Uncover emerging software trends and practices to solve your complex engineering challenges, without the product pitches.
International software development conference.
QCon San Francisco brings together the world's most innovative senior software engineers, architects and team leads across multiple domains to share their real-world implementation of emerging trends and practices.
October 24-28, 2022 / Hyatt Regency - San Francisco
Save 150 USD before October 3rd
Benefits of attending QCon San Francisco:
- Learn from practitioners driving innovation and change in software.
- Identify best practices from those working on in-production projects.
- Uncover emerging trends and tools.
- Focus on patterns & practices, not products or pitches.
- Acquire implementable ideas for your projects.
- Meet software leaders from innovator and early adopter companies.
- Validate your software development roadmap.
Conference for Professional Software Developers
#QConSF
Understand the emerging software trends you should pay attention to
Learn from software leaders at early adopter companies on the trends and practices to inspire your decisions, workflows and roadmap.
- Green Tech
- Rust
- WASM
- eBPF
- Machine Learning @ Edge
- Scalable Configuration Managment
- Infrastructure Unification
- Cue Lang
- MLOps
- Team Topologies
- Staff+ Engineer Path
- Service Meshes
- Microfrontends
- Multicloud Practices
- Software Ethics
- Feature Engineering
- Mode Infrerence/Prediction
- Observability Practices
- Server-Driven Frontend
- Decarbonizing the Grid
- Operator Pattern for
Non-Clustered Resources - Patterns & Heuristics
Enabling Fast Flow - Open Policy Agent
- Java 16
- 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
Tracks
Discover some of the topics you will see at QCon San Francisco.
Oct 24
Architecting for Change at Scale
Haley Tucker
Senior Software Engineer for Productivity Engineering @Netflix
Oct 24
"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies
James Stanier
Director of Engineering @Shopify
Oct 24
Building Modern Backends
Todd Montgomery
Ex-NASA Researcher and High Performance Distributed Systems Whisperer
Oct 24
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML
Carmen Andoh
Hacker at @cue_lang, previously @google @golang @travisci
Oct 24
MLOps
Hien Luu
Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash
Oct 25
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow
Courtney Kissler
CTO @zulily
Oct 25
"Just" Engineering Culture
Michelle Brush
Engineering Manager SRE @Google
Oct 25
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving
Thomas Betts
Laureate Application Architect @Blackbaud
Oct 25
Green Tech
Adrian Cockcroft
Former VP Amazon Sustainability Architecture @Amazon, previously @Netflix, founding member of eBay Research Labs, distinguished engineer @SunMicrosystems
Oct 25
Operating Microservices: Patterns for Success
Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previously Platform Architect @VMware
Oct 26
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
How do the internet-scale tech giants deliver exceptional user experiences while supporting millions of users and billions of operations?
Randy Shoup
VP Engineering and Chief Architect @eBay
Oct 26
Effective SRE
Casey Rosenthal
CEO, Co-Founder @verica_io
Oct 26
Practical Security
Julia Knecht
Manager, Security Platforms Engineering @Netflix
Oct 26
Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend
Benjamin Dunphy
Founder @EventLoop and Organizer @Reactathon
Oct 26
Staff+ Engineer Path
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia
Curated learning set by senior software leaders.
Behind every QCon is a Program Committee of senior software leaders who curate the essential topics you need to know about. Meet the QCon San Francisco 2022 Program Committee.
Featured Speakers
Learn how software development teams are pivoting and surviving during rapid business change. Plus hear from software leaders pushing the boundaries.
Health & Safety at QCon San Francisco 2022
COVID Attendance Requirements
All participants must either show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or show an official proof of a negative Covid test from either the current calendar day or the prior calendar day, or show proof of recovery from COVID-19 in the last 90 days. Full details can be found in our Terms & Conditions (paragraphs 6a, 6b, and 6c).
Face Masks Required
Face masks that fully cover your nose and mouth are required during the entire event. Exceptions for not wearing a mask are when you are drinking or eating in designated areas or presenting on stage. Please bring your own face mask. Substantial cloth masks, surgical masks, N95 masks, or KN95 masks are acceptable. Exhale valves or bandannas are not acceptable.
Morning COVID Vaccination or Testing Checks
Please plan to arrive at least 1 hour before the start of the morning keynote to allow us time to check everyone’s COVID-19 vaccination or testing status. Once inside the venue, we are providing a light continental breakfast.
Cleaning and Sanitizing
We'll operate enhanced cleaning and frequent disinfecting, including all high traffic and high-touch areas such as restrooms, doors, lecterns, and elevators. The venue will use upgraded air filtration systems and provide hand sanitizer stations throughout.
Spaced Seating and Exhibit Areas
Seating configurations in the session rooms will be set to allow social distancing between attendees. The exhibition areas will follow similar spacing requirements.
Schedule format
15 tracks spaced over 3 days.
15 workshops over 2 days.
4 Keynotes and 75 technical talks.
Speaker AMAs and Unconferences.
Below are approximate start and end-times. Agenda is subject to change
MON
245 x Sessions + 1 Unconference "Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Building Modern Backends
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference MLOps
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
PST
TUE
255 x Sessions + 1 Unconference "Just" Engineering Culture
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Modern APIs: Building and Evolving
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Green Tech
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
PST
WED
265 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Staff+ Engineer Path
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Effective SRE
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Practical Security
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
PST
Evolve your skills
Learn modern practices to future-proof your career with QCon Workshops.
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 workshop lengths.
Half-day, one day or two day workshop options.
Buy with confidence.
Workshop tickets are refundable until August 1st, 2022.
Workshop Topics
Workshops
intermediate
Thursday Oct 27 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY
MACHINE LEARNINGMLOps: A Framework to Build Reliable ML Systems [Half-Day]
Over the last decade Machine Learning has become ubiquitous, powering applications across a variety of domains - from web search to autonomous drones.
Nihit Desai
CTO and co-founder @RefuelAI, Previously staff engineer @Facebook, recommender systems @Instagram & search quality @LinkedIn
beginner
Friday Oct 28 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
SERVICE MESHIstio Service Mesh [Full-Day]
As development moves toward cloud-native application development using containerized and distributed services, it has become essential for developers to understand how these services work together.
Eitan Suez
Content Engineer @Tetrate, Previously a technical instructor @ VMware and @Pivotal and Principal Consultant @ThoughtWorks
Peter Jausovec
Content Engineer @Tetrate
intermediate
Thursday Oct 27 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY
MACHINE LEARNINGDeep Learning From Scratch [Half-Day]
Neural Networks continue to be the bleeding edge of Machine Learning, from smashing image benchmarks in the 2010s to powering ever-improving language models today. But how do they work “under the hood” - are there some graduate physics-level mathematical tricks involved, for example?
Seth Weidman
Data Scientist @SentiLink, Previously Data Scientist @Facebook, author of ‘Deep Learning From Scratch'
intermediate
Friday Oct 28 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
OBSERVABILITYOpenTelemetry: See Inside Your Software with Observability [SOLD OUT]
Observability: when software teaches you what’s happening, what’s wrong, and what is slow. Modern software systems keep getting more and more interesting; this complexity is manageable with observability.
Jessica Kerr
Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio
intermediate
Thursday Oct 27 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
MICROSERVICESModern Spring Based Microservices on Kubernetes [9AM - 5PM]
Since 2014 Spring has been the leading framework for building microservices in the Java ecosystem. A lot has changed over the past 8 years in both the Spring ecosystem and wider cloud ecosystem.
Adib Saikali
Principal Platform Architect @VMwareTanzu
Cristian-Dan Dobrin
Enterprise App Mod Architect @googlecloud
beginner
Thursday Oct 27 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY
HashiCorp Vault for Application Developers [Half-Day]
A modern system requires access to many secrets, including database credentials, API keys for external services, and credentials for service-oriented architecture communication.
Nic Jackson
Principal Developer Advocate @HashiCorp
beginner to intermediate
Thursday Oct 27 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY
UXLean UX - An Overview [Half-Day]
In this highly interactive workshop you will learn the basics of Lean/UX, taking a hands-on approach to incorporating UX directly into your development process. Using a sample product idea, you will experience
Shane Hastie
Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com
beginner to intermediate
Friday Oct 28 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
MICROFRONTENDMicrofrontend Architecture [SOLD OUT]
In recent years web applications have drastically grown in size. Nowadays multiple teams and developers are working on the frontend alone. Quite often, this leads to communication and alignment issues together with longer times to market. A fresh alternative is the pattern of micro frontends.
Florian Rappl
Solution Architect @smapiot
intermediate
Friday Oct 28 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY
WARDLEY MAPPINGWardley Mapping [Half-Day]
Wardley Mapping is a practical approach to constructing a topographical business map that directs business decisions.
Zichuan Xiong
Principal @Thoughtworks
Karthik Krishnan
Technical Principal @Thoughtworks
Premanand Chandrasekaran
Head of Technology @Thoughtworks
intermediate to advanced
Thursday Oct 27 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
DOMAIN DRIVEN DESIGNDomain-Driven Design: A hands-on guide for practitioners [Full-Day]
While the IT industry prides itself on being at the very bleeding edge of technology, it also oversees a relatively high proportion of projects that fail outright or do not meet their originally intended goals for one reason or another.
Premanand Chandrasekaran
Head of Technology @Thoughtworks
Karthik Krishnan
Technical Principal @Thoughtworks
Zichuan Xiong
Principal @Thoughtworks
Thursday Oct 27 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
DATA PIPELINESCreating a Kafka Streaming Data Pipeline [Full-Day]
Data is everywhere. It's being produced by almost everything around you. In order for businesses to be competitive, they need to build resilient, scalable systems that can efficiently tap into and react to this ever-increasing volume of data.
Danica Fine
Senior Developer Advocate @Confluent
beginner to intermediate
Friday Oct 28 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY
DOMAIN DRIVEN DESIGNTeam Topologies [Half-Day]
Team Topologies is an organizational design practice that keeps software healthy and evolvable for optimized engineering culture and promised outcomes. This workshop introduces nine steps of running Team Topologies that help engineering leaders
Zichuan Xiong
Principal @Thoughtworks
Premanand Chandrasekaran
Head of Technology @Thoughtworks
Karthik Krishnan
Technical Principal @Thoughtworks
Thursday Oct 27 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY
Infrastructure as Code for Application Developers with HashiCorp Terraform [Half-Day]
The distinction between operations and development is continually blurring, with application developers being increasingly required to manage their application-specific infrastructure.
Nic Jackson
Principal Developer Advocate @HashiCorp
beginner to intermediate
Thursday Oct 27 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY
HYBRID WORKAvoiding Hybrid Hell [Half-Day]
As organisations move out of the forced remote work of the pandemic into something new, employees have made it clear that working remotely can be effective and productive, in fact there is research which shows that remote work can be more productive than in-person.
Shane Hastie
Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com
beginner to intermediate
Friday Oct 28 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
MICROSERVICESBuilding Microservices with Go [Full-Day]
Microservice architecture is sweeping the world as the de facto pattern to build web-based applications. Golang is a language particularly well suited to building them.
Nic Jackson
Principal Developer Advocate @HashiCorp
Trainings
intermediate
Thursday Oct 27 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
Friday Oct 28 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY
Scaling Organizations and Technology [2-Day Training]
The difference in speed and quality between the highest- and lowest-performing technology organizations is more than 1000x. And as the elite organizations scale, they continue accelerating away from the pack.
Randy Shoup
VP Engineering and Chief Architect @eBay
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.
Wes Reisz
QCon San Francisco Conference Chair, Co-host of the InfoQ Podcast, Technology Leader, Engineer, & Technical Adviser
The QCon difference
Real-world technical talks. No product pitches.
Practical ideas to inspire you and your team.
Technical talks from early adopters driving innovation & change.
Get clarity on the use-cases of emerging trends you can adopt. Learn from the real-world successes and failures of software leaders.
Only patterns and practices. Not products and pitches.
Get up-to-speed on the new trends, techniques and ways of working being applied by people like you.
Real-world advice you can implement.
Inspire what’s next for your team and roadmap with real-world ideas shared directly by senior software engineers.
Meet and Learn from Your Peers
25 Minute Breaks
“The Hallway Track”
Longer breaks between sessions to connect with attendees, speakers & sponsors or take time out to re-energize.
Unconferences
An unconference is a simple way to run productive, structured conversations 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, Exhibitor & Hospitality Receptions. Opportunities to mingle and network with speakers, attendees, editors and sponsors. Complimentary for all conference attendees.
Join the Senior Software Engineers, Software Architects, and Technical Team Leads at QCon San Francisco
QCon San Francisco isn't just a software conference. It's the place where senior software engineers, tech leads, and software architects come together to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.
Software
Developer
Software Architect, Technical Team Lead and Higher
Senior Developer / Lead
Engineer
- Technical Team Lead
- Senior Management (VP, CTO, CIO, Director)
- Architect: Technical / Application (platform specific)
- Enterprise Architect / Chief Architect
- Architect: Solution / Systems (Integration Focused)
- Technical Project Manager
Conference 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.
'We Care' experience
A safe place where everyone is welcome
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
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Due to QCon's focus on early stage technology trends and the curated expert speakers, the material presented was visionary, fresh, and applicable for things we need to solve in our teams. The conference was well-facilitated, and the daily format (keynote/intro in AM introducing tracks) was compelling also.
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