QCon San Francisco 2018

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2018 QCon Schedule

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Monday November 5, 2018 Tracks Day #1
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9:00am	Conference Introduction and Keynote: If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, It Doesn’t Matter How Fast You Get There Jez Humble CTO @DevOps_Research, Co-author of "ACCELERATE" & State of DevOps Report , Nicole Forsgren CEO/Chief Scientist @DevOps_Research, Co-author of "ACCELERATE" & State of DevOps Report Keynote Grand Ballroom ABC & Simulcast in Bayview AB and Seacliff ABC Download: Slides
10:10am	Break
Track	Microservices / Serverless Patterns & Practices	Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking	Modern Operating Systems	Modern CS in the Real World	JavaScript & Web Tech	Optimizing You: Human Skills for Individuals	Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)	Sponsored Solutions Track I	Sponsored Solutions Track II
Host	Susanne Kaiser	Jessica Kerr	Justin Cormack	Vaidehi Joshi	Neha Batra	Harry Brumleve	Wes Reisz	Nitin Bharti	Nitin Bharti
Location	Ballroom A	Ballroom BC	Bayview AB	Pacific LMNO	Seacliff ABC	Pacific DEKJ	Boardroom C	Pacific BC	Marina
10:35am	From Winning the Microservice War to Keeping the Peace Andrew McVeigh Download: Slides	DevOps For The Database Baron Schwartz Talk MOVED to: Seacliff ABC Download: Slides	How to Make Linux Microservice-Aware With Cilium and eBPF Thomas Graf Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC Download: Slides	Artwork Personalization @Netflix Justin Basilico Download: Slides	JavaScript & Web Tech Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Seacliff D	Incrementally Refactoring Your Habits With Psychology Tilde Thurium Download: Slides		Grading Observability (Note: Not a Product Pitch!) Ben Sigelman Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB Download: Slides	NoSQL + SQL = MySQL Nicolas DeRico Download: Slides
11:25am	Break
11:50am	Reactive DDD—When Concurrent Waxes Fluent Vaughn Vernon Download: Slides	Service Ownership @Slack Holly Allen Download: Slides	Caching Beyond RAM: The Case for NVMe Alan Kasindorf Download: Slides	Modern CS Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Seacliff D	npm and the Future of JavaScript Laurie Voss Download: Slides	How To: Developers' Community Driven Career Growth Georgiy Mogelashvili Download: Slides	AMA & Demo w/ Magic Leap One Colman Bryant	Observability: The Health of Every Request Nathan LeClaire Download: Slides	Create a Fair & transparent AI Pipeline with AI Fairness 360 Animesh Singh, Christian Kadner Download: Slides
12:40pm	Lunch
1:40pm	Connecting, Managing, Observing, and Securing Services Zack Butcher Download: Slides	Whispers in the Chaos: Monitoring Weak Signals J. Paul Reed Download: Slides	The Operating System in 2018 Justin Cormack Download: Slides	Zero to Production in Five Months @ ThirdLove Megan Cartwright Download: Slides	RxJS: A Better Way to Write Frontend Applications Hannah Howard Download: Slides	Optimizing You Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Seacliff D	NPM & JavaScript AMA w/ Co-Founder of npm Laurie Voss Laurie Voss	Assisted Warmup with the Zing JVM Ivan Krylov Download: Slides	Fullstack Graph Applications With Neo4j William Lyon
2:30pm	Break
2:55pm	Serverless and Chatbots: A Match Made in the Cloud Gillian Armstrong Talk MOVED to: Ballroom BC Download: Slides	Full Cycle Developers @Netflix Greg Burrell Talk MOVED to: Ballroom A Download: Slides	Modern Operating Systems Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Seacliff D	Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems Oleksandr Petrov Download: Slides	Learning to Love Type Systems Lauren Tan Download: Slides	Baby Got Feedback: How to Give and Take Feedback Like A Boss Sarah Hagan Download: Slides	DDD & Reactive AMA w/ Vaughn Vernon Vaughn Vernon	Ballerina - Cloud Native Programming Language Sameera Jayasoma	Efficient and Sustainable Unit Testing Nathan Jakubiak Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB
3:45pm	Break
4:10pm	Crisis to Calm: Story of Data Validation @ Netflix Lavanya Kanchanapalli Download: Slides	DevOps & Lean Thinking Panel Jessica Kerr, Matt Stratton, Bridget Kromhout, J. Paul Reed, Greg Burrell, Holly Allen Talk MOVED to: Seacliff ABC	gVisor: Building and Battle Testing a Userspace OS in Go Adin Scannell Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Building a Voice Assistant for Enterprise Manju Vijayakumar Download: Slides	Fantastic Frontend Performance Tricks & Why We Do Them Jenna Zeigen Talk MOVED to: Ballroom BC Download: Slides	Dropping The Work-Life Balancing Act Cameron Jacoby	User Story Mapping Mini-workshop Richard Kasperowski Download: Slides	Autonomous Microservices Hod Greeley Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB	Move Fast, Follow Everything & Focus on What Matters Most Jun Ding
5:00pm	Break
5:25pm	Microservices Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Seacliff D	Day Two Kubernetes: Tools for Operability Bridget Kromhout Download: Slides	Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? Bryan Cantrill Download: Slides	Machine Learning for Handwriting and Sketch Recognition Li-Lun Wang, Henry Rowley	Desktop Applications in Electron: Pro Tips And Tricks Paul Betts Download: Slides	Empathy: A Keystone Habit Paul Tevis Download: Slides	Kubernetes AMA w/ Lance & Bobbarjung Vallery Lancey, Deepak Bobbarjung	3 Common Pitfalls in Microservice Integration Patricio Zambrano Garcia Talk MOVED to: Ballroom A	Modern Authentication Demystified Ado Kukic
6:30pm	QCon Conference Social & Dinner @TableTop Tap House. Bus provided. Badge required.

Tuesday November 6, 2018 Tracks Day #2
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9:00am	Conference Introduction and Keynote: Building the Enchanted Land Grady Booch Co-Creator of UML & Chief Scientist for Software Engineering @IBMResearch Keynote Grand Ballroom ABC & Simulcast in Bayview AB and Seacliff ABC Download: Slides
10:10am	Break
Track	Architectures You've Always Wondered About	Delivering on the Promise of Containers	Emerging Trends in Data Engineering	Bare Knuckle Performance	Socially Conscious Software	21st Century Languages	Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)	Sponsored Solutions Track III
Host	Randy Shoup	Bryan Liles	Sid Anand	Monica Beckwith	Danielle Leong	Ashley Williams	Wes Reisz	Nitin Bharti
Location	Ballroom A	Ballroom BC	Bayview AB	Pacific LMNO	Seacliff ABC	Pacific DEKJ	Boardroom C	Pacific BC
10:35am	Airbnb's Great Migration: From Monolith to Service-Oriented Jessica Tai Download: Slides	The Highs and Lows of Stateful Containers Alex Robinson Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB Download: Slides	Data Engineering Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Seacliff D	Scaling Up Performance Benchmarking Anil Kumar, Monica Beckwith Download: Slides	Using Technology to Protect Against Online Harassment Panel Danielle Leong, Leigh Honeywell, Sri Ponnada, Kat Fukui	WebAssembly: Neither Web Nor Assembly, But Revolutionary Jay Phelps Download: Slides	AMA w/ Grady Booch Grady Booch	Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics Suzie Prince Download: Slides
11:25am	Break
11:50am	What We Got Wrong: Lessons From the Birth of Microservices Ben Sigelman Download: Slides	Disenchantment: Netflix Titus, its Feisty Team, and Daemons Andrew Spyker Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB Download: Slides	Massively scaling MySQL using Vitess Sugu Sougoumarane Talk MOVED to: Pacific LMNO Download: Slides	Performance Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Seacliff D	Community Centered Tech for Social Good Sri Ponnada Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC Download: Slides	Kotlin: Write Once, Run (Actually) Everywhere Jake Wharton Download: Slides	AMA w/ Charles Humble & the InfoQ Editors Charles Humble	An Emerging Architecture Pattern for Agile Integration Asanka Abeysinghe Talk MOVED to: Seacliff ABC Download: Slides
12:40pm	Lunch
1:40pm	Netflix Play API - An Evolutionary Architecture Suudhan Rangarajan Download: Slides	The 10 Kubernetes Commandments Bryan Liles, Carlos Amedee Download: Slides	Transaction Processing in FoundationDB Evan Tschannen Download: Slides	“Quantum” Performance Effects: Beyond The Core Sergey Kuksenko Download: Slides	Design Strategies for Building Safer Platforms Kat Fukui Download: Slides	The Most Secure Program Is One That Doesn’t Exist Diane Hosfelt	Data Consistency Considerations AMA Sugu Sougoumarane, Chris Anderson	Enabling ML with Apache Beam and Event Mesh Ken Overton Download: Slides
2:30pm	Break
2:55pm	Scaling Slack - The Good, the Unexpected, and the Road Ahead Mike Demmer Download: Slides	Control Theory In Container Orchestration Vallery Lancey Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB Download: Slides	Patterns of Streaming Applications Monal Daxini Talk MOVED to: Ballroom BC Download: Slides	The Trouble With Memory Kirk Pepperdine Download: Slides	Software Love Languages (On Passion & Product) Isaac Elias Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC Download: Slides	Go - A Key Language in Enterprise Application Development? Aarti Parikh	Decomposing the Monolith AMA w/ McVeigh & Kaiser Andrew McVeigh, Susanne Kaiser	Continuous Reliability Tal Weiss Talk MOVED to: Seacliff ABC
3:45pm	Break
4:10pm	Paying Technical Debt at Scale - Migrations @Stripe Will Larson Download: Slides	Chaos Engineering with Containers Ana Medina Download: Slides	Training Deep Learning Models at Scale on Kubernetes Deepak Bobbarjung, Mitul Tiwari Download: Slides	Tuning a Runtime for Both Productivity and Performance Mei-Chin Tsai, Jared Parsons Download: Slides	Managing Values-Driven Open Source Projects Nick O'Neill Download: Slides	21st Century Languages Panel Ashley Williams, Jay Phelps, Aarti Parikh, Diane Hosfelt, Bryan Cantrill	Mob Programming Mini-workshop Richard Kasperowski Download: Slides	Reactive Cloud-Native Networking With RSocket Ryland Degnan
5:00pm	Break
5:25pm	Real-World Architecture Panel Randy Shoup, David Banyard, Tessa Lau, Jeff Williams, Colin Breck	Containers Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Seacliff D	The Whys and Hows of Database Streaming Joy Gao Download: Slides	Brewing Java Applications in Sigma Managed Clusters Kingsum Chow	FreshEBT Ram Mehta	3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Languages Peter Alvaro Download: Slides	Deep Learning AMA w/ Ameisen, Tiwari, & Cherukuri Emmanuel Ameisen, Mitul Tiwari, Chakri Cherukuri	Deterministic Global Database Consistency Chris Anderson
6:15pm	Reception on Exhibition floors & Raffle winners announcement in the Exhibitor areas (Market street & Pacific)

Wednesday November 7, 2018 Tracks Day #3
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9:00am	Conference Introduction and Keynote: Using Data Effectively: Beyond Art and Science Hilary Parker R Enthusiast, Co-Host of the Not So Standard Deviations Podcast, & Data Scientist @stitchfix Keynote Grand Ballroom ABC & Simulcast in Bayview AB and Seacliff ABC Download: Slides
10:10am	Break
Track	Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems	Developer Experience: Level up your Engineering Effectiveness	Enterprise Languages	Applied AI & Machine Learning	Future of Human Computer Interaction	Security: Lessons Attacking & Defending	Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)	Sponsored Solutions Track IV
Host	Aysylu Greenberg	Sangeeta Narayanan	Wes Reisz	Sid Anand	Courtney Hemphill	Werner Schuster	Wes Reisz	Nitin Bharti
Location	Ballroom A	Ballroom BC	Bayview AB	Pacific LMNO	Seacliff ABC	Pacific DEKJ	Boardroom C	Pacific BC
10:35am	Capacity Planning for Crypto Mania Jordan Sitkin, Luke Demi Talk MOVED to: Pacific LMNO Download: Slides	Helping Developers to Help Each Other Gail Ollis Download: Slides	TypeScript for Enterprise Developers Jessica Kerr Download: Slides	Human-Centric Machine Learning Infrastructure @Netflix Ville Tuulos Talk MOVED to: Ballroom A Download: Slides	Multi-Modal Input Design for Magic Leap Colman Bryant Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC Download: Slides	Security & Psychology: Demotivating Persistent Threats Jarrod Overson Download: Slides	Speaker AMA with Hilary Parker Hilary Parker	Redis for Microservices Using Kubernetes Vick Kelkar Talk MOVED to: Seacliff ABC
11:25am	Break
11:50am	Building Production-Ready Applications Michael Kehoe Download: Slides	Evolving Continuous Integration: Applying CI to CI Strategy Elise McCallum	CLR/CoreCLR: How We Got Here & Where We're Going Mei-Chin Tsai, Jared Parsons Download: Slides	Deep Representation: Building a Semantic Image Search Engine Emmanuel Ameisen Download: Slides	Rethinking HCI with Neural Interfaces @CTRLlabsCo Adam Berenzweig Download: Slides	Using Data to Measure Risk in Cyber Systems Marshall Kuypers	Observability & Monitoring AMA w/ Charity Majors Charity Majors	Journey of Scaling Enterprise Solutions on Cloud Surya Duggirala
12:40pm	Lunch
1:40pm	Building Resilience in Production Migrations Sangeeta Handa Download: Slides	Terraform Earth - Secure Infrastructure for Developers Chase Evans Download: Slides	Developing Great Web APIs Architectures w/ ASP.NET Core 2.1 Chris Woodruff Download: Slides	Nearline Recommendations for Active Communities @LinkedIn Hema Raghavan Download: Slides	Engineering Dumb: Modern Mobile Thin Clients Brandon John-Freso Download: Slides	Taking the Canary Out of the Coal Mine Mike Ruth	TypeScript AMA w/ Jessica Kerr & Rod Johnson Jessica Kerr, Rod Johnson	Unified APIs and the Future of IPaaS Eliot Sun
2:30pm	Break
2:55pm	CRDTs in Production Dmitry Martyanov Download: Slides	Making AI FaaSt Dragos Dascalita Haut, Akhilesh Kumar Talk MOVED to: Pacific LMNO Download: Slides	Building a Reliable Cloud Based Bank in Java Jason Maude Download: Slides	Fairness, Transparency, and Privacy in AI @LinkedIn Krishnaram Kenthapadi Talk MOVED to: Ballroom BC Download: Slides	Open Source Robotics: Hands on with Gazebo and ROS 2 Louise Poubel Download: Slides	Security Panel Werner Schuster, Marshall Kuypers, William Bengtson, Travis McPeak, Jarrod Overson	.NET/.NET Core AMA Chris Woodruff, Mei-Chin Tsai, Jared Parsons	Compliance can actually be Useful Tomasz Finc
3:45pm	Break
4:10pm	Yes, I Test In Production (And So Do You) Charity Majors Download: Slides	Michelangelo - Machine Learning @Uber Jeremy Hermann Download: Slides	The JDK in 2018: What's Here, and What's Next Alex Buckley	Jupyter Notebooks: Interactive Visualization Approaches Chakri Cherukuri Download: Slides	Patterns and Practices in Voice Computing Yow-Hann Lee	Reducing Risk of Credential Compromise @Netflix William Bengtson, Travis McPeak Download: Slides	Mini-workshop: Retrospectives for Continuous Improvement Richard Kasperowski Download: Slides	Practices of Platform Engineering Rakesh Komulwad, Joe Saylor
5:00pm	QCon Reception in Grand Foyer and Market Street Foyer
5:30pm	Closing Keynote: Finding Purpose Through the Things We Build Kortney Ziegler Co-Founder/ Head of Product & Design @useAerial \| Creative Director @Appolition Keynote Grand Ballroom ABC

Thursday November 8, 2018 Workshops

Location		Bayview B	Garden A	Pacific F	Seacliff A	Seacliff B	Seacliff CD	Marina	Garden B
9:00am	[SOLD OUT] Developing Cross-Platform Desktop Applications With Electron Chris Woodruff [9:00am - 12:00pm]	Microservices Security (Morning Section) Adib Saikali & Anand Rao [9:00am - 12:00pm]	Istio: Service Mesh Workshop Zack Butcher [9:00am - 4:00pm]	Getting Started With Kubernetes and Container Orchestration (Thursday Section) Jerome Petazzoni [9:00am - 4:00pm]	[SOLD OUT] Build Event-Driven Microservices with Apache Kafka (Morning Section) Gwen Shapira [9:00am - 12:00pm]	Chaos Engineering Bootcamp Tammy Butow & Ana Medina [9:00am - 12:00pm]	Introduction to Docker and Containers Alan Blount [9:00am - 12:00pm]	[SOLD OUT] 2-Day Training Architecture Without an End State Michael Nygard [9:00am - 4:00pm]	[SOLD OUT] 2-Day Training Event-Oriented Domain-Driven Design Vaughn Vernon & Tom Stockton [9:00am - 4:00pm]
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	[SOLD OUT] Building and Architecting Web APIs with ASP.NET Core 2.1 Chris Woodruff [1:00pm - 4:00pm]	Microservices Security (Afternoon Section) Adib Saikali & Anand Rao [1:00pm - 4:00pm]	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Build Event-Driven Microservices with Apache Kafka (Afternoon Section) Gwen Shapira [1:00pm - 4:00pm]	You've Lost that Leader Feelin': How to be a Leader in the 21st Century Sarah Hagan [1:00pm - 4:00pm]	[SOLD OUT] (Deep) Learn You a Neural Net For Great Good! Michael Stewart [1:00pm - 4:00pm]	Training (continued)	Training (continued)
4:00pm	End of day

Friday November 9, 2018 Workshops

Location	Bayview A	Bayview B	Garden A	Seacliff A	Seacliff B	Seacliff CD	Marina	Garden B
9:00am	Building Great Teams: Culture and Core Protocols Richard Kasperowski [9:00am - 4:00pm]	Advanced Ultimate Go William Kennedy [9:00am - 4:00pm]	Building Recommender Systems w/ Apache Spark 2.x Hien Luu [9:00am - 4:00pm]	Java Performance Workshop Kirk Pepperdine [9:00am - 4:00pm]	Microservices Full-Day Build Spring Adib Saikali & Anand Rao [9:00am - 4:00pm]	[SOLD OUT] Getting Started With Kubernetes and Container Orchestration (Friday Section) Jerome Petazzoni [9:00am - 4:00pm]	[SOLD OUT] 2-Day Training Architecture Without an End State Michael Nygard [9:00am - 4:00pm]	[SOLD OUT] 2-Day Training Event-Oriented Domain-Driven Design Vaughn Vernon & Tom Stockton [9:00am - 4:00pm]
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Training (continued)	Training (continued)
4:00pm	End of day

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