On the Symfony blog today they've announced the first set of speakers for this year's SymfonyLive Portland (2013):

Great news, we've selected the first speakers for Symfony Live Portland! We received a lot of great talks proposals (around 150, how amazing!) and we had a real, real hard time choosing between all of them.

Their list of speakers for this year's event will include:

• Michael Dowling
• Jeremy Lindblom
• Benjamin Eberlei
• Taylor Otwell
• David Zuelke
• Anthony Ferrara

There'll also be workshop session (one and two day) as well as time set aside for lightening talks. You can pick up your tickets here or just find out more information about the event from the main conference site.

The php|tek conference has announced their schedule for their 2013 even happening in May:

We have a big announcement this year. Because we had over 400 amazing talks submitted to us, and we just couldn't bear to decline that many of them. We are expanding the tek13 conference format to include 4 concurrent tracks this year!

Sessions at this year's event include:

• "Zend Framework 2 Tutorial" - Rob Allen
• "Git Makes Me Angry Inside" - Emma Jane Hogbin
• "PHP and Node.js Together" - Chris Tankersley
• "Performance Perpetrators: Profiling for Professionals" - Derick Rethans
• "Database Version Control without Pain?" - Harrie Verveer
• "Building Testable Applications" - Chris Hartjes

Their Early Bird pricing for this year ends at the end of this month, so if you want the discounted price, be sure to register early!

The Lone Star PHP Conference in Dallas, Texas has officially announced their 2013 event and the opening of their Call for Papers:

Welcome back to Lone Star PHP for another great year! We're in our third year and we're making things better all the time. This year's event will provide all of the great PHP speakers and content you've come to expect from Lone Star PHP. There'll be plenty of time to spend with the local PHP community too through after-parties and other events.

The event is happening on June 28th and 29th at the Addison Conference Center in Dallas. The Call for Papers ends on February 28th (end of this month) so be sure to get those proposals in soon!

php|architect has officially announced their php|tek conference for next year (2013) happening in Chicago, Illinois May 14th through 17th. Additionally, they've also opened their Call for Papers!

So we've been hearing rumors that tek13 wasn't even going to happen this year. Nonsense! We've been extremely busy behind the scenes getting organized as we've been working on the transition of the PHP|architect brand from Blue Parabola to Musketeers.me. Eli, Sandy, Oscar, and Kevin are planning on carrying on the great tek tradition of quality content and community that we're all used to from the BP crew!

The conference will be happening at the usual location just outside of Chicago, near the airport. Registration isn't open quite yet, but the pricing for this year's event has already been posted (including Blind Bird and Early Bird prices). Additionally, if you our your organization are interested in sponsoring the event, you can find out more here.

The Call for Papers will close on January 15th, so be sure and get those submissions in soon!

The Sunshine PHP conference has officially announced their speaker and session lists for next year's event (happening in Miami, Florida February 8th and 9th, 2013).

The event will have a wide range of topics covered including:

• Cryptography for the Average Developer
• Continuous Integration in Real Life
• Quickly Building and Deploying PHP Applications in the Cloud
• Symfony2 + EmberJS for fun and profit
• Introducing Tests in Legacy PHP Applications
• Dependency Management with Composer
• From POX to HATEOAS, Our Companies Journey to Build a Hypermedia API

Tickets are already on sale for the event - about $220 USD for the full event, $160 for a student pass.

The PHPBenelux conference has officially announced their tutorials (and speakers for them) for this year's event (happening January 25th and 26th in Antwerp, Belgium):

Today we are proud to present you the first speakers for PHPBenelux Conference 2013. We start by announcing our tutorial speakers and in the coming weeks we will start publishing our speakers. The people in the community once again gave us the very hard task to select the tutorials from many quality submissions, and this is what we came up with.

Tutorial sessions for this year's event include a MongoDB workshop (Derick Rethans), Git and Github: Level Up (Ben Straub) and RESTful Services Made Easy with ZF2 (Matthew Weier O'Phinney). You can get your tickets now for these tutorial days (you select the session when you buy the ticket) or just pick up your pass for the rest of the conference at the Early Bird price!

If you weren't able to make it to the PHP Community Conference last year, there's good news - the conference is returning next year in March 2013!

In 2011, we had our first ever conference. Our sponsors, speakers, and attendees were phenomenal. You rocked so much that we want to do it again! Mark your calendars for March 2013. This friendly, little PHP conference is returning to Nashville, TN.

To get the latest on this great conference, you can follow their account on Twitter and get news as it comes out. If you want to see what the previous conference was like, you can check out the site from 2011.

A new PHP conference has just been announced to the community - the True North PHP Conference (2012). The event will be held in Toronto, Ontario November 2nd and 3rd and is currently running their open Call for Papers.

We are firm believers that the PHP community is second to none. We also believe that Toronto has an awesome PHP community and deserves an equally awesome conference. Those beliefs are what inspired us to create True North PHP, a conference designed to showcase Toronto's talent and give back to the community that has given us so much.

If you're interested in speaking, you can find out more and submit your topics or, if you're just interested in attending, you can already pick up your Early Bird tickets.

Kore Nordmann has a new post to his blog today about the officially announced PHP subconference happening at this year's FrOSCon (in August near Bonn, Germany).

For the seventh time we will be at the Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) in St. Augustin, near Bonn. This time we will organize a full fleged PHP subconference agian. We also offer space to discuss PHP related topics, or just hack with other open minded people around you. We would love to welcome you at the PHP subconference.

Speakers for the subconference will get the same benefits as the normal conference speakers - a reduced rate at a hotel and food/drinks for the duration of the event. (No travel included as it is a community-driven conference). If you'd like to submit, you can send in your ideas here - hurry, though! The deadline ends on the 23rd of this month (May).

The phpDay/jsDay conference organizers have passed along an update about this year's conference(s) (happening May 167th/17th & 18th/19th in Verona, Italy) - they've confirmed some of their first speakers for both sides of the event!

We are very happy to announce the first confirmed speakers for the jsDay and phpDay 2012!

jsDay: Mark Boas (jPlayer/Happyworm), Greg Schechter (YouTube),Christopher Rhodes (Google) and Brandon Keepers (GitHub) , the full list here.

phpDay: Rasmus Lerdorf (Php creator), Zeev Suraski (CTO at Zend, Co-architect of PHP), Lorna Jane Mitchell (PhpWomen) and David Coallier (Orchestra CTO) and many other, the full talk list here.

Their Early Bird tickets are on sale until April 1st for both of these two-day events, so be sure you pick up your tickets now before this great discount expires! (jsDay tickets, phpDay tickets)