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I speak at conferences and user groups around the world on PHP, static analysis, testing and code quality. My talks aim to be informative and engaging, leaving audiences with practical takeaways they can apply straight away. If you're organising an event, I'd love to hear from you.

I've given 81 talks and workshops at conferences and user groups — see my speaking diary for the full list, or browse my talks for abstracts and details.

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[Dave](https://www.daveliddament.co.uk) is a director and developer at [Lamp Bristol](https://www.lampbristol.com), a software consultancy. He's been writing software commercially for over two decades in many languages including C, Python, Java and PHP. Dave specialises in static analysis, automated testing and code review — helping teams keep large, long-lived codebases safe to change. Dave is keen to pass on his knowledge. He speaks at conferences and user groups and also is the organiser of [PHP-SW](https://phpsw.uk/). He is also the author of a couple of libraries: - [SARB (static analysis results baseliner)](https://www.daveliddament.co.uk/open-source/sarb) - [PHP Language Extensions Library](https://www.daveliddament.co.uk/open-source/php-language-extensions) When not busy coding Dave enjoys scuba diving and running.

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