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Monday November 16, 2015 Tracks Day #1
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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: Avoiding the Big Crash by Bill Buxton Principle Researcher @Microsoft Grand Ballroom - Salon A/B/C [Download Slides]
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Architectures You've Always Wondered About	Applied Machine Learning	Browser as a platform (Realizing HTML5)	Modern Languages in Practice	Org Hacking	Design Thinking	Sponsored Solutions Track I	Sponsored Solutions Track II
Host	Wesley Reisz	Vitaly Gordon	Jafar Husain	Werner Schuster	Pete Soderling	Sarah Shewell	Nitin Bharti	Nitin Bharti
Location	Ballroom A	Pacific LMNO	Ballroom B/C	Pacific HIJK	Bayview A/B	Seacliff A/B	Marina Room	Seacliff C/D
10:35 AM	Scaling Uber Matt Ranney	The lego model for machine learning pipelines Leah McGuire [Download Slides]	The Future of The Web Platform: Does It Have One? Alex Russell	Go GC: Prioritizing Low Latency and Simplicity Rick Hudson [Download Slides]	Beyond DevOps: How Netflix Bridges the Gap Josh Evans [Download Slides]	💡 Design Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Deploying Applications to the Cloud with Docker Ryan Baxter [Download Slides]	Deconstructing API Security Ian Goldsmith [Download Slides]
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	How Netflix Directs 1/3rd of Internet Traffic Haley Tucker & Mohit Vora [Download Slides]	💡 Machine Learning Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	New in ECMAScript 2016 and Beyond Brian Terlson [Download Slides]	Experiences building InfluxDB in Go Paul Dix [Download Slides]	Preparing PayPal for Launch Sri Shivananda [Download Slides]	Design Thinking, what’s in it for me? Jeanine Spence [Download Slides]	Big Data and the Intersection of IT and IoT Hans Jespersen [Download Slides]	What Do Defects Really Cost? More Than You Think Wayne Ariola [Download Slides]
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Under the Hood: Elastic Scaling in Online Wagering Peter Morgan	Takes a Village to Raise a Machine Learning Model Lucian Vlad Lita [Download Slides]	💡 HTML5 Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Beyond the Hype: 4 years of Go in Production Travis Reeder [Download Slides]	Can Building Enterprise Software Actually Be Fun? Steve Garrity	Developing Customer Empathy Chris Witeck [Download Slides]	Automatically Adapting UI from Desktop to Mobile Charles Kendrick [Download Slides]	Hybrid DevOps for containerized Microservices Neelesh Pateriya [Download Slides]
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Alibaba Mobile Infrastructure at "China Scale" Zhuoran Zhuang & Zhao Xu	Personalization in the Pinterest Homefeed Dmitry Chechik [Download Slides]	Using React for the Mobile Web Brian Holt	💡 Modern Languages Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Redefining Failure at Yammer Nate Fink [Download Slides]	Prototyping for Optimal Learning Diana Joseph	Make your API Flexible, Composable and Extensible Thierry Delprat [Download Slides]	Optimal Pipeline using Perforce, Jenkins, & Puppet Nitin Pathak [Download Slides]
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	LinkedIn's Active/Active Evolution Erran Berger [Download Slides]	Beyond Ad-hoc Data Science Oscar Boykin [Download Slides]	Wasm & Houdini: Two W3C Initiatives to Watch Dan Gohman & Ian Kilpatrick [Download Slides]	Rust: unlocking systems programming Aaron Turon [Download Slides]	💡 Hacking Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Discover Key Customer Insights Marianne Berkovich	Growing Pains: Software Repositories at Scale Oscar Bonilla [Download Slides]	Microservices in Continuous Delivery Ken Mugrage [Download Slides]
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	💡 Architectures Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Dino DNA! Health identity from the wrist @Jawbone Brian Wilt [Download Slides]	Bind to the Cloud with Falcor Jafar Husain [Download Slides]	Have Native Languages Returned? (TL;DR: Yes) Paul Dix, Werner Schuster & Todd Lipcon	Not the Shiny Object Cathy Polinsky [Download Slides]	Models of Innovation Jon Madison [Download Slides]	Cassandra in Response Time Sensitive Environments Gil Tene [Download Slides]	Spark: A Coding Joyride Doug Bateman [Download Slides]
6:15 PM	Exhibitor Reception - Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer
6:45 PM	So We Hear You Like Papers by Ines Sombra Engineer @Fastly & Caitie McCaffrey Distributed Systems Engineer @Twitter Grand Ballroom - Salon A/B/C [Download Slides]
7:30 PM	QCon Social: Dinner, Drinks & Network - Location: Jillian's. Bus service provided.

Tuesday November 17, 2015 Tracks Day #2
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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: The Future of Build vs. Buy by Matt Ranney Chief Systems Architect @Uber, Co-founder @Voxer Grand Ballroom - Salon A/B/C
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Containers in Practice	Architecting for Failure	Modern CS in the Real World	The Amazing Potential of .NET Open Source	Optimizing You	Unlearning Performance Myths	Sponsored Solutions Track III	China Tech Day (sponsored)
Host	Chris Swan	Sudhir Tonse	Werner Schuster	Phil Haack	Becky Herwander	Gil Tene	Nitin Bharti	Cui Kang
Location	Ballroom A	Ballroom B/C	Bayview A/B	Seacliff A/B	Pacific LMNO	Pacific HIJK	Marina Room	Seacliff C/D
10:35 AM	Debugging Microservices in Production Bryan Cantrill [Download Slides]	Building Highly-resilient Systems at Pinterest Yongsheng Wu [Download Slides]	Contracts in Clojure: settling Types vs Tests Jessica Kerr [Download Slides]	Lessons in Extreme .NET Performance Ben Watson [Download Slides]	Meditation session John Shinner	How NOT to measure Latency Gil Tene [Download Slides]	Running JavaScript inside the database Jurgis Orups [Download Slides]	Technological Innovation at Alibaba Yuan Qi [Download Slides]
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Inside Yelp's SOA Infrastructure Kyle Anderson [Download Slides]	💡 Architecting for Failure Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	It Probably Works Tyler McMullen [Download Slides]	Space, time, and state Amy Palamountain	Creativity, Courage, and Connection Yingzhao Liu	How To I/O? Todd Montgomery [Download Slides]	Containers didn’t solve our problems. What now? Simon Bennett [Download Slides]	JD Internet+ transformation / Architecture @ Eleme Gang He & Haochuan Guo [Download Slides]
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Exploding the Linux Container Host Ben Corrie [Download Slides]	Architecting Distributed Databases for Failure Fangjin Yang [Download Slides]	💡 Modern CS Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	NET Machine Learning: F# and Accord.NET Alena Hall [Download Slides]	Debug Me: Learn to Optimize your Personal Health Christopher Kelly [Download Slides]	Profilers Are Lying Hobbitses (and we hates them!) Nitsan Wakart [Download Slides]	Principles of High Load Peter Milne [Download Slides]	Search Technology on Mobile App @Baidu Mobile Chao Han [Download Slides]
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Beyond ad-hoc automation: to structured platforms Bridget Kromhout [Download Slides]	Architecting for failure induced by human errors Amos Barreto	Tor in Haskell & Other Unikernel Tricks Adam Wick [Download Slides]	💡 .net Open Source Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Confessions of an over reactor John Shinner [Download Slides]	Java vs C Performance Cliff Click [Download Slides]	NoSQL with Caching, Search and Real-Time Analytics James Gorlick [Download Slides]	Mobile Monetization: Scenario Design & Big Data Arther Wu [Download Slides]
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	💡 Containers Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Crossroads of asynchrony and graceful degradation Nitesh Kant [Download Slides]	A Brief History of Chain Replication Christopher Meiklejohn [Download Slides]	Designing C# 7 Lucian Wischik [Download Slides]	Tap Into Greatness Sarah Singer-Nourie	Broken Performance Tools Brendan Gregg [Download Slides]	Come Play With NativeScript! Jen Looper [Download Slides]	Transformation from call center, web to mobile Eric Ye [Download Slides]
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Containers at Netflix - An evolving Story Sangeeta Narayanan [Download Slides]	Resilience planning & how the empire strikes back Bhakti Mehta [Download Slides]	Datastructures in and on IPFS Juan Batiz-Benet [Download Slides]	Creating a rainstorm using infrared and C# Lisa Taylor [Download Slides]	Go On, Say Yes, And… Jeanine Spence [Download Slides]	💡 Performance & Scalability Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	An Enterprise Developer’s Journey to the IoT Burr Sutter	The Philosophy of Mass Services at Tencent Bison Liao [Download Slides]
6:15 PM	IBM Sponsored Hospitality Reception - Location: Atrium

Wednesday November 18, 2015 Tracks Day #3
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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: The Imitation Game: The New Frontline of Security by Shuman Ghosemajumder VP Product Management @Shape Security & formerly Click Fraud Czar @Google Grand Ballroom - Salon A/B/C [Download Slides]
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Streaming Data @ Scale	Taking Java to the Next Level	The Dark Side of Security	Taming Distributed Architecture	JavaScript Everywhere!	Culture Reimagined	Sponsored Solutions Track IV
Host	Danny Yuan	Monica Beckwith	Nwokedi Idika	Caitie McCaffrey	Jarrod Overson	Marty Weiner	Nitin Bharti
Location	Ballroom A	Ballroom B/C	Bayview A/B	Seacliff A/B	Pacific LMNO	Pacific HIJK	Seacliff C/D
10:35 AM	💡 Streaming Data Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Explorations of the three legged performance stool Charlie Hunt [Download Slides]	Scammers, hackers, and fraud on the blockchain Olaf Carlson-Wee	Demystifying stream processing with Apache Kafka Neha Narkhede [Download Slides]	The Case for TypeScript Mohamed Hegazy	Nordstrom’s 114-year-old Culture in the Tech Era Sarah Lake Hagan [Download Slides]	Why your big data/data science projects need help Sheridan Hitchens
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Stream Processing in Uber Danny Yuan [Download Slides]	💡 Java Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Improving Cloud Security with Attacker Profiling Bryan Payne [Download Slides]	Hell is ... other nodes! Jason Brown	Move fast or breaking things. Don't pick 1. Tom Croucher	Culture and the Games People Play Roy Rapoport [Download Slides]	Getting started with Spring Cloud Josh Long
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Connecting stream processors to databases Gian Merlino [Download Slides]	Life of a Twitter JVM engineer Tony Printezis	💡 Security Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	How to have your Causality and Wall Clocks Too Jon Moore	React Native in Production Adam Miskiewicz	Quora's Approach To Moving Fast Sustainably Nikhil Garg [Download Slides]	Better together: Apache Spark™ &Apache Ignite™ Nikita Ivanov
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Rethinking Streaming Analytics For Scale Helena Edelson [Download Slides]	Netty @Apple: Large Scale Deployment/ Connectivity Norman Maurer [Download Slides]	Applications through an attacker’s lens Michael Coates [Download Slides]	💡 Distributed Architecture Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	Bringing Virtual Reality to the Web Ada Edwards	Creating Debt-Aware culture Aaratee Rao [Download Slides]	Code With Purpose Tom Prats [Download Slides]
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Stylus, Facebook's new stream processing platform Jerry Chen	Generics and Java's Evolution Richard Warburton [Download Slides]	Android Apps, an Attacker’s Perspective Tony Trummer [Download Slides]	Engineering for the long game Astrid Atkinson Talk MOVED to: Pacific LMNO	💡 Javascript Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Seacliff A/B	Is it possible to run a 100% remote team? Jeremy Edberg [Download Slides]
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Flying faster with Heron Karthik Ramasamy [Download Slides]	DIY Monitoring: Build Your Own JVM Perf Mgmt Tool Tal Weiss [Download Slides]	Securing Code through Social Engineering Christina Camilleri Talk MOVED to: Seacliff A/B [Download Slides]	Understanding Realtime Conversations on Facebook Janet Wiener Talk MOVED to: Bayview A/B	Web AR: Augmented Reality for Web Jerome Etienne	💡 Culture Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing
6:15 PM	QCon Reception - Location: Atrium

Thursday November 19, 2015 Workshops

Location	Bayview A/B	Garden B	Seacliff A	Seacliff D	Seacliff C	Golden Gate	Marina Room	Garden A	Seacliff B
SOD	Modern Software Modeling and Design Emmanuel Gomez & Harry Brumleve [9:00 - 4:00]	Building your first iOS Application Naveen Gavini [9:00 - 12:00]	Hands on with Apache Spark Hien Luu [9:00 - 4:00]	Java 8 Adib Saikali & Doug Bateman [9:00 - 4:00]	[SOLD OUT] Tech Lead Skills for Developers Patrick Kua [9:00 - 4:00]	Getting Started with Spring Boot and Cloud Foundry Bridget Kromhout & Josh Long [9:00 - 4:00]	Data Visualization: JS Charting with D3 Mark Daggett [9:00 - 4:00]	.NET Performance Deep-Dive Ben Watson [9:00 - 12:00]	[SOLD OUT] Docker for Java Developers Arun Gupta [9:00 - 4:00]
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Workshop (continued)	Building your first Android app Carl Rice [1:00 - 4:00]	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	[SOLD OUT] Effective Product Engineering Manager Byron Ma [1:00 - 4:00]	Workshop (continued)

Friday November 20, 2015 Workshops

Location	Seacliff A	Garden A	Seacliff D	Seacliff C	Seacliff B	Golden Gate	Bayview A/B	Marina Room
SOD	Modern Infrastructure with Terraform & Consul Seth Vargo [9:00 - 4:00]	Building Android Apps Using RxMobile Erik Meijer [9:00 - 4:00]	[SOLD OUT] React.js Fundamentals Michael Jackson [9:00 - 4:00]	Understanding Latency & Application Responsiveness Gil Tene [9:00 - 4:00]	BUILT FOR USE: Generating Meaningful Requirements Joe Natoli [9:00 - 4:00]	Hardcore Go Kevin Gillette [9:00 - 4:00]	[SOLD OUT] Microservices Adrian Cockcroft [9:00 - 4:00]	Building Smarter Applications with Spark & H20 Michal Malohlava & Amy Wang [9:00 - 4:00]
12:00	Lunch
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