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Laravel Live Japan 2026

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aravel Live Japan is the official Laravel community conference in Japan. It brings together developers, designers, and tech enthusiasts from around the world to share knowledge, exchange ideas, and celebrate the craft of building with Laravel. Join us in Tokyo for two days of inspiring talks, hands-on learning, and unforgettable community experiences at Tac…

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17Voices
30Underwriters
0Exhibitors
26On the bill · sessions
36Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at Laravel, in alphabetical order.
Alexander Lichter
DevRel at VoidZero · VoidZero
Asumi Utamaru
Web Application Engineer at Linkage · Linkage
Daniel Coulbourne
Founder of thunk.dev · thunk.dev
Harris Raftopoulos
Staff & Educator at Laravel News · Laravel News
Jess Archer
Head of Laravel Nightwatch
Joe Tannenbaum
Open Source Team Lead at Laravel · Laravel
Kentaro Takeda
Web Application Developer
Kotomi Mukohira
SRE
Marcel Pociot
CTO at Beyond Code · Beyond Code
Nuno Maduro
Staff Software Engineer at Laravel; Creator of Pest · Laravel
Roman Pronskiy
Founder of The PHP Foundation · The PHP Foundation
Shane Rosenthal
Co-founder of NativePHP · NativePHP
Shogo Kawase
Engineering Manager at PR TIMES · PR TIMES
Simon Hamp
Co-founder of NativePHP · NativePHP
Taylor Otwell
Creator of Laravel
Tim MacDonald
Staff Software Engineer at Laravel · Laravel
Yoshihito Kuranuki
CEO at SonicGarden / CTO at Kurashicom
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
JoBinsPlatinum
LaravelPlatinum
alleyoopGold
CodeRabbitGold
JetBrainsGold
SentryGold
Social DatabankGold
KurashicomSilver
MercariSilver
TightenSilver
TypesenseSilver
VehiklSilver
WeworkSilver
cybozuCommunity
eustyle-laboratoryCommunity
GAOGAOCommunity
job draftAfter Party Sponsor
kaonaviCommunity
kokuchouCommunity
Le WagonStudent Community Partner
linkageCommunity
ProgateStudent Community Partner
PR TIMESCommunity
qiitaCommunity
senPhoto Sponsor
shunjuCommunity
supportersStudent Community Partner
TechTrainStudent Community Partner
TECH WORLDMedia Partner
vaddyCommunity
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The Programme

Selected from 26 sessions on the bill.
  • May 26 09:30

    Opening

  • May 26 10:00

    Strict AI Engineering

  • May 26 10:30

    Harnessing the Power of Mocks and Stubs in PHPUnit

  • May 26 11:00

    Inside Nightwatch: Real-Time Analytics at Scale

  • May 26 11:30

    Why Laravel Apps Break - And How to Keep Them Maintainable

  • May 26 12:30

    Making Music with PHP

  • May 26 14:00

    Work as Arts and Crafts

  • May 26 14:30

    Lightning Talks

  • May 26 15:30

    Sponsor Session

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 36 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

36 companies. three are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
3All threespeak · spons · exh
27Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
6Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Laravel·linkage·PR TIMES

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

41% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite212%
  • Founder / Owner424%
  • Director / Head of16%
  • Manager / Lead529%
  • Engineer · IC318%
  • Other roles212%

Of 17 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01LaravelSp·P3V
  2. 02linkageSp·C1V
  3. 03PR TIMESSp·C1V
  4. 04alleyoopSp·G
  5. 05CodeRabbitSp·G
  6. 06cybozuSp·C
  7. 07eustyle-laboratorySp·C
  8. 08GAOGAOSp·C
  9. 09JetBrainsSp·G
  10. 10job draftSp·A
  11. 11JoBinsSp·P
  12. 12kaonaviSp·C
  13. 13kokuchouSp·C
  14. 14KurashicomSp·S
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum2
7% of 30
gold5
17% of 30
silver6
20% of 30
photo sponsor1
3% of 30
after party sponsor1
3% of 30
student community partner4
13% of 30
community10
33% of 30
media partner1
3% of 30
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions