QCon London 2023 is a wrap!
QCon London focused on emerging software trends and innovations
Technical talks from over 75 software domain experts focused on innovation and change. Talks focused on patterns & practices, not products and pitches.
Attendees learned implementable ideas they could apply after the event.
- Green Tech
- Rust
- WASM
- eBPF
- Machine Learning @ Edge
- Scalable Configuration Management
- Infrastructure Unification
- Cue Lang
- MLOps
- Team Topologies
- Staff+ Engineer Path
- Service Meshes
- Microfrontends
- Multicloud Practices
- Software Ethics
- Feature Engineering
- Mode Inference/Prediction
- Observability Practices
- Server-Driven Frontend
- Decarbonizing the Grid
- Operator Pattern for
Non-Clustered Resources - Patterns & Heuristics
Enabling Fast Flow - Open Policy Agent
- Java 17 (LTS)
- Paved Road
- DevSecOps
- DevOps in Practice
- Kubernetes Strategies
- Observability / Telemetry
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Chaos Engineering
- Operating Microservices
- Data Engineering
- GraphQL
- Go Techniques & Patterns
- DevEx
- Reactive
- Performance
- Macroservices
- Serverless: Orchestration &
Choreography - Cloud Architectures
- Patterns for Scale
- IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Polyglot Software Practices
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My first time at the #QConLondon! Some colleagues had already told me about its majesty, but you know - in St. Thomas style - if you don't see it, you never believe it 100%! :smile: Well what can I say... 15 different tracks spread over 3 days, for a total of 75 talks. An impeccable organization with obsessive attention to detail and attention to inclusion beyond imagination...
Andrea Giannantonio
Principal DevEx Engineer @ Immobiliare.it | Community Manager @ ImmobiliareLabs
Another grey rainy day in London? No, it is a 2nd day of #QConLondon! I never thought I would attend one of the most important engineering conferences in the world, but here I am, a first time attendee 😊
Lula Leus
@LulaLeus
QCon is like the SuperBowl of technology conferences - expertly curated tracks, aimed at experienced individuals - it's a wonderland for learning, meeting people, and just celebrating technology and the innovations in our industries. I leave the event with many things that I can take back and improve when back at work as well as being energised again. From the quality of the talks, the venue and organization, and the best keynotes daily, it's the highlight of my conference year!
Richard Roché
Principal Engineer @Workhuman
It is all content and no fluff. There are no thinly veiled presentations touting a vendor's products, but actual talks by professionals like me who are tackling problems like me.
Alex White
Enterprise Architect - Digital @ASOS
QCon content is a great balance of technical detail and thought-provoking ideas that provide inspiration for the workplace.
Mark Bursnall
Head of Engineering @Commify
QCon is a fantastic conference that has given me a renewed excitement in leveraging new innovations, technologies, and approaches to solve the challenges faced in my day-to-day role.
John McCloskey
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Bazaarvoice
2023 Topics and Tracks
Behind every QCon is a Program Committee of senior software leaders who curate the essential topics you need to know about. A track is a peer-curated day of talks around important topics in software. Take a look at the QCon London 2023 topics and tracks.
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Mar 27
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
The biggest software systems on the planet need sophisticated architectures, deliberately and carefully designed to support true planet-scale, along with high availability, durability, security, and many other concerns.
Matt Turner
Software Engineer @Tetrateio and Co-Founder for Istio London
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Mar 27
Building Modern Backends
Creating backend architectures is a more demanding task than ever, with many questions to answer, such as: how to build and operate services that are reliable and secure, scale to millions of users, and are maintainable too? How do you ensure data is always up-to-date and accessible with low latency? Which consistency models can be leveraged to achieve a good balance of performance and user experience? How to keep your systems observable, and how to establish governance and discovery for synchronous APIs as well as streaming services?
Gunnar Morling
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Decodableco
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Mar 27
Building Security in Earlier
Presentations on how 'shift left' has been applied in practice to build security into applications and services earlier in their release to production pipeline.
Stefania Chaplin
Solutions Architect @GitLab
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Mar 27
Innovations in Data Engineering
Learn from technology SMEs and industry's leading data practitioners about trends and innovations happening in data engineering space including what's new in data streaming, data API's, data lineage, automated data pipelines and cloud data platforms & containerization technologies.
Sid Anand
Fellow, Cloud & Data Platform @Walmart, Apache Airflow Committer/PMC, Ex-Netflix, LinkedIn, eBay, Etsy, & PayPal
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Mar 27
Staff+ Engineering in Practice
What are the skills you need to develop if you want to stay on the technical track to technical lead, staff, or principal? What will it take to thrive in this type of role?
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficial
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Mar 28
Architecture in 2025
We will be exploring and discussing answers to questions on: What does architecture design look like in the future? What is the role of the software architect? Who else is involved? How do you prepare for this?
Camilla Crispim
Principal Technologist & Technical Director @Thoughtworks, Member of the Technology Advisory Board, Co-Author of @Thoughtworks Technology Radar
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Mar 28
Modern Frontend Development and Architecture
Let's talk about the frontend, not with the tools we use but through the problems we're solving. re-usability, composition, abstraction, velocity, performance.
Loiane Groner
Development Manager @Citibank
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Mar 28
Debugging Production
You get paged about a problem in production - but how do you know just what system or service is acting up? What do you do to identify and mitigate the impact on users before ultimately fixing any underlying issues? This track we'll look at the state of the art in tools and processes for incident management, observability, and debugging high impact production systems.
Abby Bangser
Principal Engineer @Syntasso
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Mar 28
The Tech of FinTech
FinTech startups have led the way in adopting new technology such as cloud, pushing down perceived regulatory barriers as they go. In response established financial services firms have also been building their own modern architectures. This track will feature presenters from both, examining the tech they've adopted, and the business value that it's delivered.
Ian Ellis
Technology Strategy Consultant, Venture Partner, and Angel Investor
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Mar 28
Socially Conscious Software
This timely track deep dives into technologies and technology companies that focus on social impact, by building products, using tools and creating a future that we all believe in. It explores how to foster a socially inclusive, ethical, diverse and equitable tech industry that strives to actively strip itself of bias and prejudice.
Sally Goble
Senior Engineering Manager @Accurx
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Mar 29
Paving the Road: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Experience
How to supercharge developer productivity and happiness.
Nayana Shetty
Principal Engineer @LEGO_Group
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Mar 29
Emerging AI and Machine Learning Trends
Discover how to operationalize machine learning applications that are scalable, secure, and interpretable.
Mehrnoosh Sameki
Principal PM Manager @Microsoft
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Mar 29
Performance: Designing and Tuning
Justin Cormack
CTO @Docker
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Mar 29
Architecture with Sustainability in Mind
Sarah Hsu
SRE @Goldman Sachs & Training Project Chair @Green Software Foundation
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Mar 29
Remote and Hybrid Work: What Now?
Shane Hastie
Global Delivery Lead @SoftEd, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods @InfoQ
Keynotes
Learn actionable insights to help you adopt the right technologies and practices.
Top Sessions at QCon London 2023
Top 5 best voted
What We Talk About When We Talk About Networks
Keith Winstein
Associate Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering @Stanford
Deconstructing an Abstraction to Reconstruct an Outage
Chris Sinjakli
Infra Engineer @planetscaledata
In-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB
Hannes Mühleisen
Co-founder and CEO @duckdblabs
Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
Holly Cummins
Full Stack Engineer, Building Quarkus @Red Hat, Former Lead Consultant
Banking on Thousands of Microservices
Suhail Patel
Staff Engineer @Monzo
Top 5 most attended
Strategy & Principles to Scale and Evolve MLOps @DoorDash
Hien Luu
Sr. Engineering Manager @DoorDash & Author of Beginning Apache Spark 3, Speaker and Conference Committee Chair
Digital Exclusion & How to Change It
Sareh Heidari
Senior Software Engineer @Accurx
Building High-Fidelity Data Streams
Sid Anand
Fellow, Cloud & Data Platform @Walmart, Apache Airflow Committer/PMC, Ex-Netflix, LinkedIn, eBay, Etsy, & PayPal
Change Data Capture for Microservices
Gunnar Morling
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Decodableco
Eventual Consistency – Don’t Be Afraid!
Susanne Braun
Principal Tech Lead @SAPSignavio
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