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Tech Meetup Rhine-Ruhr
Engineering Kiosk Rhine-Ruhr Meetup Germany

Join us at Engineering Kiosk Rhine-Ruhr, a dynamic tech meetup happening in the heart of the Rhine-Ruhr region, in Germany! This event brings together tech enthusiasts, engineers, and professionals from various fields to explore the intersection of engineering culture, open source, people and technology.

Next Meetup @
CHECK24 Düsseldorf

📅 Date August 6, 2026 - open doors at 18:00 (talks start ~1h later)

Awesome Community Talks

6 August 2026 @
CHECK24 Düsseldorf

Join the next meetup and listen to the following talks.

Turbo-Charging Your PHPUnit Suite

Sebastian Bergmann · Creator @ PHPUnit

Talk in English

About the Talk

Are you tired of waiting forever for your tests to finish? Are you watching your CI pipelines crawl while your productivity plummets? You're not alone! Many developers put up with painfully slow test suites, thinking it's just part and parcel of good testing practices.

In this presentation, we'll take a deep dive into the performance optimisation techniques that can transform your sluggish test suite into a speed demon. Life's too short for slow tests, and great developers deserve great tools that actually work at speed!

About the Speaker

Sebastian Bergmann is the creator and maintainer of PHPUnit, the industry-standard testing framework that has greatly enhanced the professionalism of PHP software development. As a founding partner and consultant at thePHP.cc, he helps teams adopt PHPUnit, optimise its use, and refine their development workflows to produce more testable code.

Sebastian Bergmann auf GitHubSebastian Bergmann auf MastodonSebastian Bergmann auf LinkedInWebsite von Sebastian Bergmann

Engineering Culture

Philipp Kemper · CTO @ CHECK24

Talk in English

About the Talk

In the age of AI, CHECK24 has decided to rebuild all major applications from scratch. That only works if you rethink more than the code. Processes and teams have to change with it. How we work. How we want to work. Twenty years later, still not the same thing. Philipp Kemper, CTO of CHECK24, makes that gap the starting point: tickets, meetings, the same rituals, and still the same frustration. Structures baked into old systems do not disappear on their own. Rebuilding means total uncertainty, yet CHECK24 still expects speed and quality at the same time. He shares what teams need when both are non-negotiable and everything else is unknown, and why process may be the real bottleneck.

About the Speaker

Philipp Kemper has spent more than 15 years at CHECK24. Don't let the CTO title fool you: he is a nerd at heart, a full-stack engineer by background, and someone who won't stop until he truly understands a problem

Philipp Kemper auf LinkedInWebsite von Philipp Kemper

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Next meetup:
📅 August 6, 2026 - open doors at 18:00 (talks start ~1h later)

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August 6, 2026

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Our Supporters

Our locations partners have been instrumental in helping us build a community of tech people in the Rhine-Ruhr region.
We are grateful for their support!

Krankikom GmbH
Sia Consulting GmbH
CHECK24 Düsseldorf
The local team of Rhine-Ruhr

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