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202024 Edition
QCon SF 2024
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.
Nov 18-22·Hyatt Regency SF·108 talks·4,100+ attendees
Program
Mon · Nov 18
8:00 AM
BreakRegistration & Breakfast
9:00 AMKeynote
Cloud-Native LLM Deployment in Regulated Industries
Srikanth Jonnakuti
Staff Software Engineer & Cloud Architect, Move Inc. (Realtor.com)
10:15 AM
BreakMorning Coffee & Expo Hall Opens
10:45 AM
TalkPlatform as a Product: Measuring Developer NPS
Camille Fournier · Author, The Manager's Path
10:45 AM
TalkFine-Tuning vs RAG: When to Use What
Ankur Patel · ML Engineer, Databricks
10:45 AM
TalkLearning from Incidents: Beyond the Timeline
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
11:45 AM
TalkInternal Developer Portals Done Right
Vanessa Huerta · Director of Engineering, Anthropic
11:45 AM
TalkLLM Guardrails in High-Stakes Domains
Hien Lu · Sr. Engineering Manager, Move Inc.
11:45 AM
TalkPost-Incident Review as Engineering Culture
Nate Morrison · Principal Engineer, Slack
12:45 PM
BreakLunch Break & Birds-of-a-Feather Tables
1:45 PM
TalkBuilding a Platform Team That Engineers Love
Camille Fournier · Author, The Manager's Path
1:45 PM
TalkVector Databases at Scale: Lessons Learned
Zhi Xiong · Head of AIOps, Weaviate
1:45 PM
TalkFrom Blame to Learning: A Post-Incident Transformation
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
2:45 PM
BreakAfternoon Coffee & Expo Hall
3:15 PM
TalkIncident Metrics That Matter: Moving Beyond MTTR
Charity Majors · CTO, Honeycomb
4:15 PM
TalkPlatform Orchestration: Beyond the Golden Path
Vanessa Huerta · Director of Engineering, Anthropic
5:15 PM
SocialWelcome Reception & Sponsor Showcase
Drinks, appetizers, and platform demos in the expo hall.
Tue · Nov 19
9:00 AMKeynote
Platforms as Products
Manuel Pais
Co-author, Team Topologies
10:15 AM
BreakMorning Coffee & Networking
10:45 AM
TalkBackstage at Spotify: Three Years of Developer Portal Evolution
Adira Chen · Principal Architect, Netflix
10:45 AM
TalkEmbeddings at Scale: Infrastructure Patterns for Vector Search
Zhi Xiong · Head of AIOps, Weaviate
11:45 AM
TalkService Catalogs: The Missing Piece of Platform Engineering
Daniel Vargas · Java Champion & Platform Engineer
11:45 AM
TalkWriting an Incident Review That Actually Changes Behavior
Nate Morrison · Principal Engineer, Slack
11:00 AM
BreakMorning Coffee & Sponsor Expo
11:30 AM
TalkMulti-Modal RAG: Handling Images, Code, and Text Together
Ankur Patel · ML Engineer, Databricks
11:30 AM
TalkPlatform Adoption: The Psychology of Developer Behavior Change
Camille Fournier · Author, The Manager's Path
12:30 PM
BreakLunch Break & Unconference Sessions
1:30 PM
TalkLLM Observability: Tracing, Evals, and Guardrails in Production
Hien Lu · Sr. Engineering Manager, Move Inc.
2:30 PM
BreakAfternoon Coffee & Hallway Track
3:00 PM
TalkTerraform at 10,000 Resources: Platform IaC Patterns
Daniel Vargas · Java Champion & Platform Engineer
3:00 PM
TalkThe Incident-Free Organization: Is It Possible?
Laura Nolan · SRE Author & Consultant
4:00 PM
WorkshopRunning a Blameless Post-Incident Review
Nate Morrison · Principal Engineer, Slack
Wed · Nov 20
9:00 AM
TrainingBuilding AI-Native Development Workflows
Simon Willison · Creator, Datasette
Full-day workshop on integrating LLMs into your development workflow: code generation, test writing, and documentation.
12:00 PM
BreakLunch Break
1:00 PM
TrainingPlatform Engineering with Backstage
Adira Chen · Principal Architect, Netflix
Half-day hands-on workshop building a developer portal with Backstage, including custom plugins and software templates.
9:00 AM
TrainingLLMOps: From Experiment to Production
Hien Lu · Sr. Engineering Manager, Move Inc.
Half-day workshop on LLM deployment pipelines, monitoring, guardrails, and continuous evaluation.
12:00 PM
BreakLunch Break
1:00 PM
PanelClosing Panel: Platforms, AI, and Resilience — The Engineering Disciplines That Matter
Srikanth Jonnakuti, Manuel Pais, Camille Fournier, Laura Nolan · QCon SF 2024 Track Hosts
2:30 PM
BreakConference Close & Farewell