"One of the most fun and intellectually intimate conferences I have joined. The open sessions were excellent – total serendipity."
Conference: Nov 13-15, 2017
Workshops: Nov 16-17, 2017
Attending QCon Includes:
- 18 editorial tracks across 3 days
- 140+ practitioner speakers from places like Uber, Google, Dropbox, Slack, Twitter, and more…
- 11 to 1 attendee to speaker ratio
- No hidden paid sessions/marketing!
- Video recording for most sessions included
- 28 optional workshops following the conference
- Focus on healthy food, including gluten-free & vegan
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Tracks
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21st Century Languages
Compile to Native, Microservices, Machine learning... tailor-made languages solving modern challenges
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Architecting for Failure
Lessons on creating scalable and reliable systems that are resilient to failure.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Architectural practices from the world's most well known properties.
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Beyond Being an Individual Contributor
Beyond being an individual contributor. Building and Evolving managers and tech leadership.
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Beyond Docker: Container Technologies
Containers are not just a techology. It's a platform. Push your knowledge.
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Culture as a Differentiator (or Building Great Engineering Cultures)
Evolving the org's tech stack and culture together.
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DevOps: You Build It, You Run It
Pushing DevOps beyond adoption into cultural change.
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Evolving Java
At well over 20 years old, Java continues to evolve & change. Learn more on JDK9, Jigsaw, Event Sourcing, & G1GC.
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Hardware Frontiers: Hardware Changes Affecting Software Developers Today
Quantum computing, NVRAM, SMR, GPU, Augmented Reality.
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Microservices: Patterns and Practices
Stories of success and failure building modern Microservices, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today.
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Performance Mythbusting
Real world, applied performance proofs.
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Practical ML Applications
Applied commoditization of Machine Learning today, including ANN, Deep Learning, & Semi-Supervised/Unsupervised Learning.
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Security: Attacking and Defending
Talks focused on Red and Blue teaming.
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Serverless Warstories
Deep dive into the patterns and use cases of serverless architectures today.
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Stream Processing (Applications of Near-Real Time)
Dataflow, Spark, Flink, & other near real-time solutions powering data pipelines today.
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The Whole Engineer
Success as an engineer is more than writing code.
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Web as Platform
All things Browser, from JavaScript Frameworks to Web Assembly.
Bleeding-edge for the Enterprise
Bring trends from innovator and early adopter companies home to your team
Tensorflow
Apache Beam
Java 9
Deep Learning
Petabyte Scale Analytics
Unikernels
Stream Processing
Property-Based Testing
Chatbots
TC39 ECMAScript
Recommendation Engines
RxJS
Lambda/Serverless
Architecting for Failure
DevOps
Microservices Implementation
Reactive
Containers
Last Years Featured Speakers
Engineers over Evangelists,
Practitioners over Trainers/Coaches,
Team Leads over Consultants
Attendees talk about the Speakers
of QCon attendees feel they are learning from an expert peer
of QCon attendees rate the level of content as expert
* Our goal is to reach 100%
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Keynotes
Last Year's Workshops
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THURSDAY
Morning
[SOLD OUT] Microservices w/ Spring Boot and Docker
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Human-Centered Software Development
[SOLD OUT] Agile Mindset for Business Problems
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[SOLD OUT] Go Microservices
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Angular2 Forms
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[SOLD OUT]Event Sourcing,CQRS &SOA: Event Sourcing
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Continuous Application with Apache Spark 2.0
Afternoon
[SOLD OUT] Working in Distributed Agile Teams
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RxJS 5 basics Workshop
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Creative Problem Solving: 10x Thinking
Mastering .NET Memory Management
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[SOLD OUT] Event Sourcing, CQRS &SOA: CQRS
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[SOLD OUT] Beginning RxJava
Stream Processing with Apache Flink®
Go Microservices
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FRIDAY
Morning
Continuous dis-Integration: Red Team attacks
Kubernetes in Production with Jenkins
[NEW] Agile Mindset for Business Problems
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Building Great Teams: Culture and Core Protocols
[SOLDOUT] Real-time Data Pipelines w/ Apache Kafka
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React 101 Workshop
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[SOLD OUT] Modelling with messages
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Hands-on HTTP/2, a Fresh Start to The Web
Beginning RxJava
Afternoon
Mastering Chrome DevTools
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Git Master Class by GitHub
Introduction to NLP using NLTK and Python
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Self Awareness and Cultural Dynamics
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AWS Lambda: Saving us from a Zombie Apocalypse
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Building Your First App with Apache Mesos & DC/OS
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Building a Killr Application with Apache Cassandra
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[SOLD OUT] Realtime Data Pipelines w/ Apache Kafka
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QCon SF 2017 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
Book your room now at the QCon special rate of $269/night*.
*first-come-first serve basis and possibility of early sell-out
Phone reservations: +1-888-591-1234
Open Space
Every day at QCon San Francisco, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. 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.
Why are we doing Open Space?
We’re doing Open Space at QCon because we want this conference to be yours. At QCon, we learn from the best and share with the best.
We come with passions and ideas that we want to share with each other. We want to connect with each other, create community around topics that we’re passionate about.
Social Events
Come attend to mingle and network with other speakers, editors, attendees, sponsors. Complementary and free for all conference attendees.
Things you’ll be enjoying at QCon San Francisco
- Breakfast to kickstart your QCon day
- High quality lunch and snacks with option for vegetarians and gluten free
- Breaks between sessions to network with your peers
- Receptions with drinks and snacks to recap the day
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The Experience We Bring
Leading Architects talk about
the other attendees
Is QCon Right for You?
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
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Meet and Learn from Your Peers
25 Minute Breaks “The Hallway Track”
25 Minute Breaks “The Hallway Track”
Mingle and network with other attendees, speakers & sponsors.
Open Spaces
Open Spaces
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.
Discussion Café
Discussion Café
Lunch will feature sections of smaller tables for 4 around particular topics where you can meet each other in a more comfortable setting, in addition to the usual large 10 seat conference lunch tables.
Social Events
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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Healthy QCon
Different menu items:
Vegan or Vegetarian
Gluten-Free
Dairy-Free
What is a QCon Like ?
View the QCon London 2016 report to get a feel for what QCon is like and what we and some of our attendees felt were the most important sessions from QCon London 2016 - including Microservices, Containers, Modern Native Languages, Continuous Delivery, Programming in GO, and Applying Failure Testing at Netflix.
Download this report (15.28 MB)
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