QCon San Francisco is member of a highly-rated and International Software Conference Series, taking place annually in NYC, London, San Francisco, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Sao Paulo. In its 11th year, QCon SF will take place at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco from November 13 -17, 2017. It is curated by respected software practitioners in the field and is designed for professional software architects and senior software developers & team leads who want to bring trends from innovator and early adopter companies home to their team. Each and every speaker at QCon is individually selected to present within one of the 18 tracks by domain experts. These include: Docker‘s’J’r’me Petazzoni‘in the’Tools & Culture Containers’track, Salesforce Einstein’s’Shubha Nabar‘in the’Practices & Frontiers of AI‘track, and StitchFix’s’Randy Shoup‘in’Microservices: Patterns & Practices.’
As a conference designed by software developers for software architects, team leads and developers, QCon focuses on:
- Peer Presenters: Speakers are developers, not consultants
- Highly Technical: No hidden marketing material in the technical talks
- Breadth & Depth: More breadth & depth than other conferences (3 days, 18 tracks, >100 sessions)
- Facilitated Networking: Topic Lunch Tables, Open Space Peer Sharing & optional workshops that help get to know attendees & speakers
- Speaker Access: 9 to 1 attendee-to-speaker ratio and full access to speakers
- Early Adopter Content: Focus on cutting edge new technologies
- Content Quality: Nominated speakers (no call-for-papers) plus pre-event speaker interviews & presentation rehearsals, leading to high content quality & relevance
