What’s Next for AI; Dev Advocacy Insights; QCon London 2026

Oct 21, 2025

InfoQ is delighted to announce a new two-day conference, QCon AI New York City, taking place December 16-17, 2025. This new event is designed to help organizations move beyond the hype and learn how leading engineering teams run AI in production—reliably, securely, at scale.

Exhibitor slots are still available. Email sales@qcon.ai for more details.

Top AI Trends for 2025: What B2B Marketers Need to Know

InfoQ’s 2025 AI Trends Report identifies Physical AI as the next frontier, moving AI from digital tasks into the real world, while Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) sees widespread enterprise adoption.

AI is shifting from assistant to co-creator, with entire applications developed, tested, and deployed alongside AI. AI-driven DevOps is automating coding, deployment, and operations.

Human-centered design is key. Standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) improve interoperability, but AI must align with real human needs to enhance daily life and work.

This report offers key insights to help B2B marketers align messaging with evolving technical priorities.

Read the full report

Listen to the accompanying podcast

QCon London 2026 (March 16-18) -Track Topics Confirmed

Entering its 20th year, QCon London is the perennial conference for senior software engineers, architects, and technical team leads to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry.

Some of next year’s QCon London track themes include:

AI and ML for Software Engineers: Foundational Insights
Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability
Modern Data Architectures
Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Resilient Engineering Practices for Security Against Modern Threats

See the complete list or provisional topics

Sponsorships are still available for QCon London 2026. For more information, please email sales@c4media.com

Case Studies

Developer Advocacy: Building Trust, Measuring Impact, and Adapting to AI

Developer advocacy has grown from a community movement into a strategic role bridging engineering, product, and marketing. InfoQ spoke with Mary Thengvall about measuring impact, scaling engagement authentically, and how AI is reshaping developer learning and tools.

Read the full case study

InfoQ Top 10 Content of Q3 2025

To help you gauge what software development leaders have been thinking about and reading over the past three months, we’ve assembled a list of Top 10 Content published on InfoQ in Q3 2025, based on page views: