2020 Tracks, Hosts and Workshops
"Streaming Data Architectures”, “Machine Learning: The Latest Innovations”, “Leading Distributed Teams” were just some of the 18 editorial tracks at QCon London 2020. Take a look at the others and catch a glimpse of the QCon London 2020 workshops.
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Some of the top sessions from QCon London 2020 included “Monolith Decomposition Patterns” by Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert Sam Newman, and “Why Distributed Systems Are Hard” by Senior Software Engineer @GitHub Denise Yu.
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QCon London 2020 keynotes included Anjuan Simmons, Engineering Coach @helpscout, and Katie Gamanji, Cloud Platform Engineer @AmericanExpress, former @condenastint.
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2020 Hosts and Tracks
What is a QCon track? Each "editorial" track (that's what we call the curated talks focused on developer lessons) is a collection of software topics curated by a domain expert in areas such as culture, data science, machine learning, front-end technologies, remote teams, and architecture. Take a look at the QCon London 2020 hosts and tracks:
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Wes Reisz
Technical Principal @thoughtworks & Creator/Co-host of #TheInfoQPodcast, previously Platform Architect @VMware
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Hard-earned lessons from the names you know on scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
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Richard Rodger
Richard Rodger is the founder and CEO @voxgig
JavaScript: Pushing the Client Beyond the Browser
JavaScript is not just the language of the web. Join this track to learn how the innovators are pushing the boundaries ...
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Sid Anand
Hacker at Large, Co-chair @QCon & Data Council, PMC & Committer @ApacheAirflow
Modern CS in the Real World
Head back to academia to solve today's problems in software engineering.
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Anastasiia Voitova
Head of Customer Solutions, Security Software Engineer @CossackLabs
Scaling Security, from Device to Cloud
Implementing effective security is vitally important, regardless of where you are deploying software applications
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Nicky Wrightson
Ventures CTO @blenheimchalcot
Next Generation Microservices: Building Distributed Systems the Right Way
Microservice-based applications are everywhere, but well-built distributed systems are not so common. Early adopters of ...
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Thomas Betts
Lead Editor for Architecture and Design @InfoQ & Principal Software Engineer @OmdiaHQ
The Future of the API: REST, gRPC, GraphQL and More
The humble web-based API is evolving. This track provides the what, how, and why of future APIs.
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Nicki Watt
CTO/CEO @OpenCredo
Streaming Data Architectures
Today's systems process huge volumes of continuously changing data. Hear how the innovators in this space are ...
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Justin Cormack
Developer @Docker
Modern Compilation Targets
Learn about the innovation happening in the compilation target space. WebAssembly is only the tip of the iceberg.
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TRACK HOST
Martijn Verburg
Principal Engineering Group Manager (Java) @Microsoft. ex CEO at jClarity (acquired by MSFT) & CxO / start-up mentor
Evolving Java
JVM futures, JIT directions and improvements to the runtimes stack is the theme of this year’s JVM track.
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TRACK HOST
Monica Beckwith
Java Champion, First Lego League Coach, passionate about JVM Performance @Microsoft
Bare Knuckle Performance
Crushing latency and getting the most out of your hardware.
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TRACK HOST
Judy Rees
Remote Collaboration Consultant
Leading Distributed Teams
Remote and distributed working are increasing in popularity, but many organisations underestimate the leadership ...
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TRACK HOST
Jay Alammar
VC and Machine Learning Explainer @STVcapital
Machine Learning: The Latest Innovations
AI and machine learning is more approachable than ever. Discover how ML, deep learning, and other modern approaches are ...
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TRACK HOST
Douglas Talbot
Founder at DOSE Dynamics
When Things Go Wrong: GDPR, Ethics, & Politics
Privacy, confidentiality, safety and security: learning from the frontlines, from both good and bad experiences
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TRACK HOST
Sally Goble
Senior Engineering Manager @Deliveroo
Building High Performing Teams
There are many discussions outlining the secret sauce of high-performing teams. Learn how to balance the essential ...
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TRACK HOST
Cassandra Shum
Technical Director of Cloud Solutions and Partnerships @ThoughtWorks
Driving Full Cycle Engineering Teams at Every Level
"Full cycle developers" is not just another catch phrase; it's about engineers taking ownership and ...
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TRACK HOST
Nora Jones
Senior Developer/ Engineer
Chaos and Resilience: Architecting for Success
Making systems resilient involves people and tech. Learn about strategies being used, from cognitive systems ...
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TRACK HOST
Greg Hawkins
Former Chief Technology Officer @starlingbank
Growing Unicorns in the EU: Building, Leading and Scaling Financial Tech Start Ups
Learn how EU FinTech innovators have designed, built, and led both their technologies and organisations.
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TRACK HOST
Crystal Hirschorn
VP Engineering, Global Strategy & Operations @CondeNast
Kubernetes and Cloud Architectures
Learn about cloud native architectural approaches from the leading industry experts who have operated Kubernetes and ...
2020 Workshops
QCon isn't just about the conference. QCon also offers a wide reach of workshops on the two days following the conference. We had an incredible lineup of workshops in 2020 that provided shorter technology-focused deep dives. This year’s topics included: Serverless, Containers, Kubernetes, Java, Microservice, Security, Remote Work and more:
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Docker Intensive Course
Jérôme PetazzoniStaff Container & Infrastructure Engineer @enixsas
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Kubernetes Intensive Course
Jérôme PetazzoniStaff Container & Infrastructure Engineer @enixsas
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Tech Lead Skills for Developers
Patrick KuaTech Leader, former CTO/Chief Scientist
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Remote Meetings Masterclass
Judy ReesRemote Collaboration Consultant
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Debugging Microservices Applications
Nic JacksonDeveloper Advocate @HashiCorp
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Microservices Solutions Session
Daniel BryantIndependent Technical Consultant
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Service Mesh Kick-Starter with Istio
Matt TurnerSite Reliability Engineer @MarshallWace
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Introduction to Terraform
Matt TurnerSite Reliability Engineer @MarshallWace
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Apache Kafka and ksqlDB in Action: Let's Build a Streaming Data Pipeline!
Robin MoffattDeveloper Advocate @confluentinc
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Advanced Java Profiling
Mark PricePerformance Engineering Specialist at Aitu Software
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Introduction to AI/ML for Software Engineers
Jendrik JördeningData Scientist @Nooxit
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Debugging Microservices Applications
Nic JacksonDeveloper Advocate @HashiCorp
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Microservices: Mapping & Implementation
Susanne KaiserIndependent Tech Consultant
2020 Keynotes
QCon London 2020 brought together incredible people who shared their insights to help software teams adopt new technologies and practices. Our keynote speakers are among the team leads, architects and software engineers moving our industry forward. Take a look at our 2020 keynotes:
Richard Wiseman
Author of the Luck Factor, previously Consultant for National Geographic Channel’s Brain Games, History’s Your Bleeped Up Brain, & Discovery’s MythBusters.
The Apollo Mindset: Making Mission Impossible, Possible
“Fifty years ago, humanity reached for the stars and achieved the seemingly impossible. Richard Wiseman, author of Shoot for the Moon, interviewed many of the surviving Apollo controllers about the mindset behind their stunning achievement. Wiseman will share ...”
Alasdair Allan
Scientist/Maker/Hacker
The Internet of Things Might Have Less Internet Than We Thought?
“While machine learning is traditionally associated with heavy duty power-hungry processors, it is beginning to look like the future of machine learning is on the edge. The ability to run trained networks “at the edge” nearer the data without ...”
Katie Gamanji
Cloud Platform Engineer @AmericanExpress, former @condenastint
Interoperability of Open-Source Tools: The Emergence of Interfaces
“In the past years, Kubernetes has been the nucleus of container orchestration frameworks. Numerous tools have been developed to extend Kubernetes capabilities and enhance its features. Over time, tools with similar functionalities would have fundamentally ...”
Anjuan Simmons
Engineering Coach @helpscout
Technical Leadership Through the Underground Railroad
“Technical leaders are often tasked with guiding teams through difficult times. The Underground Railroad provides insights into how to navigate challenging conditions and find success. The principles that Conductors on the Underground Railroad followed can be ...”
2020 Trending Talks
Catch up on the trending talks you missed from QCon London 2020:
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Moving Beyond Request-Reply: How Smart APIs Are Different
Bernd Ruecker Co-founder and chief technologist @Camunda -
Tesla Virtual Power Plant
Colin Breck Sr. Staff Software Engineer @Tesla -
Monolith Decomposition Patterns
Sam Newman Microservice, Cloud, CI/CD Expert -
A Brief History of the Future of the API
Mark Rendle Co-Author of gRPC for WCF Developers and Creator @VisualRecode -
Lessons Learned from Reviewing 150 Infrastructures
Jon Topper CTO / CEO @scalefactory -
Why Distributed Systems Are Hard
Denise Yu Senior Software Engineer @GitHub
The QCon Experience
QCon is dedicated to helping software developers who strive to bring innovation in their teams. Our commitment to empowering every software professional is reflected in our "We Care" philosophy. We designed QCon as a place where everyone feels safe to express themselves, learn, and succeed in adopting new technology and practices that create change and innovation.
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The QCon Impact
QCon London isn’t just a software conference. It’s the place where senior software engineers, tech leads, and architects come together to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry. Find out what attendees had to say about their experience at QCon London 2020.
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Daniel Meyer Agile Leader and Integration Engineer at Bank Vontobel AG It is an amazing place where you can meet like-minded people and those with game-changing potential.
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Oliver Grof Senior Software Engineer at Viesure Innovation Center GmbH Well-organized conference where speakers were self-reflective and shared their pitfalls and their war stories, in order to learn from these experiences. Addressing real problems to solve, dealing with trade-offs and cognitive load has been emphasized. A very good place for early adopters.
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Denis Davydov Forex Systems Manager, Software Engineering, Associate Director at Swissquote It's a good variety of topics that teach you to find a compromise and ignite curiosity. It's a proper ratio between presentations and breaks that gives time to digest what you just heard. It's long enough to make you dream of action!
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Flavia Paganelli CTO and Founder at 30Mhz, QCon London speaker The "we care" philosophy is real. QCon is very well thought and planned, and it's clear that they try to improve the experience every year.
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. @QCon conferences remain my favorite. They’re so focused on a good experience for attendees and speakers and are amazing support to have. Very grateful to be running a track this year. Full circle for me as the first time my work was presented was @qconlondon many years ago.
— Nora Jones (@nora_js) March 2, 2020
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2015 #QCon attendee
— Thomas Betts (@ThomasBetts) March 5, 2020
2016 @InfoQ editor at QCon
2020 #QConLondon track host
So much thanks to these amazing people:
My speakers: @markrendle @rdli @berndruecker @junr03 and @msmichellegar
QCon and InfoQ: @sarahjwells @danielbryantuk @charleshumble and Pia von Beran -
Kudos to the #qconlondon team - a really well organised and run conference
— Robin Moffatt (@rmoff) March 6, 2020 -
Talked this week at QCon London - first time in a while I'd like to publicly praise a conference due to amazing quality of organisation. Well done, #qconlondon, you are an example how a large, multi-track conference should be organised.
— eugene pilyankevich (@9gunpi) March 8, 2020 -
Love #QConLondon seen lots of observations on Twitter regarding diversity at the conference. Clear the conference organisers get the problem and are trying. Props. pic.twitter.com/EqtT2etQBJ
— Scott James (@scottejames) March 4, 2020
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