Monday November 7, 2016 Tracks Day #1

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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: The History and Future of Wearable Computing and Virtual Experience by Amber Case Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center and writer of An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology Grand Ballroom ABC & Simulcast in Bayview AB [Download Slides]
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Architectures You've Always Wondered About	Distributed Systems War Stories	Containers Everywhere	Art of Relevancy and Recommendations	Next Generation Web Standards, Frameworks, and Techniques	Optimize You	Twitter Tech Day (Sponsored)	Sponsored Solutions Track II
Host	Sid Anand	Ines Sombra	David Greenberg	Toby Segaran	Tracy Lee	Yingzhao Liu	Tony Printezis	Nitin Bharti
Location	Ballroom A	Ballroom BC	Bayview AB	Pacific LMNO	Seacliff ABC	Pacific DEKJ	Marina	Seacliff D
10:35 AM	How Slack Works Keith Adams [Download Slides]	A Dark and Stormy Night: Operational Antipatterns Kiran Bhattaram Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB [Download Slides]	Building a Microservices Platform with Kubernetes Matthew Miller Talk MOVED to: Ballroom BC [Download Slides]	The Art of Relevance and Recommendations Clarence Chio [Download Slides]	The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript Jay Phelps, Stefan Penner & Jafar Husain [Download Slides]	Meditation Made Simple Prakash Raman [Download Slides]	Hardware & Provisioning Engineering @Twitter Matt Singer & Nik Johnson	Continuous Innovation through DevOps Pipelines Andi Grabner [Download Slides]
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Twitch Plays Pokémon: Twitch's Chat Architecture John Rizzo [Download Slides]	Distributed Systems: From Papers to Trenches Jordan West	Mesos: A State-Of-The-Art Container Orchestrator Jie Yu [Download Slides]	Iterative Design for Data Science Projects Bo Peng [Download Slides]	Modern Web Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	The Art (and Science) of Compelling People Ronit Avni [Download Slides]	Managing Big Storage Clusters Boaz Avital	Designed For Deployment Badri Janakiraman [Download Slides]
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Scaling Instagram Infrastructure Lisa Guo [Download Slides]	Load Balancing is Impossible Tyler McMullen [Download Slides]	Containers Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Query Understanding: a Manifesto Daniel Tunkelang [Download Slides]	Webpack: The One Build Step To Rule Them All Sean Larkin [Download Slides]	Maximizing Human Potential Vivienne Ming	JVMs across the Data Center John Coomes & Ian Downes Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB	DevOps Nightmares: To Gigabytes and Beyond! John Williston [Download Slides]
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	TensorFlow: A Flexible, Scalable & Portable System Rajat Monga [Download Slides]	Distributed Systems Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Elastic Efficient Execution of Varied Containers Sharma Podila [Download Slides]	Scaling Quality On Quora Using Machine Learning Nikhil Garg [Download Slides]	Building Robust Web Applications With RxJS Matthew J Dapena-Tretter, Paul Taylor, Rob Wormald & Ben Lesh	Is Managing Men & Women Really That Different? Mitch Shepard [Download Slides]	Building Twitter’s Next-Gen Alerting System Megan Kanne Talk MOVED to: Ballroom BC	Microservices without Servers Jonathan Kaufman
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Scaling Dropbox Preslav Le [Download Slides]	[Canceled] How Let's Encrypt Shipped Jeff Hodges Talk MOVED to: Seacliff ABC	Amazon ECS:a Platform to Run Production Containers Uttara Sridhar [Download Slides]	Relevancy & Recommendations Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	The Strengths of Ember, Angular & React Explored Lee Byron, Rob Wormald & Taras Mankovski Talk MOVED to: Ballroom BC [Download Slides]	The Improvisor's Code: Engineering Your Best Self Ted DesMaisons & Lisa Rowland [Download Slides]	Scaling Reliability: So You Want to Add a 9 Moses Nakamura Talk MOVED to: Pacific LMNO	Unified Integration for Data-Driven Applications Jon Gray [Download Slides]
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Architectures Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Stranger Things: The Forces that Disrupt Netflix Haley Tucker [Download Slides]	Using Mesos at Scale @ Apple James Mulcahy & Elizabeth Lingg Talk MOVED to: Ballroom A	Recommendations, Bots & Conversational Interfaces Mitul Tiwari	The Node.js Ecosystem in Perspective Dan Shaw [Download Slides]	Play With Feedback Without Getting Burned Angella Okawa & Kai Mantsch [Download Slides]	How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fan-In Mike Cvet	Understanding Hardware Transactional Memory Gil Tene Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB
6:30 PM	QCon Social: Dinner, Drinks & Network - @ Jillian's. Bus service provided. Badge required.

Tuesday November 8, 2016 Tracks Day #2

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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: The Second Act by Michael Lopp VP of Engineering @Slack Grand Ballroom ABC & Simulcast in Bayview AB
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Next Generation Microservices	Java: Are You Ready for This?	Big Data Meets the Cloud	Evolving DevOps	Software Engineering Softskills	Modern CS in the Real World	Sponsored Solutions Track III
Host	Rob Harrop	Wes Reisz	Jeff Magnusson	Lisa Phillips	Phil Haack	Werner Schuster	Nitin Bharti
Location	Ballroom A	Ballroom BC	Bayview AB	Pacific DEKJ	Pacific LMNO	Seacliff ABC	Seacliff D
10:35 AM	What Comes After Microservices? Matt Ranney [Download Slides]	Java (SE) State of the Union Gil Tene [Download Slides]	Scaling Counting Infrastructure @Quora Chun-Ho Hung & Nikhil Garg	Incident Management at the Edge Lisa Phillips [Download Slides]	Softskills Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Selling Unikernels: The CyberChaff Experience Adam Wick [Download Slides]	The New Way to Debug Java in Production Nicholas Durkin & Steve Rogers [Download Slides]
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices Josh Evans [Download Slides]	Reactive Streams, j.u.concurrent, & Beyond! Konrad Malawski [Download Slides]	Scaling the Data Infrastructure @Spotify Mārtiņš Kalvāns  & Matti Pehrs [Download Slides]	Creating A Culture of Observability at Stripe Cory Watson [Download Slides]	Burnout !!! John Willis	Modern CS Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Combining Graph Analytics Ryan Boyd [Download Slides]
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Serverless meets SaaS: The Ultimate Match Tod Golding	Java Puzzlers NG S02: Down the Rabbit Hole Viktor Gamov & Baruch Sadogursky [Download Slides]	Elastic Big Data Platform @ Datadog Doug Daniels [Download Slides]	Devops Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Make Better Decisions Together Jake Zukowski [Download Slides]	Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix Peter Alvaro & Kolton Andrus Talk MOVED to: Pacific DEKJ [Download Slides]	The Rise of the Multi-Model Database Sigfrido Narvaez [Download Slides]
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Autonomous Operations: Microservices, ML and AI Rob Harrop [Download Slides]	Goodbye PrintGCDetails... and other JDK 9 Changes! Tony Printezis	Big Data/CloudOpen Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Winston: Helping Netflix Engineers Sleep at Night Sayli Karmarkar [Download Slides]	Social Coding for Effective Teams and Products Phil Haack [Download Slides]	Better Tests, Less Code: Property Based Testing Matt Bachmann Talk MOVED to: Bayview AB [Download Slides]	Multi-Host, Multi-Network Persistent Containers Brian Bulkowski [Download Slides]
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Keep Calm and Carry On: Scaling Your Org Charity Majors [Download Slides]	Java Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Data Science in the Cloud @StitchFix Stefan Krawczyk [Download Slides]	Creating a Collaborative Culture between Dev & Ops Pedro Canahuati	Build To Learn: Rapid Prototyping Methods Sara Bayless Da Costa [Download Slides]	Practical Data Synchronization using CRDTs Dmitry Ivanov [Download Slides]	Building scalable IoT apps Pavel Hardak [Download Slides]
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Microservices Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Java SE 9: Continuing to Thrive in the Cloud! Bernard Traversat [Download Slides]	Petabytes Scale Analytics Infrastructure @Netflix Dan Weeks & Tom Gianos [Download Slides]	99.99% Availability via Smart Real-Time Alerting Franziska Bell	Building a Debugging Mindset Devon H O'Dell [Download Slides]	Looking Inside a Race Detector Kavya Joshi [Download Slides]	Docker Container Life Cycles Mark Galpin [Download Slides]
6:15 PM	Exhibitor Reception & Raffle - Location: Grand Ballroom, Market Street and Seacliff Foyers
7:15 PM						AFTER HOURS: Microservices and Sticky Notes, Game On! by IBM

Wednesday November 9, 2016 Tracks Day #3

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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: ETL is dead; long-live streams by Neha Narkhede Co-Creator Apache Kafka/Co-founder and CTO @Confluent Grand Ballroom ABC & Simulcast in Bayview AB [Download Slides]
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Architecting for Failure	Stream Processing	Bare Metal Performance	Culture as a Differentiator	//TODO: Security <-- fix this	UX Reimagined	Sponsored Solutions Track IV
Host	Aysylu Greenberg	Danny Yuan	Werner Schuster	Philip Fisher-Ogden	Jarrod Overson	Aaron Hillegass	Nitin Bharti
Location	Ballroom A	Ballroom BC	Bayview AB	Pacific DEKJ	Pacific LMNO	Seacliff ABC	Seacliff D
10:35 AM	Architecting for Failure in a Containerized World Tom Faulhaber [Download Slides]	Fundamentals of Stream Processing with Apache Beam Tyler Akidau & Frances Perry [Download Slides]	In-memory caching: curb tail latency with Pelikan Yao Yue [Download Slides]	Culture Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	The Psychology of Security Automation Jason Chan [Download Slides]	Intuition Engineering Casey Rosenthal [Download Slides]	Day in the Life with Speech Recognition, ML & IOT Mark Vanderwiele [Download Slides]
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Migrating to a Fault Tolerant System with Spanner Edwin Fuquen	Demistifying DynamoDB Streams Akshat Vig & Khawaja Shams	Speedup Your Java Apps With Hardware Counters Sergey Kuksenko [Download Slides]	Next Gen Startup Cultures: Innovating As You Grow Jim Plush [Download Slides]	Exploring the Android APK Connor Tumbleson [Download Slides]	UX Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Devising your Data Movement Strategy for IoT Dave McAllister [Download Slides]
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Automating Chaos Experiments In Production Ali Basiri Talk MOVED to: Pacific DEKJ [Download Slides]	Stream Processing & Analytics with Flink @Uber Danny Yuan [Download Slides]	Performance Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	What Google Learned about Creating Effective Teams Matt Sakaguchi Talk MOVED to: Ballroom A [Download Slides]	Art of Stepping on the Same Rake, Volume 2 Alex Holden [Download Slides]	Designing Calm Technology Amber Case [Download Slides]	Integrating E-Signatures into Your Web Application Michael Williams [Download Slides]
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Framing Our Potential for Failure Michelle Brush [Download Slides]	Real Time Recommendations using Spark Streaming Elliot Chow [Download Slides]	Performance and Search Dan Luu [Download Slides]	Further Together: Curated Pairing Culture @Pivotal Neha Batra [Download Slides]	Security Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	How to Design and Develop in an Inclusive Way Molly Watt & Chris Bush [Download Slides]	Using an API Scavenger hunt to engage API newbies Ashley Roach [Download Slides]
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Freeing the Whale: How to Fail at Scale Oliver Gould [Download Slides]	Stream Processing Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	ScyllaDB: Achieving No-Compromise Performance Avi Kivity [Download Slides]	Preventing Office Politics @Facebook Nam Nguyen [Download Slides]	What Happens When Data Gets Breached? Jarrod Overson [Download Slides]	Design Guidelines for Conversational Interfaces Angie Terrell [Download Slides]	Microservices Security Patterns and Protocols Adib Saikali [Download Slides]
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Architecting for Failure Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Pacific BC	Scaling up Near Real Time Analytics@Uber &LinkedIn Yi Pan & Chinmay Soman [Download Slides]	Go-ing to Rust: Optimizing Storage at Dropbox Jamie Turner	Enabling Awesome Engineering Teams Alexandre Freire Kawakami [Download Slides]	Modern Web Security, Lazy but Mindful Like a Fox Albert Yu	Taming Complexity with Object-Oriented UX Sophia Voychehovski [Download Slides]	Case study: Building the QCon Vote System Mat Henshall [Download Slides]
6:15 PM	QCon Reception

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