Conference: March 4-6, 2015
Track: Engineering Culture
Location:
- Elizabeth Windsor, 5th flr.
Day of week:
- Wednesday
The best teams and companies talk about how to create amazing engineering cultures.
by Portia Tung
Practising Coach, Author of "The Dream Team Nightmare"
What's the differentiating factor between high achievers and those who repeatedly fail to reach their goals? What is that keeps us pursuing our dreams when others would have long given up?
As mankind has evolved, we've become more conscious and informed of who we are and how our minds work. This has led to profound insights on the concept of Hope. Instead of being a mere emotion, the latest research shows us Hope is a process and a thinking tool that can help us harness...
by Helen Walton
Founder @Gamevy; Author and Branding Specialist
by Pete Burden
Change Agent @ConsciousBusinessPeople
This session is part talk and part workshop. We aim to give you insight into how important culture is to your business and your happiness, the inspiration to recognise the type of culture you want to build - and the practical tools that will help make your vision a reality.
It begins with a story from the founder of a tech start-up known for its unusual structure - employee owned with a flat hierarchy and ‘radical management’.
From employee theft on...
by Richard Kasperowski
QCon Open Space Facilitator
Open Space
Join Portia Tung, our speakers, and other attendees for the Culture Open Space.
What is Open Space?
Every day at QCon London, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. 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.
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by Mike Pearce
Development Manager at MOO
MOO is a global online print and design company with its office in London and offices in both Boston and Providence. We help all business, big and small, look their best by helping them build a beautifully designed world that they're proud of. MOO was founded in 2004 with our most unique product, MiniCards, and has grown a large catalogue of print products from business cards and flyers, to LUXE and letterpress since then.
MOO cares deeply about it's culture. Beginning life as a...
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Wednesday, 4 March
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Architecture Improvements
Next gen architecture, Arch over the full lifecycle, Bleeding edge tech in legacy, Cognitive biases in architecture, Evolving Architecture.
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Big Data Frameworks, Architectures, and Data Science
As big data tools and architectures continue to evolve, how do you architect and select technologies that work now but are also future-proof?
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Code Beyond the Dev Team
As infrastructure becomes as malleable as code, a unified approach from reqs to ops is needed to deliver promised breakthroughs.
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Engineering Culture
The best teams and companies talk about how to create amazing engineering cultures.
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Java - Not Dead Yet
Java is evolving to meet developer and business needs, from lambdas in Java 8 to built-in support for money types rumoured for Java 9.
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Mind Matters at Work
How theories from neuroscience and psychology can help us better understand IT professionals and discover what really motivates them.
Thursday, 5 March
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Docker, containers and application portability
People building stuff for and with containers showing why application portability is important, and what can be done with expanding ecosystems.
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Evolving agile
Reflecting on and learning from successes and failures in applying agile approaches since the creation of the Agile Manifesto and exploring ways of applying agile practices to increase business value.
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HTML and JS Today
The state of the art in web technologies. What is important to know and why?
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Internet of Things
What software devs need to know to design and build for instrumented environments and reactive things, what new issues and questions it raises.
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Modern CS in the Real World
How modern CS helps you tackle today's problems.
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Reactive Architecture
How to create reactive systems is more than simply learning a framework. Thinking in a reactive way helps you to design responsive architectures.
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The Go Language
The Go Language - Concurrency, Performance, Systems Programming.
Friday, 6 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Get a rare look behind the scenes and get to see the architectures of the most well-known sites with the least known architectures.
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Low latency trading
The 'race to zero' continues. Join us to learn about the latest tecniques being deployed to optimise order routing and execution.
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Open source in finance
Financial services have changed from OS as cost-saving to a competitive weapon. See open source projects that are disrupting the finance industry.
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Product Mastery
Come have fun with fellow PMs and BAs as you learn about Value Management. We'll even tell you dark tales of Snarks, Hippos and other obstacles.
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Taming Microservices
Tackling the challenges of microservices in practice.
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Taming Mobile
Mobile is no longer the Next Big Thing but a requirement for your business. Hear from those who have implemented successful mobile systems.
