QCon Software Conferences

Learning in public under real pressure. That's the current state of the field.

Laura Savino (@Adobe Photoshop) opens the final day of QCon London with a keynote on what happens when the pace of change outstrips your ability to feel competent, and the practical shifts that help.

March 18. https://bit.ly/4sJQP7K

A 5-week online cohort for senior engineers and architects, led by Luca Mezzalira.

Starting April 15, May 7, or June 10. Limited places.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4cE6fWj

The PoC worked. Now comes the hard part. QCon AI Boston (June 1-2, Boston) is built around what it actually takes to run AI reliably in production.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3NzwRgS

Why do the same ideas keep coming back? Holly Cummins closes QCon London on March 18 with "The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity."

Find out more about the keynote: https://bit.ly/4lpJWpt

QCon San Francisco is programmed by practitioners, not organizers.

The 2026 committee: engineers from Netflix, Zoox, Momento, Monzo, Quotient, and Blackbaud, selecting talks based on what they're seeing in production right now.

November 16-20, San Francisco.

🔗 https://bit.ly/47eintJ

QCon San Francisco is programmed by practitioners, not organizers.

The 2026 committee: engineers from Netflix, Zoox, Momento, Monzo, Quotient, and Blackbaud, selecting talks based on what they're seeing in production right now.

November 16-20, San Francisco.

🔗 https://bit.ly/47eintJ

Most engineering teams are somewhere in the middle of figuring out AI adoption. The Organizations in Flux track at QCon London is built around that reality. Wednesday, March 18.

DORA research from Google Cloud. Duolingo's learning programs for 300+ engineers. Four patterns for AI-native development from Patrick Debois.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4uoOCjD

Systems that fail in ways you can't reproduce. The Debugging Distributed Systems track at QCon London, March 16-18, is built around exactly that. Last day for early bird pricing.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4bjAAqS

Three sessions worth knowing about at QCon London 2026:

Sam Newman on cascading failures. Martin Kleppmann on local-first software and cloud sovereignty. Kasia Trapszo on how Netflix's architecture actually evolved.

Early bird ends March 10.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4aY7qi2

The morning ICSAET certification group at QCon London is sold out. An afternoon group on March 19 has been added. Limited places.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4bjJNQ5

Join Francesca Lazzeri, Principal Group Director @microsoft@techhub.social, at QCon AI Boston to explore a hybrid architecture for trusted AI query generation.

🔹Intent screening & fuzzy semantic matching
🔹Deterministic aggregation (no hallucinations)
🔹Schema-aware validation

Move from demos to production: https://bit.ly/40FwVi3

Is your team feeling "model fatigue"?

Birgitta Böckeler @Thoughtworks delivers a keynote at #QConLondon to help you see the forest for the trees. A high-altitude look at the last 12 months of AI coding assistants and where the industry stands today.

Get the reality check: https://bit.ly/3OOrzhR

Join Chaitanya Bhandari @TigerBeetle at #QConLondon 2026 for:
🔹Vectorized execution & branch-aware operators
🔹Vector search on columnar storage
🔹NUMA-aware computational scheduling
🔹Auto-derived JIT compilers

🔗 https://bit.ly/4aZD7Gn

At the Staff+ level, an architectural mistake is a 6-month migration. 📉

Join a curated cohort of senior peers at QCon San Francisco to stress-test your strategy and get the peer review your role usually lacks.

Led by Luca Mezzalira.

Upgrade your ticket to join the cohort: https://bit.ly/4rYkQk7

Hype cycles come and go. Real engineering agency is forever. 🏛️

Join Shawna Martell and leaders from the BBC, Personio, and Carta at #QConLondon 2026 for "The Long Game" track.

🔹 Mastering "boring" problems
🔹 Sociotechnical architecture
🔹 Tech debt in the AI era
🔹 The Influence Toolkit

🔗 https://bit.ly/4rOylCX

Every QCon session is selected by practicing engineers, not a sales team.
That one decision changes everything: who speaks, what they share, and who shows up.

🔧 Speakers chosen for production experience, not sponsorship
💬 Hallway conversations with peers solving the same problems
📐 20 years of practitioner curation

🇬🇧 QCon London — Mar 16-19 🇺🇸 QCon AI Boston — Jun 1-2 🇺🇸 QCon San Francisco — Nov 16-20

Early bird for all three ends March 10.

https://qconlondon.com | https://boston.qcon.ai | https://qconsf.com

#QCon

Cloud dependency is now a geopolitical risk. 🌍

Martin Kleppmann, author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, delivers the #QConLondon keynote on technological sovereignty.

🔹Local-first software 🔹atproto & Bluesky

🔗 https://bit.ly/475xa9K

Management playbooks from 5 years ago are hitting a wall.

Join Wes Reisz at #QConLondon to rethink engineering teams for 2026.

🔹 Hiring signals
🔹 Broken career ladders
🔹 Cross-stack data ownership
🔹 Agency-led structure

🔗 https://bit.ly/4rLV1Uo

When every team implements their own retry logic, cost tracking, and fallback mechanisms, engineering time is wasted on plumbing instead of features.

At QCon AI Boston 2026, Siddharth Kodwani and Swaroop Chitlur share how @DoorDash built a unified GenAI platform.

Scale without the waste: https://bit.ly/4r9w7No

Why did your agent pick that tool? 🛠️
Prompt engineering won't tell you, but mechanistic interpretability will.

Join Hannes Hapke, @Dataiku, at #QConAIBoston to explore Kiji Inspector. Learn to use Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to turn black-box activations into interpretable decision factors.

🔗 https://bit.ly/46JJRHp