Laracon US 2026 kicks off today in Boston, and the Day 1 stream is live and free to watch on the official Laravel YouTube channel. The conference runs July 28 and 29 at SoWa Power Station, with sessions each day from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM local time.
If you did not get a ticket, the stream is the way to follow along in real time. Day 1 closes with an hour of Laravel updates from Taylor Otwell, which is traditionally where the framework's next round of announcements lands.
Day 1 Schedule
Aaron Francis opens the day at 9:30 AM, followed by:
- 9:40 AM Nuno Maduro, Pest 5
- 10:05 AM Kitze, From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering
- 10:30 AM Mary Perry, Cleverness Is A Loan
- 11:25 AM Chris Fidao, The Desired State
- 11:50 AM Matt Stauffer, Building Software at the Edge of Your Understanding
- 1:45 PM Freek Van Der Herten, Proven Package Patterns
- 2:10 PM Mateus Guimarães, Building a CLI Coding Agent from Scratch
- 3:05 PM Joshua Alphonse, Upload to Playback: Building a Video Processing Pipeline with Laravel Queues
- 3:30 PM Christina Martinez, Whimsy-Driven Development
- 4:00 PM Taylor Otwell, Laravel Updates
Day 2 Schedule
Day 2 runs on the same 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM schedule on Wednesday, July 29:
- 9:35 AM Kent C. Dodds, The Last Software Engineer
- 10:00 AM Joe Tannenbaum, Building Realtime Collaborative Apps with Laravel
- 10:25 AM Pauline Vos, Git, But Better: an introduction to JJ
- 11:25 AM Povilas Korop, Filament: Advanced Practical Examples
- 11:50 AM Gordon Diggs, Building for Agents & Humans
- 1:45 PM Thorsten Ball, Think Harder: How I Prompt
- 2:10 PM Will King, AI Can Do Your Job… What Now?
- 3:00 PM Laravel Community Update
- 3:15 PM Devon Garbalosa, Scaling Laravel
- 3:40 PM Closing Panel
Event Details
- Dates: July 28 and 29, 2026
- Venue: SoWa Power Station, 550 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118
- Website: laracon.us
- Day 1 stream: youtube.com/watch?v=0P-VMS7JMQY
The Day 2 stream should appear on the Laravel channel's streams page when it goes live.
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