The fourth annual QCon New York will provide an expected 600 team leads, architects, software engineers, and project managers with practical guidance on Architecting for Failure, Applying Data Science and Machine Learning, Continuously Deploying Containers in Production, Engineering Culture, Microservices, and more. Attendees will hear case studies from the heads of engineering and technical directors at companies like LinkedIn, Twitter, Netflix, Comcast and Facebook. Register before April 18th and save $400.
We are on track with 44% of the planned 70 full-length QCon talks now up on the website, and the committee continues to work to complete the tracks. Some notable updates from the talks so far:
- Mary Poppendieck, leader in the Lean Software movement will be keynoting on "Abstraction and Federation - From Micro Chips to Microservices"
- The track Optimize Yourself is a new addition to QCon, it has prominent engineers talking about personal and career growth
- Comcast Senior Fellow Jon Moore will share adventure stories from Comcast's experience in implementing Microservices
- Bart de Smet Principle Engineer at Microsoft wilk about "Reactive Programming at Cloud Scale
Tutorials Schedule Published
QConNY offers a wide range of tutorials (half day and full day) on June 8th-9th 2015. Here a few of them. The full tutorial schedule has been published. Some of this year's tutorials include:
- Systems Thinking and Methods - Michael Nygard, author of 'Release It!' teaches how to analyze and influence any system - there's no such thing as "control!") We will take a sociotechnical view of systems that draws on lean thinking, cybernetics, complex adaptive systems, and human factors.
- CTO's Guide to Scaling Your Org and Technology Together - Randy Shoup, CTO and former Engineering Director at Google, eBay gives a full day deep dive into modern best practices at innovative companies in Silicon Valley for scaling culture, organization, and technology.
- Reactive programming in JavaScript - Learn reactive programming with the Javascript version of Rx from one of the authorities on the topic: Jafar Husain has been involved with RxJS at Netflix for years and trained hundreds of engineers inside and outside of Netflix.
- The Go Programming Language - The up and coming language of the year is widely used on the server side (eg. SoundCloud, etc) and in client side tools (Docker and many other devops tools).
- Advanced Docker concepts and container orchestration and Modern container orchestration: Kubernetes, CoreOS and more - Two half day tutorials to get attendees into advanced areas of Docker.
You can get a refund on your tutorial purchase until April 15th, if you don't find the topics meet your needs. If you did not buy tutorials, you may do so until June 5th. Many tutorials have limited capacity so register early to get a seat.
Facilitated Peer Sharing, great food, and more
QCon has been experimenting every year with ways to introduce more peer-sharing into the event, since attendees are all technical leaders who can provide a lot of value to each other. Here are some of the things we're doing this year:
- 2 hour open spaces unconference on Wednesday end of day; and thursday: one per track, staggered during the day. We're trying a 2 hour open space, one per track, from 5-7pm on Wednesday, immediately following the short talks. Then on Thursday we continue the schedule established at past QCon's where each track has a one hour open space during the day
- Discussion Cafe - topical tables at lunch. Lunch will feature sections of smaller tables for 4 around particular topics where you can meet each other in a more comfortable setting, in addition to the usual large 10 seat conference lunch tables.
We hope you can join us for QCon New York 2015. Register before April 18th and save $400.
Corporate and group discounts are also available. Please email info@qconnewyork.com for details.
