QCon London 2018 | Software Development Conference

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Monday March 5, 2018 Tracks Day #1
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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for the SWE by Rob Harrop CEO @Skipjaq & Co-Founder of SpringSource Fleming / Whittle, 3rd fl. Download: Slides
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Microservices/ Serverless: Patterns and Practices	DevEx: The Next Evolution of DevOps	Stream Processing in the Modern Age	Security: Red XOR Blue Team	Leading Edge Backend Languages	Modern CS in the Real World	Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)	Solutions Track I
Host	Sam Newman	Jamie Dobson	Tyler Akidau	Christina Camilleri	Jon Rowland	Justin Cormack		Nitin Bharti
Location	Fleming, 3rd flr.	Churchill, G flr.	Whittle, 3rd flr.	Mountbatten, 6th flr.	Windsor, 5th flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Redgrave, 2nd flr.	Westminster, 4th flr.
10:35 AM	Microservices & Scaling of Rational Interactions Mark Burgess	Develop Your Development Experience Jessica Kerr Download: Slides	Drivetribe: A Social Network on Streams Hamish Dickson & Aris Koliopoulos Download: Slides	Encryption Without Magic, Risk Mngmnt Without Pain Anastasiia Voitova Talk MOVED to: St James, 4th flr. Download: Slides	Building a Reliable Cloud Based Bank in Java Jason Maude Download: Slides	Consensus: Why Can't We All Just Agree? Heidi Howard Talk MOVED to: Mountbatten, 6th flr. Download: Slides	AMA w/ Rob Harrop	Explaining Artificial Intelligence to Schoolchildren Dale Lane
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Debugging Microservices Applications Idit Levine Download: Slides	DevEx Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Rutherford, 4th flr.	Lessons From a ~Yearly Re-Write of a Data Pipeline Jibran Saithi	Bigger, Faster and More Secure Laura Bell Download: Slides	Rust 2018: An Epoch Release! Steve Klabnik Download: Slides	Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services Michael Tautschnig Talk MOVED to: Churchill, G flr.	High Performance Java AMA w/ Gil Tene	Osiris: When Big Data Is Too Big for HBase Josh Slocum
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Securing Serverless – By Breaking In Guy Podjarny Download: Slides	Kubernetes: Crossing the Chasm Ian Crosby Download: Slides	Next Steps in Stateful Streaming with Apache Flink Stephan Ewen Download: Slides	Security Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Rutherford, 4th flr.	From Rocks to Rust: Our C to Rust Paradigm Shift Esther Momcilovic Download: Slides	Java at Speed Gil Tene Talk MOVED to: Mountbatten, 6th flr. Download: Slides	Jigsaw AMA w/ Sander Mak & Martijn Verberg	Data Driven DevOps Baruch Sadogursky
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Microservices Lessons Learned From a Startup Susanne Kaiser Download: Slides	Taking Back “Software Engineering” Dave Farley Download: Slides	Stream Processing Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Rutherford, 4th flr.	EternalBlue: Exploit Analysis and Beyond Emma McCall Talk MOVED to: St James, 4th flr. Download: Slides	C++ for Real Time Communications in the Cloud Thiya Ramalingam Download: Slides	CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency Martin Kleppmann Talk MOVED to: Mountbatten, 6th flr. Download: Slides	Rust AMA w/ Steve Klabnik	Understanding Geospatial Processing Vitaliy Rudnytskiy
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Insecure Transit - Microservice Security Sam Newman Download: Slides	10k Deploys a Day - the Skyscanner Journey So Far Stuart Davidson Download: Slides	Streaming SQL Foundations: Why I ❤ Streams+Tables Tyler Akidau Download: Slides	Security Champions: Only YOU Can Prevent File Forgery Marisa Fagan Talk MOVED to: Westminster, 4th flr. Download: Slides	Languages Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Rutherford, 4th flr.	How Performance Optimizations Shatter Security Boundaries Moritz Lipp Download: Slides	CRDT AMA w/ Martin Kleppman	Serverless Spring Dave Syer Talk MOVED to: Mountbatten, 6th flr.
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Microservices Panel Mark Burgess, Idit Levine, Susanne Kaiser, Guy Podjarny & Sam Newman	Improving Life in Smaller, Heterogeneous Projects James Uther Download: Slides	Streaming Reactive Systems & Data Pipes w. squbs Anil Gursel & Akara Sucharitakul Download: Slides	Attack Trees, Security Modeling for Agile Teams Michael Brunton-Spall Download: Slides	Fast, Flexible and Functional Programming With OCaml Gemma Gordon & Anil Madhavapeddy Download: Slides	Modern CS Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Rutherford, 4th flr.	Webassembly AMA w/ Steve Klabnik & Colin Eberhardt	Democratizing Serverless Thom Leggett Download: Slides
6:30 PM	QCon Conference Pub Crawl (Badge, Waiver Form, Wristband Required)

Tuesday March 6, 2018 Tracks Day #2
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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: Guardians of the Galaxy: Architecting a Culture of Secure Software by Laura Bell Founder of SafeStack Fleming / Whittle, 3rd fl. Download: Slides
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Architectures You've Always Wondered About	Observability: Logging, Alerting and Tracing	Next Gen Banking: It’s not all Blockchains and ICOs	The Practice & Frontiers of AI	JavaScript and Beyond: The Future of the Frontend	Building Great Engineering Cultures & Organizations	Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)	Solutions Track II
Host	Wes Reisz	Sarah Wells	Rob Harrop	Eric Horesnyi	Jessica Kerr	Finbarr Joy		Nitin Bharti
Location	Fleming, 3rd flr.	Churchill, G flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Mountbatten, 6th flr.	Windsor, 5th flr.	Whittle, 3rd flr.	Redgrave, 2nd flr.	Westminster, 4th flr.
10:35 AM	Inside a Self-Driving Uber Matt Ranney Download: Slides	How to Build Observable Distributed Systems Pierre Vincent Download: Slides	FlexiTime Token: Building dApps with Ethereum Alex Batlin	AI Panel Alison Lowndes, Guillaume Laforge, Antoine Pichot, Sarah Aerni, Eric Horesnyi, Philip Winder & Sahil Dua Talk MOVED to: Westminster, 4th flr.	Enterprise Node.JS Apps in 2018 Jamund Ferguson Download: Slides	Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement Kevin Goldsmith Download: Slides	AMA w/ Laura Bell	3 Common Pitfalls in Microservice Integration Bernd Ruecker Talk MOVED to: Mountbatten, 6th flr.
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Logistics as a Service: Building the Ocado Smart Platform Alex Harvey & Paul Sweetman Download: Slides	The Present and Future of Serverless Observability Yan Cui Download: Slides	ID Crisis! Take Back Control With Self-Sovereign Sharat Koya Talk MOVED to: Westminster, 4th flr.	Tools to Put Deep Learning Models in Production Sahil Dua Download: Slides	Parallelizing Product Development with GraphQL Chris Biscardi Download: Slides	Building Great Engineering Cultures Panel Amanda Bellwood, Tom Clark, Sally Goble, Finbarr Joy, Vlad Galu & Andy Walker	Mini-Workshop : Mob Programming	How to Re-Architect Without Breaking Stuff Owen Garrett Talk MOVED to: St James, 4th flr. Download: Slides
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Lambda Architectures: a Snapshot, a Stream, & a Bunch of Deltas Adrian Trenaman Download: Slides	Monitoring Cloud Native applications with Prometheus Aaron Kirkbride Download: Slides	Tech in Banking Panel Rob Harrop, Mikhail Kourjanski, Teresa Ng, Alex Batlin & Sam Everington	Fuelling the AI Revolution with Gaming Alison Lowndes Download: Slides	Reinventing npmjs.com Katie Fenn Download: Slides	It's People, Stupid (People Are Stupid?) Andy Walker Download: Slides	Architect the Frontend AMA w/ Jamund Ferguson & Chris Biscardi	The Extraordinary World of Quantum Computing Tim Ellison
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Actors or Not: Async Event Architectures Yaroslav Tkachenko Download: Slides	Observability and Emerging Infrastructures Charity Majors Download: Slides	Next Gen Banking Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Rutherford, 4th flr.	Machine Intelligence at Google Scale Guillaume Laforge Download: Slides	WebAssembly (And the Death of JavaScript?) Colin Eberhardt Download: Slides	An Engineering-Led Culture at Scale Amanda Bellwood Download: Slides	Blockchain AMA w/ Conor Svensson & Eoin Woods	DevOps 2.0 - When Everyone Can Run What’s Built Edith Harbaugh
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Architectures Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Rutherford, 4th flr.	Observability Panel Randy Shoup, Sarah Wells, Yan Cui, Pierre Vincent & Charity Majors	Real-Time Data Analysis and ML for FraudPrevention Mikhail Kourjanski Talk MOVED to: Fleming, 3rd flr. Download: Slides	AI in the Asset Management Industry Antoine Pichot	Observable JS Apps Emily Nakashima Download: Slides	Building and Growing Sustainable Teams Vlad Galu Download: Slides	Meet the InfoQ Editors AMA	Performance Management in the Wild Ivan Merrill
5:00 PM	Break
5:25 PM	Microservices: API Re-platforming @Expedia Mariano Albera Download: Slides	Testing Observability Amy Phillips Download: Slides	Disrupting the Banking Experience: Building a Mobile-Only Bank Yann Del Rey & Teresa Ng Download: Slides	Models in Minutes not Months: AI as Microservices Sarah Aerni Download: Slides	JavaScript Open Space Facilitated Peer Sharing Talk MOVED to: Rutherford, 4th flr.	Engineering Culture Revived Finbarr Joy Download: Slides	Actor-Based Architectures AMA w/ Yaroslav Tkachenko, Kiki Carter & Jonas Boner	Delivering Data Persistence and More in Kubernetes Josh Atwell
6:15 PM	Exhibitor Reception - location: Benjamin Britten, 3rd floor and Cambridge, 5th floor. Ends at 7pm.

Wednesday March 7, 2018 Tracks Day #3
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9:00 AM	Conference Introduction and Keynote: Attitude Determines Altitude- Engineering Yourself by Randy Shoup VP Engineering @WeWork Fleming / Whittle, 3rd fl. Download: Slides
10:10 AM	Break
Track	Architecting for Failure	Distributed Stateful Systems	Bare Knuckle Performance	Evolving Java and the JVM: Mobile, Micro and Modular	Operating Systems: LinuxKit, Unikernels, & Beyond	Tech Ethics in Action	Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)	Solutions Track III
Host	Peter Morgan	Sid Anand	Martin Thompson	Martijn Verburg	Ben Hall	Anne Currie & Gareth Rushgrove		Nitin Bharti
Location	Fleming, 3rd flr.	Churchill, G flr.	Whittle, 3rd flr.	Mountbatten, 6th flr.	Windsor, 5th flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Redgrave, 2nd flr.	Westminster, 4th flr.
10:35 AM	How Events Are Reshaping Modern Systems Jonas Bonér Download: Slides	Taming Distributed Stateful Pets With Kubernetes James Munnelly & Matthew Bates Download: Slides	Software Design for Persistent Memory Systems Howard Chu Talk MOVED to: Westminster, 4th flr. Download: Slides	Neural Networks Across Space and Time Dave Snowdon Download: Slides	The Modern Operating System in 2018 Justin Cormack Download: Slides	A Young Profession Coping With Ethical Debt Theo Schlossnagle Download: Slides	AMA w/ Randy Shoup	JDK 9: Mission Accomplished. What Next for Java? Simon Ritter Talk MOVED to: Whittle, 3rd flr. Download: Slides
11:25 AM	Break
11:50 AM	Architecting the Blockchain for Failure Conor Svensson Download: Slides	Scaling Uber's Elasticsearch Clusters Danny Yuan Download: Slides	High Performance Actors Kiki Carter Talk MOVED to: Westminster, 4th flr. Download: Slides	Java at Scale Steve Poole Download: Slides	Unikraft - Unleashing the Power of Unikernels Felipe Huici Download: Slides	Ethical Tech - A Psychologist's Perspective Alexander Steinhart Download: Slides	Workshop: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety	Continuous Delivery of Microservices Sheroy Marker Talk MOVED to: Whittle, 3rd flr.
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:40 PM	Pragmatic Resiliency: Super 6 & Sky Bet Evolution Michael Maibaum Download: Slides	Cloud-Native and Scalable Kafka Architecture Allen Wang Download: Slides	PerfView: The Ultimate .NET Performance Tool Sasha Goldshtein Download: Slides	Serverless and Java in the Real World John Chapin Download: Slides	Making the Windows Command-Line Great Again! Rich Turner & Tara Raj Download: Slides	Responsibly Smashing Pandora’s Box Yanqing Cheng Download: Slides	Kubernetes AMA w/ Matt Bates & James Munnelly	Have Your Cake and Strong Consistency, too Thad Omura & Brian Bulkowski Download: Slides
2:30 PM	Break
2:55 PM	Best Practices Building Resilient Systems Pablo Jensen Download: Slides	Real-Time Decisions Using ML on the Google Cloud Platform Przemyslaw Pastuszka & Carlos Garcia Talk MOVED to: Mountbatten, 6th flr. Download: Slides	Applied Performance Theory Kavya Joshi Download: Slides	Modular Java Development in Action Sander Mak Talk MOVED to: Churchill, G flr. Download: Slides	XDP in Practice: DDoS Mitigation @Cloudflare Gilberto Bertin Download: Slides	Tech Ethics in Action Panel Tim Kadlec, Jenny Mulholland, Anne Currie, Gareth Rushgrove, Kavita Kapoor, Yanqing Cheng, Alexander Steinhart & Theo Schlossnagle	Serverless AMA w/ John Chapin, Dave Syer, Yan Cui & Guy Podjarny	Tasty Topics Mic Hussey Download: Slides
3:45 PM	Break
4:10 PM	Chaos Engineering: Why the World Needs More Resilient Systems Tammy Butow Download: Slides	The Future of Distributed Databases Is Relational Sumedh Pathak Download: Slides	Cluster Consensus: When Aeron Met Raft Martin Thompson Download: Slides	Is Boilerplate Code Really So Bad? Trisha Gee Download: Slides	Optimizing For Production Workloads Daniel Walsh & Samuel Ortiz Download: Slides	Focusing On What Matters Tim Kadlec Download: Slides	Unikernels AMA w/ Felipe Huici & Justin Cormack	Developing a Monitoring Philosophy Arijit Mukherji
5:00 PM	QCon Closing Reception - location: Pickwick, 1st floor. Ends at 5:30pm.
5:30 PM	Evening Keynote: The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman Author of the Luck Factor, previously Consultant for National Geographic Channel’s Brain Games, History’s Your Bleeped Up Brain, & Discovery’s MythBusters. Fleming / Whittle, 3rd fl.

Thursday March 8, 2018 Workshops

Location	Victoria, 2nd flr.	Westminster, 4th flr.	Rutherford, 4th flr.	Abbey, 4th flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Henry Moore, 4th flr.
9:00AM	Profiling JVM Applications in Production Sasha Goldshtein [9:00 - 12:00]	Mastering Microservices Monitoring with Prometheus Ilya Dmitrichenko & Brice Fernandes [9:00 - 12:00]	Chaos Engineering Bootcamp Tammy Butow [9:00 - 4:00]	Docker 101 (Getting Started) Adrian Mouat [9:00 - 12:00]	Testing Microservices: Contracts, Simulation and Observability Andrew Morgan & Daniel Bryant [9:00 - 4:00]	2-Day Training Designing Microservices with Sam Newman part 1 Sam Newman [9:00 - 4:00]
12:00PM	Lunch - 2nd floor
1:00PM 4:00PM	Production Diagnostics for Node Applications Sasha Goldshtein [1:00 - 4:00]	[SOLD OUT] Building Great Teams: Culture and Core Protocols Judy Rees & Richard Kasperowski [1:00 - 4:00]	Workshop (continued)	Practical Use of a Service Mesh With Linkerd Alex Leong & Franziska von der Goltz [1:00 - 4:00]	Workshop (continued)	Training (continued)

Friday March 9, 2018 Workshops

Location	Abbey, 4th flr.	St James, 4th flr.	Westminster, 4th flr.	Henry Moore, 4th flr.
9:00AM	RxJava 2 For Beginners Tomasz Nurkiewicz [9:00 - 4:00]	Serverless Workshop David Wells [9:00 - 4:00]	Production Grade Kubernetes Workshop Adam Sandor & Ian Crosby [9:00 - 4:00]	2-Day Training Designing Microservices with Sam Newman part 2 Sam Newman [9:00 - 4:00]
12:00PM	Lunch - 2nd floor
1:00PM 4:00PM	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Workshop (continued)	Training (continued)