Laracon US 2026 Reveals Its Full Speaker Lineup

Dates: July 28-29, 2026
Venue: SoWa Power Station, 550 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118
Tickets: tickets.laracon.us
Platinum sponsors: Vehikl, Tighten, Curotec, and Accel

Laracon US has announced the full speaker lineup for its 2026 conference, headed to Boston on July 28-29. The list pulls together the Laravel core team, well-known community names, and a few faces from outside the framework.

If you have been waiting to see who is on stage before grabbing a ticket, the roster is now set, and it covers a wide range of the people building and teaching Laravel today.

Who's Speaking

The full lineup includes:

Taylor Otwell, CEO of Laravel
Aaron Francis, Founder at Try Hard Studios
Nuno Maduro, creator of Pest and Laravel Core
Thorsten Ball, Co-founder & Member of Technical Staff at Amp, Inc
Pauline Vos, Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Chris Fidao, Infrastructure Engineer at Laravel
Joshua Alphonse, Community Engineer at Mux
Kent C. Dodds, Software Engineer and Educator
Matt Stauffer, CEO at Tighten
Mary Perry, Developer at Active Engagement
Will King, Design Engineer at Snowflake
Kitze, Founder of Sizzy
Freek Van der Herten, Developer at Spatie
Povilas Korop, Founder & Educator at Laravel Daily
Christina Martinez, DX Engineer at Resend
Mateus Guimarães, Software Engineer at Laravel
Devon Garbalosa, Solutions Engineer at Laravel
Joe Tannenbaum, OSS Team Lead at Laravel

Why It's Notable

This year's lineup leans heavily on the people working on Laravel day to day, with Taylor Otwell, Chris Fidao, Mateus Guimarães, Devon Garbalosa, and Joe Tannenbaum all coming from the Laravel team. You also get familiar community voices like Freek Van der Herten from Spatie, Matt Stauffer from Tighten, and Povilas Korop from Laravel Daily, plus a few speakers from outside the usual Laravel circle, including including Kent C. Dodds and Pauline Vos from MongoDB.

The event tagline sums up the goal: "Come ready to level up, leave ready to ship."