Next meetup · Wednesday
11 November 2026
PHP South West presents, for its 160th meeting:
PHP-SW Lightning talks
For our final meetup of the year we will be doing lightning talks.
Doors & food ........ 6.30pm
Talks start ......... 7.05pm
Finish, then pub .... 8.30pm
Temple Studios, Temple Gate
Second Wednesday
of every month
since 2011
Previously
Every talk →
Oct 2026
jj: another way to Git
Oliver Davies
Sep 2026
Vibing with Pikachu
Adrian Groves
Sep 2026
Raising the profile of PHP today
Mike Page
Jul 2026
Evaluating Pull Requests
Dave Liddament
Jul 2026
Improving Code Quality Under Pressure
Chris Blunden
Jul 2026
Meet with Tech: Building the platform for tech communities
Tamas Erdelyi
Jun 2026
50 Tips for Any Laravel Application
Liam Hammett
May 2026
AI Philosophy
Speaker TBC
May 2026
AI Agent Battle Royale
Mike Karthauser
May 2026
Adventures With AI Assisted Coding
Dave Liddament
May 2026
Making WW2 War Diaries Accessible to Everyone
Speaker TBC
May 2026
5 Things Developers Should Understand About AI Coding
Speaker TBC
Apr 2026
Microservices and Monolithic architectures in Laravel
Joshua
Apr 2026
MCP servers in Laravel - How to trust AI with your service
Tom
Mar 2026
Escaping the Code Maze
Yannick Chenot
Feb 2026
It Depends
Gary Hockin
Feb 2026
Securing Your API: The OWASP Top 10
Rob Allen
Jan 2026
Nix for PHP Developers (and everyone else)
Oliver Davies
Nov 2025
Writing Games With PHP
Adrian Groves
Nov 2025
Tips for Agentic Development
Drew McLellan
Nov 2025
Building Your Own Mobile Phone
Jon White
Nov 2025
What's New in PHP 8.5?
Tamas Erdelyi
Nov 2025
Nix and PHP
Oliver Davies
Nov 2025
Artificial Synthetic Intelligence
Robin Hodson
Oct 2025
Scaling Writes on MySQL
Graham Campbell
Sep 2025
Introduction to Filament
Dan Harrin
Aug 2025
Agentic Applications with Symfony
Christopher Hertel
Jul 2025
Observing your PHP Application with OpenTelemetry
Jess Smith
Jun 2025
PHP, Value Objects and You 🫵
Daniel Leech
May 2025
Beyond Requests: Supercharging API Monitoring with Guzzle Middleware
Liam Hammett
By the numbers
More stats →- Meetups
- 159
- Talks
- 358
- Speakers
- 171
- Years
- 15
Wanted:
Speakers
No experience needed. Lots of our regulars gave their first ever talk here.
10 minutes (lightning) or 30–40 minutes (full). Anything PHP or near it.
Apply to: info@phpsw.uk