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Top Sessions at QCon London
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
Quarkus Senior Principal Software Engineer @RedHat
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
Digital Exclusion & How to Change It
Sareh Heidari
Senior Software Engineer @Accurx
Building High-Fidelity Data Streams
Sid Anand
Chief Architect and Head of Engineering @Datazoom
Change Data Capture for Microservices
Gunnar Morling
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Decodableco
Eventual Consistency – Don’t Be Afraid!
Susanne Braun
Principal Tech Lead @SAPSignavio
Level-up on emerging software trends
Get assurance you're adopting the right patterns and practices
- 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
Learn the emerging trends
Curated trends our Program Committee believe have the most impact in software development.
Explore the use cases
Learn how real-world practitioners are applying the tech to help you solve common problems.
Implement the best practices
Get implementable ideas to shape your projects that last beyond the conference.
I love the variety of topics. It is my annual recap of the technology industry and helps me keep up with what the industry considers modern and state of the art. And mostly I like the fact that people are open about sharing both their successes and failures.
Nikhil Mohan
Senior MTS/ Engineering @Salesforce
Tracks
Discover the tracks you will see at QCon London - Schedule Subject to Change
Mar 27
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Matt Turner
Software Engineer @Tetrateio and Co-Founder for Istio London
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?
Gunnar Morling
Senior Staff Software Engineer @Decodableco
Mar 27
Building Security in Earlier
Stefania Chaplin
Solutions Architect @GitLab
Mar 27
Innovations in Data Engineering
Sid Anand
Chief Architect and Head of Engineering @Datazoom
Mar 27
Staff+ Engineering in Practice
Fabiane Nardon
Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia
Mar 28
Architecture in 2025
Camilla Crispim
Principal Technologist & Technical Director @Thoughtworks, Member of the Technology Advisory Board, Co-Author of @Thoughtworks Technology Radar
Mar 28
Modern Frontend Development and Architecture
Loiane Groner
Development Manager @Citibank
Mar 28
Debugging Production
Abby Bangser
Principal Engineer @Syntasso
Mar 28
The Tech of FinTech
Ian Ellis
Technology Strategy Consultant, Venture Partner at Next47 and Angel Investor
Mar 28
Socially Conscious Software
Sally Goble
Senior Engineering Manager @Accurx
Mar 29
Paving the Road: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Experience
Nayana Shetty
Principal Engineer @LEGO_Group
Mar 29
Emerging AI and Machine Learning Trends
Mehrnoosh Sameki
Principal PM Manager @Microsoft
Mar 29
Performance: Designing and Tuning
As engineers, performance becomes important for us for different reasons and at different times. For many years, performance was often ignored, we would be bailed out by computers getting cheaper and faster every year, but post Moore's Law this is no longer the case.
Justin Cormack
CTO @Docker
Mar 29
Architecture with Sustainability in Mind
Why is sustainability in tech such a hot topic right now? It's not just because the cloud has a bigger carbon footprint than the airline industry, nor because technology will only get more integrated into our society - but how software engineers should be part of the climate solution.
Sarah Hsu
SRE @Goldman Sachs & Training Project Chair @Green Software Foundation
Mar 29
Remote and Hybrid Work: What Now?
The last three years have been a period of massive disruption, work has changed, and we are still figuring out what the future could be.
Shane Hastie
Global Delivery Lead @SoftEd, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods @InfoQ
Mar 28
Live online
This track includes all the sessions available live online. Online sessions are happening in Zoom and are available to all online and in-person attendees.
Mar 27
Live online
This track includes all the sessions available live online. Online sessions are happening in Zoom and are available to all online and in-person attendees.
Mar 29
Live online
This track includes all the sessions available live online. Online sessions are happening in Zoom and are available to all online and in-person attendees.
Curated learning set by senior software leaders
Essential topics. Emerging patterns and practices. Hand-picked speakers. Meet the QCon London 2023 Programming Committee.
Schedule format
15 tracks spaced over 3 days.
4 Keynotes and 75 technical talks.
Unconferences.
Below are approximate start and end-times. Agenda is subject to change
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275 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Track 2
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Track 3
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5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Track 5
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
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285 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Track 7
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Track 8
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5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Track 10
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295 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Track 12
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Track 13
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5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference Track 15
5 x Sessions + 1 Unconference
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Learn from senior software engineers
Real-world technical talks from software leaders at early adopter companies
Domain leaders
Learn what's next from world-class leaders pushing the boundaries.
Relatable challenges
Learn how senior developers are solving the challenges you face.
Diverse perspectives
Get new ideas and perspectives across multiple domains.
Valuable lessons
Actionable insights from those working on real-world projects.
Time to connect
Intentional time built-in for you to connect with speakers and peers.
No hype
No hidden marketing. No sales pitches.
I love the QCon vibe. Everybody is down to earth and open to showing and talking about how they solve real-world complex problems. The speakers are top-notch and represent the state of the art in the industry. I like that there is no product/marketing aspect to the main tracks. I always leave QCon feeling refreshed, and eager to return to work and tackle something new!
Kerrie Clark
Architect @Capital One Finance
Featured Speakers
Learn from software leaders pushing the boundaries in today’s environment.
Watch past QCon talks
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Pick a learning pace that works for you.
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in-person experience
Untether yourself from your desk and daily distractions. Immerse yourself in a new learning environment with new people, new ideas, and time to reflect.
Flexible
online experience
Plan your schedule around sessions and those you can catch up on later.
Problem-solve at
unconference sessions
Join facilitated sessions to help you work through topics and generate new ideas to current challenges.
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access
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Feeling the #QConLondon FOMO, even though I’m here. I’ve enjoyed every talk I’ve been to, but then I see the tweets from the concurrent talks I *wasn’t* in and start gnashing my teeth that I missed it. I guess that’s why recordings exist.
Holly Cummins
@holly_cummins
Brain: melted, thanks @qconlondon and all speakers for the amazing content. #QConLondon
Stéphane Goetz
@onigoetz
My timeline is filling up with brilliant ideas from big thinkers coming out of #QConLondon
Julie Lerman
@julielerman
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Ben Linders
@BenLinders
Due to QCon's focus on early stage technology trends and the curated expert speakers, the material presented was visionary, fresh, and applicable for things we need to solve in our teams. The conference was well-facilitated, and the daily format (keynote/intro in AM introducing tracks) was compelling also.
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'We Care' experience
A safe place where everyone is welcome
Enforced Code of Conduct
All-Gender restroom
Prayer room
Lactation room
Quiet areas
Sessions feedback for constant improvement
Badge optimized for peer-sharing
Accessible event space
Variety of food options (vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, special diet meals)
Detailed food labels
Diversity scholarships
Community events
DEI guidelines for track hosts and speakers
All-day coffee
Flexible online experience
On-demand access for 90 days
Conference 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.
To learn more please visit the venue page.
Conference Location
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
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25 Minute Breaks
“The Hallway Track”
Longer breaks between sessions to connect with attendees, speakers & sponsors or take time out to re-energize.
Unconferences
An unconference is a simple way to run productive, structured conversations 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, Exhibitor & Hospitality Receptions. Opportunities to mingle and network with speakers, attendees, editors and sponsors. Complimentary for all conference attendees.
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