Conferences / QCon
QCon London 2020
Mar 2–4, 2020 · Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre), London, United Kingdom
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Mar 2, 2020 – Mar 4, 2020
- Venue
- Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre)
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,600Recap: 'Over 1600 attendees, speakers, and exhibitors made the 14th edition'.
- Website
- archive.qconlondon.com
- Recorded
- 37 sponsors · 112 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 14th QCon London, held in person just before COVID-19 lockdowns. Talks from archived track pages; unconference sessions omitted. Affiliation is the @Company from the speaker title where given.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 37
Platinum 2
Silver 17
Community 4
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Speakers and talks 112
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alasdair Allan | — | Keynote | The Internet of Things Might Have Less Internet Than We Thought? | Video |
| Anjuan Simmons | helpscout | Keynote | Technical Leadership Through the Underground Railroad | Video |
| Katie Gamanji | American Express | Keynote | Interoperability of Open-Source Tools: The Emergence of Interfaces | Video |
| Richard Wiseman | — | Keynote | The Apollo Mindset: Making Mission Impossible, Possible | — |
| Adam Stewart | comparethemkt | Speaker | Microservices for Growth at comparethemarket.com | Video |
| Akhilesh Gupta | Speaker | Streaming a Million likes/second: Real-time Interactions on Live Video | Video | |
| Alex Blewitt | — | Speaker | Understanding CPU Microarchitecture to Increase Performance | Video |
| Alexandra Noonan | Twilio Segment | Panelist | Panel: Microservices - Are they still worth it? | Video |
| Alexandra Noonan | Twilio Segment | Speaker | To Microservices and Back Again | Video |
| Alina Yurenko | Oracle | Speaker | Maximizing Applications Performance with GraalVM | Video |
| Andrew Walker | — | Speaker | Optimise for Time | Video |
| Andrzej Grzesik | RevolutApp | Speaker | A Year With Java 11 in Production! | Video |
| Anna Henningsen | — | Speaker | JS � Character Encodings | Video |
| Ben Evans | — | Speaker | Records and Sealed Types - Coming Soon to a JVM Near You! | Video |
| Benjamin Stopford | Confluent | Speaker | Databases and Stream Processing: A Future of Consolidation | Video |
| Bernd Ruecker | Camunda | Speaker | Moving Beyond Request-Reply: How Smart APIs Are Different | Video |
| Bilgin Ibryam | Red Hat | Speaker | The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes | Video |
| Blanca Garcia-Gil | BBC | Speaker | Beyond the Distributed Monolith: Rearchitecting the Big Data Platform | Video |
| Charles Humble | InfoQ | Speaker | Remote Working Approaches That Worked (And Some That Didn’t) | Video |
| Colin Breck | Tesla | Speaker | Tesla Virtual Power Plant | Video |
| Colin Eberhardt | Scott_Logic | Speaker | Build Your Own WebAssembly Compiler | Video |
| Colin Humphreys | Pivotal | Speaker | When All The Things Go Wrong | — |
| Crystal Hirschorn | Conde Nast | Speaker | Growing Resilience: Serving Half a Billion Users Monthly at Condé Nast | Video |
| Daniel Osborne | StarlingBank | Speaker | Rampant Pragmatism: Growth and Change at Starling Bank | Video |
| David Delabassee | Oracle | Speaker | Java in Containers - Part Deux | Video |
| Denise Yu | GitHub | Speaker | Why Distributed Systems Are Hard | Video |
| Dmitry Vyazelenko | — | Speaker | Performance vs. New Features: It Doesn’t Have to Be a Zero-Sum Game | Video |
| Emily Jiang | IBM | Speaker | Live Coding 12-Factor App | Video |
| Eoin Shanaghy | fourtheorem | Panelist | Panel: JavaScript - Is the Insanity Over? | Video |
| Eoin Shanaghy | fourtheorem | Speaker | Putting Node.js Serverless Apps into Production without the Pitfalls | Video |
| Eugene Pilyankevich | cossacklabs | Speaker | Designing Secure Architectures the Modern Way, Regardless of Stack | Video |
| Flavia Paganelli | 30Mhz | Speaker | Internet of Tomatoes: Building a Scalable Cloud Architecture | Video |
| Folger Fonseca | N26 | Speaker | Scaling N26 Technology Through Hypergrowth | Video |
| Gordon Williams | Espruino | Speaker | Bangle.js - Creating a Smart Watch With JavaScript | Video |
| Gordon Williams | Espruino | Panelist | Panel: JavaScript - Is the Insanity Over? | Video |
| Greg Law | Undo | Speaker | Record, Replay, Rinse, & Repeat: Easily Rebuilding Programmatic State | Video |
| Herman Schaaf | Skyscanner | Speaker | From Batch to Streaming to Both | Video |
| Hien Luu | Speaker | Speeding Up ML Development with MLFlow | — | |
| Holly Cummins | Red Hat | Speaker | Cloud Native is About Culture, not Containers | Video |
| Ian Thomas | thestarsgroup | Speaker | Designing a Real-Time Global Sportsbook (From Scratch!) | — |
| Ignat Korchagin | Cloudflare | Speaker | Reconciling Performance and Security in High Load Environments | Video |
| James Gough | — | Speaker | How the HotSpot and Graal JVMs execute Java Code | Video |
| James Laverack | JetstackHQ | Speaker | A Kubernetes Operator for etcd | Video |
| James Stanier | Brandwatch | Speaker | How to Supercharge a Team With Delegation | Video |
| Jay Alammar | STVcapital | Speaker | Visual Intro to Machine Learning and Deep Learning | Video |
| Jaycee Cheong | immersivelabsuk | Speaker | Trust, the Secret Ingredient in High Performing Team | — |
| Jean-Philippe Aumasson | — | Speaker | The Quantum Risk & Future Post-Quantum Standards | — |
| Jeff Foster | Redgate | Speaker | How We Built a Generative Culture at Redgate | Video |
| Jon Topper | The Scale Factory | Speaker | Lessons Learned from Reviewing 150 Infrastructures | Video |
| Jose Nino | Lyft | Speaker | Next Generation Client APIs in Envoy Mobile | Video |
| Juan Jose Fumero Alfonso | OfficialUoM | Speaker | TornadoVM: Java for GPUs and FPGAs | Video |
| Judy Rees | — | Speaker | Tough Call: Handling “Difficult” Remote Conversations Like A Pro | Video |
| Julia Lawall | Inria | Speaker | Coccinelle: 10 Years of Automated Evolution in the Linux Kernel | Video |
| Justin Cormack | Docker | Speaker | The Modern Platform in 2020 | Video |
| Katelyn Sills | agoric | Panelist | Panel: JavaScript - Is the Insanity Over? | Video |
| Katelyn Sills | agoric | Speaker | Running third-party JavaScript | Video |
| Katy Anton | Veracode | Speaker | Security Vulnerabilities Decomposition | Video |
| Kenichi Shibata | comparethemkt | Speaker | Microservices for Growth at comparethemarket.com | Video |
| Laura Maguire | — | Speaker | How Many Is Too Much? Exploring Costs of Coordination During Outages | Video |
| Laura Nolan | Slack | Speaker | Managing Systems in an Age of Dynamic Complexity | Video |
| Lisa van Gelder | Spring Health | Speaker | How to Debug Your Team | Video |
| Lisette Sutherland | — | Speaker | How to Be a High Performing Distributed Agile Team | Video |
| Liza Fireman | Facebook Research | Speaker | Applying AI/ML for Trusted Commerce Connections @Facebook Marketplace | — |
| Luca Mezzalira | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Lessons From DAZN: Scaling Your Project with Micro-Frontends | Video |
| Luke Blaney | FT | Speaker | Monitoring All the Things: Keeping Track of a Mixed Estate | Video |
| Luke Blaney | FT | Panelist | Panel: Microservices - Are they still worth it? | Video |
| Manuel Pais | — | Speaker | Kubernetes is Not Your Platform, It's Just the Foundation | Video |
| Manuel Pais | — | Panelist | Panel: Microservices - Are they still worth it? | Video |
| Maria Gutierrez | Intercom | Speaker | How to Build an Engineering Culture That Focuses on Business Impact | Video |
| Mark Kilby | — | Speaker | 3 Disciplines for Leading a Distributed Agile Organization | Video |
| Mark Rendle | VisualRecode | Panelist | Panel: How to Make the Future Become Your Present | Video |
| Mark Rendle | VisualRecode | Speaker | A Brief History of the Future of the API | Video |
| Martin Dow | StarlingBank | Speaker | Rampant Pragmatism: Growth and Change at Starling Bank | Video |
| Martin Thompson | — | Speaker | Evolution of Financial Exchange Architectures | Video |
| Maryam Umar | thoughtmachine | Speaker | Leading a Journey to Better Quality | Video |
| Matt Heath | Monzo | Panelist | Panel: Microservices - Are they still worth it? | Video |
| Matt Heath | Monzo | Speaker | Modern Banking in 1500 Microservices | Video |
| Michelle Garrett | Panelist | Panel: How to Make the Future Become Your Present | Video | |
| Michelle Garrett | Speaker | Introducing and Scaling a GraphQL BFF | Video | |
| Michelle O'Sulivan | — | Speaker | Managing for Mental Wellbeing in the Tech Industry | — |
| Miguel Ramalho | UPorto | Panelist | Panel: JavaScript - Is the Insanity Over? | Video |
| Miguel Ramalho | UPorto | Speaker | Hello Quantum Developers World - Yet Another Frontier for JavaScript | Video |
| Nora Jones | — | Speaker | Rethinking How the Industry Approaches Chaos Engineering: | Video |
| Patrick Debois | snyksec | Speaker | DevOps Is More Complex and Harder Than You Think. Personal Lessons. | Video |
| Patrick Kua | — | Speaker | Secrets of a Strong Engineering Culture | Video |
| Paul Hammant | — | Speaker | Should We Really Run It if We Build It? | Video |
| Paul Johnston | roundaboutlabs | Speaker | Climate Change & Tech, Good and Bad Bedfellows | Video |
| Percy Link | Tesla | Speaker | Tesla Virtual Power Plant | Video |
| Peter Bourgon | Fastly | Speaker | Infinite Parallel Universes: State at the Edge | Video |
| Peter Elger | fourtheorem | Speaker | The Fast Track to AI with Javascript and Serverless | Video |
| Randall Koutnik | — | Speaker | Better Resilience Adoption through UX | Video |
| Ranganathan Balashanmugam | EverestEngineering | Speaker | Scaling Distributed Teams Around the Globe | Video |
| Richard Li | datawireio | Panelist | Panel: How to Make the Future Become Your Present | Video |
| Richard Li | datawireio | Speaker | The Future of Cloud Native API Gateways | Video |
| Ron Evans | Hybrid Data LLC | Speaker | Tiny Go: Small Is Going Big | Video |
| Sam Newman | — | Speaker | Monolith Decomposition Patterns | Video |
| Samuel Parkinson | FinancialTimes | Speaker | Preparing for the Unexpected | Video |
| Sanne Grinovero | Red Hat | Speaker | Quarkus | Video |
| Sean Walsh | Lightbend | Speaker | Cloudstate—Towards Stateful Serverless | Video |
| Sergey Kuksenko | Oracle | Speaker | Does Java Need Inline Types? What Project Valhalla Can Bring to Java | Video |
| Sherin Thomas | Lyft | Speaker | Machine Learning Through Streaming at Lyft | Video |
| Sonya Moisset | Photobox | Speaker | Keep Calm and Secure Your CI/CD Pipeline | Video |
| Sophia Drossopoulou | — | Speaker | Pony, Actors, Causality, Types, and Garbage Collection | Video |
| Stephen Janaway | BloomandWild | Speaker | My Team Is High Performing But Everyone Hates Us | Video |
| Suhail Patel | Monzo | Speaker | Modern Banking in 1500 Microservices | Video |
| Susanne Groothuis | KPMG | Speaker | BERT for Sentiment Analysis on Sustainability Reporting | Video |
| Tamsin Crossland | iconsolutions | Speaker | Applying Machine Learning to Financial Payments | Video |
| Thomas Graf | CiliumProject | Speaker | eBPF - Rethinking the Linux Kernel | Video |
| Tim Berglund | Confluent | Speaker | Kafka: a Modern Distributed System | Video |
| Tim Cochran | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Developer Effectiveness: Optimizing Feedback loops | Video |
| Victoria Puscas | Deliveroo | Speaker | The Good the Bad the Ugly: Making Teams Perform Better | Video |
| Vincent Warmerdam | Rasa | Speaker | Accuracy as a Failure | Video |