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 July 14th
Conference: $2,595
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DevEx & Frontends sessions at QCon San Francisco 2026
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 scheduleWhat you’ll learn
Real-world patterns from senior developers at the leading edge
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Daniela Miao
Co-Founder & CTO @Momento, Systems & Observability Nerd, ex-Lightstep, ex-DynamoDB
Nov 16
Architecting for Agents: Beneath the Loop
Julie Amundson
Senior AI Infrastructure Consultant, ex-Googler, ex-Netflixer
Nov 18
Something About Distributed Systems
Vidhya Arvind
Tech Lead & a Founding Architect for the Data Abstraction Platform @Netflix, Previously @Box and @Verizon
Nov 17
Staff+ Engineering Skills
Javier Fernandez-Ivern
Staff Software Engineer @Netflix with Over 24 Years in Software Engineering
Nov 17
Code Beyond Engineers & Engineering Teams
Suhail Patel
Principal Engineer @Monzo Focused on Designing and Operating Distributed Systems, Previously @Citymapper
Nov 18
Guardrails & Safety Nets (Evals) for the New Landscape
Tanya Reilly
Principal Engineer @Datadog, Author of "The Staff Engineer's Path", Likes Going Places on Trains
Nov 16
Modern API Design for Humans and Agents
Krys Flores
Staff Software Engineer @Crunchyroll, Host of O'Reilly's The Staff Engineer's Career Roadmap
Nov 16
Real World Platform Engineering
Daniel Bryant
Platform Engineer, Co-Author of "Mastering API Architecture", Java Champion, and InfoQ News Manager
Nov 18
Engineering the Developer Experience
Ankit Jain
Co-Founder & CEO @Aviator
Nov 18
Resilience Engineering: Everything Fails All the Time
Vanessa Huerta Granda
Resilience Engineering Manager @Enova, Co-Author of the Howie Guide on Post Incident Analysis, Board Member for the Resilience in Software Foundation
Nov 16
Engineering AI Systems
Melanie Zhao
Engineering Lead @BlackRock, Pioneering AI Adoption in Asset Management
Nov 17
Data Platforms Reimagined
Adi Polak
Director, Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering @Confluent, Author of "Scaling Machine Learning with Spark" and "High Performance Spark 2nd Edition"
Nov 17
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 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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