Zend PHP Conference Keynotes Outline Best Practices for "Agile Innovation," Next Steps for Continuous Delivery

CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Zend, the PHP Company, today announced its ZendCon 2014 keynote speaker roster, featuring industry thought leaders/experts who will share how companies can harness innovative technology to accelerate application delivery and realize bottom-line business benefits. The rise of mobile and market demand for rapid application delivery have boosted enterprise PHP adoption. In fact, PHP powers forward-looking Web and mobile workloads and sits at the intersection of application innovation and disruption.

"Disruptive technology forces – including Web, mobile and cloud – are all re-shaping how, when and where applications are delivered. The key is to stay one step ahead of the innovation curve," said Andi Gutmans, CEO and Co-founder, Zend. "ZendCon is bringing together industry thought leaders, developers and luminaries to answer that key question: 'What's next and how can I be ready?'"

ZendCon's keynote speakers will address current innovation and disruption from different technology vantage points including "big data and analytics," agile software delivery, "the state of PHP," and extending the Continuous Delivery ecosystem. Keynote speakers and sessions include:

• Rod Smith, IBM Fellow, Vice President, IBM Emerging Internet Technologies on "Big Data 2.0": Big Data and Analytics as disruptive business forces are transforming the business decision-making process. What will the businesses of the future need, technology-wise, to turn data into action and action into innovation?
• Andres Angelani, Chief Solutions Officer, Globant on "Agile Impact: Innovate While Scaling Agile in Partnerships": Agile has impacted the way we create software. How can an agile-focused delivery model address team dynamics, gamification and cultural bonding, aligning business and technology teams in the process?
• Andi Gutmans, CEO and Co-founder, Zend on the "state of PHP," best practices for accelerating software delivery in the age of mobile and cloud, and extending the Continuous Delivery ecosystem to envelop additional patterns/technologies.
• Douglas Crockford, Computer Programmer, Entrepreneur and Senior JavaScript Architect on JavaScript, JSON and Web technologies -- a brief look at each technology's role within the future innovation landscape.
• Bitcoin panel: Select participants will discuss the significance of Bitcoin, the software-based online payment system, in a special panel. What lessons did the technology community learn, if any, from this open-source project?

Conference sponsors/exhibitors include IBM, Amazon Web Services, GitHub, Oracle/MySQL, Rackspace, Globant, and others.

Registration for the 10^th annual ZendCon, taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, is now open. Click here for details.

About Zend Technologies
Zend partners with businesses to rapidly deliver modern apps across mobile and cloud. Zend helped establish the PHP language, which today powers over 200 million applications and web sites. The company uniquely delivers a one-stop shop solution for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications. Zend continuous delivery is based on agile development, code protection, release automation, server management, consulting, training, and PHP certification. Zend solutions are deployed at more than 40,000 companies, including NYSE Euronext, BNP Paribas, Bell Helicopter, and other leading brands worldwide. Learn more at www.zend.com.

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