Venue
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, California US 94111

What is Qwoted?

Qwoted is a free expert network: we help reporters connect with experts & we help those same experts build relationships with top reporters.

Event Date Mon Nov 13 EST - Wed Nov 15 EST (about 7 years ago)
Location Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, California US 94111
Region Americas
Details

Attending QCon Includes:

• 18 editorial tracks across 3 days
• 140+ practitioner speakers from places like Uber, Google, Dropbox, Slack, Twitter, and more…
• 11 to 1 attendee to speaker ratio
• No hidden paid sessions/marketing!
• Video recording for most sessions included
• 28 optional workshops following the conference
• Focus on healthy food, including gluten-free & vegan

Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dan Kreigh
Structural Engineer @ScaledComposites, built the unique "feather" mechanism of SpaceShipOne

Julian Guthrie
Author of "How to Make a Spaceship"

Leslie Miley
Engineering Leadership, previously of Slack, Google, & Apple

Nick Caldwell
VP Engineering @Reddit, Inc.

• CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Tyler McMullen
CTO @Fastly

Michael Bunnell
Graphics Programmer & Academy Award Winning Computer Graphics...

Temesghen Kahsai
Software Engineer, previously Research Scientist @NASAAmes

Julian Guthrie
Author of "How to Make a Spaceship"

Mads Torgersen
Chief Designer of C#

Dave Hahn
Sr SRE, Reliability and Chaos Engineering @Netflix

Jeff Williams
Robotics Systems Developer

Bruce Johnson
Founder and COO @FullStory

Ben Watson
Principal Software Engineer @Microsoft focused on High-Performance ....

Jay Phelps
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix

Ben Kehoe
Cloud Robotics Research Scientist @iRobot

Chris Richardson
Java Champion and Author of POJOs in Action

Ivana Mcconnell
UX Design @CustomerIO. Editorial assistant @OffscreenMag, Runs @...

Sergey Kuksenko
Java Performance Engineer @Oracle

Jared Short
Director of Innovation @Trek10

Ariya Hidayat
VP of Engineering @ShapeSecurity & Creator of PhantomJS

John Willis
Vice President of Devops and Digital Practices @SJTechnologies

Bing Wei
Software Engineer @Slack

Philip Wadler
Haskell, Type Theory, & Functional Programming Theory Contributor

Vasia Kalavri
PMC Member of Apache Flink (Core Developer Graph Processing API)...

Randy Shoup
VP Engineering at StitchFix, Previously @Google & @Ebay

Michael Bryzek
Co-Founder / CTO @Flow.io., previously Co-Founder / CTO @Gilt

Adrian Cockcroft
VP Cloud Architecture Strategy @AWSCloud & Microservices Pioneer

Kevin Stewart
VP of Engineering @Heptio

Sarah Wells
Principal Engineer @FT (Financial Times)

Matt Zimmer
Real-time Data Infrastructure Senior Engineer @Netflix

Nikhil Dandekar
Leads NLP @Quora

Sarah Aerni
Senior Manager, Data Science @Salesforce

Isaac Potoczny-Jones
Founder @Tozny & Authentication and Privacy Specialist

Amitabha Roy
Software Engineer @Google

Josh Evans
Senior Director of Platform Service Engineering @ GitHub (Formerly @...

Edward Wible
Founder & CTO @Nubank

Matt Abrahams
Co-Founder and Principal at Bold Echo Communications Solutions

Neil Williams
Leads Infrastructure Team @Reddit

Kris Nova
Kubernetes Maintainer & Kubicorn Creator

Nate Kupp
Technical Infrastructure Lead @Thumbtack

Marty Weiner
CTO @Reddit, formerly 2nd engineer @Pinterest

Roman Elizarov
Software Engineer Developing Kotlin @JetBrains

Dan Kreigh
Structural Engineer @ScaledComposites, built the unique "feather...

Prof. Dawn Song
Professor @UCBerkeley, Researching Deep Learning & Security

Tyler Akidau
Engineer @Google & Founder/Committer on Apache Beam

Dana Engebretson
Performance Engineer @SPS Commerce

Natasha Rooney
W3C Advisory Board, Stack Evolution Board IETA, & Engineering...

Dr. Yu Ding
Security Scientist @Baidu X-Lab

Xiaoning Li
Chief Security Architect @Alibaba Cloud

Louis Ryan
Core Contributor Istio, gRPC, & Principal Engineer @Google

Valerie Aurora
Software Engineer & Diversity and Inclusion Consultant

Rossen Stoyanchev
Spring Framework Committer @Pivotal

Min Ni
Engineering Manager @Instagram

Justin Becker
Engineering Manager @Netflix

Kieran Farr
Senior Director @Brightcove

Sahar Samiei
Senior Product Manager @Expedia

Willie Wheeler
Principal Application Engineer @Expedia

Roopa Tangirala
Engineering Manager @Netflix, Apache Cassandra MVP

Szczepan Faber
Creator of Mockito, Core eng of Gradle 1.x/2.x, & Tech Lead at...

Nora Jones
Senior Chaos Engineer @Netflix

Idit Levine
Founder and CEO of solo.io

Mitul Tiwari
CTO and Co-founder of Passage.AI

Stephan Ewen
Committer @ApacheFlink, CTO @dataArtisans

Davis Shepherd
ML Management @Netflix

Eugen Cepoi
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix

Ioannis Papapanagiotou
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix

Guy Podjarny
Co-founder @Snyk.io

Christy Norman Perez
Software Developer @IBM

Christopher Jones
Software Developer @IBM

Vinay Chella
Cloud Data Architect @Netflix

Carmen Andoh
Software Engineer on the Build Infrastructure team @TravisCI

Anjuan Simmons
Technical Program Manager @Questback

Jamie Butler
Chief Technology Officer @Endgame

Nick Caldwell
VP Engineering @Reddit, Inc.

Tal Weiss
Co-founder and CEO @OverOps

Jamison Dance
Senior Developer @Fivestack

Carl Lerche
Software Engineer & Rust Contributor

Changhoon Kim
Director of System Architecture @Barefoot Networks

Nathan Äschbacher
Chief Technology Officer @PolySync

Jeremy Hermann
ML Platform Team @Uber

Heather Nakama
Software Engineer @Microsoft - Azure Search

Richard Zhao
Chief Technology Officer, SVP Research @NSFOCUS

Dan Wilson
Web Engineer @MutualMobile

Tasneem Minadakis
Engineering Leader @Uber

Bernard Traversat
Head of the Java Platform Development Team & VP @Oracle

Michel Weksler
Software Engineer @Airbnb

Dave Casper
CTO @Moogsoft

Chen Goldberg
Engineering Director @Google

Leslie Miley
Engineering Leadership, previously of Slack, Google, & Apple

Marius Pirvu
Advisory Software Developer @IBM

Julian Hyde
Original Developer @ApacheCalcite, Co-Founder SQLstream, &...

Jay Kreps
Co-Founder and CEO @Confluent

Cody Pierce
Director of Vulnerability Research @Endgame

Michael Armbrust
Initial Author of Apache Spark SQL & Leads Streaming Team @...

Karen Catlin
Advocate for Women in Tech, Former VP OF Eng, Adobe

Miju Han
Director of Product @GitHub

Nathan Sobo
Founding Member of the Atom Editor Team @GitHub

Shubha Nabar
Sr. Director @Salesforce Einstein

Susan Nesbitt
Head of Business Development @ Make School

Steve Johnson
Vice President of Product Design & Creative @Netflix

Monica Beckwith
JVM Perf & previous G1GC Perf Lead @Oracle

Chris Moody
Manager of the Applied AI team @StitchFix

Melanie Warrick
Senior Developer Advocate for ML and Google Cloud

Reena Philip
Engineering Manager @Facebook

Karen Casella
Engineering Leader @Netflix, previously @EBay & @Sun

Rafael Schloming
Co-founder and Chief Architect @Datawire, spec author of the AMQP...

Kevin Moore
Senior Data Scientist @ Salesforce Einstein

Linda Elkins
Leader Silicon Valley Innovation Center

Ryan Knight
Principal Software Architect @GrandCloud

Jérôme Petazzoni
Hacker @Docker

Rafael Ferreira
Senior Software Engineer @Nubank

Zack Butcher
Software Engineer @Google & Core Contributor @IstioMesh

Kolton Andrus
Founder of Gremlin Inc, former Netflix

David Redkey
Senior Software Engineer, Video Games, 3D Graphics, C++, Mobile

Adam Conway
Product Management and Marketing @Datacoral

Ramki Ramakrishna
Staff Software Engineer @Twitter

Serhat Yilmaz
Software Engineer @Facebook

Bret Fisher

William Roscoe
Lead Engineer @Ceres Imaging

Without Boats
Rust Contributor (Language & Cargo Team Member)

Darren Crews

Magnus Hyttsten
TensorFlow Developer Advocate @ Google

Tim Tyler
Principal Solutions Engineer @MetLife

WORKSHOP SPEAKERS

Michael Nygard
Author of the Best Seller "Release It!"

Hien Luu
Engineering Manager @Linkedin focused on Big Data

Richard Kasperowski
Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness

Karunakar Singamreddy
ML/NLP Tech startup CEO & founder @Pamoru

Arun Gupta
Principal Open Source Technologist @AWSCloud

Jörg Schad
Distributed Systems Engineer @Mesosphere

Stephen Fluin
Developer Advocate @Google

Juval Lowy
President and Chief Master Architect @Idesign_inc

Katrina Uychaco
Software Engineer @GitHub

Jérôme Petazzoni
Hacker @Docker

Szczepan Faber
Creator of Mockito, Core eng of Gradle 1.x/2.x, & Tech Lead at...

AJ Bowen
Software Developer

Tim Fox
Big Data and Machine Learning Consultant @ElephantScale

Randy Shoup
VP Engineering at StitchFix, Previously @Google & @Ebay

Sujee Maniyam
Co-Founder & CEO @ElephantScale

John Gosset
Software Engineer & Go Trainer for @ArdanLabs

Tomas Lin
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix

Steven Kim
Engineering manager @Google

Ryan Knight
Principal Software Architect @GrandCloud

Zack Butcher
Software Engineer @Google & Core Contributor @IstioMesh

Ryan Schwers
Senior Software Engineer @Reddit

Stephan Ewen
Committer @ApacheFlink, CTO @dataArtisans

Jamie Grier
Streaming Platform @Lyft

David Wells
Full Stack Developer Serverless

Asif Khan
Tech Leader @AWSCloud

• SPONSORED SOLUTION TRACKS SPEAKERS

Mike Spicer
Distinguished Engineer, Lead Architect, IBM Streams

Jonathan Schabowsky
Sr Architect @Solace

Thomas Hooker
VP of Marketing @CollabNet

Nic Raboy
Senior Developer Advocate @Couchbase

Balwinder Kaur
Principal Software Engineer @AppDynamics

Brian Bulkowski
CTO and Co-Founder @Aerospike

Roshan Kumar
Sr. Product Marketing Manager @RedisLabs

Kyle Davis
Technical Marketing Manager @RedisLabs

Chris McFadden
VP of Engineering @Sparkpost

Edith Harbaugh
CEO & Co-Founder @LaunchDarkly

Karthik Ranganathan
Co-Founder & CTO @YugaByte

Paul Allen
Senior Integration Engineer @Perforce

Will Shulman
CEO @mLab

Omer Azmon
Staff Tools Engineer @Intuit

Sheroy Marker
Head Of Technology @ThoughtWorks

Ryan Boyd
Engineer & Head @DevRel

Kirk Lewis
Field Engineer @Pepperdata

Ketan Gangatirkar
Senior Director of Engineering - Job Seeker Products @Indeed

James Truitt
Technical Evangelist @Microsoft

Sasha Rosenbaum
Azure TSP @Microsoft

Dan Debrunner
STSM, IBM Streams Programming Model Architect

Sumit Nagal
Principal Engineer in Quality @Intuit

Nicolas DeRico
MySQL Principal Sales Consultant

• TRACK HOST PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE

Jarrod Overson
Engineering Director @ShapeSecurity & JavaScript Expert

Marty Weiner
CTO @Reddit, formerly 2nd engineer @Pinterest

Werner Schuster
Software Engineer @Wolfram

Monica Beckwith
JVM Perf & previous G1GC Perf Lead @Oracle

Wes Reisz
Software/Technical Advisor C4Media & QCon Chair, previous...

Sid Anand
Chief Data Engineer @PayPal

Nitin Bharti
Managing Editor and Product Manager C4Media

Chris Slowe
CTO & Founding Engineer @Reddit; former Chief Scientist at...

Charles Humble
Editor-in-chief, InfoQ.com

Randy Shoup
VP Engineering at StitchFix, Previously @Google & @Ebay

Tyler Akidau
Engineer @Google & Founder/Committer on Apache Beam

Kavya Joshi
Software Engineer @Samsara

Kolton Andrus
Founder of Gremlin Inc, former Netflix

Shubha Nabar
Sr. Director @Salesforce Einstein

Dave Copeland
Director of Engineering & Senior Most Developer @Stitchfix

Kevin Ball
Project Lead & Contributor @ZURBfoundation

Katharina Probst
Engineering Director @Netflix

Sponsors & Partners

PLATINUM:
• IBM
• Microsoft
• Redislabs

SILVER
• Erospike
• Appdynamics
• CollabNet
• Couchbase
• ursera
• indeed Prime
• Jfrog
• launch Darkly
• mLab
• Neo4j
• Netflix
• Oracle
• Overops
• PepperData
• Perforce
• Solace
• Sparkpost
• Go
• YugaByte

BRONZE
• Aws
• AppScatter
• Azul Systems
• Black Duck
• Bugsnag
• Chef.IO
• Confluent
• Docusign
• Parasofft
• Pivotal
• Tango Card
• Tender Software
• Vaadin

MEDIA SPONSORS
• Clocate Conference
• Conal Conference Alerts
• Data Flooq
• Datanami
• Stickermule

SUPPORTING USER GROUP
• Accu Bay Area
• SFHTML5
• Women Who Code