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Conference:March 5-7, 2018
Workshops:March 8-9, 2018

2018 Registrations Now Open. Save up to £680! Register before Aug 19th

Attending QCon Includes:

  • 18 editorial tracks across 3 days
  • 140+ practitioner speakers from places like Uber, Google,Facebook, Spotify Twitter, and more…
  • 11 to 1 attendee to speaker ratio
  • No hidden paid sessions/marketing!
  • Video recording for most sessions included
  • 17 optional workshops following the conference
  • Focus on healthy food, including gluten-free & vegan

Conference for Professional Software Developers
#qconlondon

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Last Year's Tracks

Monday, 6 March

Tuesday, 7 March

Wednesday, 8 March

Last Year's Schedule

Bleeding-edge for the Enterprise

Bring trends from innovator and early adopter companies home to your team

Blockchain

Cloud Dataflow

Java 9

Deep Learning

Unikernels

Elm-lang

Formal Methods

Low Latency / High Performance Computing

Property-Based Testing

Data Engineering

Lambda/Serverless

Pen Testing (Red Teaming)

React / Flux

Engineering Culture

Building Resiliency

DevOps

Microservice Architectures

Reactive

Immutable Infrastructure

Observability / Telemetry

Building High Performing Teams

Brand Promise

  • "One of the most fun and intellectually intimate conferences I have joined. The open sessions were excellent – total serendipity."

    - Eric Kolotyluk

  • "Each time I attend QCon, my mind is opened up to fresh ideas by leaders in their field. I also get to meet and connect with top engineers around the world. Where else can you do that?!"

    - Eric Thorsen

  • "QCon is a great way to stay informed of the leading edge of software architecture and development."

    - Mike Matczynsk

  • "QCon is one of the best conferences out there….great speakers and really interesting tracks."

    - Krzysztof Koziol

  • "A superb conference with the best tracks and great speakers!"

    - Tomas Carlfalk

  • "I learned a lot about the current trends and solutions to problems that affect scalability and availability in this age the cloud."

    - Lisandro Diaz

  • "It was great to see what a broad variety of industry leaders are doing with technology as it has advanced, and what they're doing to help it safely continue to move forward."

    - Bob Dunn

  • “QCon is the best place to learn how the smartest companies solve their toughest technical problems.”

    - Bob Smith

Last Year’s Speakers

Engineer @Tesla
Colin Breck
Software Engineer @GoogleBrain
Anjuli Kannan
Security Engineer @Twitch
Thomas Shadwell
Founder & CTO @Lightbend / Creator of Akka
Jonas Bonér
Engineering Manager @Uber - Marketplace Data & Forecasting
Sudhir Tonse
Security Engineer @GlobalFinancialAccess & Co-Creator of Sand...
Elaine Ou
Leads Notifications Team @Twitter
Saurabh Pathak
Software Engineer @Spotify
Igor Maravic

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Last Year’s Speakers

Engineers over Evangelists,
Practitioners over Trainers/Coaches,
Team Leads over Consultants

Attendees talk about the Speakers

  • of QCon attendees feel they are learning from an expert peer

  • of QCon attendees rate the level of content as expert

* Our goal is to reach 100%

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Keynotes

Last Year's Workshops

WORKSHOPS DAY 1 / THURSDAY

Morning

Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Regained
By:
Kevlin Henney
Valuable Agile Retrospectives for Teams
By:
Ben Linders
Understanding Java Modularity (JDK9)
By:
Brian Goetz
Beyond Relational:Applying Big Data Cloud Patterns
By:
Lynn Langit
Docker 101 (Getting Started)
By:
Adrian Mouat
Building Your First App with Apache Mesos & DC/OS
By:
Michael Hausenblas
[CANCELLED] React 101 Workshop
By:
Freddy Rangel

Afternoon

12 Factor Apps Workshop
By:
Maximilian Schöfmann
Docker Security Workshop
By:
Adrian Mouat
Continuous Dis-Integration: Red Team Attacks
By:
Josh Schwartz, Christina Camilleri

WORKSHOPS DAY 2 / FRIDAY

Morning

[SOLD OUT] Real-Time Streaming Data Pipelines
By:
Ian Wrigley
MicroServices ‐ Let’s Build Some
By:
Fred George
Agile Architecture Workshop
By:
Kevlin Henney
High Performance Microservices
By:
Mark Price
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
By:
Michael Feathers
Zen of Architecture
By:
Juval Lowy

London Venue

The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London

The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre - London

The Centre is located opposite Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament and with views of Big Ben and the British Airways London Eye. The location is minutes from the West End of London offering a whole host of bars, pubs, cafes, restaurants and hotels to make your visit to our venue and London, fun, relaxed and enjoyable.

Conference Venue

The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster
London SW1P 3EE

Venue details and Directions

Hotel 

Benefit from our negotiated rates
for QCon Attendees
in various hotels close to the Conference Venue

See the hotel list and book your hotel room

 

Concierge Services

Get special rates for car transfer,

sightseeing tours and tourist attractions.

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Who Comes to QCon

Leading Architects talk about
the other attendees

QCon Attendees Testimonials

Is QCon Right for You?

Our attendees roles are:

Software Developer / Programmer/ Engineer

Senior Developer / Engineer

Technical Team Lead and Higher (including):

  • Technical Team Lead

  • Senior Management (VP, CTO, CIO, Director)

  • Architect: Technical / Application (platform specific)

  • Enterprise Architect / Chief Architect

  • Architect: Solution / Systems

  • Technical Project Manager

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Meet and Learn from Your Peers

25 Minute Breaks “The Hallway Track”

25 Minute Breaks “The Hallway Track”

Mingle and network with other attendees, speakers & sponsors.

Open Spaces

Open Spaces

Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.

Social Events

Social Events

Conference Social & Dinner, Exhibitor & Hospitality Receptions. Opportunities to mingle, eat, drink and network with speakers, editors, attendees, sponsors. Complementary and free for all conference attendees.

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Healthy QCon

Different menu items:

Vegan or Vegetarian 
Gluten-Free 
Dairy-Free

Testimonials

One Big City

Two great conferences

3 days conf, 2 days tutorial - March 7-11 - 1200 attendees
Run by InfoQ who runs QCon SF, NY, SP, Rio, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo

October 12-14
Run by Trifork who runs GOTO London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Chicago, Berlin, FlowCon, Scala days

InfoQ

QCon by InfoQ

InfoQ has been organizing QCons across the globe for over 10 years now. For the same period of time we have been publishing news, articles, videos and in-depth/deep dive reports on hot topics in the industry. Our content is written only by real life practitioners and offers best practices from companies such as Uber, Netflix and more.

Join the InfoQ Community

    • Over 50% of our readers are software architects
    • The majority of our audience is comprised of senior-level developers and architects
    • All our content is written by practitioners

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