Kapehe Sevilleja gave an inspiring talk showing a timeline and contrasts between her story and the history of Laravel and the community.

After a number of bad experiences at work, she enrolled in a coding bootcamp and later started working at Sanity.io. Her husband started using Laravel again and introduced her to it and the community.

Kapehe explained how she felt so welcomed by people in the Laravel community, and challenged us to think about how we can “build a good village” and “grow another’s flame” by creating an atmosphere of friendliness and belonging.

It is definitely worth watching when released. I think this was one of my favorite talks of the conference.