Security at QCon San Francisco 2026
At QCon San Francisco 2026, discover the emerging trends trends and practices in Security directly from the senior practitioners who are defending what's next.
November 16–20, 2026
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Early Bird Deadline September 8th
Conference: $2,835
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Security sessions at QCon San Francisco 2026
Nov 16
The Freeze Paradox: Why Stopping Deployments Doesn't Stop Failures
When systems fail at Netflix and in an environment this complex, they sometimes will, the instinctive response is to freeze deployments.
Prachi Jain
Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Netflix, Expert in Building and Managing Scalable, Reliable Services, Previously @Fastly and @Cisco
Sandhya Narayan
Technical Program Manager @Netflix, Expert in Information Security, Compliance, and Risk Management, Previously @Adobe, SAP, @eBay, and the Stanford Research Institute
Nov 16
How Airbnb Guardrailed Its AI Customer Support Agent
When Airbnb launched its AI customer support assistant, the feature made the news — the guardrails built to make it safe to ship did not. Yet an AI agent that talks to millions of customers, remembers a conversation across turns, and can trigger account actions is a
Nov 16
Practical Concerns Running Agents in Production
Details coming soon.
Amanda Walker
Sr. Director, Engineering - Privacy, Safety and Security @Google
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12 tracks with 60+ presentations from senior practitioners
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
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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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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