Conferences / QCon
QCon London 2024
Apr 8–10, 2024 · Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre), London, United Kingdom
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Apr 8, 2024 – Apr 10, 2024
- Venue
- Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre)
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 1,300Recap: 'Thank you to the 1,300 senior software engineers, software architects, and team leads'.
- Website
- qconlondon.com
- Recorded
- 26 sponsors · 108 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Talks from qconlondon.com/schedule/apr2024.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person Conference (3 days) (until October 12) | £1,890 | Oct 12, 2023 | pricing page: 20% VAT added | web.archive.org |
| In-person Conference (3 days) (until March 12) | £2,365 | Mar 12, 2024 | pricing page: 20% VAT added | web.archive.org |
| In-person Conference (3 days) (after March 12) | £2,490 | — | pricing page: 20% VAT added | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 26
Speakers and talks 108
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Piper | freelance | Keynote | Where is the Art? A History in Technology | — |
| Jeremy Ruston | Intertwingled Innovations | Keynote | The Home Computer That Roared: How the BBC Micro Shaped Our World | — |
| Tiani Jones | — | Keynote | A Game of Patterns | — |
| Tracy (“Trac”) Bannon | MITRE | Keynote | Applying AI to the SDLC: New Ideas and Gotchas! - Leveraging AI to Improve Software Engineering | — |
| Adora Nwodo | — | Speaker | Borderless Cloud: Designing, Implementing, and Securing Apps Across Multiple Clouds | — |
| Adrian Gonzalez-Martin | The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning | Speaker | Flawed ML Security: Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities in Data & Machine Learning Infrastructure with MLSecOps | — |
| Alan Elder | Microsoft | Speaker | What Can You Learn From the Fastest Code in the World? | — |
| Alana Marzoev | Readyset | Speaker | Powering User Experiences with Streaming Dataflow | — |
| Ana Petkovska | Nexthink | Speaker | The Time Is Now: Delight Your Developers with User-Centric Platforms & Practices | — |
| Andreas Kollegger | Neo4j | Speaker | GraphRAG - Connecting the Dots for Information Discovery | — |
| Andrzej Grzesik | LMAX | Speaker | Unveiling the Tech Underpinning FinTech's Revolution | — |
| Andy Burgin | Flutter | Speaker | Curating a Developer Experience - A Hands-on Guide for Platform Engineers | — |
| Andy Piper | Diffblue | Speaker | Autonomous AI, Your New QA Engineer | — |
| Ashish Rajan | Kaizenteq Ltd | Speaker | A Zero Trust Future for Applications: Practical Implementation and Pitfalls | — |
| Aviran Mordo | Wix | Speaker | When DevOps Runs Its Course - We Need Platform as a Runtime | — |
| Azhir Mahmood | University College London | Speaker | LLM and Generative AI for Sensitive Data - Navigating Security, Responsibility, and Pitfalls in Highly Regulated Industries | — |
| Bernd Ruecker | Camunda | Speaker | Are You Done Yet? Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures | — |
| Brittany Woods | — | Speaker | Bits, Bots, and Banter: A Deep Dive into How Tech Teams Work in a DevOps World | — |
| Chris Cooney | Coralogix | Speaker | Driving Down the Cost of Observability | — |
| Christopher Luu | Netflix | Speaker | Server-Driven UI for Mobile and Beyond | — |
| Dan Fike | Carta | Speaker | Navigators: Decentralizing Decisions and Empowering ICs at Carta | — |
| Danielle Lancashire | Fermyon | Speaker | Turbocharged Development: The Speed and Efficiency of WebAssembly | — |
| Danilo Sato | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Architecting for Data Products | — |
| Dr. Olga Kubassova | Image Analysis Group | Speaker | Data, Drugs, and Disruption: Leading High-Performance Company in Drug Development | — |
| Eb Ikonne | Cox Automotive | Speaker | Small Actions, Big Impact: Catalyzing Change in Groups | — |
| Felix GV | Speaker | Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s AI Data Platform | — | |
| George Mao | Capital One | Speaker | Lessons & Best Practices from Leading the Serverless First Journey at CapitalOne | — |
| Ghida Ibrahim | Sector Alarm Group | Speaker | When AIOps Meets MLOps: What Does It Take To Deploy ML Models at Scale | — |
| Gregor Hohpe | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Thinking Like an Architect | — |
| Hannah Foxwell | — | Speaker | Being a Bad Influence – The Dangerous Dichotomies of People Management | — |
| Hannes Ricklefs | BBC | Speaker | The Art, Science and Psychology of Decision Making | — |
| Holly Cummins | IBM | Speaker | Zero Waste, Radical Magic, and Italian Graft – Quarkus Efficiency Secrets | — |
| Ian Thomas | Meta | Speaker | Unleashing the Potential of VR: Building Immersive Experiences with Familiar Tools | — |
| Igor Canadi | Rockset | Speaker | Rockset - Building a Modern Analytics Database on Top of RocksDB | — |
| Ines Montani | Explosion | Speaker | The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How Open-Source Beats Economies of Scale, Even for LLMs | — |
| Ivan Burmistrov | ShareChat | Speaker | The Harsh Reality of Building a Realtime ML Feature Platform | — |
| James Kinley | Redpanda | Speaker | Simplifying Streaming Data Transforms with WebAssembly | — |
| James Munro | Man Group | Speaker | Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database | — |
| Jamie White | Postman | Speaker | Elevating Developer Experiences with AI-Powered API Testing & Documentation | — |
| Jay Alammar | Cohere | Speaker | Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Patterns and Best Practices | — |
| Jemma Hussein Allen | - | Speaker | A Platform Engineering Journey: Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps | — |
| Jennifer Davis | Speaker | Thriving Through Change: Leading Through Uncertainty | — | |
| Jessica Andersson | Kognic | Speaker | Building Your First Platform Team in a Fast Growing Startup | — |
| Jessica Felix | Itaú Unibanco | Speaker | Lessons Learned in the Financial Market About Performance and Observability in Frontend Projects | — |
| Joe Rowell | poolside | Panelist | Panel: What Does the Future of Computing Look Like | — |
| Joe Rowell | poolside | Speaker | Pitfalls of Unified Memory Models in GPUs | — |
| John O'Hara | — | Speaker | Uncomplex: Modern Hardware for Better Software | — |
| John Spray | Neon | Speaker | Stateful Cloud Services at Neon: Navigating Design Decisions and Trade-Offs | — |
| Joni Collinge | Diagrid | Speaker | Building SaaS From Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: A Deep Dive Into a Cloud Startup | — |
| Julia Lawall | Inria | Panelist | Panel: What Does the Future of Computing Look Like | — |
| Julia Lawall | Inria | Speaker | Opening the Box: Diagnosing Operating-System Task-Scheduler Behavior on Highly Multicore Machines | — |
| Karthik Ramgopal | Speaker | gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn | — | |
| Leander Vanderbijl | Kry/Livi | Speaker | Modernizing in Healthcare – From On-Prem to the Cloud | — |
| Leo Browning | ClimateAligned | Speaker | How Green is Green: LLMs to Understand Climate Disclosure at Scale | — |
| Lexy Kassan | Databricks | Speaker | Responsible AI for FinTech | — |
| Lin Sun | Solo.io | Speaker | Sidecar-Less or Sidecars for Your Applications in Istio Service Mesh? | — |
| Linus Hakansson | Gravitee | Speaker | An Introduction to Event APIs | — |
| Lisa Karlin Curtis | incident.io | Speaker | Why You’re Doing Service Catalogs Wrong | — |
| Liz Rice | Isovalent | Speaker | Unleashing the Kernel With eBPF | — |
| Lorenzo Sciandra | Microsoft | Speaker | Adaptable Innovation: How Microsoft Leverages React Native for Strategic Advantage | — |
| Loubna Ben Allal | Hugging Face | Speaker | Large Language Models for Code: Exploring the Landscape, Opportunities, and Challenges | — |
| Louis Muller | DoiT | Speaker | FinOps & Cost Optimization: Considerations on Implementing an Effective Strategy | — |
| Martin Thwaites | Honeycomb | Speaker | Production Comes First - An Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices | — |
| Matt Fleming | Nyrkiö | Speaker | Practical Benchmarking: How To Detect Performance Changes in Noisy Results | — |
| Matt Fleming | Nyrkiö | Panelist | Panel: What Does the Future of Computing Look Like | — |
| Meryem Arik | Doubleword | Speaker | Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques | — |
| Michael Brunton-Spall | Cabinet Office | Speaker | Beyond the Breach: Proactive Defense in the Age of Advanced Threats | — |
| Michael Friedrich | GitLab | Speaker | Efficient DevSecOps Workflows With a Little Help From AI | — |
| Michael Gray | ClearBank | Speaker | The Journey of ClearBank From Start-Up To Scale-Up | — |
| Mike Lewis | Spotify | Speaker | Everything Is a Plugin: How the Backstage Architecture Helps Platform Teams at Spotify and Beyond Spread Ownership and Deliver Value | — |
| Milena Nikolic | Trainline | Speaker | Evolving Trainline Architecture for Scale, Reliability and Productivity | — |
| Min Chen | Speaker | gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn | — | |
| Nandakumar Heble | UBS | Speaker | Data Mesh Architecture Applied to Complex Organizations | — |
| Neil Stevenson | Hazelcast | Speaker | Best Practices for Data Platforms with Finanz Informatik and Hazelcast | — |
| Neil Vass | Co-op | Speaker | Making Change Stick: Lessons Learned From Helping Teams Improve at the Co-Op | — |
| Nico Krieg | Finanz Informatik | Speaker | Best Practices for Data Platforms with Finanz Informatik and Hazelcast | — |
| Nischal HP | Scoutbee GmbH | Speaker | Mind Your Language Models: An Approach to Architecting Intelligent Systems | — |
| Noémi Ványi | Xata | Speaker | Improving Developer Experience Using Automated Data CI/CD Pipelines | — |
| Olivier Gaudin | Sonar | Speaker | Clean Code is the Base for a Well-Functioning Dev Team | — |
| Paul Wilkinson | Redpanda | Speaker | Simplifying Streaming Data Transforms with WebAssembly | — |
| Peter Gillard-Moss | DeepL | Speaker | Help: I Didn’t Realize I Was a Manager Now! | — |
| Philipp Blanke | Finanz Informatik | Speaker | Best Practices for Data Platforms with Finanz Informatik and Hazelcast | — |
| Pia Nilsson | Spotify | Speaker | Everything Is a Plugin: How the Backstage Architecture Helps Platform Teams at Spotify and Beyond Spread Ownership and Deliver Value | — |
| Pietro Albini | Ferrous Systems | Speaker | Not Just Memory Safety: How Rust Helps Maintain Efficient Software | — |
| Rachael Greaves | Castlepoint Systems | Speaker | Trends in InfoSec: Data Minimisation, Autoclassification, and Ethical AI | — |
| Ranbir Chawla | RB Global | Speaker | Beyond Platform Thinking at RB Global – Build Things No One Expects, in a Place No One Expects It | — |
| Raphael Taylor-Davies | InfluxData | Speaker | Building InfluxDB 3.0 using Modular Open Source Components | — |
| Rémi Sultan | Gravitee | Speaker | Specs Generation, Bring Intelligence in your API Management Strategy | — |
| Ricardo Nuno Almeida | m3ter | Speaker | A Tale of Team Topologies at m3ter | — |
| Rich Smith | Crash Override | Speaker | Poetry4Shellz – Avoiding Limerick Based Exploitation and Safely Using AI in Your Apps | — |
| Richard Startin | Datadog | Speaker | A Walk Along the Complexity-Performance Curve | — |
| Rocio Lopez | ING | Speaker | Driving Business Success: Exploring ING's Tech Strategy for Customer Value Creation | — |
| Ryan Sheldrake | Harness | Speaker | What is your Developer Experience Utopia? | — |
| Sara Bergman | Microsoft | Speaker | How to Architect Software for a Greener Future | — |
| Shawna Martell | Imprint | Speaker | Navigators: Decentralizing Decisions and Empowering ICs at Carta | — |
| Sheen Brisals | — | Speaker | Think, Architect, and Sustain Your Serverless Applications As [Set] Pieces! | — |
| Simona Pencea | Xata | Speaker | Improving Developer Experience Using Automated Data CI/CD Pipelines | — |
| Spyros Gasteratos | Smithy Security | Speaker | From Anti-Patterns to Best Practices: A Practical Guide to DevSecOps Automation and Security | — |
| Stefania Chaplin | DevStefOps | Speaker | LLM and Generative AI for Sensitive Data - Navigating Security, Responsibility, and Pitfalls in Highly Regulated Industries | — |
| Stephen Tung | Event Store | Speaker | You Capture only 1% of Business Data. Unlock the rest with EventStoreDB | — |
| Tejas Kumar | — | Speaker | The Latest in the World of Web Engineering (Featuring AI) | — |
| Tingyi Li | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Reach Next-Level Autonomy with LLM-Based AI Agents | — |
| Vitor Pellegrino | Duolingo | Speaker | How We Created a High-Scale Notification System at Duolingo That Delivered Millions of Messages Within Seconds During a Super Bowl Commercial Break | — |
| Vlad Ilyushchenko | QuestDB | Speaker | High Performance Time-Series Database Design With QuestDB | — |
| Wojtek Ptak | Revolut | Speaker | Unveiling the Tech Underpinning FinTech's Revolution | — |
| Yan Cui | Lumigo | Speaker | Efficient Serverless Development: Latest Patterns and Practices on AWS | — |
| Zahan Malkani | Meta | Speaker | 0 → 1, shipping Threads in 5 months | — |
| Zhen Zhou | Duolingo | Speaker | How We Created a High-Scale Notification System at Duolingo That Delivered Millions of Messages Within Seconds During a Super Bowl Commercial Break | — |