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QCon San Francisco international software development conference.
November 18-22, 2024.
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We've helped thousands of senior software engineers, software architects and tech leaders adopt the right patterns & practices for over 18 years.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Thomas Betts
Laureate Application Architect @Blackbaud, Lead Editor for Architecture & Design @InfoQ
Nov 18
AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights
Susan Shu Chang
Principal Data Scientist @Elastic, Author of "Machine Learning Interviews"
Nov 18
Rust [in Production]
Daniela Miao
Co-Founder & CTO @Momento, Systems & Observability Nerd, ex-Lightstep, ex-DynamoDB
Nov 18
Sociotechnical Resilience
Carol Barrett
Director, Engineering @Netflix, Previously @Intel and @Cisco
Nov 18
Embracing Shift-Left in Data Architecture
Adi Polak
Director, Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering @Confluent
Nov 19
Generative AI in Production & Advancements
Hien Luu
Sr. Engineering Manager @Zoox & Author of MLOps with Ray, Speaker and Conference Committee Chair
Nov 19
Programming Languages and Paradigms for the Next Decade
Julie Qiu
Uber Tech Lead, Google Cloud SDK @Google
Nov 19
Engineering Productivity
Jennifer Bevan
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Google, Previously at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nov 19
Architectural Evolution
Michelle Brush
Engineering Director, SRE @Google, Previously Director of HealtheIntent Architecture @Cerner Corporation & Lead Engineer @Garmin, Author of "2 out of the 97 Things Every SRE Should Know"
Nov 20
The Path to Staff+ and Beyond
Joy Ebertz
Principal Engineer @Harness, Blogger, and Speaker, Previously @Box
Nov 20
Hardware Architectures You Need To Know
Yao Yue
Platform Engineer, Distributed System Aficionado, Cache Expert, and the Founder of IOP Systems
Nov 20
Next Generation Inclusive UIs
Erin Doyle
Sr. Staff Software Engineer @Lob, with 20+ Years Previously as a Full Stack Engineer and Instructor @Egghead
Nov 20
The speakers and the attendees make QCon stand out from other events. It is very well organized. QCon has a good balance of new tech to look out for along with the discussions around day to day problems that we face as developers
Vipra Ramtekkar
Development Engineer @ING
Featured Speakers
Learn from software leaders pushing the boundaries in today’s environment.
Keynotes
Learn actionable insights to help you adopt the right technologies and practices.
Curated learning set by senior software leaders.
Essential topics. Emerging patterns and practices. Hand-picked speakers.
Meet the QCon San Francisco 2024 Programming Committee.
What has always stood out for me has been QCon's commitment to its brand promises. First of all, it's focused on practitioner content. QCon conferences are all about the people that develop and work with future technologies. This starts from the Programming Committee, which comprises practitioners that are authorities in their domain.
Dio Synodinos
President of C4Media, makers of InfoQ and QCon
Learn from senior software engineers
Real-world technical talks from software leaders at early adopter companies
Domain leaders
Learn what's next from world-class leaders pushing the boundaries.
Relatable challenges
Learn how senior developers are solving the challenges you face.
Diverse perspectives
Get new ideas and perspectives across multiple domains.
Valuable lessons
Actionable insights from those working on real-world projects.
Time to connect
Intentional time built-in for you to connect with speakers and peers.
No hype
No hidden marketing. No sales pitches.
Quality content and topics from industry experts and I like how that is separated very transparently from sponsors. I appreciate how sponsors have their place, but it's very clear and not deceptive mixed in with the content. It really is a conference that is specific technology agnostic and about any and all industry wide trends and best practices.
Mike Murray
Senior Director, Software Engineering@DriveTime
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- Green Tech
- Rust
- WASM
- eBPF
- Machine Learning @ Edge
- Scalable Configuration Management
- Infrastructure Unification
- Cue Lang
- MLOps
- Team Topologies
- Staff+ Engineer Path
- Service Meshes
- Microfrontends
- Multicloud Practices
- Software Ethics
- Feature Engineering
- Mode Inference/Prediction
- Observability Practices
- Server-Driven Frontend
- Decarbonizing the Grid
- Operator Pattern for
Non-Clustered Resources - Patterns & Heuristics
Enabling Fast Flow - Open Policy Agent
- Java 17 (LTS)
- Paved Road
- DevSecOps
- DevOps in Practice
- Kubernetes Strategies
- Observability / Telemetry
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Chaos Engineering
- Operating Microservices
- Data Engineering
- GraphQL
- Go Techniques & Patterns
- DevEx
- Reactive
- Performance
- Macroservices
- Serverless: Orchestration &
Choreography - Cloud Architectures
- Patterns for Scale
- IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Polyglot Software Practices
Learn the emerging trends
Curated trends our Program Committee believe have the most impact in software development.
Explore the use cases
Learn how real-world practitioners are applying the tech to help you solve common problems.
Implement the best practices
Get implementable ideas to shape your projects that last beyond the conference.
The conciseness with which the event is presented, as well as the options for the tracks, allow one to either mix and match talks or focus on a single track of interest. It's an interesting and wonderful approach. The long breaks and 'unconference' opportunities are also quite unique in their ability to connect people from seemingly different backgrounds.
Jonathan Tanye
Director Of Research Development @MineX 360 Services
Actionable ideas. New perspectives.
A learning path that works for you.
Immersive experience
Free yourself from your distractions, connect with peers, and learn innovative ideas.
Problem-solve at
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Join facilitated sessions to help you generate new ideas to current challenges.
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social events
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Access video recordings after the conference
Get 6 months access to professionally edited session recordings after the conference.
Add training days to your pass.
Evolve your skills to future-proof your career.
Focused training.
Level-up on in-demand skills to future-proof your career.
Hands-on learning.
Practical projects. Step-by-step walk throughs. Built in reflection time.
Upskill with domain experts.
Master best practices from software domain experts.
Small class sizes.
Get quality time with instructors to support your learning.
Choice of training lengths.
Half-day, one day or two day training options.
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Training tickets are refundable until September 23, 2024.
Trainings
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All training participants will be notified and invited to select their training once all trainings are confirmed by beginning of September.
Trainings are refundable until Monday, September 23, 2024.
intermediate
Thursday Nov 21 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
A Little Rust-Y: Using Rust Interop To Boost Performance of Existing Apps (In Any Language)
Rust is known for great performance, but migrating your entire application to Rust is a daunting proposition.
Chris Price
Software Engineer @Momento, Previously Launched New Video Streaming Services @AWS, 10+ Years in Engineering Leadership at Software Startups
Anita Ruangrotsakun
Software Engineer @Momento
intermediate
Friday Nov 22 / 09:00AM PST / FULL DAY
Success Patterns for Fast Flow and Team Topologies
Elizabeth Ayer and Christopher Marsh will be running our successful Masterclass for leaders, managers, change agents, members of Enabling teams, Agile Coaches, architects, senior engineers, UX/UI and product managers, or any other decision-makers involved in building and running s
Elizabeth Ayer
Product and Organizational Consultant @Confluxhq
Christopher Marsh
Product and Organizational Consultant @Confluxhq
intermediate
Friday Nov 22 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
Applied Domain-Driven Design: A Guide for Senior Practitioners
Applied Domain-Driven Design: A Guide for Senior Practitioners" explores the practical application of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles to address complex business challenges.
Matt Foster
Technical Principal @Thoughtworks
intermediate
Friday Nov 22 / 09:00AM PST / FULL DAY
Asynchronous Architecture Patterns To Scale ML and Other High Latency Workloads on Kubernetes
Many API backends can be scaled by deploying multiple instances, adding a load balancer in front of them, and pointing clients at the load balancer.
Jérôme Petazzoni
Founder @Tiny Shell Script LLC, Cofounder @Enix France
intermediate
Thursday Nov 21 / 09:00AM PST / FULL DAY
Smart, Scalable Systems and Services With Spring Boot
The term “microservices” has gained significant traction over the last few years. Describing a specific style of distributed software architecture, microservices are small, independently deployable units that work together to form a complete system.
Josh Long
Spring Developer Advocate @Broadcom
beginner to intermediate
Thursday Nov 21 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
Document Processing Using GenAI Orchestrations
AI capabilities are often used to automate processes when ingesting documents from external sources. Onboarding clients, extracting key information from documents, categorizing documents, use cases are infinite.
Haven King
Solutions Architect
intermediate
Thursday Nov 21 / 09:00AM PST / FULL DAY
[SOLD OUT] Generative AI Engineering - Composable Building Blocks, Architectural Blueprints, and Enterprise-Grade Readiness
Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023. and, in 2024, enterprises are expanding use cases and transitioning workloads from early experimentation into production.
Daniel Whitenack
Founder & Data Scientist @Prediction Guard, Co-Host of the Practical AI podcast, Previously Built Data Teams at Two Startups and an International NGO
intermediate
Thursday Nov 21 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
Platform Strategy: Innovation Through Harmonization
Today’s tech is nothing short of amazing, but it can also be amazingly complex. That’s why many organizations look to platforms to rewrite the laws of IT physics: they boost innovation through standards; they speed up development while assuring compliance; and they reduce cognitive load without restricting choice. Building such an in-house platform, or even deploying one, is far from easy, though. Based on a decade of building platforms both as end-user and provider, this workshop dives into the nuances of what makes a platform, how to define useful abstractions, and the design trade-offs that platform teams have to make.
Gregor Hohpe
Author of "Enterprise Integration Patterns" and "The Software Architect Elevator", Cloud Architect, Member of IEEE Software Advisory Board, Previously @AWS, @Google, and @Allianz
intermediate to advanced
Thursday Nov 21 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
10 Truths in Distributed System Design
Most modern applications are distributed, integrate with third-party services, and expose APIs. Although the cloud, serverless, and automation have made distributed systems management easier, fundamental challenges like latency, throttling, or out-of-order delivery remain.
Gregor Hohpe
Author of "Enterprise Integration Patterns" and "The Software Architect Elevator", Cloud Architect, Member of IEEE Software Advisory Board, Previously @AWS, @Google, and @Allianz
beginner
Friday Nov 22 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
Writing Rust: Concurrency and Clarity
Learn how to write and analyze safe, fast, concurrent Rust.
Kenny Chamberlin
Lead Engineer @Momento, Previously Valve, AWS Edge & Db Services
beginner
Thursday Nov 21 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
Dealing with Challenging People and Situations – Concrete Skills To Overcome the Awkward and Increase Connection (Thursday)
Do you ever find yourself...
Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
Co-founder of @Bravely, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker, 12+ Years Experience Enabling High Performing Teams and Leaders
intermediate to advanced
Thursday Nov 21 / 09:00AM PST / FULL DAY
[SOLD OUT] Platform Thinking: Strategies for Building Effective Platform Teams
Platform engineering represents the next stage in DevOps.
Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks, Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, & QCon SF 2023 PC Chair, Previously Platform Architect @VMware
beginner
Friday Nov 22 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
Dealing with Challenging People and Situations – Concrete Skills To Overcome the Awkward and Increase Connection (Friday)
Do you ever find yourself...
Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
Co-founder of @Bravely, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker, 12+ Years Experience Enabling High Performing Teams and Leaders
beginner to intermediate
Friday Nov 22 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
[SOLD OUT] GenAI Development - From Zero to AI Engineer
Engineering teams often feel stuck not knowing how to even start building "GenAI applications." In this workshop, we will introduce a repeatable development workflow for architecting and building GenAI applications, which will help you avoid introducing unnecessary complications and error-prone a
Daniel Whitenack
Founder & Data Scientist @Prediction Guard, Co-Host of the Practical AI podcast, Previously Built Data Teams at Two Startups and an International NGO
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2nd day of #QConSF was quite literally earth shattering. And not just because of the 5.1 magnitude earthquake nearby. Lots of ground breaking topics and discussions. What's in store for us on day 3 I wonder. 😅
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@MickZiv
I had an absolute blast at @QConSF, hands down the best speaker experience I’ve ever had! Major shout out to @InfoQ for being as thoughtful as they are in organizing the event. #QConSF
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@brancz@hachyderm.io @fredbrancz
Last night in San Francisco for #QConSF … learned a lot, met a lot of amazing minds. One more day to go though (happy it’s not over just yet)!
Marjorie Freeman
@the_mjfreeman
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@devagrawal09
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QCon San Francisco venue
Hyatt Regency - San Francisco
Hyatt Regency - San Francisco
The hotel is located right on the Embarcadero waterfront with stunning views all around and close to popular attractions, events, and shopping. The conference venue is at the same location as the hotel.
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