Architectures You've Always Wondered About

AYAWA is a mainstay of QCon conferences, bringing together eclectic talks from companies pushing the boundaries of what's possible with software. This year, we're considering the full spectrum of meanings implied by "architecture", not just web-scale distributed systems. From the cloud to the client, we'll be deep diving into the engineering behind architectures that power our physical world, our technological world, our entertainment world and our future world!


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Session architecture

The Tech Powering the BBC's Olympic Coverage

Monday Apr 7 / 10:35AM BST

Details coming soon.

Speaker image - Matthew Clark

Matthew Clark

Head Of Architecture for the @BBC's Digital Products, 25+ Years Developing Online Software

Speaker image - Ian Arundale

Ian Arundale

Senior Engineering Leader @BBC

Session augmented reality

Developing Meta's Orion AR Glasses

Monday Apr 7 / 11:45AM BST

Meta announced the Orion AR Glasses in September 2024. It is a time machine to demonstrate that it's possible to build an immersive augmented reality experience in a glasses form-factor. There were numerous technical challenges to make this a reality.

Speaker image - Jinsong Yu

Jinsong Yu

Software Engineer @Meta, Led the Development of Orion AR Glasses Software Stack, Previously @Google and @Microsoft

Session

Connecting the Dots: Architectures (Limited Space - Registration Required)

Monday Apr 7 / 01:35PM BST

Session AWS serverless

Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Scale, Security, and Sustainability

Monday Apr 7 / 02:45PM BST

The green energy transition is real, and happening, but it needs technology to make it successful. Everything from renewable energy generation onto the grid, to how consumers use energy, needs technology to be effective and keep up with today's demands.

Speaker image - Kevin Bowman

Kevin Bowman

Platform Engineering @KrakenTech (Octopus Energy), Previously @SkyBet and Others, Passionate About Removing Friction From Getting Stuff Successfully Into Production

Session

Improving Efficiency with Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval

Monday Apr 7 / 03:55PM BST

Details coming soon.

Session

The Sound of Innovation: A Symphony of Features in Digital Audio Workstations

Monday Apr 7 / 05:05PM BST

Details coming soon.

Track Host

Ian Thomas

Software Engineer @Meta, QCon London 2024 PC Chair

Ian's background is in Computer Science with a detour into UX and design. He has worked in client services businesses and in-house across various software engineering, architecture and strategy roles. He currently works as a Software Engineer for Meta and previously as a technology leader for Genesis Global, a low-code platform that enables financial market organisations to innovate at speed. Before Genesis, Ian spent 8 years working for Sky Bet and PokerStars as part of the Flutter family of online gaming brands. He has been involved in many high-profile product launches, most recently the re-platforming of PokerStars Sports, which included a completely new, multi-channel customer experience.

Ian is interested in combining technology with user experience design, focusing on languages, platforms and tools to build products that customers interact with directly. However, Ian is also a big fan of reactive, event-driven systems and spent 18 months building a trading data ingestion pipeline using Kotlin, Kafka Streams and Kubernetes for PokerStars Sports.

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