QCon San Francisco, the 12th annual software conference that attracts attendees from all over the world, returns to the Silicon Valley area November 5-7, 2018. With 32 days before the conference, 75% of the individually curated talks have been confirmed. The remaining talks are expected to be finalized over the next few weeks.
Highlights of the conference talks and speakers include:
- "Deep Representation: Building a Semantic Image Search Engine" (Applied AI & Machine Learning Track)
Emmanuel Ameisen, Head of AI at Insight Data Science - "npm and the Future of JavaScript" (JavaScript & Web Tech Track)
Laurie Voss, Co-Founder of npm - "Full Cycle Developers @Netflix" (Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking Track)
Greg Burrell, Netflix's Playback Reliability Team Sr SRE - "The Great Migration: from Monolith to Service-Oriented" (Architectures You've Always Wondered About Track)
Jessica Tai, Airbnb Software Engineer - "3 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Languages" (21st Century Languages Track)
Peter Alvaro, UC Santa Cruz Asst Professor & Researcher who worked with Netflix on Failure Injection Testing - "CLR/CoreCLR: How We Got Here & Where We're Going" (Enterprise Languages Track)
Mei-Chin Tsai, Leader of Runtimes & Languages at Microsoft - "How to Make Linux Microservice-Aware With Cilium and eBPF" (Modern Operating Systems Track)
Thomas Graf, Founding Member Cilium Project
You can find 90 of the planned 140 speakers taking part in QConSF on the conference website.
Each QCon is organized by a committee of senior software leaders from a wide spectrum of technology domains. These architects and leaders are charged with creating the conference that they themselves would want to attend.
- Randy Shoup, VP Engineering @WeWork, Previously @StitchFix, @Google, & @eBay
- Aysylu Greenberg, Senior Software Engineer @Google
- Werner Schuster, Developer @WolframResearch
- Sid Anand, Chief Data Engineer @PayPal
- Phil Haack Director of Client Apps @GitHub
- Monica Beckwith, Java VM Performance Architect @Arm, previously led Oracle's G1GC Performance Team.
QConSF features 18 individually curated tracks across three full conference days, and additional days of workshops are also available. QCon does not have a call for papers. Instead, the program committee votes and selects the most important topics in software, and then sources someone to lead them. The 18 tracks for QCon San Francisco 2018 are:
- Applied AI & Machine Learning
Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch, & more - 21st Century Languages
Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more - Modern Operating Systems
Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualization, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels - Optimizing You: Human Skills for Individuals
Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC - Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter & more - Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware - Delivering on the Promise of Containers
Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices - Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking
Practical approaches using devops & lean thinking - Emerging Trends in Data Engineering
Showcasing dataeng tech and highlighting the strengths of each in real-world applications - Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems
More than just building software, building deployable production ready software - Developer Experience: Level Up Your Engineering Effectiveness
Improving the end-to-end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate and understand - Security: Lessons on Attacking & Defending
Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view - Enterprise Languages
Modern enterprise languages. Expect Java, .NET, and Node in this track - Socially Conscious Software
Building socially responsible software that protects users' privacy & safety - Future of Human Computer Interaction
IoT, voice, mobile: interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface - Javascript & Web Tech
Beyond JavaScript in the browser. Exploring webAssembly, electron, & modern frameworks - Microservice/Serverless Patterns & Practices
Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices - Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDTs, formal methods, & probabilistic programming
Still curious? For more insight into past talks, take a look at the partial schedule, last year's fully completed schedule, or listen to The InfoQ Podcast. The InfoQ podcast is a weekly discussion with industry leaders who you will frequently find speaking at QCon, as well as writing for InfoQ. Both QCon and InfoQ are practitioner-driven, and contain curated content.
Podcasts are available covering a variety of topics of general interest to architects, such as:
- Developing a Domain Driven Design First Actor-Based Microservices Framework (with DDD Expert Vaughn Vernon)
- Serverless @iRobot (with Ben Kehoe, Cloud Robotics Research Scientist)
- Decomposing the Modern Operating System (with Justin Cormack, System Engineer at @Docker)
- Probabilistic Programming, Bayesian Inference, and Languages Like PyMC3 (with Research engineer @Cloudera Fast Forward Labs Mike Lee Williams)
Registration is $2,205 ($520 off) for the three-day conference if you register before Oct 13th with INFOQSF18. Register now to receive the best rate available.
