Winter Meetup

Lets meet and talk about Symfony, PHP and web technologies and have a drink together!
This edition features the international speakers of Sulu fame Johannes Wachter and Alexander Schranz from Austria who will visit us in Zurich.

We are welcome to the Liip Office at Limmatstrasse 183 on the 26th of February. Liip kindly sponsors drinks and snacks.

Doors open at 18:30
19:00 Talks

Johannes Wachter: Sulu in 2025 – Modern Content Management with Smart AI Integration
Sulu is a powerful, open-source CMS built on Symfony, known for its flexibility and developer-friendly features. In this talk, I will give an overview of what Sulu is, how it is used in real-world projects, and why it’s a great choice for complex web applications.
Looking ahead to 2025, Sulu is introducing exciting updates: a new, more powerful content repository and AI integration. These new features will make working with content faster and smarter, with tools like automated text suggestions and smart SEO improvements.
Whether you are a developer, content manager, or decision-maker, this talk will show how Sulu is evolving and what new opportunities it brings for the future of content management.
Johannes Wachter has been part of the Sulu team since the very first commit in 2013. He manages client projects and contributes to various internal developments, focusing on creating flexible and efficient solutions with Symfony and Sulu. Over the years, he has been involved in integrating various new technologies to enhance content management workflows. Besides his work at Sulu, Johannes shares his knowledge as a university lecturer, teaching web technologies and modern development practices.

Alexander Schranz: SEAL: Dive into the sea of search engines
The world of search engines is big – a lot of different terms exist, what makes it really hard to understand what is going on. Beside the widely used Elasticsearch, nowadays there are lots of alternatives like Meilisearch, Algolia, Redisearch, Loupe and others.
Here I will introduce SEAL the Search Engine Abstraction Layer. What flysystem is for file storages and doctrine DBAL for databases, SEAL is for search engines. SEAL will give you a generic interface to communicate with different search engines.
In this talk I will give an introduction to the search topic and what I found out in my research about search engines, how SEAL the Search Engine Abstraction Layer for PHP was born and which search engines are supported. Can we demystify the technical search engine jargon into an understandable friendly configuration for everybody?

20:00 Drinks and chat with the Symfony community.

Would you like to present something? Please contact david@liip.ch with your talk idea. This is a great opportunity to get first experiences in public speaking. We would love to have some first-time speakers present something. Talks can be about an aspect of Symfony, a project you did that involved Symfony, or some general web topic that could be of interest to developers working with Symfony. If you feel you need some support in preparing your talk, please reach out, there are people with experience in public speaking that will be happy to help. Talks can be held in English or German.

Please let us know if you plan to come.