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International software conference and certification for professional developers
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The
AI decisions
you make this year
will shape what your team
can ship next year.
At QCon London, senior engineers from innovator and early adopter companies tell the stories behind what's working in production.
You'll come back with patterns ready to adopt, costly mistakes you can now avoid, and a way to de-risk technical investments before building them.
75+ practitioners from innovator and early adopter companies · 15 engineering tracks
Patterns and practices, not products and pitches
April 13-16, 2027
QEII Centre, London
Early Bird Deadline July 14th
Conference: £1,990
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QCon past attendees included senior engineers from these organizations
What you’ll learn at QCon London
Patterns and practices ready to adopt, from teams already running them in production.
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Modern API Design
Resilience Engineering: Everything Fails All the Time
Guardrails and Safety Nets (Evals) for Today's Landscape
The Tech of FinTech
Something About Distributed Systems
Staff+ Engineering Skills
Engineering AI Systems
Data Platforms Reimagined
Architecting for Agents: Beneath the Loop
Code Beyond Engineers & Engineering Teams
Developer Experience as a First-Class Architecture Concern
Real World Platform Engineering
Software Security & Risk Management
Native Languages - and Wasm
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Why attend QCon London 2027
What QCon delivers that other tech conferences don't.
Talks driving change
The program focuses on what early adopters have proven works in production. The speakers are the senior engineers doing it now, before it becomes standard practice.
Patterns and practices, not products and pitches
An international program committee of working senior engineers selects each session. Speakers share the systems they've built and what they learned running them. No hidden product pitches.
Implementable ideas
Every pattern you hear comes from a system someone has actually built and run. You can put it to use on your team's work as soon as you're back at your desk.
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The QCon experience
Talks worth your time. Conversations you can't get from a recording.
Conference experience
15 engineering tracks across innovator, early adopter, and early majority topics
75+ international practitioner speakers
One speaker for every 11 attendees
Patterns and practices, not products and pitches
Extended hallway time: built into the schedule, not stolen from it
12 months of session recordings included
Optional experiences
Video-Only Pass for those who can't attend in person
Stay ahead of the adoption curve
QCon focuses on the technologies and practices proven by early adopters and are ready for wider enterprise use. Each track on the program is placed on the adoption curve so you know where the patterns you'll hear about sit.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Multimodal AI
- Agentic AI / Orchestration
- Physical AI
- Reasoning Models
- AI DevOps
- AI-powered hardware
- AI in Robotics aka Embodied AI
- LangOps or LLMOps
- Knowledge Graphs
- Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Robotics
- Edge inference and model training
-
Large-scale distributed
deep-learning
- Small Language Models (SLMs)
- Explainable AI
- Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
-
Generative AI/Large
Language Models (LLMs) - Cloud agnostic computing for AI
- Data Contracts
- Data Observability
- Virtual Reality e.g. VR/AR/MR/XR
- Cognitive Services
- Graph Data Analytics
- IoT Platforms
- Synthetic data generation
- MLOps
- Vector Databases
- AI coding assistants
-
Image Recognition
(Computer Vision) - Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Open Table Formats (OTFs)
- Data Mesh
- Digital Assistants
- Apache Beam
Source: InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report - 2025
Your team at QCon
Three days that align your team on the calls already on your roadmap.
Engineering Leaders & CTOs
Validate multi-year technology strategy. Understand which emerging practices are ready for enterprise adoption.
Software Architects & Principal Engineers
Get architectural patterns from teams who've scaled systems you're planning to build. Learn their tradeoffs.
Senior Developers & Staff+ Engineers
Develop technical judgment for complex decisions. See how leading teams solve problems similar to yours.
Need to convince your boss?
Use our pre-written templates.
3 days. 75+ senior practitioners. Patterns ready to
adopt, Costly
mistakes to avoid, and a way to de-risk
technical investments before building them.
Reduce project risk
Learn from production failures to avoid costly mistakes
Move from decision to delivery sooner
Apply patterns proven in production
Build team capability
Build skills that hold up across roles and projects
Benchmark your approach
Understand how leading teams tackle problems you're facing
Validate technology bets
Learn from engineers who adopted first to reduce your risk
Adopt the right technologies at the right time
Understand emerging trends before they become table stakes
It's not just about the tech.
It's about you too.
The QCon 'We Care' experience
QCon London Venue
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London
Situated in the heart of Westminster, the QEII Centre is ideally located to take advantage of everything London has to offer. Uniquely situated in the shadow of Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, and the London Eye, you will be within a five-minute walk to the Thames and surrounded by excellent transport links in and out of the capital.
Conference Location
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster
London SW1P 3EE
Hotel
We have appointed BCD M&E to help you find affordable
accommodation that meets your requirements.
Why senior engineers trust QCon
Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
Speakers from all around the world, at the forefront of their field.
QCon puts more emphasis on the human connections between the sessions.
Unconferences are a space for everyone to share best practices.
Eye-opening! I can't wait to implement what I've learnt.
You don't see big pressure on selling you stuff. It’s all about learning and helping you grow.
Unconference sessions— they turn out to be a really beneficial feature of the conference.
Curation sets QCon apart. Tracks are curated by track hosts that know that field well.
Connections. Everyone here is passionate about what they do and how they grow.
It's one of the most innovative conferences I've been to.
QCon gives us the opportunity to zoom out and look at our reality from a different perspective.
Practical takeaways and new perspectives.
Past QCon talks
See the senior practitioner-led format for yourself.
Who attends QCon
Senior engineers, software architects, and engineering leaders making technical decisions for teams shipping production systems.
34%
TECHNICAL TEAM LEADS AND HIGHER,
SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS
23%
SENIOR DEVELOPER / LEAD ENGINEER
24%
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Guiding engineering teams for 20+ years
Helping senior software developers adopt new technologies and practices for over 20 years. The conferences sit alongside InfoQ articles, news, podcasts, and trends reports.
20 years
Helping senior dev teams adopt the right patterns and practices
550k per month
Global senior software developers relying on the InfoQ community to stay ahead
4500+ per year
Senior developers learning emerging trends and practices at our QCon international software development conferences
Unable to make it to QCon London?
Take a look at:
QCon AI Boston 2026
When: June 1-2, 2026
Where: Boston University, George Sherman Union, Boston, MA
