Track Overview
Speaker AMAs (Ask Me Anything)
QCon has 18 technical and 4 sponsored tracks across the three conference days.
Each of the technical tracks represents a vertical conference focused on a technology or trend in software. Often times, important concentrations develop at the conference outside of those tracks. The AMAs are a way to address these microtracks or just to get your questions answered with popular speakers. The idea with the AMAs is to create a space for general Q&A around these topics and speakers.
AMAs are an informal gathering for Q&A. Bring your questions for in depth conversations with QCon speakers.
From this track
AMA w/ Alasdair Allan
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Alasdair Allan
Scientist/Maker/Hacker
Modern CS & Architectures AMA w/ Julia Lawall & Akhilesh Gupta
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Julia Lawall
Senior Researcher @Inria
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Akhilesh Gupta
Sr. Staff Software Engineer @LinkedIn
Javascript AMA w/ Kate Sills & Gordon Williams
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Katelyn Sills
Software Engineer @agoric
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Gordon Williams
Creator of the @Espruino
Coping with Complexity in Distributed Systems AMA w/ D. Yu & L. Maguire
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Denise Yu
Senior Software Engineer @GitHub
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Laura Maguire
Cognitive Systems Engineer & Researcher
Streaming Data & Architectures AMA w/ F. Paganelli & L. Mezzalira
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Flavia Paganelli
CTO and Founder @30Mhz
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Luca Mezzalira
Principal Solutions Architect @AWS
Big Data & Infrastructure AMA w/ Blanca Garcia Gil & Jon Topper
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Blanca Garcia-Gil
Principal Engineer on data platform @BBC
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Jon Topper
CTO / CEO @scalefactory
Speakers from this track
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Alasdair Allan
Scientist/Maker/Hacker
Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker, and journalist. An expert on the Internet of Things and sensor systems, he’s famous for hacking hotel radios, and causing one of the first big mobile privacy scandals which eventually became known as “locationgate”. He works as a...
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Julia Lawall
Senior Researcher @Inria
Julia Lawall is a Senior Research Scientist at Inria. Her research is at the intersection of programming languages and operating systems. She develops the tool Coccinelle and has over 2000 patches in the Linux kernel based on this work.
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Akhilesh Gupta
Sr. Staff Software Engineer @LinkedIn
Akhilesh is the technical lead for LinkedIn's Real-time delivery infrastructure and LinkedIn Messaging. He has been working on the revamp of LinkedIn’s offerings to instant, real-time experiences. Before this, he was the head of engineering for the Ride Experience program at Uber...
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Katelyn Sills
Software Engineer @agoric
Kate Sills is a software engineer at Agoric, building composable smart contract components in a secure subset of JavaScript. Previously, Kate has researched and written on the potential uses of smart contracts to enforce agreements and create institutions orthogonal to legal jurisdictions. Kate...
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Gordon Williams
Creator of the @Espruino
Gordon is the creator of the Espruino, a tiny microcontroller board that runs JavaScript. Over the past 6 years he’s designed hardware, written software, and shipped four successful KickStarters from his home in Oxfordshire. Before that, he wrote compilers and 3D graphics software for a...
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Denise Yu
Senior Software Engineer @GitHub
Denise is a Senior Software Engineer at GitHub, currently working to help make the platform a safer and more inclusive place, as part of the Community & Safety Team. She speaks and runs workshops frequently at conferences in North America and Europe on topics ranging from scaling...
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Laura Maguire
Cognitive Systems Engineer & Researcher
Laura Maguire is a researcher producing human-centered design guidance for Jeli.io. Her doctoral work studied distributed incident response practices in DevOps teams responsible for critical digital services. She was a researcher with the SNAFU Catchers Consortium from 2017-2020, and her...
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Flavia Paganelli
CTO and Founder @30Mhz
Flavia is co-founder and CTO of 30MHz, a data platform for agriculture with a mission to grow food more sustainably and efficiently. At 30MHz, the challenges range from managing a fleet of thousands of devices to making beautiful visualizations for data, and let's not forget the terabytes of...
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Luca Mezzalira
Principal Solutions Architect @AWS
Luca is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, an international speaker and an author. Over the past 18 years, he’s mastered software architectures from frontend to the cloud, providing the right solution for the context.
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Blanca Garcia-Gil
Principal Engineer on data platform @BBC
Blanca Garcia Gil is a principal systems engineer at BBC. She currently works on a team whose aim is to provide a reliable platform at petabyte scale for data engineering and machine learning. She provides leadership on ensuring that the development team has the correct infrastructure and tooling...
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Jon Topper
CTO / CEO @scalefactory
Jon Topper runs The Scale Factory, a team of cloud infrastructure and DevOps experts based in London, UK. He's worked on infrastructure problems for Fortune 500 companies, and startups, across a range of market sectors.
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Track Host
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Daniel Bryant
Independent Technical Consultant
Daniel Bryant works as an Independent Technical Consultant and Product Architect at Datawire, and currently specialises in enabling continuous delivery within organisations through the identification of value streams, creation of build pipelines, and implementation of effective testing...
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