2026 Schedule

Schedule subject to change.

Find out more about social events and sign up for peer-sharing opportunities at QCon. Learn more.

Don't forget to check the ETA requirements for entering the UK.

Learn more.

Monday, March 16th, 2026

07:15AM GMT

Badge Pick-Up & Continental Breakfast - 3rd & 5th Fl.

09:00AM GMT

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

State of Play: AI Coding Assistants

Birgitta Böckeler - Thoughtworks

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

10:10AM GMT

Break

10:35AM GMT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

From DVDs to Global Streaming: How Netflix’s Commerce Architecture Actually Evolved

Kasia Trapszo - Netflix

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Advanced Topic

Track:
The Long Game: Staff+ Engineering Agency and the Art of Thriving Through Hype-Cycles

The Hidden Power of Boring Problems

Yinka Omole - Personio

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

From Fan-Out to Fast: Sub-100ms API Design in Distributed Systems

Saranya Vedagiri - eBay

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Tech of Finance Industry

How To Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not To

Ross McFarlane - Form3

Kevin Holditch - Form3

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Native Languages - and Wasm

A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) Journey: From WASM in Go to State Machines in Rust

Alfonso Subiotto - Polar Signals

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

Scaling the Unknown: How monday.com Built Performance Guardrails for AI and Custom Apps

Eviathar Moussaffi - monday.com

Talia Komorov - Monday.com

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
11:25AM GMT

Break

11:45AM GMT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story

Jabez Eliezer Manuel - Booking.com

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Advanced Topic

Track:
The Long Game: Staff+ Engineering Agency and the Art of Thriving Through Hype-Cycles

The Socio-technical Staff+ Engineer: Architecture, Culture and Organisational Change

Vanessa Formicola - Prima

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry

Julian Wreford - Gearset

Oli Lane - Gearset

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Tech of Finance Industry

Your Multicloud Strategy Is a Product Problem - Treat It Like One

Luis Henrique Albinati Junior - JP Morgan Chase

Surabhi Mahajan - JP Morgan Chase

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Native Languages - and Wasm

In person only

Unconference: Native Languages

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

From Pilot to Impact: How AI Is Transforming Large‑Scale Engineering

Yaping (Luna) Luo - ING

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
12:35PM GMT

Lunch Located on 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Fl. & Lunch Topic Discussions Located on 1st Fl.

Women In Tech Lunch in Gielgud on 2nd Fl. (Sign-Up Needed)

01:35PM GMT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Evolving Wise Architecture to Power a Global Account

Andrei Tognolo - Wise

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
The Long Game: Staff+ Engineering Agency and the Art of Thriving Through Hype-Cycles

All Tech Debt is NOT Created Equal

Joy Ebertz - Imprint

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era

Jim Gough - Morgan Stanley

Andreea Niculcea - Morgan Stanley

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Tech of Finance Industry

In person only

Unconference: Tech of Finance Industry

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Native Languages - and Wasm

Designing Language-Agnostic Plugin Systems With Webassembly and Extism

Shivay Lamba - Qualcomm

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

From Prompt to Production: How Spotify Builds Internal Tools in Days with AI and Platform Engineering

Stuart Clark - Spotify

Mike Lewis - Spotify

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
02:25PM GMT

Break

02:45PM GMT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

One-to-Many Products, One-to-Many Countries: Scaling Nubank to 127 Million Customers

Laís Oliveira - Nubank

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
The Long Game: Staff+ Engineering Agency and the Art of Thriving Through Hype-Cycles

The Influence Toolkit

Henry Wilson - BBC

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

In person only

Unconference: Connecting Systems

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Tech of Finance Industry

The Realities of Building an AI Native Fintech Startup

David Lin - Linvest21, Inc.

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Native Languages - and Wasm

Rust in the Real World

Ethan Brierley - TrueLayer

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

Maximising an Agentic AI Ecosystem: Trust, Control and Scale

Jonathan Griffiths - Dynatrace

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
03:35PM GMT

Break

03:55PM GMT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

In person only

Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
The Long Game: Staff+ Engineering Agency and the Art of Thriving Through Hype-Cycles

Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering

Phillip Mortimer - Carta

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

Enchant your AI and Apis with eBPF magic 🪄

Dan Finneran - Isovalent at Cisco

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Tech of Finance Industry

Modular Migration Patterns for Legacy Banking Core

Suhail Patel - Monzo

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Advanced Topic

Track:
Native Languages - and Wasm

Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server

Felipe Huici - Unikraft

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

Beyond Observability: Implementing Runtime Guardrails for Production AI Agents

May Walter - Hud

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
04:45PM GMT

Break

05:05PM GMT

Track:
Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Modernising Retail at Scale: Architecting a Cloud‑to‑Edge Platform for a Global Enterprise

Jayesh Bhayani - Tesco PLC

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available
Advanced Topic

Track:
The Long Game: Staff+ Engineering Agency and the Art of Thriving Through Hype-Cycles

In person only

Connecting the Dots: Staff+ (Limited Space - Registration Required)

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability

Beyond the Dashboard: Why 'Query-ability' is the New Observability

Ian Cooper - Just Eat Takeaway

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Tech of Finance Industry

Unlocking the AI-Native Product Lifecycle and Accelerating the Path to Innovation

Chris Gaun - Island.io

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Native Languages - and Wasm

Go in the Real World

Bryan Boreham - Grafana Labs

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Advanced Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track I

In person only

Context Engineering: Building the Knowledge Layer AI Agents Need

Brandon Waselnuk - Unblocked

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
06:00PM GMT

Conference Social on 1st & 2nd Fl. - Drinks & Nibbles

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026

08:00AM GMT

Continental Breakfast - 3rd & 5th Fl.

09:00AM GMT

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto

Martin Kleppmann - University of Cambridge

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

10:10AM GMT

Break

10:35AM GMT

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

Prasanna Vijayanathan - Netflix

Renzo Sanchez-Silva - Netflix

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Advanced Topic

Track:
AI Engineering

Reliable Retrieval for Production AI Systems

Lan Chu - Rabobank

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Building Engineering Teams

Team Topologies as the 'Infrastructure for Agency' with AI

Matthew Skelton - Conflux

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Software Security & Risk Management

Why Governance Matters: The Key to Reducing Risk Without Slowing Down

Sarah Wells - Sarah Wells Consulting Ltd

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Debugging Distributed Systems

Orienting, Understanding, Playing, Thriving: Debugging your Organisation

Hazel Weakly - Nivenly Foundation

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

Engineering for the Long Haul: Operating Open Source at Scale

Ari Karkkainen - TuxCare

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
11:25AM GMT

Break

11:45AM GMT

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

From S3 to GPU in One Copy: Rethinking Data Loading for ML Training

Onur Satici - SpiralDB

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
AI Engineering

Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time

Jo Kelly-Fenton - Spotify

Aleksandar Mitic - Spotify

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Building Engineering Teams

Blurring the Lines: Engineering & Data Teams in the Age of AI

Priscilla Nagashima - Pleo

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Software Security & Risk Management

Building on Bedrock: A Security Philosophy from Bootloader to Runtime

Alex Zenla - Edera

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Debugging Distributed Systems

How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun"

Nicholas Herring - CCP Games

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Advanced Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

Multi-Cloud Distributed databases for Agentic AI

David Roberts - Yugabyte

Westminster (4th Fl.)

12:35PM GMT

Lunch Located on 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Fl. & Lunch Topic Discussions Located on 1st Fl.

01:35PM GMT

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

Introducing Tansu.io -- Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations

Peter Morgan - tansu.io

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
AI Engineering

Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence

Jeff Smith - 2nd Set AI

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Building Engineering Teams

The Ladder Is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle

Alasdair Allan - Negroni Venture Studios

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Software Security & Risk Management

From Chaos to Clarity: Modern SBOM Practices That Actually Work

Viktor Petersson - sbomify

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Debugging Distributed Systems

In person only

Unconference: Debugging Distributed Systems

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

Sponsored session powered by Dynatrace

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
02:25PM GMT

Break

02:45PM GMT

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

Chronon - Mixed-Workload Data Processing Framework

Nikhil Simha - Zipline AI

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Advanced Topic

Track:
AI Engineering

Beyond Context Windows: Building Cognitive Memory for AI Agents

Karthik Ramgopal - LinkedIn

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Advanced Topic

Track:
Building Engineering Teams

Rethinking Your Engineering Hiring Process & Signals for the AI Era

Reece Nunn - BBC

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Software Security & Risk Management

In person only

Unconference: Software Security & Risk Management

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Debugging Distributed Systems

Real-Time Observability for Cross-Border Payment Rails

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

Sponsored session powered by Runpod

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
03:35PM GMT

Break

03:55PM GMT

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

The Rise of the Streamhouse: Idea, Trade-Offs, and Evolution

Giannis Polyzos - Ververica

Anton Borisov - Fresha

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available
Advanced Topic

Track:
AI Engineering

In person only

Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents

Amit Navindgi - Zoox

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

No Video Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Building Engineering Teams

In person only

Unconference: Building Engineering Teams

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
Software Security & Risk Management

Exploding GPUs

Andrew Martin - ControlPlane

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Debugging Distributed Systems

Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

Colin Douch - DuckDuckGo

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

Avoid AI Concept Creep with a Knowledge Graph Created in Hours

Atanas Kiryakov - Graphwise

Peio Popov - Graphwise

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
04:45PM GMT

Break

05:05PM GMT

Track:
Modern Data Engineering & Architectures

In person only

Connecting the Dots: Modern Data Engineering & Architectures (Limited Space - Registration Required)

Rutherford (4th Fl.)

No Video Available

Track:
AI Engineering

Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes

Meryem Arik - Doubleword

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Building Engineering Teams

In person only

From Copilots to Orchestrators: A Three-Month Playbook for Training AI-Native Engineering Teams

Krys Flores - Crunchyroll

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

No Video Available
Beginner Topic

Track:
Software Security & Risk Management

Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation With CHERI

David Chisnall - SCI Semiconductor

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Debugging Distributed Systems

Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Alex Palcuie - Anthropic

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track II

In person only

Learning to Trust your AI Agents

Lawrie Green - Antithesis

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
06:00PM GMT

Exhibitor Reception for Attendees - Drinks & Nibbles on 3rd & 5th Fl. - Ends at 6:45pm

Wednesday, March 18th, 2026

08:00AM GMT

Continental Breakfast - 3rd & 5th Fl.

09:00AM GMT

Conference Introduction and Keynote:

Learning Out Loud (Under Near-Existential Pressure)

Laura Savino - Adobe Photoshop

Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)

10:10AM GMT

Break

10:35AM GMT

Track:
Architecture in the Age of AI

The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering

Patrick Debois - Tessl

Baruch Sadogursky - Tessl

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Organizations in Flux: Navigating and Managing AI's Impact on Engineering Teams

AI is an Amplifier: Scale High Performance, Not Dysfunction

Nathen Harvey - Google Cloud

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Architecting for Resilience

How to Find Resilience Bugs in Systems that Don't Exist

Hillel Wayne

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Modern Performance Optimization

Navigating the Edge of Scale and Speed for Physics Discovery

Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad - ETH Zürich

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

How React Internals are Adapting to Fine-Grained Reactivity

Eduardo Bouças - Netlify

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Sponsored Solution Track III

In person only

Event Sourcing as the Data Foundation for Reliable AI Agents

Tony Young - Kurrent

Westminster (4th Fl.)

No Video Available
11:25AM GMT

Break

11:45AM GMT

Track:
Architecture in the Age of AI

Beyond Benchmarks: How Evaluations Ensure Safety at Scale in LLM Applications

Clara Matos - Sword Health

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Organizations in Flux: Navigating and Managing AI's Impact on Engineering Teams

Leading Through the Fog: Transparent Communication Strategies for AI Integration

Clara Higuera - BBVA

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Architecting for Resilience

Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Christine Lemmer-Webber - Spritely Institute

David Thompson - Spritely Institute

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Modern Performance Optimization

Vector Search on Columnar Storage

Peter Boncz - CWI

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

Computer Use Agents: The Frontier of Vision-Based Automation

Stefan Dirnstorfer - Thetaris GmbH

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Beginner Topic
12:35PM GMT

Lunch Located on 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Fl. & Lunch Topic Discussions Located on 1st Fl.

01:35PM GMT

Track:
Architecture in the Age of AI

Building an AI Ready Global Scale Data Platform

George Peter Hantzaras - MongoDB

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Organizations in Flux: Navigating and Managing AI's Impact on Engineering Teams

The Reinvention of the Dev Team

Hannah Foxwell

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Beginner Topic

Track:
Architecting for Resilience

Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading Failure

Sam Newman

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Modern Performance Optimization

Not Just I/O: Using Async/Await for Computational Scheduling

Orson Peters - Polars

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Advanced Topic

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

Optimizing Performance with Smart Middleware and Edge Handlers

Windsor (5th Fl.)

02:25PM GMT

Break

02:45PM GMT

Track:
Architecture in the Age of AI

Your Agent Sandbox Doesn't Know My Authz Model: A Standard-Shaped Hole

Paul Carleton - Anthropic

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Organizations in Flux: Navigating and Managing AI's Impact on Engineering Teams

Teaching Engineers, Trusting AI: How Education Enabled Autonomous Code Review

Sarah Deitke - Duolingo

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Architecting for Resilience

Keeping the Nation On-Air: How We Think About Resilience at the BBC

Tom Everest - BBC

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

No Video Available
Beginner Topic

Track:
Modern Performance Optimization

Looking Under the Hood: Data Processing Systems Performance Tricks (and How to Apply Them to Your Code)

Holger Pirk - Imperial College London

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Intermediate Topic

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

Architecting AI Driven Game Creation: From Research to Production Scale Systems

Danielle An - Meta

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Advanced Topic
03:35PM GMT

Break

03:55PM GMT

Track:
Architecture in the Age of AI

Explicit Semantics for AI Applications: Ontologies in Practice

Jesus Barrasa - Neo4j

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Organizations in Flux: Navigating and Managing AI's Impact on Engineering Teams

4 AI Native Developer Patterns

Patrick Debois - Tessl

Churchill (Ground Fl.)

Track:
Architecting for Resilience

Shielding the Core: Architecting Resilience with Multi-Layer Defenses

Anderson Parra - SeatGeek

Whittle (3rd Fl.)

Track:
Modern Performance Optimization

Automatically Retrofitting JIT Compilers

Laurence Tratt - King’s College London

Mountbatten (6th Fl.)

Interview Available
Intermediate Topic

Track:
Emerging Trends in the Frontend and Mobile

The Frontend Architect’s Guide to Multi-modal UIs

Windsor (5th Fl.)

04:45PM GMT

QCon Closing Reception in Pickwick, 1st Fl. - Ends at 5:15pm

05:15PM GMT

Evening Keynote:

The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity

Holly Cummins - IBM

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

Thursday, March 19th, 2026

08:00AM GMT

Continental Breakfast - Albert 2nd Fl.

09:00AM GMT
01:30PM GMT

Certification

01:30PM GMT - 05:00PM GMT (3 hours)

Become an InfoQ Certified Software Architect in Emerging Technologies (ICSAET) - Afternoon Group

Luca Mezzalira - AWS

Gielgud (2nd Fl.)