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202022 Edition
QCon SF 2022
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.
Oct 24-28·Hyatt Regency SF·96 talks·3,200+ attendees
Program
Mon · Oct 24
8:00 AM
BreakRegistration & Breakfast
9:00 AMKeynote
Scaling Engineering Organizations
Will Larson
Author, An Elegant Puzzle
10:15 AM
BreakMorning Coffee & Expo Hall Opens
10:45 AM
TalkDesigning APIs That Survive Your First 10 Integrations
Krystal Flores-Bay · Staff SWE, Lumen Labs
10:45 AM
TalkError Budgets Are a Social Contract
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
10:45 AM
TalkStreaming Architectures with Kafka and Flink
Vikram Anand · Tech Lead, Data Platform, Uber
11:45 AM
TalkgRPC, GraphQL, or REST: A Decision Framework
Adira Chen · Principal Architect, Netflix
11:45 AM
TalkSLOs That Actually Drive Engineering Decisions
Charity Majors · CTO, Honeycomb
11:45 AM
TalkData Mesh in Practice: Two Years In
Vikram Anand · Tech Lead, Data Platform, Uber
12:45 PM
BreakLunch Break & Birds-of-a-Feather Tables
1:45 PM
TalkAPI Versioning Without the Tears
Krystal Flores-Bay · Staff SWE, Lumen Labs
1:45 PM
TalkBuilding an SRE Team from Scratch
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
1:45 PM
TalkThe Modern Data Stack: dbt, Airflow, and Beyond
Daniel Vargas · Java Champion & Data Engineer
2:45 PM
BreakAfternoon Coffee & Expo Hall
3:15 PM
TalkEvent Sourcing at Scale: The Good Parts
Adira Chen · Principal Architect, Netflix
3:15 PM
TalkIncident Analysis as an Engineering Practice
Charlotte Newman · Engineering Director, Zapier
3:15 PM
TalkReal-Time Data Quality at Scale
Daniel Vargas · Java Champion & Data Engineer
4:15 PM
TalkDistributed Tracing for API Consumers
Charity Majors · CTO, Honeycomb
5:15 PM
SocialWelcome Reception & Sponsor Showcase
Drinks, appetizers, and demo stations throughout the expo hall.
Tue · Oct 25
9:00 AM
TalkAPI Gateway Patterns at Scale
Krystal Flores-Bay · Staff SWE, Lumen Labs
9:00 AM
TalkChaos Engineering in Regulated Environments
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
10:00 AM
TalkSchema-First API Development: A Two-Year Retrospective
Adira Chen · Principal Architect, Netflix
10:00 AM
TalkData Contracts: Enforcing Quality at the Producer
Vikram Anand · Tech Lead, Data Platform, Uber
11:00 AM
BreakMorning Coffee & Sponsor Expo
11:30 AM
TalkWebhook Infrastructure That Doesn't Wake You Up at 3 AM
Charlotte Newman · Engineering Director, Zapier
11:30 AM
TalkKafka Connect in Production: War Stories
Daniel Vargas · Java Champion & Data Engineer
12:30 PM
BreakLunch Break & Hallway Track
1:30 PM
TalkDesigning Idempotency Keys That Work
Krystal Flores-Bay · Staff SWE, Lumen Labs
2:30 PM
BreakAfternoon Coffee
3:00 PM
TalkRunbook Automation: From Manual to Self-Healing
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
3:00 PM
TalkLakehouse Architectures: Bridging the Batch-Streaming Gap
Vikram Anand · Tech Lead, Data Platform, Uber
4:00 PM
WorkshopWriting Your First SLO: A Hands-On Session
Charity Majors · CTO, Honeycomb
Wed · Oct 26
9:00 AM
TrainingIncident Command Workshop
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
Full-day immersive workshop on incident command, communication, and post-incident analysis.
12:00 PM
BreakLunch Break
1:00 PM
TrainingAPI Design Studio
Krystal Flores-Bay · Staff SWE, Lumen Labs
Half-day hands-on workshop designing, reviewing, and evolving real API schemas.
9:00 AM
TrainingStreaming Data Pipelines with Kafka
Vikram Anand · Tech Lead, Data Platform, Uber
Half-day workshop building a production-grade streaming pipeline from scratch.
12:00 PM
BreakLunch Break
1:00 PM
PanelClosing Panel: Reliability Is a Feature — Building Systems That Earn Trust
Laura Nolan, Charity Majors, Will Larson · QCon SF 2022 Track Hosts
2:30 PM
BreakConference Close & Farewell