendCon experience (Tutorials & Conference) is $1,195 USD or you can opt for just the Tutorial for $445 USD or just the Conference for $945 USD. You're in luck if you're looking for discounts, though - they have lots o them including ones for ZendCon alumni, group discounts, ZCEs and students.

The schedule's not quite out yet, but as you can see by some of the comments from speakers on Twitter, it's shaping up to be a great schedule. Topics like CouchDb, component architecture, design patterns, Redis and dependency injection will all be there.

Lorna Mitchell has a new post today about this year's PHP North West conference happening October 7th through 9th in Manchester, UK. She talks some about the current status of the event and how it'll be structured.

e might still be in the thick of the summer conference season, but there's an event coming up this autumn which has me very excited: PHP North West 2011.

This is a regional PHP conference based in Manchester, UK, and I've been involved with it since it began (I'm surprised to find this is our fourth edition, it still feels like a shiny new adventure!). This year the dates are 8th and 9th of October and with an added tutorial day on the Friday, it is bigger (and of course better) than ever.

She points out the current Call for Papers that are open for submission and notes that the deadline is very soon - June 12th. She mentions the Tutorial Day with topics covering Zend Framework 2, security, Drupal performance and her web services tutorial. You can currently pick up tickets for the "blind bird" price of £72. For more information, see the main conference site.

<> On CodeIgniter.com today there's an official release talking about this year's CodeIgniter-centric conference - CICON 2011 US - happening in New York August 20th and 21st.

CICON2011 US is the first CodeIgniter-only conference in the United States, and will be taking place at New Work City in lower Manhattan, New York, on August 20-21 2011. Speakers including Zach Kitzmiller, Eric Barnes, Greg Aker, John Crepezzi, Dan Horrgian, and Kenny Katzgrau will be presenting and conducting masterclasses on topics for developers new to CodeIgniter and advanced CI developers looking to gain new skills and knowledge.

For full details, see the CICON 2011 conference site (including the program) or just go over an pick up your ticket for this two-day event (students are $75 USD and normal tickets are $95 USD for the Early Birds).