Track Overview
Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
QCon has 18 technical and 4 sponsored tracks across the three conference days.
Each of the technical tracks represents a vertical conference focused on a technology or trend in software. Often times, important concentrations develop at the conference outside of those tracks. The AMAs are a way to address these microtracks or just to get your questions answered with popular speakers. The idea with the AMAs is to create a space for general Q&A around these topics and speakers.
AMAs are an informal gathering for Q&A. Bring your questions for in depth conversations with QCon speakers.
From this track
Speaker AMA w/ Sarah Wells
Presentation details to follow.
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Mini-Workshop: Power of Coaching
In the Agile community, the term “coaching” gets bandied around almost as much as “Agile”. What do we mean by “coaching”, what are the core skills of an effective coach, what does good look like and how does it feel to coach and be coached? Join us in this workshop to...
Portia Tung
Author of "The Dream Team Nightmare"
Reactive Architecture AMA w/ Colin Breck
Presentation details to follow.
Colin Breck
Sr. Staff Software Engineer @Tesla
Go-lang AMA w/ Graham-Cumming, Frazelle & Patel
Presentation details to follow.
John Graham-Cumming
CTO @Cloudflare
Jessie Frazelle
Engineer @github, Xoogler, Ex-Docker Core Maintainer
Suhail Patel
Staff Engineer @Monzo
Deep Learning AMA w/ Yung, Joerdening & Meertens
Presentation details to follow.
Jendrik Jördening
Data Scientist @Nooxit
Roland Meertens
Machine Learning Engineer @Autonomous Intelligent Driving
Jessica Yung
Machine Learning blogger and entrepreneur, Self-Driving Car Engineer Scholar @nvidia
Speakers from this track
Sarah Wells
Former Tech Director for Engineering Enablement @FT (Financial Times)
Sarah is a technology leader, consultant and conference speaker with a focus on microservices, engineering enablement, observability and devops. She has over 20 years experience as a developer, principal engineer and tech director across product, platform, SRE and devops teams.Sarah spent...
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Portia Tung
Author of "The Dream Team Nightmare"
I’m an Executive Agile Coach, Executive & Personal Coach and Play Researcher who combines business strategies with play to bring about positive organisational change. I’m an international speaker, and the creator of concepts such as Playmaking and Enterprise Gardening. I specialise in...
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Colin Breck
Sr. Staff Software Engineer @Tesla
Colin Breck has experience developing software infrastructures for the near real-time monitoring and control of industrial applications. At Tesla, he works on distributed systems for the monitoring, aggregation, optimization, and control of distributed-energy assets, including solar generation,...
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John Graham-Cumming
CTO @Cloudflare
John Graham-Cumming is CTO of Cloudflare and is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer, he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany, and France. His open source POPFile...
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Jessie Frazelle
Engineer @github, Xoogler, Ex-Docker Core Maintainer
Jessie Frazelle is a independent consultant. She is a computer programmer who has worked at GitHub, Microsoft, Google, Docker and various companies and startups before that. She’s worked on a lot of the open source projects in the container ecosystem as well as having a few projects of her own.
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Suhail Patel
Staff Engineer @Monzo
Suhail is a Staff Engineer at Monzo focused on building the Core Platform. His role involves building and maintaining Monzo's infrastructure which spans nearly two thousand microservices and leverages key infrastructure components like Kubernetes, Cassandra, Etcd and more. He focuses...
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Jendrik Jördening
Data Scientist @Nooxit
Jendrik is Head of Data Science at Nooxit. He formerly worked at Aurubis and Akka Germany on Data Science and Deep Learning in the field of industry 4.0 and autonomous machines.At the same time he took part in the Udacity Self-Driving Car Nanodegree, participating with a group of other Udacity...
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Roland Meertens
Machine Learning Engineer @Autonomous Intelligent Driving
Roland Meertens is Machine Learning Engineer at Autonomous Intelligent Driving. He works on the machine learning side of the perception software stack that will be deployed to the autonomous vehicles that will soon roam urban environments in Germany.
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Jessica Yung
Machine Learning blogger and entrepreneur, Self-Driving Car Engineer Scholar @nvidia
Jessica is a research masters student in machine learning at University College London supervised by Prof. John Shawe-Taylor and André Barreto (Google DeepMind). She was previously at the University of Cambridge and was an NVIDIA Self-Driving Car Engineer Scholar. She applied machine learning to...
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Track Host
Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previously Platform Architect @VMware
Wes is a Technical Principal with Thoughtworks where his focus is on working with customers on app modernization, with a particular focus on the cloud native ecosystem. Prior to Thoughtworks, he was one of the Platform Architects at VMware focused on Tanzu. Wes also chairs the San Francisco...
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