Conferences / QCon
QCon San Francisco 2024
Nov 18–20, 2024 · Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero), San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Nov 18, 2024 – Nov 20, 2024
- Venue
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco (Embarcadero)
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 850Recap: 'Thank you to the 850+ senior software engineers, architects, and team leads'; '114+ software leaders' spoke.
- Website
- qconsf.com
- Recorded
- 32 sponsors · 98 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Conference Nov 18-20, trainings Nov 21-22, 2024. Talks from qconsf.com/schedule/nov2024.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference (3 days) (until March 12) | $2,150 | Mar 12, 2024 | web.archive.org | |
| Conference (3 days) (until October 29) | $3,200 | Oct 29, 2024 | web.archive.org | |
| Conference (3 days) (until November 15) | $3,200 | Nov 15, 2024 | web.archive.org | |
| Conference (3 days) (after October 29) | $3,350 | — | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 32
Speakers and talks 98
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hien Luu | — | Keynote | Prompt Engineering: Is it a New Programming Language? | — |
| Khawaja Shams | Momento | Keynote | Dare Mighty Things: What NASA's Bold Endeavors Teach Us About the Power of Calculated RISCs | — |
| Lizzie Matusov | Quotient | Keynote | The (Not So) Hidden Social Drivers Behind the Highest Performing Engineering Teams | — |
| Shruti Bhat | Rockset | Keynote | Pioneering the Future: Advancing Infrastructure for Agentic AI | — |
| Adi Polak | Confluent | Speaker | Stream All the Things — Patterns of Effective Data Stream Processing | — |
| Ado Kukic | Sourcegraph | Speaker | Chat-Oriented Programming in Action | — |
| Alexandru Ene | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly | — |
| Amitai Stern | Logz.io | Speaker | OpenSearch Cluster Topologies for Cost-Saving Autoscaling | — |
| Andy Piper | Diffblue | Speaker | AI Agent Workflows for Accelerated Development Cycles | — |
| Anil Rajput | AMD | Speaker | Unleashing Llama's Potential: CPU-Based Fine-Tuning | — |
| Anna Berenberg | Speaker | One Network: Cloud-Agnostic Service and Policy-Oriented Network Architecture | — | |
| Benjamen Pyle | Pyle Cloud Technologies, LLC | Speaker | High Performance Serverless with Rust | — |
| Bibek Bhattarai | Intel | Speaker | Maximizing Deep Learning Performance on CPUs using Modern Architectures | — |
| Brian Martin | IOP Systems | Speaker | High-Resolution Platform Observability | — |
| Bruno Rey | Eventbrite | Speaker | From Junior to Staff and Beyond: Lessons Learned | — |
| Carl Lerche | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Rust: A Productive Language for Writing Database Applications | — |
| Carlos Arguelles | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity as Amazon Grew 30x | — |
| Charlotte Mestwerdt | Bravely Amsterdam | Speaker | Engineering Influence and Forgetting the Soft Skills | — |
| Chris Price | Momento | Speaker | Moving Your Bugs Forward in Time: Language Trends That Help You Catch Your Bugs at Build Time Instead of Run Time | — |
| Cody Yu | Anyscale | Speaker | Scale Out Batch Inference with Ray | — |
| Colby Morgan | Mighty Coconut | Panelist | Panel: Next Generation Inclusive UIs | — |
| Colby Morgan | Mighty Coconut | Speaker | Building Inclusive Mini Golf: A Practical Guide to Accessible XR Development | — |
| Cooper Bethea | — | Speaker | Slack's Migration to a Cellular Architecture | — |
| Courtney Nash | — | Speaker | Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Automation in Software | — |
| Dan Chao | Apple | Speaker | Taming the Configuration Beast with Pkl! | — |
| Dan Fike | Carta | Speaker | Ambiguous Roles and Ambiguous Problems: Navigating Life as a Principal Engineer | — |
| David Berg | Netflix | Speaker | Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix | — |
| David Cheney | GitHub | Speaker | How GitHub Copilot Serves 400 Million Completion Requests a Day | — |
| David Parry | Qodo | Speaker | Making Spock Groovy through AI | — |
| Dejan Miličić | RavenDB | Speaker | Building Software Architecture from First Principles | — |
| Dennis Pilarinos | Unblocked | Speaker | Using AI to Solve Real Problems for Development Teams | — |
| Denys Linkov | Voiceflow | Speaker | A Framework for Building Micro Metrics for LLM System Evaluation | — |
| Dorian Blanc | Gravitee | Speaker | Securing and Controlling Kafka Access | — |
| Dorian Blanc | Gravitee | Speaker | APIs and Events: One Platform to Rule Them All | — |
| Dorota Parad | Authress | Speaker | Security or Convenience - Why Not Both? | — |
| Dylan Fox | XR Access, Cornell | Panelist | Panel: Next Generation Inclusive UIs | — |
| Dylan Fox | XR Access, Cornell | Speaker | Accessible Innovation in XR: Maximizing the Curb Cut Effect | — |
| Emerson Murphy-Hill | — | Speaker | Supporting Engineering Productivity for All | — |
| Erin Pañgilinan | Cypher Realities, O'Reilly Media | Panelist | Panel: Next Generation Inclusive UIs | — |
| Erin Pañgilinan | Cypher Realities, O'Reilly Media | Speaker | Multidimensionality: Using Spatial Intelligence x Spatial Computing to Create New Worlds | — |
| Faye Zhang | Speaker | Search: from Linear to Multiverse | — | |
| Gaurav Chakravorty | Meta | Speaker | Reinforcement Learning for User Retention in Large-Scale Recommendation Systems | — |
| Getty Ritter | Stripe | Speaker | Refactoring Stubborn, Legacy Codebases | — |
| Gregor Hohpe | — | Speaker | Thinking Like an Architect | — |
| Ian Hoffman | Slack | Speaker | Changing the Model: Why and How We Re-Architected Slack | — |
| Jake McGuire | McKinsey & Company | Speaker | The Value of Full-Stack JavaScript | — |
| Jake Zimmerman | Stripe | Speaker | Refactoring Stubborn, Legacy Codebases | — |
| Janani Narayanan | Uber | Speaker | Optimizing Search at Uber Eats | — |
| Jason Roberts | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Legacy Modernization: Architecting Real-Time Systems Around a Mainframe | — |
| Jiangjie (Becket) Qin | Speaker | Stream and Batch Processing Convergence in Apache Flink | — | |
| John Gesimondo | Netflix | Speaker | Achieving Sustainable Mental Peace at Work Using GenAI | — |
| Jonas Bonér | AKKA | Speaker | Transcending the Barriers to Elasticity | — |
| Jonathan Vila | SonarSource | Speaker | Code quality in the AI Era is Needed More than Ever | — |
| Jordan Miller | Nubank | Speaker | Clojure 2024 | — |
| Juliano Martins | Mercado Libre | Speaker | Scaling Innovation with NoOps: How Mercado Libre Manages 30,000 Microservices and 25 million RPS | — |
| Jun He | Netflix | Speaker | Efficient Incremental Processing with Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg | — |
| Karthik Ramasamy | Uber | Speaker | Optimizing Search at Uber Eats | — |
| Kathleen Vignos | Capital One | Speaker | Built to Outlast: Cultivating a Culture of Resilience | — |
| Leann Chen | Diffbot | Speaker | Enhance LLMs’ Explainability and Trustworthiness With Knowledge Graphs | — |
| Lucas Mendes | Revelo | Speaker | Guest Panel Discussion: Leading Engineering Teams in 2024 & Beyond: Tackling AI, Remote/Hybrid Work, and Economic Turbulence | — |
| Ludovic Henry | Rivos | Speaker | Optimizing Custom Workloads with RISC-V | — |
| Mandy Gu | Wealthsimple | Speaker | GenAI for Productivity | — |
| Marcelo Quadros | Mercado Libre | Speaker | Scaling Innovation with NoOps: How Mercado Libre Manages 30,000 Microservices and 25 million RPS | — |
| Meryem Arik | Doubleword | Speaker | Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques | — |
| Michael "Kaz" Kazmier | McKinsey & Company | Speaker | Balancing Act - Enabling Innovation and Scale for Responsible Generative AI | — |
| Michelle Alexander | Fanatics | Speaker | Systems Thinking for Building Resilient Engineering Organizations | — |
| Moumita Bhattacharya | Netflix | Speaker | Recommender and Search Ranking Systems in Large Scale Real World Applications | — |
| Ohan Oda | Speaker | Making Augmented Reality Accessible: A Case Study of Lens in Maps | — | |
| Oscar Mullin | Mercado Libre | Speaker | From Hype to Large-Scale Production: How LATAM's Largest Company Leveraged Platform Engineering to Build a GenAI Development Platform for 60K+ Employees | — |
| Pablo Fredrikson | Harness | Speaker | 5 Steps to Building a Personal Brand for Elevating Your Influence | — |
| Paula Kennedy | Syntasso | Speaker | Platform Engineering: Evolution, Trends, and Future Impact on Software Delivery | — |
| Prudhviraj Karumanchi | Netflix | Speaker | Beyond Durability: Enhancing Database Resilience and Reducing the Entropy Using Write-Ahead Logging at Netflix | — |
| Rachel Potvin | Sanity | Speaker | Productivity Lessons in Moving from Big Tech to Scaling a Startup | — |
| Ramya Krishnamoorthy | Momento | Speaker | Myth Busters: Is Rust a Slam Dunk? | — |
| Rashmi Venugopal | Netflix | Speaker | Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture | — |
| Rebecca Weekly | GEICO | Speaker | Evaluating and Deploying State-of-the-Art Hardware to Meet the Challenges of Modern Workloads | — |
| Rema Hariharan | AMD | Speaker | Unleashing Llama's Potential: CPU-Based Fine-Tuning | — |
| Roland Meertens | Wayve | Speaker | Beyond Code: Building a Personal Brand To Boost Your Career | — |
| Romain Cledat | Netflix | Speaker | Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix | — |
| Saurabh Gupta | Meta | Speaker | Reinforcement Learning for User Retention in Large-Scale Recommendation Systems | — |
| Sebastian Barrios | Mercado Libre | Speaker | From Hype to Large-Scale Production: How LATAM's Largest Company Leveraged Platform Engineering to Build a GenAI Development Platform for 60K+ Employees | — |
| Senyo Simpson | Fly.io | Speaker | Fearless Programming with Rust | — |
| Sergii Gorbachov | Slack | Speaker | Slack's AI-Powered, Hybrid Approach for Large-Scale Migration from Enzyme to React Testing Library | — |
| Shawna Martell | Imprint | Speaker | Building Tomorrow’s Legacy Code, Today | — |
| Soledad Alborno | Speaker | What to Pack for Your GenAI Adventure | — | |
| Sonia Mathew | National Grid | Speaker | Legacy Modernization: Architecting Real-Time Systems Around a Mainframe | — |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | VGZ | InfoQ | Speaker | Beyond Code: Building a Personal Brand To Boost Your Career | — |
| Sterling Chin | Postman | Speaker | You Can't Do AI Without APIs: A Practical Playbook for the AI Revolution | — |
| Tina Wright | Grammarly | Speaker | What Keeps Me Up at Night – Existential Questions for IC Leaders | — |
| Tony Young | Event Store | Speaker | Unlocking the value of Events with AI and EventStoreDB | — |
| Tyler Jewell | AKKA | Speaker | Leveling Up as an Architect When Change Is Relentless | — |
| Victor Dibia | Microsoft | Speaker | 10 Reasons Your Multi-Agent Workflows Fail and What You Can Do About It | — |
| Vidhya Arvind | Netflix | Speaker | Beyond Durability: Enhancing Database Resilience and Reducing the Entropy Using Write-Ahead Logging at Netflix | — |
| Viren Baraiya | Orkes | Speaker | Scaling and Managing Complex Agentic Workflows with Conductor | — |
| Wenjie Zi | Grammarly | Speaker | Why Most Machine Learning Projects Fail to Reach Production and How to Beat the Odds | — |
| Will Larson | Carta | Speaker | Ambiguous Roles and Ambiguous Problems: Navigating Life as a Principal Engineer | — |
| Ye (Charlotte) Qi | Meta | Speaker | Scaling Large Language Model Serving Infrastructure at Meta | — |
| Ying Dai | Roblox | Speaker | Shifting Left for Better Engineering Efficiency | — |
Sources
- https://qconsf.com/schedule/nov2024
- https://qconsf.com/recap/nov2024
- https://web.archive.org/web/20241113054546/https://qconsf.com/sponsors/nov2024
- https://web.archive.org/web/20240423232827/https://qconsf.com/pricing-table/nov2024
- https://web.archive.org/web/20241109223605/https://qconsf.com/pricing-table/nov2024