How QCon Attracts Decision Makers

“QCon stood out as the best of many worlds. It has a very strong attendee base of people who return year after year because it matters to them—people who come back to learn. It has a strong developer focus, with most attendees being senior-level developers who can make decisions about the technology they actually use, yet remain open-minded because they’re here to learn. That means you get people who are committed to taking something valuable away, rather than just saying, ‘I attended because I got a ticket.’

At QCon, we meet people tackling complicated problems and working at larger scales. The key thing is that you get a technically deep, outcome-focused crowd. To be honest, QCon was a shaping experience for me. When I was a junior developer, I watched the talks online and learned from some of the greats in the industry. As I moved up and began running DevRel teams, QCon was the first event I actively decided to sponsor because of how valuable it had been to me as an engineer, and how much it could contribute to building out my teams and my career.”

– Ben Gamble, Field CTO, Ververica