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 May 23rd
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.
- Rust
- Cutting Edge Performance
- WASM
- eBPF
- Machine Learning @ Edge
- Project Loom
- Java 16
- DeFi
- Federated Machine Learning
- Differentiated Privacy
- GPU/Vector Support for the JVM
- Software Ethics
- Service Meshes
- Microfrontends
- Multicloud Practices
- GraalVM (Compile to Native)
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Cloud Native Adoption (Success &
Failures) - Hybrid Work Strategies
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Serverless: Orchestration vs
Choreography - DevEx
- Org Hacking
- Security & Customer Trust
- Becoming a Better Developer
- Edge Architectures & Wins
-
Finegrained Access Control /
Zero Trust
- DevOps in Practice
- Chaos Engineering
- Remote Working / WFH Strategies
- SRE
- Observability / Telemetry
- React
- Kubernetes Strategies
- Operating Microservices
- API Ergonomics
- Reactive Architectures
- Continuous Delivery
- Streaming Systems
- Microservice Patterns &
Antipatterns - Modern Data Pipelines
- Backend as a Frontend
- Kafka
- Lean & Process Improvements
Preliminary Tracks
Discover some of the topics you will see at QCon San Francisco.
Building Modern Backends
"Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies
MLOps
Practical Security
Effective SRE
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Architecting for Change at Scale
Modern APIs: Building and Evolving
Operating Microservices
Green Tech
Blameless Culture
Staff+ Engineer Path
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML
Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend
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.
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
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
PST
TUE
255 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
PST
WED
265 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
PST
THU
27PST
FRI
28PST
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.
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 Architects, 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.
Conference Location
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)
A booking link to make a room reservation will be added closer to the event.
QCon Healthy
Different menu items:
Vegan or Vegetarian
Gluten-Free
Dairy-Free
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See what past attendees and peers have to say on social media about #QConSF
Well done @InfoQ for an amazing & inspirational #QConSF! The conference gives a good glimpse at what's ahead of the hype cycle. Thanks to @InfoSupportBV for letting me attend. Still have 2 workshop days to look forward too!
Marco Kuiper
@marcofolio
Excited to be working with these industry leaders to design & deliver an amazing software architecture conference experience! #QconSF @randyshoup @probst_kathrin @chemphill @gwenshap @rwitoff @wesreisz
Karen Casella (she/her)
@kcasella
QCon is a kind of mirror reflecting where the world is going. That is exactly the main benefit that you may get from attending
Past QCon Attendee
QCon has practical information that I can bring back with me and be productive within the work environment. I would recommend QCon to any senior level engineer or aspiring technology architect.
Past QCon SF attendee
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.
Past QCon SF attendee
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