QCon London 2020 is a wrap!

Over 1600 attendees, speakers, and exhibitors made the 14th edition of the conference one of our best ones yet. Take a look at the conference highlights. Catch up with the session videos you missed. See what people had to say on social about #QConLondon.

2020 Tracks, Hosts and Trainings

"Streaming Data Architectures”, “Machine Learning: The Latest Innovations”, “Leading Distributed Teams” were just some of the 18 editorial tracks at QCon London 2020. Take a look at the others and catch a glimpse of the QCon London 2020 trainings.

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2020 Trending Talks

Some of the top sessions from QCon London 2020 included “Monolith Decomposition Patterns” by Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert Sam Newman, and “Why Distributed Systems Are Hard” by Senior Software Engineer @GitHub Denise Yu.

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2020 Keynotes

QCon London 2020 keynotes included Anjuan Simmons, Engineering Coach @helpscout, and Katie Gamanji, Cloud Platform Engineer @AmericanExpress, former @condenastint.

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2020 Photos and Testimonials

Relive the QCon experience through our photos from the 14th edition of QCon London. Discover the impact QCon had on our attendees in their own words.

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2020 Topics

Over 1500 attendees learned from practitioners working in innovator and early adopter companies about the topics that matter most in software today. Our technology adoption curve captures these topics:

Innovators
  • Deep Learning
  • BlockChain
  • Linuxkit
  • WebAssembly
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Developer Experience
Early Adopters
  • IoT Platforms
  • Chaos Engineering
  • Java 11
  • Rust
Early Majority
  • Microservices
  • Kubernetes
  • Streaming
  • Immutable Infrastructure
  • Observability
  • High Performing Teams
Use our interactive chart to learn more about the 2020 sessions by topic

2020 Hosts and Tracks

What is a QCon track? Each "editorial" track (that's what we call the curated talks focused on developer lessons) is a collection of software topics curated by a domain expert in areas such as culture, data science, machine learning, front-end technologies, remote teams, and architecture. Take a look at the QCon London 2020 hosts and tracks:

2020 Trainings

QCon isn't just about the conference. QCon also offers a wide reach of trainings on the two days following the conference. We had an incredible lineup of trainings in 2020 that provided shorter technology-focused deep dives. This year’s topics included: Serverless, Containers, Kubernetes, Java, Microservice, Security, Remote Work and more:

2020 Keynotes

QCon London 2020 brought together incredible people who shared their insights to help software teams adopt new technologies and practices. Our keynote speakers are among the team leads, architects and software engineers moving our industry forward. Take a look at our 2020 keynotes:

The Apollo Mindset: Making Mission Impossible, Possible

Richard Wiseman

Author of the Luck Factor, previously Consultant for National Geographic Channel’s Brain Games, History’s Your Bleeped Up Brain, & Discovery’s MythBusters.

The Internet of Things Might Have Less Internet Than We Thought?

Alasdair Allan

Scientist/Maker/Hacker

Interoperability of Open-Source Tools: The Emergence of Interfaces

Katie Gamanji

Cloud Platform Engineer @AmericanExpress, former @condenastint

Technical Leadership Through the Underground Railroad

Anjuan Simmons

Engineering Coach @helpscout

2020 Trending Talks

Catch up on the trending talks you missed from QCon London 2020:
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Moving Beyond Request-Reply: How Smart APIs Are Different

Bernd Ruecker

Co-founder and chief technologist @Camunda

Tesla Virtual Power Plant

Colin Breck

Sr. Staff Software Engineer @Tesla

Monolith Decomposition Patterns

Sam Newman

Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert

A Brief History of the Future of the API

Mark Rendle

Co-Author of gRPC for WCF Developers and Creator @VisualRecode

Lessons Learned from Reviewing 150 Infrastructures

Jon Topper

CTO / CEO @scalefactory

Why Distributed Systems Are Hard

Denise Yu

Senior Software Engineer @GitHub

See the 2020 full schedule

The QCon Impact

QCon London isn’t just a software conference. It’s the place where senior software engineers, tech leads, and
architects come together to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.
Find out what attendees had to say about their experience at QCon London 2020.

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2015 #QCon attendee
2016 @InfoQ editor at QCon
2020 #QConLondon track host

So much thanks to these amazing people:
My speakers:
@markrendle @rdli @berndruecker @junr03 and @msmichellegar

QCon and InfoQ:
@sarahjwells
@danielbryantuk
@charleshumble
and Pia von Beran

Thomas Betts (ThomasBetts@hachyderm.io)
@ThomasBetts

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Talked this week at QCon London - first time in a while I'd like to publicly praise a conference due to amazing quality of organisation. Well done, #qconlondon, you are an example how a large, multi-track conference should be organised.

eugene pilyankevich
@9gunpi

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Love #QConLondon seen lots of observations on Twitter regarding diversity at the conference. Clear the conference organisers get the problem and are trying. Props.

Scott James
@scottejames

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Kudos to the #qconlondon team - a really well organised and run conference 👍

Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓
@rmoff

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@QCon conferences remain my favorite. They’re so focused on a good experience for attendees and speakers and are amazing support to have. Very grateful to be running a track this year. Full circle for me as the first time my work was presented was @qconlondon many years ago 😄.

Nora Jones
@nora_js

Well-organized conference where speakers were self-reflective and shared their pitfalls and their war stories, in order to learn from these experiences. Addressing real problems to solve, dealing with trade-offs and cognitive load has been emphasized. A very good place for early adopters.

Oliver Grof
Senior Software Engineer at Viesure Innovation Center GmbH


QCon London 2020

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