Build AI that delivers in production.
At QCon San Francisco 2026, discover how senior engineering teams are making AI reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient, turning prototypes into systems that drive measurable business impact.
November 16–20, 2026
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Early Bird Deadline July 14th
Conference: $2,595
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Trainings
Thursday Nov 19 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
Building AI Agents: A Practical Framework for Choosing the Right SDK
The AI agent ecosystem has exploded with options—Google's Agent Developing Kit, Claude SDK, OpenAI Agents, LangGraph, Pydantic AI, and more emerging monthly. But which one should you actually use?
Hien Luu
Sr. Engineering Manager @Zoox & Author of MLOps with Ray, Speaker and Conference Committee Chair
Thursday Nov 19 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
AI-Assisted Coding Master Class: Build Your Mission Control
Most engineers aren't spending enough time setting up their environment to get the most out of their coding agents.
Sepehr Khosravi
Machine Learning Platform Engineer @Coinbase, Award Winning Instructor @UC Berkeley - Gen-AI Bootcamp, Founder @AI Squads
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Explore the scheduleThe real challenges in AI now are reliability, scalability, and cost. At QCon San Francisco, you learn from the leaders in the field who are building AI systems that perform, scale, and create measurable business impact.
QCon San Francisco 2026 Program Committee Member, Sr. Engineering Manager @Zoox & Author of MLOps with Ray
Conversations that turn insight into impact
The scheduled sessions at QCon are the agenda, but the real value is in the unscripted moments: the whiteboard debates in an unconference, the candid advice over coffee, the speaker dinner stories about failures and trade-offs. That's the perspective you can't get from a screen.
Principal Solutions Architect, QCon Speaker, O'Reilly Author, YouTuber
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Unlock your potential at QCon San Francisco 2026
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Gain concrete strategies from 75+ hand picked speakers across 15 curated tracks.
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Real-world talks curated for depth, value, without hidden product pitches.
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Network with peers at Unconferences, in the 'hallway track', during extended breaks, over lunch, and at conference socials.
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Gain 12 months on-demand access to session recordings after the conference to continue your learning journey.
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