"One of the most fun and intellectually intimate conferences I have joined. The open sessions were excellent – total serendipity."
Conference: Jun 26-28, 2017
Workshops: Jun 29-30, 2017
Conference: Jun 26-28, 2017
Workshops: Jun 29-30, 2017
Software is changing the world
QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community.
A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Tracks
Monday, 13 June
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Case studies from: Google, Linkedin, Alibaba, Twitter, and more...
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Stream Processing @ Scale
Technologies and techniques to handle ever increasing data streams
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Culture As Differentiator
Stories of companies and team for whom engineering culture is a differentiator - in delivering faster, in attracting better talent, and in making their businesses more successful.
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Practical DevOps for Cloud Architectures
Real-world lessons and practices that enable the devops nirvana of operating what you build
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Incredible Power of an Open-Sourced .NET
.NET is more than you may think. From Rx to C# 7 designed in the open, learn more about the power of open source .NET
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Sponsored Solutions Track 1
Tuesday, 14 June
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Better than Resilient: Antifragile
Failure is a constant in production systems, learn how to wield it to your advantage to build more robust systems.
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Innovations in Java and the Java Ecosystem
Cutting Edge Java Innovations for the Real World
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Modern CS in the Real World
Real-world Industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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Containers: From Dev to Prod
Beyond the buzz and into the how and why of running containers in production
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Security War Stories
Expert-level security track led by well known and respected leaders in the field
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Sponsored Solutions Track 2
Wednesday, 15 June
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Microservices and Monoliths
Practical lessons on services. Asks the question when and when to NOT go with Microservices?
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Modern API Architecture - Tools, Methods, Tactics
API-based application development, and the tooling and techniques to support effectively working with APIs in the small or at scale. Using internal and external APIs
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Commoditized Machine Learning
Barriers to entry for applied ML are lower than ever before, jumpstart your journey
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Full Stack JavaScript
Browser, server, devices - JavaScript is everywhere
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Optimizing Yourself
Keeping life in balance is always a challenge. Learning lifehacks
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Sponsored Solutions Track 3
Bleeding-edge for the Enterprise
Bring trends from innovator and early adopter companies home to your team
Bitcoin
Apache Beam
ASP.NET Core
Hardware Transactional Memory
Applied Academic Research
Stream Processing
Kafka
Non-ReST API
Low Latency Microservices
Distributed System Verification
MACHINE LEARNING
JDK Internals
Antifragility
Cloud Optimization
Microservices Implementation
FUNCTIONAL
REACTIVE
Speakers
Over 100 more speakers...
Engineers over Evangelists,
Practitioners over Trainers/Coaches,
Team Leads over Consultants
of QCon attendees feel they are learning from an expert peer
of QCon attendees rate the level of content as expert
* Our goal is to reach 100%
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Keynotes
Project Manager at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory who develops spacecraft technologies enabling exploration of Mars, Venus, and deep space.
Keynote
Engineering the Red Planet
Engineering the Red Planet
Author, Engineer, CTO @Etsy. Previously, worked @Yahoo with @Flickr. Expertise around capacity planning for large scale infrastructure projects....
Author, Founder, Entrepreneur, Engineer who leads product @ShapeSecurity. Previously, held Click Czar title @Google $23BN/year pay per click...
Keynote
Security War Stories
Security War Stories
Inventor, Professor, Co-Founder best known for his CAP Theorem. Currently VP of Infrastructure @Google and tenured CS professor @UCBerkeley.
Keynote
Design for Continuous Evolution
Design for Continuous Evolution
Workshops
WORKSHOPS DAY 1 / THURSDAY
WORKSHOPS DAY 2 / FRIDAY
NY Venue
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
The hotel is situated just across the river from Manhattan in New York City's most celebrated neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights. The conference venue is at the same location as the hotel.
Reservations
The QCon room block at the Marriott Brooklyn Bridge (conference hotel) is sold out but you can book a hotel room on the Marriott website or use a travel booking website.
Other hotels at walking distance from QCon Venue:
The Experience We Bring
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
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 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.
Discussion Café
Discussion Café
Lunch will feature sections of smaller tables for 4 around particular topics where you can meet each other in a more comfortable setting, in addition to the usual large 10 seat conference lunch tables.
Social Events
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.
Healthy QCon
Different menu items:
Vegan or Vegetarian
Gluten-Free
Dairy-Free
What is a QCon Like ?
View the QCon London 2016 report to get a feel for what QCon is like and what we and some of our attendees felt were the most important sessions from QCon London 2016 - including Microservices, Containers, Modern Native Languages, Continuous Delivery, Programming in GO, and Applying Failure Testing at Netflix.
Download this report (15.28 MB)
InfoQ
Our Purpose
Software is changing the world. InfoQ was founded in 2006 with the purpose of facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in enterprise development. We do this by providing our audience with unbiased, practitioner-driven conferences, content, and online community.
To see how we measure progress on fulfilling our purpose, please visit our social purpose index!
Membership Benefits
- 76% of respondents said they come because of practitioner-led, high-quality content 73% come for innovative information that drives innovation in their organizations
- The three most followed content areas on InfoQ for respondents are Java (66% of respondents), Architecture (65%), and Agile (59%)
- The top two "personas" (title segments) respondents identify with are Developer (76%) and Architect (72%)
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