PHP Stoke - Thursday, February 26th 2026
Details
PHP Stoke is a free, quarterly meet-up in Stoke-on-Trent. Join us for tech talks, career advice, and free beer & pizza. A relaxed, ego-free community where everyone is welcome—from first-timers to seasoned pros 🍕🥤🍺
This edition of PHP Stoke offers a mix of talks. Typically, 2 x 30 minute talks and 1 x 15 minute lighting talks.
Speakers and Talks
- Oliver Reardon, Lead Developer @ DeterTech - Teams that scale: Personal notes on how to onboard team members
- Michael Connelly, Software Engineer @ Fabric - From Nouns to Verbs
- Adam Davis, Senior Software Engineering Manager @ Bet365 - Designing Connected Learning Experiences with AI
Host
- James Brooks, Head of Enterprise Enablement @ Laravel
Agenda
- 6:15 PM - Doors Open
- 6:45 PM - Speaker
- 7:15 PM - Speaker
- 7:30 PM - Pizza, Drinks and Socialising
- 8:00 PM - Speaker
- 8:30 PM - Open floor Q/A and chat
- 9:00 PM - Closing
Location
PHP Stoke is hosted at The Smithfield Works in Hanley. We recommend using the What3Words code to find us: [///melon.prices.soil](https://what3words.com/melon.prices.soil)
Speakers
We're looking for speakers! Fancy giving a talk? Whether you're a seasoned public speaker or want to start your speaking journey, PHP Stoke is the ideal place for all levels of public speaking experience.
If you'd like to give a talk at PHP Stoke, please submit your talk to us.
Refreshments
PHP Stoke provides complementary pizza and drinks courtesy of our sponsor.
Sponsors
A huge thank you to our friends at Made By Fabric for sponsoring PHP Stoke.
As always, thank you to our venue sponsor, The Smithfield Works.