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QCon San Francisco international software development conference.
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, October 2-6, 2023.
In-person: $3,350 - Final price
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We've helped thousands of senior software engineers, software architects and tech leaders adopt the right patterns & practices for over 17 years.
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks, Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, & QCon SF 2023 PC Chair, Previously Platform Architect @VMware
Oct 2
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

Sid Anand
Chief Architect @Datazoom, Committer/PMC Apache Airflow, Previously: Netflix, LinkedIn, eBay, Etsy, & PayPal
Oct 2
Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML

Justin Cormack
CTO @Docker
Oct 2
Staff+ Engineering Skills

Krys Flores
Staff Engineer @Carta, Previously at Lob, Simple Habit, and Nordstromrack.com|HauteLook
Oct 2
Designing for Resilience

Javier Fernandez-Ivern
Staff Software Engineer @Netflix with over 20 years in Software Engineering
Oct 3
Platform Engineering Done Well

Daniel Bryant
Java Champion, Co-author of "Mastering API Architecture", Independent Technical Consultant, and InfoQ News Manager
Oct 3
Modern ML: GenAI, Trust, & Path2Prod

Hien Luu
Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash & Author of Beginning Apache Spark 3, Speaker and Conference Committee Chair
Oct 3
JVM Trends: Charting the Future of Productivity & Performance

Monica Beckwith
Java Champion, First Lego League Coach, passionate about JVM Performance @Microsoft
Oct 3
Architecting for the Cloud

Khawaja Shams
Co-Founder & CEO @Momento, previously @NASA and @Amazon
Oct 4
Deep Tech: Pushing the Boundaries of Hardware+Software

Allison Randal
Board Member @sfconservancy.org, openinfra.dev, and openusage.org
Oct 4
Emerging Trends in the Frontend

Jeff Wagner
Director of Engineering @Snowflake
Oct 4
Lessons in Building Organization Resilience

Courtney Hemphill
Partner & Head of Product, Engineering, and Design (PXEL) @WestMonroe
Oct 4
The speakers and the attendees make QCon stand out from other events. It is very well organized. QCon has a good balance of new tech to look out for along with the discussions around day to day problems that we face as developers
Vipra Ramtekkar
Development Engineer @ING
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Keynotes
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Practical projects. Step-by-step walk throughs. Built in reflection time.

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Half-day, one day or two day workshop options.

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Workshop tickets are refundable until August 21st, 2023.
Curated learning set by senior software leaders.
Essential topics. Emerging patterns and practices. Hand-picked speakers.
Meet the QCon San Francisco 2023 Programming Committee.
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.
Dio Synodinos
President of C4Media, makers of InfoQ and QCon
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- Green Tech
- Rust
- WASM
- eBPF
- Machine Learning @ Edge
- Scalable Configuration Management
- Infrastructure Unification
- Cue Lang
- MLOps
- Team Topologies
- Staff+ Engineer Path
- Service Meshes
- Microfrontends
- Multicloud Practices
- Software Ethics
- Feature Engineering
- Mode Inference/Prediction
- Observability Practices
- Server-Driven Frontend
- Decarbonizing the Grid
- Operator Pattern for
Non-Clustered Resources - Patterns & Heuristics
Enabling Fast Flow - Open Policy Agent
- Java 17 (LTS)
- 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

Learn the emerging trends
Curated trends our Program Committee believe have the most impact in software development.

Explore the use cases
Learn how real-world practitioners are applying the tech to help you solve common problems.

Implement the best practices
Get implementable ideas to shape your projects that last beyond the conference.
The conciseness with which the event is presented, as well as the options for the tracks, allow one to either mix and match talks or focus on a single track of interest. It's an interesting and wonderful approach. The long breaks and 'unconference' opportunities are also quite unique in their ability to connect people from seemingly different backgrounds.
Jonathan Tanye
Director Of Research Development @MineX 360 Services
Learn from senior software engineers
Real-world technical talks from software leaders at early adopter companies
Domain leaders
Learn what's next from world-class leaders pushing the boundaries.
Relatable challenges
Learn how senior developers are solving the challenges you face.
Diverse perspectives
Get new ideas and perspectives across multiple domains.
Valuable lessons
Actionable insights from those working on real-world projects.
Time to connect
Intentional time built-in for you to connect with speakers and peers.
No hype
No hidden marketing. No sales pitches.
Quality content and topics from industry experts and I like how that is separated very transparently from sponsors. I appreciate how sponsors have their place, but it's very clear and not deceptive mixed in with the content. It really is a conference that is specific technology agnostic and about any and all industry wide trends and best practices.
Mike Murray
Senior Director, Software Engineering@DriveTime
Actionable ideas. New perspectives.
A learning path that works for you.

Immersive experience
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Problem-solve at
unconference
sessions
Join facilitated sessions to help you generate new ideas to current challenges.

Unwind at QCon
social events
Connect with peers and reflect on your learnings at our social events.

Access video recordings after the conference
Get 6 months access to professionally edited session recordings after the conference.
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I had an absolute blast at @QConSF, hands down the best speaker experience I’ve ever had! Major shout out to @InfoQ for being as thoughtful as they are in organizing the event. #QConSF
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Last night in San Francisco for #QConSF … learned a lot, met a lot of amazing minds. One more day to go though (happy it’s not over just yet)!
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@the_mjfreeman
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Just realized that @QConSF closing keynote speaker is THE @KentBeck This conference just keeps getting better and better
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@devagrawal09
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Classic #QConSF problem: too many cool topics. Loving it
Willem Meints
@willem_meints
QCon SF is my yearly go to conference for deep technical content on design, best practices and emerging tech. I always walk away with meaningful and actionable information.
Chandra Cherukuri
Software Engineer @Quantcast
'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
Access to video recordings for 6 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.
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We've been helping software development teams adopt new technologies and practices for over 17 years. The driving force behind every QCon conference is our passion to accelerate the software side of human progress.
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