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Conferences / Software engineering

QCon

Organizer
C4Media (InfoQ)
Category
Software engineering
Website
qconferences.com
Social
X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Bluesky · Mastodon · YouTube
Typical place
Beijing, China + 9 other cities
Topics
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Senior-practitioner software-engineering conferences run by C4Media, the company behind InfoQ. Flagship editions: QCon London (QEII Centre, March/April), QCon San Francisco (Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, Oct/Nov) and QCon New York (Brooklyn, June; last held 2023). QCon AI (AI-engineering spin-off) launched in New York in Dec 2025 and Boston in June 2026. QCon Plus was the online edition (Nov 2020 - Dec 2022). International editions (China, Brazil, Japan) are licensed and run by local InfoQ partners. Social accounts are the shared QCon accounts linked from every QCon site; the YouTube channel linked from the QCon sites is InfoQ's. Talk videos are published on infoq.com/presentations.

Events462019–2027
Next event2026Nov 16–18, 2026 · San Francisco, United States
Sponsoring companies208410 sponsorships
Speaker appearances1,939

Activity by year

Sponsors

Sponsor companies per year

Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.

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  • Partial or unverified list
  • No sponsor list

8 of 9 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.

Speakers

Speakers per year

Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.

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Events

DatesEventPlaceFormat / statusAttendanceSponsorsSpeakers
Jul 8–9, 2027QCon AI Boston 2027Boston, United StatesAnnounced———
Apr 13–15, 2027QCon London 2027London, United KingdomAnnounced———
Dec 15–16, 2026QCon AI New York 2026Jersey City, United StatesAnnounced—436
Nov 16–18, 2026QCon San Francisco 2026San Francisco, United StatesAnnounced—3194
Oct 22–24, 2026QCon 上海 2026 (QCon Shanghai 2026)Shanghai, China1,200—6
Jun 1–2, 2026QCon AI Boston 2026Boston, United States—1353
Apr 16–18, 2026QCon 北京 2026 (QCon Beijing 2026)Beijing, China——7
Mar 16–18, 2026QCon London 2026London, United Kingdom—19107
Dec 16–17, 2025QCon AI New York 2025New York, United States——54
Nov 17–19, 2025QCon San Francisco 2025San Francisco, United States8503198
Oct 23–25, 2025QCon 上海 2025 (QCon Shanghai 2025)Shanghai, China——4
Apr 10–12, 2025QCon 北京 2025 (QCon Beijing 2025)Beijing, China——11
Apr 7–9, 2025QCon London 2025London, United Kingdom—1992
Nov 18–20, 2024QCon San Francisco 2024San Francisco, United States8503298
Oct 18–19, 2024QCon 上海 2024 (QCon Shanghai 2024)Shanghai, China——4
Apr 11–13, 2024QCon 北京 2024 (QCon Beijing 2024)Beijing, China——9
Apr 8–10, 2024QCon London 2024London, United Kingdom1,30026108
Dec 28–29, 2023QCon 上海 2023 (QCon Shanghai 2023)Shanghai, China——6
Oct 2–4, 2023QCon San Francisco 2023San Francisco, United States970—97
Sep 3–5, 2023QCon 北京 2023 (QCon Beijing 2023)Beijing, China——8
Jun 13–15, 2023QCon New York 2023New York, United States—1887
May 26–27, 2023QCon 广州 2023 (QCon Guangzhou 2023)Guangzhou, China——7
Mar 27–29, 2023QCon London 2023London, United Kingdom1,15025120
Feb 5–7, 2023QCon 北京 2022 (QCon Beijing 2022, held Feb 2023)Beijing, China——6
Nov 29, 2022 – Dec 9, 2022QCon Plus November/December 2022—Online——4
Nov 25–26, 2022QCon 上海 2022 (QCon Shanghai 2022)Shanghai, China——5
Oct 24–26, 2022QCon San Francisco 2022San Francisco, United States1,00028157
Jul 31, 2022 – Aug 1, 2022QCon 广州 2022 (QCon Guangzhou 2022)Guangzhou, China——5
May 10–20, 2022QCon Plus May 2022—Online———
Apr 4–6, 2022QCon London 2022London, United Kingdom80013123
Nov 1–12, 2021QCon Plus November 2021—Online———
Oct 21–23, 2021QCon 上海 2021 (QCon Shanghai 2021)Shanghai, China——6
May 29–31, 2021QCon 北京 2021 (QCon Beijing 2021)Beijing, China——6
May 17–28, 2021QCon Plus May 2021—Online———
Jan 8–9, 2021QCon 北京 2020 (QCon Beijing 2020, held Jan 2021)Beijing, China——6
Dec 20–21, 2020QCon 上海 2020 (QCon Shanghai 2020)Shanghai, China——5
Dec 6–7, 2020QCon 深圳 2020 (QCon Shenzhen 2020)Shenzhen, China——6
Nov 4–18, 2020QCon Plus November 2020—Online———
Mar 2–4, 2020QCon London 2020London, United Kingdom1,60037112
Nov 11–13, 2019QCon San Francisco 2019San Francisco, United States1,50042128
Oct 17–19, 2019QCon 上海 2019 (QCon Shanghai 2019)Shanghai, China——4
Jun 24–26, 2019QCon New York 2019New York, United States1,20040128
May 27–28, 2019QCon 广州 2019 (QCon Guangzhou 2019)Guangzhou, China——2
May 6–8, 2019QCon São Paulo 2019São Paulo, Brazil——3
May 6–8, 2019QCon 北京 2019 (QCon Beijing 2019)Beijing, China——6
Mar 4–6, 2019QCon London 2019London, United Kingdom1,50032121

Attendance over time

08001,6002019 London2019 New Yo2019 San Fr20202022 London2022 San Fr2023 London2023 San Fr2024 London2024 San Fr20252026

Reported attendance for 12 of 46 events; figures are as published by the organizer.

Most frequent speaker companies

Netflix73Google47Microsoft44Amazon Web Services35LinkedIn30Meta26Thoughtworks26Geekbang23Red Hat21BBC17IBM17Honeycomb17DoorDash16Monzo14OpenAI13

Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.

Similar conferences

Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.

  1. AI Engineer0.16
  2. Flink Forward0.14
  3. AWS re:Invent0.14
  4. Ray Summit0.14
  5. Airflow Summit0.13

3 Cluster: Google · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft crowd →

Sponsors over the years

Top 25 of 208 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.

  • Platinum
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Bronze
  • Media
  • Other / unspecified
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