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.
AMA are an informal gathering for Q&A. Bring your questions for in depth conversations with QCon speakers.
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Deliberately Designing a Collaborative Culture Mini-workshop
Collaborative organisational culture doesn't just happen, it needs conscious and deliberate design and careful nurturing. In this workshop participants will explore what a collaborative organisation culture is, why it matters and how to deliberately design culture. Culture is "the...
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Shane Hastie
AMA w/ Peter Morgan
Presentation details to follow.
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Peter Morgan
AI Community Leader & Founder and CEO Deep Learning Partnership
Java & the JVM AMA w/ Thompson, Verburg, Pressler & Ritter
Presentation details to follow.
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Martin Thompson
High Performance & Low Latency Specialist
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Ron Pressler
Technical Lead for Project Loom @oracle
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Martijn Verburg
Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) @Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity (acquired by MSFT) & CxO / start-up mentor
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Simon Ritter
Deputy CTO @Azul
InfoQ Editors AMA w/ Charles Humble & Daniel Bryant
Presentation details to follow.
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Charles Humble
Head of Editorial @InfoQ.com
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Daniel Bryant
Independent Technical Consultant
Service Mesh AMA w/ Matt Turner, Nic Jackson & Andrew Martin
Presentation details to follow.
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Nic Jackson
Developer Advocate @HashiCorp
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Matt Turner
Site Reliability Engineer @MarshallWace
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Andrew Martin
Co-Founder @controlplaneio
Erlang/Elixir AMA w/ Irina Guberman, Finbarr Joy & Peter Morgan
Presentation details to follow.
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Irina Guberman
Principal Product Architect @xaptuminc
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Finbarr Joy
Senior Technology Adviser @Superbet
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Peter Morgan
Chief Scientific Officer @Superbet
Speakers from this track
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Peter Morgan
AI Community Leader & Founder and CEO Deep Learning Partnership
Peter is author of the popular report, “Machine Learning is Changing the Rules: Ways Businesses Can Utilize AI to Innovate”, published by O'Reilly. He is passionate about artificial intelligence and the positive changes this technology can and is bringing to society. Peter founded...
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Martin Thompson
High Performance & Low Latency Specialist
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and SBE. Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. Prior to LMAX Martin worked for Betfair,...
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Ron Pressler
Technical Lead for Project Loom @oracle
I am the technical lead for Project Loom, which aims to add delimited continuations, fibers and tail-calls to the JVM.
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Martijn Verburg
Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) @Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity (acquired by MSFT) & CxO / start-up mentor
Martijn is the Principal Software Engineering Group Manager for the Java Engineering Group at Microsoft. Prior to being acquired by Microsoft, he was the CEO of jClarity, a Performance Diagnostic tooling company that used ML and statistical techniques to automate root cause analysis of...
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Simon Ritter
Deputy CTO @Azul
Simon Ritter is the Deputy CTO of Azul Systems. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K.Simon joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and started working with Java technology from JDK 1.0; he has spent time working...
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Charles Humble
Head of Editorial @InfoQ.com
Charles Humble took over as head of the editorial team at InfoQ.com in March 2014, guiding the content creation including news, articles, books, video presentations and interviews. Prior to taking on the full-time role at InfoQ, Charles led our Java coverage, and was CTO for PRPi Consulting, a...
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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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Nic Jackson
Developer Advocate @HashiCorp
Nic Jackson is a developer advocate at HashiCorp and the author of “Building Microservices in Go” a book which examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go programming language. Additionally, Nic is writing “Vault in Action” with his...
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Matt Turner
Site Reliability Engineer @MarshallWace
Matt is an SRE at Marshall Wace, a London asset manager. Matt's team is responsible for infrastructure, on-prem and public-cloud, security, and developer experience. Marshall Wace's platform has it all - old and new, Kubernetes and Kerberos. Matt has done Dev, sometimes with added Ops,...
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Andrew Martin
Co-Founder @controlplaneio
Andrew has a security engineering ethos gained architecting and deploying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is comfortable profiling and securing every tier of a bare metal or cloud native application, and has battle-hardened experience...
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Irina Guberman
Principal Product Architect @xaptuminc
Blindly passionate software engineer/architect since 1997. Enlightened and happy software engineer/architect since around 2010. That's when she discovered Erlang and the BEAM, its amazing VM, while dealing with an enormous scale distributed web server in online targeted advertising space...
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Finbarr Joy
Senior Technology Adviser @Superbet
Finbarr is Senior Technology Adviser for Superbet, a new entrant into the online gaming industry. With over 20 years’ leadership experience of technology ‘at the leading edge’, Finbarr is dedicated to developing breakthrough business models, powered by tech. His prior roles have...
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Peter Morgan
Chief Scientific Officer @Superbet
Peter works as Chief Scientific Officer of Superbet, a leading group of companies that operates and manages the largest chain of sports betting shops in Romania. Since its inception in 2008, Superbet brand has provided premium sports betting services for its customers in a fun, friendly and safe...
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Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previously Platform Architect @VMware
Wes is a Technical Principal with Thoughtworks where his focus is on working with customers on app modernization, with a particular focus on the cloud native ecosystem. Prior to Thoughtworks, he was one of the Platform Architects at VMware focused on Tanzu. Wes also chairs the San Francisco...
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