"One of the most fun and intellectually intimate conferences I have joined. The open sessions were excellent – total serendipity."
Conference:March 5-7, 2018
Workshops:March 8-9, 2018
Attending QCon Includes:
- 18 editorial tracks across 3 days
- 140+ practitioner speakers from places like Uber, Google,Facebook, Spotify Twitter, and more…
- 11 to 1 attendee to speaker ratio
- No hidden paid sessions/marketing!
- Video recording for most sessions included
- 17 optional workshops following the conference
- Focus on healthy food, including gluten-free & vegan
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Last Year's Tracks
Monday, 6 March
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Architecting for Failure
Building fault tolerate systems that are truly resilient
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Performance Mythbusting
Performance myths that need busting and the tools & techniques to get there
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Dark Code: The Legacy/Tech Debt Dilemma
How do you evolve your code and modernize your architecture when you're stuck with part legacy code and technical debt? Lessons from the trenches.
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Applied JavaScript - Atomic Applications and APIs
Angular, React, Electron, Node: The hottest trends and techniques in the JavaScript space
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Data Engineering : Where the Rubber meets the Road in Data Science
Science does not imply engineering. Engineering tools and techniques for Data Scientists
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Engineering Culture @{{cool_company}}
Culture, Organization Structure, Modern Agile War Stories
Tuesday, 7 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered about
QCon classic track. You know the names. Hear their lessons and challenges.
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Fast & Furious: Ad Serving, Finance, & Performance
Learn some of the tips and technicals of high speed, low latency systems in Ad Serving and Finance
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Modern Learning Systems
Real world use of the latest machine learning technologies in production environments
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Containers - State Of The Art
What is the state of the art, what's next, & other interesting questions on containers.
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Workhorse Languages, Not Called Java
Workhorse languages not called Java.
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Softskills: Essential Skills for Developers
Skills for the developer in the workplace
Wednesday, 8 March
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Modern Distributed Architectures
Migrating, deploying, and realizing modern cloud architecture.
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Java - Performance, Patterns and Predictions
Skills embracing the evolution of Java (multi-core, cloud, modularity) and reenforcing core platform fundamentals (performance, concurrency, ubiquity).
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Practical Cryptography & Blockchains: Beyond the Hype
Looking past the hype of blockchain technologies, alternate title: Weaselfree Cryptography & Blockchain
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Observability Done Right: Automating Insight & Software Telemetry
Tools, practices, and methods to know what your system is doing
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied, practical, & real-world dive into industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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Security: Lessons Learned From Being Pwned
How Attackers Think. Penetration testing techniques, exploits, toolsets, and skills of software hackers
Bleeding-edge for the Enterprise
Bring trends from innovator and early adopter companies home to your team
Blockchain
Cloud Dataflow
Java 9
Deep Learning
Unikernels
Elm-lang
Formal Methods
Low Latency / High Performance Computing
Property-Based Testing
Data Engineering
Lambda/Serverless
Pen Testing (Red Teaming)
React / Flux
Engineering Culture
Building Resiliency
DevOps
Microservice Architectures
Reactive
Immutable Infrastructure
Observability / Telemetry
Building High Performing Teams
Last Year’s Speakers
Engineers over Evangelists,
Practitioners over Trainers/Coaches,
Team Leads over Consultants
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Keynotes
Last Year's Workshops
WORKSHOPS DAY 1 / THURSDAY
Morning
Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained
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Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams
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Understanding Java Modularity (JDK9)
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Beyond Relational:Applying Big Data Cloud Patterns
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Docker 101 (Getting Started)
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Building Your First App with Apache Mesos & DC/OS
[CANCELLED] React 101 Workshop
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Afternoon
12 Factor Apps Workshop
Docker Security Workshop
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Continuous Dis-Integration: Red Team Attacks
WORKSHOPS DAY 2 / FRIDAY
Morning
[SOLD OUT] Real-Time Streaming Data Pipelines
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MicroServices ‐ Let’s Build Some
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Agile Architecture Workshop
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High Performance Microservices
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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Zen of Architecture
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London Venue
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London
The Centre is located opposite Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament and with views of Big Ben and the British Airways London Eye. The location is minutes from the West End of London offering a whole host of bars, pubs, cafes, restaurants and hotels to make your visit to our venue and London, fun, relaxed and enjoyable.
Conference Venue
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster
London SW1P 3EE
Hotel
Benefit from our negotiated rates
for QCon Attendees
in various hotels close to the Conference Venue
See the hotel list and book your hotel room
Concierge Services
Get special rates for car transfer,
sightseeing tours and tourist attractions.
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Who Comes to QCon
Leading Architects talk about
the other attendees
Is QCon Right for You?
Our attendees roles are:
Software Developer / Programmer/ Engineer
Senior Developer / Engineer
Technical Team Lead and Higher (including):
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Technical Team Lead
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Senior Management (VP, CTO, CIO, Director)
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Architect: Technical / Application (platform specific)
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Enterprise Architect / Chief Architect
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Architect: Solution / Systems
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Technical Project Manager
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Meet and Learn from Your Peers
25 Minute Breaks “The Hallway Track”
25 Minute Breaks “The Hallway Track”
Mingle and network with other attendees, speakers & sponsors.
Open Spaces
Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
Social Events
Conference Social & Dinner, Exhibitor & Hospitality Receptions. Opportunities to mingle, eat, drink and network with speakers, editors, attendees, sponsors. Complementary and free for all conference attendees.
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Healthy QCon
Different menu items:
Vegan or Vegetarian
Gluten-Free
Dairy-Free
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