Conferences / QCon
QCon London 2026
Mar 16–18, 2026 · Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre), London, United Kingdom
- Conference
- QCon Software engineering
- Dates
- Mar 16, 2026 – Mar 18, 2026
- Venue
- Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII Centre)
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- qconlondon.com
- Recorded
- 19 sponsors · 107 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Conference Mar 16-18, certification day Mar 19, 2026. Talks from qconlondon.com/schedule/mar2026. Sponsors from the live sponsors page (still showing the 2026 list on 2026-11-08).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference (3 days) (until March 19) | £2,690 | Mar 19, 2026 | pricing page: 20% VAT added | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 19
Platinum 1
Media 1
Speakers and talks 107
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birgitta Böckeler | Thoughtworks | Keynote | State of Play: AI Coding Assistants | — |
| Holly Cummins | IBM | Keynote | The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity | — |
| Laura Savino | Adobe | Keynote | Learning Out Loud (Under Near-Existential Pressure) | — |
| Martin Kleppmann | University of Michigan | Keynote | Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto | — |
| Alasdair Allan | Negroni Venture Studios | Speaker | The Ladder Is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle | — |
| Aleksandar Mitic | Spotify | Speaker | Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time | — |
| Alex Palcuie | Anthropic | Speaker | Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response | — |
| Alex Zenla | Edera | Speaker | Building on Bedrock: A Security Philosophy from Bootloader to Runtime | — |
| Alfonso Subiotto | Polar Signals | Speaker | A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) Journey: From WASM in Go to State Machines in Rust | — |
| Amit Navindgi | Zoox | Speaker | Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents | — |
| Anderson Parra | SeatGeek | Speaker | Shielding the Core: Architecting Resilience with Multi-Layer Defenses | — |
| Andreea Niculcea | Morgan Stanley | Speaker | APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era | — |
| Andrei Tognolo | Wise | Speaker | Evolving Wise Architecture to Power a Global Account | — |
| Andrew Martin | ControlPlane | Speaker | Exploding GPUs | — |
| Anton Borisov | Fresha | Speaker | The Rise of the Streamhouse: Idea, Trade-Offs, and Evolution | — |
| Ari Karkkainen | TuxCare | Speaker | Engineering for the Long Haul: Operating Open Source at Scale | — |
| Atanas Kiryakov | Graphwise | Speaker | Avoid AI Concept Creep with a Knowledge Graph Created in Hours | — |
| Baruch Sadogursky | Tessl | Speaker | The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering | — |
| Brandon Waselnuk | Unblocked | Speaker | Context Engineering: Building the Knowledge Engine AI Agents Need | — |
| Bryan Boreham | Grafana Labs | Speaker | Understanding and Tuning System Performance with CPU Hardware Counters | — |
| Chen Salomon | monday.com | Speaker | Scaling the Unknown: How monday.com Built Performance Guardrails for AI and Custom Apps | — |
| Christine Lemmer-Webber | Spritely Institute | Speaker | Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet | — |
| Clara Higuera Cabañes | BBVA | Speaker | Ethical AI Is an Engineering Problem | — |
| Clara Matos | Sword Health | Speaker | Beyond Benchmarks: How Evaluations Ensure Safety at Scale in LLM Applications | — |
| Colin Douch | DuckDuckGo | Speaker | Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability | — |
| Dan Finneran | Isovalent | Speaker | Enchant Your AI and APIs with eBPF Magic 🪄 | — |
| Daniel Day | Luciq | Speaker | Fix Nothing, Build Boldly: The Rise of Agentic Mobile Workflows | — |
| Danielle An | Meta | Panelist | Panel: Who Builds the Frontend Now? (And What Breaks When They Do) | — |
| Danielle An | Meta | Speaker | Architecting AI Driven Game Creation: From Research to Production Scale Systems | — |
| David Chisnall | SCI Semiconductor | Speaker | Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation With CHERI | — |
| David Lin | Linvest21, Inc | Speaker | The Realities of Building an AI Native Fintech Startup | — |
| David Roberts | Yugabyte | Speaker | Multi-Cloud Distributed databases for Agentic AI | — |
| David Thompson | Spritely Institute | Speaker | Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet | — |
| Ethan Brierley | TrueLayer | Speaker | Use<’lifetimes> For<’what> | — |
| Eviathar Moussaffi | monday.com | Speaker | Scaling the Unknown: How monday.com Built Performance Guardrails for AI and Custom Apps | — |
| Felipe Huici | Unikraft | Speaker | Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server | — |
| George Peter Hantzaras | MongoDB | Speaker | Building an AI Ready Global Scale Data Platform | — |
| Giannis Polyzos | Ververica | Speaker | The Rise of the Streamhouse: Idea, Trade-Offs, and Evolution | — |
| Hannah Foxwell | — | Speaker | The Reinvention of the Dev Team | — |
| Hazel Weakly | Nivenly Foundation | Speaker | Orienting, Understanding, Playing, Thriving: Debugging your Organisation | — |
| Henry Wilson | BBC | Speaker | The Influence Toolkit | — |
| Hillel Wayne | Windy Coast Consulting | Speaker | How to Find Resilience Bugs in Systems that Don't Exist | — |
| Holger Pirk | Imperial College London | Speaker | Looking Under the Hood: Data Processing Systems Performance Tricks (and How to Apply Them to Your Code) | — |
| Ian Cooper | Just Eat Takeaway | Speaker | Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale | — |
| Ivan Zarea | Netlify | Panelist | Panel: Who Builds the Frontend Now? (And What Breaks When They Do) | — |
| Ivan Zarea | Netlify | Speaker | Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers | — |
| Jabez Eliezer Manuel | Booking.com | Speaker | Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story | — |
| James Hall | Parallax | Speaker | Running AI at the Edge: Running Real Workloads Directly in the Browser | — |
| James Hall | Parallax | Panelist | Panel: Who Builds the Frontend Now? (And What Breaks When They Do) | — |
| Jatin Aneja | Zoox | Speaker | Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents | — |
| Jayesh Bhayani | Tesco | Speaker | Modernising Retail at Scale: Architecting a Cloud‑to‑Edge Platform for a Global Enterprise | — |
| Jeff Smith | Neoteny AI | Speaker | Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence | — |
| Jesús Barrasa | Neo4j | Speaker | Explicit Semantics for AI Applications: Ontologies in Practice | — |
| Jim Gough | Morgan Stanley | Speaker | APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era | — |
| Jo Kelly-Fenton | Spotify | Speaker | Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time | — |
| Jonathan Griffiths | Dynatrace | Speaker | Maximising an Agentic AI Ecosystem: Trust, Control and Scale | — |
| Joy Ebertz | Imprint | Speaker | All Tech Debt is NOT Created Equal | — |
| Julian Wreford | Gearset | Speaker | Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry | — |
| Karthik Ramgopal | Speaker | Beyond Context Windows: Building Cognitive Memory for AI Agents | — | |
| Kasia Trapszo | Netflix | Speaker | From DVDs to Global Streaming: How Netflix’s Commerce Architecture Actually Evolved | — |
| Kevin Holditch | Form3 | Speaker | How To Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not To | — |
| Krys Flores | Crunchyroll | Speaker | From Copilots to Orchestrators: A 12 Week Playbook for Training Engineering Teams Using AI | — |
| Lada Indra | Pleo | Speaker | Blurring the Lines: Engineering & Data Teams in the Age of AI | — |
| Laís Oliveira | Nubank | Speaker | One-to-Many Products, One-to-Many Countries: Scaling Nubank to 127 Million Customers | — |
| Lan Chu | Rabobank | Speaker | Reliable Retrieval for Production AI Systems | — |
| Laurence Tratt | King’s College London | Speaker | Automatically Retrofitting JIT Compilers | — |
| Lawrie Green | Antithesis | Speaker | Learning to Trust your AI Agents | — |
| Luca Mezzalira | Amazon Web Services | Panelist | Panel: Who Builds the Frontend Now? (And What Breaks When They Do) | — |
| Luis Henrique Albinati Junior | JPMorgan Chase | Speaker | Your Multicloud Strategy Is a Product Problem - Treat It Like One | — |
| Luis Mineiro | ASOS.com | Speaker | Are We All on the Same Page? Let’s Fix That - With AI Assistance | — |
| Matthew Skelton | Conflux | Speaker | Team Topologies as the 'Infrastructure for Agency' with AI | — |
| May Walter | Hud | Speaker | Beyond Observability: Implementing Runtime Guardrails for Production AI Agents | — |
| Meryem Arik | Doubleword | Speaker | Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes | — |
| Mike Lewis | Spotify | Speaker | From Prompt to Production: How Spotify Builds Internal Tools in Days with AI and Platform Engineering | — |
| Murat Magomedov | Runpod | Speaker | Accelerating Container Networking: Fun with Fastpathing | — |
| Nathen Harvey | Speaker | AI is an Amplifier: Scale High Performance, Not Dysfunction | — | |
| Nicholas Herring | CCP Games | Speaker | How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun" | — |
| Nikhil Simha | Zipline AI | Speaker | Chronon - Mixed-Workload Data Processing Framework | — |
| Oli Lane | Gearset | Speaker | Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry | — |
| Onur Satici | SpiralDB | Speaker | From S3 to GPU in One Copy: Rethinking Data Loading for ML Training | — |
| Orson Peters | Polars | Speaker | Not Just I/O: Using Async/Await for Computational Scheduling | — |
| Patrick Debois | Tessl | Speaker | The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering | — |
| Patrick Debois | Tessl | Speaker | Context Is the New Code | — |
| Paul Carleton | Anthropic | Speaker | Your Agent Sandbox Doesn't Know My Authz Model: A Standard-Shaped Hole | — |
| Peio Popov | Graphwise | Speaker | Avoid AI Concept Creep with a Knowledge Graph Created in Hours | — |
| Peter Boncz | CWI | Speaker | Vector Search on Columnar Storage | — |
| Peter Morgan | tansu.io | Speaker | Introducing Tansu.io -- Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations | — |
| Phillip Mortimer | Carta | Speaker | Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering | — |
| Prasanna Vijayanathan | Netflix | Speaker | Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale | — |
| Reece Nunn | BBC | Speaker | Rethinking Your Engineering Hiring Process & Signals for the AI Era | — |
| Renzo Sanchez-Silva | Netflix | Speaker | Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale | — |
| Ross McFarlane | Form3 | Speaker | How To Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not To | — |
| Sam Newman | — | Speaker | Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading Failure | — |
| Sarah Deitke | Duolingo | Speaker | Teaching Engineers, Trusting AI: How Education Enabled Autonomous Code Review | — |
| Sarah Wells | Sarah Wells Consulting Ltd | Speaker | Why Governance Matters: The Key to Reducing Risk Without Slowing Down | — |
| Saranya Vedagiri | eBay | Speaker | From Fan-Out to Fast: Sub-100ms API Design in Distributed Systems | — |
| Sean O'Dell | Dynatrace | Speaker | From Code to Runtime: Bringing Observability into the Flow | — |
| Stefan Dirnstorfer | Thetaris GmbH | Speaker | Computer Use Agents: The Frontier of Vision-Based Automation | — |
| Stuart Clark | Spotify | Speaker | From Prompt to Production: How Spotify Builds Internal Tools in Days with AI and Platform Engineering | — |
| Suhail Patel | Monzo | Speaker | Move Fast, Don’t Break Trust: Shipping Constantly with Humans and Beyond | — |
| Surabhi Mahajan | JPMorgan Chase | Speaker | Your Multicloud Strategy Is a Product Problem - Treat It Like One | — |
| Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad | ETH Zurich | Speaker | Machine Learning at the Edge of Scale and Speed: Nanosecond Inference at the CERN Large Hadron Collider | — |
| Tom Everest | BBC | Speaker | Keeping the Nation On-Air: How We Think About Resilience at the BBC | — |
| Vanessa Formicola | — | Speaker | The Socio-Technical Staff+ Engineer: Architecture, Culture and Organisational Change | — |
| Viktor Petersson | sbomify | Speaker | From Chaos to Clarity: Modern SBOM Practices That Actually Work | — |
| Yaping (Luna) Luo | ING | Speaker | From Pilot to Impact: How AI Is Transforming Large‑Scale Engineering | — |
| Yinka Omole | Personio | Speaker | The Hidden Power of Boring Problems | — |