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QCon San Francisco 2025 | November 17 - 21 | Software Development Conference

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# Scale production AI.
Evolve distributed architectures.
Build high-velocity platforms.

Learn what worked, what failed, and what to avoid from 60+ senior developers, architects and leaders who adopted these practices first so you can adopt emerging trends with confidence.

November 17-21, 2025

Hyatt Regency, San Francisco

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Conference: $3,250 - Final price

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## What you’ll learn

### Real-world patterns from senior developers at the leading edge

### Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Go behind the scenes of cutting-edge architectures that are shaping technology, entertainment, and the future.

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

### AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

Turn GenAI theory into practice with blueprints for building scalable, production-ready systems that drive real business impact.

AI Engineering that Delivers: Blueprint to Impact

### Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

Embed Generative AI into your development lifecycle to boost productivity, ensure compliance, and future-proof your organization.

Empowering Teams with AI: Productivity and the Future of Software Development

### Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

See how modern platform engineering and developer enablement transform reliability into a shared responsibility.

Driving Reliability Through Modern Platform Engineering and Dev Enablement

### The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

Navigate diverse paths to senior technical leadership and discover the skills and strategies to become a high-impact individual contributor.

The Path to Senior Engineering Leadership

### Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

How does being a founding engineer or co-founding CTO at a startup differ from engineering at later stages? Learn what to build and what NOT to build from folks who have held both roles.

Effective Engineering and Practices in Early Stage Startups

### High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

Gain a competitive edge by mastering high-performance languages to build faster, more efficient, and scalable applications.

High-Performance Languages in Modern Development

### Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

Design scalable, high-performance systems and learn to balance performance, cost, and long-term maintainability.

Architecting for Efficiency: Performance, Cost, and Maintainability

### Innovations in Front-End

Explore the future of user experience with AI-driven, multi-modal interfaces that are redefining front-end engineering.

Innovations in Front-End

### Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

Get practical guidance and hard-won lessons from engineering teams who have successfully completed complex, high-stakes system migrations.

Navigating Major Architecture Migrations

### The Stories Behind the Incidents

This track will take you behind the curtain and into the heart of system meltdowns at some of the world's leading software companies in "The stories behind the incidents" track.

The Stories Behind the Incidents

### Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

Discover how adopting polyglot architectures empowers your teams to innovate, scale, and build robust solutions.

Polyglot Platforms: Strategies & Practices to Enable Innovation

## Why attend QCon San Francisco
### Learn from early adopters. Make better decisions.

Whether you're evaluating AI for production, planning a platform migration, or navigating technical leadership, QCon connects you with engineers who've already done it.

Need to convince your boss? Use our template.

## Real-world patterns

Learn from production systems, not proof-of-concepts

## Honest lessons

Hear what failed, not just what worked

## No hidden product pitches

Learn from peer-selected speakers

## Career-relevant skills

Technical and leadership practices you’ll actually use

## Strategy validation

Benchmark your approach against early adopters

## Featured Talks
### Learn from senior practitioners building and scaling enterprise systems

### Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery

**Aaron Erickson**
Senior Manager and Founder of the DGX Cloud Applied AI Lab @NVIDIA, Previously Engineer @ThoughtWorks, VP of Engineering @New Relic, CEO and Co-Founder @Orgspace

### Engineering at AI Speed: Lessons from the First Agentically Accelerated Software Project

**Adam Wolff**
Engineer and Individual Contributor to Claude Code @Anthropic, Previously @Robinhood, @Facebook

### When Every Bit Counts: How Valkey Rebuilt Its Hashtable for Modern Hardware

**Madelyn Olson**
Principal Engineer @AWS, Maintainer of the Open-Source Valkey Project

### AI-Driven Productivity: From Idea to Impact

**Jyothi Nookula**
Product Leader Director with 13+ Years Driving AI Product & Platform Innovation, Previously @Meta, @Amazon, and @Etsy

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## Meet the speakers
### See some of the QCon San Francisco speakers

#### Nicole Forsgren

Partner, Applied Research & Strategy, OCTO @Microsoft, Author of "Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps" and "The DevOps Handbook"

#### Frank Yu

Director of Engineering @Coinbase, Previously Principal Engineer and Director @FairX

#### Chris Richardson

Creator of microservices.io, Java Champion, & Core Microservices Thoughtleader

#### Faye Zhang

Staff Software Engineer @Pinterest, Tech Lead on GenAI Search Traffic Projects, Speaker, Expert in AI/ML with a Strong Background in Large Distributed System

#### Michelle Brush

Engineering Director, SRE @Google, Previously Director of HealtheIntent Architecture @Cerner Corporation & Lead Engineer @Garmin, Author of "2 out of the 97 Things Every SRE Should Know"

#### Sepehr Khosravi

Machine Learning Platform Engineer @Coinbase, Award Winning Instructor @UC Berkeley - Gen-AI Bootcamp, Founder @ AI Scouts

#### Sonya Natanzon

VP of Engineering @Heartflow, Decomplexifier, Software Architect, Healthcare and Life Sciences Specialist, and International speaker

#### Trisha Ballakur

Co-Founder and CEO @Pointz, Forbes 30 Under 30 2025, Previously @Techstars and @Adobe

#### Amit Navindgi

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ Zoox, Leading Applied AI Initiatives

#### Sudeep Das

Head of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, New Business Verticals @DoorDash, Previously Machine Learning Lead @Netflix, 15+ Years in Machine Learning

#### Pradeep Muthukrishnan

Head of Growth for New Business Verticals @DoorDash, Previously Founder & CEO @TrustedFor, 15+ Years in Machine Learning

##### See all QCon San Francisco speakers

## The QCon experience
### Talks worth your time. Connections that matter.

### Conference experience

### 12 curated tracks

60+ peer-selected international speakers

### Deep technical dives

Hear what failed, not just what worked

### Unconference sessions

Solve problems with peers

### Extended networking

Conversations, peer sharing and social events.

### Video access

12 months of on-demand recordings

### Optional experiences

### Hands-on training

Upskill on essential software development practices

### Software architect certification

Join an exclusive cohort of senior architects

### Video-Only Pass

Can't attend in-person? Learn at your own pace

## Understand what’s coming next
### QCon speakers are at the leading edge adopting emerging technologies in
production before they're proven. Learn from their experience to reduce your risk

Innovators

- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Multimodal AI
- Agentic AI / Orchestration
- Physical AI
- Reasoning Models
- AI DevOps
- AI-powered hardware
- AI in Robotics aka Embodied AI
- LangOps or LLMOps
- Knowledge Graphs
- Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Robotics
- Edge inference and model training
- Large-scale distributed
deep-learning

Early Adopters

- Small Language Models (SLMs)
- Explainable AI
- Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Generative AI/Large
Language Models (LLMs)
- Cloud agnostic computing for AI
- Data Contracts
- Data Observability
- Virtual Reality e.g. VR/AR/MR/XR
- Cognitive Services
- Graph Data Analytics
- IoT Platforms

Early Majority

- Synthetic data generation
- MLOps
- Vector Databases
- AI coding assistants
- Image Recognition
(Computer Vision)
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Learning
- Open Table Formats (OTFs)
- Data Mesh
- Digital Assistants
- Apache Beam

Source: InfoQ AI, ML and Data Engineering Trends Report - 2025

## Your team at QCon
### Bring your colleagues for faster results

Learn together ### Engineering Leaders & CTOs

Validate multi-year technology strategy. Understand which emerging practices are ready for enterprise adoption.

Build faster ### Software Architects & Principal Engineers

Get architectural patterns from teams who've scaled systems you're planning to build. Learn their tradeoffs.

Reduce risk ### Senior Developers & Staff+ Engineers

Develop technical judgment for complex decisions. See how leading teams solve problems similar to yours.

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## Need to convince your boss?

Use our pre-written templates.

### Get three days of practical insights from 60+ senior
software practitioners. Use these takeaways to:

### Reduce project risk

Learn from real-world failures to avoid costly mistakes

### Benchmark your approach

Understand how leading teams tackle problems you're facing

### Accelerate delivery

Apply architectural and operational patterns that work at scale

### Validate technology bets

Learn from engineers who adopted first to reduce your risk

### Build team capability

Equip yourself and your team with durable, relevant skills

### Stay ahead of the curve

Understand emerging trends before they become table stakes

Download convince your boss templates

## 2025 Program Committee
### Meet the international senior software
practitioners curating the conference

#### Thomas Betts

Laureate Application Architect @Blackbaud, Lead Editor for Architecture & Design @InfoQ

#### Erin Doyle

Founding Engineer @Quotient and Instructor @Egghead, 20+ Years Across Full Stack Development in Web and Mobile, and Platform Engineering

#### Haley Tucker

Principal Software Engineer for Platform Engineering @Netflix

#### Khawaja Shams

Co-Founder & CEO @Momento, previously @NASA and @Amazon

#### Hien Luu

Sr. Engineering Manager @Zoox & Author of MLOps with Ray, Speaker and Conference Committee Chair

#### Ian Thomas

Software Engineer @Meta, QCon London 2024 PC Chair, Previously Technology Leader @Genesis Global

## A safe and inclusive environment
### The QCon 'We Care' experience

#### Enforced Code of Conduct

QCon provides an harassment-free experience for everyone - inclusive of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality or religion. We do not tolerate harassment in any form.

#### All-Gender restroom

QCon events are a space where everyone feels safe to express themselves, learn, and succeed. All of our attendees are welcome to use the All-Gender restrooms.

#### Prayer room

QCon events are a space where everyone feels safe to express themselves, learn, and succeed. All of our attendees are welcome to use the Prayer room.

#### Lactation room

QCon events are a space where everyone feels safe to express themselves, learn, and succeed. To help facilitate welcoming everyone, those attendees that need to do so are welcome to use the lactation room.

#### Quiet areas

We understand you may need a quiet area from time to time. You will find designated quiet areas in which talking and noise are not allowed. Catch up on work, send the latest key takeaways to the rest of your team or just stare at the wall - as long as you do so quietly!

#### Sessions feedback for constant improvement

QCon focuses on continuous improvement: we never stop learning, growing and striving to improve ourselves, our processes, and our products. This is why we actively listen to your feedback to constantly improve QCon and bring you the best experience possible!

#### Badge optimized for peer-sharing

We try to think about every part of your experience at QCon. To help optimize your time with us and connect with peers, on your badge you will find:

- Your name printed on the front in a large easy to read font
- A map of the venue complete with icons to help you find what you need
- The wifi network and password
- A retractable lanyard so you can keep your personal space

#### Accessible event space

QCon events are a space where everyone feels safe to express themselves, learn, and succeed. We work with the venue and attendees in order to ensure full accessibility for all attendees.

#### Variety of food options (vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, special diet meals)

Eating healthy and having the energy to keep you going is important. That's why at every QCon we offer a wide variety of healthy food choices, including gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan and special diet options.

#### Detailed food labels

We label all food so that you can find something tasty that fits within your preferences or restrictions! If you have any specific dietary restrictions, we encourage you to contact us and let us know what they are so that we accommodate them.

#### Diversity scholarships

We are committed to creating accessible products for software developers from different backgrounds, and to be more representative of the present diverse software community. Diversity Scholarships are available for senior developers from underrepresented communities in tech.

#### Community events

QCon focuses on human progress through technology. We encourage you to be actively involved in our planned community events. They're a chance to connect with others, share experiences and let your voice be heard.

#### DEI guidelines for track hosts and speakers

QCon focuses on making each conference as diverse as possible. We recognize the importance different backgrounds and visions bring to each event. We have DEI guidelines for Track Hosts and Speakers to ensure each event is as inclusive and diverse as possible.

#### All-day coffee

Some of you are traveling from halfway around the world. Some of you aren't morning people - some of you aren't afternoon people. Either way, we've got you covered! Enjoy all-day coffee to help keep you alert and going during all of the innovative sessions.

#### Flexible online experience

#### On-demand access for 12 months

Learn more

## QCon San Francisco venue
### Hyatt Regency - San Francisco

#### Hyatt Regency - San Francisco

The hotel is located right on the Embarcadero waterfront with stunning views all around and close to popular attractions, events, and shopping. The conference venue is at the same location as the hotel.

**To learn more and reserve your hotel room, please visit the venue page .**

## Why senior engineers trust QCon
## Trusted insights. No hidden product pitches.

#### The breadth of topics and the quality of speakers is incredible.

#### QCon puts more emphasis on the human connections between the sessions.

#### Speakers from all around the world, at the forefront of their field.

#### QCon puts more emphasis on the human connections between the sessions.

#### Unconferences are a space for everyone to share best practices.

#### Eye-opening! I can't wait to implement what I've learnt.

#### You don't see big pressure on selling you stuff. It’s all about learning and helping you grow.

#### Unconference sessions— they turn out to be a really beneficial feature of the conference.

#### Curation sets QCon apart. Tracks are curated by track hosts that know that field well.

#### Connections. Everyone here is passionate about what they do and how they grow.

#### It's one of the most innovative conferences I've been to.

#### QCon gives us the opportunity to zoom out and look at our reality from a different perspective.

## Transforming your work: Practical takeaways and new perspectives.

> Centered around senior technologists. And no fluff.

Neha Shah

Architect, @WWT

> Thought provoking with cutting edge trends and practical applications. Great speakers and attendees who like to meet new people and share ideas.

Thomas Strickland

Software Engineer, @Apple

> First time attending. Amazing learning and networking here. Great to have fresh and varied perspective of the software world from experts around us.

Harsh Tamakuwala

Senior Software Developer, @Bloomberg

> The audience and presentations at QCon stand out from other events for me. The focus on developers sharing their knowledge and skills with other developers makes attending the conference worthwhile.

Peter Ajemba

Senior Management (VP, CTO, CIO, Director), @Dexcom Inc

> In just 3 days:
> \- 12 new LinkedIn connections made
> \- 25 pages of handwritten notes
> \- 20 incredible talks attended
> \- Another 20 bookmarked for later
> \- Numerous technical and industry conversations had
> \- One amazing conference experienced

Saloni Shah

Principal Software Engineer, @Paylocity

> QCon San Francisco is delivering on its promise! The depth of technical insights here is extraordinary.

Tatiana (Tanya) Fesenko

Lead Software Engineer, @Klaviyo

> I don't go to many events because I generally find them to be aimed more at early-mid career developers. QCon, on the other hand, was highly relevant to my role as a director. 100% of sessions had some value to me, almost all were worth the time investment, and a few really opened my eyes to ways I can be more effective at my job.

Benjamin Greenberg

Senior Management (VP, CTO, CIO, Director), @Simpler Postage Inc.

> I like that the sponsored talks are separate from the other talks. The conference doesn't feel like a sales pitch. We still have the option to attend the sponsored track to see what other companies are offering and what's happening in the industry, but we know what it is before attending the talk.

James Hoffman

Senior Engineer / Lead Engineer / Principal Engineer, @Workday

> I loved the heavy technical focus of conference where speakers share their real-life stories which makes the talks relatable and engaging.

Akshay Mutha

Engineering Manager, @Microsoft Corporation

> The content quality and the speaker credibility, are head and shoulders above every other conference.

Craig Outcalt

@Mayo Clinic

> Well curated collection topics immediately relevant to the current Gen-AI landscape.

Vijay Edwin

Ops Engineer, @Apple

> The variety of latest topics and the chance to learn from experts who have worked in well-renowned businesses makes QCon exceptional.

Ridge Tejuco

Software Engineer, @Multi Media LLC

> QCon is one of those conferences which is not necessarily one technology related but rather has great topics for every software professional.

Ranjeet Ramunni Kowlel

Senior Engineer / Lead Engineer / Principal Engineer, @Roche Molecular Systems Inc

## See the QCon difference
### Explore past QCon talks. Watch our deep, peer-lead focus in action.

#### Multiplying Engineering Productivity in Face of Constant Change

##### Shweta Saraf

Director of Platform Networking @Netflix, Board Member for eBPF Foundation

#### The Three As of Building A+ Platforms: Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability

##### Smruti Patel

VP of Engineering @Apollo Graph

#### 10 Reasons Your Multi-Agent Workflows Fail and What You Can Do about It

##### Victor Dibia

Principal Research Software Engineer @Microsoft Research, Core Contributor to AutoGen, Author of "Multi-Agent Systems with AutoGen" book. Previously @Cloudera, @IBMResearch

## Who attends QCon
### Technical leaders, senior engineers, and software architects making technical decisions

### 34%
#### TECHNICAL TEAM LEADS AND HIGHER,
SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS

### 23%
#### SENIOR DEVELOPER / LEAD ENGINEER

### 24%
#### SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

## Guiding engineering teams for 19+ years

#### QCon and InfoQ have guided software teams through every shift.

Sessions at QCon are selected by an international program committee for depth, relevance, and real-world value. No hidden product pitches.

Real teams. Real stories. Real results.

### 19 years

Helping senior dev teams adopt the right patterns and practices

### 550k per month

Global senior software developers relying on the InfoQ community to stay ahead

### 4500+ per year

Senior developers learning emerging trends and practices at our QCon international software development conferences

## Unable to make it to QCon San Francisco?
### Take a look at:

### QCon AI New York 2025

When: December 16-17, 2025
Where: The New York Academy of Medicine, NY

Learn more

### QCon London 2026

When: March 16-19, 2026
Where: The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London

Learn more

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