November 16-20, 2026
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
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Training topics
Thursday Nov 19 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
Building AI Agents: A Practical Framework for Choosing the Right SDK
The AI agent ecosystem has exploded with options—Google's Agent Developing Kit, Claude SDK, OpenAI Agents, LangGraph, Pydantic AI, and more emerging monthly. But which one should you actually use?
Hien Luu
AI/ML Leader, Advisor, Speaker, and Author
Thursday Nov 19 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
AI-Assisted Coding Master Class: Build Your Mission Control
Most engineers aren't spending enough time setting up their environment to get the most out of their coding agents.
Sepehr Khosravi
Machine Learning Platform Engineer @Coinbase, Award Winning Instructor @UC Berkeley - Gen-AI Bootcamp, Founder @AI Squads
Friday Nov 20 / 09:00AM PST / FULL DAY
Effective AI-Native Development with Harness Engineering
Most AI coding demos are greenfield theater. Your real work isn't. It's a 12-year-old codebase with patchy tests, a tangle of frameworks from three eras, and conventions nobody can fully explain.
Zichuan Xiong
Head of AIOps @Thoughtworks
Premanand Chandrasekaran
Head of Technology @Thoughtworks
beginner to intermediate
Thursday Nov 19 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
AI for Java Developers
AI has become an unavoidable topic in software development, and many Java developers are wondering if they need to learn Python to participate. The answer is no.
Dan Vega
Java Champion & Spring Developer Advocate @Broadcom
Nate Schutta
Software Architect @Thoughtworks, Java Champion, author of "Thinking Architecturally" and "Responsible Microservices"
intermediate
Friday Nov 20 / 09:00AM PST / FULL DAY
Agent MCP Workshop: Building Your Own Java-Based MCP Server
The MCP Workshop is an instructor led, hands on learning series focused on building a Java based server that implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) from the ground up.
David Parry
Principal Architect @Qodo
intermediate
Thursday Nov 19 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
The Human Architecture Problem: Designing Teams That Scale With AI [Half-day version]
Your technical architecture is sound. Your human system is broken. In AI-driven organizations, the bottleneck usually isn't the tool - it's the team structures, decision rights, and trust dynamics that determine whether humans and AI can actually work together effectively.
Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
Co-founder of @Bravely, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker, 12+ Years Experience Enabling High Performing Teams and Leaders
Thursday Nov 19 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
The Fundamentals of Software Engineering in the Age of AI
Every few years, something comes along that's supposed to end software engineering as we know it. IDE features that write code for you. Low-code. No-code. Now AI. And every time, the role adapts, the fundamentals stay, and the people who understand the craft come out ahead.
Nate Schutta
Software Architect @Thoughtworks, Java Champion, author of "Thinking Architecturally" and "Responsible Microservices"
Dan Vega
Java Champion & Spring Developer Advocate @Broadcom
intermediate
Thursday Nov 19 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
Psychological Safety as Infrastructure: Building Teams That Fail Fast With AI
AI adoption doesn't fail because of bad tools. It fails because people don't feel safe to experiment, flag errors, or admit they don't trust the output.
Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
Co-founder of @Bravely, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker, 12+ Years Experience Enabling High Performing Teams and Leaders
intermediate
Friday Nov 20 / 09:00AM PST / FULL DAY
The Human Architecture Problem: Designing Teams That Scale With AI [Full-day version]
Your technical architecture is sound. Your human system is broken. In AI-driven organizations, the bottleneck usually isn't the tool - it's the team structures, decision rights, and trust dynamics that determine whether humans and AI can actually work together effectively.
Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
Co-founder of @Bravely, Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, Trainer, Speaker, 12+ Years Experience Enabling High Performing Teams and Leaders
Friday Nov 20 / 09:00AM PST / FULL DAY
The Incident Lab: Responding to and Learning From Production Failures
Your organization likely has a process for incidents. You have alerting, runbooks, an on-call rotation, and some version of a post-incident review. And you probably still have the nagging sense that you keep learning the same lessons, or not learning them at all.
Courtney Nash
Co-founder @The VOID, Previously @Verica, @Holloway, @Fastly, @O’Reilly Media, @Microsoft, & @Amazon
Sarah Butt
Principal Engineer @Salesforce
Eric Dobbs
Principle Incident Analyst @Oracle
Hamed Silatani
Co-Founder and CEO @Uptime Labs
Alex Elman
Staff Software Engineer @Slack, Site Reliability Engineer @Indeed
Thursday Nov 19 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
Supercharge Your Work With Claude Code and Codex
Many of us already use Claude Code, Codex, or similar coding agents for daily work: asking questions, writing docs, debugging issues, making small code changes, or reviewing code. This training helps you get much more productivity out of the agents you already use.
Khawaja Shams
Co-Founder & CEO @Momento, previously @NASA and @Amazon
Thursday Nov 19 / 09:00AM PST / HALF DAY
Measuring What Matters: Building a Developer Productivity Program Engineers Can Trust
Every engineering team wants to boost their productivity, but measuring it well can be deceptively hard. This workshop will show you how to build a developer productivity program based on the right signals: pairing metrics with tension metrics, blending quantitative and qualitative data, and tying it all to real outcomes (including AI ROI).
Erin Doyle
Founding Engineer @Quotient, 20+ Years Across Full Stack Development in Web and Mobile, and Platform Engineering
Thursday Nov 19 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
How To Write Skills That Actually Work
You've written a dozen skills. Some work, some don't, and you have no way to tell which. The agent says "you're absolutely right" while invoking the wrong one, and you keep re-explaining the same things to it. Without a way to measure what a skill adds, there's no way to find out.
Baruch Sadogursky
Thursday Nov 19 / 01:00PM PST / HALF DAY
Cracking the Black Box: Forensic Debugging
Inspired by the old saying, "Troubleshooting is like investigating a murder when you are also the murderer," this workshop will be the geekiest murder-mystery party you've ever attended.
The InfoQ Certified Architect Program at QCon San Francisco
A cohort of senior engineers and architects, working through QCon together.You already know how to build systems. You've shipped production software, navigated tradeoffs, and made decisions under pressure.
Luca Mezzalira
Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect @AWS | Author of “Building Micro-Frontends” | International Speaker
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What past attendees say
So Impressed! "Heart". I love all the content!
Haemi Kim,
Cloud Architect @AWS
Interesting content and approach. Brought us up to speed with observability concepts that evolve much faster than we can actually proactively keep up to.
Tassio Abreu de Souza,
Architect @McKinsey & Company
Extremely useful.
Ruud Prein,
Engineering Manager & Informed Captain @ING
It gave a great overview & hands-on practice.
Kevin Kerr,
Enterprise Architect @Viking Global Investors
The inspiration I gained from the diverse talks and trainings has been invaluable to drive innovation in our team & projects.
Juan Carlos Pérez Mullisaca,
Product Manager @Banco de Crédito del Perú, and QCon San Francisco 2023 Attendee
I really liked the personal nature of the trainings.
Jason Fernandez,
Software Engineer @UKG, and QCon San Francisco 2023 Attendee
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