Track host
About the track
Learn how coding is expanding beyond traditional engineers, into product, operations, and AI-assisted roles, and what this means for teams and systems.
Sessions in this track
Wednesday 18 November. 5 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Seacliff ABC Session The Death of the Code Review Laurie Voss Head of Developer Relations @Arize AI, Co-Founder of npm, Inc., Developer for 30+ Years Code review was built for a world where humans wrote all the code. 11:45 Seacliff ABC Session Legacy as Leverage: How Brownfield Work Builds Technical Judgment Shine Garg Founder of Uncharted Path Breakthrough, Former Staff Software Engineer, 15+ Years Building and Scaling Backend, Data, Machine Learning, and Platform Systems Legacy systems are often treated as a necessary evil: work to be endured before moving on to more “real, strategic” projects. 13:35 Seacliff ABC Session Builder-Driven Development Jyothi Nookula Product Leader Director with 13+ Years Driving AI Product & Platform Innovation, Previously @Meta, @Amazon, and @Etsy Details coming soon. 14:45 Seacliff ABC Session You Can't Read the Code Anymore - Verifying Software in the Age of AI Omer van Kloeten Principal Engineer @Forter, 25+ Years in Software Engineering, Now Building an AI-Agent Framework to Tame Legacy Systems and Reduce KTLO AI writes most of the code now, so the hard part of engineering has moved from authoring to the part we’re worse at - verifying. With the incentives all pushing toward shipping faster and faster - the rational move is to skim the diff, click through a little manual QA, and ship on vibes. 15:55 Seacliff ABC Session Breaking Down the Interface Between Code and Strategy Details coming soon.
Register
$2,835, Conference (3 days). Current pricing ends September 8th. All pass options.
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon San Francisco 2026 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.