The Zend Developer Zone has posted two new updates about this year's Zend/PHP Conference - one dealing with a keynote speaker and the other a framework shootout.

ZendCon 2009 is less than 2 months away, and preparations are moving along swiftly! [...] The speaker list is jam packed with well known names in the industry, currently sitting at 45 speakers, and a few more to be added in the coming weeks.

This year's conference will feature a keynote given by Kirrily Robert of Metaweb Technologies titled "Standing out in the Crowd" and a new session has been added - a framework shootout with a panel of representatives for the Zend Framework, CakePHP, Symfony, Agavi and CodeIgniter frameworks.