QCon is one of the few conferences where practical engineering solutions are talked about. It feels like a close-knit engineering community coming together with not much marketing pitches.
Tracks
Monday, 11 November
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Software Supply Chain
Life of a software artifact from commit to deployment. Security, observability and provenance of the software supply chain.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Hard-earned lessons from names you know on scalability, reliability, throughput, and performance.
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Languages of Infrastructure
This track explores languages being used to code the infrastructure. Expect practices on toolkits and languages like Cloudformation, Terraform, Python, Go, Rust, Erlang.
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Building & Scaling High-Performing Teams
To have a high-performing team, everybody on it has to feel and act like an owner. Organizational health and psychological safety are foundational underpinnings to support ownership.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
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Ethics, Regulation, Risk, and Compliance
With so much uncertainty, how do you bulkhead your organization and technology choices? Learn strategies for dealing with uncertainty.
Tuesday, 12 November
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Microservices Patterns & Practices
What's the last mile for deploying your service? Learn techniques from the world's most innovative shops on managing and operating Microservices at scale.
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Pushing the Web Forward: JavaScript, Frameworks, Transpilers, and WebAssembly
JavaScript is the language of the web. Latest practices for JavaScript development in and how transpilers are affecting the way we work. We’ll also look at the work being done with WebAssembly.
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Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking
Practical approaches using DevOps and a lean approach to delivering software.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods & probabilistic programming.
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Socially Conscious Software
Power of leadership, Engineering Metrics and strategies for shaping the org for velocity.
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Modern Data Architectures
Today’s systems move huge volumes of data. Hear how places like LinkedIn, Facebook, Uber and more built their systems and learn from their mistakes.
Wednesday, 13 November
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Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems
Making systems resilient involves people and tech. Learn about strategies being used from chaos testing to distributed systems clustering.
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Evolving the JVM
The JVM continues to evolve. We’ll look at how things are evolving. Covering Kotlin, Clojure, Java, OpenJDK, and Graal. Expect polyglot, multi-VM, performance, and more.
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Optimizing Yourself: Human Skills for Individuals
Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC.
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Living on the Edge : The World of Edge Compute From Device to Infrastructure Edge
IOT/IIOT, Federated Learning, Application Gateways, Serverless, Kubernetes, WASM/WASI all at the edge? This track explores what’s being done at the modern edge.
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Trust, Safety & Security
Privacy, confidentiality, safety and security: learning from the frontlines.
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Machine Learning for Developers
AI/ML is more approachable than ever. Discover how deep learning and ML is being used in practice. Topics include: TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch & more. No PhD required.
Bleeding-edge for the Enterprise
Bring trends from innovator and early adopter companies home to your team
Cilium/eBPF
Java 11
Deep Learning
WebAssembly
Mixed Reality
gVisor
CRDTs
Algorithmic Transparency
Graph Algorithms
Developer Experience
Data Engineering
Kubernetes
Machine Learning/AI
Lambda/Serverless
Istio
Rust
Chaos Engineering
.NET Core
Service Mesh
Voice Assistant/Interaction
DevOps
Operationalizing Microservices
Reactive
Containers
Go-Lang
More than 140 speakers
Engineers over Evangelists,
Practitioners over Trainers/Coaches,
Team Leads over Consultants
Attendees talk about the Speakers
Keynotes
This Year
Engineering Leader, Frontend Infrastructure @Slack
Last Year
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Workshops
WORKSHOPS DAY 1 / THURSDAY
WORKSHOPS DAY 2 / FRIDAY
QCon SF Venue & Hotel
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.
Address
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, California
USA 94111
Tel: +1 415 788 1234
Reservations
Special rate for attendees
(Possibility of early sell-out)
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The Experience We Bring
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Our attendees roles are:
Software Developer / Programmer/ Engineer
Senior Developer / Engineer
Technical Team Lead and Higher (including):
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Technical Team Lead
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Senior Management (VP, CTO, CIO, Director)
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Architect: Technical / Application (platform specific)
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Enterprise Architect / Chief Architect
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Architect: Solution / Systems
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Technical Project Manager
Meet and Learn from Your Peers
25 Minute Breaks “The Hallway Track”
Mingle and network with other attendees, speakers & sponsors.
Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
Social Events
Conference Social & Dinner, Exhibitor & Hospitality Receptions. Opportunities to mingle, eat, drink and network with speakers, editors, attendees, sponsors. Complementary and free for all conference attendees.
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