AI, ML, & Data Engineering Trends Report 2024; QCon London '25 Tracks Announced; 2025 Webinar & Roundtable Dates Available

Oct 23, 2024

We are pleased to announce the 2025 InfoQ and QCon media kit. Key updates include:

QCon London 2025 tracks announced, sponsorships now open
InfoQ Dev Summit Boston dates confirmed: June 9-10, 2025
InfoQ Dev Summit Munich dates confirmed: Oct 15-16, 2025
2025 InfoQ Live Roundtable and 2025 Webinar dates available

AI, ML, and Data Engineering InfoQ Trends Report - September 2024

The InfoQ Trends Reports provide readers with a high-level overview of key topics, while helping the InfoQ editorial team focus on innovative technologies. Highlights from the September 2024 “AI, ML, and Data Engineering Trends Report” include:

The future of AI is open and accessible. We’re in the age of LLM and foundation models. Most of the models available are closed source, but companies like Meta are trying to shift the trend toward open-source models.
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) will become more important especially for applicable use cases of LLMs at scale.
AI-powered hardware will get much more attention with AI-enabled GPU infrastructure and AI-powered PCs.
Due to the constraints in infrastructure setup and management costs of LLMs, small language models (SLMs) will see more exploration and adoption.
AI Agents, like coding assistants, will also see more adoption, especially in corporate application development settings.
AI safety and security will continue to be important in the overall management lifecycle of language models. Self-hosted models and open-source LLM solutions can help improve the AI security posture.
Another important aspect of the LLM lifecycle is LangOps or LLMOps, which help support the models after deploying them to production.

Read the full report

Listen to the accompanying podcast

QCon London 2025 (April 7-9) Tracks Announced; Sponsorships Available

Tracks for QCon London 2025 (April 7-9) have been published. Some of the new track themes include:

AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights, hosted by Hien Luu, Sr. Engineering Manager @Zoox & Author of MLOps with Ray
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability, hosted by Daniel Bryant, Platform Engineer, Co-Author of "Mastering API Architecture", Java Champion, and InfoQ News Manager
How to be an Effective Architect in 2025, hosted by Andrew Harmel-Law, Technical Principal @Thoughtworks, Author of Facilitating Software Architecture
Engineering Productivity and Developer Experience, hosted by Blanca Rojo, Distinguished Engineer and Cloud Engineer @UBS
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures

See the complete list of track abstracts

Sponsorships are available for QCon London 2025. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

2025 InfoQ Webinar and InfoQ Live Roundtable Dates Now Available

By sponsoring InfoQ webinars, B2B marketers can target a highly engaged audience of senior practitioners, establish thought leadership, and generate high-quality leads from a global audience. The 60 minute format consists of a 30 minute technical presentation followed by a 30 minute Q&A, moderated by an InfoQ Editor who is also a domain expert on your topic.

2025 InfoQ Webinar Dates

January 16
February 6, 27
March 20
April 10
May 1, 22
June 12, 26
July 17
August 7, 28
September 18
October 9, 30
November 13
December 11

InfoQ Live Roundtables 2025

InfoQ Live Roundtables are online discussions hosted by InfoQ where industry experts and thought leaders gather to share their insights on specific topics related to software development and technology. The roundtables are live-streamed and allow participants to ask questions and engage in real-time discussions.

As a sponsor, your technical expert gets a ‘seat at the table’ along with fellow practitioners from the community.

2025 InfoQ Live Roundtable Dates:

January 21 - Sold
April 22 - Sold
June 24
August 19
November 12

Email sales@c4media.com to secure your 2025 dates.

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q3 2024

The top InfoQ content from the past three months reveals key trends shaping technical decision-making. Topics include in-depth case studies on custom-built databases, Java virtual threads, and large-scale microservices. Articles covering Decathlon’s architecture process and continuous deployment at Uber provide readers with actionable insights that they can apply to their own teams and projects.