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Upskill on the topics that matter most in software development with domain experts in our practical, hands-on workshops.

Get a pass for 1 day of workshops. Or save when registering for 2 days. Starting from $920.

Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, October 5-6, 2023.

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Thursday Oct 5 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY

[SOLD OUT] AI Engineering - Building Generative AI Apps That Overcome Enterprise Barriers and Create Real Value

Product teams are scrambling to figure out what they will be doing with this latest wave of AI technologies, and engineering organizations are struggling to bring generative AI into enterprise environments.

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Daniel Whitenack

Founder & Data Scientist @Prediction Guard, Co-Host of the Practical AI podcast, Previously Built Data Teams at Two Startups and an International NGO

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Thursday Oct 5 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY

Organizing for Fast Flow: A Practitioner's View on Implementing Team Topologies

Leaning heavily on Team Topologies (a book by Mathew Skelton and Manual Pais), this workshop explores team structures to reduce friction and improve flow.

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Speaker image - Wes Reisz
Wes Reisz

Technical Principal @thoughtworks, Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, & QCon SF 2023 PC Chair, Previously Platform Architect @VMware

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Anthony Ikeda

Cloud Strategist @Thoughtworks, former Architect and designer of Constant Contact Social Media platform, their first cloud product.

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Thursday Oct 5 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY

Domain-Driven Analysis: Quickly Getting to Grips with a New Domain

When joining a new company or working with a new client, you need to build up an understanding of how the business works and the complexities of the existing system in order to answer questions such as:

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Speaker image - Indu Alagarsamy
Indu Alagarsamy

Principal Engineer @NYTimes with 15 years of Software Development Experience

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Friday Oct 6 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY

Building and Productionizing LLM-Powered Applications

LLMs have gained immense popularity in recent months. An entirely new ecosystem of pre-trained models and tools has emerged that streamline the process of building LLM-powered applications.

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Speaker image - Adam Breindel
Adam Breindel

Member of the instructional team @Anyscale

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Kamil Kaczmarek

Technical Training Lead @Anyscale

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Friday Oct 6 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY

Building Paved Roads to Production

A repeatable and low cognitive overhead SDLC process is the spine of your engineering organization.

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Andrew Fong

CEO/Co-founder @Prodvana

Friday Oct 6 / 09:00AM PDT / FULL DAY

Delivering on the Promise of DevOps Through Internal Engineering Platforms

As a Platform Engineer, how do you know if you are delivering on the investment in an internal engineering platform? What should be the measures? What does good look like?

WORKSHOP HOST
Speaker image - Nic Cheneweth
Nic Cheneweth

Technical Principal @ThoughtWorks and Co-Creator of TW's OSS Platform Start Kits

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Sean Alvarez

Cloud engineering and infrastructure architect @ThoughtWorks

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Friday Oct 6 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY

Developing an AppSec Program for Fast Moving Teams

Understanding what an application security program and roadmap are, why they are important and how they are structured How to measure and understand your current maturity level including how to use OWASP SAMM and OWASP ASVS for measuring your existing programs or practices from a product and life

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Speaker image - Laura Bell Main
Laura Bell Main

CEO @SafeStack

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Thursday Oct 5 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY

Building Resilient, Scalable Java Applications with Distributed Databases: A Hands-on Workshop

Join us in this dynamic, hands-on workshop where we delve into the development of resilient, scalable Java applications harnessing the power of distributed databases.

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Amit Chauhan

Solutions Architect @Yugabyte

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Thursday Oct 5 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY

Architecting Scalable APIs with Spring Boot and Open Source Distributed Databases

Dive into this dynamic, hands-on workshop, where participants will learn the art of designing and developing scalable RESTful APIs using Spring Boot integrated with an open-source distributed database.

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Speaker image - Amit Chauhan
Amit Chauhan

Solutions Architect @Yugabyte

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Thursday Oct 5 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY

Lead Like Lasso – Creating Connection and Belonging in the Tech Space

As we continue to expand technology and increase our reliance on the use of artificial intelligence and algorithms, it’s more important than ever for us to be intentional about creating connection and belonging on our teams and in our organizations.

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Dimple Dhabalia

Founder of @Roots in the Clouds & Creator/Co-host of the popular "Ted Lasso" themed podcast, What Would Ted Lasso Do?

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Friday Oct 6 / 01:00PM PDT / HALF DAY

From Zero to Hero: A Journey Into Prometheus Monitoring

We will introduce Prometheus, its history, and its importance in the monitoring ecosystem, followed by a hands-on setup and installation session.

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Speaker image - Prathamesh Sonpatki
Prathamesh Sonpatki

Developer Evangelist @Last9.io

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Friday Oct 6 / 09:00AM PDT / HALF DAY

Microservices Orchestration: Designing Resilient Systems for the Future

Microservices have become the goto architectural pattern for building distributed applications.  

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Speaker image - Olivier Poupeney
Olivier Poupeney

Head of Developer Relations @Orkes

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Cloud Architect @AWS

Exactly what I was hoping. Good overview of the tech, from someone with practical experience.

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Extremely useful.

Ruud Prein,
Engineering Manager & Informed Captain @ING

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

Great topic and learning material. I plan on referencing this repo in the future.

QCon San Francisco 2022 Workshop Attendee

It gave a great overview & hands-on practice.

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Enterprise Architect @Viking Global Investors

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