QCon is a practitioner-driven conference designed for technical team leads, architects, and project managers who influence software innovation in their teams.

Speakers at QCon London 2012

 Addy  Osmani
Addy Osmani,
JavaScript developer for AOL
 Ade  Oshineye
Ade Oshineye,
Senior Developer Advocate in Google
 Aditya  Bansod
Aditya Bansod,
Sr. Director at Sencha
 Adrian  Cockcroft
Adrian Cockcroft,
Director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix
 Adrian  Kosmaczewski
Adrian Kosmaczewski,
Fanatic, creator of successful iPhone applications/ Track Host
 Aino Vonge Corry
Aino Vonge Corry,
Retrospectives Facilitator/ Track host
 Akmal  B. Chaudhri
Akmal B. Chaudhri,
Senior IT Specialist, IBM UK
 Alex  Russell
Alex Russell,
Software Engineer at Google
 Allen  Wirfs-Brock
Allen Wirfs-Brock,
Mozilla Research Fellow
 Alois  Reitbauer
Alois Reitbauer,
Technology Strategist.
 Alvin  Richards
Alvin Richards,
Snr Technical Director at 10 gen
 Andrea  Giammarchi
Andrea Giammarchi,
Engineer in Mobile HTML5 Maps team in Nokia
 Andrew  Jackman
Andrew Jackman,
Insane Logic
 Andrew  Phillips
Andrew Phillips,
PMC Member, jclouds/ Track Host
 Andrew  Stewart
Andrew Stewart,
Leads the business analysis team at LMAX
 Arya  Asemanfar
Arya Asemanfar,
Twitter
 Ashish  Thusoo
Ashish Thusoo,
Co-creator of the Apache Hive project
 Attila  Szegedi
Attila Szegedi,
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
 Baruch  Sadogursky
Baruch Sadogursky,
Community Advocate at JFrog
 Ben  Lithgow Smith
 Benjamin  Stopford
Benjamin Stopford,
Specialist in HPC technologies
 Charles  Humble
Charles Humble,
CTO for PRPi Consulting / Track Host
 Chris  Richardson
Chris Richardson,
Senior Developer Advocate
 Christophe  Coenraets  Colin  Humphreys
Colin Humphreys,
CTO at Carrenza
 Damien  Katz
Damien Katz,
Creator of CouchDB and Couchbase Founder
 Dan  North
Dan North,
Agile troublemaker, developer, originator of BDD
 Daniel  Worthington-Bodart  Dave  Syer
Dave Syer,
Principal Consultant and Engineering Lead at VMWare on the Cloud Foundry project
 David  Dawson
David Dawson,
Director of Technology of Mobile Interactive Group (MIG)
 David  Felcey
David Felcey,
Coherence Product Manager
 David  Laing
David Laing,
R&D lab team lead at City Index.
 Dmitriy  Setrakyan
Dmitriy Setrakyan,
Founder and CTO of GridGain Systems
 Dwight  Merriman
Dwight Merriman,
Co-Founder of 10gen
 Farzad  Pezeshkpour
Farzad Pezeshkpour,
Head of Architecture and Engineering for Risk Technology at RBS
 Francesco  Cesarini
Francesco Cesarini,
Founder of Erlang Solutions & author of Erlang Programming
 Gil  Tene
Gil Tene,
Vice President of Technology and CTO, Co-Founder for Azul Systems
 Graham  Tackley
Graham Tackley,
Architect at guardian.co.uk.
 Greg  Young
Greg Young,
Co-founder and CTO of IMIS
 Guillaume  Bort
Guillaume Bort,
Co-founder of Zenexity
 Horia  Dragomir
Horia Dragomir,
UI developer at Wooga
 Hsiao  Su
Hsiao Su,
Senior Performance Engineer at MarkLogic
 Ian  Robinson
Ian Robinson,
Author of "REST in Practice", Neo Technology
 Jags  Ramnarayan
Jags Ramnarayan,
Chief Architect for GemFire products at VMWare
 James  Mitchell
James Mitchell,
Strategic Blue
 James  Spooner
James Spooner,
VP Acceleration at Maxeler Technologies
 James  Strachan
James Strachan,
Fusesource
 Jan  Machacek
Jan Machacek,
Technical director at Cake Solutions
 Jeremy  Voorhis
Jeremy Voorhis,
Senior Engineer at AppFog
 Jerome  Giraud
Jerome Giraud,
Software engineer at Orange labs
 Jesper  Carøe
Jesper Carøe,
VP at Trifork
 Jesper  Richter-Reichhelm
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm,
Head of Engineering at Wooga
 Jevgeni  Kabanov
Jevgeni Kabanov,
Founder and CTO of ZeroTurnaround
 Jim  Bedenbaugh
Jim Bedenbaugh,
Senior Consultant, VMWare
 Jim  Webber
Jim Webber,
Chief Scientist at Neo Technology and Co-Author of "Rest in Practice"
 Jodi  Moran
Jodi Moran,
CTO at Plumbee, Senior Director of Technology at playfish.com
 Joe  Armstrong
Joe Armstrong,
Father of Erlang
 John  Allspaw
John Allspaw,
Engineering Culture Hacker
 John  Davies
John Davies,
CTO and Founder of Incept5
 Jonathan  Allin
Jonathan Allin,
Product manager for Red Gate
 Karl  Krukow
Karl Krukow,
Clojure hacker
No picture
Karl Scotland,
Rally Software
 Ken  Tune
Ken Tune,
Senior Consultant at MarkLogic
 Kevin  Houstoun
Kevin Houstoun,
Rapid Addition
 Kevin  Korngut
Kevin Korngut,
Officer for the Spoon Project
 Kresten Krab  Thorup
Kresten Krab Thorup,
Hacker, CTO of Trifork, and QCon London Program Committee Member
 Kris  Lander
Kris Lander,
Technical lead and agile coach on web applications
 Manny  Pelarinos
Manny Pelarinos,
Sr. Director, Engineering, ESPN Digital Media
 Marcus  Kern  Mark  Atwell
Mark Atwell,
Head of Software Engineering for Risk & Finance Technology at RBS
 Mark  Holdsworth
Mark Holdsworth,
Software Developer
 Mark  Little
Mark Little,
Chief Technologist of JBoss, Red Hat
 Mark  McGranaghan
Mark McGranaghan,
Platform engineering lead, Heroku
 Mark  Rendle
Mark Rendle,
Chief Architect at Dot Net Solutions
 Martijn  Verburg
Martijn Verburg,
CTO of TeamSparq
 Martin  Fowler
Martin Fowler,
author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development
 Martin  Thompson
Martin Thompson,
High-Performance & Low-Latency Specialist at Real Logic / Track Host
 Maximiliano  Firtman
Maximiliano Firtman,
Nokia Developer Champion
 Michael  Barker
Michael Barker,
Lead developer at London Multi-Asset eXchange (LMAX)
 Michael  Brunton-Spall
Michael Brunton-Spall,
Developer Advocate for the Guardian
 Michael  Floyd
Michael Floyd,
Chief Editor at InfoQ.com
 Michael  Stal
Michael Stal,
Principal Engineer as Siemens Corporate Research & Technologies and Professor at University of Groningen
 Neels  Burger
Neels Burger,
Solution Architect at Moneysupermarket.com,
 Neil  Pellinacci
Neil Pellinacci,
Software Design and Development Consultant
 Ola  Bini
Ola Bini,
Language Geek
 Parand Tony  Darugar
Parand Tony Darugar,
CEO of Xpenser
 Patrick  Debois
Patrick Debois,
Bridging the gap between projects and operations
 Paul  Fremantle
Paul Fremantle,
CTO and Co Founder of WSO2
 Paul  Sanford
Paul Sanford,
Director of Product Management
 Phil  Trelford
Phil Trelford,
Open Source author. Developer of LOB apps and other games. Hipster F#er
 Philip  Wadler
Philip Wadler,
Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
 Rachel  Davies
Rachel Davies,
Author of the first book on "Agile Coaching"
 Rebecca  Parsons
Rebecca Parsons,
CTO of ThoughtWorks
 Rich  Hickey
Rich Hickey,
The author of Clojure
 Richard  Davies
Richard Davies,
CEO and co-founder of ElasticHosts
 Rob  Bowley
Rob Bowley,
Head of Development at 7digital Ltd
 Rupert  Smith
Rupert Smith,
Contributor to the Apache Qpid implementation of AMQP
 Russell  Miles
Russell Miles,
Managing Director of Open Credo
 Sadek  Drobi
Sadek Drobi,
CTO of Zenexity
 Salvatore  Orlando
 Sam  Hamilton
Sam Hamilton,
Chief Technology Officer at Shopping.com
 Scott  Morrison
Scott Morrison,
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies / Track Host
 Siddharth  Anand
Siddharth Anand,
Senior Staff, Service Infrastructure, LinkedIn
 Simon  Brown
Simon Brown,
Coding the Architecture
 Simon  Ritter
Simon Ritter,
Oracle
 Stefan  Tilkov
Stefan Tilkov,
SOA and REST authority, innoQ founder
 Stephen  Burton
Stephen Burton,
Tech Evangelist at AppDynamics
 Steve  Freeman
Steve Freeman,
Pioneer of Agile, Chair the first London XpDay /Track Host
 Steve  Miller
Steve Miller,
Product Director at C24 Technologies Ltd, COO at Incept5
 Steve  Vinoski
Steve Vinoski,
Architect at Basho / Track Host
 Suki  Bains  Tareq  Abedrabbo
Tareq Abedrabbo,
Practice Lead and Principal Consultant at OpenCredo
 Theo  Schlossnagle
Theo Schlossnagle,
CEO of OmniTI, Author of Scalable Internet Architectures
 Tobie  Langel
Tobie Langel,
Software engineer at Facebook
 Toby  Weston
Toby Weston,
Head of Mobile Engineering Credit Suisse
 Todd  Montgomery  Tom  Lubinski
Tom Lubinski,
SL Corporation
 Tom  Sulston
Tom Sulston,
Lead Consultant, ThoughtWorks UK
 Tom  Wilkie
Tom Wilkie,
VP of Engineering at Acunu
 Tomas  Petricek
Tomas Petricek,
Author of a book Real-World Functional Programming
 Tony  Grout
Tony Grout,
IBM Agile Leader for Europe
 Trisha  Gee
Trisha Gee,
Developer at LMAX
 Werner  Schuster
Werner Schuster,
InfoQ Lead Editor for Dynamic Languages; Developer at Wolfram / Track Host
 Zach  Holman
Zach Holman,
Works at GitHub
 Zef  Hemel
Zef Hemel,
Programming language geek

Speakers Sorted by Name/Company

First name Last name Company
Tareq Abedrabbo Practice Lead and Principal Consultant at OpenCredo
Jonathan Allin Product manager for Red Gate
John Allspaw Engineering Culture Hacker
Siddharth Anand Senior Staff, Service Infrastructure, LinkedIn
Joe Armstrong Father of Erlang
Arya Asemanfar Twitter
Mark Atwell Head of Software Engineering for Risk & Finance Technology at RBS
Akmal B. Chaudhri Senior IT Specialist, IBM UK
Suki Bains
Aditya Bansod Sr. Director at Sencha
Michael Barker Lead developer at London Multi-Asset eXchange (LMAX)
Jim Bedenbaugh Senior Consultant, VMWare
Ola Bini Language Geek
Guillaume Bort Co-founder of Zenexity
Rob Bowley Head of Development at 7digital Ltd
Simon Brown Coding the Architecture
Michael Brunton-Spall Developer Advocate for the Guardian
Neels Burger Solution Architect at Moneysupermarket.com,
Stephen Burton Tech Evangelist at AppDynamics
Jesper Carøe VP at Trifork
Francesco Cesarini Founder of Erlang Solutions & author of Erlang Programming
Adrian Cockcroft Director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix
Christophe Coenraets Adobe
Aino Corry Retrospectives Facilitator/ Track host
Parand Tony Darugar CEO of Xpenser
John Davies CTO and Founder of Incept5
Rachel Davies Author of the first book on "Agile Coaching"
Richard Davies CEO and co-founder of ElasticHosts
David Dawson Director of Technology of Mobile Interactive Group (MIG)
Patrick Debois Bridging the gap between projects and operations
Horia Dragomir UI developer at Wooga
Sadek Drobi CTO of Zenexity
David Felcey Coherence Product Manager
Maximiliano Firtman Nokia Developer Champion
Michael Floyd Chief Editor at InfoQ.com
Martin Fowler author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development
Steve Freeman Pioneer of Agile, Chair the first London XpDay /Track Host
Paul Fremantle CTO and Co Founder of WSO2
Trisha Gee Developer at LMAX
Andrea Giammarchi Engineer in Mobile HTML5 Maps team in Nokia
Jerome Giraud Software engineer at Orange labs
Tony Grout IBM Agile Leader for Europe
Sam Hamilton Chief Technology Officer at Shopping.com
Zef Hemel Programming language geek
Rich Hickey The author of Clojure
Mark Holdsworth Software Developer
Zach Holman Works at GitHub
Kevin Houstoun Rapid Addition
Charles Humble CTO for PRPi Consulting / Track Host
Colin Humphreys CTO at Carrenza
Andrew Jackman Insane Logic
Jevgeni Kabanov Founder and CTO of ZeroTurnaround
Damien Katz Creator of CouchDB and Couchbase Founder
Marcus Kern MIG
Kevin Korngut Officer for the Spoon Project
Adrian Kosmaczewski Fanatic, creator of successful iPhone applications/ Track Host
Karl Krukow Clojure hacker
David Laing R&D lab team lead at City Index.
Kris Lander Technical lead and agile coach on web applications
Tobie Langel Software engineer at Facebook
Ben Lithgow Smith
Mark Little Chief Technologist of JBoss, Red Hat
Tom Lubinski SL Corporation
Jan Machacek Technical director at Cake Solutions
Mark McGranaghan Platform engineering lead, Heroku
Dwight Merriman Co-Founder of 10gen
Russell Miles Managing Director of Open Credo
Steve Miller Product Director at C24 Technologies Ltd, COO at Incept5
James Mitchell Strategic Blue
Todd Montgomery
Jodi Moran CTO at Plumbee, Senior Director of Technology at playfish.com
Scott Morrison Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies / Track Host
Dan North Agile troublemaker, developer, originator of BDD
Salvatore Orlando Citrix
Ade Oshineye Senior Developer Advocate in Google
Addy Osmani JavaScript developer for AOL
Rebecca Parsons CTO of ThoughtWorks
Manny Pelarinos Sr. Director, Engineering, ESPN Digital Media
Neil Pellinacci Software Design and Development Consultant
Tomas Petricek Author of a book Real-World Functional Programming
Farzad Pezeshkpour Head of Architecture and Engineering for Risk Technology at RBS
Andrew Phillips PMC Member, jclouds/ Track Host
Jags Ramnarayan Chief Architect for GemFire products at VMWare
Alois Reitbauer Technology Strategist.
Mark Rendle Chief Architect at Dot Net Solutions
Alvin Richards Snr Technical Director at 10 gen
Chris Richardson Senior Developer Advocate
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm Head of Engineering at Wooga
Simon Ritter Oracle
Ian Robinson Author of "REST in Practice", Neo Technology
Alex Russell Software Engineer at Google
Baruch Sadogursky Community Advocate at JFrog
Paul Sanford Director of Product Management
Theo Schlossnagle CEO of OmniTI, Author of Scalable Internet Architectures
Werner Schuster InfoQ Lead Editor for Dynamic Languages; Developer at Wolfram / Track Host
Karl Scotland Rally Software
Dmitriy Setrakyan Founder and CTO of GridGain Systems
Rupert Smith Contributor to the Apache Qpid implementation of AMQP
James Spooner VP Acceleration at Maxeler Technologies
Michael Stal Principal Engineer as Siemens Corporate Research & Technologies and Professor at University of Groningen
Andrew Stewart Leads the business analysis team at LMAX
Benjamin Stopford Specialist in HPC technologies
James Strachan Fusesource
Hsiao Su Senior Performance Engineer at MarkLogic
Tom Sulston Lead Consultant, ThoughtWorks UK
Dave Syer Principal Consultant and Engineering Lead at VMWare on the Cloud Foundry project
Attila Szegedi Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Graham Tackley Architect at guardian.co.uk.
Gil Tene Vice President of Technology and CTO, Co-Founder for Azul Systems
Martin Thompson High-Performance & Low-Latency Specialist at Real Logic / Track Host
Kresten Krab Thorup Hacker, CTO of Trifork, and QCon London Program Committee Member
Ashish Thusoo Co-creator of the Apache Hive project
Stefan Tilkov SOA and REST authority, innoQ founder
Phil Trelford Open Source author. Developer of LOB apps and other games. Hipster F#er
Ken Tune Senior Consultant at MarkLogic
Martijn Verburg CTO of TeamSparq
Steve Vinoski Architect at Basho / Track Host
Jeremy Voorhis Senior Engineer at AppFog
Philip Wadler Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
Jim Webber Chief Scientist at Neo Technology and Co-Author of "Rest in Practice"
Toby Weston Head of Mobile Engineering Credit Suisse
Tom Wilkie VP of Engineering at Acunu
Allen Wirfs-Brock Mozilla Research Fellow
Daniel Worthington-Bodart
Greg Young Co-founder and CTO of IMIS