DevEx & Frontends at QCon San Francisco 2026
At QCon San Francisco 2026, discover the emerging trends trends and practices in DevEx & Frontends directly from the senior practitioners who are defending what's next.
November 16–20, 2026
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Early Bird Deadline August 11th
Conference: $2,715
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DevEx & Frontends sessions at QCon San Francisco 2026
The Schema Was Never Enough: The World in Protocols
Every reliable process in the world is a protocol: auctions, double-entry bookkeeping, brokerage account transfers, or APIs. Protocols reduce ambiguity but the world remains messy.
Ryan Scott Brown
Principal Engineer @Crunchyroll, Previously @Red Hat, @Trek10, and @Vendia
Understanding as a Deliverable: How AI Changes What Healthy Software Looks Like
AI is changing software development far faster than our engineering practices are evolving, and many teams are struggling to adapt their processes and tools to keep up.
Margaret-Anne Storey
Professor of Computer Science @University of Victoria, Co-Creator of the SPACE Framework and the Triple Debt Model for Software Health, a Canada Research Chair in Human and Social Aspects of Software Engineering
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Explore the scheduleTracks
12 tracks with 60+ presentations from senior practitioners
Modern API Design for Humans and Agents
Krys Flores
Staff Software Engineer @Crunchyroll, Host of O'Reilly's The Staff Engineer's Career Roadmap
Engineering the Developer Experience
Ankit Jain
Co-Founder & CEO @Aviator
QCon is where you discover what’s next, from the senior practitioners building it. We focus on emerging patterns proven in production, sharing the unfiltered story: the real-world trade-offs, the hard-won lessons, and what it actually took to ship.
President, C4Media (makers of InfoQ and QCon)
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 60+ hand picked speakers across 12 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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