Empower your team in the heart of San Francisco.
Join international senior software development teams at QCon San Francisco 2025 to gain actionable insights, practical advice, and proven strategies to build better software.
International software conference and training days for professional developers.
QCon San Francisco 2025 - November 17-21, 2025.
Teams of 3 or more from the same company qualify for group discounts.
Since 2006, QCon has helped thousands of international software development teams connect, collaborate, and innovate together.
Helping software development teams adopt new technologies
QCon showcases emerging trends shaping enterprise software development, adopted by innovative practitioners.
- Green Tech
- Rust
- WASM
- eBPF
- Machine Learning @ Edge
- Scalable Configuration Management
- Infrastructure Unification
- Cue Lang
- 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 for
Non-Clustered Resources -
Patterns & Heuristics
Enabling Fast Flow - Open Policy Agent
- Java 17 (LTS)
- Paved Road
- 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
6 reasons teams attend QCon San Francisco
Attending QCon as a team isn't just an investment in learning. It's an investment in collaboration, innovation, and your team's future success.
Tackle challenges together
Learn from real-world talks led by senior practitioners. Explore new ideas and approaches together as a team.
Level up as a team
Explore modern software practices, skills, and trends to drive projects forward and enhance individual and collective growth.
Focus on emerging trends worth adopting
Divide the agenda to uncover innovations and trends your team needs to adopt, keeping you ahead of the curve.
Learn and bond together
Strengthen team bonds while sharing insights, aligning on goals, and using the event as a productive off-site experience.
Bring back fresh ideas
Return with actionable strategies, peer-validated approaches, and best practices to shape workflows and roadmaps.
Foster learning and innovation
Immerse your team in a community of like-minded peers to inspire growth, collaboration, and mastery of complex challenges.
Why development teams choose QCon
QCon San Francisco is more than a conference.
It's where teams connect, grow, and innovate in a learning focused setting.
Learn from innovators
Gain actionable insights from senior software developers on emerging trends, real-world use cases, and proven best practices tailored to enterprise challenges.
Broaden perspectives
Expose your team to diverse approaches and innovative thinking to inspire creativity and fresh solutions.
Validate current practices
Benchmark your team's strategies by learning from peers and practitioners solving similar challenges in enterprise-scale environments.
Prepare for the future
Anticipate trends and shifts in software development, equipping your team to adapt and lead earlier.
Cross-disciplinary understanding
Foster collaboration by exploring how technical decisions impact other teams and the broader organization.
Recharge creativity
Surround your team with passionate developers to spark new ideas and reignite their enthusiasm for solving complex problems.
Strengthen team dynamics
Develop communication and collaboration skills while bonding over shared learning experiences.
Investment in growth
Your team will gain the knowledge, real-world approaches, and connections to drive innovation across your software development roadmap.
Need to convince your boss? Use our templates.
Strengthen your team at QCon San Francisco
QCon helps international software development teams connect, collaborate, and grow with dedicated spaces to inspire alignment and drive project success.
Start your day together
Begin with a light team breakfast at the conference to plan your day, share ideas, and bond while exploring key takeaways.
Collaborate during longer breaks
Use extended breaks to bounce ideas, problem-solve, and connect with world-class senior software engineers, tailoring the conference to your team's goals.
Problem-solve at Unconference sessions
Dive into team-driven topics in facilitated sessions, generating fresh ideas and actionable strategies for your current challenges.
Unwind at social events
Relax and connect as a team at QCon's dedicated social gatherings, strengthening both professional and personal connections.
Optional hands-on training days
Develop in-demand skills through practical trainings tailored for enterprise environments held on November 20-21.
Video-Only Pass option
For teams unable to attend in person, QCon's Video-Only Pass offers access to professionally edited session recordings after the conference.
Need to convince your boss?
We've developed templates you can use to explain how you and your team can benefit from the insights shared at QCon.
A safe and inclusive environment for teams
The QCon 'We Care' experience
Enforced Code of Conduct
All-Gender restroom
Prayer room
Lactation room
Quiet areas
Sessions feedback for constant improvement
Badge optimized for peer-sharing
Accessible event space
Variety of food options (vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, special diet meals)
Detailed food labels
Diversity scholarships
Community events
DEI guidelines for track hosts and speakers
All-day coffee
Access to video recordings for 6 months
Connect in San Francisco together
San Francisco is an unbeatable stage with many activities for a team. Strengthen your team's culture and connectedness with memories you'll talk about for years.
Top 5 things to do in San Francisco as a team
- Alcatraz Island
- The Golden Gate Bridge
- The Waterfront at Fisherman's Wharf
- Ride The San Francisco Cable Car System
- Chinatown
Top 5 parks to explore together
- Golden Gate Park
- The Presidio
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area
- Angel Island State Park
- Muir Woods National Monument
Bonus team get-together ideas
- Day Trip to Napa Valley
- Catch a basketball game? Golden State Warriors
- Catch a football game? The San Francisco 49ers (Football)
Top 5 places for an iconic taste of SF
- Grab an Anchor Steam Beer from America's first craft brewery, founded in 1896.
- Sourdough Bread from Boudin Sourdough
- Mission Burrito in the Mission District
- Seafood at Fisherman's Wharf
- Dim Sum in Chinatown
Need to convince your boss? Use our templates.
Save with team discounts.
Teams of 3 or more from the same company qualify for group discounts.
For details, email
info@qconsf.com
with your team size.
| Team size | Team discount |
|---|---|
| 3-6 attendees | Save up to $100 off each conference ticket |
| 7-10 attendees | Save up to $150 off each conference ticket |
| 11-15 attendees | Save up to $175 off each conference ticket |
| 16+ attendees | Save up to $200 off each conference ticket |
| Special launch discount 10+ attendees | Save up to $140 off each conference ticket |
Please note, discounts cannot be combined or applied retroactively.
Trusted by senior software developers
See what peers say about QCon #QConSF
"I do really recommend QCon, and several of my team attend globally. It is one of the best-curated conferences that we have found that isn't focused on a singular technology stack or dominated by a small set of vendors. It gives an excellent feel for the tech community, what's hot, what's not, what's coming, and is very inspirational to our senior devs and architects."
Greg Forshaw
QCon Attendee, Software Engineer @Orbis
“It is easy to forget the fact that we are not alone when facing typical problems in software development. QCon not only provides practitioners' point of view, but it also helps teams to validate their ideas and plans by listening to others.”
Yogesh Sood
QCon SF attendee, Senior Management @Tableau Software
Due to QCon's focus on early-stage technology trends and the curated expert speakers, the material presented was visionary, fresh, and applicable for things we need to solve in our teams. The conference was well-facilitated, and the daily format (keynote/intro in AM introducing tracks) was compelling also."
Ben Rau
QCon SF Attendee, Architect (Technical/Solution), @Amway
“For me, it's hearing from people who live in the trenches vs sales. We are also under pressure to be innovative, so hearing from early adopters of the upcoming tech can help make decisions on what might be interesting for us.”
Lisa Torkos
Director, Application Architecture @MCAP
The QCon difference
Trusted by enterprise software development teams for over 19 years
Senior software practitioners first.
Real-world technical talks.
No hidden marketing, no sales pitches, no hype.
