Events Attended
2013
Laracon US
2013
Laracon EU
2014
Laracon US
2014
Laracon EU
2015
Laracon US
2015
Laracon EU
2016
Laracon US
2016
Laracon EU
2017
Laracon US
2017
Laracon EU
2017
Laracon Online
2018
Laracon US
2018
Laracon EU
2018
Laracon AU
2018
Laracon Online
2019
Laracon US
2019
Laracon EU
2019
Laravel Live UK
2019
Laracon Online
Winter 2020
Laracon Online
Summer 2020
Laracon Online
2021
Laracon EU
Winter 2021
Laracon Online
Summer 2021
Laracon Online
Winter 2022
Laracon Online
Summer 2022
Laracon Online
2023
Laracon US
2023
Laracon EU
2023
Laracon IN
2024
Laracon US
2024
Laracon EU
2024
Laracon AU
2025
Laracon US
2025
Laracon EU
2026
Laracon EU
2026
Laracon IN
2026
Laravel Live Japan
Talks
TBA (2026)
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Laravel Updates (2026)
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TBA (2026)
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Keynote (2025)
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OSS Panel (2025)
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Laravel Update (2025)
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Laravel Keynote (2024)
Taylor Otwell delivered a keynote at LaraconUS detailing major developments in the Laravel ecosystem. He announced several new framework features including deferred functions, container attributes, and chaperoned models. The talk culminated in unveiling Laravel Cloud, a new fully-managed platform for deploying Laravel applications that aims to simplify the deployment process to under one minute, complete with serverless PostgreSQL databases and automatic scaling capabilities.
Laravel Update (2024)
Taylor Otwell presents upcoming features in Laravel 11, focusing on a simplified application structure with reduced boilerplate files and improved developer experience. He also announces Laravel Herd Pro with debugging features, Herd for Windows, and Laravel Reverb - a new websocket server. The talk emphasizes Laravel's continued evolution toward a more streamlined, modern framework while maintaining backward compatibility.
Introducing Nightwatch (2024)
Laravel Team Q&A (2024)
Laravel Herd, Laravel 11, Laravel Folio, Laravel Volt (2023)
Taylor Otwell's keynote presentation at Laracon covers major Laravel developments in 2023 and previews upcoming features. He introduces Laravel Herd for simplified PHP development environment setup, demonstrates Laravel Folio for file-based routing, and previews Laravel Volt for building single-file Livewire components with a functional API. He also discusses streamlined changes coming to Laravel 11's application structure.
Laravel Q&A (2023)
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Laravel Updates (2023)
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Laravel Update (2022)
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Laravel Update (2022)
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Q&A (2021)
Taylor Otwell delivers a Q&A session at Laracon, discussing updates to Laravel Spark, which is being rebuilt as a standalone billing portal with Paddle/Stripe integration. He also addresses questions about Lumen's future, type hinting in Laravel, dealing with framework criticism, and his journey from early developer to creating Laravel.
Laravel Update (2021)
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Laravel Update (2021)
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Full Laravel 7 walk-through! (2020)
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Exploring Laravel 8.x (2020)
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Intro to Laravel Vapor (2019)
Taylor Otwell presents Laravel 6.0 and introduces Laravel Vapor, a new serverless deployment platform. The talk covers the upcoming changes in Laravel 6.0, including a new logo and branding, and demonstrates Vapor's capabilities for managing serverless deployments, databases, caches, and file storage on AWS with zero downtime deployments.
The State of Laravel (2019)
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Unknown title (2019)
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Exploring Laravel 5.8 (2019)
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Keynote (2018)
Taylor Otwell introduces Laravel Nova, a powerful admin panel system for Laravel applications. The talk demonstrates Nova's features including CRUD operations, relationships handling, custom fields, authorization, metrics/analytics, and extensibility through custom tools and components. Nova is designed to be a polished, production-ready solution that integrates seamlessly with existing Laravel applications and will be available for purchase with similar licensing to Laravel Spark.
State of Laravel (2018)
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Introducing Telescope (2018)
Taylor Otwell presents Laravel Telescope, a new debugging and monitoring tool for Laravel applications. He demonstrates its various features including request monitoring, query logging, job tracking, and error handling. Telescope provides a clean interface for viewing application logs, cache operations, and email previews, with both light and dark modes. The tool is particularly useful for local development but can also be deployed to production with proper authorization and filtering.
Laravel 5.6 and Spark 6 (2018)
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Keynote (2017)
Taylor Otwell presents new features in Laravel 5.5 and introduces Laravel Horizon, a new open-source queue monitoring and management dashboard. The talk covers various improvements to Laravel's core functionality including route shortcuts, blade directives, and queue management. The main highlight is the detailed demonstration of Horizon's features including real-time queue monitoring, job failure handling, auto-balancing of queue workers, and metric tracking.
State of Laravel (2017)
Taylor Otwell presents new features coming in Laravel 5.5, focusing primarily on API resource transformations and queue improvements. He demonstrates a new elegant way to transform Eloquent models for API responses using resources and collections, along with new queue features like time-based expirations and rate limiting with Redis. The talk includes live coding examples and covers conditional data transformations, relationship handling, and customizable response formats.
Laravel Internals (2017)
Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel, gives an in-depth look at how Laravel's internals work, particularly focusing on the request lifecycle and framework architecture. He explains how HTTP and Console requests flow through the framework, the role of service providers and middleware, and shares development workflow tips for working on Laravel core and packages.
Laravel 5.3 Overview (2016)
Taylor Otwell presents the new features in Laravel 5.3 at Laracon. He covers major updates including a new mailable system for cleaner email handling, Laravel Scout for full-text search functionality, Laravel Passport for OAuth2 authentication, and a new notification system. The talk demonstrates practical implementations of these features with live coding examples and explains how they simplify common development tasks.
Keynote (2016)
Taylor Otwell presents new features in Laravel 5.3 at Laracon EU. He covers improvements to queues, file storage, notifications system, and introduces Laravel Echo for real-time features. The talk demonstrates practical examples of each feature, showing how Laravel 5.3 makes PHP development more accessible while keeping pace with modern web development trends.
Keynote (2015)
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The Tao Of Laravel (2015)
Taylor Otwell introduces Laravel Spark, a new scaffolding tool that helps developers quickly build SaaS applications. The talk covers how Spark provides out-of-the-box functionality for common SaaS features like billing, subscriptions, team management, and two-factor authentication. Otwell emphasizes how Spark aims to remove boilerplate code and let developers focus on building their core application features, making it easier to turn side project ideas into reality.
Laracon 2014 Keynote (2014)
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The State of Laravel (2014)
Taylor Otwell presents upcoming features and changes in Laravel 4.3, including a new folder structure, form request validation, contract interfaces, file system abstraction with Flysystem, and route caching for performance improvements. He emphasizes backward compatibility and explains how existing 4.2 applications can be upgraded smoothly.
Laracon 2013 Panel Discussion (2013)
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Eloquence Evolving (2013)
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Eloquence Emerging, Laravel (2013)
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Building Artisan Commands (2013)
Taylor Otwell gives a practical talk on building Artisan commands in Laravel, covering basic command creation, dependency injection, and queuing. He demonstrates how to create custom commands, work with the Laravel queue system using different drivers like Beanstalkd, and shares upcoming features like a new debugging command for Laravel 4.1. The talk emphasizes writing reusable code by properly structuring commands and queue handlers.