Security at QCon San Francisco 2025
At QCon San Francisco 2025, discover the emerging trends trends and practices in Security directly from the senior practitioners who are defending what's next.
November 17–21, 2025
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Early Bird Deadline November 11th
Conference: $2,970
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Security sessions at QCon San Francisco 2025
Nov 17
Confidently Automating Changes Across a Diverse Fleet
Maintaining up-to-date and secure software across a polyglot fleet is a challenge for any engineering organization. Manual migrations and urgent updates disrupt productivity and require coordination across many teams.
Casey Bleifer
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
Nov 17
Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure
In this talk, Matthew will describe lessons learned from over 20+ years of building scalable, secure and stable infrastructure platforms for software in financial services (electronic trading, credit card processing etc.), the talk is relevant to anyone building platforms for mission-critic
Matthew Liste
Head of Infrastructure @American Express, Previously @JPMorgan Chase and @Goldman Sachs
Nov 17
Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
What does it take to safely delete data at Netflix scale? In large-scale systems, data deletion cuts across infrastructure, reliability, and performance complexities.
Vidhya Arvind
Tech Lead & a Founding Architect for the Data Abstraction Platform @Netflix, Previously @Box and @Verizon
Shawn Liu
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix, Building Reliable and Extensible Systems for Consumer Data Lifecycle at Scale
Nov 19
The Ironies of AAII
Details coming soon.
Paul Reed
Staff Incident Operations Manager @Chime
Nov 19
Trustworthy Productivity: Securing AI-Accelerated Development
As AI accelerates delivery, new attack surfaces and compliance risks emerge. This session distills best practices for threat-modeling AI pipelines, guarding sensitive data, detecting prompt-injection, and validating AI-generated code before it merges.
Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan
Senior Software Engineer @AWS Agentic AI, Previously Core Team @AWS SAM, AWS Cloudwatch, Core Developer @Openstack
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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.
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Real-world talks curated for depth, value, without hidden product pitches.
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