2019 Tracks, Hosts and Workshops
Microservices / Serverless (Patterns & Practices), Modern Java Innovations, Trust, Safety, & Security and Building High-Performing Teams were just some of the 18 editorial tracks at QCon New York 2019. Take a look at the others and catch a glimpse of the QCon New York 2019 workshops.
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Some of the top sessions from QCon New York 2019 included “Java Futures, 2019 Edition” by @Oracle’s Java Language Architect Brian Goetz, and “Scaling Infrastructure Engineering @Slack” by @Slack’s Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering Julia Grace.
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QCon New York 2019 keynotes included Nick Caldwell, Chief Product Officer @LookerData, previously VP of Engineering @Reddit, and Bryan Cantrill, Co-Creator DTrace & CTO @Joyent.
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Over 1200 attendees learned from practitioners working in innovator and early adopter companies about the topics that matter most in software today. Our technology adoption curve captures these topics:
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2019 Hosts and Tracks
What is a QCon track? Each "editorial" track (that's what we call the curated talks focused on developer lessons) is a collection of software topics curated by a domain expert in areas such as culture, data science, machine learning, front-end technologies, and architecture. Take a look at the QCon New York City 2019 hosts and tracks:
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TRACK HOST
Dawn Chen
Software Engineer @Google
Software Defined Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Service Meshes, & Beyond
Deploying, scaling, managing your services is undifferentiated heavy lifting. Hear stories, learn techniques, and dive ...
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Randy Shoup
VP Engineering @WeWork
Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Hard earned lessons from names you know on scalability, reliability, throughput, and performance.
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Susanne Kaiser
Independent Tech Consultant
Microservices / Serverless (Patterns & Practices)
Evolving, observing, persisting, operating, and building modern architectures.
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Anna Neyzberg
Developer & Project Lead @CarbonFive
Developing/Optimizing Clients for Developers
Electron, Flutter, JavaScript, GraphQL, Node/NPM. Web Workers, Wasm, WebVR, Speech/Alexia/Pipeline. More topics than ...
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Cindy Sridharan
Distributed Systems Engineer & runs the Prometheus user group in SF
Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDTs, formal methods, & probabilistic programming.
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Heidi Helfand
Director of Engineering Excellence @procoretech
Human Systems: Hacking the Org
Innovative approaches to organizational leadership and management to build unique company cultures.
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Jason Yip
Agile Coach @Spotify, previously Principal Consultant @ThoughtWorks
Building High-Performing Teams
What “high-performing team” means and how to build one effectively depends on context. This track will ...
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Dave Hahn
SRE in the Cloud Operations & Reliability Engineering organization @Netflix
Architecting for Success when Failure is Guaranteed
More than just building software, building deployable production ready software in the face of guaranteed failure.
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TRACK HOST
Jeanne Boyarsky
Java developer and ScrumMaster
Modern Java Innovations
6 month cadence, cloud-native deployments, scale, Graal, Kotlin, and beyond. Learn how the role of Java as it is ...
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TRACK HOST
Todd Montgomery
High Performance Consultant and Previously NASA Researcher
High-Performance Computing: Lessons from FinTech & AdTech
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware.
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TRACK HOST
Justin Cormack
Developer @Docker
21st Century Languages
Lessons learned from building languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
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TRACK HOST
Jean Barmash
VP Engineering @KomodoHealth
Non-Technical Skills for Technical Folks
Good engineers are great programmers. Amazing engineers are great collaborators.
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TRACK HOST
Hien Luu
Engineering Leader @LinkedIn - AI & Big Data Enthusiast
Machine Learning for Developers
Machine learning is more approachable than ever. Learn techniques and use cases with PyTorch, Keras and TensorFlow that ...
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TRACK HOST
Sid Anand
Hacker at Large, Co-chair @QCon & Data Council, PMC & Committer @ApacheAirflow
Data Engineering for the Bold
Explore the power of data systems & architectures
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TRACK HOST
Jarrod Overson
Software Engineer @ShapeSecurity
Trust, Safety, & Security
Privacy, confidentiality, safety, security: Learnings from the frontlines
2019 Workshops
QCon isn't just about the conference. QCon also offers a wide reach of workshops on the two days following the conference. We had an incredible lineup of workshops in 2019 that provided shorter technology-focused deep dives. This year’s topics included: Machine Learning, Knative, Rust, Java and building Modern Web Applications:
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Advanced State Management with Redux
Steve KinneyPrincipal Engineer @SendGrid
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Machine Learning & AI: Core Techniques Workshop
Sri KrishnamurthyChief Data Scientist and CEO @QuantUniversity
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Kubernetes: an Under The Hood Tour (Morning Group)
Stuart CharltonPlatform Architecture at Pivotal Software
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Service Mesh Kick-Starter with Istio
Matt TurnerCTO @WaveNative
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Kubernetes: an Under The Hood Tour (Afternoon Group)
Stuart CharltonPlatform Architecture at Pivotal Software
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Seven Steps to CQRS Heaven for your Cloud Native Applications
Benjamin NothdurftTechnical Lead for Cloud Technologies @codecentric
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Serverless: JavaScript's Journey to the Edge (Workers)
Ashley WilliamsCore Rust & Rust Wasm WG Team Member
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Microservices Full-Day Build
Adib SaikaliPrincipal Platform Architect
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Interpersonal Persuasion
Chiara MotleySenior Executive Coach with GK Training
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Java Performance Workshop
Kirk PepperdineJava Performance Expert & Java Champion
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Systems Programming with Rust
Ashley WilliamsCore Rust & Rust Wasm WG Team Member
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Knative Workshop
Ray TsangTechnology Architect @Google
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Presentation Skills
Chiara MotleySenior Executive Coach with GK Training
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Building Modern Web Applications with React
Steve KinneyPrincipal Engineer @SendGrid
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Chaos Engineering in Practice
Matt DavisSenior Infrastructure Engineer @verica_io
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Domain-Driven Design with Message- and Event-Driven Architectures
Vaughn VernonDDD Expert, Author of "Implementing Domain-Driven Design" & Architect @kalele_io
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Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing on Social Media Data at Scale
Brad MiroMachine Learning Engineer @Google
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Apache Kafka and KSQL in Action: Let’s Build a Streaming Data Pipeline
Tim BerglundSenior Director of Developer Experience @Confluent
2019 Keynotes
QCon New York 2019 brought together incredible people who shared their insights in the heart of Times Square to help software teams adopt new technologies and practices. Our keynote speakers are among the team leads, architects and software engineers moving our industry forward. Here’s four takeaways from our 2019 keynotes:
Nick Caldwell
Chief Product Officer @LookerData, previously VP of Engineering @Reddit
Ignite the Fire - How Managers Can Spark New Leaders
“How do you inspire non-manager leaders to emerge? How to do build leadership in your teams and yourself? Nick Caldwell, Chief of Product for Looker, discusses the three ingredients for inspiring your non-manager leaders to emerge and provides simple ...”
Ashi Krishnan
Building the Next Generation of Developer Tools @Github
Learning From Machines
“Why can't you tickle yourself? How do you know where you are? Why do DeepDream images look so trippy? Why does trauma come in waves, washing over us again and again? Computational neuroscience provides insight into these questions and more. In visually ...”
Bryan Cantrill
Co-Creator DTrace, Co-Founder Fishworks Sun Microsystems, & Currently CTO @Joyent
No Moore Left to Give: Enterprise Computing After Moore's Law
“After years of defying predictions of its demise, Moore's Law is now indisputably dying. Many pundits have opined on what the end of Moore's Law means for computing writ large, conjuring futuristic zoos of quantum computers, purpose-built accelerators ...”
Dana Lewis
Principal Investigator & Researcher
Artificial Pancreas System: #WeAreNotWaiting in Healthcare
“What happens when an open source community develops around a group of patients who are frustrated with their medical devices? You end up with an artificial pancreas (of course!). Dana Lewis, a founder of the open source artificial pancreas (OpenAPS) movement, ...”
2019 Trending Talks
Catch up on the trending talks you missed from QCon New York 2019
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Opportunities and Pitfalls of Event-Driven Utopia
Bernd Rücker Co-Founder and Chief Technologist @Camunda -
Conquering Microservices Complexity @Uber With Distributed Tracing
Yuri Shkuro Creator of Jaeger & Software Engineer @Uber -
Machine-Learned Indexes - Research from Google
Alex Beutel Senior Research Scientist @Google -
Scaling Infrastructure Engineering at Slack
Julia Grace Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering @Slack -
Building Resilient Serverless Systems
John Chapin Cloud Technology Consultant with an expertise in Serverless Computing -
PracticalDDD: Bounded Contexts + Events => Microservices
Indu Alagarsamy Solution Architect @Particular Software
The QCon Experience
QCon is dedicated to helping software developers who strive to bring innovation in their teams. Our commitment to empowering every software professional is reflected in our "We Care" philosophy. We designed QCon as a place where everyone feels safe to express themselves, learn, and succeed in adopting new technology and practices that create change and innovation.
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The QCon Impact
QCon New York isn’t just a software conference. It’s the place where senior software engineers, tech leads, and architects come together to learn, share, and push each other to drive innovation in the software industry. Find out what attendees had to say about their experience at QCon New York 2019.
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Alina Lapina Senior Developer at Experis Ciber
QCon is a conference which creates opportunities for any developer in the world to talk to talented programmers who use leading-edge technology in their projects and are ready to communicate their experience. QCon inspires!
QCon New York 2019
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Thank you so much @qconnewyork for having me.
— Jason Hand (@jasonhand) June 26, 2019
Slides for "The Trouble With Learning in Complex Systems" can be found here: https://t.co/y7iORZ0CnB#QconNYC -
Thank you @srinip for a fantastic write-up on my QCon NYC 2019 Talk on Domain-Driven Design and Event-driven architecture. https://t.co/f0Sih4FpDe
— Indu Alagarsamy (@Indu_alagarsamy) July 21, 2019 -
Larry Xu Director of Technology at Fannie Mae
I would recommend it for the depth of focus on software engineering topics, and the transparency around sponsorship. It really feels like an event for the practitioner (not for commercial products).
QCon New York 2019
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Hi #QConNYC Thanks for being a great audience during the talk, “Cultivating High Performing Teams in Hypergrowth” You can find the slides here: https://t.co/NRtBznSSgL pic.twitter.com/uwh6KaY0ns
— Pat Kua (@patkua) June 26, 2019 -
Had a blast at @qconnewyork today -- @shawncarney and I gave a talk about why context matters when building high performing teams! Thanks for having us! Slides and video to come soon! #QConNYC https://t.co/hWVzNe8GKN
— Zofia Ciechowska (@zociechowska) June 26, 2019 -
This is great! It's a slight twist on the way the Agile Manifesto does it. While we find value in the things on the right, we find more with the things on the left.#QConNYC pic.twitter.com/MjXgB4W7qc
— Wesley Reisz (@wesreisz) June 26, 2019 -
Shai Tal Software Developer at Derivco
I would definitely recommend QCon, It was a life-changing experience and I would absolutely love to join again!
QCon New York 2019
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