- Martin Fowler, Refactoring, Analysis Patterns
- Philip Rosedale, Creator of Second Life
- Rod Johnson, Creator of Spring
- Dan Pritchett, eBay Architect
- Eric Evans, Domain Driven Design
- Jean-Luc Valliant, Linked-In CTO
- Jutta Eckstein, Agile in the Large
- Erik Meijer, Creator of LINQ
- Joshua Kerievsky, Industrial XP
QCon San Francisco includes 72 technical sessions (Nov 7-9) and 2 days of tutorials (Nov 5-6). QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers. The tracks at the conference include:
- Architectures Case studies - The architectures of Linked-In, Yahoo!, eBay, Second Life, and Orbitz - right from the source.
- Agility on the Edge - Lessons learned from extreme/advanced applications of Agile.
- Architecture Quality - How to achieve sustainable quality (reliability, maintainability, scalability, manageability).
- Bleeding Edge .NET - REST with WCF, XML & LINQ in VB9, EDM & eSQL, Acropolis.
- SOA & the Web: How much REST do we need? - We will explore the architectural differences between the two, highlight their respective benefits, and help you decide when to apply them.
- Emerging Client Technologies - Silverlight vs. JavaFX vs. Adobe Flex/AIR vs. Google's Ajax RIA stack.
- Five Things I Wish I Learned In College - Languages & techniques being researched today that may change development 20 years from now.
- Java Emerging technologies - JRuby, Grails, Server-side OSGi, DSL development, Batch Processing.
- The Rise of Ruby - learn how to best take advantage of what Ruby has to offer.
- Java in action - Concurrency, Spring Configuration, AOP in the Enterprise, TestNG, Future of Java.
- Practical Security for Application Developers
- Martin Fowler on Domain Specific Languages
- DSLs in Ruby with Obie Fernandez
- Jeff Sutherland on the origins of Scrum
- Rod Johnson: Are we there yet?
- Ivar Jacobson on UML, AOP, Methodologies
- Panel: Who will develop Software in 10 years?
- WPF: The future of Windows
- Event Patterns