Laravel Greece - Athens June 2026
โ๐ Athens, this one's special.
โFor over a decade now, Laravel Greece has been the home of the Greek Laravel community. Dozens of meetups, hundreds of developers, more pizza than we'd like to admit, and all of it built on the people who keep showing up. Genuinely, thank you for being part of that.
โThis time around, we get to do something we don't get to do often: bring our local community face-to-face with someone shaping Laravel for the rest of the world.
โHeadlining the night, Nuno Maduro is flying in from the Laravel team with his talk Strict AI Engineering. Yes, that Nuno. If you've ever installed Pest, Larastan, Pint, Laravel Zero, OpenAI PHP, or PHP Insights, you've been running his code for years. Now he's here in person to show how strict engineering practices make your Laravel codebase AI-friendly, so tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code actually produce code worth keeping.
โKicking things off, Petros Effraimidis returns to the Athens stage with I Don't Write Code Alone Anymore โ And Neither Should You. A hands-on, demo-heavy session on what happens when you stop writing every line yourself and start orchestrating a team of AI agents instead. Git worktrees, parallel workflows, real code, and an opinionated setup you can replicate the same evening.
โTwo takes on AI in the loop, one packed room of Greek Laravel devs, and the usual after-talk hangout that always runs longer than planned ๐
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Thursday, June 11th, 2026
๐ก 6:30 PM start
๐ T16, Tzaferi 16, Athens
๐ซ Free entry, RSVP below
โ๐ฃ Heads up on timing: 6:30 PM is when we kick off the talks, not when doors open. Please come a bit earlier so you can find a good seat, and grab some pizza after we are done! ๐
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โ๐ค THE LINEUP
โ1. Petros Effraimidis ยท I Don't Write Code Alone Anymore โ And Neither Should You
โThe way we ship software is changing, and developers who learn to orchestrate AI agents instead of just prompting them are pulling ahead. In this practical, demo-driven session, we'll build a real-world workflow live, combining Git worktrees, AI coding agents, automated code review, and modern orchestration tools to ship features in parallel instead of one at a time. You'll leave with an opinionated workflow you can set up the same evening, and a clearer picture of what your job looks like when you stop writing every line of code yourself and start conducting a team of agents instead.
โAbout Petros Petros Effraimidis is a senior software engineer at Nordhealth, where for the past two years he's been helping build products that redefine healthcare. Outside of his day job, he's working on a platform for musicians that lets them organize their song libraries, form bands, invite members, and collaborate on songs and setlists. With over a decade in PHP and Laravel, Petros is fascinated by how quickly the way we work is changing, which is why he's been diving deep into modern workflows, AI-assisted development, and Livewire, his tool of choice for the past couple of years. He's a returning speaker at the Athens Laravel Meetup, where he's previously presented on Inertia.js and TypeScript. When he's not coding, you'll find him running marathons or playing guitar and singing, usually not at the same time.
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โ2. Nuno Maduro ยท Strict AI Engineering
โThe era of AI-assisted development is here, and strict engineering practices don't just improve your code, they also dramatically improve AI-generated code. In this talk, Nuno will share practical tips to make your Laravel codebase AI-friendly, so tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code generate better, more consistent code.
โAbout Nuno
Nuno Maduro is a Staff Software Engineer at Laravel, speaker, content creator, and open-source contributor. He's created tools like Pest, Larastan, Pint, Laravel Zero, OpenAI PHP, PHP Insights, and more, with thousands of stars and half a billion downloads shaping the PHP scene.
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โ๐ SPONSORS
โNone of this happens without our sponsors. Huge thanks to Laravel, Typesense, Epignosis, and Hack The Box for keeping the lights on (and the pizza coming) at Laravel Greece.
โSpecial shoutout to our partner Certification for Laravel ๐
โSee you on June 11th!