The program committee for the 18th annual QCon San Francisco (Nov 18-22, 2024) has finalized the 2024 tracks, which include:

• Modern Data Architectures: A showcase of how innovators are finding new ways to store, analyze, and scale data components.

• Generative AI in Production & Advancements: A deep dive into the latest advancements, exploring how to translate groundbreaking research into real-world applications across various industries.

• Architectures You've Always Wondered About: This track will explore real-world examples of innovative companies pushing the limits with modern software systems.

• Hardware Architectures You Need To Know: Learn how hardware has moved significantly in different directions to serve the needs of our ever-complex service with Machine Learning, Networking, Graphics Processing, and more.

• Programming Languages and Paradigms for the Next Decade: A deep dive into innovative programming languages, language features, cutting-edge programming models, and paradigm shifts that aid in making code more efficient, safe, and maintainable.

• Sociotechnical Resilience: Explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping traditional leadership models and the skills required for engineering leaders to effectively guide teams in the age of AI.

• Getting Started in Machine Learning: An examination of the theoretical and practical considerations in ML and understands the tools and platforms that make up the discipline.

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Tracks and hosts for the the 17th annual QCon New York (Jun 13-15) have been confirmed and published. This year’s track themes include:

• Modern Data Architecture and Engineering, hosted by Allen Wang, Senior Staff Engineer @DoorDash

• Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About, hosted by Wes Reisz
  Technical Principal @Thoughtworks & Co-host of The InfoQ Podcast

• Doing Platform Engineering Well, hosted by Sarah Wells Independent Consultant and Author

• 21st Century Language Platforms, hosted by Colin Eberhardt
  @Scott_Logic

• Connecting Distributed Systems: APIs done right, hosted by Daniel Bryant, Head of DevRel @ Ambassador Labs & InfoQ News Manager

• Designing Modern Reliable Architectures, hosted by Silvia Esparrachiari Software Engineer @Google

• Resilience Engineering - Culture as a System Requirement, hosted by Vanessa Huerta Granda Solutions Engineer @Jelli.io

• MLOps - Production & Delivery for ML Platforms, hosted by Bozhao (Bo) Yu Founder @BentoML.ai

• Next-Gen Fintech: Performance, Complexity & Privacy, hosted by Neha Sardana Vice President & Senior Developer @MorganStanley

• Optimizing Teams or Fast Flow: Surviving in the post-Agile Aftermath, hosted by Katharine Chajka Senior Product Manager @Planview Flow Methodology

• Next in Cloud Native Development, hosted by Christie Warwick (Wilson) Software Engineer @Google

• Resilient Security: Architecture & Software Supply Chain, hosted by Priya Wadhwa Software Engineer @Chainguard

• Architectural Blueprints of Real World Machine Learning Systems, hosted by Nikhil Garg CEO @Fennel AI

• Staff+ Engineering: New Skills, New Challenges, hosted by Leslie Chapman Engineering Fellow @Comcast

• Building Globally Distributed Systems: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Trade-Offs

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Tracks and hosts for the the 17th annual QCon London (Mar 27-29) have been confirmed and published. This year’s track themes include:

• Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About - The biggest software systems on the planet need sophisticated architectures, deliberately and carefully designed to support true planet-scale, along with high availability, durability, security, and many other concerns. (Hosted by Matt Turner, Software Engineer @Tetrateio and Co-Founder for Istio London)

• Performance: Designing and Tuning - Getting the most out of hardware is important to save money on cloud workloads and also for sustainability. In this track, we'll look at ways to design software to make the most of modern CPU and memory architectures, as well as tools and techniques to find performance bottlenecks. (Hosted by Justin Cormack, CTO @Docker)

• Building Security in Earlier - Presentations on how 'shift left' has been applied in practice to build security into applications and services earlier in their release to the production pipeline. (Hosted by Stefania Chaplin, Solutions Architect @GitLab)

• Modern Frontend Development and Architecture - Let's talk about the frontend, not with the tools we use but through the problems we're solving. re-usability, composition, abstraction, velocity, and performance. (Hosted by Loiane Groner,
  Development Manager @Citibank)

• Paving the Road: Enhancing Developer Productivity and Experience - How to supercharge developer productivity and happiness. (Hosted by Nayana Shetty
  Principal Engineer @LEGO_Group)

• Data Engineering Innovations - Learn from technology SMEs and industry's leading data practitioners about trends and innovations happening in data engineering space including what's new in data streaming, data API's, data lineage, automated data pipelines and cloud data platforms & containerization technologies. (Hosted by Sid Anand, Chief Architect and Head of Engineering @Datazoom & Co-chair @QCon)

• AI/ML Trends - Discover how to operationalize machine learning applications that are scalable, secure, and interpretable. (Hosted by Mehrnoosh Sameki, Principal PM Manager @Microsoft)

• Architecture with Sustainability in Mind - Explore how companies are architecting for sustainability. Key areas of focus include measuring carbon footprint, decarbonizing the products we produce, and how we, as software engineers, can reduce the overall climate impact of the things we build. Finally, this track looks ahead to how technology can create a better future for generations to follow. (Hosted by Sarah Hsu, Site Reliability Engineer @GoldmanSachs)

• Staff+ Engineering in Practice - What are the skills you need to develop if you want to stay on the technical track to technical lead, staff, or principal? What will it take to thrive in this type of role? (Hosted by Fabiane Nardon, Data Scientist, Java Champion & CTO @tail_oficia)

• Remote and Hybrid Work: What Now? - Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies: Hybrid work, 4-day workweeks, remote work, working from a remote island, returning to the office, and how these impact development productivity and, ultimately, careers. (Hosted by Shane Hastie, Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com)

• Debugging Production - You get paged about a problem in production - but how do you know just what system or service is acting up? What do you do to identify and mitigate the impact on users before ultimately fixing any underlying issues? In this track, we will look at the state of the art in tools and processes for incident (Hosted by Abby Bangser, Principal Engineer @Syntassomanagement, observability, and debugging high-impact production systems.)

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Tracks for the the 17th annual QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-26) have been finalized and published. While the core themes of software architecture, DevOps, and development define most of the technical tracks, some new track themes this year will include the Staff+ Engineer Path, MLOps, and Green Tech.

• Green Tech: Uncover the latest trends in environmentally friendly production software and processes.

• MLOps: All about emerging engineering discipline combining ML, DevOps and Data Engineering. Topics include: feature engineering, model dev, lifecycle management. Model Inference/Prediction, observability).

• "Just" Engineering Culture: Lessons learned from failures and outages, including humane operations, effective postmortems, and building systems knowing humans make mistakes.

• Practical Security: How security needs to change to prioritize DevEX while balancing security risk tolerance. Topics around scaling auth/authz architecture, privacy at scale, securing public API endpoints, securing the cloud, insider threats, & the cost of security.

• Effective SRE: Good SREs are pragmatic. They analyze, they use their big picture understanding of a service and how it fits into a wider system to come up with solutions that minimize impacts to others or provide positive impacts to others. These are their stories.

• Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow: Patterns and heuristics enabling fast flow and rapid evolution of modern software, including decision/sense-making techniques, team dynamics, & technical practices.

• Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML: Managing/provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration is just the start. Exploring: Cue, unification, OPA, Operator Pattern for Nonclustered Resources, Scalable Configuration Management.

• Architecting for Change at Scale: Change is one of the few constants in technology, so the better we are at enabling change at scale, the more we can focus on serving the needs of our customers. Design systems that are easy to evolve to keep up with the needs of the business while minimizing your risk and technical debt.

• Rethinking Our Relationship with the Frontend: Let's talk about the frontend, not with the tools we use but through the problems we're solving; re-usability, composition, abstraction, velocity, and performance.

• Modern APIs: Building and Evolving: Exploring patterns & practices building APIs with GraphQL, Kubernetes, Service Meshes, & API Gateways.

• Building Modern Backends: Polyglot, developer-focused track around Innovations building low-friction, performant backends powering software today.

• "Before & After": Hybrid Work Strategies: Hybrid work, 4-day workweeks, remote work, working from a remote island, returning to the office, and how these impact development productivity and, ultimately, careers.

• Operating Microservices: Microservices solve numerous problems around cognitive load, velocity, isolation, and scalability - if you do them right. Topics around: legacy integration, observability, reverting microservices, and day 2 operations.

• Staff+ Engineer Path: What skills do you need to develop if you want to stay on the technical track to technical lead, staff, or principal? What will it take to thrive in this type of role?

• Architectures You've Always Wondered About: Marquee use case track, featuring well-known companies solving software challenges. Past companies include Google, Netflix, BBC, Twitter, Zoom, Snowflake, etc.

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