Conferences / QCon
QCon London 2025
Apr 7–9, 2025 · Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre), London, United Kingdom
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Apr 7, 2025 – Apr 9, 2025
- Venue
- Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre)
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- qconlondon.com
- Recorded
- 19 sponsors · 92 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Conference Apr 7-9, certification/training day Apr 10, 2025. Talks from qconlondon.com/schedule/apr2025; five panels (incl. "Panel: Modern Data Architectures") list no panelists on the schedule and are omitted.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person Conference (3 days) (until August 27) | £1,750 | Aug 27, 2024 | pricing page: 20% VAT added | web.archive.org |
| In-person Conference (3 days) (until March 11) | £2,450 | Mar 11, 2025 | pricing page: 20% VAT added | web.archive.org |
| In-person Conference (3 days) (after March 11) | £2,550 | — | pricing page: 20% VAT added | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 19
Speakers and talks 92
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Kenneth Harris | The Aerospace Corporation | Keynote | A Thirteen Billion Year Old Photograph | — |
| Hannah Foxwell | — | Keynote | Making AI Agents Work For You (and Your Team) | — |
| John O'Hara | — | Keynote | Advanced Message Queuing Politics | — |
| Savannah Kunovsky | IDEO | Keynote | The Form of AI | — |
| Adi Polak | Confluent | Speaker | Achieving Precision in AI: Retrieving the Right Data Using AI Agents | — |
| Alan Klikic | AKKA | Speaker | From Concept to Code: Navigating Agentic AI Services | — |
| Alex Good | Ink & Switch | Speaker | Local First – How To Build Software Which Still Works After the Acquihire | — |
| Alex Radovici | Wyliodrin | Speaker | How WebAssembly Components Enable Safe and Portable Software Extensions | — |
| Alex Seaton | Man Group | Speaker | How to Build a Database Without a Server | — |
| Alicia Collymore | incident.io | Speaker | Beyond the Code: Hiring for Cultural Alignment | — |
| Amir Langer | Adaptive Financial Consulting | Speaker | Latency: The Race to Zero...Are We There Yet? | — |
| Andra Lezza | Sage | Speaker | Securing AI Assistants: Strategies and Practices for Protecting Data | — |
| Andre Riberio | Healthily | Speaker | From Symptom Checkers to Smart Chatbots: The Role of AI in Virtual Care | — |
| Andrea Peruffo | Red Hat | Speaker | WASM in the Enterprise: Secure, Portable, and Ready for Business | — |
| Animesh Mishra | Diffblue | Speaker | Unlock Continuous Testing with AI Test Agent Workflows | — |
| Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom | SpareBank 1 Utvikling | Speaker | Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible Without Pair Programming: Lessons From SpareBank 1 and SINTEF in Norway | — |
| Benjamin Gamble | Ververica | Speaker | Streaming Really Large Data With Flink and Fluss | — |
| Beth Anderson | BBC | Speaker | Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn From Junior Engineers | — |
| Birgitta Böckeler | Thoughtworks | Speaker | From Autocomplete to Agents: AI Coding State of Play | — |
| Cat Morris | Syntasso | Speaker | The Friction Fix: Building Collaborative Relationships Between Teams | — |
| Celine Pypaert | Johnson Matthey | Speaker | Empower Your Developers: How Open Source Dependencies Risk Management Can Unlock Innovation | — |
| Clara Matos | Sword Health | Speaker | Lessons Learned From Shipping AI-Powered Healthcare Products | — |
| Cory Benfield | Apple | Speaker | Expanding Swift from Apps to Services | — |
| Daniel Hewlett | Speaker | Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant | — | |
| Daniele Tonella | ING | Speaker | Engineering Excellence at ING: Balance Autonomy with Standardization | — |
| Dennis Pilarinos | Unblocked | Speaker | AI Developer Tools Are Focused on the Wrong Problem | — |
| Diana Montalion | Mentrix | Speaker | The Friction Fix: Building Collaborative Relationships Between Teams | — |
| Duncan DeVore | AKKA | Speaker | A Blueprint for Agentic AI Services | — |
| Durai Arasan | JPMorgan Chase | Speaker | Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies From chase.com, #1 Banking Portal in the US | — |
| Elena Stojmilova | Open GI | Speaker | Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making | — |
| Emma Yuan Fang | EPAM | Speaker | Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust | — |
| Fabien Deshayes | Monzo | Speaker | Achieve Optimal Efficiency for your Developer Experience Teams | — |
| Holly Cummins | IBM | Speaker | The Efficiency Paradox and How to Save Yourself and the World | — |
| Holly Cummins | IBM | Speaker | Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun | — |
| Ian Arundale | BBC | Speaker | Architecture in the Lead: Scaling Today, Shaping Tomorrow | — |
| Ian Miell | Container Solutions | Speaker | The Way We Manage Compliance Is Wrong… And Is Changing! Bringing DevOps Principles to Controls and Audit | — |
| Iaroslav Amerkhanov | Delivery Hero | Speaker | AI for Food Image Generation in Production: How & Why | — |
| Jade Abbott | Lelapa AI | Speaker | Ecologies and Economics of Language AI in Practice | — |
| Jim Gough | Morgan Stanley | Speaker | Platforms for Secure API Connectivity With Architecture as Code | — |
| Jinsong Yu | Meta | Speaker | Developing Meta's Orion AR Glasses | — |
| Jon Topper | The Scale Factory | Speaker | Things SaaS Builders Keep Getting Wrong | — |
| Karin Landers | Ververica | Speaker | Zero Trust or Bust. Bring Your Own Cloud To Real-Time Data | — |
| Karthik Ramgopal | Speaker | Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant | — | |
| Kevin Bowman | Kraken | Speaker | Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green | — |
| Kyra Mozley | Wayve | Speaker | How to Unlock Insights and Enable Discovery Within Petabytes of Autonomous Driving Data | — |
| Laurent Doguin | Couchbase | Speaker | WASM Components are a FaaS' Best Friend | — |
| Leander Vanderbijl | Kry/Livi | Speaker | Transforming Primary Care: A Case Study in Evolving From Start-Up To Scale-Up | — |
| Lesley Cordero | The New York Times | Speaker | Platform Engineering as a Practice of Sociotechnical Excellence | — |
| Louis Ryan | Solo.io | Speaker | Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required | — |
| Luca Mezzalira | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform | — |
| Ludi AKUE | Bpifrance | Speaker | What I Wish I Knew When I Started with Green IT | — |
| Mark Allen | Isometric | Speaker | How to Always Get Invited to Big Strategic Conversations | — |
| Martha Lambert | incident.io | Speaker | From Dashboard Soup to Observability Lasagna: Building Better Layers | — |
| Matheus Albuquerque | Medallia | Speaker | Speed at Scale: Optimizing the Largest CX Platform Out There | — |
| Matthew Card | BBC | Speaker | Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success | — |
| Matthew Clark | BBC | Speaker | Architecture in the Lead: Scaling Today, Shaping Tomorrow | — |
| Matthew Liste | American Express | Speaker | Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure | — |
| Matthias Niehoff | codecentric AG | Speaker | Reliable Data Flows and Scalable Platforms: Tackling Key Data Challenges | — |
| Miriam Fahim | LSEG | Speaker | Thinking Out of the Sandbox - Using Product Management to De-Risk Technical Innovation | — |
| Moumita Bhattacharya | Netflix | Speaker | Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned | — |
| Natan Žabkar Nordberg | topi | Speaker | Creating Impactful Teams Across Diverse Work Environments | — |
| Naveen Mareddy | Netflix | Speaker | From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix | — |
| Nolan Di Mare Sullivan | Speakeasy | Speaker | Developer Experience’s New Frontier: Agentic Experience | — |
| Ola Hast | SpareBank 1 Utvikling | Speaker | Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible Without Pair Programming: Lessons From SpareBank 1 and SINTEF in Norway | — |
| Paul Iusztin | Decoding ML | Speaker | The Data Backbone of LLM Systems | — |
| Paul Wilkinson | Redpanda | Speaker | Building a Streaming Agentic AI Pipeline with Redpanda and Snowflake | — |
| Peter Hunter | Open GI | Speaker | Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making | — |
| Rachael Wonnacott | Fidelity Investments | Speaker | Your Platform is Not an Island: Embracing Evolution in Your Ecosystem | — |
| Rafael Ring | Nubank | Speaker | Mobile Server-Driven UI at Scale | — |
| Roland Meertens | Wayve | Speaker | Beyond Code: Building a Personal Brand To Boost Your Career | — |
| Sahil Dua | Speaker | Building Embedding Models for Large-Scale Real-World Applications | — | |
| Sam Cox | Tracebit | Speaker | Questioning Convention: C# as a Shortcut to Startup Velocity | — |
| Sam Newman | — | Speaker | Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency In Distributed Systems | — |
| Sarah (Chun-Wei) Hsu | Goldman Sachs | Speaker | Beyond Uptime: What the 'Metric' Is Going On with Green Software? | — |
| Sarah Usher | Tech Risers Women | Speaker | Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems | — |
| Sérgio Amorim | Revolut | Speaker | Extreme DevOps Automation | — |
| Shana Dacres-Lawrence | ArchitectHer | Speaker | Security and Architecture: To Betray One Is To Destroy Both | — |
| Somtochi Onyekwere | Fly.io | Speaker | Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io | — |
| Sophie Beaumont | BBC | Speaker | Scaling the BBC Design System: Tooling, Community, Governance and Gardening | — |
| Sophie Koonin | Monzo | Speaker | So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration | — |
| Sophie Weston | ClearBank | Speaker | The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned | — |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | VGZ | InfoQ | Speaker | Beyond Code: Building a Personal Brand To Boost Your Career | — |
| Stefania Chaplin | DevStefOps | Speaker | Secure by Design: Building Security into Engineering Workflows and Teams | — |
| Stephen Batifol | Milvus / Zilliz | Speaker | Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM | — |
| Suhail Patel | Monzo | Speaker | Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself As Your Company Grows | — |
| Sujana Sooreddy | Netflix | Speaker | From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix | — |
| Teena Idnani | Microsoft | Speaker | Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures Across Multi-Cloud Boundaries | — |
| Thiago Ghisi | Nubank | Speaker | Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations | — |
| Tom Akehurst | WireMock | Speaker | Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing & Observability in Large Microservices Environments | — |
| Trisha Gee | — | Speaker | Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun | — |
| Vanessa Formicola | — | Speaker | Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems | — |
| Wes Reisz | Equal Experts | Speaker | AI-Enabled Delivery - ICSAET Cohort Only | — |