Conferences / QCon
QCon London 2019
Mar 4–6, 2019 · Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre), London, United Kingdom
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Mar 4, 2019 – Mar 6, 2019
- Venue
- Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre)
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,500Recap: 'Over 1500 attendees, speakers, and exhibitors made the 13th edition'.
- Website
- archive.qconlondon.com
- Recorded
- 32 sponsors · 121 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 13th QCon London. Talks from archived track pages (archive.qconlondon.com/london2019/track/...); unconference sessions omitted. Affiliation is the @Company from the speaker title where given, otherwise null. Video links from the archived presentation pages.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 32
Silver 15
- Auth0 · Silver Sponsors
- Azul · Silver Sponsors
- Camunda · Silver Sponsors
- Couchbase · Silver Sponsors
- GoCD · Silver Sponsors
- Hazelcast · Silver Sponsors
- Heroku · Silver Sponsors
- Humio · Silver Sponsors
- LaunchDarkly · Silver Sponsors
- NGINX · Silver Sponsors
- Oracle · Silver Sponsors
- Redis · Silver Sponsors
- Site24x7 · Silver Sponsors
- WhiteSource · Silver Sponsors
- WSO2 · Silver Sponsors
Bronze 6
Community 3
- Docklands.LJC · Supporting User Groups
- Hire Tech Ladies · Supporting User Groups
- Transylvania JUG · Supporting User Groups
Media 6
- Crixfeed · Media Sponsors
- Datafloq · Media Sponsors
- HalfStack · Media Sponsors
- Simprints · Media Sponsors
- Sticker Mule · Media Sponsors
- TechEvents.online · Media Sponsors
Speakers and talks 121
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Goldacre | — | Keynote | Bad Science, Better Data | — |
| Ben Sigelman | LightStepHQ | Keynote | Restoring Confidence in Microservices: Tracing That's More Than Traces of Interfaces | Video |
| Peter Morgan | — | Keynote | Building Artificial General Intelligence | Video |
| Sarah Wells | FT | Keynote | Mature Microservices and How to Operate Them | Video |
| Aaron Randall | songkick | Speaker | Take Control of Your Career: A Personal Growth Framework | Video |
| Alex Bradbury | lowRISC | Speaker | The Future of Operating Systems on RISC-V | Video |
| Allison Randall | — | Panelist | Panel: Secure Isolation of Applications | Video |
| Ana Calin | paybase | Speaker | Powering Flexible Payments in the Cloud With Kubernetes | Video |
| Ana Calin | paybase | Panelist | Panel: Bleeding Edge at Hyperspeed With No Breaks and No Breaches | Video |
| Anca Zaharia | StarlingBank | Speaker | Open Banking - Tales From the Frontier | Video |
| Andrea Dobson- Kock | containersoluti | Speaker | Balancing Risk and Psychological Safety | Video |
| Andrew Haley | Red Hat | Panelist | Panel: Java Is Still Free? | Video |
| Andrew Walker | — | Speaker | Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse | Video |
| Andy Shi | AlibabaGroup | Speaker | RSocket: Solving Real-World Architectural Challenges | Video |
| Anne Byrne | Deliveroo | Panelist | Panel: Non Traditional Moves Into Tech: A Blessing and a Curse? | Video |
| Avi Deitcher | ATOMIC | Speaker | LinuxKit | Video |
| Ben Butler-Cole | Neo4j | Speaker | Choosing Kubernetes: Managing Risk in Cloud Infrastructure | Video |
| Ben Sigelman | LightStepHQ | Speaker | What We Got Wrong: Lessons from the Birth of Microservices | Video |
| Bernd Ruecker | Camunda | Speaker | Complex Event Flows in Distributed Systems | Video |
| Carolyne Quinn | inside_r3 | Panelist | Panel: Bleeding Edge at Hyperspeed With No Breaks and No Breaches | Video |
| Carolyne Quinn | inside_r3 | Speaker | Corda: Looking Forward and Back, Blockchain on a JVM Stack | Video |
| Cat Swetel | — | Speaker | Variety: The Secret of Scale | Video |
| Catherine Flick | — | Speaker | Why Should We Care About Technology Ethics? | Video |
| Charlotte Fereday | Thoughtworks | Panelist | Panel: Non Traditional Moves Into Tech: A Blessing and a Curse? | Video |
| Cheryl Hung | CloudNativeFdn | Speaker | A Guided Journey of Cloud Native Featuring Monzo | Video |
| Chris Ford | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Functional Composition | Video |
| Chris Wilkinson | Capgemini | Speaker | How to Tell Your Boss Story Points Are a Terrible Metric | Video |
| Christie Wilson | Speaker | Cloud Native CI/CD with Jenkins X and Knative Pipelines | Video | |
| Colin Breck | Tesla | Speaker | What Lies Between: The Challenge of Operationalising Microservices | Video |
| Crystal Hirschorn | CondeNast | Speaker | How Condé Nast Succeeds by a Culture That Embraces Failure | Video |
| David Buckhurst | BBC | Speaker | BBC iPlayer: Architecting for TV | Video |
| Detlef Nauck | BTGroup | Speaker | Test Driven Machine Learning | Video |
| Diane Davis | NASA | Speaker | Otherworldly Java: Gateway to the Moon and Beyond | Video |
| Donald Smith | Oracle | Panelist | Panel: Java Is Still Free? | Video |
| Duncan MacGregor | — | Speaker | Graal: Not Just a New JIT for the JVM | Video |
| Ed Holland | metaswitch | Speaker | Avoiding Getting on the News by Investigating Near Misses | — |
| Emma Button | nubego Cloud Consulting | Speaker | Who Broke Prod? - Growing Teams Who Can Fail Without Fear | Video |
| Francisco Jordano | Deliveroo | Speaker | Using Your Super Powers to Boost Your Career Development | Video |
| Greg Hawkins | StarlingBank | Panelist | Panel: Bleeding Edge at Hyperspeed With No Breaks and No Breaches | Video |
| Gwen Shapira | Confluent | Speaker | Cloud Native Data Pipelines With Apache Kafka | Video |
| Howard Chu | SymasCorp | Speaker | Peddle the Pedal to the Metal | Video |
| Howard Chu | SymasCorp | Panelist | Panel: Performance - What's Next? | — |
| Indra Joshi | NHSEngland | Speaker | Creating a Trusted Narrative for Data Driven Technology | Video |
| Jade Alglave | UCL | Speaker | Applying Concurrency Cookbook Recipes to SPEC JBB | Video |
| James Governor | RedMonk | Speaker | Progressive Delivery | Video |
| James Rawlings | CloudBees | Speaker | Cloud Native CI/CD with Jenkins X and Knative Pipelines | Video |
| Jamund Ferguson | PayPal | Speaker | Bringing JAMStack to the Enterprise | Video |
| Jan Machacek | waltdisneyco | Speaker | Reactive Systems Architecture | Video |
| Jason Box | — | Speaker | Risk of Climate Change and What Tech Can Do | Video |
| Jason Maude | StarlingBank | Panelist | Panel: Bleeding Edge at Hyperspeed With No Breaks and No Breaches | Video |
| Jason Maude | StarlingBank | Speaker | Open Banking - Tales From the Frontier | Video |
| Jay Alammar | STVcapital | Speaker | Intuition & Use-Cases of Embeddings in NLP & Beyond | Video |
| Jessica Tai | Airbnb | Speaker | Airbnb’s Great Migration: Building Services at Scale | Video |
| Jessica Yung | NVIDIA | Speaker | Understanding Deep Learning | Video |
| Jessie Frazelle | GitHub | Panelist | Panel: Secure Isolation of Applications | Video |
| Jessie Frazelle | GitHub | Speaker | A Journey Into Intel’s SGX | Video |
| John Allspaw | Etsy | Speaker | Amplifying Sources of Resilience: What Research Says | Video |
| John Graham-Cumming | Cloudflare | Speaker | Real World Examples of FaaS | Video |
| Johnathan Chapin | — | Speaker | Building Resilient Serverless Systems | Video |
| Jon Currey | HashiCorp | Speaker | Using Randomized Communication for Robust, Scalable Systems | Video |
| Justin Cormack | Docker | Panelist | Panel: Secure Isolation of Applications | Video |
| Katherine Kirk | — | Speaker | Why Culture Change Can Blow Up in Your Face, and How to Prevent It | Video |
| Kenton Varda | Cloudflare | Speaker | Fine-Grained Sandboxing With V8 Isolates | Video |
| Kenton Varda | Cloudflare | Panelist | Panel: Secure Isolation of Applications | Video |
| Kingsley Davies | underscoreio | Speaker | Effective Ethics for Busy People | Video |
| Kresten Krab Thorup | MeetHumio | Speaker | Streaming Log Analytics with Kafka | Video |
| Liz Fong-Jones | — | Speaker | Cultivating Production Excellence - Taming Complex Distributed Systems | Video |
| Liz Ince | Capgemini | Speaker | How to Tell Your Boss Story Points Are a Terrible Metric | Video |
| Luke Hoban | PulumiCorp | Speaker | Programming the Cloud with TypeScript | Video |
| Mairead O'Connor | Equal Experts | Speaker | People Are More Complex Than Computers | Video |
| Marios Michailidis | h2oai | Speaker | H2O's Driverless AI: An AI that creates AI | Video |
| Martijn Verburg | jClarity | Panelist | Panel: Java Is Still Free? | Video |
| Martin Goodson | EvolutionAI | Speaker | How to Prevent Catastrophic Failure in Production ML Systems | Video |
| Martin Thompson | — | Panelist | Panel: Performance - What's Next? | — |
| Martin Thompson | — | Speaker | Interaction Protocols: It's All About Good Manners | Video |
| Matt Heath | Monzo | Speaker | A Guided Journey of Cloud Native Featuring Monzo | Video |
| Matt Turner | MarshallWace | Speaker | Life of a Packet Through Istio | Video |
| Matteo Collina | NearForm | Speaker | A New Way to Profile Node.js | Video |
| Matthew Cornford | OcadoTechnology | Speaker | Orchestrating Robot Swarms with Java | Video |
| Matthew Squire | BamtechMedia | Speaker | Reactive Systems Architecture | Video |
| Melanie Cebula | Airbnb | Speaker | Develop Hundreds of Kubernetes Services at Scale With Airbnb | Video |
| Mike McGarr | Slack | Speaker | Discovering Culture Through Artifacts | Video |
| Mike Ward | inside_r3 | Speaker | Corda: Looking Forward and Back, Blockchain on a JVM Stack | Video |
| Misa Ogura | BBCRD | Panelist | Panel: Non Traditional Moves Into Tech: A Blessing and a Curse? | Video |
| Monica Beckwith | Microsoft | Panelist | Panel: Performance - What's Next? | — |
| Monica Beckwith | Microsoft | Speaker | Applying Concurrency Cookbook Recipes to SPEC JBB | Video |
| Nadia Alshahwan | Meta | Speaker | Automated Test Design and Bug Fixing @Facebook | — |
| Nicky Wrightson | blenheimchalcot | Speaker | An Engineer's Guide to a Good Night's Sleep | — |
| Nitsan Wakart | DataStax | Speaker | Novel Algos and Optimizations in JCTools Concurrent Queues | Video |
| Nitsan Wakart | DataStax | Panelist | Panel: Performance - What's Next? | — |
| Ondrej Lehecka | Meta | Speaker | RSocket: Solving Real-World Architectural Challenges | Video |
| Paul Johnston | roundaboutlabs | Speaker | Risk of Climate Change and What Tech Can Do | Video |
| Per Buer | IncludeOS | Panelist | Panel: Secure Isolation of Applications | Video |
| Per Buer | IncludeOS | Speaker | Unikernels Aren’t Dead, They’re Just Not Containers | Video |
| Peter Morgan | — | Speaker | Using Quantum Computers to Simulate Chemistry | Video |
| Prasanna Rajaperumal | SnowflakeDB | Speaker | Automatic Clustering At Snowflake | Video |
| Randy Shoup | WeWork | Speaker | Building and Scaling a High-Performance Culture | Video |
| Richard Warburton | — | Speaker | Continuous Profiling in Production: What, Why and How | Video |
| Richard Warburton | — | Panelist | Panel: Performance - What's Next? | — |
| Robert Rees | wegotpop | Panelist | Panel: Non Traditional Moves Into Tech: A Blessing and a Curse? | Video |
| Robert Roeser | netifi_inc | Speaker | RSocket: Solving Real-World Architectural Challenges | Video |
| Robyn Bergeron | Ansible AI | Speaker | Ethos(s): Enabling Community and Culture | Video |
| Russell Miles | chaosiqio | Speaker | Learning From Chaos: Architecting for Resilience | Video |
| Sadiq Jaffer | — | Speaker | Continuous Profiling in Production: What, Why and How | Video |
| Sadiq Jaffer | — | Panelist | Panel: Performance - What's Next? | — |
| Simon Ritter | Azul | Panelist | Panel: Java Is Still Free? | Video |
| Simon Wardley | lefep | Speaker | Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones | — |
| Simona Cotin | Microsoft | Speaker | Build Node.js APIs using Serverless | Video |
| Stephan Fowler | The Guardian | Panelist | Panel: Non Traditional Moves Into Tech: A Blessing and a Curse? | Video |
| Stephen Hellberg | IBM | Panelist | Panel: Java Is Still Free? | Video |
| Stephen Hellberg | IBM | Speaker | OpenJ9 - Compelling Java for Cloud Workloads | — |
| Steve Worswick | pandorabots | Speaker | Designing an Ethical Chatbot | Video |
| Stuart Davidson | Skyscanner | Speaker | Change Is The Only Constant | Video |
| Suhail Patel | Monzo | Panelist | Panel: Bleeding Edge at Hyperspeed With No Breaks and No Breaches | Video |
| Suhail Patel | Monzo | Speaker | Scaling for the Known Unknown | Video |
| Trisha Gee | — | Speaker | Becoming A Fully Buzzword Compliant Developer | Video |
| Trisha Gee | — | Speaker | Life Beyond Java 8 | Video |
| Vlad Zelinschi | strongbytesro | Speaker | State Management for React Using Context and Hooks | Video |
| Will Jones | Habito | Panelist | Panel: Bleeding Edge at Hyperspeed With No Breaks and No Breaches | Video |
| Will Jones | Habito | Speaker | Habito: The Purely-Functional Mortgage Broker | Video |
| Yevgeniy Brikman | gruntwork_io | Speaker | Lessons From 300k+ Lines of Infrastructure Code | Video |