QCon London 2017 | Software Development Conference

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Monday March 6, 2017 Tracks Day #1
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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: Security War Stories: The Battle For The Internet of Things by Alasdair Allan Scientist/Maker/Hacker (Deployed a 500 node mesh network covering the Moscone @ Google I/O) Fleming / Whittle, 3rd fl.
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Architecting for Failure	Performance Mythbusting	Dark Code: The Legacy/Tech Debt Dilemma	Applied JavaScript - Atomic Applications and APIs	Data Engineering : Where the Rubber meets the Road in Data Science	Engineering Culture @{{cool_company}}	Sponsored Solution Track I
Host	Peter Morgan	Martin Thompson	Michael Feathers	Ian Thomas	Andreas Gertsch Grover	Sudhir Tonse	Nitin Bharti
Location	Fleming, 3rd flr.	Churchill, G flr.	Mountbatten, 6th flr.	Whittle, 3rd flr.	Windsor, 5th flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Abbey, 4th flr.
10:35 AM	Building and Trusting a Cloud Bank Greg Hawkins [Download Slides]	Performance Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Strategic Code Deletion Michael Feathers [Download Slides]	Microservices At The Heart of BBC iPlayer Cem Staveley [Download Slides]	Effective Data Pipelines: Data Mngmt from Chaos Katharine Jarmul Talk MOVED to: Churchill, G flr. [Download Slides]	Tips For Creating a More Equal Workplace Kate Heddleston [Download Slides]	Mastering the app Store landscape with telemetry Usman Khan & Kaushik Patel
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Challenging Perceptions of NHS IT Edward Hiley & Dan Rathbone [Download Slides]	Performance Testing in Java Ix-chel Ruiz & Andres Almiray [Download Slides]	Using Quality Views to Tackle Tech Debt @Tesla Colin Breck	The Hitchhiker's Guide to Serverless Javascript Steve Faulkner [Download Slides]	Data Cleansing and Understanding Best Practices Casey Stella [Download Slides]	Culture Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	One repo to enable DevOps #monorepo Sven Erik Knop
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Building Reliability In An Unreliable World Greg Murphy [Download Slides]	High Performance Managed Languages Martin Thompson [Download Slides]	Refactoring Mount Doom - Tackling Legacy Code Franziska Sauerwein	Adventures in JavaScript and the IoT James Hall Talk MOVED to: St James, 4th flr. [Download Slides]	Data Engineering Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Enabling Innovation at Uber Speed Aurore Kervella & Sudhir Tonse Talk MOVED to: Whittle, 3rd flr.	Continuously Delivering Security in the Cloud Casey West
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	From Microliths To Microsystems Jonas Bonér [Download Slides]	Continuous Performance Testing Mark Price [Download Slides]	Dark Code Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Full-Scale Elm in Production Richard Feldman [Download Slides]	Reliable & Scalable Data Infra Eco-System At Uber Sudhir Mallem	Evolving the Engineering Culture @Criteo Manu Cupcic [Download Slides]	Lessons Learned Building Hyper-Scale Cloud Service Harvey Raja
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Latency Sensitive Microservices Peter Lawrey [Download Slides]	Async Or Bust!? Todd Montgomery [Download Slides]	A Crystal Ball To Prioritize Technical Debt Adam Tornhill [Download Slides]	JavaScript Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Building a Data Science Capability From Scratch Victor Hu [Download Slides]	The Holistic Detective Hunt For Great Tech Culture Doug Talbot [Download Slides]	Dev Ops @ Scale Baruch Sadogursky
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Architecting For Failure Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	In-Memory Caching: Curb Tail Latency with Pelikan Yao Yue [Download Slides]	Crushing Tech Debt Through Automation at Coinbase Rob Witoff	Rebuilding The Monolith With Composable Apps Ian Thomas [Download Slides]	Building Data Pipelines in Python Marco Bonzanini [Download Slides]	Delivering Value While Behind Enemy Lines Matt Barrett [Download Slides]	Empowering Apps with Microsoft Cognitive Services Blazej Kotelko
6:30 PM	QCon Conference Social at NAMCO Funscape (Attendee or Speaker Badge Required)

Tuesday March 7, 2017 Tracks Day #2
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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: Engineering You by Lynn Langit BigData and Cloud Architect & Martin Thompson High Performance & Low Latency Specialist Fleming / Whittle, 3rd fl. [Download Slides]
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Architectures You've Always Wondered about	Fast & Furious: Ad Serving, Finance, & Performance	Modern Learning Systems	Containers - State Of The Art	Workhorse Languages, Not Called Java	Softskills: Essential Skills for Developers	Sponsored Solution Track II
Host	Sid Anand	Charles Humble	Mike Lee Williams	Jamie Dobson	Werner Schuster	Phil Haack	Nitin Bharti
Location	Fleming, 3rd flr.	Churchill, G flr.	Mountbatten, 6th flr.	Whittle, 3rd flr.	Windsor, 5th flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Abbey, 4th flr.
10:35 AM	Architectural Overhaul: Ad Serving @Spotify Scale Kinshuk Mishra [Download Slides]	Predictability In ML Applications Claudia Perlich [Download Slides]	Products And Prototypes With Keras Micha Gorelick [Download Slides]	Deliver Docker Containers Continuously on AWS Philipp Garbe [Download Slides]	Coding for High Frequency Trading Richard Croucher [Download Slides]	Lending Privilege Anjuan Simmons	Web Components @ Scale Pawel Psztyc
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Scaling Facebook Live Videos to a Billion Users Sachin Kulkarni	Achieving High Load in Advertising Technology Peter Milne [Download Slides]	Mini Workshop: Hands-on Deep Learning Micha Gorelick & Mike Lee Williams	Continuous Delivery The Hard Way With Kubernetes Luke Marsden [Download Slides]	Testing Programmable Infrastructure with Ruby Matt Long	Softskills Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Drowning in Data, Thirsting for Insight Mehdi Daoudi
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Low Latency Trading Architecture at LMAX Exchange Sam Adams [Download Slides]	Extreme Programming Meets Realtime Data Tom Johnson & Gel Goldsby [Download Slides]	Building Robust Machine Learning Systems Stephen Whitworth [Download Slides]	When Containers Attack! Anne Currie [Download Slides]	Languages Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Shaving My Head Made Me A Better Programmer Alex Qin [Download Slides]	Multiple NoSQL Use Cases with Redis Modules Kamran Yousaf [Download Slides]
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	The Distributed Pit of Success @Deliveroo Greg Beech [Download Slides]	Ad Serving & Finance Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Julia: A Modern Language For Modern ML Dr. Simon Byrne & Dr. Viral Shah [Download Slides]	cgroupv2: Linux's New Unified Control Group System Chris Down	Why We Chose Erlang Over vs. Java, Scala, Go, C Colin Hemmings [Download Slides]	Consensual Software: Prioritizing Trust & Safety Danielle Leong	I have a NoSQL toaster Simon Leigh
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Scaling Instagram Infrastructure Lisa Guo	Policing The Stock Market with Machine Learning Cliff Click [Download Slides]	DSSTNE: Deep Learning at Scale Scott Le Grand [Download Slides]	Containers Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Building a Bank with Go Matt Heath [Download Slides]	Building a High Performing Team Patrick Kua Talk MOVED to: Whittle, 3rd flr. [Download Slides]	Multi-host, Multi-network Persistent Containers Brian Bulkowski
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Architectures Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing	The Move to AI: From HFT to Laplace Demon Albert Bifet & Eric Horesnyi [Download Slides]	Deep Learning @Google Scale: Smart Reply in Inbox Anjuli Kannan	Dev to Prod in 5 minutes: Is Your Company Ready? Carlos Leon [Download Slides]	A Practical Road to SaaS' in Python Armin Ronacher [Download Slides]	Creating Space To Be Awesome Meri Williams [Download Slides]	You can't buy DevOps, but you may have to sell it Ken Mugrage
6:15 PM	Exhibitor Reception - location: Benjamin Britten, 3rd floor and Cambridge, 5th floor. Ends at 7pm.

Wednesday March 8, 2017 Tracks Day #3
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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: Our Concurrent Past; Our Distributed Future by Joe Duffy Pulumi Co-founder & CEO, Previously @Microsoft Director of Engineering for Languages/Compilers Fleming / Whittle, 3rd fl. [Download Slides]
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Modern Distributed Architectures	Java - Performance, Patterns and Predictions	Practical Cryptography & Blockchains: Beyond the Hype	Observability Done Right: Automating Insight & Software Telemetry	Modern CS in the Real World	Security: Lessons Learned From Being Pwned	Sponsored Solution Track III
Host	Danny Yuan	Trisha Gee	Riccardo Spagni	Daniel Bryant	Werner Schuster	Christina Camilleri	Nitin Bharti
Location	Fleming, 3rd flr.	Churchill, G flr.	Mountbatten, 6th flr.	Whittle, 3rd flr.	Windsor, 5th flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Abbey, 4th flr.
10:35 AM	Realtime & Personalized Notifications @Twitter Gary Lam & Saurabh Pathak [Download Slides]	Thinking Strategically About IoT Holly Cummins	Blockchain Introduction: Peering Through the Hype Elaine Ou [Download Slides]	Avoiding Alerts Overload From Microservices Sarah Wells [Download Slides]	SQL Server On Linux: Will It Perform Or Not? Slava Oks [Download Slides]	Security Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Tasty 'Topics' for Distributed Systems Tom Fairbairn [Download Slides]
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Distributed Systems Theory for Practical Engineers Alvaro Videla [Download Slides]	From Concurrent to Parallel Brian Goetz [Download Slides]	Practical Cryptography & Blockchain Panel Paul Sztorc, David Vorick, Jeremy Rand, Elaine Ou, Peter Todd, Riccardo Spagni & Rob Witoff	Do You Really Know Your Response Times? Daniel Rolls [Download Slides]	Assuring Crypto Code with Automated Reasoning Aaron Tomb [Download Slides]	How to Backdoor Invulnerable Code Josh Schwartz [Download Slides]	Microsoft Bot Framework Best Practices Darren Jefford [Download Slides]
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Spotify's Reliable Event Delivery System Igor Maravic [Download Slides]	Real World Java 9 Trisha Gee [Download Slides]	Practical Blockchains: Building on Bitcoin Peter Todd [Download Slides]	Observability Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Pony: Co-Designing A Type-System And A Run-Time Sylvan Clebsch [Download Slides]	Building Secure Player Experiences At Riot Games David Rook [Download Slides]	Implementing Your Own Chatbot Platform! Lyudmil Pelov
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Distributed Architectures Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Event Sourcing on the JVM Greg Young	Case Study: Alternate Blockchains Jeremy Rand [Download Slides]	Monitoring Serverless Architectures Rafal Gancarz [Download Slides]	Panel: What's Next for Our Programming Languages? Martin Thompson, Sylvan Clebsch, Joe Duffy, Brian Goetz & Richard Feldman Talk MOVED to: Fleming, 3rd flr.	Making the Most out of a Bad Day as a Developer Wim Remes	DevOps, microservices, and stress-free incidents Pete Holditch [Download Slides]
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Straggler Free Data Processing in Cloud Dataflow Eugene Kirpichov [Download Slides]	Using FlameGraphs To Illuminate The JVM Nitsan Wakart [Download Slides]	Big Ideas: Decentralised Storage David Vorick [Download Slides]	After Acceptance: Reasoning About System Outputs Dr. Stefanos Zachariadis [Download Slides]	Property-Based Testing In Practice Alex Chan [Download Slides]	Out of the Browser Into the Fire Joe DeMesy	Agile to DevOps. A Better Way? Thomas Hooker
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Causal Consistency For Large Neo4j Clusters Jim Webber [Download Slides]	Java Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Burns, 4th flr.	Blockchain: The Oracle Problems Paul Sztorc [Download Slides]	Observability, Event Sourcing and State Machines Peter Lawrey [Download Slides]	Power of the Log:LSM & Append Only Data Structures Ben Stopford [Download Slides]	This Will Cut You: Go's Sharper Edges Thomas Shadwell
6:15 PM	QCon Closing Reception - location: Pickwick, 1st floor. Ends at 6:45pm.

Thursday March 9, 2017 Workshops

Location	Victoria, 2nd flr.	Rutherford, 4th flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Abbey, 4th flr.	Westminster, 4th flr.	Albert, 2nd flr.	Henry Moore, 4th flr.
09:00	Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained Kevlin Henney [9:00 - 4:00]	Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams Ben Linders [9:00 - 4:00]	Understanding Java Modularity (JDK9) Brian Goetz [9:00 - 12:00]	Beyond Relational:Applying Big Data Cloud Patterns Lynn Langit [9:00 - 4:00]	Docker 101 (Getting Started) Adrian Mouat [9:00 - 12:00]	Building Your First App with Apache Mesos & DC/OS Michael Hausenblas [9:00 - 12:00]	[CANCELLED] React 101 Workshop Freddy Rangel [9:00 - 4:00]
12:00 PM	Lunch - 2nd floor
1:00 PM until 4:00 PM	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	12 Factor Apps Workshop Maximilian Schöfmann [1:00 - 4:00]	Workshop (continued)	Docker Security Workshop Adrian Mouat [1:00 - 4:00]	Continuous Dis-Integration: Red Team Attacks Josh Schwartz & Christina Camilleri [1:00 - 4:00]	Workshop (continued)

Friday March 10, 2017 Workshops

Location	Rutherford, 4th flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Victoria, 2nd flr.	Abbey, 4th flr.	Henry Moore, 4th flr.	Westminster, 4th flr.
09:00	[SOLD OUT] Real-Time Streaming Data Pipelines Ian Wrigley [9:00 - 4:00]	MicroServices ‐ Let’s Build Some Fred George [9:00 - 4:00]	Agile Architecture Workshop Kevlin Henney [9:00 - 4:00]	High Performance Microservices Mark Price [9:00 - 4:00]	Working Effectively with Legacy Code Michael Feathers [9:00 - 4:00]	Zen of Architecture Juval Lowy [9:00 - 5:00]
12:00 PM	Lunch - 2nd floor
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