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202020 Edition
QCon SF 2020
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.
Nov 16-20·Virtual·48 talks·2,100+ attendees
Program
Mon · Nov 16
8:30 AM
BreakVirtual Platform Opens & Tech Check
9:00 AMKeynote
Leading Engineering Teams Through Uncertainty
Camille Fournier
Author, The Manager's Path
10:15 AM
BreakVirtual Coffee & Networking Lounge
10:45 AM
TalkRunning Postmortems When Everyone Is Remote
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
10:45 AM
TalkThe Async Decision-Making Playbook
Liz Fong-Jones · Principal Engineer, Honeycomb
11:45 AM
TalkDistributed Tracing: Finding Needles in Remote Haystacks
Charity Majors · CTO, Honeycomb
11:45 AM
TalkBuilding Team Culture Without a Water Cooler
Charlotte Newman · Engineering Director, Zapier
12:45 PM
BreakLunch Break — Bring Your Own
1:30 PM
TalkRemote-First Architecture Patterns
Adira Chen · Principal Architect, Netflix
1:30 PM
TalkScaling Support Rotations Across 12 Time Zones
Will Larson · Author, An Elegant Puzzle
2:30 PM
TalkDocumentation as a Remote Team Superpower
Camille Fournier · Author, The Manager's Path
2:30 PM
TalkMonitoring What Matters When You Cannot See the Servers
Charity Majors · CTO, Honeycomb
3:30 PM
BreakAfternoon Stretch & Screen Break
4:00 PM
TalkFrom Colocated to Distributed: A Migration Story
Adira Chen · Principal Architect, Netflix
4:00 PM
TalkEffective 1:1s Over Video: The Staff Engineer's Guide
Will Larson · Author, An Elegant Puzzle
5:00 PM
SocialVirtual Happy Hour & Lightning Talks
5-minute talks from the community; bring your own drink.
Tue · Nov 17
9:00 AM
TalkEvent-Driven Architectures for Async Teams
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
9:00 AM
TalkIncident Command in a Slack-First World
Liz Fong-Jones · Principal Engineer, Honeycomb
10:00 AM
TalkConsistency Models Your Team Actually Understands
Adira Chen · Principal Architect, Netflix
10:00 AM
TalkRemote Pair Programming at Scale
Charlotte Newman · Engineering Director, Zapier
11:00 AM
BreakVirtual Coffee & Birds-of-a-Feather Rooms
11:30 AM
TalkObservability Pipelines Without the Centralization Tax
Charity Majors · CTO, Honeycomb
11:30 AM
TalkBuilding Resilient Teams in Uncertain Times
Camille Fournier · Author, The Manager's Path
12:30 PM
BreakLunch Break — Virtual Roundtables
1:30 PM
TalkDatabase Migrations Without Downtime, Remote Edition
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
2:30 PM
BreakAfternoon Coffee & Sponsor Expo
3:00 PM
TalkRate Limiting and Backpressure in Distributed Systems
Will Larson · Author, An Elegant Puzzle
3:00 PM
TalkThe New Manager's Guide to Remote Leadership
Charlotte Newman · Engineering Director, Zapier
4:00 PM
WorkshopRemote Chaos Engineering: Breaking Things from Your Living Room
Liz Fong-Jones · Principal Engineer, Honeycomb
Wed · Nov 18
9:00 AM
TrainingResilience Engineering Workshop
John Allspaw · Founder, Adaptive Capacity Labs
Full-day virtual workshop on building organizational resilience through learning from incidents.
12:00 PM
BreakLunch Break
1:00 PM
TrainingTechnical Writing for Distributed Teams
Camille Fournier · Author, The Manager's Path
Half-day workshop on writing RFCs, ADRs, and design docs that hold up across time zones.
9:00 AM
TrainingStaff+ Engineering in a Remote World
Will Larson · Author, An Elegant Puzzle
Half-day workshop on technical leadership, influence, and navigating ambiguity when everyone is remote.
12:00 PM
BreakLunch Break
1:00 PM
PanelClosing Panel: What We Learned About Engineering in 2020
All Keynote Speakers · QCon SF 2020 Speakers
2:30 PM
BreakConference Close & Farewell