Conferences / QCon
QCon London 2023
Mar 27–29, 2023 · Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre), London, United Kingdom
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Mar 27, 2023 – Mar 29, 2023
- Venue
- Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre)
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,150Recap: 'Thank you to the 1,150 senior software engineers, software architects, and team leads'.
- Website
- qconlondon.com
- Recorded
- 25 sponsors · 120 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Talks from qconlondon.com/schedule/mar2023 (online unconferences omitted).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person Conference (3 days) (until November 7) | £1,890 | Nov 7, 2022 | pricing page: 20% VAT added | web.archive.org |
| In-person Conference (3 days) (until March 29) | £2,340 | Mar 29, 2023 | pricing page: 20% VAT added | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 25
Speakers and talks 120
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian Cockcroft | — | Keynote | Microservices Retrospective – What We Learned (and Didn’t Learn) From Netflix | — |
| Alasdair Allan | Negroni Venture Studios | Keynote | Malignant Intelligence? | — |
| Leslie Miley | Microsoft | Keynote | AI Bias and Sustainability | — |
| Radia Perlman | Dell Technologies | Keynote | Computer Networks: Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries | — |
| Adrian Cockcroft | — | Speaker | Cloud Provider Sustainability, Current Status and Future Directions | — |
| Adrian Cockcroft | — | Panelist | Panel: What’s next? Net-Zero Commitments? | — |
| Akshat Vig | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Amazon DynamoDB Distributed Transactions at Scale | — |
| Aleena Baig | — | Panelist | Panel: Socially Conscious Software | — |
| Alex Hardman | LaunchDarkly | Speaker | Raising the Bar on Resilience: Designing Systems for Resilience at Scale Using Feature Flags | — |
| Alyssa Miller | Epiq Global | Speaker | Celebrity Vulnerabilities: Effective Response to Critical Production Threats | — |
| Ana Sirvent | KPMG | Speaker | How to Build a Successful Cloud Capability on a Heavy Regulated Organization | — |
| Ana Sirvent | KPMG | Panelist | Panel: Building Security in Earlier | — |
| Andrea Medda | Smithy Security | Speaker | Tales of Kafka @Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages | — |
| Andrew S. Fitz Gibbon | Temporal | Speaker | Building Reliable Backends with Temporal | — |
| Andrew Walker | Kraken Industries | Speaker | How Big Tech Lost Its Way | — |
| Anna Kapuścińska | Isovalent | Speaker | No Instrumentation Observability With eBPF - Are We There Yet? | — |
| Asim Hussain | Green Software and Ecosystems | Panelist | Panel: What’s next? Net-Zero Commitments? | — |
| Avtar Sehra | Clinaro | Speaker | Future of Web3 in Debt Capital Markets | — |
| Avtar Sehra | Clinaro | Panelist | Panel: Tech of FinTech | — |
| Ben Gamble | Aiven | Speaker | Connecting the Dots: API Design in a Distributed World | — |
| Bilgin Ibryam | Diagrid | Speaker | The Commoditization of the Software Stack: How Application-first Cloud Services are Changing the Game | — |
| Chris Sinjakli | PlanetScale | Speaker | Deconstructing an Abstraction to Reconstruct an Outage | — |
| Crystal Hirschorn | Zoa.io | Speaker | Platform Engineering: Where Do We Go From Here? | — |
| Daniel Bryant | InfoQ | Speaker | InfoQ - Ask an editor | — |
| Daniel Gomez Blanco | Skyscanner | Speaker | Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry | — |
| Élie Michel | Adobe | Speaker | WebGPU is Not Just About the Web | — |
| Elspeth Minty | Royal Bank of Canada | Speaker | FINOS and Open Source in the Financial Services Industry | — |
| Elspeth Minty | Royal Bank of Canada | Panelist | Panel: Tech of FinTech | — |
| Erica Farmer | Quantum Rise Talent Group Ltd | Speaker | How to Lead Effectively in Hybrid and Remote Environments (And What This Means for Our Brave New World) | — |
| Erica Pisani | Sentry | Speaker | Living on the Edge: Boosting Your Site's Performance with Edge Computing | — |
| Erin Schnabel | Red Hat | Speaker | You Can Go Your Own Way: Navigating Your Own Career Path | — |
| Erin Schnabel | Red Hat | Panelist | Panel: Staff+ Engineering in Practice | — |
| Felix GV | Speaker | What is Derived Data? (And do You Already Have Any?) | — | |
| Frank Yu | Coinbase | Speaker | Trust Deterministic Execution to Scale and Simplify Your Systems | — |
| Frank Yu | Coinbase | Panelist | Panel: Tech of FinTech | — |
| Gemma Honour | Bryter Work | Speaker | The Shape of Thoughts: How to Create Visual Templates to Bring Clarity, Context and Change to You and Your Teams! | — |
| Gemma Honour | Bryter Work | Panelist | Panel: Remote and Hybrid Work | — |
| Germán Bencci | Code Your Future | Speaker | Socially Responsible Companies -- Do We All HAVE to Change the World? | — |
| Germán Bencci | Code Your Future | Panelist | Panel: Socially Conscious Software | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Decodable | Speaker | Change Data Capture for Microservices | — |
| Hannes Mühleisen | DuckDB Labs | Speaker | In-Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB | — |
| Helen Bartimote, C.Psychol | Container Solutions | Panelist | Panel: Remote and Hybrid Work | — |
| Helen Bartimote, C.Psychol | Container Solutions | Speaker | The Interaction Between the Hybrid and Remote Working Revolution and Maintaining Our Mental Health | — |
| Henry Tze | Virgin Media O2 | Panelist | Panel: Building Security in Earlier | — |
| Henry Tze | Virgin Media O2 | Speaker | Getting Developers into F1 Driver Seats with Security? | — |
| Hien Luu | — | Speaker | Strategy & Principles to Scale and Evolve MLOps @DoorDash | — |
| Holly Cummins | IBM | Panelist | Panel: What’s next? Net-Zero Commitments? | — |
| Holly Cummins | IBM | Speaker | Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them | — |
| Ian Sleebe | Zoom | Speaker | Zoom: Why Does It Work? | — |
| James Spooner | Speaker | Scaling Google's Global Cloud L7 Load Balancer | — | |
| Jay Clifford | InfluxData | Speaker | Building a Time Series Analytics Platform With InfluxDB and the Apache Ecosystem | — |
| Jelmer Borst | Picnic | Speaker | How to Apply a Product Mindset to Your Platform Team Tomorrow | — |
| Jessica Kerr | Honeycomb | Speaker | Observable Frontends | — |
| Jitesh Gosai | BBC | Panelist | Panel: Staff+ Engineering in Practice | — |
| Jitesh Gosai | BBC | Speaker | Psychological Safety for Staff+ Engineers | — |
| Johannes Bechberger | SAP | Speaker | Your Java Application Is Slow? Check Out These Open-Source Profilers | — |
| John O'Hara | — | Panelist | Panel: Tech of FinTech | — |
| John Spray | Neon | Speaker | Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar | — |
| Joran Greef | TigerBeetle | Speaker | A New Era for Database Design with TigerBeetle | — |
| Josh Grossman | Bounce Security | Panelist | Panel: Building Security in Earlier | — |
| Josh Grossman | Bounce Security | Speaker | Sustainable Security Requirements with the ASVS | — |
| Juri Strumpflohner | Nx | Speaker | From Monorepo Mess to Monorepo Bliss: Avoiding Common Mistakes | — |
| Kavitha Srinivasan | Netflix | Speaker | Go Far, Go Together - Growing the Netflix Federated Graph | — |
| Keith Winstein | Stanford University | Speaker | What We Talk About When We Talk About Networks | — |
| Kent C. Dodds | EpicWeb.dev | Speaker | The Web's Next Transition | — |
| Laurent Doguin | Couchbase | Speaker | Tips & Tricks to Respect Your Users When Writing a Data-Centric Application? | — |
| Loiane Groner | BNY Mellon | Speaker | Staff+ Engineering Beyond Big Techs: How to Succeed in the Technical Path on Non Tech Companies | — |
| Loiane Groner | BNY Mellon | Panelist | Panel: Staff+ Engineering in Practice | — |
| Manisha Lopes | BBC | Speaker | Providing a Personalized Experience to Millions of Users @BBC | — |
| Mark McCauley | Sourcegraph | Speaker | It's time to talk about your Big Code problem! | — |
| Mathew Lodge | Diffblue | Speaker | ChatGPT is Fun, but the Future is Fully Autonomous AI for Code | — |
| Matt Boyle | Smithy Security | Speaker | Tales of Kafka @Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages | — |
| Matt Macchia | Event Store | Speaker | Streaming Events? You Should Be Storing Them | — |
| Maxim Fateev | Temporal | Speaker | Escape Queue Abyss With Durable Execution | — |
| Mehrnoosh Sameki | Microsoft | Speaker | Responsible AI: From Principle to Practice! | — |
| Michael Friedrich | GitLab | Speaker | RECORDING: From Monitoring to Observability: eBPF Chaos | — |
| Michal Dorko | Goldman Sachs | Speaker | From Runtime Efficiency to Carbon Efficiency | — |
| Michał Maślanka | Redpanda | Speaker | Multi-Region Data Streaming with Redpanda | — |
| Natalia Venditto | Microsoft | Speaker | Beyond Micro Frontends: Effective Composable Decoupled Applications on Cloud Native Infrastructure | — |
| Nathan Shain | Rookout | Speaker | Debugging Cloud Applications: From Static to Dynamic | — |
| Neha Pawar | StarTree | Speaker | Speed of Apache Pinot at the Cost of Cloud Object Storage with Tiered Storage | — |
| Nithin Das | Zoho | Speaker | Resource Optimization for a Sustainable Cloud | — |
| Olga Sermon | Superawesome | Speaker | Available, Affordable, Attractive: Enabling Platform Adoption | — |
| Oli Bage | LSEG | Panelist | Panel: Tech of FinTech | — |
| Oli Bage | LSEG | Speaker | LSEG Cloud Lessons Learned: After Nearly a Decade of Being Cloud-First, What Have We Learned? | — |
| Paul Lawson | Supercritical | Speaker | Tech's Carbon Footprint: Understanding and Tackling the Impact of Tech on the Climate Crisis | — |
| Praveen Erode Mohanasundaram | Discover | Speaker | Breaking Free from End-to-End Testing: Why Contract Testing is the Key to Microservices Success | — |
| Rebecca Parsons | Thoughtworks | Speaker | How will Evolutionary Architecture Evolve? | — |
| Rebecca Parsons | Thoughtworks | Panelist | Panel: Architectures in 2025 | — |
| Rebecca Parsons | Thoughtworks | Panelist | Panel: Remote and Hybrid Work | — |
| Rebecca Parsons | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Remote Working: The Day 8,000 People Suddenly Worked From Home Through the Present | — |
| Rosemary Wang | HashiCorp | Panelist | Panel: Architectures in 2025 | — |
| Rosemary Wang | HashiCorp | Speaker | From Cloud-Hosted to Cloud-Native | — |
| Ruben Casas | Postman | Speaker | Micro Frontends: The Evolution of Frontend Architecture | — |
| Sabrina Leandro | Intercom | Speaker | RECORDING: Setting Goals as a Staff+ Engineer | — |
| Sara Bergman | Microsoft | Speaker | Can Green Software Engineering Solve the Climate Crisis? | — |
| Sara Bergman | Microsoft | Panelist | Panel: What’s next? Net-Zero Commitments? | — |
| Sarah (Chun-Wei) Hsu | Goldman Sachs | Panelist | Panel: What’s next? Net-Zero Commitments? | — |
| Sareh Heidari | F1 Arcade® | Speaker | Digital Exclusion & How to Change It | — |
| Sareh Heidari | F1 Arcade® | Panelist | Panel: Socially Conscious Software | — |
| Sid Anand | Walmart | Speaker | Building High-Fidelity Data Streams | — |
| Stefania Chaplin | DevStefOps | Speaker | Maximising Business Outcomes with Secure and Compliant Value Stream Optimisation | — |
| Steph Egan | BBC | Speaker | 5 Principles for Enablement with (Almost) Nothing to do with Building Tools | — |
| Subramanya Dulloor | Kumo | Speaker | Graph Learning at the Scale of Modern Data Warehouses | — |
| Suhail Patel | Monzo | Speaker | Banking on Thousands of Microservices | — |
| Susanne Braun | SAP | Speaker | Eventual Consistency – Don’t Be Afraid! | — |
| Sven Reimers | Airbus | Panelist | Panel: Staff+ Engineering in Practice | — |
| Sven Reimers | Airbus | Speaker | Why Technical Experience Matters: How To Build a Lifelong Career in Software Development | — |
| Thomas Betts | Blackbaud | Panelist | Panel: Architectures in 2025 | — |
| Thomas Betts | Blackbaud | Speaker | Leveling Up Your Architecture Game | — |
| Thomas Dullien | — | Speaker | Adventures in Performance | — |
| Tomáš Neubauer | Quix | Speaker | Simplifying Real-Time ML Pipelines with Quix Streams: An Open Source Python Library for ML Engineers | — |
| Uroš Trebec | Sleuth | Speaker | Building Better Software: Lessons from Construction | — |
| Varun Achar | Razorpay | Speaker | Using Customer Obsession to Drive Platform Adoption | — |
| Varun Sharma | StepSecurity | Speaker | Security Checks Simplified: How to Implement Best Practices with Ease | — |
| Varun Sharma | StepSecurity | Panelist | Panel: Building Security in Earlier | — |
| Wouter Ligtenberg | ING | Speaker | How ING Accelerated Kubernetes Deployments Across 500+ Applications: Challenges & Lessons Learned | — |
| Yannis Georgas | Capgemini | Speaker | Cognitive Digital Twins: A New Era of Intelligent Automation | — |
| Yves Lorphelin | Event Store | Speaker | Streaming Events? You Should Be Storing Them | — |
| Zan Markan | CircleCI | Speaker | Pipeline Patterns for Platform Teams | — |