Laracon AU 2025
2025-11-13..2025-11-14
Brisbane, Australia
[Laracon AU 2018, Laracon AU 2019, Laracon AU 2023, Laracon AU 2024, Laracon AU 2025]
as the organisers put it
Laracon AU returns to QUT Gardens Theatre in Brisbane in 2025. Join us for two days of learning, growing, and networking with the Laravel community on November 13 - 14, 2025
who it's for
laravel developers, php developers, full stack developers, frontend developers, engineering managers, platform engineers, quality engineers, package maintainers
topics
Blueprint-driven app scaffolding; migrating legacy apps to Laravel; Laravel Forge deployment; Composer package lifecycle; auth factories in Laravel; effective testing strategies in Laravel; React integration with Laravel; full stack architecture patterns; AI-driven quality assurance; resilient code practices; markup and UI microcopy details; deployments without dedicated staging
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to | 05m | |
A theatrical trailer masquerading as a talk, offering a mock-epic dream sequence of trials and conference hype and not a single concrete claim about techniques… | ||
| Small steps, Big shifts | Michael Dyrynda | 20m |
Conference opens with a cinematic intro and a concrete call to “Level Up” through community, curiosity, and belonging, backed by specifics: a sponsor reports… | ||
| Ship faster with Blueprint | Jason McCreary | 27m |
A tiny YAML draft turns into full Laravel scaffolding: models, migrations, controllers, views, mailables, jobs, events and realistic tests that the demo claims… | ||
| Ensuring quality in an AI-driven world | Michelle Duke | 33m |
Claims that AI writes, runs and even deploys tests while humans audit and direct; demonstration shows GitHub Copilot editing code, invoking npx playwright… | ||
| Legacy to Laravel in 30 minutes | Jordan Havard | 30m |
A decade‑old multi‑tenant PHP platform gets migrated piece‑by‑piece into Laravel without downtime: six repositories consolidate into a new Laravel app with a… | ||
| Laravel Keynote | Jess Archer | 54m |
The keynote demos concrete features and shows them working: the redesigned exception page renders full stack, headers and copyable Markdown; cache memoization… | ||
| Effective tests and testing effectively | Kath Young | 29m |
Walk-through of concrete tactics: measure test timestamps and profile suites, cache views configs routes to avoid framework boot cost, prefer factories over… | ||
| Writing resilient code | Zuzana Kunckova | 25m |
Zuzana explores what it means to write resilient Laravel applications that keep working under stress, from traffic spikes and flaky networks to failing third… | ||
| Markup matters | Charlie Morris | 33m |
Claim: semantic HTML is the actual accessibility work and it fixes real failures, not a vague practice. Demos use screen readers, voice control and the browser… | ||
| React, the Laravel way | Simon Vrachliotis | 32m |
Claims that Laravel plus Inertia lets a React developer ship solo full‑stack apps fast backed by specifics: uses Breeze starter kit with React and Inertia… | ||
| Full stack architecture | Jo Minney | 32m |
Pragmatic advice for Laravel teams: choose architecture by concrete tradeoffs not buzzwords — adopt vertical slices, build a monkey proof of concept early… | ||
| Auth factories in Laravel | Mary Perry | 25m |
Mary Perry explores how Socialite, the service container and Laravel’s session drivers all reveal real world factory and abstract factory patterns.
Through… | ||
| Forging Forge | James Brooks | 35m |
Forge gets rebuilt from the ground up: a new back end with organizations and teams and RBAC, pagination and search for accounts with hundreds of servers, and… | ||
| No dev. No staging. No problem. | James Mooring | 30m |
Claims trunk based development with every PR deploying to production and averages 639 deployments per month, uses strict typing and runtime API response… | ||
| UI details that connect | Leah Thompson | 31m |
Five concrete steps — spacing, typography, layering, a fun or unexpected element, then interaction — turn a flat Figma into a shippable page. Demos rebuild a… | ||
| Building good developers | Kate Kirwin | 31m |
Mentoring and teaching produce measurable gains: the protégé effect from a Stanford study shows learners who teach retain more, and internal practice forces… | ||
| Finding better problems | Jeremy Butler | 28m |
How do you stop solving the wrong problems?
Jeremy explores systems thinking and practical decision-making tools that help teams move beyond quick fixes and… | ||
| Defending the Hornburg | Stephen Rees-Carter | 28m |
Use trusted managed infrastructure like Forge or a reputable VPS such as DigitalOcean, start with secure defaults in Laravel, and apply updates promptly; keep… | ||
| Mid-life Composer | Ryan Lovett | 37m |
Career change plus quitting and divorce over about 18 months erodes identity after a 25-year run in emergency services with roles managing 200–300 staff and a… | ||
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