Keynote: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for the SWE
Abstract
The effect that Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are having on our lives cannot be ignored. As developers, we see these effects more starkly than most; AI and ML influence not only how we write software but also what that software is.
In this opening keynote for QCon London, Rob Harrop (CEO of Skipjaq and Co-Founder of SpringSource) discusses how organisations, teams and individual developers can best equip themselves for this changing world.
The DevOps revolution showed us the error of enforcing a stark divide between Development and Operations. Without a concerted effort we're at risk of creating a similar divide between Development and ML teams. To avoid a world in which disenfranchised Data Scientists chuck their models over the proverbial wall to Software Engineers forced to integrate and support code they had no hand in creating, we must move beyond black-box thinking and embrace AI/ML as a core skill for Software Engineering.
Rob describes both his own journey from traditional Software Engineer to AI/ML Engineer, and his experience building a development team with ML at the heart.
If you're wondering how AI/ML fit into your organisation, worried about the impact on your team or simply thinking about your own future where AI is king, this is the session for you.
Tracks
Monday, 5 March
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Leading Edge Backend Languages
Code the future! How cutting-edge programming languages and their more-established forerunners can help solve today and tomorrow’s server-side technical problems.
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Security: Red XOR Blue Team
Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
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Microservices/ Serverless: Patterns and Practices
Stories of success and failure building modern service and function-based applications, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.
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Stream Processing in the Modern Age
Compelling applications of stream processing & recent advances in the field
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DevEx: The Next Evolution of DevOps
Removing friction from the developer experience.
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Modern CS in the Real World
Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today.
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
Tuesday, 6 March
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Next Gen Banking: It’s not all Blockchains and ICOs
Great technologies like Blockchain, smartphones and biometrics must not be limited to just faster banking, but better banking.
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Observability: Logging, Alerting and Tracing
Observability in modern large distributed computer systems
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Building Great Engineering Cultures & Organizations
Stories of cultural change in organizations
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Topics like next-gen architecture mixed with applied use cases found in today's large-scale systems, self-driving cars, network routing, scale, robotics, cloud deployments, and more.
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The Practice & Frontiers of AI
Learn about machine learning in practice and on the horizon
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JavaScript and Beyond: The Future of the Frontend
Exploring the great frontend frameworks that make JavaScript so popular and theg JavaScript-based languages revolutionising frontend development.
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
Wednesday, 7 March
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Distributed Stateful Systems
Architecting and leveraging NoSQL revisitied
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Operating Systems: LinuxKit, Unikernels, & Beyond
Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualisation, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
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Architecting for Failure
If you're not architecting for failure you're heading for failure
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Evolving Java and the JVM: Mobile, Micro and Modular
Although the Java language is holding strong as a developer favourite, new languages and paradigms are being embraced on JVM.
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Tech Ethics in Action
Learning from the experiences of real-world companies driving technology decisions from ethics as much as technology.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
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Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)