QCon London International Software Development Conference 2026
16 March 2026 – 19 March 2026
Queen Elizabeth Ii Centre, London, United Kingdom
QCon London 2026 was a software development conference for senior engineers, architects and team leads, held at the QEII Centre in Westminster, London. Its programme, curated by a program committee of practitioners, covered AI engineering, architecture, platform design, resilience, security, data systems, performance and engineering team structure, with keynotes, 50-minute track sessions, sponsored solution tracks and unconference sessions, followed by an InfoQ certification workshop on the final day.
102 sessions · 109 speakers
Media Partner (1)
Sponsors (18)
Graphwise · Runpod · Yugabyte · Luciq · Unblocked · Conduktor · Hud · Upsun · Imaginary Cloud · Milestone · Spotify · Unleash · monday.com · ING · Antithesis · TuxCare · FusionAuth · Dynatrace
Speakers (109)
- Luca Mezzalira Director, 50 cents media ltd
- James Hall Parallax Agency Ltd
- Patrick Debois DevRel, AI Native Developer Community
- Ivan Zarea Director of Platform Engineering, Netlify
- Danielle An Principal Engineer / GenAI Architect @Meta, Ph.D. with 15 years of professional experience in film, MR and gaming, Meta
- Surabhi Mahajan JPMorganChase
- Yinka Omole Member of Technical Staff, Lovable
- Matthew Skelton CEO, Conflux
- Martin Kleppmann Affiliated Lecturer / Senior Research Associate / Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
- Birgitta Böckeler Distinguished Engineer - AI-assisted Software Delivery, Thoughtworks
- Liz Fong-Jones Field CTO, honeycomb.io
- Holly Cummins Senior Technical Staff Member, Quarkus, IBM
- Nathen Harvey Principal Technologist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Giannis Polyzos Staff Engineer, Streaming Data Platform, Fresha
- Jesús Barrasa AI Field CTO, UCL
- Hillel Wayne Developer Educator, Antithesis
- Felipe Huici Chief Executive Officer, Unikraft
- Hien Luu Program Chair: AI Business Practices, Momento
- George Peter Hantzaras Director of Engineering, Core Platforms, MongoDB
- Kevin Holditch Form3
- Suhail Patel Principal Software Engineer (Director), OpenAI
- Daniel Bryant Head of Product Marketing, Syntasso
- Sid Anand Fellow, Data Platform, Walmart Global Tech
- Alex Palcuie Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
- Hannah Foxwell Co-Founder, BIMP
- Hazel Weakly Architect V / Lead of Guardrails, ING
- Clara Matos Director of Applied AI, Sword Health
- Luis Henrique Albinati Junior Executive Director, Product Strategy, JPMorganChase
- Krys Flores Software Engineer and Human Router, Crunchyroll
- Nikhil Simha Chief Technology Officer, Zipline AI
- Blanca Garcia Gil Coach Educator and Mentor, StaffPlusEngineer.com
- Alasdair Allan Chief Technology Officer, Negroni Venture Studios
- Joy Ebertz Principal Software Engineer, Imprint
- Amit Navindgi Staff Software Engineer (III, IV, Senior, Staff), Zoox
- Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich
- Clara Higuera Cabañes Responsible AI Program Lead, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
- Laura Savino Senior iOS Developer - Photoshop Mobile, Adobe
- Anderson Parra Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Platform, SeatGeek
- Anton Borisov Apache Fluss PMC & Committer, The Apache Software Foundation
- Luis Mineiro Director of Digital Foundation, ASOS.com
- Wes Reisz Technical Principal, Thoughtworks
- Chris Swan Engineer, Atsign
- Jatin Aneja Engineering Leader, AI Developer Productivity, Zoox
- Jayesh Bhayani Sr Director (EVP) Technology, Tesco
- Alfonso Subiotto Staff Software Engineer, Dash0
- Vanessa Formicola Software Engineering Manager, Flo Health Inc.
- Bryan Boreham Distinguished Engineer, Grafana Labs
- Srini Penchikala Lead Editor, Financial Services Organization
- Laurence Tratt Professor of Software Development, King's College London
- Ethan Brierley Senior Software Engineer, TrueLayer
- Lada Indra Head of Data Platform, Pleo
- Ross McFarlane Technical Architect, US, Form3
- Andrei Tognolo Staff Software Engineer, Wise
- Shawna Martell Principal Software Engineer, Imprint
- Phillip Mortimer Visiting Lecturer in MLOps & LLMOps, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
- Erica Pisani Senior Software Engineer, Sentry
- Nicholas Herring Technical Director of Eve Online, CCP Games
- Jabez Eliezer Manuel Principal Developer, Booking.com
- Reece Nunn Software Engineering Manager, BBC
- Stefan Dirnstorfer Chief Technology Officer, Testup.io
- Saranya Vedagiri Senior Staff Software Engineer | Identity & User Data Platform, Privacy & Data Protection, eBay
- Holger Pirk Associate Professor, Imperial College London
- Julian Wreford Development Team Lead, Gearset
- Oli Lane Engineering Team Lead, Gearset
- Orson Peters Software Engineer, Polars
- Aleksandar Mitic Software Engineer @Spotify, Spotify
- Alex Zenla Founder & CTO @Edera, Edera
- Andreea Niculcea Vice President @Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley
- Ari Karkkainen Sales Consultant @TuxCare, TuxCare
- Atanas Kiryakov President @Graphwise, Graphwise
- Baruch Sadogursky DevRel Team and Context Engineering Management @Tessl AI, Co-Author of #LiquidSoftware and #DevOps Tools for #Java Developers, Java Champion, Microsoft MVP, Tessl
- Brandon Waselnuk Developer Relations @Unblocked, Unblocked
- Chen Salomon Software Engineer Director @monday.com, Monday.com
- Christine Lemmer-Webber Executive Director @Spritely Institute, Co-Author of ActivityPub, Spritely Institute
- Colin Douch Site Reliability Engineer @DuckDuckGo, DuckDuckGo
- Dan Finneran Principal Community Advocate at Isovalent @Cisco, Isovalent at Cisco
- Daniel Day CMO @Luciq, Luciq
- David Chisnall Director of System Architecture @SCI Semiconductor, OS, Compiler, and Computer-Architecture Expert, Maintainer of the CHERIoT Platform, SCI Semiconductor
- Eviathar Moussaffi R&D Director and Site Lead @monday.com, monday.com
- Jim Gough Distinguished Engineer, API Platform Lead Architect @Morgan Stanley, Co-Author of Optimizing Java, Morgan Stanley
- Jo Kelly-Fenton Engineer @Spotify, Spotify
- Jonathan Griffiths Field CTO @Dynatrace, Dynatrace
- Karthik Ramgopal Distinguished Engineer, LinkedIn
- Kasia Trapszo Principal Engineer @Netflix, Leading Architecture for the Commerce Platform, Netflix
- Laís Oliveira Principal Engineer and Platform Engineering Architecture @Nubank, Nubank
- Lan Chu AI Tech Lead and Senior Data Scientist, Rabobank
- Lawrie Green Software Developer @Antithesis, Antithesis
- May Walter Co-Founder and CTO @Hud, Hud
- Meryem Arik Co-Founder and CEO @Doubleword (Previously TitanML), Recognized as a Technology Leader in Forbes 30 Under 30, Recovering Physicist, Doubleword
- Murat Magomedov Software Engineer @Runpod, Runpod
- Onur Satici Staff Engineer @SpiralDB & a Core Maintainer of Vortex (LF AI & Data), Previously Building Distributed Systems @Palantir, SpiralDB
- Paul Carleton Member of Technical Staff @Anthropic, Core Maintainer of MCP, Anthropic
- Peio Popov FSI Vertical Lead @Graphwise, Graphwise
- Peter Boncz Professor @CWI, Co-Creator of MonetDB, VectorWise and MotherDuck, Database Systems Researcher, and Entrepreneur, CWI
- Prasanna Vijayanathan Engineer @Netflix, Netflix
- Renzo Sanchez-Silva Engineer @Netflix, Netflix
- Sarah Deitke Software Engineer @Duolingo, Duolingo
- Sean O'Dell Principal PMM @Dynatrace, Dynatrace
- Stuart Clark Senior Developer Advocate @Spotify, Spotify
- Tom Everest Head of Department for Architecture and Supply Chain @BBC, BBC
- Viktor Petersson Founder of sbomify, Co-founder & CEO of Screenly, Host of Nerding Out with Viktor, sbomify
- Yaping (Luna) Luo Global Head of Developer Experience (DevEx) & System Engineering @ING, ING
- Blanca Rojo Executive Director, Distinguished Engineer and Cloud Engineer @UBS, UBS
- Chaitanya Bhandari Distributed Systems Engineer @TigerBeetle, TigerBeetle
- Dio Rettori Multi-Cloud Strategy and Product @JPMorgan Chase & Co, Ambassador for Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Advisor for InfinyOn Inc., Previously @Solo.io, @Red Hat, and @ Pivotal Software, JP Morgan Chase
- Eder Ignatowicz Senior Principal Software Engineer and Architect @Red Hat AI, InfoQ Dev Summit Boston Conference Chair, QCon London Program co-chair, Red Hat
- Fabiane Nardon Data Expert, Java Champion & Data Platform Director @totvs, Totvs
- Jonathan Magen Computer Scientist, Distributed Systems Specialist, 20+ Years in Software Development
- Werner Schuster Kernel Developer @Wolfram, InfoQ Editor Functional Programming, Wolfram
Agenda
Showing 80 of 102 sessions.
- State of Play: AI Coding Assistants 16 March 2026 · Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) Journey: From WASM in Go to State Machines in Rust 16 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- The Hidden Power of Boring Problems 16 March 2026 · Churchill (Ground Fl.)
- How To Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not To 16 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- Scaling the Unknown: How monday.com Built Performance Guardrails for AI and Custom Apps 16 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- From Fan-Out to Fast: Sub-100ms API Design in Distributed Systems 16 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- From DVDs to Global Streaming: How Netflix’s Commerce Architecture Actually Evolved 16 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Unconference: Native Languages 16 March 2026 · Rutherford (4th Fl.)
- Your Multicloud Strategy Is a Product Problem - Treat It Like One 16 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- The Socio-Technical Staff+ Engineer: Architecture, Culture and Organisational Change 16 March 2026 · Churchill (Ground Fl.)
- Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story 16 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry 16 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- From Pilot to Impact: How AI Is Transforming Large‑Scale Engineering 16 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- Unconference: Tech of Finance Industry 16 March 2026 · Rutherford (4th Fl.)
- From Prompt to Production: How Spotify Builds Internal Tools in Days with AI and Platform Engineering 16 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- APIs for Agents: Rethinking API Programs in the MCP Era 16 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Evolving Wise Architecture to Power a Global Account 16 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- All Tech Debt is NOT Created Equal 16 March 2026 · Churchill (Ground Fl.)
- Use<’lifetimes> For<’what> 16 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- Maximising an Agentic AI Ecosystem: Trust, Control and Scale 16 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- One-to-Many Products, One-to-Many Countries: Scaling Nubank to 127 Million Customers 16 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- The Influence Toolkit 16 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Unconference: Connecting Systems 16 March 2026 · Rutherford (4th Fl.)
- The Realities of Building an AI Native Fintech Startup 16 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- Beyond Observability: Implementing Runtime Guardrails for Production AI Agents 16 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering 16 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Enchant Your AI and APIs with eBPF Magic 🪄 16 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server 16 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- Unconference: Architectures You've Always Wondered About 16 March 2026 · Rutherford (4th Fl.)
- Move Fast, Don’t Break Trust: Shipping Constantly with Humans and Beyond 16 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- Context Engineering: Building the Knowledge Engine AI Agents Need 16 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- Understanding and Tuning System Performance with CPU Hardware Counters 16 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- Connecting the Dots: Staff+ (Limited Space - Registration Required) 16 March 2026 · Rutherford (4th Fl.)
- Modernising Retail at Scale: Architecting a Cloud‑to‑Edge Platform for a Global Enterprise 16 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale 16 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto 17 March 2026 · Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Engineering for the Long Haul: Operating Open Source at Scale 17 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale 17 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Orienting, Understanding, Playing, Thriving: Debugging your Organisation 17 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- Why Governance Matters: The Key to Reducing Risk Without Slowing Down 17 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- Team Topologies as the 'Infrastructure for Agency' with AI 17 March 2026 · Churchill (Ground Fl.)
- Reliable Retrieval for Production AI Systems 17 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Multi-Cloud Distributed databases for Agentic AI 17 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- From S3 to GPU in One Copy: Rethinking Data Loading for ML Training 17 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time 17 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Building on Bedrock: A Security Philosophy from Bootloader to Runtime 17 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun" 17 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Blurring the Lines: Engineering & Data Teams in the Age of AI 17 March 2026 · Churchill (Ground Fl.)
- Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence 17 March 2026 · Churchill (Ground Fl.)
- From Chaos to Clarity: Modern SBOM Practices That Actually Work 17 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- Introducing Tansu.io -- Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations 17 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Unconference: Debugging Distributed Systems 17 March 2026 · Rutherford (4th Fl.)
- The Ladder Is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle 17 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Fix Nothing, Build Boldly: The Rise of Agentic Mobile Workflows 17 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- Beyond Context Windows: Building Cognitive Memory for AI Agents 17 March 2026 · Churchill (Ground Fl.)
- Rethinking Your Engineering Hiring Process & Signals for the AI Era 17 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response 17 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Chronon - Mixed-Workload Data Processing Framework 17 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- Accelerating Container Networking: Fun with Fastpathing 17 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- Unconference: Software Security & Risk Management 17 March 2026 · Rutherford (4th Fl.)
- Building an AI Gateway Without Frameworks: One Platform, Many Agents 17 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- The Rise of the Streamhouse: Idea, Trade-Offs, and Evolution 17 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Exploding GPUs 17 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- Avoid AI Concept Creep with a Knowledge Graph Created in Hours 17 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- Unconference: Building Engineering Teams 17 March 2026 · Rutherford (4th Fl.)
- Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability 17 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- From Copilots to Orchestrators: A 12 Week Playbook for Training Engineering Teams Using AI 17 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation With CHERI 17 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- Are We All on the Same Page? Let’s Fix That - With AI Assistance 17 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes 17 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Connecting the Dots: Modern Data Engineering & Architectures (Limited Space - Registration Required) 17 March 2026 · Rutherford (4th Fl.)
- Learning to Trust your AI Agents 17 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- Learning Out Loud (Under Near-Existential Pressure) 18 March 2026 · Fleming + Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers 18 March 2026 · Mountbatten (6th Fl.)
- Machine Learning at the Edge of Scale and Speed: Nanosecond Inference at the CERN Large Hadron Collider 18 March 2026 · Windsor (5th Fl.)
- How to Find Resilience Bugs in Systems that Don't Exist 18 March 2026 · Whittle (3rd Fl.)
- AI is an Amplifier: Scale High Performance, Not Dysfunction 18 March 2026 · Churchill (Ground Fl.)
- The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering 18 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)
- From Code to Runtime: Bringing Observability into the Flow 18 March 2026 · Westminster (4th Fl.)
- Beyond Benchmarks: How Evaluations Ensure Safety at Scale in LLM Applications 18 March 2026 · Fleming (3rd Fl.)