A look back at QCon London 2026

QCon London 2026 focused on the engineering work behind modern systems. Across the conference, senior practitioners showed how teams are moving AI into production by treating context, memory, evaluation, and governance as engineering concerns. The same discipline showed up in talks on platform design, resilience, security, data systems, and team structure, where the hard questions were ownership, visibility, and how to make change safe in production.

Inspired? Join QCon London 2027, April 13-16.

QCon London focused on emerging software trends and leadership strategies

15 curated tracks deep dived into enterprise trends and real-world challenges, guided by dedicated track hosts and 60+ speakers.

Innovators
  • Green Tech
  • Rust
  • WASM
  • eBPF
  • Machine Learning @ Edge
  • Scalable Configuration Management
  • Infrastructure Unification
  • Cue Lang
Early Adopters
  • MLOps
  • Team Topologies
  • Staff+ Engineer Path
  • Service Meshes
  • Microfrontends
  • Multicloud Practices
  • Software Ethics
  • Feature Engineering
  • Mode Inference/Prediction
  • Observability Practices
  • Server-Driven Frontend
  • Decarbonizing the Grid
  • Operator Pattern forNon-Clustered Resources
  • Patterns & HeuristicsEnabling Fast Flow
  • Open Policy Agent
  • Java 17 (LTS)
  • Paved Road
Early Majority
  • DevSecOps
  • DevOps in Practice
  • Kubernetes Strategies
  • Observability / Telemetry
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Chaos Engineering
  • Operating Microservices
  • Data Engineering
  • GraphQL
  • Go Techniques & Patterns
  • DevEx
  • Reactive
  • Performance
  • Macroservices
  • Serverless: Orchestration &Choreography
  • Cloud Architectures
  • Patterns for Scale
  • IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
  • Polyglot Software Practices

Trusted by leaders like you

QCon shared actionable insights that cut through the noise and drove tangible impact.

I like the broad variety of topics... for me it’s always a safe choice, as I know the overall quality is very high.

Mark Schmidt, 
Senior Engineer @Adobe Systems Engineering GmbH

The speakers and the attendees make QCon stand out … a good balance of new tech to look out for along with the discussions around day to day problems that we face as developers

Vipra Ramtekkar, 
Development Engineer @ING

This is a conference by engineers for engineers. I didn't feel like I was being sold something … I was learning from what is actually happening in other companies.

Christopher Prigg, 
Senior Engineer @Tesco PLC

It’s the best tech conference I’ve attended so far. The quality of the talks was outstanding. It was all about learning and sharing experiences. No marketing or trying to push products on you.

Sol Latorre, 
Senior Backend Engineer @N26

Attending QCon really allows me to gain so many different perspectives to really broaden my own horizon.

Luca Mezzalira, 
Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect @AWS, Author of “Building Micro-Frontends”, International Speaker

QCon was a masterclass. The sessions sparked ideas directly aligned with my work. I’m excited to bring these insights into our transformation journey.

Kudzaishe Buruuru, 
Data Modeling and Advanced Data Analytics @Investec

2026 Topics and Tracks

Behind every QCon is a Program Committee of senior software leaders who curate the essential topics you need to know about. A track is a peer-curated day of talks around important topics in software. Take a look at the QCon London 2026 topics and tracks.

Keynotes

Learn actionable insights to help you adopt the right technologies and practices.

Keynote spekaers - Birgitta Böckeler

State of Play: AI Coding Assistants

Birgitta Böckeler

Global Lead for AI-assisted Software Delivery @Thoughtworks, Software Developer, Architect, and Technical Leader, 20 Years Experience in Technology
Keynote spekaers - Martin Kleppmann

Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto

Martin Kleppmann

Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, Author of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications", Researcher in Decentralized Systems
Keynote spekaers - Laura Savino

Learning Out Loud (Under Near-Existential Pressure)

Laura Savino

Software Engineer @Adobe Photoshop, Human Language Enthusiast and Former Language Teacher, 15 Years of Software Development
Keynote spekaers - Holly Cummins

The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity

Holly Cummins

Senior Technical Staff Member, Quarkus Team @IBM, Java Champion, Previously Senior Principal Software Engineer, Quarkus @Red Hat
See the 2026 full schedule

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