A look back at QCon San Francisco 2025

Thank you to the 850+ senior software engineers, architects, and team leads who made QCon San Francisco 2025 a success! Explore conference highlights and catch up on session videos you missed. With 114+ software leaders sharing practical insights and real-world use cases, QCon helped attendees validate their technical roadmaps, solve challenges, and confidently adopt the right innovations and practices. Looking ahead, join us for QCon San Francisco 2026 (November 16-20). Sign up for email alerts today to be the first to hear about tracks, speakers, and special pricing. 

QCon San Francisco focused on emerging software trends and innovations

Technical talks from over 114 software domain experts focused on innovation and change. Talks focused on patterns & practices, not products and pitches. Attendees learned implementable ideas they could apply after the event.

Innovators
  • Green Tech
  • Rust
  • WASM
  • eBPF
  • Machine Learning @ Edge
  • Scalable Configuration Management
  • Infrastructure Unification
  • Cue Lang
Early Adopters
  • MLOps
  • Team Topologies
  • Staff+ Engineer Path
  • Service Meshes
  • Microfrontends
  • Multicloud Practices
  • Software Ethics
  • Feature Engineering
  • Mode Inference/Prediction
  • Observability Practices
  • Server-Driven Frontend
  • Decarbonizing the Grid
  • Operator Pattern forNon-Clustered Resources
  • Patterns & HeuristicsEnabling Fast Flow
  • Open Policy Agent
  • Java 17 (LTS)
  • Paved Road
Early Majority
  • DevSecOps
  • DevOps in Practice
  • Kubernetes Strategies
  • Observability / Telemetry
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Chaos Engineering
  • Operating Microservices
  • Data Engineering
  • GraphQL
  • Go Techniques & Patterns
  • DevEx
  • Reactive
  • Performance
  • Macroservices
  • Serverless: Orchestration &Choreography
  • Cloud Architectures
  • Patterns for Scale
  • IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
  • Polyglot Software Practices

Loved by senior software practitioners like you

Take a look at the event highlights and see what your peers had to say on social media about #QConSF.

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First time attending #QConSF and cant be more happy with the amazing learning and networking presented here. More importantly, great to have fresh and varied perspective of the software world from experts around us.

Harsh Tamakuwala
Software Developer at Bloomberg

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In just 3 days:  - 12 new LinkedIn connections made  - ~25 pages of handwritten notes taken  - 20 incredible talks attended  - Another 20 sessions bookmarked for later  - Numerous technical and industry conversations had - One amazing conference experienced  Thank you QCon Software Development Conferences San Francisco for an inspiring three days packed with learning, networking, and engaging discussions.  A big thank you to Paylocity for fostering an environment that values continuous learning and growth.  I’m excited to share the insights and takeaways with my teams and colleagues—here’s to putting them into action! 🎉

Saloni Shah
Principal Software Engineer | STEM Advocate

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Was an amazing experience. I will be back to a QCon Conference in the future. Without a doubt, just an amazing time. Great depth of talks. No salesy stuff. And plenty of connections. A++

2025 Topics and Tracks

Behind every QCon is a Program Committee of senior software leaders who curate the essential topics you need to know about. A track is a peer-curated day of talks around important topics in software. Take a look at the QCon San Francisco 2025 topics and tracks.

Keynotes

Learn actionable insights to help you adopt the right technologies and practices.

Keynote spekaers - Nicole Forsgren

From Friction to Flow: How Great DevEx Makes Everything Awesome

Nicole Forsgren

Partner, Applied Research & Strategy, OCTO @Microsoft, Author of "Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps" and "The DevOps Handbook"
Keynote spekaers - Michelle Brush

Humans in the Loop: Engineering Leadership in a Chaotic Industry

Michelle Brush

Engineering Director, SRE @Google, Previously Director of HealtheIntent Architecture @Cerner Corporation & Lead Engineer @Garmin, Author of "2 out of the 97 Things Every SRE Should Know"
Keynote spekaers - Shawna Martell

Hidden Decisions You Don’t Know You’re Making

Shawna Martell

Principal Software Engineer @Imprint, Previously @Carta, @Yahoo, @Verizon, and @Wolfram
Keynote spekaers - Akshat Vig

Open Source, Community, and Consequence: The Story of MongoDB

Akshat Vig

Distinguished Engineer @MongoDB, Previously Senior Principal Engineer NoSQL@AWS
See the 2025 full schedule

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