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 2014

 Aaron  Lee
Aaron Lee,
Software Developer at Solace Systems
 Aaron  Peters
Aaron Peters,
Founder of Turbobytes
 Adrian  Cockcroft
Adrian Cockcroft,
Technology Fellow at Battery
 Adrian  Colyer
Adrian Colyer,
CTO for Application Fabric at Pivotal
 Akmal B. Chaudhri
Akmal B. Chaudhri,
Big Data, Hadoop and NoSQL Technical Instructor
 Allard  Buijze
Allard Buijze,
Software Architect at Trifork Amsterdam
 Alyson  Fielding
Alyson Fielding,
Founder of Pyuda Ltd
 Andrea  Burbank
Andrea Burbank,
Data Scientist at Pinterest
 Andrew  Betts
Andrew Betts,
Director of the Financial Times' Labs division
 Andy  Davies
Andy Davies,
Associate Director for Web Performance at NCC Group
 Andy  Piper
Andy Piper,
CTO at Push Technology
 Aviran  Mordo
Aviran Mordo,
Head of Back-end Engineering at Wix
 Avleen  Vig
Avleen Vig,
Staff Operations Engineer at Etsy
 Baruch  Sadogursky
Baruch Sadogursky,
Developer Advocate of JFrog
 Bodil  Stokke
Bodil Stokke,
Functional Programming Hipster
 Brandon  Byars
Brandon Byars,
Technologist & Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks
 Brent  Beer
Brent Beer,
Member of the GitHub Training Team
 Brian  Degenhardt
Brian Degenhardt,
Works on Core Systems Libraries at Twitter
 Brian  McCallister
Brian McCallister,
CTO of Platform at Groupon
 Caolan  McMahon
Caolan McMahon,
Director at Ground Computing
 Caspar  Bowden
Caspar Bowden,
Independent Privacy Researcher
 Chris  Mattmann
Chris Mattmann,
Software Designer at NASA
 Chris  Rowett
Chris Rowett,
EMEA CTO Application Delivery at CA
 Chris  Swan
Chris Swan,
CTO at CohesiveFT & Track Host
 Colin  Humphreys
Colin Humphreys,
CEO at Cloudcredo & Track Host
 Damian  Conway
Damian Conway,
Perl Boffin, Thoughtstream
 Damien  Dallimore
Damien Dallimore,
Worldwide Developer Evangelist at splunk
 Damon  Edwards
Damon Edwards,
Co-Founder of DTO Solutions
 Dan  North
Dan North,
Agile Troublemaker, Developer, Originator of BDD & Track Host
 Daniel  Espeset
Daniel Espeset,
Performance Engineer at Etsy
 Daniel  Schauenberg
Daniel Schauenberg,
Infrastructure Toolsmith at Etsy
 Danielle  Jabin
Danielle Jabin,
Data Engineer at Spotify
 Dave  Farley
Dave Farley,
Co-author of the book "Continuous Delivery"
 David  Delabassee
David Delabassee,
Software Evangelist at Oracle
 Derek  Collison
Derek Collison,
Founder & CEO, Apcera
 Dio  Synodinos
Dio Synodinos,
Research Platform Team Lead at C4Media & Track Host
 Emma  Langman
Emma Langman,
Manager of HR & Performance at Kuwait Energy
 Erik  Meijer
Erik Meijer,
Founder at Applied Duality, Inc.
 Eva  Andreasson
Eva Andreasson,
Pioneer of Deterministic Garbage Collection
 Frank  Breedijk
Frank Breedijk,
Security Officer at Schuberg Philis
 George  Richmond
George Richmond,
Software Developer at BSkyB
 Gil  Tene
Gil Tene,
CTO and Co-founder, Azul Systems
 Glen  Ford
Glen Ford,
Chief Architect at zeebox
 Graham  Lee
Graham Lee,
Security Consultant, Author of "Professional Cocoa Application Security" & Track Host
 Graham  Markall
Graham Markall,
Applied Maths Developer at OpenGamma
 Graham  Steel
Graham Steel,
Founder/CEO of CryptoSense
 Graham  Tackley
Graham Tackley,
Director of Architecture, Guardian News and Media
Prof. Dr. Gunter  Dueck
Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck,
Philosopher, Writer, Management Expert & Member of "World 2.0"
 Halle  Winkler
Halle Winkler,
Voice-driven UX
 Hannah  Dee
Hannah Dee,
Lecturer in Computer Science at Aberystwyth University
 Ian  Robinson
Ian Robinson,
Author of 'Graph Databases' and 'Rest in Practice'
 Jaimee  Newberry
Jaimee Newberry,
Independent Consultant, Coach, Speaker & Writer
 James  Lewis
James Lewis,
Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks
 Janne Jul  Jensen
Janne Jul Jensen,
Senior Interaction Designer & Usability Specialist
 Jeremy  Hughes
Jeremy Hughes,
OSGi Apps & DevOps Architect at IBM
 Jim  Barritt
Jim Barritt,
Principal Consultant for ThoughtWorks
 Jim  Moores
Jim Moores,
CTO & Co-Founder of OpenGamma
 Jim  Webber
Jim Webber,
Chief Scientist at Neo Technology, Co-Author of "Rest in Practice" & PC Member
 Joakim  Recht
Joakim Recht,
Developer at TradeShift
 Joe  Armstrong
Joe Armstrong,
Co-inventor of Erlang
 Joel  Jacobson
Joel Jacobson,
Technical Evangelist at Basho
 Johnny  Miller
Johnny Miller,
Solutions Architect, DataStax, EMEA based
 Jonas  Partner
Jonas Partner,
CloudCredo
 Katherine  Kirk
Katherine Kirk,
Independent Consultant, Researcher & Track Host
 Kirk  Wylie
Kirk Wylie,
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenGamma
 Linda  Rising
Linda Rising,
Queen of Patterns. Author of numerous Books
 Malcolm  Sparks
Malcolm Sparks,
Software Developer at JUXT
 Mandy  Waite
Mandy Waite,
Developer Advocate at Google
 Manuel  Pais
Manuel Pais,
PC Member
 Mark  Harwood
Mark Harwood,
Software Engineer at Elasticsearch
 Mark  Warren
Mark Warren,
EMEA Marketing Director & Product Manager at Perforce
 Martin  Thompson
Martin Thompson,
High-Performance Computing Specialist at Real Logic
 Matt  Asay
Matt Asay,
VP of Corporate Strategy at MongoDB
 Michael T.  Nygard
Michael T. Nygard,
Author of "Release It!"
 Mo  Ramezanpoor
Mo Ramezanpoor,
Lead Developer for Game "Zombies, Run!"
 Nathan  Marz
Nathan Marz,
Creator of the Storm and Cascalog open-source projects
 Nick  O'leary
Nick O'leary,
Emerging Technology Specialist at IBM
 Ola  Ellnestam
Ola Ellnestam,
Coach & Mentor for Business & Technical Teams
 Oliver  Wegner
Oliver Wegner,
Head of Technical Product Development at OTTO E-Commerce
 Paul  Fremantle
Paul Fremantle,
CTO & Co Founder of WSO2
 Paul  Simmonds
Paul Simmonds,
CEO of Global Identity Foundation
 Perry  Krol
Perry Krol,
Solutions Architect at TIBCO
 Peter  Logan
Peter Logan,
Sr. Application Engineer, Intel Services Division
 Peter  Moskovits
Peter Moskovits,
Head of Real-Time Solutions at KAAZING
 Phil  Leggetter
Phil Leggetter,
Developer Evangelist at Caplin Systems
 Ralph  Winzinger
Ralph Winzinger,
Principal Architect at Senacor Technologies & Track Host
 Richard  Campbell
Richard Campbell,
Co-Host of .NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talkshow
 Richard  Kasperowski
Richard Kasperowski,
QCon Open Space Facilitator
 Robert  Benefield
Robert Benefield,
Finding Order in the Mayhem
 Robin  Wilton
Robin Wilton,
Technical Outreach Director for Identity & Privacy
 Ruslan  Meshenberg
Ruslan Meshenberg,
Director of Engineering at Netflix
 Russell  Miles
Russell Miles,
Co-Author of Head First Software Development
 Sadek  Drobi
Sadek Drobi,
CTO of Zenexity
 Sam  Phillips
Sam Phillips,
Head of Engineering, Local Delivery at eBay
 Sean  Owen
Sean Owen,
Director of Data Science at Cloudera
 Shane  Hastie
Shane Hastie,
Experienced & Enthusiastic Trainer & Coach & Track Host
 Shay  Banon
Shay Banon,
Elasticsearch Creator, Co-Founder & CTO
 Simon  Redfern
Simon Redfern,
CEO of TESOBE & Open Bank Project Founder
 Simon  Ritter
Simon Ritter,
Head of Java Evangelism at Oracle Corporation
 Simon  Wardley
Simon Wardley,
Researcher for CSC's Leading Edge Forum
 Stefan  Tilkov
Stefan Tilkov,
SOA & REST Authority, innoQ Founder & Track Host
 Steve  Freeman
Steve Freeman,
Pioneer of Agile, Chair the first London XpDay & Track Host
 Sven  Johann
Sven Johann,
Nomadic Programmer at Trifork & Track Host
 Tim  Bray
Tim Bray,
Father of XML - Uncle of Search Engines
 Tim  Fox
Tim Fox,
Vert.x Project Lead at Red Hat
 Tim  Lister
Tim Lister,
A Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc.
 Tom  Levey
Tom Levey,
Technology Evangelist at AppDynamics
 Tom  Stuart
Tom Stuart,
Computer Scientist, Consultant, Mentor & Trainer
 Trisha  Gee
Trisha Gee,
Developer at MongoDB & Track Host
 Uwe  Friedrichsen
Uwe Friedrichsen,
Fellow at codecentric
 Volker  Pacher
Volker Pacher,
Senior Developer at eBay
 Werner  Schuster
Werner Schuster,
InfoQ Lead Editor & Developer at Wolfram & Track Host
 Wolfgang  Gottesheim
Wolfgang Gottesheim,
Technology Strategist at Compuware

Speakers Sorted by Name/Company

First name Last name Company
Aaron Lee Software Developer at Solace Systems
Aaron Peters Founder of Turbobytes
Adrian Cockcroft Technology Fellow at Battery
Adrian Colyer CTO for Application Fabric at Pivotal
Akmal Chaudhri Big Data, Hadoop and NoSQL Technical Instructor
Allard Buijze Software Architect at Trifork Amsterdam
Alyson Fielding Founder of Pyuda Ltd
Andrea Burbank Data Scientist at Pinterest
Andrew Betts Director of the Financial Times' Labs division
Andy Davies Associate Director for Web Performance at NCC Group
Andy Piper CTO at Push Technology
Aviran Mordo Head of Back-end Engineering at Wix
Avleen Vig Staff Operations Engineer at Etsy
Baruch Sadogursky Developer Advocate of JFrog
Bodil Stokke Functional Programming Hipster
Brandon Byars Technologist & Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks
Brent Beer Member of the GitHub Training Team
Brian Degenhardt Works on Core Systems Libraries at Twitter
Brian McCallister CTO of Platform at Groupon
Caolan McMahon Director at Ground Computing
Caspar Bowden Independent Privacy Researcher
Chris Mattmann Software Designer at NASA
Chris Rowett EMEA CTO Application Delivery at CA
Chris Swan CTO at CohesiveFT & Track Host
Colin Humphreys CEO at Cloudcredo & Track Host
Damian Conway Perl Boffin, Thoughtstream
Damien Dallimore Worldwide Developer Evangelist at splunk
Damon Edwards Co-Founder of DTO Solutions
Dan North Agile Troublemaker, Developer, Originator of BDD & Track Host
Daniel Espeset Performance Engineer at Etsy
Daniel Schauenberg Infrastructure Toolsmith at Etsy
Danielle Jabin Data Engineer at Spotify
Dave Farley Co-author of the book "Continuous Delivery"
David Delabassee Software Evangelist at Oracle
Derek Collison Founder & CEO, Apcera
Dio Synodinos Research Platform Team Lead at C4Media & Track Host
Emma Langman Manager of HR & Performance at Kuwait Energy
Erik Meijer Founder at Applied Duality, Inc.
Eva Andreasson Pioneer of Deterministic Garbage Collection
Frank Breedijk Security Officer at Schuberg Philis
George Richmond Software Developer at BSkyB
Gil Tene CTO and Co-founder, Azul Systems
Glen Ford Chief Architect at zeebox
Graham Lee Security Consultant, Author of "Professional Cocoa Application Security" & Track Host
Graham Markall Applied Maths Developer at OpenGamma
Graham Steel Founder/CEO of CryptoSense
Graham Tackley Director of Architecture, Guardian News and Media
Gunter Dueck Philosopher, Writer, Management Expert & Member of "World 2.0"
Halle Winkler Voice-driven UX
Hannah Dee Lecturer in Computer Science at Aberystwyth University
Ian Robinson Author of 'Graph Databases' and 'Rest in Practice'
Jaimee Newberry Independent Consultant, Coach, Speaker & Writer
James Lewis Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks
Janne Jul Jensen Senior Interaction Designer & Usability Specialist
Jeremy Hughes OSGi Apps & DevOps Architect at IBM
Jim Barritt Principal Consultant for ThoughtWorks
Jim Moores CTO & Co-Founder of OpenGamma
Jim Webber Chief Scientist at Neo Technology, Co-Author of "Rest in Practice" & PC Member
Joakim Recht Developer at TradeShift
Joe Armstrong Co-inventor of Erlang
Joel Jacobson Technical Evangelist at Basho
Johnny Miller Solutions Architect, DataStax, EMEA based
Jonas Partner CloudCredo
Katherine Kirk Independent Consultant, Researcher & Track Host
Kirk Wylie CEO & Co-Founder of OpenGamma
Linda Rising Queen of Patterns. Author of numerous Books
Malcolm Sparks Software Developer at JUXT
Mandy Waite Developer Advocate at Google
Manuel Pais PC Member
Mark Harwood Software Engineer at Elasticsearch
Mark Warren EMEA Marketing Director & Product Manager at Perforce
Martin Thompson High-Performance Computing Specialist at Real Logic
Matt Asay VP of Corporate Strategy at MongoDB
Michael T. Nygard Author of "Release It!"
Mo Ramezanpoor Lead Developer for Game "Zombies, Run!"
Nathan Marz Creator of the Storm and Cascalog open-source projects
Nick O'leary Emerging Technology Specialist at IBM
Ola Ellnestam Coach & Mentor for Business & Technical Teams
Oliver Wegner Head of Technical Product Development at OTTO E-Commerce
Paul Fremantle CTO & Co Founder of WSO2
Paul Simmonds CEO of Global Identity Foundation
Perry Krol Solutions Architect at TIBCO
Peter Logan Sr. Application Engineer, Intel Services Division
Peter Moskovits Head of Real-Time Solutions at KAAZING
Phil Leggetter Developer Evangelist at Caplin Systems
Ralph Winzinger Principal Architect at Senacor Technologies & Track Host
Richard Campbell Co-Host of .NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talkshow
Richard Kasperowski QCon Open Space Facilitator
Robert Benefield Finding Order in the Mayhem
Robin Wilton Technical Outreach Director for Identity & Privacy
Ruslan Meshenberg Director of Engineering at Netflix
Russell Miles Co-Author of Head First Software Development
Sadek Drobi CTO of Zenexity
Sam Phillips Head of Engineering, Local Delivery at eBay
Sean Owen Director of Data Science at Cloudera
Shane Hastie Experienced & Enthusiastic Trainer & Coach & Track Host
Shay Banon Elasticsearch Creator, Co-Founder & CTO
Simon Redfern CEO of TESOBE & Open Bank Project Founder
Simon Ritter Head of Java Evangelism at Oracle Corporation
Simon Wardley Researcher for CSC's Leading Edge Forum
Stefan Tilkov SOA & REST Authority, innoQ Founder & Track Host
Steve Freeman Pioneer of Agile, Chair the first London XpDay & Track Host
Sven Johann Nomadic Programmer at Trifork & Track Host
Tim Bray Father of XML - Uncle of Search Engines
Tim Fox Vert.x Project Lead at Red Hat
Tim Lister A Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, Inc.
Tom Levey Technology Evangelist at AppDynamics
Tom Stuart Computer Scientist, Consultant, Mentor & Trainer
Trisha Gee Developer at MongoDB & Track Host
Uwe Friedrichsen Fellow at codecentric
Volker Pacher Senior Developer at eBay
Werner Schuster InfoQ Lead Editor & Developer at Wolfram & Track Host
Wolfgang Gottesheim Technology Strategist at Compuware