Laravel Manchester #5

Join us for Laravel Manchester #5 on Wednesday, 12th August 2026! 🎉

We'll be hosting regular meetups for developers, enthusiasts, and anyone interested in Laravel, with talks from Laravel lovers across the UK.

In this meetup, we'll be hearing from:

Speakers and talks 🌟
1. Automated Refactoring in Laravel
- Greg Mayes, Principal Engineer at Exumpay
Refactoring is often seen as a low-priority, time-intensive chore. Delegating refactors to an LLM is an option, but the PHP ecosystem offers some incredible tools that can automatically refactor your Laravel codebase with more confidence. Greg will showcase these tools and explain how you can get up and running with them

2. Mutation testing with PHP
- Craig Duncan-Courcey, Software Consultant at Estrato Cloud
So you've got bugs in production. You've written unit tests, you've implemented static analysis...but you've still got bugs in production. What next? It's time to test your tests! It's turtles all the way down with mutation testing for PHP 🐢

Agenda 🌟
17:45 - Arrival
18:30 - Welcome and talk #1
19:00 - Break
19:15 - Talk #2
19:45 - Drinks
20:30 - Event close

Your host
- Chris Grice, Head of Engineering at Street Group

Location
Street Group HQ
11-13 Spear Street
Manchester
M1 1JU

See you there!

PS, big thanks to our sponsors, Tact, who'll be sorting food & drink for us (legends) and Street Group for providing the venue. Go give them a like on LinkedIn!