Zend has announced the keynote speakers for their upcoming conference. The Zend/PHP Conference and Expo is scheduled to take place on October 30th and November 2nd in San Jose, California. The topic to be covered at the conference is 'Creating Modern Web Applications with PHP'. Chris Anderson, author of 'The Long Tail' and editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, will keynote the second annual Zend/PHP Conference and Expo October 30-November 2, 2006. He will discuss how the theories in his book apply to software development and to the growth of PHP in particular.

Robert 'r0ml' Lefkowitz, software architect, systems designer and open source strategist will also keynote the conference. Robert will analyze the evolution of the use of human languages as a source of inspiration for our use of programming languages. Matthew Rechs, CTO of the interactive agency Schematic, is also scheduled to address the conference. As part of his keynote, Rechs will discuss the mobile digital content store of Amp'd Mobile, a case study of one of the largest and successful PHP deployments in private enterprise.

You can get the speaker list here.