Software Engineering in the Remote Era
The pandemic pushed QCon SF online for the first time. A leaner program focused on the practices that mattered most as engineering teams went fully distributed.
Rebuilding Together: Platforms, People & Practice
A hybrid return to San Francisco. Engineers reconnected in person while a global virtual audience tuned in for deep dives on platform engineering, ML systems, and the changing role of the senior IC.
Back in Person: Software That Scales
The full return to San Francisco. A packed five-day program with deeper tracks, more hands-on training, and the hallway conversations that make QCon what it is.
Modern Systems for Senior Engineers
As LLMs entered the conversation, QCon SF focused on the fundamentals that hold up: distributed data planes, Staff+ craft, and architectures you have always wondered about.
Platforms, Resilience & the LLM Shift
The year LLMs went from experiment to infrastructure. Tracks on platform engineering at scale, the first wave of production LLM systems, and post-incident analysis as a discipline.
Practitioner-Driven AI Engineering
Agent platforms, eval-driven development, and internal AI tools took center stage. The conversation shifted from 'should we use AI' to 'how do we make AI systems reliable enough to deploy.'
Architecting for Agents: Beneath the Loop
Five days with senior engineers on AI systems, platforms, distributed systems, and the Staff+ craft. Curated by practitioners, not sponsors. Registration is open — numbers below are projections based on current pace and previous years.
TBA — The Next Chapter
QCon SF 2027 is being shaped. The call for track hosts and speakers opens in early 2027. Sign up for updates to be the first to know.
What attendees say.
"Thought-provoking, cutting-edge, and grounded in real practice. Great speakers, great peers."
"The focus on developers sharing knowledge with developers is what makes it worth attending."
"3 days: 12 new connections, 25 pages of notes, 20 talks attended, 20 more bookmarked."
"100% of sessions had value for me as a director. A few really changed how I think about my job."