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              Scale production AI.
              Evolve distributed architectures. 
              
                Build high-velocity platforms.
              
            
            Learn what worked, what failed, and what to avoid from 60+ senior developers, architects and leaders who adopted these practices first so you can adopt emerging trends with confidence.
November 17-21, 2025
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Early Bird Deadline November 11th
Conference: $2,970
Need to convince your boss? Use our templates.
QCon past attendees included senior engineers from these organizations
What you’ll learn
Real-world patterns from senior developers at the leading edge
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact
Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development
Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement
The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership
Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups
High-Performance Languages in Modern Development
Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability
Innovations in Front-End
Navigating Major Architecture Migrations
The Stories Behind the Incidents
Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation
Why attend QCon San Francisco
Learn from early adopters. Make better decisions.
Whether you're evaluating AI for production, planning a platform migration, or navigating technical leadership, QCon connects you with engineers who've already done it.
Need to convince your boss? Use our template.
Real-world patterns
Learn from production systems, not proof-of-concepts
Honest lessons
Hear what failed, not just what worked
No hidden product pitches
Learn from peer-selected speakers
Career-relevant skills
Technical and leadership practices you’ll actually use
Strategy validation
Benchmark your approach against early adopters
Featured Talks
Learn from senior practitioners building and scaling enterprise systems
Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery
 
				
					Aaron Erickson
Senior Manager and Founder of the DGX Cloud Applied AI Lab @NVIDIA, Previously Engineer @ThoughtWorks, VP of Engineering @New Relic, CEO and Co-Founder @Orgspace
				
Deep Research for Enterprise: Unlocking Actionable Intelligence from Complex Enterprise Data with Agentic AI
 
				
					Vinaya Polamreddi
Staff ML Engineer; Agentic AI @Glean; Previously @Apple, @Meta, and @Stanford
				
Engineering at AI Speed: Lessons from the First Agentically Accelerated Software Project
 
				
					Adam Wolff
Engineer and Individual Contributor to Claude Code @Anthropic, Previously @Robinhood, @Facebook
				
AI-Driven Productivity: From Idea to Impact
 
				
					Jyothi Nookula
 Product Leader Director with 13+ Years Driving AI Product & Platform Innovation, Previously @Meta, @Amazon, and @Etsy
				
Meet the speakers
See some of the QCon San Francisco speakers
The QCon experience
Talks worth your time. Connections that matter.
Conference experience
12 curated tracks
60+ peer-selected international speakers
Deep technical dives
Hear what failed, not just what worked
Video access
12 months of on-demand recordings
Optional experiences
 
					Understand what’s coming next
      QCon speakers are at the leading edge adopting emerging technologies in
      
production before they're proven. Learn from their experience to reduce your
      risk
    
    - Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Multimodal AI
- Agentic AI / Orchestration
- Physical AI
- Reasoning Models
- AI DevOps
- AI-powered hardware
- AI in Robotics aka Embodied AI
- LangOps or LLMOps
- Knowledge Graphs
- Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Robotics
- Edge inference and model training
- 
          Large-scale distributed 
 deep-learning
- Small Language Models (SLMs)
- Explainable AI
- Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- 
          Generative AI/Large 
 Language Models (LLMs)
- Cloud agnostic computing for AI
- Data Contracts
- Data Observability
- Virtual Reality e.g. VR/AR/MR/XR
- Cognitive Services
- Graph Data Analytics
- IoT Platforms
- Synthetic data generation
- MLOps
- Vector Databases
- AI coding assistants
- 
          Image Recognition 
 (Computer Vision)
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Open Table Formats (OTFs)
- Data Mesh
- Digital Assistants
- Apache Beam
Source: InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report - 2025
Your team at QCon
Bring your colleagues for faster results
 
        Engineering Leaders & CTOs
Validate multi-year technology strategy. Understand which emerging practices are ready for enterprise adoption.
 
        Software Architects & Principal Engineers
Get architectural patterns from teams who've scaled systems you're planning to build. Learn their tradeoffs.
 
        Senior Developers & Staff+ Engineers
Develop technical judgment for complex decisions. See how leading teams solve problems similar to yours.
Need to convince your boss?
Use our pre-written templates.
      Get three days of practical insights from 60+ senior
      
software practitioners. Use these takeaways to:
    
    Reduce project risk
Learn from real-world failures to avoid costly mistakes
Benchmark your approach
Understand how leading teams tackle problems you're facing
Accelerate delivery
Apply architectural and operational patterns that work at scale
Validate technology bets
Learn from engineers who adopted first to reduce your risk
Build team capability
Equip yourself and your team with durable, relevant skills
Stay ahead of the curve
Understand emerging trends before they become table stakes
2025 Program Committee
Meet the international senior software 
practitioners curating the conference
          
      A safe and inclusive environment
The QCon 'We Care' experience
Enforced Code of Conduct
All-Gender restroom
Prayer room
Lactation room
Quiet areas
Sessions feedback for constant improvement
Badge optimized for peer-sharing
Accessible event space
Variety of food options (vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, special diet meals)
Detailed food labels
Diversity scholarships
Community events
DEI guidelines for track hosts and speakers
All-day coffee
Flexible online experience
On-demand access for 12 months
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.
To learn more and reserve your hotel room, please visit the venue page .
Why senior engineers trust QCon
Trusted insights. No hidden product pitches.
Transforming your work: Practical takeaways and new perspectives.
See the QCon difference
Explore past QCon talks. Watch our deep, peer-lead focus in action.
Who attends QCon
Technical leaders, senior engineers, and software architects making technical decisions
34%
					TECHNICAL TEAM LEADS AND HIGHER,
					SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS
				
			23%
SENIOR DEVELOPER / LEAD ENGINEER
24%
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Guiding engineering teams for 19+ years
QCon and InfoQ have guided software teams through every shift.
Sessions at QCon are selected by an international program committee for depth, relevance, and real-world value. No hidden product pitches.
Real teams. Real stories. Real results. 
			19 years
Helping senior dev teams adopt the right patterns and practices
 
			550k per month
Global senior software developers relying on the InfoQ community to stay ahead
 
			4500+ per year
Senior developers learning emerging trends and practices at our QCon international software development conferences
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