Register
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Work the event around your schedule.

Plan your schedule around a couple of hours a day, two to three days a week for three weeks.
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Learn from practitioners creating the future.

Uncover trends and tools that are helping organizations tackle change and uncertainty. Validate your project roadmap during challenging times.
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Peer learning groups & interactive problem solving.

Connect with a small group of peers and get answers to your problems through highly interactive sessions including Q&As, AMAs, breakouts and real-time collaborative action.

Tracks

QCon Plus features 18 tracks across 3 weeks.

Week 1
TRACK Resilient Systems

Architecting for Confidence: Building Resilient Systems

 TRACK Diversity in Teams

Inclusion & Diversity in Tech

 TRACK Languages, Infrastructure

Languages of Infrastructure

 TRACK Production Readiness

Paths to Production: Deployments You've Always Wondered About

 TRACK FRONTEND

Clientside: From WASM to Browser Applications

 TRACK Functional Programming

Resurgence of Functional Programming
Week 2
TRACK Microservices

Operating Microservices

 TRACK SECURITY

Security in a State of Insecurity

 TRACK MACHINE LEARNING

Machine Learning for the Software Engineer

 TRACK Optimizing You

Non-Technical Skills for Technical Folks

 TRACK API

The Future of the API: REST, gRPC, GraphQL and More

 TRACK Distributed Systems

Distributed Systems for Developers
Week 3
TRACK Java

Delivering Continual Innovation in a mature software ecosystem

TRACK Remote Teams

Remotely Productive: Remote Teams & Software

 TRACK Data Engineering

Modern Data Engineering

 TRACK ARCHITECTURE

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

 TRACK Socially Conscious Software

Social Responsibility: Implications of Building Modern Software

 TRACK Machine Learning

Mechanical Sympathy: The Software/Hardware Divide

Agenda at a Glance

Accelerate your learning with thoughtfully designed, shorter, focused technical sessions over 3 weeks. Each week comprises keynotes, editorial tracks, roundtable discussions, interactive sessions and workshops.

Agenda is subject to change

Week

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WED
Nov 4		 Keynote 1 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Interactive Session Sponsored Case Study Sponsored Roundtable
THU
Nov 5		 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Interactive Session Sponsored Case Study Sponsored Case Study
FRI
Nov 6		 Workshops Workshops Sponsored Lab
PST 9:00am 10:00am 11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm

Week

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TUE
Nov 10		 Keynote 2 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Interactive Session Sponsored Case Study Sponsored Roundtable
WED
Nov 11		 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Interactive Session Sponsored Case Study Sponsored Case Study
THU
Nov 12		 Open Space Open Space Open Space
FRI
Nov 13		 Workshops Workshops Sponsored Lab
PST 9:00am 10:00am 11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm

Week

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TUE
Nov 17		 Keynote 3 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Interactive Session Sponsored Case Study Sponsored Roundtable
WED
Nov 18		 Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Interactive Session Sponsored Case Study Sponsored Case Study
THU
Nov 19		 Open Space Keynote 4
FRI
Nov 20		 Workshops Workshops Sponsored Lab
PST 9:00am 10:00am 11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm

QCon Plus Committee Members

The people behind our virtual conference

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Karen Casella
Director of Engineering @Netflix, previously leading architecture teams @eBay & @Sun
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Randy Shoup
VP Engineering and Chief Architect @eBay, Previously @StitchFix @Google & @Ebay
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Rob Witoff
CTO @ Polychain Labs. Formerly Google, Coinbase & NASA JPL
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Courtney Hemphill
Partner & Tech Lead @CarbonFive
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Gwen Shapira
Software Engineer @Confluent, PMC Member @Kafka, & Committer Apache Sqoop
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Katharina Probst
Senior Engineering Leader, Kubernetes & SaaS @Google
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We’ve designed QCon Plus to help you connect with like-minded peers in a virtual setting. Each session features a keynote from world-class practitioners, Q&As and an opportunity to engage with peers to help answer your questions. You’ll get actionable ideas you can implement right away.

Wes Reisz QCon Plus Chair, Creator of The InfoQ Podcast, Technology Leader, Engineer, & Technical Adviser
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Is QCon Right for You?

Our attendees roles are:

Senior Developer /
Engineer
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Technical Team Lead and Higher, including:
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  • Technical Team Lead
  • Senior Management (VP, CTO, CIO, Director)
  • Architect: Technical / Application (platform specific)
  • Enterprise Architect / Chief Architect
  • Architect: Solution / Systems (Integration Focused)
  • Technical Project Manager
Software Developer / Programmer / Engineer
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Topics covered at QCon Plus

Stay ahead of the topics that matter right now

Project Valhalla

Blockchain

Deep Learning

WebAssmebly

GraalVM

Java 15

Green Initiatives

IoT Data Pipelines

Service Mesh

GraphQL Federation

Mechanical Sympathy

MicroFrontends

Multi-Cloud

Diversity & Inclusion

Evolutionary Architecture

Operating Microservices

Chaos Engineering

Serverless

Terraform

Kubernetes

Remote Working / WFH Strategies

Observability / Telemetry

Building High Performing Teams

Event-Driven Architectures

.NET Core

Keynotes

Learn actionable insights to help you adopt the right
technologies and practices.

The SRE as a Diplomat

Johnny Boursiquot
CTO @ Skilltype | SRE @ Salesforce/Heroku

Keynote

Wade Davis
Vice President of Inclusion Strategy @ Netflix

Momentum > Urgency and other Counter-intuitive Principles for Increasing Velocity

Elisabeth Hendrickson
Technology Executive & Formerly VP R&D @ Pivotal, leading enterprise cloud and data products.
More to be announced

Technical talks from software leaders

Learn how software development teams are pivoting and surviving during rapid
business change. Plus hear from software leaders pushing the boundaries.

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Gunnar Morling
Open Source Software Engineer @RedHat
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Shrijeet Paliwal
Sr. Staff Software Engineer @Tesla
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Monica Beckwith
Java Champion, First Lego League Coach, passionate about JVM Performance @Microsoft
More to be announced

Workshops

Deep-dive with world-class practitioners on the topics that matter most to you.

WORKSHOP KUBERNETES

Effective Spring + Kubernetes

Both Spring and Kubernetes have massive ecosystems leading to lots of ways to use Spring on Kubernetes. Which way is the best, what are the pros and cons of different approaches to using Spring and Kubernetes? This workshop is organized as a series of recommendations for how to best use Spring and Kubernetes together in the Style of the Effective Java book.

Adib Saikali Principal Platform Architect Intermediate LEARN MORE
WORKSHOP SERVICE MESH

Multi-Cluster Service Mesh Patterns, Configuration and Operations

Microservices promise greater agility and speed in delivering innovation to customers through digital experiences.

In this hands-on workshop, we will explore different service mesh deployment patterns, multi-cluster topologies, and how Service Mesh Hub can address the configuration and operations needs for these environments.

Christian Posta Global Field CTO @soloio_inc Intermediate LEARN MORE
WORKSHOP SPRING BOOT

Easy Integration Testing with Spring Boot + Test Containers

Integration tests require external resources such as databases, message queues .... to execute successfully.

This workshop is a hands-on introduction to using testing containers with Spring Boot + Junit5 + Testcontainer to make integration testing easy. You will be provided with many sample applications that demonstrate how Test Containers make integration testing very easy.

Adib Saikali Principal Platform Architect Intermediate LEARN MORE

What to Expect

Everything you love about QCon. Reimagined for a virtual setting.

Deep-dive technical talks from software leaders.

Accelerate your learning with thoughtfully designed, shorter, focused technical sessions over 3 weeks. Engage in breakout sessions, Q&As and open space peer learning. Don’t miss a session with on-demand access to presentation videos after the event.

Gather inspiration from your peers to help solve your tough problems.

Find new solutions to your software challenges. Share experiences and common challenges with peers and speakers. Discover new ideas and insights.

Build relationships and network with a global developer community.

Meet new people, meet old friends. Engage with peers from around the world in our highly interactive sessions. Build connections that last beyond the event.

It’s not just about the tech. It’s about you too.

Get together with peers in a safe setting where everyone is able to express themselves. Focus on non-tech topics from managing change to becoming the leader you want to be.

What do I need to take part in QCon Plus

To get the most from QCon Plus we recommend having:

A good internet connection
A good headset, ideally with a microphone
Webcam for interactive sessions
Downloading any required software ahead of the event (we’ll tell you what you need when you register)
Be camera-ready for the event

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QCon Plus brought to you by
the makers of QCon and InfoQ

We’ve been helping software development teams adopt new technologies and practices for over 15 years. The driving force behind every QCon conference is our passion to accelerate the software side of human progress.

Every QCon has a Program Committee comprising senior software leaders who curate timely, modern topics they feel are essential for senior software engineers, tech leads, and architects. Join a global professional engineering community and adopt the right software innovations and practices.