Over 40 speakers have been confirmed for the seventh annual QCon San Francisco 2013. QConSF will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco at the Embarcadero on November 11-15, 2013. New speakers and sessions are being posted to the conference site every week.You can get in early by reserving your seat now saving up to $700 by Aug 30th.
QConSF features 3 full conference days (Nov 11-13, 2013) and 2 days of tutorials (Nov 14-15, 2013).
Here is a brief list of sessions and tutorials that you can expect to see at QConSF this year:
- "Core.async - Communicating Sequential Processes using Channels, in Clojure," by Rich Hickey, Author of Clojure; Designer of Datomic
- "Evolution of the Netflix API," by Ben Christensen, Software Engineer, Netflix Edge Services Platform Team
- "Samza: Real-time Stream Processing at LinkedIn," by Chris Riccomini, Software Engineer LinkedIn; Committer, PMC member, Apache Samza
- "Reactive Javascript at Netflix," by Jafar Husain, Software Engineer Netflix; Author of "Falkor" RESTful Data Access Framework
- "Lock-free and High-Performance Concurrent Algorithms," by Martin Thompson, Co-funder and CTO, LMAX
- "Making the most of Lambdas - Advanced Functional Programming Concepts for any Language," by Erik Meijer, Creator, LINQ
- "Domain Driven Overview", by Eric Evans, Author of Domain Driven Design
- "Invisible Impediments to High Performance Teams: The Social Side of Software," by Amr Elssamadisy, Author of Agile Adoption Patterns
- "Creating Android Apps in Java," by Mark Meretzky, Teaches Unix and C++ at New York University SCPS
- "Hands on intro to NoSQL - redis and MongoDB," by Peter Bell, Founder, SpeakG33k
- "Processing Big Data with Apache Pig and Apache Hive," by Hien Luu, Architect at LinkedIn working with Hadoop technologies
Other speakers who will be presenting at QConSF include:
- Herb Sutter, Prominent C++ expert
- Gil Tene, CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems
- Marty Weiner, Cloud Ninja @ Pinterest
- Todd Montgomery, Network, Systems, and DevOps Geek
- Neil Ford, Director & Software Architect, ThoughtWorks
- Hrishikesh Aradhye, Head of Search/Discovery/Monetization, Google Play at Google
- Floyd Marinescu, Co-Founder, InfoQ.com
- Jeff Magnusson, Data Science Team, Netflix
QConSF will host more than 100 speakers, 6 concurrent tracks, and many breaks, parties, and opportunities for networking.If you have never attended a QCon be sure to watch some of our past sessions. There is no other event in the US with similar opportunities for learning, networking, and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, Web API, Data Science, HTML5/JavaScript, Mobile, Agile, and Architecture communities.
Registration is $1,695 (a $700 savings) for the 3 day event until August 30th, and increases afterwards every month. Group discounts are available. QCon is produced by InfoQ.com and runs annually in London, San Francisco, New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Tokyo and São Paulo. http://qconferences.com
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